Jamie Carragher doubles down on evaluating Mikel Arteta to Jose Mourinho as he insists the Arsenal boss does not possess the ‘attacking high quality’ that title rivals Man Metropolis have

Jamie Carragher has insisted Mikel Arteta is adopting a Jose Mourinho-esque model of play in a bid to compete with title rivals Manchester Metropolis.

The Gunners have recorded back-to-back second place finishes and took Pep Guardiola‘s aspect proper all the way down to the wire final season earlier than Metropolis recorded a history-making fourth consecutive league title.

Nevertheless, regardless of going unbeaten of their first seven league video games this season, Arsenal now discover themselves in a precarious place, with Saturday’s defeat by Newcastle marking three video games with out a win.

Talking following the membership’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool final month Carragher claimed Arteta is ‘slowly morphing right into a Jose Mourinho-type supervisor’ sparking backlash from followers.

The previous Liverpool defender has since doubled down on his evaluation, and claimed Arsenal’s comparative lack of firepower within the ultimate third has led to Arteta adopting the method. 

‘Anybody who thinks I simply plucked this Jose Mourinho factor out to kind of create a negativity round us, shouldn’t be analysing precisely the place Arsenal are going.’ Carragher mentioned on Sky Sports activities.

‘If individuals do not agree with that, I do not suppose you are truly watching what is going on on with Arsenal proper now. 

‘I feel Mikel Arteta feels he does not have the attacking high quality that Manchester Metropolis have. 

‘So he is going one other strategy to attempt to win the league, which is being sturdy defensively and a extra highly effective group.’

Carragher added that the membership’s summer season arrivals, defender Riccardo Calafiori and midfielder Mikel Merino embody the type of bodily model that Mourinho utilised to such success throughout his two spells at Chelsea. 

‘They get bullied at Manchester Metropolis’s floor and in direction of the tip of the season, lose the title. And I feel there is a feeling that we’re not sturdy sufficient, we’re not highly effective sufficient, proper?

‘So after I discuss the place this group is morphing to, I do not simply pluck at an announcement out to attempt to create headlines and it is not a criticism. It is an evaluation that this group has gone from intricate gamers to sturdy highly effective gamers.

‘This summer season, Calafiori once more, he is a middle again enjoying left again and Merino is available in 6ft 2in midfield participant who truly, when he joined the membership mentioned “after I went to the dressing room, I felt like I used to be with a basketball group, not a soccer group” as a result of the dimensions of all of the gamers. 

‘This isn’t a criticism, that is an evaluation of the place Mikel Arteta is attempting to take this group and the way he is attempting to win the Premier League title.’