For the past two seasons, Arteta has been consistently good at competing head-to-head with his master ''Pep Guardiola", and this season, he is to challenge Pep Guardiola yet again for the Premier League title. Who knows whether this season, Arteta will prove worthy to beat his master over the Premier League title before Pep leaves Manchester City in 2025. Although there are reports that Pep Guardiola will leave Manchester City in 2025. However, this season makes it to be his last season as Manchester City coach. That means the reign of Manchester City dominating the Premier League will be over as Arsenal takes over from Manchester City in lifting the Premier League title because it is only Manchester City that is stopping Arsenal from becoming the champions of England.
Arsenal's one true obstacle in winning the league is Manchester City, this is an unannounced fact. Pep's former assistant Mikel Arteta is Pep's biggest rival for the league, probably for the 3rd season in a row now. You gotta praise Arsenal for their growth though, they definitely came a long way. Now for the Gunners to overcome everything and win the league, they have to stop being defensive against bigger teams and have to play like winning teams.
I think yes, City is the biggest problem for Arsenal, and if they can overcome it, they can definitely win the league.
Maybe City is the cause of all the failures of Arteta and Arsenal to win the title in the last seasons, I don't know this season whether Arteta and his team will win the title this season in a dramatic way or even another failure that Arteta and Arsenal will experience, of course this will be Arteta's farewell season if he fails to bring Arsenal to win the title, because Pep knows about the strategy used by Arteta in the last two seasons and what tactics will be played this season, of course Pep understands and understands Arsenal's way of getting points by points and until now, we can see Man City always playing safe and at least the points they get bring them to the top of the standings for now, that's Pep's cleverness in overcoming his rivals and competitors this season.
Of course, what Pep must be aware of this season is Liverpool who have performed consistently and well in several matches, and plus the presence of Federico Chiesa adds new ammunition to Liverpool's front line and certainly sharpens their attack line, this is what Man City must avoid this season, not Arsenal anymore !!