Thierry Henry sends squad warning to Mikel Arteta ahead of Arsenal vs Fulham

Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has told Mikel Arteta he has the squad to keep pushing for Champions League and Premier League glory this season.

Since losing the Carabao Cup final to Manchester City, the Gunners have lost momentum having won just two of their last seven games, failing to score more than one goal in each of those.

Arteta and Arsenal’s sporting director Andrea Berta were hailed for assembling one of the strongest squads in Europe last summer with eight new faces arriving at the Emirates.

But with the final hurdles still ahead of them, the group has looked jaded in recent weeks with the physical and emotional toil of the title race taking its toll.

Arsenal produced one of their better displays of late in their Champions League semi-final first leg clash against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday night, settling for a 1-1 draw in the Spanish capital.
It is another quick turnaround for Arteta’s side but club great Henry insists the manager has the options at his disposal to find a solution.

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Asked how Arsenal will manage the coming days and those games against Fulham and Atletico, Henry told CBS Sports: ‘I don’t see any issue.

I’m not saying it is going to be easy and pleasant because the game again at Newcastle was very difficult.

‘But you have the squad to be able to deal with that, so deal with it.’
Against Atletico, Arteta made two changes to the side that beat Newcastle last weekend, both enforced with Kai Havertz ruled out and Eberechi Eze only deemed fit enough for the bench having also limped off at the weekend.

While there will be the temptation to rest key personnel for the visit of the Cottagers, Jamie Carragher has warned ‘the stakes are too high.’
‘Thierry is right, they have the squad.

If this was November, he would make some changes,’ Carragher said.

‘I just think the stakes are so high, there is no way Mikel Arteta is going to be making changes in these games, I would be very surprised.

‘The reason he is in this situation now where the players do like a little bit fatigued is because he hasn’t made those changes earlier on when the stakes weren’t as high.

If they draw against Fulham this will think they gave lost the league.

The stakes are just too high.’