Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta insists finishing above Tottenham isn't a target.
Arteta insists the battle for supremacy in London is of no interest to him — because he only wants for Arsenal to be the top team in the land.
“No," he said, when asked if being the fourth best team in London was acceptable. “We want to be the best — and not in London.
“We want to be the best in the league.
“That is the standard we have to try to reach because of the expectation we have and what this club has done over the years.
“I'm not interested about London. I'm interested about the whole country and being the best in the country."
He added: “You know the successful teams in this country in the last five to 10 years, what they've done to become successful. It's no secret.
“There is not someone who has done something unprecedented, apart from what happened with Leicester a particular year.
“But we have to find a way to do it. If it's not that way, we have to find another way.
“This isn't the time to find excuses.
“The way we are going to evolve this squad is not being done in this window.
“It's going to be a constant thing and it has to be a constant thing. It's not going to stop, so that we're in the position that after you have to do a massive rebuild, like what we had to do in the last two transfer windows.
“Hopefully, when you are able to do the opposite thing and adjust little things you are going to bring the biggest ability and then just add good quality, any player that comes here has big quality, because that is what the squad demands."
