Has the time come for Arsenal to finally make a significant step towards the almost forgotten ambition of winning the Premier League title? It’s too early to guess, but some new winds around the Emirates and a couple of new players in red and white shirts are promising improvements.Arsenal’s 2017-2019 era finished with a 148 million lossThe Gunners’ coach Mikel Arteta has been surprised by Gabriel Jesus’ swift adaptation to life at Arsenal and has nothing but compliments for the Brazilian’s “contagious” mentality.Successful dress rehearsal! Gunner Jesus nets a cool hat-trick in the slaying of SevillaArteta’s slot kicks off the new Premier League season away at Crystal Palace on Friday, with Jesus expected to make his competitive debut for the club following his £45million transfer from champions Manchester City.”When you bring in top players who are coming from top clubs where they have been extremely successful over the years, they are going to expect that expectation,” Arteta said.##EDITORS_CHOICE##”The role Gabriel has here is going to be very different to the role he had at his previous club, that needs some adaptation and some time.”He’s done it fantastically well, we are surprised how quickly he has done it, but we have to share that responsibility.”He’s an enormous talent, a player with mentality that is so contagious, and he is going to give us a lot, but it is a team contribution at the end of the day.”‘Pep doesn’t see Chelsea and Arsenal as threats’Asked whether his Arsenal team were finally in his image after the summer recruitment drive, Arteta added: “It’s always been my team, these are our players and always we have had intentions to get the best out of them.”It’s true we have trimmed and changed the squad massively in the last two windows and you feel like now the players we have are more specific and better to the way we want to play.”PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 1Friday22.00: (4.60) Crystal Palace (3.70) Arsenal (1.85)Saturday14.30: (11.0) Fulham (6.00) Liverpool (1.30)17.00: (1.40) Tottenham (4.90) Southampton (9.00)17.00: (1.70) Newcastle (3.80) Nott.Forest (5.70)17.00: (2.35) Leeds (3.25) Wolverhampton (3.40)17.00: (3.90) Bournemouth (3.40) Aston Villa (2.10)19.30: (5.70) Everton (3.80) Chelsea (1.70)Sunday16.00: (2.05) Leicester (3.60) Brentford (3.80)16.00: (1.57) Man.Utd. (4.00) Brighton (7.00)18.30: (9.50) West Ham (5.50) Man.City (1.35)***odds are subject to change
