Mikel Arteta and Pep Guardiola know each other very well, with both managers having the same opinion on one bizarre topic. The 2024/25 season hasn’t gone entirely to plan for either Arteta or Guardiola, with Arsenal and Manchester City all but out of the title race.

Pep Guardiola is the only manager who has spent more than Mikel Arteta this decade. One has 11 trophies to show for it, while the other has one FA Cup. Here are the top 10 highest-spending football managers since the 2020 summer transfer window. Figures are from Transfermarkt.

Arsenal may already have the answer as to who can solve their striker nightmare – and Pep Guardiola will deserve some credit if it comes off. Mikel Arteta served as Guardiola's assistant for three years at Manchester City, and it was during that ...

Pep Guardiola may well have provided the solution to Arsenal's striker crisis and if Mikel Arteta listened, he could yet have a major say in the Premier League title race

Kylian Mbappe scored a stunning hat-trick at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday night to put the Galacticos through to the next round of the competition. Guardiola faced the media after the game, and the Spaniard – who has won the Champions League before- named just four teams as real contenders to win the competition.

I have written for JustArsenal throughout Arteta’s reign as manager. In fact, I had been submitting articles when he was captain of our club. I would say that the last couple of weeks is the first time a sizable portion of our readers have questioned whether he should keep his job.

Shorn of their four best attackers, Arsenal’s touch maps at Nottingham Forest suggest why they have not scored for two games

Arsenal are without a recognised striker for the rest of the season after Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz were both ruled out, but Mikel Arteta may already have his solution

Arsenal are without a recognised striker for the rest of the season after losing Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz to injury.

Including Arsenal's Mikel Arteta and Man City's Pep Guardiola, here are the top 10 highest-spending football managers since the 2020 summer transfer window.