Premier League account posts Arsenal picture - and rival fans jump on it straight away

Fans of Arsenal's rivals have hijacked a social media post from one of the Premier League's official accounts to mock the Gunners. Arsenal have agonisingly finished second in each of the last three seasons, a fact which their rivals don't let them forget.

Manchester City got the better of them twice while it was Liverpool who took top spot last term. Mikel Arteta's side go into the 2025-26 campaign with a burning desire to finish in first place, but for now they have to accept the ridicule which comes with being English football's nearly-men of the past few years.

On Wednesday, the Premier League's official account for India continued their countdown ahead of the new season. With two days to go, they used an image of Arsenal's No.2, William Saliba, with the caption: "The wait is nearly over."

Makes sense, right? That may be but supporters of other clubs jumped on the post and began mercilessly mocking Arsenal. "Arsenal days to go," one quipped. "India understood the assignment," another joked.

"Increase the admin's salary!!!" a third pleaded while another wrote in the replies: "Even the admin knows they're destined to be second for life."

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But Gunners fans hit back. "Better than 18 other teams," one supporter pointed out. "But still gets bantered for it. Make it make sense. When you're big you're big."

On the Premier League's main account, they used a picture of Newcastle's £55million signing, Anthony Elanga, to represent two days to go.

Arteta hopes that no one will be laughing at Arsenal this time next year. The Gunners boss has been backed with £195m worth of new signings and ahead of their opening game away to Manchester United on Sunday, he reiterated their ambitions for the new season.

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"These new arrivals all add quality and depth to the squad, which is what we are going to need throughout the season ahead," Arteta wrote in his programme notes ahead of last week's pre-season friendly against Villarreal. We know what our targets are and what we want to achieve this season - there is a big belief in our ability to achieve that.

"We have been very, very close the last few seasons and the whole team is going to determine whether we achieve that or not. But at the same time, we have to make sure that we don't lose sight of what we have to do on a daily basis to get to the levels that we want.

"We have to set the demands that we want within this goal, because that's the most important thing - the internal demands have to always exceed any external demand. That is what we are trying to achieve every single day."

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