Mikel Arteta has to supplement his arsenal side after a disappointing season and the Gunners -Baas has already identified the areas he wants to strengthen this summer while preparing for PSG
The Champions League campaign has been the rescue of Arsenal this season. That is why it is the day of the judgment for Mikel Arteta in the Parc des Princes on Wednesday evening.
If Arsenal can play the semi -final draw with Paris Saint Germain and reach the final of the Champions League, it is seen as another great year for Arteta. But if they bend even at this late stage of the competition, this season will eventually be seen as a big back step for the Gunners.
Arsenal has a lot of work to do after losing the Semi Final First -stage to Ousmane Dembele's decisive first half of a strike. T Homas Partey is back from the suspension, but PSG looked even stronger this season. It is a discouraging task.
The best thing you can say about last week's draw at the Emirates is that at least Arsenal is still a shout because they were enormously disappointing in the night. Unfortunately for Arsenal, which was in accordance with a frustrating and disappointing season that has seen them fail in the title race, the domestic cups left and pine all their hope in Europe.
It will be the signal for a great summer of change at the Emirates when Arteta – together with new sports director Andrea Berta – will focus on at least three important signing sessions. They believe that it is a foregone conclusion for Martin Zubimendi from Real Sociedad, because the £ 51 million midfielder will arrive in the Emirates.
Arsenal has made a new NO9 their top priority with the sporty Lisbon star Viktor Gyökeres and RB Leipzig's Benjamin Sesko more realistic goals than Alexander Isak from Newcastle. Arsenal also wants a left wing player and Athletic Bilbao's Nico Williams is their dream ticket, but the team also needs a commotion with likely departure of Oleksandr Zinchenko, while Jorginho and Kieran Tierney go while they want Espanyol's Joan Garcia a new NO2-keeper
The reality is that Arsenal has deteriorated this season and that they have to press the reset button this summer – whatever happens in the Champions League. Arsenal was the best title challengers of Manchester City in the past two seasons. But were not ready when the men of Pep Guardiola were faltering this time. Liverpool stepped up, Arsenal wilt.
Arteta can indicate injuries and referee decisions about reasons why Arsenal did not meet expectations this season. But the manager must certainly take some responsibility for the number of hamstring and muscle injuries this season, because that would have to ring alarm bells about overtraining and exceeding.
Bukayo Saka, Brazilian defender Gabriel and Kai Havertz have all undergone an operation for hamstring injuries this season and all three were heavily played on familiar, almost every game and it should not be a surprise that they were injured.
Every other manager would be confronted with questions about the red zone, players who play too many games and yet Arteta seems to be left rather light in this respect.
Yes, it is a problem across the line and the global calendar needs a review, but Havertz sustained his injury in a warm weather training camp in the middle of the season in Dubai when the players could probably have done a week off and their feet on the couch.
The constant moaning about referees has become tiring. They were on the receiving side of a few bad phone calls, in particular Declan Rice was sent to Brighton and Myles Lewis-Skelly at Wolves.
But there is no agenda against Arsenal and other clubs feel just as hard. It has just become another excuse and the negative is that players use it as a reason for the underper formation.
It all plays in an overwhelming season of disappointment and frustration. Arsenal can turn the mood in Paris and yet they even need a big summer of change. But if they go in the second stage, there can be no argument that Arsenal has deteriorated this season.