Gary Neville has just said something ‘ridiculous’ about Arsenal

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Gary Neville has piled the pressure on Arsenal to win the Premier League this season with his latest comments.

The Gunners sit at the summit of the English top flight after eight matches, three points clear of second-placed Manchester City.

Meanwhile, Mikel Arteta’s side thrashed Atletico Madrid in midweek, with the Spaniard’s side now being dubbed one of the best teams in Europe.

Many believe Arsenal will win the title and will be in the reckoning for the Champions League, and Neville is among those who think that this is Arteta’s year.

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Gary Neville hints that Arsenal would be bottling the title if they don’t now win it

Neville tipped Arsenal to win the league before the season began.

However, many labelled this as a somewhat sinister prediction. Critics believed that Neville’s belief in this prediction was disingenuous, and that he was merely doing it so that he can lay into Arteta and the Gunners if they don’t win the piece of silverware.

Now that Arsenal are in a rich vein of form and are widely considered favourites, the pundit has already started to subtly increase the pressure on the North Londoners.

Speaking on the Stick to Football Podcast, Neville floated the idea that Arsenal not winning the title from the position they’re currently in would be some sort of abject failure.

While he admitted that it was ‘ridiculous’ to throw this suggestion out, he slyly put it out into the ether regardless.

“It’s wrong to say this because it’s ridiculous, because it’s ridiculous to say this because we’ve all been entitled, but if they don’t win it from here…” the former Manchester United defender said.

“There’s a lot of, there’s a lot of Arsenal’s, right? But Roy [Keane], you know what I’m saying, because it’s ridiculous to say it, but if they don’t win it from this confident position here now with where the other teams are, I know a lot can change, but they’re in a good place, Arsenal.”

Arsenal aren’t exactly in an unassailable position

Neville didn’t quite have the conviction to complete his thought on Arsenal not winning the title from here being a ‘bottle job’, as by his own admission, that’s ridiculous.

However, he was clearly keen to at least hint it.

A three-point lead in mid-October is hardly an unassailable position to be in. The Gunners could quite literally be second come the end of this weekend, with a single result going against them costing them the gap they have created.

There will be several twists and turns, and both Manchester City and Liverpool are bound to improve, while Arsenal are bound to endure a tricky spell.

While the Gunners are on top and full of confidence at the moment, this could all change in a week or so, just like it did for Liverpool before the international break.