Arteta vows to turn Champions League pain into fuel after PSG penalty loss

In the shadow of a Champions League final lost to penalties, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta stood at a crossroads familiar to all who have come close to greatness without grasping it. The defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in what was only the club's second European final in history carried genuine pain — but also, in Arteta's framing, the seeds of something harder and more purposeful. A team that has just ended a twenty-two-year wait for a league title does not grieve the same way it once might have; it measures the distance still to travel.