Background
Of all the bigger Football Clubs found in Football Manager 2018, Arsenal is one of the more trickier to succeed with. Outside of the previous year, the team has made the Top Four every year for the last two decades. Because of this, you will have extremely huge shoes to fill as the newest Manager of the club. On top of this, a number of the high-profile Players on the team are likely to leave at the end of your first year, leaving you with a few holes on your club.
Because of all of this, it will be up to you to replace all the Players you lose in order to continue the success Arsenal is quite familiar with. Luckily, you will have a great crop of young players, the same you can develop into potential starters on your team. On top of this, you will also have one of the more larger Transfer Budgets you can spend to help recruit even more talent to your team. It will be tough, but you goal is to keep Arsenal relevant in order for them to keep their big club status.
Recommended Tactics
When you first join Arsenal, you will be asked to run an attacking, possession-based pitch with the club. This is the exact same style of ball Arsenal was playing under Arsene Wenger, so you will need to keep up in this same fashion the team is use to. With that said, the Best formation for this team is a 4-2-3-1, even though they have previously opted to run a five back system. However, when facing another bigger club, it's actually a good thing to opt for a five back system, preferably a 5-2-3 or a 5-2-1-2.
Recommended Lineup
Goalkeeper: Petr Cech
Back Four: Hector Bellerin, Shkodran Mustafi, Laurent Koscielny, Sead Kolasinac
Central Midfielders: Granit Xhaka, Aaron Ramsey
Attacking Midfielders: Mesut Ozil, Alexis Sanchez, Theo Walcott
Striker: Alexandre Lacazette
Bench Players: David Ospina, Nacho Monreal, Francis Coquelin, Alex Iwobi Danny Welbeck, Olivier Giroud
Quality Injured Players: Santi Cazorla, Jack Wilshere
Tips For Success
1) Work with the fantastic budget you have been given to help rebuild the club.
2) Develop the abundance of young talent you have to replace the Players you lose.
3) Find some middle ground between the talent level of your stars and everyone else.