Unai Emery aims to turn Arsenal into world's best team as his tenure begins

Unai Emery has challenged Arsenal to become "the best team in the world" under his stewardship.

Emery was unveiled as the Gunners’ new head coach today, two days after receiving a green light from the Arsenal board and 24 hours after meeting with majority shareholder Stan Kroenke and his son Josh.

The former Paris Saint-Germain manager is understood to have signed a three-year contract and will start from a low base, challenged with an immediate upswing on the sixth-placed Premier League finish that was the lowest of Arsene Wenger’s 22-year reign.

He will have to improve his squad with a relatively limited budget - chief executive Ivan Gazidis refused to discuss the specifics of how much Emery will have to spend this season but around £50million is expected after heavy investment in recent transfer windows.

However the Spaniard is optimistic that he can push the current squad back into the Champions League and eventually compete for major honours at home and abroad.

“I believe in the players we have here,” Emery said. “We can grow with these players and the objective is to work hard with these talented players, to work to be a candidate for all the titles in the future.

“Then it’s very important for the club, after two years outside the Champions League, to work towards this, to arrive and be the best team in the Premier League and also the world.”

Emery, who won Ligue 1 with PSG and three Europa Leagues in as many years at Sevilla, offered no guarantee that he would win silverware in his first season at Arsenal but identified success as bringing the Gunners back into title contention.

“Success would be developing, and that’s about battling for every title,” he said. “It’s in Arsenal’s history and it’s in my history as well. We want to be among the best teams in Europe.

“I want the team to make the fans proud of the side. I know they are already but I want to make them even more so.

“All titles are important for us. We can, and want to be, candidates for them. I don’t promise today we will win, but I can promise you we will work hard, will work together, will work with emotion, demanding to find all the objectives.”