Arsenal great Tony Adams fears manager Mikel Arteta's job could be on the line next season.

Adams believes the Gunners overachieved this season and there could be a backlash if the momentum stalls next term.

He wrote for The Sun: "Mikel Arteta worked wonders to get Arsenal into second place considering the players he had at his disposal.

"But when a manager has massively over-performed and raised a club's expectations so high, there's often a fallout if the level of improvement isn't maintained the following season.

"And when that happens, he's often gone by Christmas.

"Now I am not for one minute suggesting that the Gunners are going to be getting rid of Arteta, but I do fear that this could be as good as it gets for them.

"Talk of Arsenal bottling the title race was nonsense because they played to their absolute maximum and came up just short of the best team in the world.

"No one expected them to finish so high but the downside to all that is where do they go from here?"