Mikel Arteta has admitted Arsenal will need to adopt a new approach after the Premier League banned towels from being used to dry balls.The Gunners were the Premier League’s set-piece specialists last season en route to lifting their first top-flight title in 22 years.Arsenal were the Premier League’s set-piece kings last seasonGettyThe north London giants scored 25 set-piece goals, excluding penalties – the most in the division.However, they will be forced into a change in approach owing to the latest change in the rules.Towels were permitted to be used in Premier League matches last season, provided both teams agreed to do so.The rule itself surfaced during Arsenal’s eventual 2-1 win at Newcastle back in September. Riccardo Calafiori sought to use a towel to dry the ball before launching a missile into the box, but was denied the opportunity to do so by referee Jarred Gillett.Now, towels have been banned entirely, meaning teams can’t dry a ball before a throw-in is taken.What has Mikel Arteta said about the towel rule change?Speaking ahead of Sunday’s Community Shield clash with Manchester City, Arteta said of the upcoming rule change: “Not being able to use the towels is already a big one.”The Spaniard then joked that his players could now wear hats in order to dry their hands before taking a throw.He quipped: “Let’s see what we do. Maybe we will play with hats on!”There will not only be a new towel ruling coming into play this season, but also a ‘five second’ restart rule to combat time-wasting.Declan Rice will not be able to use a towel to dry balls for throw-ins this seasonGettyThat is in addition to a crackdown on goalkeeper tactical timeouts, as well as a new substitution law.Arteta was asked which of the new rules will have the biggest impact on the game.To which he said: “We have had the Premier League and the referees there with us to explain and go through everything.“In pre-season we had the opportunity to see and experience some of them.“We will have to see when the season starts and how this unfolds and what is more doable and what is less doable and what we need to adapt.“We know that everybody is paying so much to the details, all the restarts and the countdowns, that will bring something else, a different dynamic, different momentum.Arteta is looking to guide Arsenal to back-to-back Premier League titles for the first timeGetty“So I am very curious to see. They are really good rules because what we are doing is trying to promote more game time and the fluidity of the games which is better and hopefully that will work.”What did Sean Dyche say about towels being used?The new towel ruling comes months after former Nottingham Forest boss and talkSPORT regular Sean Dyche called for them to be banned entirely following a meeting with Brentford back in January.Dyche was incensed by the amount of time it took for Bees full-back Michael Kayode to dry the ball before taking a throw-in.“They have towels on the sidelines. I can’t work that out,” Dyche said following Forest’s 2-0 win at Brentford.“Nothing against Brentford. It’s the rules. How can a home team be allowed to decide if they have towels on the sidelines or not?”The EFL implemented a complete towel ban ahead of the 2023/24 season, which Dyche felt should have also impacted the Premier League.Dyche complained about the use of towels in the Premier League last seasonGetty“Why not in the Premier League, just go, no towels, just get on with the game?“It just adds in another layer of things for us to talk about and for us to worry about.“Just say no towels. Dead easy, isn’t it? It’s not rocket science. Why make it more complicated? It’s unfathomable to me.”