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Morning all.
A few quick Saturday bits for you. Let’s start with Jorginho (again), who spoke to ESPN about Mikel Arteta’s future, and said:
“I feel that he could stay way longer. I feel he feels good here and I honestly don’t see him going. It is really important for the club for him to stay because him with Edu and the board, the whole club, they created something special.
“I don’t believe he wants to go as well.”
It feels inconceivable to me that with a year left on his current deal, discussions about an extension haven’t taken place yet. The end of an intense title race is not the time to do or say anything about it, because even though it’s not really any kind of distraction, it would be framed as such if things don’t go exactly the right way. Which is more a reflection on the ever-decreasing standards in football discourse than anything else, but you also can’t ignore the reality of that.
Whatever happens, I think Arteta will extend. The club can’t be in any doubt about what he has done since he took the job, and hopefully that’s all done without too much fuss after the end of the season.
Jorginho also talked about Kai Havertz and the criticism he faced when he first joined. The German himself spoke about it a couple of weeks ago, saying while he understood it and fully accepted opinions about him as a footballer, it wasn’t nice to see very personal stuff on social media. His former Chelsea teammate said:
He is a human being. You hear those things, you feel them and it is up to you how you take them. You can take them and let them get you down or you take the criticism and use it as a motivation. I think he used them as a motivation to prove them wrong and he did and I am really glad.
I don’t think there’s any doubt about that. He’s now an integral part of a team that is heading into the penultimate weekend of the season still fighting for the title, and he’s played a big part in that. I was worried about the signing at…
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Publish date : 2024-05-11 06:21:49
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