Good morning, and happy Friday to you all. It’s a quiet morning, so this will be a short blog.
Mikel Arteta will meet the press a bit later on ahead of our game against Southampton tomorrow. There might be one or two injury issues we have to think about but he will say ‘We will see in the next 24 hours’ about whoever is in doubt, and then we’ll wait until Saturday to find out the truth. Unlike Tom Cruise, I can handle the truth.
One thing is for sure, there won’t be a surprise return for Martin Odegaard who is not in Norway’s squad for the upcoming internationals. Some comments from their manager have sparked a bit of concern that the skipper might be sidelined for quite a while yet, but I don’t think there’s anything that surprising in what he said. Or anything which suggests it’s worse than we already thought. It was always understood he’d be out of action until after this Interlull at the very earliest, so I don’t think anything has changed.
Elsewhere, Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka are named in the England squad, for games against Greece and Finland, while Gabriel and Gabriel Martinelli will be away with Brazil. I don’t have the full list of Interlull absentees to hand, but we’ll sort that out in a post over on Arseblog News in the next little while.
In a Champions League week, I can say I enjoy some of the clips from the CBS Golazo show in which Thierry Henry sits alongside Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards, brilliantly anchored by Kate Scott (formerly Abdo). But I also thoroughly enjoyed David Squires take on the whole thing in the Guardian.
With the return of Aaron Ramsdale when Southampton visit tomorrow, this Reddit post made me laugh.
Meanwhile, long-awaited – and I do realise they are long-awaited – updates to the Arseblog apps for iOS and Android are nearing completion. This is particularly good news because Google made some arbitrary changes during the week which means the old version of the app isn’t on the Play Store…
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Publish date : 2024-10-04 07:18:58
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