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A very quick Friday blog. Mikel Arteta meets the press this morning ahead of our game against Bournemouth tomorrow, with a number of fitness/injury issues on the minds of fans. Unquestionably he will be reticent to give too much information away, but on the agenda:
Bukayo Saka – after his hamstring issue for England
Gabriel Martinelli – calf problem while away with Brazil
Ben White – knee, but seems to be ok to walk dogs without much fuss
Kai Havertz – knee, didn’t go away with Germany
Jurrien Timber – knee, being ‘managed’ according to Arteta
Oleksandr Zinchenko – calf, hasn’t been in a squad since August 31st
Takehiro Tomiyasu – rumours of a problem, but nothing confirmed
Martin Odegaard – general update perhaps
There are some training pics on the official site, but none of them give us any insight into the fitness or availability of any of the players listed above. So, let’s see what he says in his press conference and take it from there.
I liked this interview with Riccardo Calafiori on the BBC (many of you, like me, will need a VPN if you’re not in Britain), but he talked about learning English and his goal celebration against Man City. He ran to the touchline, jumped into Mikel Arteta’s arms, while vigorously pointing at someone. Except, he wasn’t pointing at anyone in particular, as he explained:
I don’t know, it’s not myself who run to Arteta, it was another person, I don’t know. And I was kept doing this pointing but I don’t know to who, I swear. I was like blank.
I enjoy the idea that he just made up an imaginary ‘enemy’ to pick out after he scored one of our goals of the season so far. Let’s hope we see more of those in the weeks and months ahead. Calafiori banging one in, then going crazy at the invisible man or woman during his celebrations.
Meanwhile, Jack Wilshere looks set to leave Arsenal to take up a first team coaching role at Norwich City. There’s a vacancy there after one of…
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Publish date : 2024-10-18 05:09:41
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