Good morning.
A really fast Friday weblog. Mikel Arteta meets the press this morning forward of our recreation towards Bournemouth tomorrow, with various health/damage points on the minds of followers. Unquestionably he shall be reticent to offer an excessive amount of data away, however on the agenda:
Bukayo Saka – after his hamstring situation for England
Gabriel Martinelli – calf drawback whereas away with Brazil
Ben White – knee, however appears to be alright to stroll canine with out a lot fuss
Kai Havertz – knee, didn’t go away with Germany
Jurrien Timber – knee, being ‘managed’ in keeping with Arteta
Oleksandr Zinchenko – calf, hasn’t been in a squad since August thirty first
Takehiro Tomiyasu – rumours of an issue, however nothing confirmed
Martin Odegaard – basic replace maybe
There are some coaching pics on the official website, however none of them give us any perception into the health or availability of any of the gamers listed above. So, let’s see what he says in his press convention and take it from there.
I favored this interview with Riccardo Calafiori on the BBC (a lot of you, like me, will want a VPN for those who’re not in Britain), however he talked about studying English and his aim celebration towards Man Metropolis. He ran to the touchline, jumped into Mikel Arteta’s arms, whereas vigorously pointing at somebody. Besides, he wasn’t pointing at anybody specifically, as he defined:
I don’t know, it’s not myself who run to Arteta, it was one other particular person, I don’t know. And I used to be stored doing this pointing however I don’t know to who, I swear. I used to be like clean.
I take pleasure in the concept he simply made up an imaginary ‘enemy’ to select after he scored certainly one of our targets of the season thus far. Let’s hope we see extra of these within the weeks and months forward. Calafiori banging one in, then going loopy on the invisible man or girl throughout his celebrations.
In the meantime, Jack Wilshere appears set to go away Arsenal to take up a primary group teaching position at Norwich Metropolis. There’s a emptiness there after certainly one of their first group coaches left, and there’s additionally an Arsenal connection because the membership’s former mortgage supervisor Ben Knapper is in situ at Carrow Highway as Norwich’s Sporting Director. Possibly that’s only a coincidence, nevertheless it’s additionally fairly regular for younger coaches to maneuver round as they construct their careers.
I keep in mind Freddie Ljungberg started teaching Arsenal U15s (together with one Bukayo Saka), earlier than leaving for Wolfsburg with former Academy head Andries Jonker. He returned to Arsenal to educate the U23s, then had a really quick stint as interim supervisor within the interval between Unai Emery’s departure and Mikel Arteta’s arrival. He stayed as half of the present supervisor’s set-up till the top of the season, however since then has targeted extra on media work than teaching.
Anyway, it appears like Jack has ambitions to be a head coach. He was linked with jobs at Colorado Rapids and Aberdeen, so extra senior expertise shall be essential for his growth. Good luck to him as and when it occurs, and it’ll be attention-grabbing to see who will get the nod to fill his sneakers with the U18s.
I discussed Ben White and canine strolling above, he’s performed an interview with goalkeeper turned podcaster Ben Foster which I haven’t had time to totally watch but, however which appears fairly attention-grabbing thus far. It’s additionally received canine, which as everyone knows, makes all the pieces higher. Until you’re a squirrel. You’ll be able to test it out on YouTube right here.
And to your listening pleasure this morning, I’ve a model new Arsecast chatting about Gabriels Jesus and Martinelli, Mikel Merino, full-backs, and much extra with Alex Moneypenny from The Totally different Knock. You’ll be able to test it out under.
We’ll have all of the press convention tales on Arseblog Information a bit later, and a Bournemouth preview podcast on Patreon late this afternoon. Till then.
