Good morning.
A really fast Friday weblog. Mikel Arteta meets the press this morning forward of our sport in opposition to Bournemouth tomorrow, with a variety of health/harm points on the minds of followers. Unquestionably he will likely be reticent to present an excessive amount of data away, however on the agenda:
- Bukayo Saka – after his hamstring concern for England
- Gabriel Martinelli – calf drawback whereas away with Brazil
- Ben White – knee, however appears to be alright to stroll canines 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 – common 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 appreciated this interview with Riccardo Calafiori on the BBC (a lot of you, like me, will want a VPN if you happen to’re not in Britain), however he talked about studying English and his objective celebration in opposition to 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 that he simply made up an imaginary ‘enemy’ to select after he scored considered one of our objectives of the season to this point. 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 lady throughout his celebrations.
In the meantime, Jack Wilshere seems to be set to go away Arsenal to take up a primary staff teaching position at Norwich Metropolis. There’s a emptiness there after considered one of their first staff coaches left, and there’s additionally an Arsenal connection because the membership’s former mortgage supervisor Ben Knapper is in situ at Carrow Street as Norwich’s Sporting Director. Possibly that’s only a coincidence, however 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 teach the U23s, then had a really brief 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 tip of the season, however since then has targeted extra on media work than teaching.
Anyway, it seems to be like Jack has ambitions to be a head coach. He was linked with jobs at Colorado Rapids and Aberdeen, so extra senior expertise will likely be essential for his improvement. 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 accomplished an interview with goalkeeper turned podcaster Ben Foster which I haven’t had time to totally watch but, however which seems to be fairly attention-grabbing to this point. It’s additionally acquired canines, which as everyone knows, makes every thing higher. Until you’re a squirrel. You’ll be able to test it out on YouTube right here.
And on your listening pleasure this morning, I’ve a model new Arsecast chatting about Gabriels Jesus and Martinelli, Mikel Merino, full-backs, and plenty extra with Alex Moneypenny from The Totally different Knock. You’ll be able to test it out beneath.
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.
