Arsenal news: Bukayo Saka injury latest as Roy Keane slams Gunners star

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has explained the concern with Ben White, Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice up of his side's Premier League crippled against Nottingham Forest

Arsenal are backmost successful Premier League enactment connected Saturday, hosting Nottingham Forest astatine the Emirates Stadium.

The Gunners are successful hopeless request of 3 points, having gone 4 league matches without tasting triumph earlier the planetary break. Mikel Arteta’s broadside person mislaid to Bournemouth and Newcastle and drawn with Liverpool and Chelsea during a frustrating period.

Arsenal request to enactment an extremity to that this weekend, but cognize Forest won’t beryllium pushovers. Nuno Espirito Santo’s broadside person been the astonishment bundle of the play truthful acold and person the nonstop aforesaid grounds of the Gunners aft 11 league games.

“Their intentions are precise clear, however they negociate to instrumentality the games wherever they want,” Arteta said up of his 250th crippled successful complaint of Arsenal. “[I’ve been] truly impressed to beryllium just with what they've done.” Here are the latest headlines connected the club.

Arteta gives wounded update

Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice should beryllium acceptable to look Nottingham Forest aft grooming good connected Friday morning, but Ben White is facing an extended play connected the sidelines.

Speaking successful his pre-match property conference, Arteta said: "[Leandro] Trossard seems to beryllium OK, helium trained this greeting and seems to beryllium feeling good. Bukayo and Declan person their archetypal league today. Very bully arsenic well. Ben is going to beryllium retired for months, unfortunately.”

On White, helium added: “It's been antithetic kinds of struggles. It's ne'er been the aforesaid thing. We had to marque a decision. It's not been improving successful the past fewer weeks unfortunately.

"We cognize that Ben is going to propulsion each bound but it got to a constituent wherever we person to support the subordinate and we decided to bash the surgery. He agreed with that and unluckily that's going to support him retired for a fewer months.”

Kieran Tierney and Takehiro Tomiyasu stay unavailable, but Riccardo Calafiori volition beryllium backmost successful the Arsenal squad: “His rehab has gone truly well. He was capable to bash definite things past week with the physios. He trained connected the transportation this week, helium trained with america contiguous arsenic well.”

Keane unimpressed by Odegaard

Martin Odegaard made a afloat instrumentality to Arsenal earlier the planetary break, putting successful a bully show successful the 1-1 gully astatine Chelsea aft a 14-match lack done injury. But his efforts didn’t gain applause from Roy Keane.

Both Ian Wright and Jill Scott lauded the Norwegian's resilience connected The Overlap. "He needs plaudits for that due to the fact that usually erstwhile you travel backmost particularly aft an ankle injury, it's similar 30 minutes your archetypal game, past 60, helium did good to get done 96 minutes," said Scott.

Keane sarcastically reacted: "It's his job, innit? Like a aviator you've got an eight-hour flight, 'oh I tin lone bash six'... Jesus, 96 minutes? Praise the Lord."

Rosicky backed to regenerate Edu

Former Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky would beryllium the champion prime to regenerate Edu arsenic Arsenal’s manager of football, according to Arsenal fable Anders Limpar.

"I sat down with him and had a chat with him. He's an intelligent guy. He's precise calm. He knows his football,” helium told BonusCodeBet.co.uk.

Asked whether caput of Arsenal’s academy, Per Mertesacker, could measurement up to instrumentality the role, Limpar added: "In my book, some of them are large candidates but my prime would beryllium Tomas. He's a precise bully feline and his cognition of shot is amazing. Very clever feline and helium speaks cleanable English. He should beryllium suitable for the Arsenal job."

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