Mikel Arteta pessimistic on midfield accidents and admits Arsenal might transfer on deadline day

Mikel Arteta has confirmed that accidents to Thomas Partey and Mohamed Elneny has left Arsenal trying to make a Deadline Day transfer for midfield cowl, confirming after Wednesday evening’s 2-1 win over Aston Villa that the Egyptian goes to be out for ‘some time’.

Albert Sambi Lokonga crammed in subsequent to Granit Xhaka and Martin Odegaard because the third midfielder towards Villa, however Arteta admitted that – with the Europa League beginning imminently and a compressed schedule because of the World Cup – the Gunners at the moment are in some want of reinforcements.

On Elneny, he mentioned: “That is not excellent news, he nonetheless must see a specialist however I am afraid we’ll lose Mo for some time.

“[Elneny’s injury] has an impression as a result of additionally Thomas is injured, and we’re a bit brief in that place. We’ve got Sambi, gamers like Granit can play there, however we’re taking a look at choices available in the market. The membership has been tremendous supportive to attempt to preserve enhancing the group and the squad as we will. If the proper participant is there and we will do it, we’ll attempt.”

He laughed off a query about how a lot cash is left within the switch kitty, calling himself ‘not a monetary man’, however expanded on the most recent about Partey’s harm – after confirming on the weekend that the harm is much like the one which restricted him final season.

“He will be out for some time, however I do not understand how lengthy that interval goes to be. It isn’t the primary harm he is had in that space so it is a recurring harm, it is extra for the docs to present it a timeline.”

Martin Odegaard got here off within the second half after selecting up a knock of his personal, with Arteta saying “Yeah, he obtained a foul kick as you possibly can see. I do not know, it is very latest so we’ll have to attend for the subsequent few hours, how he recovers.”

In case that wasn’t sufficient, Aaron Ramsdale went down late on within the match feeling his hamstring, though he recovered after remedy to see out the 90 minutes. “I feel he felt one thing,” mentioned the Arsenal supervisor. “I do not know what precisely. He managed to complete the sport, but it surely’s one other one we’ll need to assess.”

Arsenal face their hardest style of the season on Sunday, their 100% document on the road after they go away to face Manchester United at Outdated Trafford.