Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta reacts throughout the draw towards Brentford (Photograph by Eddie Keogh/Getty Pictures)
Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta has made a moderately unconvincing case for his choice to mortgage Ethan Nwaneri to Marseille within the January switch window.
The Gunners supervisor was rightly requested about his dangerous choice, which clearly backfired after each Kai Havertz and Mikel Merino have been injured.
Nwaneri confirmed flashes of brilliance after breaking into the primary workforce final season, however struggled to search out enjoying time within the first half of this season.
Nonetheless, the 18-year-old seems to be to have a brilliant future forward of him and Arsenal followers will need to have been hoping he would get extra probabilities, with the likes of Martin Odegaard and Ebelesi Eze underperforming.
Mikel Arteta indicators Etan Nwaneri on mortgage to Marseille
However Arteta defended his choice to mortgage Nwaneri, insisting nobody might have predicted Arsenal’s unlucky harm run.
Fabrizio Romano quoted Arteta as saying: “Who might have predicted that Merino and Havertz could be out for 5 months? It is unlucky. It is nonetheless excellent for Ethan to attempt one other surroundings, spend time, play and put together to return to us.”
I am undecided if Arsenal followers will likely be all that satisfied by this, because it was very clear how badly the membership suffered from accidents not solely originally of this season, but in addition for big elements of the earlier season.
Havertz has solely just lately returned to health after being utterly out of motion for nearly a 12 months, whereas gamers like Odegaard and Bukayo Saka have suffered repeated absences.
Nwaneri’s mortgage appeared like an enormous danger however it proved pricey for AFC who lacked sparkle and creativity in final night time’s disappointing draw with Brentford.
Arsenal followers can solely hope that Arteta can get extra out of the likes of Odegaard, Saka and Eze between now and Might, in any other case this will likely be one other promising season that in the end ends in disappointment.
