on Bukayo Saka’s fitness:
▶I think he’s fine. I think he was struggling a bit at the end [against PSV],
but hopefully he will be fine for Sunday.
on Gabriel Martinelli’s fitness:
▶Yeah, he came on yesterday. He had a tough week,
he wasn’t feeling great during the week,
but towards the day before the game,
he was already feeling better
and that’s why we decided to play him a little bit.
on Oleksandr Zinchenko’s fitness:
▶I think he’s close [to returning].
He’s getting better and better
and he’s progressing really well.
He had a setback on the injury
that he had at the start of the season,
which is a shame, but knowing Alex,
he will be back very soon.
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on the atmosphere at Emirates Stadium this season:
▶ I think that brings joy and more willingness to continue our journey together and get better.
I think when you see people happy, people attached to what we are doing
and a club that is connected from top to bottom, it is exactly what we want.
Now we need to give them the right reasons to continue to be supportive
and as excited as they are right now.
on our depth at left-back:
▶ What we want is to keep them all competitive.
To keep them all happy I think is impossible,
because when one plays, the other one is not as happy as the one that is playing.
I think the three of them [Zinchenko, Tierney and Tomiyasu]
when they’ve been playing have been really good and this is what we need.
In different games, we need different things from that position and we adapt each game.
on the role he’s played in Granit Xhaka’s turnaround:
▶ I think everybody at the club has been trying to give him support, trying to help him,
trying to guide him, trying to encourage him, and sometimes calm him down.
He’s a player with a big character that is very passionate about everything that he does.
At the same time, he’s a really honest and humble guy
and I think he deserves what he’s getting.
on if Xhaka was close to leaving when Arteta joined:
▶ I think he was, at least he had some thoughts about that possibility in his head.
We just tried to convince him to give himself and the club another opportunity.
on what he said to Xhaka to convince him to stay:
▶ I think he talked about it. I don’t like to talk about a private conversation.
I think he’s made it clear in the press what happened and I'll leave it there.
on our season so far:
▶ Well, it’s been very positive. The winning percentage is extremely high,
the way we are performing is really good and we are in the position that we want to be in.
on if being top of the table means we’re the best team in the country right now:
▶ It means that now we are there, but it’s a long, long season
and we have to deserve to be there when it comes to May.
on Martin Odegaard being recognised with a Norwegian award:
▶ Yeah, I’m very happy. He got that award when we were in Norway to play Bodo
and he was very surprised with it. He should take it as a big compliment,
it’s a big award, I think he was really happy with it, so we’re all proud of him.
on if Ainsley has a future with us:
▶ Well, the future that he has right now is the present.
The most important thing is for him to get in there,
get his place and start to perform at the level that he can.
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