Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta on whether injuries have changed the way he views the January transfer window: “We always have to be prepared. The moment that we have an option to improve the squad or to protect the squad, depending on what happens, I think we need to be open to it, what is going to happen from here until the window is closed because that is football.
“We don’t know, but certainly we are going to be alert and we know where the risk can come in terms of the squad and be ready just in case we have to do something.”
On whether he can afford to let players like Gabriel Jesus and Ethan Nwaneri leave in January to gain game time: “At the moment we haven’t had a situation where players have been out of the squad for three or four weeks in a row. We are fulfilling the squad with the players we have fit, so at the moment it is very clear that there is no option to do that [sell players or let them leave on loan].”