I'm very pleased. Everybody has been giving him a lot of support and love, which is what he needed, said Arteta. We are delighted to have him back and have him in really good shape.
Martin has a lot of qualities that we want as a captain… one of them is that he thinks about the team before himself, Arteta said this summer. He had a period at the start where he wasn't playing, he was the first in training, the last to leave, asking the right questions – why he wasn't ...
We look at the squad and see what the options we have our with the players we have available, Arteta said. There are things we can try, we have the need to do so.
I'm very pleased. Everybody has been giving him a lot of support and love, which is what he needed, said Arteta. We are delighted to have him back and have him in really good shape.