It was forced! It's nothing that I wanted to do, Arteta told Sky Sports . We had one or two players and some academy players that would join, [but] they could not join.
It is the same rationale about why Fábio [Vieira] played here or Eddie [Nketiah] ahead of Gabriel Jesus, Arteta said. I haven't had a single question on why Gabriel Jesus didn't start.
Arteta told Sky Sports: I think I mentioned that we wanted to build a squad with two players with quality in each position, with different characteristics.We have a lot of games coming up and it's the same with other players that we have rotated, and we will give a lot of game time in th...
It's something I'm not going to get into, Arteta said.