If Mikel Arteta already didn’t have enough to contend with at Arsenal, one of his former team-mates has suggested that he’s going to take pride in giving the Spaniard a selection headache. That’s because Per Mertesacker is now the head of the Arsenal academy, and he evidently wants to keep challenging his players to be good enough to be brought through for Arteta to use in the first team squad. “We are really keen on giving Mikel Arteta a lot of headaches, you know,” Mertesacker told Ian Wright on his YouTube channel, cited by the Daily Mirror. “He must be thinking, ‘What’s going on in the academy?’ Every year there is the potential two, three players who can step onto...
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