Arteta on Aubameyang and Saka: key quotes

Mikel Arteta was asked repeatedly about Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Bukayo Saka's futures when he faced the media on Monday.

Speaking in a Zoom call for his pre-match press conference, our head coach discussed our club captain and young winger.

This is what he had to say:

on Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s future…

I think it is our responsibility to make him feel this is the right next step in his career. In order to do that, he needs to feel valued, he needs to feel he belongs to us and we want him, and then he really needs to believe that we can take the club forward in the way we want to do, and he is going to be a key player to do that. At the moment I am extremely happy with how he has been…