According to The Sun, Arsenal will not cut Eddie Nketiah’s Leeds United loan short in January despite his lack of game time.
The 20-year-old is yet to start a Championship game since moving to Elland Road on summer transfer deadline day, making all his 12 league appearances this term off the bench.
Nketiah is firmly behind Patrick Bamford in Marcelo Bielsa’s pecking order, and that won’t be changing anytime soon given the first-choice striker’s all-round contributions and style of play.
Arsenal do have a clause to recall their academy graduate if he doesn’t play a certain amount of minutes, and it was reckoned they wouldn’t hesitate to next month.