{"id":1947,"date":"2026-04-11T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:20:09","slug":"arsenal-begin-talks-with-arteta-over-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=1947","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal begin talks with Arteta over new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footiecentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/arsenal-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"arsenal fc\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footiecentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/arsenal-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.footiecentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/arsenal-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.footiecentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/arsenal.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal have begun talks with manager Mikel Arteta over a new contract.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard will have a year left on his existing deal at the end of the season, but the ownership and club want him to extend his deal at the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Arteta is also keen on continuing in his role, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn78kdymmvpo\">recognising<\/a><\/strong>  that he is given a degree of control and influence that he would unlikely to be offered at any other club in Europe,<\/p>\n<p>The news will not please all the supporters, because for all the progress that they have made under Arteta, there has been a lack of silverware to show for it, apart from an FA Cup in the first year, which was the Covid season. Such criticism will only grow louder should the club fail to get over the line in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, discussions are reported to be trending in a positive direction, although they have been put on hold until after the season has ended.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal have begun talks with manager Mikel Arteta over a new contract. The Spaniard will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}