{"id":2452,"date":"2026-04-13T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:41:44","slug":"romano-confirms-talks-ongoing-as-arteta-sack-plan-comes-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"Romano confirms &#8216;talks ongoing&#8217; as Arteta sack plan comes to light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Arsenal are in \u201cactive conversation\u201d about renewing Mikel Arteta\u2019s contract despite rumours he could be sacked.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners lost 2-1 to Bournemouth on Saturday in a huge blow to their Premier League title chances, although their destiny still remains in their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>Man City closed the gap to six points on leaders <strong>Arsenal<\/strong> on Sunday by beating Chelsea 3-0 at Stamford Bridge and Pep Guardiola\u2019s side still have a game in hand on the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p>The real potential turning point could be this coming Sunday when Arsenal travel to face Man City in the Premier League <strong>in what is being billed as a \u201ctitle decider\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal have lost three of their last four matches in all competitions, losing the Carabao Cup final to Man City and crashing out the FA Cup to Championship side Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>That has led to some fans to call for Arteta to be replaced and <strong>a report over the weekend revealed<\/strong> that the Spaniard\u2019s \u2018credit is running out\u2019 and that he will \u2018not continue at Arsenal next season\u2019 if they fail to win the Premier League or Champions League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:<span> <\/span>Mikel Arteta \u2018nervous breakdown\u2019 contrasts with calmness of Carrick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But now Romano has claimed that Arsenal are actually looking to renew Arteta\u2019s contract, not sack him, but the focus remains on what is happening on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1yn9VybCEvY\" target=\"_blank\">Romano said on his YouTube channel<\/a>: \u201cArsenal are in conversation, in active conversation, with Arteta\u2019s lawyer already since January and February to discuss a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo there are contract talks ongoing between Arsenal and Arteta. But the club and the manager decided together to focus on the pitch first. There is a Champions League quarter-final return leg, there is the Premier League title race, and they decided to keep the contract situation calm for now.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBdhOQKIXC\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the season, in the summer, they will restart the conversation. Length of the contract, salary, all the usual topics when it is about a new deal. So the talks have already started around January and February, and the trust between Arsenal and Arteta remains total.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE ARSENAL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong><br \/>* <strong>Arsenal fan boos show \u2018peak entitlement\u2019 at \u2018squeaky glum time\u2019<\/strong><br \/>* <strong>\u2018It\u2019s slapsville\u2019 \u2013 Ferdinand sends stark warning to Arsenal ahead of Man City showdown<\/strong><br \/>* <strong>Arsenal 3 Man City 4 in Premier League XI of season so far<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Responding to some fans asking for Arteta to be sacked, <strong>former Watford striker Troy Deeney said on <em>CBS Sports<\/em><\/strong>: \u201cThey\u2019re not going to sack him because he has moved that club astronomically forward from where it was, they\u2019re always in contention now and being spoken about as one of the best teams in world football, and rightly so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this is why Arsenal fans\u2026 this is why I love you, and why you love me, because when it\u2019s right and when they\u2019re winning they\u2019re hammering me, now\u2026 \u2018sack him\u2019?! He\u2019s top of the league, they\u2019re in the Champions League, now it\u2019s, \u2018sack him, get rid of him\u2019. Who are you going to bring in?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to ask you this question Arsenal fans, remember before (they said) they didn\u2019t have any strikers? Gyokeres, Havertz and Jesus all played today, I said he (Gyokeres) would score in these games, it\u2019s the big games that matter, has he scored against Liverpool yet, has he scored against Man City yet?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        '\n        fbq('init', '1399787394855675');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><script>\n        !function(e,n,t){var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)(0);e.getElementById\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Arsenal are in \u201cactive conversation\u201d about renewing Mikel Arteta\u2019s contract<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}