Ahead of the resumption of Premier League football following the World Cup break, Mikel Arteta faced the media in his pre-West Ham press conference.
Before our Boxing Day clash with the Hammers, he discussed a number of topics, including injury updates on his squad, the World Cup, his relationship with David Moyes and the upcoming January transfer window.
Here is everything he had to say:
on returning to action:
It’s been an unusual period obviously with the World Cup, but a period as well that we have used well to train on certain things that we needed to train, and to spend some time on certain players that haven’t been with their national teams.