Luis de la Fuente<\/strong> has already begun its countdown to announce the squad list for the World Cup<\/strong>. The coach is still waiting for the recovery of some cash. The last one to sign up was one of the usual trusted men<\/strong> from the Riojan technician: Mikel Merino<\/strong>. <\/p>\n Mikel Arteta<\/strong>Arsenal manager, was questioned about the state of health of his player<\/strong> in the preview of the match between the Gunners and Bournemouth. He Basque coach was optimistic about Merino’s physical condition<\/strong>stating that has a chance of reappearing before the season ends <\/strong>in the London set. <\/p>\n “Mikel is a great example of pushing all barriers. He no longer wears the protective boot and is doing a lot of exercises now.<\/strong>. He reacted very well to the operation and has no pain.<\/strong>. I’m sure that can shorten deadlines<\/strong>. “If there is a person who can do it, I am sure it is Mikel,” said the Spanish coach.<\/p>\n Merino, celebrating his goal against Brentford<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Mikel Merino suffered a bone injury in his right foot<\/strong>last January in a league match against Manchester United. Since then, he has been on indefinite leave<\/strong>in the box Gunner <\/em>and included His presence with Spain in the next World Cup came into question<\/strong>. Despite being a midfielder, Merino has become one of the ‘goal men’ both in the National Team and in Arsenal itself<\/strong>. Arteta, in fact, is used to place him in the lineups as a ‘9’ <\/strong>able to play with his back and with one orSharper scoring instinct than even some of his teammates<\/strong> in the front. <\/p>\n He Arsenal, since his injury, has shown a certain drop in performance in terms of results after losing in the Carabao Cup final and exhausting his options in the FA Cup<\/strong>. Merino’s scoring contribution was another of those shortcuts to goal<\/strong> so used today by Arteta’s coaching staff. This season, Merino has played 33 games in all competitions, adding six goals and three assists<\/strong> to his credit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Luis de la Fuente has already begun its countdown to announce the squad list for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Merino,](\"https:\/\/objetos-xlk.estaticos-marca.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/03\/6930a79bb404a.jpeg\"\/)
<\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Arsenal miss him<\/h2>\n