Good morning, and comfortable Friday to you all. It’s a quiet morning, so this might be a brief weblog.

Mikel Arteta will meet the press a bit afterward forward of our recreation towards Southampton tomorrow. There may be one or two damage points we’ve to consider however he’ll say ‘We’ll see within the subsequent 24 hours’ about whoever is unsure, after which we’ll wait till Saturday to seek out out the reality. Not like Tom Cruise, I can deal with the reality.

One factor is for positive, there received’t be a shock return for Martin Odegaard who will not be in Norway’s squad for the upcoming internationals. Some feedback from their supervisor have sparked a little bit of concern that the skipper may be sidelined for fairly some time but, however I don’t assume there’s something that stunning in what he stated. Or something which suggests it’s worse than we already thought. It was at all times understood he’d be out of motion till after this Interlull on the very earliest, so I don’t assume something has modified.

Elsewhere, Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka are named within the England squad, for video games towards Greece and Finland, whereas Gabriel and Gabriel Martinelli might be away with Brazil. I don’t have the complete record of Interlull absentees at hand, however we’ll type that out in a submit over on Arseblog Information within the subsequent short while.

In a Champions League week, I can say I get pleasure from a number of the clips from the CBS Golazo present by which Thierry Henry sits alongside Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards, brilliantly anchored by Kate Scott (previously Abdo). However I additionally totally loved David Squires tackle the entire thing within the Guardian.

With the return of Aaron Ramsdale when Southampton go to tomorrow, this Reddit submit made me snort.

In the meantime, long-awaited – and I do realise they’re long-awaited – updates to the Arseblog apps for iOS and Android are nearing completion. That is notably excellent news as a result of Google made some arbitrary adjustments in the course of the week which suggests the previous model of the app isn’t on the Play Retailer anymore. Apologies to anybody who has modified cellphone just lately, and is trying to obtain it, it’s not there.

Nevertheless, new variations might be going out to beta-testers imminently, and can hopefully be on basic launch within the subsequent week or so. Within the meantime, for those who’re lacking your Arseblog repair on cellular, simply go to the location in Safari or Chrome, and make somewhat desktop shortcut. The websites are absolutely optimised for cellular, and you will get at them with only a click on, or a push or a poke or a finger or nonetheless you name what we do with telephones. It’s not a click on since you don’t click on something, until you’re some type of jazz man clicking your fingers and hitting the display on the similar time. If that’s you, you’re most likely all hopped up on goofballs anyway, so that you wouldn’t be capable to get the house display widgets sorted within the first place.

Anyway, they’re coming quickly, I promise! And when that occurs, that can imply the final little bit of promoting on Arseblog and Arseblog Information might be gone … eternally. There are some legacy advert placements within the previous apps, however they’ll be gone within the new ones. It implies that your studying expertise might be utterly clear, and if that’s one thing you respect possibly test us out Patreon.

In addition to supporting every thing we do on Arseblog, together with our frequently increasing protection of Arsenal Girls, you get all types of additional stuff for simply $6 a month. And in a world the place costs are rising for every thing on a regular basis, ours hasn’t gone up since we launched in 2018. In the event you’d wish to know a bit extra about our Patreon, what we do, and what you get – learn right here.

In the event you’d like to enroll, it’s patreon.com/arseblog – the place you’ll get yourselves a Southampton preview podcast a bit afterward this afternoon.

For now, have a terrific day.

The submit Friday bits and items appeared first on Arseblog … an Arsenal weblog.