Arsenal report: Mikel Arteta explains why he's worried about the club's striker situation

News
By published

Arsenal have two forwards out of contract next summer and another has been sidelined

Mikel Arteta
(Image credit: PA)

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta admits there is a "cloud" hanging over the futures of each of the club's three senior strikers.

Arteta stripped Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of the captaincy this week after the Gabon international returned back late from an authorised trip to France to see his mother.

Both players could be plying their trade elsewhere next season, though, with Lacazette and Nketiah's contracts set to expire in June.

“We have a cloud and the cloud is there and, at the moment, we’re not able to change it," he said.

"We’re working on it to try to make it as small as possible and as clear as possible, but it’s the situation we are in because contracts have details, the timing of them is tricky and we are trying to resolve it.”

“It depends on every single case, depends on the player’s situation, the minutes he’s playing, his willingness or the offer that you have,” he added. “But it’s something that you have to consider.”

Subscribe to FourFourTwo today and save over a third on standard price.

Greg Lea
Greg Lea

Greg Lea is a freelance football journalist who's filled in wherever FourFourTwo needs him since 2014. He became a Crystal Palace fan after watching a 1-0 loss to Port Vale in 1998, and once got on the scoresheet in a primary school game against Wilfried Zaha's Whitehorse Manor (an own goal in an 8-0 defeat).