{"id":6251,"date":"2022-01-17T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/17\/arsenal-down-to-bare-bones-another-defender-departs-on-loan\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T09:02:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:02:13","slug":"arsenal-down-to-bare-bones-another-defender-departs-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/17\/arsenal-down-to-bare-bones-another-defender-departs-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal down to bare bones? Another defender departs on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>Arsenal see North London derby postponed<\/h2>\n<p>There was outrage across social media as Arsenal saw their north London derby away to Tottenham postponed at the Gunners request, due to Mikel Arteta\u2019s side not having enough players.<\/p>\n<p>However, with only one covid case in the squad at the time (there has since been another), many felt as though they should have played and used their youth players, although the club themselves were well within their rights to ask for a postponement.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham themselves were outraged too. In a statement, they claimed:<\/p>\n<p><em>We are extremely surprised that this application has been approved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We ourselves were disqualified from the European Conference League after a significant number of COVID cases meant we needed to reschedule a fixture and our application to move our Leicester fixture was not approved \u2013 only for it to be subsequently postponed when Leicester applied.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The original intention of the guidance \u2013\u00a0<strong>here<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 was to deal with player availability directly affected by COVID cases, resulting in depleted squads that, when taken together with injuries, would result in the club being unable to field a team.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We do not believe it was the intent to deal with player availability unrelated to COVID.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We may now be seeing the unintended consequences of this rule.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is important to have clarity and consistency on the application of the rule.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Club statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1482399055594545153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And now, they could be further frustrated.<\/p>\n<h2>Mari set to leave on loan<\/h2>\n<p>This comes as Arsenal are set to let a third first team player leave the club on loan, in the form of Spaniard Pablo Mari.<\/p>\n<p>The defender is set to join Udinese, and in the process follow Folarin Balogun and Ainsley Maitland-Niles out of the Emirates exit door this window, further depleting their squad in the process.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Udinese have completed the agreement with Arsenal to sign Pablo Mar\u00ed on loan until June. Deal set to be signed. ??? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pablo Mar\u00ed will join Udinese on straight loan \u2013 no buy option included. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiMarzio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DiMarzio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1483019841179160579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mari had not played since the second game of the season, and had dropped well down the pecking order in Arteta\u2019s mind. However, with it only being a loan, a decision will have to be taken in the summer.<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/african-cup-of-nations-week-1-round-up-liverpool-pair-clash-arsenal-man-heading-home\/\" rel=\"v:url\">African Cup of Nations week 1 round-up: Liverpool pair clash &amp; Arsenal man heading home?<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/what-marseilles-transfer-ban-means-for-the-futures-of-arsenal-pair-guendouzi-saliba\/\" rel=\"v:url\">What Marseille\u2019s transfer ban means for the futures of Arsenal pair Guendouzi &amp; Saliba<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal see North London derby postponed There was outrage across social media as Arsenal saw their north London derby away to Tottenham postponed at the Gunners request, due to Mikel Arteta\u2019s side not having enough players. However, with only one covid case in the squad at the time (there has since been another), many felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-6251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}