{"id":810568,"date":"2026-07-19T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810568\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:16:10","slug":"world-cup-2026-how-has-the-world-cup-affected-your-premier-league-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810568\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: How has the World Cup affected your Premier League team?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal<\/a> may be the Premier League team affected most by the World Cup.<\/p>\n

The Gunners face an anxious wait over the fitness of William Saliba<\/a>, who had been managing a back issue before his tournament was ended by the same problem.<\/p>\n

The centre-back has not yet been assessed by the club’s medical team, but if he was sidelined, it would be a big loss – especially as his defensive partnership with Gabriel is so crucial to how the team play.<\/p>\n

The other two question marks will be over the fitness of Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka, who helped England finish third while managing their own fitness issues.<\/p>\n

It does not look like they will need a longer lay-off once the tournament is over, but they will be monitored closely by Arsenal<\/a> before the new season.<\/p>\n

Leandro Trossard enjoyed a fine tournament with Belgium, starting all six games and scoring twice as they reached the quarter-finals, before the forward joined Turkish club Besiktas for \u00a315m<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Martinelli, who showed flashes of his quality playing for Brazil, is another player the Gunners could be open to selling this summer.<\/p>\n

Carlo Ancelotti played the winger in a central role during the tournament, and that may be an extra attraction for potential buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal may be the Premier League team affected most by the World Cup. The Gunners face an anxious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-810568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}