{"id":810616,"date":"2026-07-18T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810616\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:33:09","slug":"arsenal-will-the-world-cup-affect-transfer-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810616\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal: Will the World Cup affect transfer plans?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fitness of Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka has been widely debated throughout this World Cup.<\/p>\n

The pair are as important for their country as they are for their club and both have put their bodies on the line.<\/p>\n

Rice has been dealing with a hamstring issue and had an injection at the back end of last year to deal with it.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old also had a period of illness during the World Cup and was withdrawn at half-time during England’s 2-1 quarter-final win over Norway.<\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a> played 63 matches in all competitions last season as they reached the Champions League final as well as winning the league title.<\/p>\n

Rice played in 55 of those and, with his Arsenal<\/a> team-mates, joined the England camp later as they took a few days rest.<\/p>\n

Now it will be decided how long a break Rice needs before he returns to pre-season with the Arsenal<\/a> squad.<\/p>\n

The midfielder will automatically get the mandatory 21 days holiday once the World Cup is over. <\/p>\n

Saka is in a similar situation to Rice, where rest is the biggest benefit to the fitness issue he has been dealing with.<\/p>\n

The winger has been carrying an Achilles injury since March and admitted that playing in the tournament was a “gamble”.<\/p>\n

England manager Thomas Tuchel said the winger was now “pain-free”. However, he has had to still manage Saka’s game time and he did not get off the bench as England lost to Argentina in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

As well as the Achilles issue last season, Saka missed matches because of a hamstring problem and will be hoping that a break this time out will ensure he regains his top level of fitness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fitness of Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka has been widely debated throughout this World Cup. The pair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-810616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}