{"id":412409,"date":"2026-02-07T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412409\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:22:09","slug":"arteta-explains-the-plan-behind-two-new-arsenal-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/412409\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteta explains the plan behind two new Arsenal signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikel Arteta says he has high hopes for new Arsenal signings Jaden Dixon and Evan Mooney after bringing in the duo late on in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Dixon has joined from Stoke City, while <a href=\"https:\/\/hayters.com\/arsenal-sign-top-academy-talent-from-scotland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacker Mooney has arrived from Scottish club St Mirren<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both 18, the duo will go into Arsenal\u2019s youth side and Arteta says bringing in the pair while still young gives the club an advantage in terms of their development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it is obviously part of the plan and we need to continue to reinforce because that\u2019s the best way,\u201d Arteta explained. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we bring them early\u00a0and when we know their characters and the pathway is clear\u00a0and they\u2019ve been with us in different ways,\u00a0I think it makes that jump much easier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we will continue to try to do that and if they can be around the team\u00a0in the right moments, they will be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta says he has high hopes for new Arsenal signings Jaden Dixon and Evan Mooney after bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-412409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}