{"id":738527,"date":"2026-08-15T05:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738527\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T05:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T05:42:13","slug":"arsenal-mikel-arteta-not-worried-about-contract-talks-with-deal-expiring-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738527\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal: Mikel Arteta not worried about contract talks with deal expiring in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mikel Arteta has said that supporters “don’t have to worry about” his future at Arsenal<\/a> as he wants to extend his contract and the time left on his deal is “not an issue”.<\/p>\n

The Gunners boss is into the final 12 months of his agreement that he signed in 2024 but says he is relaxed about formal talks taking place regarding a renewal. <\/p>\n

Arteta has been in charge of Arsenal<\/a> since 2019 and led the club to their first Premier League title<\/a> in 22 years last season.<\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a> face Manchester City<\/a> in the Community Shield on Sunday (15:00 BST) and Arteta was asked in his news conference about the concern some supporters may have given he is yet to agreed a new deal before the 2026-27 campaign kicks off. <\/p>\n

“No, they don’t have to worry about any of that because I want to be here, I’m extremely happy,” Arteta said. <\/p>\n

“I feel very grateful to work with the people that I work with and whenever we have the possibility we will resolve that and that’s it.” <\/p>\n

The Gunners are attempting to build on their success of last season and strengthen their squad in the transfer window. <\/p>\n

They were unsuccessful in their pursuit of Real Madrid winger Vinicius Jr<\/a> but have signed midfielder Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle<\/a>, Greece international winger Christos Tzolis from Club Brugge and made Piero Hincapie’s loan move from Bayern Leverkusen into a permanent transfer for a combined \u00a3143.5m.<\/p>\n

Goalkeeper Illan Meslier has also arrived on a free transfer from Leeds United<\/a> while, from last season’s squad, Leandro Trossard, Jakub Kiwior and Christian Norgaard have been moved on.<\/p>\n

The Gunners remain interested in Aston Villa<\/a>‘s Ezri Konsa or Jarell Quansah of Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> as a further defensive reinforcement in the market following injuries to William Saliba and Jurrien Timber.<\/p>\n

With the transfer window open until 1 September, the feeling at the club is that finalising a contract can come at a quieter period in the season. <\/p>\n

“There’s always another priority I think and that’s the way we’ve been treating it. Arteta added. <\/p>\n

“I think because everybody feels comfortable that the time on the contract is not going to be an issue.<\/p>\n

“I think because my will certainly is to be here and I’m very happy here. <\/p>\n

“And my feeling from the club is is the same one so I think that’s why everybody doing it things in a really organic way.”<\/p>\n

Arsenal<\/a> also reached the Champions League final last season where they were beaten by Paris St-Germain and Arteta has repeatedly spoken of his ambition since that loss to take the Gunners to next level. <\/p>\n

“I’m not going to talk about any individuals, obviously what I can tell you is the ambition of the club.” Arteta said. <\/p>\n

“It’s big that we want to improve the squad, we want to evolve the squad in order to achieve that. <\/p>\n

“We have obviously detected some areas that they can be strengthened and that’s what we are trying to do.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has said that supporters “don’t have to worry about” his future at Arsenal as he wants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738527","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\/738527","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=738527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}