{"id":749330,"date":"2026-08-25T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749330\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:54:12","slug":"arsenal-squad-unhappy-with-mikel-arteta-as-gabriel-martinelli-nears-40m-al-hilal-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749330\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal squad &#8216;unhappy&#8217; with Mikel Arteta as Gabriel Martinelli nears \u00a340m Al-Hilal transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arteta&#8217;s harsh handling of the situation has seemingly not gone down well in the Emirates dressing room. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.br\/futebol\/arsenal\/artigo\/_\/id\/17160221\/arsenal-gabriel-martinelli-triste-sem-medalha-titulo-negocia-al-hilal-deve-dar-adeus-premier-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">ESPN<\/a>, the manager&#8217;s cut-throat approach has caused &#8220;some discomfort&#8221; among the Arsenal squad, with several team-mates feeling highly sympathetic towards the departing winger.<\/p>\n<p>The underlying tension escalated rapidly when Martinelli was excluded from the Community Shield victory over Manchester City, meaning he did not receive a winners&#8217; medal. The same report claims that this specific decision left the forward &#8220;greatly disappointed&#8221;, while other senior squad members were also deeply unhappy with his outright omission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arteta&#8217;s harsh handling of the situation has seemingly not gone down well in the Emirates dressing room. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[220,218,247557,38001,221,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-football","tag-g-martinelli","tag-m-arteta","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749330","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=749330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}