Saka, Merino injury UPDATES | Mikel Arteta | Arsenal v Chelsea

Mikel Arteta speaks to the media on the fitness of Bukayo Saka, Mikel Merino's foot injury and transfer deadline day ahead of Arsenal's Carabao Cup semi-final against Chelsea. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro. 00:04 - injuries: nothing new 00:26 - Bukayo: hip issue. We’ll see. 00:55 - Merino: He needs to go to a procedure. A big blow. 01:24 -Return this season?: A rare injury. We’ll see how he reacts to surgery. He’ll do everything to get back. 01:56 - pain for you?: Very important plants won’t have for the rest of the season. 02:10 - Change your feelings for deadline day?: Of course. 02:39 - Someone special to come in?: You have to bring in someone to improve the team and that isn’t easy. 03:03 - Less panic now?: Yes but we had less depth the last six months. 03:30 - Big weekend: we can only control what we can control. Last week we lost. Big congratulations to our women’s team as well. 04:00 - Paul merson comments: we need another 14 of those. We are very conscious of what we need to do. 04:40 - Treble: we go day by day. We have a tough competition against Chelsea to earn the right. 05:00 - players dreaming?: what we can control is the level. 05:29 - Deadline day life: We are always active in every window. We had Nwaneri to Marseille for the right reasons, now merino is out. My day will be busier. We’ll try to find a solution. 06:15 - Not replacing merino: We have to consider. 06:45 - Exploit Chelsea defence: Liam’s doing an incredible job. We need to make the home advantage concrete. 07:32 - First trophy in six years to come?: the next one is the most important. 08:16 - Eze: you have to impact the game consistently for 96 minutes. 08:49 - Central for Eze?: we had injuries on the left, centre and right. Just trying understand those relationships. 09:24 - Gyokeres: his all round performances have been more consistent. Understanding his runs has been better and he’s been more prolific. 09:54 - Missing ugly goals: Goals are goals. I know we’d prefer the beautiful ones on YouTube but they’re still the same. 10:24 - MLS in