Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice’s return dates give Mikel Arteta a major boost for Arsenal’s Premier League campaign. Discover the details.
Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice, Aaron Ramsdale, and David Raya are set to rejoin Arsenal in approximately three weeks after the Euro 2024 final, as reported by football.london.
While only Saka and Rice played in England’s loss to Spain, all four players will be given time off following the conclusion of the season.
This would mean a potential return date of around August 5, indicating that unless any of the four players decide to shorten their holiday, they will miss the entire US tour.
Arsenal is scheduled to travel to Los Angeles on July 21 to face Bournemouth and Manchester United before heading to Pennsylvania to take on Liverpool, returning at the beginning of August
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The Gunners are then set to play Bayer Leverkusen at the Emirates Stadium on August 7. It is possible that this match may come too soon for the quartet, but Arsenal’s next game in the Emirates Cup against Lyon on August 11 is the target for the club to have all their summer tournament representatives back.
Players such as William Saliba, Jakub Kiwior, Jorginho, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Gabriel Magalhaes, Gabriel Martinelli, Kieran Tierney, Kai Havertz, and Leandro Trossard, who represented their countries and were eliminated earlier, are expected to return sooner.
Some of them may join the tour, while others, like Martin Odegaard, Jurrien Timber, Benjamin White, Eddie Nketiah, Reiss Nelson, Fabio Vieira, and Emile Smith Rowe, have been at a training camp in Marbella with Mikel Arteta and will return alongside others this week before the flight to America on Sunday.
