Arsenal failed to improve their starting eleven last summer and now Mikel Arteta is paying the price for Edu Gaspar's shortcomings.

Newcastle United gleefully took aim at Arsenal on social media after the Magpies' Carabao Cup semi-final victory on Wednesday. After January's first leg, which ended in a 2-0 victory for Newcastle, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta blamed the match ball used in the competition for his side's finishing woes,

While Newcastle United fans scrambled for trains, tickets and hotels around London for next month’s League Cup final through blissfully blurry vision, wide-eyed Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta was leading his side on to an Emirates flight to Dubai for a much-needed warm weather winter training break.