Arsenal's desperation to signal Rice could imply they've to offer in and permit Smith Rowe to go away. Smith Rowe nonetheless has three years remaining on his contract in north London, so may appeal to a large price.

Arteta is eager to maintain Smith Rowe, together with a lot of his squad gamers, following his aspect's qualification for the Champions League. The Spaniard admitted final month he needs extra to get extra out of these on the fringes.

Arteta mentioned: "First of all, be critical with ourselves, first with myself. My job is to get the best out of 24 players that we have available and I haven’t been able to do that. There are still players who have great potential and we haven’t been able to do that.

"There are totally different causes, whether or not it’s accidents, whether or not it’s sport time, whether or not I haven’t had the chance or we I haven’t been capable of play them sufficient. We should search for these margins as a result of now we have these margins and our job is to make them higher."

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