The debate for Arteta is whether he starts Merino up top this weekend when Arsenal host West Ham. Merino certainly did enough to justify sticking by him and, had it not been for Ethan Nwaneri ...

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Sometimes these kind of bizarre situations totally change the career of a player. Look, Merino may not play up top every week but Mikel Arteta has stumbled upon a possible solution to Arsenal’s injury ...

Advertisement As the days have passed between Merino’s unexpected exhibition ... which suggests he is set to continue up top. Clearly that was not the original plan to fill in for Havertz ...

Arsenal match winner Mikel Merino has admitted he was surprised to come on as a striker against Leicester City having never played in the position before, but was hailed as a "real goal threat" by ...

Morning all. A quick Friday blog for you, because today is the first golf day of the year. I haven’t played in a long time, ...

If Arteta wanted to fill the Kai Havertz-shaped hole up top with something more similar ... morphing his fellow Basque Country-native Mikel Merino from a midfield duel-winning monster into a ...

Merino comes off bench to secure Arsenal win ... three points behind Nottingham Forest whose top-four ambitions suffered a dent in a 2-1 defeat at Fulham. Bournemouth's challenge for the top ...

Super sub Mikel Merino saved Arsenal's blushes at lowly Leicester ... King Power Stadium reeling from a season-ending injury to top scorer Kai Havertz that looked like it was about to be ...

Injury-hit Arsenal close the gap on Liverpool at the top of the Premier League thanks to a late Mikel Merino double ...