{"id":6238,"date":"2025-05-16T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/mikel-arteta-says-he-will-make-decision-on-kai-havertz-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:22:18","slug":"mikel-arteta-says-he-will-make-decision-on-kai-havertz-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/mikel-arteta-says-he-will-make-decision-on-kai-havertz-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta says he will make decision on Kai Havertz on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u25ba Subscribe to Sky Sports News: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SkySportsNewsSub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SkySportsNewsSub<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba Watch Sky Sports: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/BuySkySports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/BuySkySports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta will make a decision tomorrow as to whether Kai Havertz will make his return from injury on Sunday against Newcastle. <\/p>\n<p>The forward has been missing since February due to a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Arsenal boss has described the German as &#8220;unbelievable&#8221; in his efforts to return to fitness before the end of the campaign. <\/p>\n<p>When asked if Havertz could feature against Newcastle, live on Sky Sports, Arteta said: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to decide that tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s done certain parts of the sessions in the last two days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He looks in great shape but it&#8217;s with the medical staff, the doctors especially to give the clearance, and how Kai actually  feels to contribute, if he&#8217;s required.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unbelievable,&#8221; Arteta added on Havertz&#8217;s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His work rate, the work that he&#8217;s done and also a lot of credit to the medical staff for the work they have done in the last few months. Between them, they have been pushing each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know how important Kai is for us and he looks in great shape. He&#8217;s improved a lot of the metrics that are important for a striker to give <!--more--> himself the best chance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You see the transformation on him which is really impressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Arsenal vs Newcastle on Sky Sports from 4.15pm on Sunday; kick-off 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>#premierleague  #skysportsnews  #arsenal <\/p>\n<p>\u25ba For the latest developments on this story: <a href=\"https:\/\/qrcode.skysports.com\/skysports\/topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/qrcode.skysports.com\/skysports\/topstories<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba For the latest transfer news: <a href=\"https:\/\/qrcode.skysports.com\/skysports\/TransferCentre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/qrcode.skysports.com\/skysports\/TransferCentre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More from Sky Sports on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sky Sports: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SkySportsSub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SkySportsSub<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba Sky Sports Boxing: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SSBoxingSub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SSBoxingSub<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba Sky Sports Cricket: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SubscribeSkyCricket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SubscribeSkyCricket<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba Sky Sports Darts: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/SubSkySportsDarts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/SubSkySportsDarts<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba Sky Sports Football: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SSFootballSub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SSFootballSub<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba Sky Sports F1: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SubscribeSkyF1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SubscribeSkyF1<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba Sky Sports Golf: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/SubscribeSkySportsGolf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/SubscribeSkySportsGolf<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba Sky Sports Premier League: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/SubscribeSkySportsPL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/SubscribeSkySportsPL<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba Sky Sports Retro: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SkySportsRetroSub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SkySportsRetroSub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba TikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@skysportsnews<br \/>\n\u25ba X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkySportsNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/x.com\/SkySportsNews<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.skysports.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba To enquire about licensing Sky Sports content, you can find out more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/more-sports\/news\/31754\/11434270\/license-sky-sports-footage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/more-sports\/news\/31754\/11434270\/license-sky-sports-footage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25ba Subscribe to Sky Sports News: http:\/\/bit.ly\/SkySportsNewsSub \u25ba Watch Sky Sports: https:\/\/bit.ly\/BuySkySports Mikel Arteta will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}