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Arsenal will send Rob Holding on loan to Newcastle United this season, even though the defender started the Community Shield triumph against Liverpool on Saturday at Wembley. The Gunners will allow Holding to leave the Emirates for 12 months with Mikel Arteta feeling well supplied in the position.

Holding made 18 first-team appearances last season, starting five of 10 Premier League games after the restart and also playing the full 90 minutes of the FA Cup final win against Chelsea.

The 24-year-old on loan could mark the end of his Arsenal career, but there shouldn’t be an option to make the change permanent.

Holding therefore hopes to prove that he is worthy of taking the places of David Luiz or Sokratis Papastathopoulos on the Arsenal squad in a year’s time.

The two veterans are both out of contract in 2021 and it looks like they will play team roles around this time, with the signing of £ 27m Lille defender Gabriel Magalhaes imminent.

In addition to Gabriel, Luiz and Sokratis, Arteta also has another summer purchase – the sinister Pablo Mari – and Shkodran Mustafi and Calum Chambers to turn to.

William Saliba, fresh from a loan to Saint-Etienne, should also be a key player for Londoners at this time.

Due to injuries and being in quarantine, the Arsenal manager had very few of those to turn to as the FA Cup winners faced Liverpool’s Premier League champions and so Holding played back-three, playing all 90 minutes before he and his team mates won 5-4 on penalties.

But the former Bolton midfielder will still be loaned out, although a deal has yet to be finalized with Newcastle and personal terms have yet to be agreed, Athletic says.

Leeds were one of the other Holding-related clubs, with whom he claimed there was a great deal of interest in the defender, but the newly promoted championship title winners are instead closing a £ 13m contract for Robin Koch from Freiburg. .

And so Steve Bruce is ready to join his ranks with England’s former Under-21 International Holding, which has only made 39 Premier League appearances since joining Arsenal four years ago due to a serious ligament injury. of the knee suffered in December 2018.

Arsenal have two weeks before returning to action in the Premier League opener against Fulham at Craven Cottage.

At that point, Luiz and Sokratis will return to training after the post-holiday quarantines, while Mari will also return from an ankle injury in September.

Mustafi is recovering well from a hamstring problem but is not expected to return to full training until October, while Chambers is sidelined until 2021 due to a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament at the start of this. year.

Express Sport understands that Chambers and Sokratis are among those Arteta is willing to dump this summer as it seeks to free up funds for further purchases.

He has made three additions to his squad so far: center-back Mari, right-back Cedric Soares and winger Willian – with another Gabriel midfielder ready to join their upcoming.

Arsenal beat out Napoli’s competition among other clubs to land the 22-year-old Brazilian, which could prompt the Serie A club to try to sign Greek international Sokratis.

Speaking this week, Arteta insisted he was confident he would complete all the deals he hoped to do this summer – with Atletico Madrid still keeping midfielder Thomas Partey at the top of his wish list.

The Ghanaian has a £ 45m release clause in his contract that the North London side cannot currently afford to exercise, while the Spanish manager would also like to re-sign Dani Ceballos on another season-long loan from Real Madrid.

“I am confident that we will do everything possible together to achieve the goal we had [for] before October 6, “Arteta said Thursday.

“If we are unable to do this it is because we have not been able to reach that level or someone has beaten us with our planning.

“It is very clear what we want to do, we aim for this and we hope to be able to reach it or get very close to achieving it”.

He added of Ceballos: “Well we have had some interviews and Dani knows very well what I think of him.

“It was pretty clear to me too that his intention was to stay with us, but obviously Real Madrid are involved and I don’t know yet what they want to do with the player.

“But he is a player we are interested in because we have really seen, in the last months of the season, what he is capable of bringing us.”

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