How pleased are you with Martinelli's new deal and how much progress do you hope we'll see?
"It’s great news. We want to build on all the talent that we have in the squad. It’s great to see them happy and willing to commit to the club and what we want to do for the future.
"It’s a player with enormous potential who has so much to improve. He's already performing at a really high level.
What are his areas of growth to come?
"I think in all departments to be fair. When you ask him he can develop physically, he can develop mentally, he can develop in terms of consistency, he can develop defensively. He can develop in the final third, in the spaces that he occupies his numbers can be improved and he is so willing that's the best thing about Gabby.
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On the plan the extend Saka and Saliba:
"Part of the plan is to extend the contract of our biggest talents at the club and commit them for the future and we are trying to do that. We have started with Gabby which is good news.
The others?
"The others will be done whenever we can, but we have to agree on that."
Do you see any problems with that?
"I see everybody really happy and really willing to continue with the club. But obviously, we have to meet everyone's expectations and timing is key on that."
On Thomas Partey’s fitness:
"Let’s see. That one is still a doubt. Let’s see today how he comes and if he’s able to train or not. We will make a decision on that."
At this stage he's not ruled out and it's not a serious injury?
"He’s not ruled out and it’s nothing very significant, but it was significant enough to get him out of the game which for Thomas is a bit unusual but hopefully he’ll be fine."
On when Arteta targeted Jorginho?
"Many years ago."
But this season?
"We knew that in this market you have to adapt and you have to be flexible and you have to be ready for the inconvenience. We had a big one obviously with the latest news with Mo’s injury and we needed a player in that position.
"It’s a player that I’ve always admired. He’s a great character who’ll bring leadership and quality in that position and he’s gonna help us a lot.
Was it being done late on Monday?
"I don't think it was that late. He’s a player that has always been very close to our intentions to bring him in."
On Emile Smith Rowe’s availability:
"Not yet."
What was your reaction to Sean Dyche's appointment?
"Well obviously they have tried to appoint the right character in the circumstances the club is in and what Sean and the coaching staff did at Burnley speaks for itself. With the limited resources they had they got incredible results very consistently in this very tough league.
"I like a lot his character, his presence and the clarity he brings in his teams. Hopefully, after tomorrow he’ll be a great fit for Everton."
Will it be a very tough test tomorrow mentally?
"No, we have the experience in the last few years how tough it is and we didn’t get the results that we wanted.
"When it’s a new manager, the environment will change, a lot of things change during the week. So it’s going to be a really tough test."
How happy are you with the January transfer window?
"Yeah, a really tricky one. But I think at the end it’s a really positive one.
"We had three main key areas or positions that we wanted to improve and fulfil we’ve done it. With Leo we bring a player that already knows the league that’s already been performing at a great level, that has the versatility that we needed and has the quality and the goals that we needed in the squad especially with the injury of Gabi.
"We Jakub, a young talent with incredible potential that is going to adapt really well to our way of playing and we didn’t have a back up [left-sided] centre-back for the whole season.
"The last one with Jorg, a player that has proved himself, you look at his CV, his playing record, his quality. I think we made some really good decisions there and overall we’ve helped the squad with three players.
"With Sambi he needed time and games to develop the talent that he has and with Palace we’ve found the right club with the right coaching staff.
Then with Marquinhos, he needed minutes. It’s going to be a really tough, but really good test in the league with a great club.
"With Cedric he was demanding minutes and it was difficult to promise that to him. He’s a player that we all loved, and it has been a difficult decision, but we have to respect as well his will to play."
Are there no excuses if you don’t win the title?
"You want to put it that way, it’s fine?"
How would you put it?
"Excuses?"
Every team on 50 points has won the league at this point, so?
"What have to do is train really well tomorrow and win and play well to win. That’s the only thing we can do, we cannot play every player we have in the squad at the end we have to pick eleven and then the substitutes."
What do you make of the amount spent in the transfer window – good for football or not?
"It’s the context that we are living in. We had in our side the possibility to do certain things that we didn’t do in the summer, and we were willing to improve the squad.
"I think this squad is still in a moment that we cannot waste any opportunity to evolve it in the way that whether it is to give players minutes, whether it is to improve the depth to the squad and I think every team tries to do the same."
How have your team changed since that 0-0 draw at Everton more than 3 years ago?
"It’s been a while and a lot has happened since and I think we’re in a much better position than we were in at the time. We haven’t won there fore the last few years and that’s the test for tomorrow."
What is it Jorginho so good in his position?
"His intelligence, his personality, his leadership skill and the way he understands our way of playing and the quality he has to implement that in football matches. He’s a player that will fit in really well with what we want to do."
Fitting into the team:
"Then you have to the circumstances that we had. The injury of [Elneny], the significant injury, we had to have a plan behind him that probably wasn’t the case before that injury happened. We have adapted and we have improved the squad."
Does the rumoured extension for Elneny show the want to look after players like the club looked after you when you got injured?
"Our way of treating people, our way of living together and what we expect from people is to give the maximum and one is the other way around and things become difficult I think the club has to behave in the right way and we have some really good examples and we have to continue to do that."
How can Arsenal get their priority targets in future windows?
"I’m really happy with what we’ve done, for what you plan and what you can actually do in this industry normally it doesn’t happen, so you have to mould and adapt and we’ve done that. At the end the most important thing is that the profile of the person, and the qualities that we bring into the squad, and I have no doubt that we’ve done that."
How will the likes of Vieira and Kiwior get minutes from behind established players that they need to develop at such a critical age in their careers?
"They train really well and they play really well, I will guarantee that they will have the minutes. Because the other guys, they had the minutes, but to develop sometimes you need to have them in a different position, a different environment and we have to mould that."
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