The Spaniard made 37 appearances final season, scoring two targets, and says there was “by no means any doubt” about his Arsenal return
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Dani Ceballos returns to Arsenal from Actual Madrid for a second season
Dani Ceballos has rejoined Arsenal on a second successive season-long mortgage from Actual Madrid.
Ceballos established himself as an influential participant for Arsenal final season, and speaking to Sky Sports in July, the Spaniard expressed a willingness to return to north London for the upcoming marketing campaign.
Arsenal have now confirmed the midfielder will return to the membership on mortgage and head coach Mikel Arteta is happy to have re-signed the Spain worldwide, who made 37 appearances for the Gunners final season.
“Dani was an integral a part of our group final season and completed the season in glorious kind,” Arteta mentioned.
“I like Dani’s ardour and dedication and he is a extremely skilful participant. We’re all delighted to welcome him again and we look ahead to seeing him choose up the place he left off.”
Ceballos and Mikel Arteta rejoice successful the FA Cup
Arsenal’s technical director Edu added: “We’re thrilled to have Dani again with us for the brand new season.
“Everyone knows his qualities after a powerful 2019/2020 marketing campaign, which ended with him enjoying a key position in our FA Cup success.
“We’re excited so as to add Dani to the record of high quality gamers we’re bringing in.”
Ceballos initially joined Arsenal on mortgage at first of final season after discovering his enjoying alternatives restricted underneath Zinedine Zidane at Actual, who he joined from boyhood membership Actual Betis in 2017.
He turns into Arsenal’s fifth signing of the summer season, following the £27m arrival of Gabriel from Lille, permanent deals for Cedric Soares and Pablo Mari, who had been on mortgage, and Willian on a free transfer from Chelsea.
Arsenal are additionally anticipated to announce a new contract for club captain Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang.
The Gunners have additionally been boosted by the arrival of William Saliba, who spent final season on mortgage at St Etienne after being signed for £27m, whereas David Luiz signed a brand new one-year deal to stay with the membership.
Ceballos: It is true that I had different choices
0:35 Again in July, Arteta mentioned he needed to to maintain midfielder Ceballos on the membership
Ceballos mentioned that there was “by no means any doubt” about his Arsenal return and heaped reward on head coach Arteta, who he says was an enormous affect in his determination to increase his keep on the Emirates.
“I am very happy to be again with Arsenal,” he informed the membership’s web site. “I am very joyful to have come again to a membership the place I really feel vital.
“It is true that I had different choices, similar to staying at Actual Madrid and going again to the Spanish league, the place there have been groups thinking about me.
“I spoke to the coach final yr, earlier than the [FA Cup] closing, and informed him that I needed to remain at Arsenal and win titles. I would been actually pleased with what Mikel had constructed on the membership since he got here in. I had a good time at this membership final season and there was by no means any doubt in my thoughts that I needed to return again.
“I feel all people can see what Arteta is doing on the membership. He is solely been right here for eight months. There have been three competitions we might struggle for. We acquired knocked out of the Europa League, unfairly for my part, however then we gained the FA Cup and the Neighborhood Protect, which had been well-deserved titles.
“Greater than that, although, it is about what he is created right here – there’s actual constructive vitality within the dressing room, the gamers are joyful and everyone seems to be doing their bit. We’re bringing by younger gamers, which I feel is basically vital for this membership, as a result of it is one thing that is all the time been executed right here.
“Mikel is the proper individual to get this membership again to the place it deserves to be, which I imagine is within the Champions League, competing in opposition to the very best groups in Europe.”
Evaluation: Ceballos a key arrival for Arteta
Sky Sports activities’ Nick Wright:
It is not the big-money midfield addition many Arsenal followers are ready for – a transfer for Atletico Madrid’s Thomas Partey stays in limbo for now – however re-signing Ceballos on one other season-long mortgage deal nonetheless represents an vital piece of enterprise for Mikel Arteta.
Ceballos was one in all Arsenal’s greatest performers within the latter levels of final season, impressing alongside Granit Xhaka in an unfamiliar position on the base of the midfield and shining in a string of massive video games, together with the FA Cup closing win over Chelsea.
His mixture of excessive vitality and technical proficiency makes him an ideal match for Arteta’s type, and the Arsenal supervisor lobbied for his return understanding that, at 24, there’s room for additional enchancment.
With creativity and bodily depth in abundance, Ceballos provides substances Arsenal’s midfield in any other case lacks. It helps, too, that he already has a sound understanding with Xhaka, in addition to the flexibility to be moved right into a extra superior position if additional midfield reinforcements arrive within the weeks forward.
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