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Mikel Arteta not leaving Arsenal despite Barcelona links
Mikel Arteta has no plans to leave Arsenal despite links with Barcelona.
Arteta has already addressed suggestions he could exit Arsenal this summer, and firmly shut them down.
“No. That’s totally fake news,” he said in January. “I don’t know where that’s coming from, but it's totally untrue and I'm very upset about it.”
Barcelona haven’t made an approach to Arteta to date, but it’s unsurprising he’s being linked and spoken of internally at the Catalan club.
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