{"id":580032,"date":"2021-01-27T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=580032"},"modified":"2021-01-29T21:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T02:43:41","slug":"martin-odegaard-joins-arsenal-on-loan-from-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/27\/martin-odegaard-joins-arsenal-on-loan-from-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin \u00d8degaard Joins Arsenal on Loan From Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a> have signed highly-rated midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/79300479\/Martin-Odegaard\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin \u00d8degaard<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/real-madrid\/\" target=\"_self\">Real Madrid<\/a>. The 22-year-old has joined on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/football-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_self\">loan<\/a> until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<h2>Martin \u00d8degaard Joins Arsenal on Loan<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"da\">\u270d\ufe0f It&#8217;s \u00f8fficial\u2026 \ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4eV5gNjK3x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/4eV5gNjK3x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsenal (@Arsenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/1354391240842862593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Interest in \u00d8degaard<\/h3>\n<p>After \u00d8degaard told Real Madrid of his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/20\/martin-odegaard-wants-to-leave-real-madrid\/\" target=\"_self\">desire to leave the club<\/a>, Arsenal&#8217;s interest in the midfielder was instant.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/20\/arsenal-make-martin-odegaard-approach\/\" target=\"_self\">made an approach<\/a> and the midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/22\/martin-odegaard-close-to-arsenal-move\/\" target=\"_self\">agreed to a move<\/a> just two days later. Now, the 22-year-old arrives at the Emirates Stadium and will look to impress during a fourth loan spell away from the Bernabeu of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The creative midfielder will be a welcome boost for Mikel Arteta&#8217;s Arsenal who, despite showing signs of improvement in recent weeks, have had a disappointing campaign.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/martin-odegaard-joins-arsenal-loan\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club&#8217;s official website<\/a>, Arteta said: &#8220;It\u2019s great that we\u2019ve secured Martin to come to us until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Martin is of course a player that we all know very well and although still young, he has been playing at the top level for a while. Martin will provide us with quality offensive options and we\u2019re all excited to be integrating him into our plans between now and May.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Other Links<\/h3>\n<p>As expected, \u00d8degaard attracted plenty of interest after declaring his desire to depart. Real Sociedad, who the 22-year-old spent last season on loan with, were keen for a return.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/21\/leicester-city-enquired-about-martin-odegaard-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Leicester City also reportedly showed interest<\/a>\u00a0in the Madrid man. However, despite enquiring about the availability of \u00d8degaard, the Foxes didn\u2019t pursue their interest in the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00d8degaard Impressed During Previous Loan Spells<\/h3>\n<p>Despite only making 11 senior appearances for Real Madrid since his arrival back in 2015, the Norway international has impressed while away on loan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8degaard scored five times and added eights assists from 43 appearances during his 18-month tenure at Heerenveen. He then joined Eredivisie rivals Vitesse and scored 11 goals and provided 12 assists from just 39 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian&#8217;s next loan spell would be in La Liga at Real Sociedad and he continued to impress, scoring seven times and adding nine assists from 36 games.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"XozOXy8EREJmYhH7QYL2eQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1229789429\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'XozOXy8EREJmYhH7QYL2eQ',sig:'-TWVmv2dN5hfkkm1d2xMQqimF5JrQCJ3CCnhnapbkNE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1229789429',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal have signed highly-rated midfielder Martin \u00d8degaard from Real Madrid. The 22-year-old has joined on loan until the end of the season. Martin \u00d8degaard Joins Arsenal on Loan \u270d\ufe0f It&#8217;s \u00f8fficial\u2026 \ud83d\ude09 pic.twitter.com\/4eV5gNjK3x \u2014 Arsenal (@Arsenal) January 27, 2021 Arsenal Interest in \u00d8degaard After \u00d8degaard told Real Madrid of his desire to leave the club, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":580037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,6,30,3,1366,28],"tags":[3190,3911,182,4318],"class_list":["post-580032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-featured","category-la-liga","category-news","category-premier-league","category-real-madrid","category-transfers","tag-arsenal-transfer-news","tag-martin-odegaard","tag-real-madrid","tag-real-madrid-transfers"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}