{"id":607840,"date":"2022-01-15T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=607840"},"modified":"2022-01-15T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T22:16:11","slug":"arsenals-pablo-mari-udinese-loan-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/15\/arsenals-pablo-mari-udinese-loan-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal\u2019s Pablo Mari Set for Udinese Loan Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has tweeted an update regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/15\/north-london-derby-postponement-confirmed-following-arsenal-request-tottenham-furious\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal\u2019s<\/a> Pablo Mari who seems set to join Italian side <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/26\/udinese-brandon-soppy\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Udinese<\/a> on loan for the remainder of the 2021\/22 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pablo Mar\u00ed deal. Udinese director Marino: \u201cWe\u2019re gonna sign another centre back soon, this is our plan &#8211; I can confirm we\u2019re in talks to sign a new defender\u201d, he told Sky. \u26aa\ufe0f\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1482435676956147715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal\u2019s Pablo Mari Set for January Move<\/h2>\n<h3>Udinese Deal Close<\/h3>\n<p>Mari was Mikel Arteta\u2019s first signing as Arsenal manager in the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/12\/25\/january-transfer-window-2022-deadlines\/\" target=\"_self\">January transfer window<\/a> when he joined on loan from Flamengo and then penned a permanent contract until the end of the 2023\/24 season, but he has seen little game time since.<\/p>\n<p>Now, both the club and player feel he will benefit from a loan move away from the Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n<h3>Struggle for Game-Time<\/h3>\n<p>Following the suspension of football due to the coronavirus outbreak, Mari damaged his ankle and, since his recovery, has been unable to force his way into the Arsenal team.<\/p>\n<p>During the current campaign, the Spaniard has made just three appearances for the first team. He played in the Gunners&#8217; losses to Brentford and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/13\/tottenham-show-fight-errors-quaity-chelsea-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> earlier this season, as well as featuring in the 3-0 win over AFC Wimbledon in the Carabao Cup in September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Ben White has been favoured at centre-back alongside Gabriel since the Englishman&#8217;s arrival, and if one of that pair were to get injured it is more likely that Arteta would replace them with Rob Holding. Hence,\u00a0Mari is faced with the reality that he is not yet going to make the grade at Arsenal.<\/p>\n<h3>Wages<\/h3>\n<p>Arsenal are paying Mari \u00a385,000-per-week, a high price for someone who rarely plays, so if they are unable to sell the player the next best option is to allow him to join another team on a temporary basis with at least some of his salary being covered and then prove that he can break into the first team in the future.<\/p>\n<p>It now seems that his chance to show what he can do will come in Italy with Udinese.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"kQw3G4ztS6RVd3Y_vyitzQ\" 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\/1361050678\" 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:'kQw3G4ztS6RVd3Y_vyitzQ',sig:'jUwCm7oDzPj0-5nx-UItoOHw6y7XaM0jbAwWfiVJve4=',w:'594px',h:'393px',items:'1361050678',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>Fabrizio Romano has tweeted an update regarding Arsenal\u2019s Pablo Mari who seems set to join Italian side Udinese on loan for the remainder of the 2021\/22 season. Pablo Mar\u00ed deal. Udinese director Marino: \u201cWe\u2019re gonna sign another centre back soon, this is our plan &#8211; I can confirm we\u2019re in talks to sign a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":607852,"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":[8,3,7188,5],"tags":[4733],"class_list":["post-607840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-serie-a","tag-pablo-mari"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607840","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\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}