Jorginho sends urgent message to Edu about Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta

Mikel Arteta has just over 12 months remaining on his current Arsenal contract (Picture: Getty)

Arsenal star Jorginho has instructed the Arsenal board to pull their collective finger out and get Mikel Arteta to sign a new long-term contract.

The current Gunners boss has overseen and orchestrated a remarkable turnaround in the club’s fortunes since taking over from Unai Emery.

And while he had to navigate several difficult periods during the early years of his tenure, the faith the likes of Edu and Josh Kroenke put in the club’s former captain is starting to reap dividends.

The 42-year-old’s exploits briefly saw him linked with a move to Barcelona earlier this season after Xavi had announced his intention to stand down at the end of the current season.

Arteta emphatically shut down those rumours but his long-term future will remain a matter of conjecture while he has little more than 12 months to run on his current deal.

Jorginho, who, himself, signed a new contract earlier this week, believes Arteta is in no rush to leave the Emirates and would love to see him commit to and extended stay in the Arsenal hot seat.

‘I feel that he could stay way longer,’ Jorginho said. ‘I feel he feels good here and I honestly don’t see him going. It is really important for the club for him to stay because him with [technical director] Edu and the board, the whole club, they created something special. I don’t believe he wants to go as well.’

Of all Arteta’s remarkable accomplishments, transforming summer signing Kai Havertz from misfiring forward into one of the most influential strikers in the Premier League ranks highly.

Arteta, however, cannot take all the credit with Jorginho revealing he, too, played an important role in help him former Chelsea teammate find his feet at his new club.

‘I always knew [he would succeed] because I know Kai,’ Jorginho said. ‘That is part of the game as well, isn’t it?

Jorginho signed a new long-term contract at Arsenal earlier this week (Picture: Getty)

‘I spoke with him as well: ‘Stay calm, let them talk, keep doing your job as you always do. Work hard and you are going to come through this even better.’

‘And that is what has happened I think. And I am really happy for him. He is an amazing, amazing guy and he deserves everything to go really well for him.

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‘He is a human being. You hear those things, you feel them and it is up to you how you take them.

‘You can take them and let them get you down or you take the criticism and use it as a motivation. I think he used them as a motivation to prove them wrong and he did and I am really glad.

‘And I am glad that we were all together behind him to support him. That is what we do here.’

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