Mikel Arteta’s first team has stepped up their preparations for Wednesday’s friendly against Bayer Leverkusen. Our penultimate preseason game is scheduled to take place at Emirates Stadium on Wednesday. At the Sobha Realty Training Centre, we have been training hard. Currently completely committed, new signing Riccardo Calafiori is shown in the gallery below, which was taken by club photographer Stuart MacFarlane and shows some of the interactions he has with the other members of the team during training

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