Liverpool vs Arsenal, Saka, Odegaard and Havertz injury updates, Eze's special aura and much more from Arsenal boss Arteta 

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has been speaking ahead of the Gunners trip to Liverpool - find out the latest injury updates and much more 

Arteta tight-lipped on Hincapie:

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta on Arsenal's moving for Piero Hincapie: "You know the answer to that - I cannot talk about players who are not part of our squad…”

on Martin Odegaard's availability vs Liverpool:

"We don't know yet. He hasn't trained yet and if he does it will be Saturday. Let's see.

"He is doing everything he can. We are doing everything we can to make him available. But we have to wait and see.

"There is an injury there but hopefully, if everything goes well, he can cope with it. But we don't know yet."

on Bukayo Saka’s fitness:

"Bukayo is doing better, but he will be out for a few weeks. No surgery."

"It's not as bad as the previous one, very unfortunate. It was an action that required full power from him, had to change direction and he felt something."

on Kai Havertz's injury:

"I think it will be weeks, but I don't know how many months…very unfortunate, very sad for him. I think he did tremendously well to recover from the previous one. He had never had an injury before.

"And then this happens. But it's part of football. We need to live with that….we lose another big player for many, many weeks but [surgery] was the right thing to do.

"The doctors advised it and he was very convinced at the end that it was the quickest and best way to resolve the issue."

on Eberechi Eze:

"Really impressed with him. I heard a lot of things about him, I spoke to a lot of people about him. Really bright, a very special energy and a special aura around him.

"He's already gathering a lot of information, the things we want to see on the pitch, but especially [we have to] make sure he has the freedom and capacity to express his quality, which is the reason why we brought him here.”

on Liverpool:

"They are the champions for a reason, because they deserved to be champions.

“They were the better team last season, the most consistent one, the one that found ways to win in many different ways.

"We want to be that team this year and we need to go to Anfield with that spirit and that conviction."