{"id":645189,"date":"2025-12-21T00:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645189\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:10:12","slug":"germany-watch-kai-havertz-nearing-arsenal-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645189\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Watch: Kai Havertz nearing Arsenal return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Bayern Munich transfer target and current Arsenal FC attacker Kai Havertz could be inching closer to a return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Suffering through a knee injury since mid-August, Havertz has been unable to play for club or country. Now, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta indicated that Havertz has been making progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cKai Havertz is progressing really well and quite fast in the last few weeks,\u201d Arteta said (as captured by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/2001986968658546891?s=20\">@iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cWe are really positive, if everything continues like that, that he is going to be with us soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Havertz will undoubtedly be welcome back to Arsenal\u2019s lineup when ready, but it remains to be seen how he will fit in with the German national team. A favorite of head coach Julian Nagelsmann, Havertz was manning the striker position, but Nick Woltemade seems to be working toward winning that job. Havertz\u2019s ability to play as an attacking midfielder or a wing could help his cause to get on the field, but he will face competition to get in the lineup from Woltemade, Jamal Musiala, Florian Wirtz, Serge Gnabry, Karim Adeyemi, and Leroy San\u00e9 among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Havertz will have to make up for lost time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you are looking for more Bayern Munich and German national team coverage, check out the latest episodes of Bavarian Podcast Works, which you can get on <a href=\"https:\/\/shows.acast.com\/bavarian-podcast-works1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5kHW7eDJSF2sGA1O6gKxvB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/bavarian-podcast-works\/id1460036325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a>, or any leading podcast distributor\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Bayern Munich transfer target and current Arsenal FC attacker Kai Havertz could be inching closer to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,129072,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-645189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-german-national-team-and-international-soccer","11":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115754658890084284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}