An Ode to Martin

With the international break taking the players away from the Emirates Stadium, we've decided to focus our third Arsenal Beat special of the season on a man who has instigated the change in fortunes in recent weeks and months.
This is a special about Martin Odegaard, and Ode to Martin, if you will...
Arilas Oulda Saada, football journalist for Norweigan channel TV2, Spanish correspondent for AFP Tom Allnutt, The Telegraph's Sam Dean and Mark Mann-Bryans from PA Media are your guides - and we also hear a few words from the man himself, taken from an exclusive sit down interview Mark had with Odegaard at Arsenal's training ground at the start of March.
The panel discuss his arrival as a teenager, more like Messi and Zidane than Hangeland and Carew, a trial tour of Europe, a trophy player, growing pains in Madrid, upsetting the apple cart, a Perez PR stunt, no time to shine, missing out to Modric, success at Sociedad, captaining his country, a Dutch master, running his arse off, self-belief, Mystic Sam Dean, catching Covid, winning over Arsenal fans, nerding out with Arteta and finally finding his home at Arsenal.
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