Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has lavished praise on captain Martin Odegaard.
The attacking midfielder, who looks set to sign a new contract, has been a mainstay for Arteta over the past 18 months.
As the club looks to mount a Premier League title challenge and play in the Champions League, Arteta was asked about how valuable Odegaard has been to him.
He stated to reporters: Well he's our captain, a really important player for us and a player that has developed, evolved and been in this journey for us together for a few years.
He's been instrumental in everything that we've done, starting to build the culture that we wanted and recruit the profile and the players with the right specificity to play what we want to play and obviously the level he has performed at in a really consistent way."