The Real deal? Arsenal recruit Martin Odegaard certainly a man in a hurry

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: New recruit Martin Odegaard gets his eye in during an Arsenal training session at London Colney earlier this week. Picture: Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images

Martin Odegaard’s loan move to Arsenal from Real Madrid this week has captured the imagination of Gunners fans and frustrated followers of the Spanish side in equal measure.

Odegaard, in the short term at least, has been snapped up by the North London club as a replacement for Mesut Ozil after the estranged German international joined Fenerbahce. Out with the Ö, in with the Ø.