{"id":8927,"date":"2026-05-15T22:59:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8927"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:59:50","slug":"video-bukayo-saka-opens-up-on-all-things-arsenal-his-special-relationship-with-mikel-arteta-more-in-the-beast-mode-on-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8927","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Bukayo Saka opens up on all things Arsenal, his special relationship with Mikel Arteta &#038; more in the Beast Mode On Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">Arsenal superstar Bukayo Saka joins Adebayo Akinfenwa on the Beast Mode On Podcast as the England forward opens up on his journey from the Gunners&#8217; Hale End academy all the way to the first team and captaining the Premier League leaders. The 24-year-old also reveals his burning desire to win trophies with the north Londoners and discusses his close relationship with Mikel Arteta among many other topics in a truly unmissable episode of the show.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body_body__ASOmp body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"B\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Click the play button above to watch the full episode \u2b06\ufe0f<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>The Beast Mode On Podcast is available via <\/span><span>YouTube<\/span><span> and <\/span><span>Spotify<\/span><span>with all episodes free to watch and to listen to now.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal superstar Bukayo Saka joins Adebayo Akinfenwa on the Beast Mode On Podcast as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}