Overview

• Arsenal have returned from their Asia tour and resumed training at London Colney ahead of friendlies against Villarreal and Athletic Bilbao
• Viktor Gyokeres has featured sparingly since his £63 million arrival and is being urged by Mikel Arteta to leverage his natural strengths in training
• The squad will use two home warm-up matches to calibrate tactics before opening the Premier League season against Manchester United
• Fifteen-year-old academy forward Max Dowman impressed during the tour and has been integrated into first-team sessions under Arteta
• Sporting director Andrea Berta oversaw six summer signings as Arteta experiments with fluid attacking patterns to break the club’s trophy drought