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Raheem Sterling could have been forgiven for being a bit bleary-eyed as he watched Arsenal face Brighton on Saturday lunchtime.
Less than 12 hours earlier the winger had been at Arsenal’s training ground, and it was gone midnight by the time he finally completed his deadline-day loan move from Chelsea.
Arsenal was always Sterling’s preferred destination after he was bombed out by Chelsea and he is eager to hit the ground running under Mikel Arteta.
He watched the 1-1 draw with Brighton in a box at Emirates Stadium, accompanied by his partner and children, and was keen to meet his new team-mates after the game.
Sterling knows several of them from his time at Manchester City, such as Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko, while he has good relationships with Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice from England camps.
The 29-year-old is excited to link up with them at Arsenal and wants to use this international break to get up to speed so he ready to face Tottenham on September 15.
He has asked to train throughout the next fortnight, conscious that he has not played any football since pre-season.
This two-week window gives him a chance to build his fitness and study Arsenal’s patterns of play, and he was back at the training ground on Monday.
After being stripped of his No7 shirt at Chelsea and told to train away from the rest of the squad, Sterling has been working one-on-one with Ben Rosenblatt, who was England’s lead physical performance coach before stepping down last year.
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