Akpom, 20, started in the Gunners 4-0 at Nottingham Forest in the EFL on Tuesday and is desperate for more first team action. Of the eight wins out of eight this season - seven have been without the man who used to be so crucial for them. JOHN OBI MIKEL is ready to quit Chelsea in January after his first-team game time dried up under Antonio Conte. but having been on the bench for the last two matches he now gets his first competitive appearance in the third round of the EFL Cup. Im not going to deny it but the last thing I will do is complain or put my hands up and give in. ar Toure won't play for him againAfter all, it was the Spaniard who showed him the door at the Nou Camp back in summer 2010. Toure has appeared in just one of Citys eight games this season and was surprisingly missed out of the clubs 25-man Champions League squad. Instead, it is understood Sunderland got independent advice on the test results from a senior cardiologist who sits on the FA panel — but they did not contact the FA itself. Yet Toure must have feared the writing was on the wall when the new manager was announced in early February. 8Mourinho is working with Juan Mata after axing him at ChelseaThe threat was very serious and very real.