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Kieran Horn

How Arsenal players are spending their holidays as Bukayo Saka and Oleksandr Zinchenko head home

Arsenal stars have secured a well-earned rest after their superb 2022/23 season and the bulk of the Gunners first-team squad look to be doing exactly that.

Mikel Arteta's men pushed Manchester City all the way in the Premier League title race and after the upcoming one-month break from football, will likely be raring to go for the next campaign in search of silverware. Some members of the squad will compete in Euro 2024 qualifiers with their respective countries before beginning pre-season in July, with the season set to commence on Friday August 12.

Before all that though, several Arsenal players have jetted off on holiday to make the most of the break before the work starts again. Oleksandr Zinchenko headed back to his home country of Ukraine and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alongside Andriy Shevchenko with all three pictured holding up Ukraine shirts.

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Bukayo Saka also took the time to head back to Nigeria where his parents lived before moving to the UK as economic migrants. The 21-year-old has previously visited the African country and expressed his pride in being from there by explaining his heritage. In his latest visit, Saka met with the Governor of Lagos State Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

In late 2022, Saka also paid for 120 Nigerian children to undergo life-saving operations after teaming up with a charity called BigShoe. Jorginho meanwhile, has headed to America alongside his partner with the pair taking in the sights after being pictured at Brooklyn Bridge.

Gabriel Jesus has also headed abroad with the Brazilian forward taking his family to Italy as he posted several Instagram stories with his young daughter. Aaron Ramsdale has thus far chosen to remain in England and after posting a picture of him and his fiancée at a Peter Kay gig on Saturday night, confirmed this morning that he will become a father in 2023.

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