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Tashan Deniran-Alleyne

Arsenal footage reveals absent star, double Mohamed Elneny prank and new Ben White role

Arsenal have released even more footage from day one of their pre-season training camp in Germany.

After arriving at the adidas HQ in Herzogenaurach over the weekend, the club uploaded several images from the training session on Monday with the likes of Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jesus, Marquinhos and William Saliba all being put through their paces by the coaching staff.

Having said that, the squad did get some downtime to ride bikes around the campus which is shown in the latest 'Inside Training' video that has been uploaded by Arsenal to give supporters an additional insight into how the players are preparing for Thursday's friendly against Nurnberg.

And below is everything football.london spotted in the six-minute clip.

Elneny the prankster

The video begins with Mohamed Elneny in high spirits and being a tad mischievous as he pours some cold water down the back of Gabriel Jesus before walking away with a massive smile across his face. He then does the same to £65million summer signing Kai Havertz who was certainly caught off guard.

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Forfeits

By now it's clear how serious the Arsenal squad takes their forfeits and there was no special treatment for a number of players on day one of the pre-season training camp in Germany.

With drills such as players quickly assembling into groups of five and rondos, Marquinhos, Leandro Trossard, Jakub Kiwior, Cedric Soares and Folarin Balogun were among those on the losing side of a challenge which resulted in them having to undergo a forfeit of doing push-ups.

White's new role

After wrapping up the first training session in Germany, Benjamin White opted to test his photography skills with the polaroid camera and his subject was Bukayo Saka. Although, the Gunners winger was taken aback by the defender's 'new' profession, even questioning if his teammate was being paid to do it.

No Zinchenko

Oleksandr Zinchenko returned to training at London Colney last week but did not feature at all during the behind-closed-doors friendly against Watford on Saturday afternoon. The reason for his absence from the 1-1 draw was that he was doing more fitness work alongside William Saliba and Takehiro Tomiyasu.

However, whilst the latter pair were spotted in the aforementioned training video, there was no sign of the Ukraine international. With confirmation that the left-back has indeed travelled to Germany, it's certainly one for fans to keep an eye on over the next 48 hours or so.

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