LONDON (AP) — Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta was tight-lipped Friday about the potential arrival of Eberechi Eze from Crystal Palace, but confirmed that Kai Havertz has sustained a knee injury.
“I can never talk about any player that is not part of our group or club yet,” Arteta said at a news conference when asked for a comment on Eze, who was reportedly undergoing a medical examination at Arsenal ahead of a move for 60 million pounds ($80 million).
Eze, who grew up supporting Arsenal, played for the club's youth team before being released at age 13. Now an England international, the attacking midfielder could be heading back there, with Palace confirming on Thursday that Eze was leaving the club.
Asked how important it is that a new signing at Arsenal really wants to play for the club, Arteta said: “That’s No. 1 — that they want to be with us, they feel something special to come to us.”
“The stronger the feeling, the better,” Arteta added. “Because it brings a different edge, emotion and will to what we do.”
If Eze does join, it adds more competition to an attacking unit that might be without Havertz for some time.
The Germany forward has a knee injury and Arteta said Havertz needs to undergo more tests to discover the extent.
“After that, we will have more clarity about the next steps,” Arteta said.
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Arsenal's manager Mikel Arteta concentrates during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Arsenal at Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, England, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)
Arsenal's Kai Havertz, right, and Athletic Bilbao's Adama Boiro battle for the ball during an Emirates Cup soccer match between Arsenal and Atletic Bilbao at Emirates Stadium, London, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (John Walton/PA via AP)
Crystal Palace's Eberechi Eze reacts during the Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Crystal Palace in London, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Dave Shopland)
NEW YORK (AP) — A surging stock market and a flurry of deal making padded the profits of Wall Street's two big investment banks, which both saw a double-digit jump in profits in the fourth quarter.
Goldman Sachs's net earnings rose 12% from a year earlier, posting a profit of $4.62 billion, or $14.01 a share. Meanwhile Morgan Stanley said it earned $4.4 billion, or $2.68 per share, compared to a profit of $3.71 billion, or $2.22 per share, compared to a year earlier.
Wall Street has been bolstered by the Trump administration's deregulatory policies, which has led corporations to seek out mergers and acquisitions, as well as the surge of investor interest in artificial intelligence companies and those who stand to benefit from the mass adoption of technologies like ChatGPT.
Fourth-quarter investment fee revenues over at Goldman were up 25% year-over-year and Morgan Stanley saw a 47% jump in revenue in its investment banking division. Both banks said their investment fee backlog, which is a signal of how much deal making is still pending that banks are working on, increased significantly in the fourth quarter.
Goldman and Morgan's results reflect the strong earnings out of the other big banks that reported their results this week. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup all saw jumps in fourth-quarter profits, but their results were dampened by the ongoing tensions that Wall Street is having with the White House over the issue of the independence of the Federal Reserve and President Donald Trump's interest in capping credit card interest rates at 10%.
Along with a strong investment banking performance, Goldman Sachs also agreed to sell off its Apple Card credit card portfolio to JPMorgan Chase last week, effectively exiting its brief experiment in consumer banking. The bank sold the credit card portfolio at a discount to JPMorgan, a sign of how desperately Goldman wanted to exit the business and put the Apple Card behind it.
This story has been corrected to show that Morgan Stanley's investment banking revenues rose 47%, not 22%.
FILE - Electronic signage is shown at Morgan Stanley headquarters, Thursday, March 4, 2021 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, the logo for Goldman Sachs appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
