{"id":104220,"date":"2025-10-07T18:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=104220"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:07:33","slug":"former-arsenal-man-albert-sambi-lokonga-promises-hamburg-fans-the-best-is-yet-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/former-arsenal-man-albert-sambi-lokonga-promises-hamburg-fans-the-best-is-yet-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Arsenal man Albert Sambi Lokonga promises Hamburg fans &#8216;the best is yet to come&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/hamburg-celebrate-albert-sambi-lokonga-and-rising-team-spirit-after-massive-bundesliga-win\/\">scoring the opening goal<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/former-arsenal-midfielder-albert-sambi-lokonga-in-line-for-first-bundesliga-start-this-weekend\/\">his first Bundesliga start<\/a> over the weekend, former Arsenal midfielder Albert Sambi Lokonga is ready for more. The 25-year-old wishes to me more than just a temporary replacement for his former Arsenal colleague Fabio Vieira, for whom he deputized in the 4-0 win over Mainz 05.<\/p>\n<p>Hamburg head coach Merlin Polzin praised Lokonga for filling in almost perfectly for the suspended Vieira. The possibility of the two <em>Gunners<\/em> working together in a midfield double-six set-up may be some way off, but Polzin may be prepared to find some place for Lokonga in the starting XI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Sambi definitely succeeded in his task,<\/em>&#8221; Polzin remarked at the post-match press conference. &#8220;<em>He did well both on and off the ball. The drive towards goal and making the right decisions in the final third is precisely what we need.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The player himself answered questions from journalists in the mixed zone on Sunday night. When asked whether or not he entertained the notion of working alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/arsenal-duo-prepare-to-help-hamburg-secure-bundesliga-survival-we-must-believe\/\">his friend Vieira<\/a>, Lokonga smiled widely and answered &#8220;<em>Of course we can play together<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Prior to this game, I hadn&#8217;t played from the start in a long time,<\/em>&#8221; Lokonga said of his own performance. &#8220;<em>Now I&#8217;ve played 60 minutes and I can promise that I&#8217;ll keep getting better and better.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/\">GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeterVicey\"><strong>Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal midfielder Albert Sambi Lokonga has promised that, insofar as his budding Bundesliga career is concerned, the best is yet to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312420,"featured_media":104221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[343,11],"tags":[3389,52,449,3516,462,3013,1028],"class_list":["post-104220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamburger-sv","category-bundesliga","tag-albert-sambi-lokonga","tag-arsenal","tag-bundesliga","tag-fabio-viera","tag-hamburger-sv","tag-merlin-polzin","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104222,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104220\/revisions\/104222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}