Injuries, Injuries and More Injuries

Arsene Wenger has delivered the club`s injury news ahead of this weekend`s clash with Hull City and let`s just say he`s had a lot to talk about.

It`s no secret that the Gunners have suffered greatly with injuries for a long while, but this recent spate of knocks, tears, pulls and breaks has felt relentless.

The gaffer has given updates in his usual pre-match press conference.

“We have been hit a bit hard with Koscielny coming back and his achilles being worse, and of course discovering the Ozil injury which we thought was nothing because he finished the Chelsea game. He is out for a while now. For the rest, the positive news is Walcott is back in full training, Serge Gnabry is back in full training, We have as well Giroud ahead of schedule, so we have some positive news.”

“Gnabry is like Walcott, he has been a bit more in and out, he had no big surgery. But he is not completely ready today, he is even a bit behind Walcott. I don`t think either of them will be involved.”

“Arteta is back in the group, and will be in the squad.”

“Saturday`s game is too soon for Aaron. He will be back in full training on Monday and certainly in the squad for Wednesday [against Anderlecht].”

“Sanogo is too short, not ready yet but not far away.”

“He [Koscielny] has an achilles problem, which has got worse. He finds it difficult to play with it at the moment. You can only trust what the players says, he does not feel ready to play and will not play on Saturday. No [he will not need surgery].”

“Rosicky came back with a kick on the calf. He`s supposed to practice today. He didn`t play the second international game because of that but he should be available for Saturday.”

“Ozil told me [about the injury] once it was discovered on the scan. He did not tell me anything during the Chelsea game, I did not know. What happened was that at half-time, just before we went out, he had a little pain with his knee but it was not bad. He wanted to go on and I told him, ‘If you don’t feel well, tell me and I will take you off straight away’. He never did that during the whole game, and after I left him on because we were in a position where we needed to score a goal and he can deliver the final ball. Then after the game, he went to Germany. With Germany, they thought at the start it was nothing. We played on Sunday, on Monday he was off, and on Tuesday they gave him the day off. He was supposed to practice on Wednesday. On Wednesday morning, he said he could still not practice. They sent him for a scan, and in this scan they discovered that he a knee ligament injury which is quite serious”.

If you think that`s a lot to take in, it`s because it is.