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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has revealed the latest team news ahead of this weekend’s Premier League game against Bournemouth, with mixed reports.
On a positive note, Danny Welbeck makes his return today with an U21 fixture and could return for the Gunners within the next three weeks. Naturally though, Wenger is being cautious.
He is playing today with the under-21s, for one half at least. I believe that he needs to play two or three games before thinking about coming back into the first team. We can organise games internally without being official games and I think in the next three weeks he should be available.”
“He has not played for 10 months so we need to be patient with him. He has good basic fitness but after it is competitive decision-making and he needs to get used to that again. We are a bit relieved because with such an injury, you never know how a player will come back. But he looks promising in training.”
Meanwhile, there’s disappointing news regarding Tomas Rosicky who saw his long-awaited return last weekend against Burnley hand him another injury problem, which may rule him out for the season.
It’s too early. The only thing we know is that it’s a bad muscular injury that will keep him out for a long time. The good news is that he will apparently not need surgery as it is a partial rupture of his tendon but how long it takes, [whether] it is two months or three months, we don’t know.”
“We are all shocked and he is the most shocked and we have to patient and hope that it is not his last game.”
With Rosicky, 35, seeing his contract expire in the summer, the concern is that the Czech Republic international may have played his last game for Arsenal.
We all sincerely hope that’s not the case, as such a long-serving player deserves a fitting send off.
