The reports which emerged on Wednesday that left many in the Arsenal stables lamenting not again that Jack Wilshere was facing a long time out after he suffered a hairline fracture of his fibula in training has finally been confirmed by the club.
Arsene Wenger confirmed the report swirling around when he spoke to the official club site ahead of the season opener against West Ham on Sunday.
"The information you have heard about Jack Wilshere is right," he said
"I had a bad surprise because it is a hairline crack in his fibula
that makes him a few weeks out.
"There is minimal damage apart from the bone damage – there is no
damage at all apart from that. It was a collision in training and it
was all completely accidental."
The injury comes at time the player himself was looking ahead to a new season with renewed vigour after he spent much of last season on the sidelines. It means his last two seasons have been puctuated by long term injuries, when this season is added, it becomes three seasons in a row that he has had to sit out a number of months, unfortunately for the 23 year old all these injuries have stem from a tackle.
Going by the fact that he does not need a surgery to fix the fracture, he is expected to miss at least 6-8 weeks of the first months of the season, with two months the minimum.
It is indeed a setback for a player who has unfairly been labelled as injury prone, and after this latest incidence, which is purely down to bad luck, he would hope to again begin the difficult road of working his way back to fitness.
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