Hopefully Martinelli can have some success on the right wing, might be able to do a patch job until Saka returns.

awooga83 You can't take risks on the quality of your squad, you gamble that the likes of Jesus, martinelli and havertz is enough when they're are signs we needed more and you hope Ode and Saka can continue to take the load that are given.

tbf Citeh gamble on not having Rodri injured for long all the time and seem to get away with it. Till now.

Pl title is gone. Too many injuries and freak incidents (refs and red cards).

goon when I saw what he did, I said to James it looked almost identical to how I did mine many years ago. Completely tore it, managed to get back to playing in six weeks. Was actually one of my smoothest ever rehabs - not that that's saying much!

Terrible news. The double blow with Sterling means our attacking depth has disappeared too.

Could be out until March , we will need to get an attacker in January

At least he does not need surgery, that shit can ruin a player. Do we have money to buy someone? He is the only scorer in the team, things are about to get painful

I think we're not gonna have a choice but to dip into the market. With all due respect to Martinelli, he doesnt function as well on the right. I'm pretty sure this is any chance of our title aspirations going up in smoke for this year. We just have to hope we can do well in the CL. We need to win that next game, and we will at least be in the top 8.

What's in Chelsea's bins this window? Mudryk?

USArsenal the big issue here is wear and tear. Jesus has been fragile. So you have 3 healthy forwards that will need to play all the time.
Nwaneri played some minutes at forward on Saturday, so I can see him as a 9 or a winger these next few weeks, but not covering Saka minutes. The Edu replacement has a real baptism of fire

Apparently, Arteta has attributed the Saka injury to him playing too many minutes in the last couple of seasons without rest. Wonder who was the Arsenal manager that basically played him every available minute with no rest and even brought him on in a meaningless Carabao cup game where we were already up.

Bernard Woolley he's wrong about that. I know he's wrong because when we brought it up here that maybe he was playing too many games and in competitions he shouldn't be we were told it was absolutely fine and a non-issue and we should stop saying that.

It's not his fault. He had no other options.

HomeSteak At least he does not need surgery, that shit can ruin a player.

Turns out he did need surgery!

We've known for a long time Saka has problems but we've kept pushing him. He has been carrying an achilles problem for a while as well which is why he limps a lot IIRC. Hopefully this extended time off now he can get on top of his issues.

Wishing him all the best with his recovery

White out for a few months, Odegaard out for 2 months, Saka out earlier for a few weeks and now a few months, Gabriel out a couple times for a number of games each, Calafiori out multiple times and has probably been injuried longer than he's been fit. Tomi, Zinchenko and Tierney ha, it'll be a shock seeing them fit for once, they don't even deserve a mentioned. I'm actually surprised Partey has managed to stay fit and available all season, as has Timber because if he goes down wer are seriously screwed.

With so many injuries after 2 years of hardly any you have to wonder. Are we suffering from over exertion from a number of seasons back to back competing at a high level both domestically and at international level, with our first 11-13 players playing almost every minute over that period?

Or are we on our cycling off year like Klopp's teams used to?