Zero chance he starts IMO. He might bring him on for the last 20-30 minutes of the game just to give him a runout and get his game-timing back a bit.
Injury Thread...It's Never Ending
Bloody brilliant if he can get a couple of good runs before we get to playing Madrid.
I know we've still gotta work to secure top four (or five), but it's hard to feel much about the season matters other than Europe and our dignity now.
Other than the CL, it will be good for us to finish the season with a few additional wins under our belt. Not only would it lift the mood of the club, it will make us look a bit more attractive to potential summer signings.
Big Gab out for the season and probably preseason (?)
https://www.arsenal.com/news/injury-update-gabriel-magalhaes
Fuck this timeline.
QuincyAbeyie anything that could've gone wrong has gone wrong.
i think before this season, i mentioned that football is going to reach breaking point soon due to the overuse of players. i expected players to just complain that they are tired. i never really expected this level of injury.
every big team except Liverpool is going through these horrific injuries - us, City, United, Spurs, Chelsea, etc., have all bee devasted. we have actually managed it best but it's really fucked our season.
Wow, something is seriously wrong for so many players to get serious Hamstring injuries. I get the players are overloaded with workload but other clubs have players who have played as much and not broken down like this.
If I hear hamstring surgery 1 more time I might break something 
What an absolute stinker of a season.
Going forward squad depth is going to be super important for football clubs. Raising the floor becomes as important, if not more important as finding opportunities to improve quality of our first team.
I hope we considered this in our acquisition of Berta.
flobaba the problem is you’re adding more players. Each of whom wants more money. A few years ago a good player earned £100,000. Now it’s already £200,000. To support all these extra players and wages you either need to raise ticket prices or add more high value matches (like the extra 2 games in the champions league this year, and the club World Cup). More games means more stress.
What we need is lower wages and fewer games. Otherwise vicious cycle will continue and the game will gobble itself up
Fuck these injuries. That's all
QuincyAbeyie And preseason? Fucking hell, it's almost Havertz all over again. What are we doing to their hamstrings?
Burnwinter And preseason?
Not sure about that part, just my interpretation of "with the aim to be ready for the start of next season."
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Some interesting data points in there:
Data from Premier Injuries shows that, in the Premier League this season, there have been 118 hamstring-related injuries (they represent more than a quarter of all injuries in the division). Of those 118 injuries, 71 of them (60 per cent) have been severe enough to keep the player out of action for a month or more.
From the start of the 2019-20 season to the end of the 2022-23 campaign, by contrast, only 40 per cent of hamstring injuries kept a player out for such a long period of time.
Though, with this limited data, these aren't statistically significant results.
Fuck the greedy, corrupt suits forcing footballers to give the world mOaR foOtBaLl!!!11
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Arteta has to take some of the blame. He's absolutely run the two CBs into the ground these past three seasons.
He signed hybrid players like White and Calafiori - they should be capable to rotate into CB at times.
We and he knows that Kiwior is dog shit.