William Saliba has suffered a second injury setback of the season after it was confirmed he has fractured a metatarsal in his foot.
The 18-year-old, who signed for the Gunners for £27 million in the summer before returning to Saint Etienne on a season-long loan, has been in fine form since his return from injury helping Les Verts to four clean sheets in five games in Ligue.
? Claude #Puel : ? "William #Saliba, Yann #MVila, Charles #Abi, Yohan #Cabaye et Kévin #MonnetPaquet sont indisponibles pour cette rencontre." pic.twitter.com/kbhqMFhKhx
— AS Saint-Étienne (@ASSEofficiel) November 6, 2019
He had missed the opening seven games of the campaign after undergoing surgery to fix an adductor problem even returning to London Colney to undertake some of his rehabilitation.
Saint Etienne, now coached by Claude Puel, have confirmed that Saliba will miss tonight’s Europa League game with FC Oleksandriya in Ukraine and could be facing a spell on the sidelines, possibly as long as four weeks.
We’ll update you when we hear more. In the meantime, best wishes to French Willy.
He’s got Arsenal DNA already….. Speedy recovery Will
Yeah, that’s just to get him off Real’s radar
2 injuries since signing for us. Arsenal DNA right there
Not true. We don’t do injuries at The Arsenal anymore.
We’ve lost our DNA
Except Ceballos…
Look forward to him playing for us from next season onwards.
There is plenty of talent in our squad.
Now all we need is a talented manager
Whoever voted this down is a troll
oh fk me.
Now I know he’s going to be an Arsenal player 😀
I recall Robin fracturing his fifth metatarsal which sent me wondering the number of metatarsals we need, then we went and bought Per Mertasacker. All not related though feeling sorry for the boy.
Presumably, you need precisely as many metatarsals as you have toes.
lol okay so the 5th metatarsal, the one footballers always seem to break, is that the big toe or the pinky toe?
The pinky.
James went to watch him last week..
Should have known this is coming
lol i literally came here just to post that!
LOL, poor James ;). Hey, know what ? James, please see Emery ASAP, don’t know, today/tomorrow ?
Matertarsal is not 4 weeks. More like 4 months
4 months is not the recovery time of a metatarsal injury, especially with someone that young. It really depends on the severity of the fracture and whether they perform surgery or not.
If it is a stress fracture the recovery could be accurate, although 4 weeks is an optimistic time frame. Likely 4 weeks to be fully weight bearing and then another 2 weeks of strengthening and rehab.
might just be bruised contrary to the report
What are you talking about?
I blame Gunnerblog.
I blame Wenger.
I blame permacrock.
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Okay but I don’t know who you’re saying is at fault with the terrible performances then. According to the above, and most of the posts you make, its not emery, it’s definitely absolutely positively not Xhaka, ever, it’s not the other players who are objectively playing badly, it’s not the players who are playing well. So it’s the board I guess for buying players, and the fans for thinking that the team could, even should, be playing with more freedom, more creativity, more bravery, more passion, more determination to play the Arsenal way (or what we knew that to be).… Read more »