As we await official confirmation of the extent of Gabriel Jesus’s knee injury, David Ornstein is reporting the Brazilian has suffered a suspected rupture of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament.
🚨 Gabriel Jesus set for long spell out with suspected ACL rupture. Further specialist reviews on 27yo striker planned today to establish full extent. Arsenal open to doing business – overseas loans seem most likely route for #AFC at present 🚨
www.nytimes.com/athletic/art…— David Ornstein (@david-ornstein.bsky.social) January 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Mikel Arteta is set to meet the press this morning ahead of tomorrow night’s North London derby, during which he could provide further information on the 27 year old who picked up the problem in the FA Cup defeat to Man Utd on Sunday.
It’s a cruel blow for a player who has had significant injury issues during his time at Arsenal, but after a long barren spell in front of goal had started scoring again. It also leaves the squad desperate for an addition with Bukayo Saka and Ethan Nwaneri also sidelined, with just Kai Havertz, Gabriel Martinelli, Leandro Trossard and Raheem Sterling to cover three positions with so many games to play.
We’ll provide further updates when the manager meets the press from 9.30am this morning.
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He tried to tackle from a horrendous position, seems like his decision making is so erratic sometimes. This is still terrible news though, wish him a speedy recovery and hopefully the diagnosis is not as bad as feared. He is due some good luck. And we are due some reinforcements, looking at you Josh.
He was doing his best to make sure they didn’t score, how is that decision making erratic?
It most be hard on him with all these knee injuries.!
It was a foul and free kick from a dangerous area. I’m not saying he wasn’t trying his best, but with hindsight, tackling from a weird angle has proven to be ill-judged for himself. How is this wrong?
I remember the game against Man City, 95th minute and he decided to bring the ball to the corner flag, tried to win a foul or goal kick, ended up being a corner and they scored. That’s ill-judgment. For all his abilities, which I’m not questioning, his decision making is suspect sometimes.
It’s wrong in the sense that you are judging the decision based on its outcome. He’s a forward so naturally his tackling is not his strong point, but the fact is that he sprinted back and tried his best to prevent a very dangerous situation on the edge of our box. If he hadn’t injured himself, I very much doubt anyone would criticize him for that tackle (even if, in my opinion, we got lucky with the ref not giving a foul – which would still be better than Bruno having a clear shot on target). It’s extremely unfair to… Read more »
The fault was with the medical team and maybe the manager for keeping him on the field after the first time he was down and seemed clearly worried that something was wrong. Of course being Jesus he probably immediately said “no I’m fine” and wanted to play on, but at that point the team doctor or physio or the coaches have to put their foot down with his history and not risk the rest of his career for one game.
Sorry but this is really an unfortunate (to stay polite) comment. Remember you can do your ACL pretty much out of anything in your daily life with enough bad luck.
He did his ACL forcing a tackle from behind. Of course it’s unfortunate.
Someone in the Managers coaching team annoyed the footballing gods last summer. Can be the only explanation for the luck we’ve suffered this season….
Fuck. All the best to the guy. After all that effort to start laying again, getting a few goals, now this!!
“started laying again”…we thought we’d get at least a few golden eggs…
🤣🤣 Yeah, and not just against Crystal Palace.
Time to move on from him completely and actually address the centre forward position(s).
it’s beyond ridiculous at this point and smacks of extreme stubbornness, arrogance or both.
Nice expression of sympathy for an Arsenal player who has picked up a terrible injury.
Nothing wrong in thinking long term. What he has stated is facts. Our present foward roster have not delivered.
Nobody would argue we don’t need to sort this out and bring in players who can improve our attack, it just sounded pretty heartless
There’s a time to think long term and it’s not immediately after you find out the bad news. Imagine if the doctor at the hospital comes and tells your family “I’m sorry, [X] didn’t make it” and your immediate response is to start planning the funeral and executing the will.
We needed a forward anyways. The point is that an injury like this is so hard on players career not just his Arsenal career. Jesus seem an really emotional footballer whom I say will be really effect by this mentality.
Some people have so little patience with players when injured and even when they come back from the injury they expect them to get right back to their top level directly.
Who are these people?
You
I don’t know. I’m not going to through comments after games and see who said something about a player that only back a few months after a long injury.
They are out there tho. I just couldn’t be arsed proving it to you. Sorry 😊
🙄 . I don’t disagree that we should of signed an attacker but losing Jesus and Saka isn’t down to extreme stubbornness or arrogance. Considering we scored more goals than any other arsenal team ever last year you could be forgiven to think that perhaps our attacking options were good enough. Also, it’s not as if we are in a complete disaster situation, we’re 2nd in the league and one of the best in the Champions league ffs. We’ve had some disappointing results but come on to fuck people, look how far this team has come.
This season is really giving second period/post-Highbury/Kroenke-Usmanov power struggle vibes, with added PGMOL vendettas.
Get well soon Jesus, cruel blow. Stay strong.
This doesn’t only hurt our chances of finishing the season strongly, but also his value in the summer transfer window. Really unlucky guy.
Really unfortunate, wish him a speedy recovery and hope he can back stronger, but can’t shake the feeling that his Arsenal career is now only heading one way. There’s a good chance he’ll be out for almost the entire calendar year now, we’d have gone through two transfer windows in that time, and he’ll have less than 2 years left on his contract by the time he’s back. Can’t realistically see him getting an extension in these circumstances.
Gutted for the guy. He’s had the worst luck these last few years. Can’t fault his attitude, he just wants to play and help his team mates out. Speedy recovery & best of luck to him.
Jesus had been incredibly unlucky. His Arsenal career has been effectively destroyed by one serious injury after another. It looks like he’s played his last game for us. I hope he can get fully fit and maybe rebuild his career at another club.
But thinking selfishly, Arsenal absolutely must go out there and buy a striker in this transfer window now.
No excuses.
Can’t argue with any of that. I think we need at least two signings this window now, and there is plenty out there in the market this window (both permanent and loan)
ugh! i knew it was bad when he went out on a stretcher but this really sucks. big credit to how arteta carefully brought jesus, partey, and tomi back but sometimes, it’s just bad luck. wenger wasn’t particularly good at looking out for player’s health but van persie was wrapped in wool for a complete year after his latest injury at the club. perhaps arteta will do the same for jesus and he’ll come back stronger. godspeed to that young man.
I wish him a speedy recovery and hope the injury isn’t as bad as feared. We need to add a quality player up front now more than ever. However, the reality is that in January, who is available? There is no point in buying an average player. So either we find someone on loan or shell out an obscene amount for someone like Isak (who I would love to see at Arsenal). Would fans be happy if we spent over £100m like that? Would we even be able to anyway, with ffp? And as big daddy Stan has the cheque… Read more »
Jesus Christ
No. The other Jesus.
Such a horrible injury,. I wish him a speedy and full recovery. We have to get a couple of Euro loans in now and maybe get sterling a few 90min to see what he’s got to offer or that loan’s a huge waste of time. In spite of everything there’s still plenty to play for.
Just my 2 cents here…. Jesus always flatters to deceive. His recent scoring run could have prevented the club from seriously considering additions this January. Methinks he should be moved on immediately he recovers and we can move on. We will never win any silverware with him leading the lines