According to David Ornstein, Gabriel Martinelli could spend more than a month on the sideline after picking up a hamstring strain in the Carabao Cup semi-final against Newcastle on Wednesday night.
The Brazilian winger pulled up after about half an hour, to be replaced by Ethan Nwaneri, but travelled with the squad to Dubai for the warm-weather training camp.
However, after a scan, it looks as if he will miss a number of the Gunners upcoming fixtures, and it’s another injury blow in a season which has had too many of those already.
Speaking after the close of the transfer window during which Arsenal failed to add to the squad, Mikel Arteta stressed the importance of keeping players fit, but it feels typical that our inaction in the transfer market has immediately been compounded by another injury.
That leaves Arteta with just Kai Havertz, Leandro Trossard and Raheem Sterling as his senior options for the forward line – although the emergence of Nwaneri feels very timely, and he is likely to accumulate more starts and minutes during the period of Martinelli’s absence.
This fucking season…
Fuck it! Right up! Just about had enough of this. Suppose it’s karma for screwing the league in the last two seasons.
Just regroup next season – hopefully after getting rid of who we need to get rid of, and buy sensibly!!!
Promote Tierney to left wing cover.
Rather him than Sterling that’s for sure
You’d have thought we’d have learned our lesson with the long stream of ex Chelsea time wasters.
Last positive temporary signing we had from other PL clubs I think is Yossi Benayoun!! That was ages ago!
Like Kai Havertz and Jorginho? The two players ee bought from Chelsea just before Sterling? My god.
Yup. He swings a decent cross in, and promptly.
I’m told we could have re called viera and decided not too. Why
Told by who?
Fuckin shit! It’s just the most Arsenal thing! Fingers crossed for Bukayo Saka to come back soon with no setbacks.
Raheem Sterling is in such a privileged position right now. He’s going to come back from Dubai, full of whatever juice Arteta gave the team last time, stop Liverpool from winning the league and win himself a big fat contract anywhere but Arsenal.
…please.
It will give Nwaneri more game time and hopefully in few weeks Martinelli and Saka will be back.
I’m sorry but this is on the club. I understand keeping your powder dry for a big summer, but if they expected our injury issues to decrease at the LATTER stages of the season, they’ve deluded themselves. If anything, I wouldn’t be surprised if they increased. Negligent and more concerned with Arsenal balance sheet than Arsenal victory. I’m now starting to just hope we retain our place in the top 4/5.
Should be too far ahead at this point, especially with 5 places likely up for grabs. I’m not taking anything for granted though.
He was going to be played on the right where he’s not effective at all, so won’t be missing much. Hopefully he’ll get to play on the left again when he comes back.
At tnis point we need width ….thats one less squad member.
It’s a good thing that we bought those two attacking players in the January transfer window.
Right!?!
Which ones?
That’s the scouts job. We don’t need to tell chefs what ingredients to use.
Body A and Body B?
Said it here and I’ll say it again we traded a chance at success now to have a good summer. ..and now we are paying the price. That extra forward would have meant an extra body in the squad and extra source of goals. But as usual Arsenal prefer to learn the hard way. Well continue suffering until we appreciate life’s lessons. The season was gone anyways. Quick recovery to our Jogo Bonito
Exactly, the season was gone anyway. Why blow the transfer budget on a stop gap signing?
So last 16 of the champions league is “season was gone”? What do some of you actually want?
Do you think spending a huge chunk of our summer transfer budget on a short term signing like Watkins would have given us the boost needed to overtake Liverpool in the league or propel us to the Champion’s League final? I don’t. We’ve suffered too many injuries and had too many setbacks. We’ll likely still finish in the top four and if we’re lucky may even enjoy progression through a round or two of the Champion’s League knockout stages but in terms of winning silverware the season is done. We don’t have the numbers or quality in depth in forward… Read more »
I do understand your point of view on this. I suppose I’m grappling with the question of what is the added incentive for the club to really maximise the next summer transfer window, when it’s been apparent for some time that the attack needed attention. Just because it’s the summer window doesn’t mean it won’t turn out like last summer.
Who was available and at what price?
Is that our job?
Marinelli being out means Ethan has to cover for both Saka and Nelli! Big shoes to fill.
Yay.
that means more minutes for ethan and less pointless persistence on a player that has produced nothing for us in two years, so while i hope he recovers well and etc… im not bothered at all
I’m so sorry for Martinelli who was playing well but this is expected Arsenal karma (or karmasenal…bite me). Immediate consequences for a series of stupid decisions. Rightly or wrongly we made our own bed on this one by not making attacking signings last summer. The result is inevitable sadly. Oh well.
You couldn’t make it up if you tried…..
But Arsenal seem to quite a bit. By now the club should be able to predict these things and plan accordingly.
Sure hope some of that dry powder is medicinal.
Fuck
Not an Arsenal fan, but as a neutral, the league is obviously a big ask, but I have a sneaking feeling this could finally be Arsenal’s year in Europe, with players coming back as each round gets harder. Good luck!