The Arsenal Blog

The Arsenal winger Theo Walcott has struck up a fantastic partnership with Robin Van Persie this season, but after six years at the club, the England international is regretting that the strike partnership spent so many years together in the Arsenal medical centre.

Walcott was speaking about how they were more likely to be together on the treatment table than on the pitch!

He said: “We have had a lot of years on the treatment beds! He has always been there and I have always been there, so this is maybe the second year that we have had a run together in the team.  ...........Read more

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has spoken about Wilshere’s status again, and according to the Frenchman he’s not that long away from being fully fit.

Jack wishes to be back in time to get ready for the Euro 2012 championship, but according to the Frenchman the English International is going to cut it very close.

“Jack Wilshere had a scan today,” said Wenger. “When I walked out to the training session at 11am we still had no information about it. The progress in training is very good but what you do not want is to have any setbacks.  ...........Read more

The Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner is currently on loan at Sunderland and he has had a hell of a lot of bad publicity since his arrival in the North-East, which hasn’t been tempered by him scoring loads of goals for the Black Cats.

But even Arsenal fans will have a soupcon of sympathy for Bendtner after his lates problem which came when he was kicked in the face during the League game against Swansea, and he was seriously worried that he would lose the sight in his eye.  ...........Read more

Arsenal are suffering from their usual extensive injury list as they do every season, and Arsene Wenger only had two fit midfielders able to take their place against AC Milan on Tuesday night.

Wenger had to improvise and the winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was moved into the central midfield for the first time in his career, and performed admirably as Wenger agreed after the game.  ...........Read more

After the horror scenes Mikel Arteta provided on Saturday when he was pulled out of the pitch unconscious after a bad attack by Henderson, the Spaniard offered a very emotional interview saying that he has been touched by the way everybody at Liverpool and Arsenal alike joined hands to support him through the horrible period.

“I just want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their help and friendship towards me on Saturday,”

“After my accident on the pitch, the Arsenal medical staff did a great job, together with everyone at Liverpool Football Club.  ...........Read more

During a very crowded period and a very difficult one injury-wise, Arsenal’s manager Arsene Wenger has a small bit of good news for the club’s fans announcing that young hotshot Jack Wilshere might be available soon despite his terrible injury which kept him away from the pitch for a whole season.

“We have good news but Jack isn’t close to a comeback,” said Wenger.

“The last scan was good and he can start to jog again so he is on the way back but we have to be very cautious with him.  ...........Read more

Arsenal’s manager Arsene Wenger is extremely angry at the Belgium national squad manager and representatives after they used Vermaelen for the whole 90 minutes in the midweek match despite knowing that he’s injured and needs to rest.

“It looks like Belgium has made a decision which I still do not understand and will look to see if we can put a complaint in, because firstly they forced the player to travel, then they forced him to play 90 minutes after being injured.  ...........Read more

Arsene Wenger happily saw the return of Laurent Koscielny to the Arsenal line-up just in time for the fantastic win against Tottenham yesterday, but as usual that has been balanced out by yet another injury to an important defender, in fat arguably THE most important defender; Thomas Vermaelen.

The Gunners centre-back got injured in the challenge that saw Scott Parker given his marching orders near the end of yesterday’s match, and also Thomas Rosicky has also suffered after giving a masterful performance in midfield.  ...........Read more

Arsenal’s right-back Carl Jenkinson might be coming back sooner than expected as he’s already prepared to make his appearance in the reserve squad.

According to the newspapers, Jenkinson is no further than 2 weeks away of being ready to play for the senior squad, so the full-back danger at Arsenal is finally averted now that Sagna, Gibbs and Jenkinson are all fit to play.  ...........Read more

Arsenal’s manager Arsene Wenger has admitted that Mertesacker’s injury is not a light one and that the Gunners will have to play without him for quite some time.

Mertesacker’s ankle injury is not the first he had at the same foot and so he’s been shipped out to Germany where the same doctor will be able to have a look at his foot and perhaps fix him up again.

According to Wenger, Per will be out for at least one month. Thankfully Gibbs was back just in time to allow Vermaelen to go back in the central position, so just as long as no other injuries occur in the defense the Frenchman is safe.  ...........Read more