Arsenal handed worrying Jurrien Timber injury update as Mikel Arteta considers options

Arsenal get worrying Jurrien Timber injury news as Mikel Arteta ponders options“It is a huge blow. Especially for him after just joining the club. We recruited him with clear intentions and what he was bringing to the team was evident,” Arteta said in August. “I’m more thinking about the resources in the team to do what we want to do. But it’s true he was giving us a lot on both sides.”

The Gunners ended up not finding a replacement in the last few weeks of the summer transfer window, but could look for new players in January due to the prognosis on Timber. “I cannot control anything that is not here,” Arteta said in the summer. “And we are always open and we have to be open and react if something happens, not only with an injury but with the market as well – and that’s what we are doing.”

Having sent Kieran Tierney out on loan, Arsenal are short of options at full-back, where Takehiro Tomiyasu and Oleksandr Zinchenko – and the unwanted Cedric Soares – are the only specialists in the squad. Ben White has made right-back his own, but Arteta may want to sign more depth when the window opens in the New Year.