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Huge injury news, plus a look at the latest on Arsenal's situation in the transfer market...
Kai Havertz out for the rest of the season
It looks like bad news on the Kai Havertz injury front after it first emerged he had a hamstring issue yesterday evening.
Havertz now looks set to miss the rest of the season with this injury, with further updates coming this morning as the team return to London from Dubai.
It will be interesting to hear what Mikel Arteta has to say about it at his press conference on Friday morning, but there’s really no other way to look at this other than as a hammer blow to Arsenal’s trophy chances this season, especially with the injury coming on the back of the news that Gabriel Martinelli will be out for at least a month with his own hamstring problem.
It is unfortunate obviously. You do need luck with injuries throughout a season and Arsenal have had no luck whatsoever since the summer.
But the fact is Arsenal have left themselves wide open to something like this happening. It was glaringly obvious throughout January that they needed to do something to protect themselves in attack over the second half of the season.
They were short of options going into the transfer window and then they lost Gabriel Jesus. They should have acted then, but they didn’t and they’ve only got themselves to blame for the situation they find themselves in.
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