Premier League - New stress fracture for Wilshere

Wed, 01 Feb 12:56:00 2012

Jack Wilshere has suffered a stress fracture of his right heel but Arsenal remain hopeful he will play this season.

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The England midfielder broke down in training last week as he aimed to step up his recovery from a fractured right ankle.

An Arsenal statement said: "It is not accurate to state he has been ruled out for the remainder of the season.

"The injury is in a different area to his previous surgery, and it will be reassessed in around two weeks time by our medical team and medical experts who have worked together throughout Jack’s recovery.

"This is a recognised complication of a complex rehabilitation process and, of critical importance, Jack’s initial injury is recovering well.

The injury comes just weeks after club doctors expressed amazement at the speed of Wilshere's recovery from the first injury, and it had been hoped he could play in February.

Wilshere has not played at all this season, and would need a run of games to stake his claim for a call-up to Fabio Capello's Euro 2012 squad.

The 20-year-old Tweeted: "I can confirm I have a stress fracture but it is not in the same area as my first injury which has healed very which I am happy about...

"I have developed a stress fracture in the heel now and I don't want to put any time scale on it as I do not know how long it will take..."

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  1. #83 So you think if Wilshire was fit you'd be­ anywhere near the Super Spurs? I don't think so,­ Wilshire wouldn't get in our team he wouldn't­ even get on the bench. Only the rapist would make our­ team.

    #86 "Wenger and Capello, two managers with­­ "decent" track records in spotting­­ talent/managing" you are joking right? Arsenal are­ sixth, eighteen points behind the leaders and have won­ nothing for seven years and don't look like winning­ anything for another seven and as for Capello, did you­ watch the World Cup in South Africa?

    Bolton 2-0­ Arsenal

    From enough, on Thu 2 Feb 3:15
  2. Personally I hope he doesn't play this season,­ otherwise he'll get picked for England - and let­ have it right, he is the most overatted and over-hyped­ players since David Beckham. I can name at least 10­ English midfield players as good or better than him -­ but of course they don't play for Arsenal and we­ all know the soccer media this Wenger and Arsenal are­ wonderful.......

    From SammyG, on Thu 2 Feb 3:00
  3. Fell sorry for the boy, get well soon!

    _________
    Still­ can not help it to say: wenger is CRETIN !

    From Istina Boli, on Thu 2 Feb 2:02
  4. that wee felas carears ovar.

    From Donney, on Thu 2 Feb 1:29
  5. players nowadays are that finely tuned one little turn­ can cause a massive injury. maybe wengers obsession­ with diet and specific fitness is causing this. Arsenal­ players are young and wrapped up in cotton wool too­ much. before they start their careers in the prem. they­ should be sent on loan to the championship or league­ one/two so they can can knocked about a bit and toughen­ up. It sounds a little old school, but it works.

    From Andrew, on Thu 2 Feb 0:57
  6. totally agree with comments 71 and 73. However, David­ W.. the proud owner of comment no.77 has seemed to miss­ every game of top flight english football for the last­ 3 years. ( Or he might have a fraction of the knowledge­ that both Wenger and Capello, two managers with­ "decent" track records in spotting­ talent/managing, have. )

    From scottfostermusic, on Thu 2 Feb 0:33
  7. Even players people don't know about are injured a­ la Conor Henderson, something's wrong there.

    From Icantsplel, on Thu 2 Feb 0:32
  8. That man needs to drink more milk!

    From Tom, on Thu 2 Feb 0:30
  9. @ (no.77 David W)-amazing that some people ( many­ people actually it seems, when it comes to football)­ are so stupid as to come up with comments like this.­ For example, if man utd are without rooney for a season­ and lose the tilte to man city by 5, 6 points or­ whatever,, is it wrong to say they might have won it if­ their BEST PLAYER had not been sidelined. or if David­ Silva gets injured next week and they lose the title by­ 5 or 6 points to utd, is it wrong for them to say it­ might have been different if THEIR best player wasnt­ injured for near half the season. Come on David. One of­ arsenals main problems right now is lack of creativity­ in midfield due to the loss of cesc and nasri. So if­ the most creative (and also aggressive) midfielder is­ missing the entire time.. of COURSE it makes a­ difference, u plonker.

    From scottfostermusic, on Thu 2 Feb 0:29
  10. hmm

    From Bigincentives.co.uk, on Thu 2 Feb 0:25
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    tos out­ since November. Something­ is clearly amiss. All in a­ year, teams get just one of­ these a season AND IT TURNS­ INTO A CRISIS. The media­ are probably used to­ Arsenal's problems so dont­ portray our situation as­ a crisis because it has been­ happening for the last 3­ years. We are in a non stop­ crisis, we have EVERY full­ back in our first team and­ reserves injured, and people­ say we use this as an­ excuse?

    From Bigincentives.co.uk, on Thu 2 Feb 0:25
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    scoring goals. I reckon­ 6th or 7th place­ for us this season and again no­ trophies. I reckon­ Wenger will go in the summer the­ man surely cant think­ he is doing any good for the­ club, he just has a big­ head and wont listen to­ anyone.

    From Bigincentives.co.uk, on Thu 2 Feb 0:25
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    good you fat tounged muppet

    From p_brindley, on Thu 2 Feb 0:17
  14. he was very good for us last year, so good infact he­ earned an england call up or a few, make of that what­ you will, but we Gooners know his presence in midifield­ would have made a BIG dif to our current position.

    From Radge2def, on Thu 2 Feb 0:11
  15. He's not that good but if it gives you an excuse­ for losing I guess you'll use it. The real reason­ though is that Arsenal are where they are because­ that's how good they are.

    From enough, on Wed 1 Feb 23:58
  16. Dnt you worry Jack things like dis hapen you will be­ back with a bang.
    I miss all dose passes man
    From­ Mathuba m.

    From mathubamichael, on Wed 1 Feb 23:45
  17. Roisin - I'm thinking the same, although M Utd have­ certainly suffered too. Maybe Arsenal's style­ invites more injury-suffering tackles? I'd guess­ Stoke suffer rather fewer.

    Are the causes­ investigated somewhere centrally? Eduardo's was­ awful of course, but 4 full backs? Weird!

    From eddd6, on Wed 1 Feb 23:40
  18. Juust great, one of the few really good players we have­ is not available for the majority of the season. If we­ want to finish 4th, some of our players will have to­ play above their limits I am afraid. We dont have­ enough quality in the dressing room to get away with­ horrible start we had and the fact is that EPL is­ getting better every year, more competitive and Arsenal­ is getting more average. I just miss those times where­ we were fighting for the title and not the CL­ qualification, I mean what the hell happened to our­ team ? I know any team can go through a crisis but in­ this case it doesnt seem we have reached the trough­ yet, I will always support Arsenal but I am worried­ that the path we are on is not the right one.

    From president.simo, on Wed 1 Feb 23:27
  19. It seems to me that many Arsenal players have been­ cursed with injuries all the time. We had Van Persie,­ Diaby, Vermaelen, Sagna, Gibbs out for quite sometime­ and now it's Wilshere. I wonder who is next? No­ wonder the medical staffs are always busy at the­ Arsenal camp. We need to do something really special in­ order to minimise all the long term injuries.­ Unfortunately the longer list of injuries, the longer­ we have to wait for another trophy. These two are­ totally related to each other. Does Wenger realise this­ all the time? If he does, then why he doesn't buy­ enough players to back the others up and just rely on­ those younger and inexperienced players? Our depth of­ the squad is simply not as good as other top clubs.­ This also explains where we are at the table. It's­ sad but it is so true, Mr Wenger!

    From AFC, on Wed 1 Feb 22:59
  20. I don't think there's a single part of that­ club that doesn't need questions asked about it.­ All the way from the board to the coaching staff to the­ manager. But sure, keep on ignoring it, stick to your­ excuses and watch Arsenal's decline continue.

    From Sassafras, on Wed 1 Feb 22:26
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