Arsenal news: Bukayo Saka injury concern as Gunners star labelled 'flop of the season'

Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice and Leandro Trossard are each doubts for Arsenal's Premier League crippled against Nottingham Forest connected Saturday aft planetary interruption injuries

The hold is astir over: Arsenal are backmost successful Premier League enactment this play against Nottingham Forest.

The Gunners are successful hopeless request of a win, having gone 4 matches successful the league without one. Their melodramatic dip successful signifier has seen them gaffe 9 points down leaders Liverpool up of a important and highly engaged festive period.

The bully quality is that Mikel Arteta doesn’t person to interest astir his players picking up injuries connected planetary duty until March. The atrocious quality is that his broadside is already falling good disconnected the gait being acceptable astatine the apical of the league, conscionable 11 games successful a 38-match campaign.

After losses to Bournemouth and Newcastle and draws against Liverpool and Chelsea, the anticipation is that they tin bounce backmost against in-form Forest connected Saturday. In the meantime, present are the latest Arsenal headlines from Mirror Football.

Injury worries

Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice were absent from planetary work with England and it remains unclear whether they volition beryllium fit to look Forest this weekend. Arteta said aft the 1-1 gully astatine Chelsea that it “doesn't look good” and determination has been small accusation since then.

We person learnt implicit the past fewer days that Arteta is blessed to employment subterfuge to fell the existent grade of injuries, truthful helium whitethorn good support his cards adjacent to his thorax successful Friday’s pre-match property conference.

There is amended quality connected Leandro Trossard, who is thought to person suffered 'severe bruising' portion playing for Belgium against Israel connected Sunday night. It is hoped helium tin play connected Saturday, having been withdrawn successful the archetypal fractional successful a lucifer played successful Budapest.

Sterling slammed

Raheem Sterling is yet to marque overmuch of an interaction since joining Arsenal connected a season-long indebtedness woody from Chelsea. He has made 8 appearances and his lone extremity contributions came successful the 5-1 triumph against League One broadside Bolton successful the Carabao Cup.

Stan Collymore has not been impressed. “ Raheem Sterling has been a monolithic disappointment,” helium told the Metro. “He came successful and said helium was going to springiness the nine his champion work, but that hasn’t happened. He’s arguably stunk the spot retired truthful acold and he’s decidedly 1 of the flops of the play having promised to bash his champion enactment astatine Arsenal.

“He’s an experienced subordinate who has won everything determination is to win, helium was expected to propulsion the dressing country up different level and helium hasn’t done that.”

Wrexham instrumentality Toure connected trial

The lad of erstwhile Arsenal defender Kolo Toure is trying to kick-start his nonrecreational vocation astatine Wrexham. Yassine Toure had spells connected proceedings astatine Celtic and Leicester erstwhile Kolo worked determination arsenic a manager nether his ex-Liverpool brag Brendan Rodgers, but is present going it alone.

The 18-year-old has been connected proceedings with Wrexham arsenic helium seeks to gain his archetypal nonrecreational deal. His begetter is presently moving arsenic a manager astatine Manchester City, for whom helium made 102 appearances crossed 4 seasons betwixt 2009 and 2013.

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