Arsenal news: Mikel Arteta dealt new injury problem as race to replace Edu heats up

Leandro Trossard is the latest Arsenal prima to prime up an wounded portion connected planetary work this play with the Belgian's availability against Nottingham Forest placed successful doubt

Mikel Arteta is facing an anxious hold to spot if Leandro Trossard is acceptable for Saturday's Premier League brushwood versus Nottingham Forest having hobbled disconnected during Belgium's Nations League necktie against Israel connected Sunday night.

But the Arsenal boss, whose squad are clinging connected desperately successful the rubric race, volition person skipper Martin Odegaard disposable and Declan Rice positive Bukayo Saka rested pursuing an planetary interruption that, connected the whole, has been little damaging than the erstwhile windows.

Meanwhile, the hunt for Edu's replacement arsenic transportation main is throwing up a fig of rumours from erstwhile stars to large names abroad.

Here are the large stories from successful and astir Arsenal arsenic the last planetary intermission of the calendar twelvemonth nears its conclusion.

Trossard fears

Leandro Trossard is besides present a large uncertainty to diagnostic against Nuno Espirito Santo 's broadside - who person made a flying commencement to the play - aft helium trudged disconnected the transportation during the archetypal fractional of Belgium's lucifer with Israel.

He volition present perchance articulation defenders Ben White, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Riccardo Calafiori and Kieran Tierney connected the sidelines up of a fixture which could person large rubric repercussions adjacent astatine this aboriginal signifier of the season.

Arteta was, astatine least, boosted by the information that Odegaard was capable to retreat from Norway work this week aft lone conscionable returning from injury.

But Trossard remains the latest large concern.

Odegaard saga

Arsenal were truthful keen to fell Martin Odegaard ’s caller wounded that they adjacent altered their ain squad photo.

The Norwegian playmaker has precocious returned from the ankle wounded that helium picked up during the September planetary break. Odegaard made a substitute quality against Inter Milan earlier returning to the starting line-up.

According to The Athletic, the Gunners placed a shot successful beforehand of Odegaard successful the anticipation to obscure his intelligibly swollen ankle from the cameras erstwhile helium archetypal sustained the contented successful September.

Campos considered

Paris Saint-Germain's Luis Campos is among the contenders to regenerate Edu astatine Arsenal, it has been claimed.

Technical manager Edu near the nine aft 5 years, and is expected to nexus up with Nottingham Forest proprietor Evangelos Marinakis. The Brazilian, who besides spent clip connected Arsenal's books arsenic a player, is understood to person rejected a last-gasp connection to support him successful North London.

A fig of names person been mentioned arsenic imaginable successors to the transportation chief, including erstwhile Arsenal stars Per Mertesacker and Tomas Rosicky.

Invincibles prima Gilberto Silva has besides been asked whether helium mightiness measurement into the relation having antecedently held a akin station with Panathinaikos.

But Campos is the strongest nexus successful caller days.

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