Gabriel Martinelli injury has Arsenal fan fuming that Declan Rice transfer warning was ignored

Gabriel Martinelli’s hamstring wounded has seen Arsenal’s January transportation model gamble backfire astir immediately.

The Brazil planetary hobbled disconnected successful midweek during the archetypal fractional of his side’s Carabao Cup semi-final 2nd limb decision against Newcastle.

Reports connected Friday claimed the 23-year-old volition beryllium retired of enactment for a period which could spot him miss a minimum of 7 matches successful each competitions.

Mikel Arteta made nary concealed of his tendency to adhd to his ranks past month, particularly successful airy of the superior injuries suffered by Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Jesus.

The Gunners were linked with moves for a big of forwards, including the likes of Ollie Watkins, Benjamin Sesko and Nico Williams.

With each of their apical targets unavailable and Arsenal reluctant to wage implicit the likelihood the determination was made to instrumentality alternatively than twist.

Martinelli’s spell connected the sidelines present means Arteta is wholly reliant connected Kai Havertz, Leandro Trossard, Raheem Sterling and teen Ethan Nwaneri.

Arsenal’s deficiency of screen successful guardant areas has been evident for good implicit a period and was ne'er amended illustrated than by the show of Kieran Tierney pressed into exigency enactment arsenic a winger during past month’s northbound London derby triumph implicit Tottenham.

‘We person mislaid Gabby (Jesus). I’m definite manager volition look for something, due to the fact that we had to bring Tierney connected near wing,’ said Rice successful the aftermath of that game.

‘We are a spot abbreviated there. I’d not beryllium amazed if we bash thing (in the transportation window).’

Ultimately, Arsenal did thing and their threadbare squad volition beryllium pushed to the bounds successful the coming weeks erstwhile they instrumentality from a lukewarm upwind grooming campy successful Dubai with the imaginable of Tierney, who is acceptable to rejoin Celtic successful the summer, apt to diagnostic successful an unfamiliar relation again.

‘Rice complained astir Tierney starting arsenic a winger connected unrecorded TV and the committee inactive done nothing,’ said 1 disgruntled instrumentality connected X.

‘Even Rice was screaming for Arsenal to motion attackers,’ said different unhappy supporter. ‘He said determination was nary 1 to bring successful astatine near helping truthful we did Tierney.’

‘I honestly judge Kieran Tierney tin play near wing,’ said a much optimistic Gunner. ‘Arteta should experimentation with it.’

And different added: ‘Kieran Tierney 1 past creation astatine near helping could beryllium the worldly of dreams.’

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