Arsenal Blow as Jurrien Timber needs surgery and is a doubt for next season

Jurrien Timber will undergo an ankle operation – and is now in a race to be fit for the start of the following season.

The Arsenal Full-back has had trouble in recent weeks with fitness and the club’s medical team advised to go under the knife.

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His last match was the 2-1 Champions League Semi-Final defeat Paris Saint-Germain On May 7, missing the 2-2 draw on Liverpool and Sunday’s 1-0 home victory Newcastle.

The hope is that the Dutchman will be in the best position to hit the ground and walk the next term, while from July 19 he will start a return for the start of the Gunners’ pre-season tour through Singapore and Hong Kong.

But he joins a long list of players on the club’s injury list.

Although Kai Havertz returned from a hamstring injury on Sunday, his defenders Gabriel Magalhaes and Takehiro Tomiyasu and striker Gabriel Jesus are still out of operation, while William Saliba was immersed against tone with a thigh problem.

Wood Is one of the most consistent and impressive artists of Mikel Arteta this period and plays 48 times.

He came to the Ajax club in the summer of 2023 for £ 34.5 million, but missed the majority of that season after cracking his ACL in the opening match.

Ben White is now ready to start on the right for the last prem competition on Southampton on Sunday.

In the meantime, Boss Arteta is preparing for a ruthless summer of income and expenditure this summer, after he has called on the Arsenal Board to “do what they should do” by providing funds, with £ 60 million appreciated sporty Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres a priority.

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Arteta revealed that he would lose “four or five” members of a team of which he recently admitted at the start of the season, had a number of figures.

That “four or five” include two Loanese – Bournemouth keeper Neto and Chelsea Winger Raheem Sterling.

Sterling is expected to extend his time in Arsenal, but will remain in the dark during his future, with a lack of communication from Ouderclub Chelsea.

His loan was seen as a disappointment and Arteta has already gone further from the 30-year-old and chooses him against Newcastle.

While Ethan Nwaneri, 18, has proven that he can offer Saka on the right wing, Arteta will insist this summer to sign a left wing player, which will threaten the starting places for Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard.

If the top of Nico Williams – who has a release clause of £ 50 million – will be signed at Athletic Bilbao, then Trossard could be moved to raise money, where the Belgian has only had a year about his current contract and is heavily connected to a Saudi movement.

The return from Kieran Tierney to Celtic should be completed soon, whereby his deal ends at the end of the term, while colleague-back-back-back Oleksandr Zinchenko has attracted interest from Borussia Dortmund after losing his place to Academy star Myles Lewis-Skelly.

The influence of the Ukrainian in the dressing room and the positional flexibility is appreciated by Arteta, but again, with 12 months over the deal of the 28-year-old, this may be a chance to cash in on a player they spent in 2022 £ 35 million.

Jorginho, 33, is supposed to have taken all his farewell, with his contract soon and a chance to return to his birthplace Brazil to see the rest of his career.

And fellow midfielder Thomas Partey is in a similar position, but sports director Andrea Berta is supposed to explore a contract extension for the 31-year-old, even agreed with a £ 51 million deal for Real Sociedad’s Martin Zubimendi.