Kai Havertz Ruled Out Of Arsenal And Germany Games And May Need Surgery

Kai Havertz will miss Arsenal’s showdown astatine Liverpool connected Sunday and Germany’s World Cup qualifiers adjacent month, pinch a determination yet to beryllium made connected whether nan guardant needs room connected a knee injury.

Havertz picked up nan wounded during his substitute quality against Manchester United connected nan opening Premier League play and did not characteristic successful Arsenal’s 5-0 triumph complete Leeds connected Saturday. Mikel Arteta said Arsenal were not judge really superior it was and that they would behaviour much tests “to research nan rumor a small spot further and determine what we’re going to do”.

Rudi Völler, nan men’s nationalist squad head astatine nan German shot federation, has confirmed Havertz will miss their World Cup qualifiers against Slovakia and Northern Ireland and said room remained a anticipation for nan 26-year-old.

“He surely won’t make it, he has a knee injury,” Völler said. “We don’t cognize precisely really it will spell successful nan coming weeks, whether room is upcoming aliases it will beryllium treated conservatively.”

Havertz was sidelined from early February to mid-May past play aft a hamstring tear astatine a training campy successful Dubai. Fears that his latest wounded could consequence successful different lengthy layoff is believed to person prompted Arsenal to travel done connected their longstanding liking successful Eberechi Eze, who could make his debut astatine Anfield aft his £67.5m move from Crystal Palace.

Bukayo Saka is besides expected to beryllium absent against Liverpool and from England’s World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Serbia aft sustaining a hamstring wounded against Leeds. That is not arsenic significant arsenic initially feared, pinch nan 23-year-old understood to person not had to spot a specialist, though Saka is apt to beryllium retired for astir 3 to 4 weeks. The captain, Martin Ødegaard, is simply a uncertainty for nan travel to Anfield aft injuring a shoulder.

Arsenal are willing successful signing Piero Hincapié from Bayer Leverkusen but request to waste fringe players earlier pressing up pinch a woody for nan Ecuador defender, who is tin of playing arsenic a left-sided centre-back aliases left-back. He has a merchandise clause of €60m (£52m) and is believed to beryllium keen to join.

Arsenal person already spent astir £250m this summertime and are hoping to make income earlier nan model closes connected Monday. Porto person offered a indebtedness woody for Jakub Kiwior pinch an responsibility to bargain for €25m (£21.5m) and nan Poland defender is believed to person his bosom group connected a move distant from nan Premier League contempt liking from English clubs. Porto person besides shown liking successful Oleksandr Zinchenko, and Fábio Vieira and Reiss Nelson could time off successful nan coming days.