Arsenal's Arteta: Wilshere still has amazing career ahead of him despite injury nightmare
Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2015 by Dailystar.co.uk
ARSENAL captain Mikel Arteta admits his team must rally around Jack Wilshere following the England star's latest injury blow.
Wilshere underwent surgery yesterday to have a small metal plate inserted in his left leg.
It is the latest in a string of major fitness woes for the 23-year-old, who has now had to endure seven different operations over the last few years.
By the time he returns from his latest stint on the sidelines, the midfielder will have missed over a thousand days during his Arsenal career.
And Arteta has said that his teammates need to get behind their pal and keep his spirits up during this difficult time.
But he also insisted Wilshere can still reached the very top level of the game, saying: "He needs to use it to prove he can get back
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"He has an enormous talent and support from every department of the club, and from the players because we feel sorry for him and because we know we cannot waste his talent because he has an amazing career ahead of him.
"We are responsible for putting that into his head every day and do not allow him to fall down because at some stage that is the danger, that he does not believe in himself or his body and he needs to trust himself."
Meanwhile, Gunners boss Arsene Wenger said: "This kind of injury is not career-threatening.
"I am not a specialist. This was just an accident. It is a bone injury. It is not linked with the injuries he had before.
"There is nothing malicious in there, just a part of his bone that has not healed. That is what I have been told."
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