Morning all.

Speculation is rife that Jurrien Timber’s knee injury is serious and he could miss much of this season. The update on Arsenal’s official website doesn’t confirm this but the player will undergo more tests before deciding on what happens next. It’s rotten for him, the club and the rest of the players.

Arsenal released a statement saying:

Further to his substitution during our match against Nottingham Forest on Saturday, Jurrien Timber has received extensive assessments and scans which have confirmed he has sustained an injury to his right knee. Jurrien will undergo a further detailed assessment and review with a consultant in the coming days to assess the full extent of the injury, in order to determine the next steps. A further update will be provided in due course.

Doesn’t sound good does it? Not if a scan hasn’t determined the extend of his injury, or maybe it has and surgery isn’t required.

If it turns out Timber’s injury is a bad one, we’re back to having three injury prone players in Oleksandr Zinchenko, Kieran Tierney and Takehiro Tomiyasu as cover for both left and right back. if Zinchenko can stay fit, I imagine he’ll be Arteta’s first choice left back anyway but the problem is, he doesn’t seem to be able to stay fit.

There’s always Nuno Tavares of course but like Tierney, his days at Arsenal seem numbered.

Flo Balogun, another player on his way out has been linked with a move to Totts to replace Kane. Stranger things have happened in football but we know Totts have money to spend. If they offer £50 million for Balogun, then I wouldn’t be surprised to see Arsenal accept it. Whether or not Balogun would want to move across north London or not is a different matter. Hopefully he’s focused on a move abroad.

Poor old Liverpool eh, not only did Caicedo reject the but now Lavia has too as he also wants to join Chelsea according to Sky Sports. Do these footballers ever stop and think about their actual playing career before jumping from one club to the next? Putting aside my dislike for both clubs, if it comes to playing for Klopp or Poch, there’s only one winner in my opinion. If I was Lavia, I’d be looking at how many players in my position are already at each club – Liverpool need him, Chelsea just want him. Liverpool only have themselves to blame though because once Southampton said £50 million for their player, they should have just paid it and had they done so early in the transfer window, I suspect Lavia would already be theirs. Now they’ve had a £60m offer accepted but allowed Chelsea time to get involved.

Man Utd scraped past Wolves last night. The away team had 23 shots at Utd’s goal but couldn’t convert one of them. Then, at 1-0 down and late in the game, Wolves really should have been awarded a penalty. So much for cleaning up the game eh.

On Sunday afternoon, Totts and Brentford drew their match and later, Chelsea and Liverpool did the same. Every point dropped counts regardless of what stage of the season we’re at. Lol

Three Arsenal players are in action today for Sweden as they take on Spain in the women’s World Cup Semi-Final.. Stina Blackstenius, Lina Hurtig and Amanda IIestedt are the Arsenal ladies hoping to make through to the final where one of Australia or England await.

An interesting factoid for you, or maybe not if womens football is of no interest to you but only one player in the Spanish team plays for a club outside of Spain yet Sweden have 14 players currently at other European clubs and 1 in the USA. England is similar with just three of its current squad playing for an overseas club whereas Australia have just 2 players playing for clubs in their own country. 11 are in playing England, two of which are at Arsenal. Steph Catley and Caitlin Foord.

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