Arsenal defender Takehiro Tomiyasu faces much more time on the sidelines, with the membership stated to be “exploring” the opportunity of the Japan worldwide present process one other knee operation.
Tomiyasu suffered a knee harm in March 2023, having surgical procedure and lacking the remainder of that marketing campaign whereas he recovered. The total-back returned for the beginning of 2023/24, though he sat out a substantial portion of the season when a calf downside occurred.
He then missed Japan’s World Cup qualifying video games in the summertime of 2024 with extra knee bother, which carried on into the present marketing campaign. Tomiyasu did return at first of October and performed six minutes off the bench in opposition to Southampton however hasn’t featured once more since.
The Each day Mail writes that there are “rising fears” over Tomiyasu’s health and Arsenal medics are contemplating happening the trail of extra surgical procedure. However going underneath the knife, whereas doubtlessly a long-term repair, would rule the participant out for a “vital time frame” to get well.
At his best, Tomiyasu offers versatile defensive cowl on both aspect of the again 4. However his absence has been doubly problematic on condition that Ben White has additionally been lacking. That has seen midfielder Thomas Partey usually fill in at right-back in current weeks.
Arsenal paid round £16m to signal Tomiyasu from Bologna in the summertime of 2021. His contract, which was prolonged lower than a 12 months in the past, is because of expire on the finish of subsequent season. There’s an possibility of an extra 12 months till 2027, however there’s additionally hypothesis that Arsenal may hearken to affords this summer time.
