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Paul Merson left shocked as he says something ‘unacceptable’ has happened at Arsenal this week

Charles Jones

Fri 14 February 2025 11:45, UK

It’s been another rollercoaster of a week for Arsenal.

Indeed, Arsenal have had a number of ups and downs this week.

Arsenal wi🦩ll have been buoyed when watching their title rivals, Liverpool, drop points against Everton this week, while Ben White is on his way back from 𝔉injury too in another boost.

However, Arsenal also received a massive blow this week as Kai Havertz was ruled out for the season with a hamstring tear.

Havertz was injured during a pressing drill during Arsenal’s training camp in Dubai, and speaking to , Paul Merson has shared his reaction to Havertz picking up this i♒njury.

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Paul Merson reacts to Kai Havertz injury

Merson shared his verdict on Havertz’s injury.

The pundit says that the German can miss key chances for Arsenal, but he will be a ma💜ssive miss.

Merson also derided the fact that Havertz has torn a hamstring in what s🥂houldn’t have been an overly-intense training session, claiming that🥂 a hamstring tear simply wouldn’t have happened if the player had stretched and warmed up properly.

“He does miss chances but he gets in good positio🎉ns and he 🦩is going to be a massive miss for the Gunners,” Merson said.

“To t☂ear a hamstring in training is near on unacceptable. if you stretch properly that doesn’t happen. I was flabbergasted by the news of tearing a hamstring on a warm weather t💜raining camp.”

Kai Havertz injury history

This injury🌃 couldn’t have come at a worse time for Havertz and Arsenal.

Indeed, Arsenal need Havertz now more than ever, especially as Gabriel Martinelli is injured, Gabriel Jesus is out for the season and Bukayo Saka is also sidelined at the moment.

Frustratingly, this injury hౠas come from out of the blue.

Indeed, Havertz hasn’t had many major injuries in his career so far, and the inju♓ries that he has had haven’t related to his hamstri𝓡ngs.

Major hamstring injuries are often suffered by players who’ve had long-standing issuꦫes with that particular area of their body, but, that hasn’t been the case for Havertz in his career so far.

As Merson says, this is an injury that shouldn’t have happe🉐ned, and there is an argument to make that Mikel Arteta should be giving his players at lighter schedule.

Arne Slot is great at managing injuries with Liverpool, and maybe Arteta 🎀needs to take a leaf out of the Du🃏tchman’s book.