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The Arsenal defender Armand Traore has become more depply immersed in the Muslim way of life and believes it has helped him in his life and his career.

He has decided to have an operation to remove his tattoos next summer as his Muslim faith forbids them.

“I am going under the knife at the end of the season to remove the tattoos,” he said..

“I’m planning to do it in the summer. They put me under anesthetic and then do it all, and when I wake up everything will be gone. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger saw William Gallas and Andrei Arshavin injure each other when jumping for a cross from Cesc Fabregas last night, and he feared the worst, but after analyzing the injuries he has concluded they should both be okay to face Chelsea on Sunday.

But poor Kieran Gibbs is definitely out for at least three months after he suffered a broken metatarsal last night.

It was feared last week that had suffered the same problem, but now scans have confirmed it as a certainty.

“Gibbs has a big hole in his leg,” Wenger said after the game. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger could not hide his relief when he was asked about the injuries to both Kieran Gibbs and Robin Van Persie, and is now not so pessimistic about the usual injury hoodoo that arrives in November.

“We knew that when Robin came out with this injury, that he would be out for a long time,” Wenger said.

“But frankly I feared it would be more because the first news was very, very bad. So it was a relief that he would be out for six weeks. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has had an awful week where the bad news seemed to be popping up every day, but now the clouds have broken and there is some sunshine around again at last!

When the young defender Kieran Gibbs was pulled off the pitch during the England U21 match on Tuesday it was feared that he had suffered the dreaded broken metatarsal which only seems to affect English internationals, but new tests have revealed that it is not broken after all, and Gibbs WILL be available to face Chelsea next weekend. Read the full article here

With Arsene Wenger waiting for the bad news regarding the extent of Kieran Gibbs injury, it seems certain that Mikael Silvestre, who has only played twice for the Arsenal first team this season, will be entrusted with covering for Gibbs.

Wenger is more likely to pluck for experience over the youthful Armand Traore for such an important game, but It is possible that Traore may get a couple of chances in such a busy period.

Wenger said last month about Traore: “He can be a big surprise because he has improved a lot,” Read the full article here

More bad news has arrived for Arsenal from the international break as Kieran Gibbs limped off the field during the England U21 match against Lithuania.

Gibbs was only on the field for 20 minutes before he was taken off with a suspected broken foot.

It was deemed bad enough for him to have left the stadium on crutches after the game, and Arsene Wenger will be waiting anxiously for the results of todays x-rays to find out bad it is.

A dreaded metatarsal is the expected prognosis, and as Wenger already has Gael Clichy out for the next three weeks with his back problem, Wenger must be cursing the November injury jinx. Read the full article here

The Arsenal legend Ray Parlour believes that Kieran Gibbs will follow in Theo Walcott’s footsteps and get called up for the World Cup in South Africa this summer.

“He has the talent,”

“I have watched him loads of times. He has great pace. He can tackle and he gets forward well.”

“If he gets a run of games now for Arsenal and does well, I am sure Capello will look at him.”

“Someone always comes from nowhere. It was Theo Walcott last time. I have a feeling Kieran will be the one this season.” Read the full article here

The young Arsenal defender Kieran Gibbs has just been promised an extended run in the Arsenal first team, due to a small fracture to Gael Clichy’s back, but he is keeping his feet on the ground and admits that he hasn’t done anything to earn a place in Fabio Capello’s World Cup squad yet.

“At the moment I don’t really deserve to get a World Cup call because I have nowhere near the experience that a lot of the players do,” Gibbs said. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is upset that Gael Clichy has got a small fracture in his back and will now be out for a month or more, and he is worried that he will be putting too much stress on the young Englishman Kieran Gibbs by playing him in every game.

Wenger said: “We have lost Gael Clichy with a back injury, which was not expected. It looks like he could be out for a while.

“We fear a stress fracture of the back, and we will know more about that later, but if that is the case, he will be out for a few weeks. Read the full article here

England U21’s beat Macedonia 6-3 in a hugely entertaining match last night, but the Arsenal winger Theo Walcott had to be replaced at half-time with a “dead leg”.

Walcott carved out the first goal for England as he chipped the ball for his Arsenal team-mate Kieran Gibbs to head in at the far post.

Englands second came from a corner from another Arsenal player, as Micah Richards got on the end of Jack Wilshere’s corner after it was flicked on by Michael Mancienne. Read the full article here