Arsenal have announced that Kieran Gibbs, who hurt his foot in November playing in the Champions League need surgery that will keep him out for the rest of the season.
If you remember, Gibbs got hurt against Standard Liege. At that time Arsenal said that Gibbs had fractured the first metatarsal in his left foot and would be out or action for around three months.
Well three months later, Gibbs is still hurt and now he needs season-ending surgery. Which begs the questions, why wasn’t surgery performed in November when he first suffered the injury? If surgery had happened then, Gibbs would have made it back for the last six weeks of the season.
It’s a well worn theme, but what happens to Arsenal players in that treatment room? It seems to take longer for Arsenal players to recover from injury than other team in the Premier League.
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From what I`ve read Arsenal carry a very large and obviously expensive medical staff.
Like the rest of the medical world it`s hard to prove if they function efficiently or not, it`s a bit of a closed shop based on so called ` professional ethics`, in laymans terms a `cover up`. It`s easy to imagine that professional pride and politics could hinder the process of getting players back into the game in a reasonable time. Also, it seems that diagnosis is a problem so Wenger and his management have to wait an eternity to make a decision on a player, they are in the hands of the medics. Some are carrying problems that may never be fixed but they hang around on salaries that border on being vulgar for months .
Again, like hospitals to search it out and take action is extremely difficult.
Maybe they should start by reducing the semi professionals on the payroll and working their way back from there, but I`m no expert.
It see as if arsenal management should sacks everybody in the medical department, they are not performing well, or are arsenal also using cheap doctor as they use cheap players?
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