adminhas been a success. He underwent the crucial surgery at the end of last season to replace screws in his ankle.
And Wilshere, will be ready for the start of Arsenal’s pre-season training on July 4. The plan is to take the 21-year-old on the club’s pre-season tour to south-east Asia and he will then be ready for the start of the English Premier League campaign in August. The news will come as a huge relief to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and Roy Hodgson.
The England boss admits the national side have missed Wilshere’s creative presence and his return to full fitness would be a massive boost to the faltering World Cup qualifying campaign. Arsenal also need a fit and firing Wilshere to end their search for a major trophy – the last being the FA Cup in 2005.
Wenger — who has Real Madrid’s Gonzalo Higuain and Everton’s Marouane Fellaini as his primary summer transfer targets — knows there is unrest among the fans because of the lack of silverware.
Arsenal face a tricky early qualifier in their bid to reach the group stages of the Champions League. Wenger will want Wilshere available for that clash. England have four World Cup qualifiers in September and October — against Moldova, Montenegro, Ukraine and Poland.
Wilshere will have a critical part to play in those matches as England hope to reach next summer’s World Cup finals in Brazil.
Meanwhile, Wenger hopes that the imminent appointment of Carlo Ancelotti at Real Madrid will allow him to step up his pursuit of the club’s striker Gonzalo Higuaín, for whom he is ready to break the Arsenal transfer record.
Madrid have been without a manager since they parted company with José Mourinho two weeks ago and Higuaín, who has come to appear surplus to requirements at the Bernabéu, nonetheless wants confirmation. — The Mirror.
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