Kai Havertz injury: Arsenal forward to undergo surgery on torn hamstring, sidelined into 2025-26 preseason

Kai Havertz will undergo surgery on his torn hamstring in the coming days, has announced Arsenal, with his rehabilitation program that spends the president of 2025-26. Havertz sustained the injury last week at the training camp from his side in Dubai, but the full extent of the injury only became clear to return to London earlier this week.

Reviews in the capital confirmed the worst possible news for Mikel Arteta, who now has to navigate for the rest of this season without a Senior Center Vooruit. Indeed, until new signing sessions have been done, that will remain the case when preparations for the next start, Arsenal has offered a downbeat assessment of Havertz’s final return.

“Kai will start his recovery and rehabilitation program shortly after the operation, which is expected to be proclaimed for preparations for the preseason for next season,” the club said.

With Gabriel Jesus in the following season after the knee operation, the burden will fall on a small group of players to try to keep Arsenal alive in the race for the Premier League and Champions League. For the coming weeks, that group can only count at least three: Leandro Trossard, Raheem Sterling and Ethan Nwaneri. Gabriel Martinelli sustained a suspected hamstring injury last week in the EFL Cup semi -final defeat against Newcastle and although the return of Bukayo Saka in Dubai in Dubai was welcome news it is still expected to be on his way next month.

The immediate question for Arteta will be how best to build a front line made from two natural left wing players and a 17-year-old who started the season as the Understudy of Martin Odegaard in the central midfield. Since then, Arteta has talked about the possibility that Nwaneri is developing into a number nine, while Trossard was often filled in that position during his first half season in Arsenal. Sterling could also lead the line, although simply removing satisfactory versions from him in every position, this season has been a fight for Arsenal.

Apart from that, Academy Forward Nathan Butler-Youedeji, 22, is a frequent presence on the couch in the first team in the midst of the recent figure crisis. Arsenal could also explore a free agent market with, among others, Diego Costa, Mariano Diaz and Carlos Vela.

Havertz’s injury sheds a hard light on the transfer activities of Arsenal in the last two windows. They both intended to add depth and quality to the forward line of Arteta, but their only addition was Sterling as a deadline daily loan in August. That deal – plus a failed striving for a permanent understudy for David Raya who forced them to take Bournemouth’s Neto on loan – meant that Arsenal was unable to make further loan additions from Premier League clubs in January, with an offer of £ 40 million for Ollie Watkins was rejected.

Arsenal has not been able to secure primary goals, including Athletic Bilbao’s Nico Williams, Benjamin Sesko of RB Leipzig and Alexander Isak, the striker she put on the sword in the EFL Cup, and concluded that a signing for the Sake of Sake of it wasn’t the sake there. Correct approach in the middle season window. They will now wonder whether it might have helped to illuminate part of the load on Havertz, which last week played the full 90 minutes against Newcastle with the draw long since lost.

In all competitions, the German International this season played the most minutes of a Premier League Center Froward, a statistics that was all the more remarkable as Overtz had knee problems in October and had an attack of illness during the Christmas period. Although Arteta has praised the genetic “powerhouse” that leads his line, he has visibly struggled for energy for energy in recent weeks and has fallen exhaustion on the floor after 10 men defeated Arsenal Wolverhampton.