OFFICIAL: Arsenal confirm Timber suffers an ACL injury & will undergo surgery

OFFICIAL: Arsenal confirm Timber has suffered an ACL injury & set to be out for 6 months

Arsenal:

Jurrien will undergo surgery in the coming days and will be out of action for a period of time.

The support and expertise from our medical team and everyone at the club will now be focussed on Jurrien’s rehabilitation programme, to ensure he recovers well and is back playing as soon as possible.

Timber was a £38.5million signing for the Gunners and played in the Community Shield penalty shoot-out win over Manchester City before suffering the setback against Forest.

Despite losing Timber, Arsenal are still expected to allow Nuno Tavares to leave the club in the coming days, with Forest a potential destination for the former Portugal Under-21s full-back.

While signed primarily to play at right-back, Timber had started life at Arsenal on the left side of defence, filling in as Oleksandr Zinchenko recovered from a calf problem.