An Arsenal great has shocked fans with an image of his foot taken during the latter stages of his Gunners career which shows the horrific extent of the Achilles tendon injury he was dealing with.
Spanish midfielder Santi Cazorla suffered the injury in 2016 and required eight surgeries as his career came under threat.
He later revealed that he almost lost his foot to gangrene after contracting a potentially life-threatening infection.
And Cazorla took to Instagram on Monday to share a photo of his foot while it was infected.
'Don't worry be happy,' he wrote. 'Moments that remind me from the mobile phone, the sun always rises.'
Cazorla told Marca at the time: 'If you get to walk again with your son in the garden, be satisfied, they told me,'
'He [Dr Mikel Sanchez] saw that I had a tremendous infection, that I had damaged part of the calcaneus bone and it had eaten the achilles tendon. There was eight centimetres of it missing!'
The condition required antibiotic treatment and a skin graft, with the skin sourced from Cazorla's left forearm where a tattoo of his daughter's name had featured.
Incredibly, Cazorla did return to the pitch after 668 days out of football as he returned to Villarreal in 2018.
And he is still playing now at the age of 40 for Spanish second division side Oviedo.
Cazorla is one of the most beloved Arsenal players of the Emirates Stadium era having never had the acrimonious exit that many of the club's best players have had over the past two decades.
He contributed 29 goals and 44 assists in 180 appearances in six years with the Gunners, helping the club win two FA Cups.