Speaking to the press ahead of the Everton game tomorrow, Arsene Wenger divulged that Jack Wilshere will spend at least fourteen more days on the sidelines thanks to his recent setback in recovery.

Jack Wilshere seemed to be picking up form when he sustained an injury in late November following a Paddy McNair challenge and has not made an appearance for the Emirates Club since. The English midfielder was believed to have fully recovered and was an unused substitute at Selhurst Park last weekend, but is now facing a short layoff.

Doctors had apparently implanted a few tiny pins with studs in his ankle area to support his ligaments, but those pins seemed to have caused him irritation. Eventually, the 23-year-old midfielder was forced to go under knives to remove the pins.

Arsene Wenger stated that this very operation was planned to be done at the end of the season, but added that the midfielder could be available for selection in two weeks’ time.

“He has little surgery on the ankle, a minor procedure as the studs on his ankle were irritating him. It was planned to be done at the end do the season but because it was an irritation, it was done now.”

During his recuperation, Tomas Rosicky, Francis Coquelin and Santi Cazorla have upped their football to a sublime level and Jack Wilshere already has a mountain in front of him to climb to cement his spot in the starting eleven.

Despite his injury setback, he is apparently upbeat as he uploaded a picture of his son to Instagram confessing his love for the little Wilshere.