In football, injury news rarely lands softly. For Arsenal fans, it often feels like another emotional body blow, and that feeling surged again after Mikel Arteta confirmed that summer signing Cristhian Mosquera will be sidelined for weeks following an ankle injury picked up in the English Premier League defeat to Aston Villa.
What was first thought to be minor has turned into something more worrying, with Arteta admitting the setback is much more than we expected.
Softfootball understands that the 21-year-old Spanish centre-back's absence only deepens Arsenal's growing defensive crisis, with key figures like William Saliba and Declan Rice already missing. But interestingly, it wasn't Fabrizio Romano's update via his official X account that truly lit the fuse online.
