Kai Havertz will miss Arsenal\u2019s showdown at Liverpool on Sunday and Germany\u2019s World Cup qualifiers next month, with a decision yet to be made on whether the forward needs surgery on a knee injury.<\/p>\n
Havertz sustained the injury during his substitute appearance against Manchester United<\/a> on the opening Premier League weekend and did not feature in Arsenal\u2019s 5-0 win against Leeds<\/a> on Saturday. Mikel Arteta said Arsenal were not sure how serious it was and that they would conduct more tests \u201cto explore the issue a little bit further and decide what we\u2019re going to do\u201d.<\/p>\n Rudi V\u00f6ller, the men\u2019s national team director at the German football federation, has confirmed Havertz will miss their World Cup qualifiers against Slovakia and Northern Ireland and said surgery remained a possibility for the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n \u201cHe certainly won\u2019t make it, he has a knee injury,\u201d V\u00f6ller said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly how it will go in the coming weeks, whether surgery is upcoming or it will be treated conservatively.\u201d<\/p>\n Havertz was sidelined from early February to mid-May last season after a hamstring tear<\/a> at a training camp in Dubai. Fears that his latest injury could result in another lengthy layoff is believed to have prompted Arsenal to follow through on their longstanding interest in Eberechi Eze, who could make his debut at Anfield after his \u00a367.5m move<\/a> from Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n Quick GuideHow do I sign up for sport breaking news alerts?Show<\/p>\n Thank you for your feedback.<\/p>\n Bukayo Saka is also expected to be absent against Liverpool and from England\u2019s World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Serbia after sustaining a hamstring injury against Leeds. That is not as significant<\/a> as initially feared, with the 23-year-old understood not to have needed to see a specialist, although Saka is likely to be out for about three to four weeks. The captain, Martin \u00d8degaard, is a doubt for the trip to Anfield after injuring a shoulder but he has been called up by Norway for World Cup qualifiers against Finland and Moldova.<\/p>\n Arsenal are interested in signing Piero Hincapi\u00e9 from Bayer Leverkusen but need to sell fringe players before pressing ahead with a deal for the Ecuador defender, who is capable of playing as a left-sided centre\u2011back or left-back. He has a release clause of \u20ac60m (\u00a352m) and is believed to be keen to join.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Football Daily<\/p>\n Kick off your evenings with the Guardian’s take on the world of football<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Arsenal have already spent about \u00a3250m this summer and hope to make sales before the window closes on Monday. Porto have offered a loan deal for Jakub Kiwior with an obligation to buy for \u20ac25m (\u00a321.5m) and the Poland defender is believed to have his heart set on a move away from the Premier League despite interest from English clubs. Porto have also shown interest in Oleksandr Zinchenko, whileand F\u00e1bio Vieira and Reiss Nelson could leave in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kai Havertz will miss Arsenal\u2019s showdown at Liverpool on Sunday and Germany\u2019s World Cup qualifiers next month, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-376265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115097897754272510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n