{"id":452622,"date":"2026-02-02T00:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452622\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:46:11","slug":"medical-update-mikel-merino-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452622\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical update: Mikel Merino | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to sustaining a foot injury towards the end of our game against Manchester United on January 25, subsequent assessments and specialist reviews have confirmed Mikel Merino has a bone injury in his right foot.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel will have surgery in the coming days and will then begin his recovery and rehabilitation programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mikel is expected to be out of action for an extended period, with the aim of returning to full training before the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is fully focused on supporting Mikel to ensure he is back to full fitness as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Further to sustaining a foot injury towards the end of our game against Manchester United on January 25,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-452622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}