French midfielder Samir Nasri has suffered a broken leg at a pre-season camp in Austria on tour with his club Arsenal. The Frenchman fractured his right fibula during a training match and now faces a lay-off of up to three months.
A club statement read this morning: “Samir Nasri has sustained a fractured fibula during this morning’s training session at the club’s pre-season training camp in Austria. The midfielder will be out of action for two to three months.” Nasri signed from Marseille last summer and scored six goals for the Gunners as they reached the Champions League semi-final and finished fourth in the league.
Nasri’s injury news comes just days after Emmanuel Adebayor left Arsenal in a big money move to Manchester City, although manager Arsene Wenger has been boosted by the news that Czech midfielder Tomas Rosicky is due back in action in the autumn. The Czech midfielder, who played in the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany, played against Barnet in a pre-season friendly at the weekend.
