Thomas Vermaelen Facing Six Weeks Out Defender Recovering From Surgery On Achilles Injury.

Thomas Vermaelen's father has revealed his son is expected to be out for up to 6 weeks as he recovers from surgery on an Achilles injury and the Belgian stopper suffered the injury in the club's UEFA Champions League play-off match against Udinese last month and it was initially hoped he would not require surgery.

The 25-year-old missed eight months of last season with a similar injury in his right foot injury in his left ankle is not believed to be as serious and he has had to go under the knife and the arsenal have yet to publicly comment on how long he will be out for his father estimates up to 6 weeks after having flown to Sweden on Monday for the operation.

Game vermaelen is like to miss for a Premier League match home v Swansea, Champions League match away v Borussia Dortmund, Premier League match away v Blackburn, Carling Cup match home v Shrewsbury, Premier League match home v Bolton, Champions League match home v Olympiakos and the Premier League match away v Tottenham.

The doctor in Stockholm where Thomas was operated on last time to a recognised the problem now and he told Belgian website Sporza and he would not take any chances and immediately operated on Thomas and he expects five to six weeks of unavailability.

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