Van Persie back in training and set for early return!

Arsene Wenger has received a tremendous boost this week with the news that Robin Van Persie has made rapid improvement after the operation on his ankle, and is now expected to be able to help the team in the crucial latter stages of the season.


The Mail today reports that Van Persie’s Dutch medical team has revised his expected return date to just seven weeks time. It seems that he is now walking freely and has resumed light training as he attempts to build his strength back up. It was originally thought that the Dutch international would be lucky to take any more part in Arsenal’s season but this news will help vindicate Arsene Wenger’s decision not to buy another striker this month.
The Frenchman said yesterday that he WOULD have bought another front man, if he thought that there was a good enough target to make a bid for. The Mail reported that Wenger has £30m to spend, if he wanted to, but just cannot find the right class of player.
“It is not only about wanting to buy, it is to find better players than what you have available and we haven’t until now.” said Wenger. “It is as simple as that. You always want to add a Ronaldo if you can, but is he available and where is he?”
“Marouane Chamakh is not available because he is playing with Bordeaux and Bordeaux don’t want to release him. David Villa as well, Valencia don’t want to let him go.”
“I believe as well the extra push can come within the Club and the easy solution is always to look outside. When you look deeply at what is happening to us, we have the best attack in the League; we scored more goals than anybody else. That means at least if you can do that for the first 20 or 21 games, why not in the other 18?”