Santi Cazorla’s Arsenal agony goes on after ninth operation on injury

• Cazorla has achilles surgery and abandons ambition to play in January
• ‘I still have the motivation and the hope of being able to return,’ he says

Santi Cazorla has been forced to abandon his hopes of a return to action in January after he underwent surgery for a ninth time. The Arsenal midfielder, who has not played since October 2016, suffered another setback just as he appeared to be entering the final phase of his rehabilitation.

“As a result of some discomfort in the tendon that I had been suffering in recent days, I have had to go into theatre again,” Cazorla wrote on Twitter. “I have to put back the date for my return to the field. I still have the motivation and the hope of being able to return to enjoying my great passion, football.”

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