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After being ruled out for at least two weeks, Michael Arteta claimed Bukayo Saka’s persistent hamstring injuries are a “big concern.”
In the second half of Arsenal’s win over Leeds last weekend, Saka was forced off, and he will miss Sunday’s trip to Liverpool, the Premier League champion.
The 23-year-old might be able to play again next month, but Gunners boss Arteta is concerned about his star forward’s ongoing injury cycle.
Following surgery on his right hamstring in December, Saka missed three and a half months of last season.
In his first game of the season, he made his second appearance since returning in April, where he played 13 games before suffering the most recent hamstring problem, this time in his left leg.
He doesn’t require surgery, he says. It isn’t as bad as the previous one. He will be out for a few weeks because he felt something, Arteta told reporters on Friday.
But it is a big concern, especially when a sprinter and a football player who frequently enters that zone need that burst, that change of pace to be as threatening as possible.
He will become stronger and we will discover why it happened once more. Unfortunately, accidents are a part of a career. To be fair, he hasn’t played many games since he was his age, but we want to end it. ”
For Arsenal’s opening game of the season against title rivals Liverpool at Anfield, Arteta might be without up to seven players.
While Martin Odegaard, Christian Norgaard, Leandro Trossard, and Ben White are all out, Saka, Gabriel Jesus, and Kai Havertz are all gone.
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This week, Havertz had a minor surgical procedure performed on his knee, according to the club.
Odegaard might return for the win over Leeds if he awkwardly slams his shoulder.
Arteta of Havertz, who missed three months of last season with a hamstring injury, called it “very unfortunate and very sad for him.”
He recovered from the previous one incredibly well. He has never previously been injured. And then something unexpected occurs.
We will obviously lose another significant player for a number of weeks. But doing it was the right course of action. He was ultimately very convinced and given the doctors’ advice that this was the quickest and most effective way to solve the problem. ”
Arne Slot’s side finished last season as second only to Liverpool, falling 10 points behind.
When questioned about whether Liverpool is the favorite to win the title, Arteta responded, “The favorite is always the one that won the previous year.
Someone needs to come in and take their crown, so we’ll make an effort to do that. Better than them is the goal. ”
A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court’s decision on Friday that preserved Venezuelans’ Temporary Protected Status (TPS). As the court processes the legal challenges, the status will remain in place.
The Biden administration had extended TPS for about 600,000 Venezuelans through October 2026 before leaving office.
The status would expire for approximately 350, 000 Venezuelans who were initially granted protection in 2023 in April of this year, and for approximately 250, 000 Venezuelans who were initially granted the status in 2021 by September. According to the Trump administration, the status would expire.
That would make those impacted legally unemployed and vulnerable to deportation.
In a previous ruling in March, US District Judge Edward Chen had determined that plaintiffs’ claims that the administration had overstepped its authority were likely to have a majority in court.
Venezuelans’ attorneys claimed that the administration was motivated by racial animus.
Chen at the time set the termination to be frozen. The Supreme Court, however, temporarily allowed the administration to proceed with the status change and reversed the decision in an emergency appeal.
The Immigration Act of 1990 created Temporary Protected Status under the guidance of Congress.
It authorizes the Department of Homeland Security’s secretary to grant legal immigration status to people fleeing nations where there are “extraordinary and temporary conditions” that prevent a safe return to their home countries.
In its harsh immigration policy, the Trump administration has begun to ban the program for citizens of Haiti, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Although the administration has the right to refuse to renew TPS, several courts have rejected attempts to alter already established timelines.
Actor Joe Alwyn is said to be hoping that he can “focus on his life” following the news that his ex Taylor Swift has got engaged to Travis Kelce. The couple announced their engagement after two years together earlier this week.
Taylor, 35, had once been in a relationship with Joe, 34, for more than six years. The exes, who had faced engagement rumours whilst they were together, split up in 2023. There’s now speculation over how he allegedly “really feels” about the news that the singer is engaged to NFL star Travis, 35.
Joe, who has appeared in movies like The Favourite (2018), is said to be wishing his ex-girlfriend the best of her relationship. However, it’s been suggested that Taylor shouldn’t anticipate hearing from him following the announcement on Tuesday.
A source told the Daily Mail that the news is the “final nail in the coffin” when it comes to him thinking about her. They said: “Taylor’s engagement is the final nail in the coffin to any thoughts Joe will ever have about her again.”
He added, “Yes, he sincerely hopes she is doing well and is in a good place,” but he hasn’t reached out to her to offer congratulations. He thinks it is unnecessary, and he thinks she wouldn’t want to hear from him in any way.
The source speculates that the ex-partners have both left their union, which they have called “once very special” Joe now wants to be seen as more than just one of Taylor’s exes moving forward, according to the source, adding that he now hopes to be able to “focus” on his own life and career.
Joe has spoken about his relationship with Taylor and the commentary around it on occasion. Whilst speaking to the Times last year, the Conversations with Friends star suggested that it’s hard to “navigate” any break-up.
He added, “I hope anyone and everyone can understand the difficulties that come with the end of a long, loving, fully committed relationship of more than six and a half years.” That is challenging to navigate.
He added that dating in the public eye makes it an “abnormal” situation. Joe said: “What is unusual and abnormal in this situation is that, one week later, it’s suddenly in the public domain and the outside world is able to weigh in.”
On Tuesday, Taylor and Travis made the announcement in a joint post on Instagram. Further details have been made available since the first report was made regarding the Kansas City Chiefs player’ proposal in his garden.
The couple’s caption for their post read, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” next to a TNT emoji. Taylor’s song So High School, from her last album, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, was included in the arrangement.
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Baywatch star Nicole Eggert revealed she underwent a mastectomy in a health update shared on her Instagram page. The actor has been open about her journey and fight against cancer, using her page to document the process of doctors appointments, treatments, and now, her mastectomy.
Nicole revealed last year she finished treatment for Stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer, which she was diagnosed with in December 2023. And now, she shared an update with a mirror selfie as she rocked black sports bra a few days after the operation.
On Thursday, Nicole, 53, had a mastectomy with reconstruction. How did you spend your weekend? More than 6, 000 people liked the post.
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When she finished treatment last year, she told People: “There’s a lot of waiting in this and it’s sort of something I didn’t realise and nobody really talks about.
You don’t know what’s happening, so you have to focus on the grey area, which is the hardest. I felt like I was having a productive time while I was receiving treatment.
Cribriform carcinoma is a rare, invasive breast cancer that typically progresses slowly and is characterized by its distinctive “sieve-like” cell pattern under the microscope.
Nicole initially believed that her menopause symptoms were real. She experienced “terrible pain” in her left breast after gaining 25 pounds in three months. She found the lump while doing self-examination.
Upon visiting the doctors, mammograms and biopsies confirmed that she had cancer. Nicole said: “This journey’s been rough for me. This hasn’t been a breezy sail through life. I always read inspirational quotes and corny stuff, but it gets me through it.”
Nicola took to her Instagram account on August 8 to share a life update with followers, revealing that she had been through scans and had anxiety throughout the process.
She said: “That anxiety leading up to it is debilitating, like it’s horrible.I went in today to get my results, and I was for sure going to vomit all over the waiting room. I was shaking. I kept thinking I was going to faint.
“And then I get the results, and thank God, they’re clear! So then I’m sobbing. I’m crying and weeping with gratitude and happiness and all the emotions, it’s so up and down. It’s so much on us… It’s wild to me how quickly I can get into a dark place before I get the results.”
She wrote, “I will endeavor to accept my life, it is taking me where I need to go – The promise of a new day,” in the caption.
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