Jack Wilshire returns to Arsenal training next week.
The Daily Mail says the midfielder, 20, has not played for 13 months owing to ankle, foot and knee injuries. But he is close to completing a bespoke fitness regime designed to prepare him for full training and first-team football.
Wilshere is set to start another specially designed programme which will for the first time include extensive ball work, and Arsenal hope he will return to first-team action by the end of next month.