Arsenal will today face Swansea City at the Emirates Stadium with new faces but also injury concerns as four key players are ruled out of the game.

Speaking to Arsenal Player on Friday afternoon, manager Arsene Wenger explained that midfielders Jack Wilshere and Abou Diaby are both ruled out with an ankle injury with Thomas Vermaelen to resume training in October after undergoing surgery this week. Also out injured is Tomas Rosicky who suffered a knee injury when on duty with his National team with the Czech set to recover in time to face his old Club on Tuesday in the Champions League.

Expanding on the injury suffered by the Englishman, the Arsenal boss revealed that he has an inflamed bone and will be one month in a boot, an injury that he first suffered when he played for England against Switzerland and that forced him out of the Emirates Cup last month.

Confirming that Englishmen Kieran Gibbs and Theo Walcott are back in the side, Wenger concluded by saying that new signing Andre Santos is not physically fit to feature with Ryo Miyaichi out injured with a calf injury but set to be available for the mid-week Champions League game in Germany.

On injured players, Wenger said:

[Injury news ahead of Swansea?] We have [Abou] Diaby and [Jack] Wilshere (both ankle) out. [Thomas] Vermaelen has had his surgery, which went well. So there are three players out there. The other one who may not be available is [Thomas] Rosicky, who came back with a kick on his knee. We’ll see how he is tomorrow morning.

[Wilshere] has an inflamed bone. He will be one month in a boot and we’ll see how he responds after that. We have got the best specialists in the world to assess his case because it is an unusual one.

He said he felt it the first time for England against Switzerland, although he did suffer from a similar problem years ago. He thought it would go away but when he came back in pre-season it became slowly more painful again. It got to the stage at Emirates Cup where we had to stop him.

Kieran [Gibbs] is back. Theo [Walcott] has been working hard and is fit. All the others players came back from international duty in good shape. Everyone else is available. Emmanuel Frimpong is back too.

[Andre] Santos is a bit short because he has not had competition since the Copa America. He is practicing well though. We also have Gervinho and [Alex] Song suspended but it is their last game out from the Newcastle match. [Carl] Jenkinson is suspended as well after two yellow cards at Manchester United. [Sebastien] Squillaci (calf) is not back yet.

[Ryo Miyaichi?] Yes, he will very quickly knock at the door but at the moment he’s injures, he should join in again on Monday and Tuesday. [Yes], he has a calf injury.