He hasn’t featured for Arsenal since a Champions League game against Ludogorets in October 2016 and he’s had a staggering nine ankle surgeries. Will Santi Cazorla make a return to the pitch in 2018?

“That’s for me the disastrous news of the day,” Arsene Wenger told reporters last month about Cazorla going under the knife once again.

“I feel really sorry for Santi, he’s a guy I admire, that we all love here. Who came here to training every day with a smile because he loves so much the game. And for him not to be available for us it’s a big blow but for him as well, it’s something that is difficult to take.”

Cazorla’s Copa90 five-shot challenge video above (filmed in 2016) reminds us of the Spanish midfielder’s capabilities. Here’s hoping we see him in action in 2018.