Arsene Wenger believes football is already doing all it can to ensure that players are fit and healthy, but admits medical research must continue.
Gunners boss would welcome advances in medical science
Arsene Wenger believes football is already doing all it can to ensure that players are fit and healthy, but admits medical research must continue.
The Arsenal boss saw one of his former academy graduates, Fabrice Muamba, suffer a cardiac arrest during Bolton's FA Cup quarter-final clash with Tottenham on Saturday.
The 23-year-old is currently recovering at the London Chest Hospital, with his condition now described as 'comfortable' in intensive care.
Premier League chairman Richard Scudamore has promised a review into medical procedures at football grounds in the wake of the incident, while Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has called for players to be screened on a more regular basis.
Wenger claims clubs are already working hard to identify any underlying health problems, but concedes that further advances in medical science can only be beneficial.
"He (Muamba) had regular screens everywhere; here, at Birmingham and at Bolton as well," Wenger told
Arsenal Player.
Questions
"I am not a specialist enough in medicine to say 'is the screening enough for the kind of problem that he had?'
"It raises a few questions, but you need to be better informed on what happened to him to see if the players need deeper analysis of heart problems.
"You can always learn something out of these situations and that is maybe what we can learn out of it."
Wenger continued: "It is too early to ask whether it is a lack of control, does football need to go in deeper with research or deeper in control with heart problems to stop these kind of situations.
"If it is preventable - at the moment nobody has given us any answer, but that is what you are waiting for. Our medical team tell me that there is constant ongoing research in this area and that it must continue."
