Abou Diaby: Arsene Wenger hints midfielder will not be offered new contract in the summer...so has he played final Arsenal game?

The French midfielder's current deal expires in the summer

Arsenal's Abou Diaby against Southampton in September - his only appearance this season (Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

Abou Diaby could have played his last game for Arsenal, with manager Arsene Wenger hinting that the perennially-injured midfielder will not be offered a new contract in the summer, and is nowhere near full fitness.

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The Frenchman's deal contract expires at the end of the season. He has made just one appearance for the club this term, playing 67 minutes in the 2-1 Capital One Cup defeat by Southampton in September.

"At the moment he is not in a position where he will be able to play soon because he is not on the field at all," Wenger said.

"I will have have a decision to make about his contract, yes."

Back in November, Wenger had denied suggestions that the 28-year-old was injury prone, pointing to the fact that the player had fractured his ankle after a tackle from Sunderland's Dan Smith in 2006, and never truly recovered.

"He [Diaby] is a player that I have an enormous amount of respect for," explained Wenger.

"Every time he comes back, he has to start from zero with another injury. He was a victim of competition.

"A footballer needs his ankle. He was destroyed by a bad tackle [by Dan Smith in May 2006 that saw Diaby suffer a fractured ankle] at Sunderland six or seven years ago which altered his ankle.

"He is not a fragile player. He was the victim of an assassin's tackle that went unpunished."