Denis Suarez has admitted that he doesn’t think he was even 50 per cent fit during his nightmare loan spell at Arsenal.

The midfielder made just six appearances for the Gunners, spending just 95 minutes on the pitch.

Suarez suffered an injury in the Europa League game at home to BATE Borisov, which continued to effect him.

Suarez told Cadena Ser: ‘At the end of the game I thought that I had torn my groin and they did a scan and saw that I had an oedema [a build-up of fluid] on the bone in my pelvis.

‘I thought I had torn something; I was in a lot of pain. And from then on I carried on training with medication and putting up with it as best I could but I didn’t feel right and [Unai] Emery didn’t think I was right.

‘I wasn’t comfortable. I don’t think I was even at 50%. After 15 days of being at Arsenal, I wasn’t right. From the 16th I wasn’t even at 50%.’

Suarez made his Arsenal debut against his former club Manchester City but matters soon took a turn for the worse.

He said: ‘When I went to Arsenal, I remember that I got there on a Thursday. That Sunday I played against Manchester City. Then we had a break because of the FA Cup. Emery gave us some days off that weekend, [but] I stayed to train. On the Thursday at Bate Borisov I played.’