Arsene Wenger: Jack Wilshere will not be rushed back despite being named in Arsenal squad to face Norwich For example, if you protect the ball and somebody tackles you from behind and kills your knee, when you come back it will be difficult to protect the ball in the same position. People may not notice but many times the player does not get in that position where he has been vulnerable. The second problem with Eduardo was that he had a restriction of his ankle movement, which is a massive problem for a football player. Jack has none of that - he has not been injured in a specific tackle. He had a stress fracture that came slowly, so he has no memory of having been injured by anybody. There are two aspects [with Wilshere]. One is the apprehension to go into challenges when you have been out for so long. On that front we are at 100 per cent. Then you have the match fitness; he is 80 per cent. Despite Wilshere's belief that he is ready for first-team football, he is not expected to feature against Norwich City. Instead, he is likely to play one more game for the under-21s against Everton on Monday night, before a probable comeback appearance in the Capital One Cup against Reading eight days later. This would put him in contention for Arsenal's following match, against Manchester United at Old Trafford. But Wenger insisted that the final say on when Wilshere returned would be his alone. "It's not up to him to know that," he said. His job is to play. Players always think they are ready, and when you speak with them six months later and ask "Do you think now you were ready?," they will say no." England's laboured draw in Poland on Wednesday, during which they desperately lacked a player who could retain possession, saw Wilshere's stock rise without kicking a ball. With Santi Cazorla and Mikel Arteta enjoying a fine start to the season, Wilshere's return is arguably more important to his country than to his club. Stuart Pearce has expressed an interest in taking Wilshere to the European Under-21 Championship next summer, a move Wenger described as "premature." He saw England's over-reliance on Wilshere as symptomatic of their poverty of midfield options. "The fate of the country is never to turn round to one player," he said. If you have to wait until one player comes back, that means something is wrong. That for me is the biggest problem you have in England. Even a player like Arteta doesn't get called up for Spain. Once you have a problem like that in England, you will not need to go bonkers for anybody.