Gallas back in training

WILLIAM GALLAS is being considered for a speedy return to first team action for Arsenal in tomorrow’s Champions League tie with Dynamo Kiev.

The French defender was stripped of the club captaincy, fined two weeks’ wages and dropped from Arsene Wenger’s squad for Saturday’s defeat at Manchester City after he publicly criticised unnamed members of the Gunners’ squad — believed to be Robin van Persie and Samir Nasri — last week.

But Gallas, who trained alone at the club’s London Colney headquarters on Saturday, resumed training with the squad yesterday and Wenger is now pondering whether to reinstate him to his defence.