Former Arsenal full-back Nigel Winterburn is confident Sol Campbell will receive all the support he requires from the Gunners.
Campbell has been away from the club since Wednesday night when he left Highbury during a 3-2 defeat by West Ham and has become the centre of intense speculation ever since.
The 31-year-old had been at fault for the Hammers' first two goals and was substituted at the break.
Team-mate Robert Pires has already made it public that Campbell has a big worry in his private life, but Winterburn insists past history shows he will get plenty of backing from inside Highbury.
He said: “You only have to look at the way they handled Tony Adams and Paul Merson, they stood by those players and they helped them as much as they could. So, in that sense, if he's got personal problems then he's at the best club.”
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has already pleaded with Campbell to get in touch so he can help him through the crisis that has put his career on hold.
Wenger insisted that not only did he not know the exact nature of the defender's torment, he did not know when he would be returning to the club either.
It has been suggested that Campbell, who is contracted to 2009, might even quit the game but Wenger offered to help a player who is regarded as a complex character, if that was what he wanted.
He said: “The only thing you can do is accept that every human being reacts differently to problems and the only thing we can do as a club is to support people when they need our help.”
Campbell was left out of the squad to take on Birmingham today at a time when Arsenal are suffering from an acute shortage of defenders.
Lauren has been ruled out for the rest of the season after undergoing knee surgery and Ashley Cole, Pascal Cygan, Gael Clichy and Kerrea Gilbert are also out injured at a time when Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Eboue are away at the African Nations Cup.
