Alexis Sanchez wrote himself into Arsenal folklore as one of the best forwards to have ever played for the club, scoring 80 goals in 166 appearances.
He made the move to the Emirates in the summer of 2014 after the Gunners paid a fee of around £30million to Barcelona for his services, and his impact was immediate.
He may have slightly tainted his legacy by moving to Manchester United, but there is no doubting how good he was in his four seasons with Arsenal.
But he was actually one of eight players to sign for the club that summer. Here, we take a look at the other seven and how they fared…
Ilias Chatzitheodoridis
The left-back was taken to north London after impressing in Arsenal’s Greek academy.
Unfortunately for him, he never progressed to the first team, leaving the Emirates for Brentford in 2016 with 44 appearances to his name for the Under-18s, and one goal.
After a loan spell with Cheltenham Town in League Two in 2018, he was snapped up by Panathinaikos. Chatzitheodoridis made a total of 43 league appearances across the 2018-19 and 2019-20 campaigns before picking up an ankle injury that impeded his progress.
Following two seasons of limited involvement, he moved to fellow Greek Super League club Panetolikos in 2022.
Ben Sheaf
Sheaf made the move to the Gunners academy at the age of 16 but failed to nail down regular first-team football.
He made just two first-team appearances, including a late cameo against Red Star Belgrade in the Europa League in 2017, and found himself regularly shipped out on loan.
The 2020-21 campaign was spent with Coventry City in the Championship, where he was a regular in Mark Robins’ first team. At the end of the season, he left Arsenal permanently and signed a three-year deal with the Sky Blues.
Hugo Keto
The Finnish shot-stopper arrived in north London in 2014 as a 16-year-old from HJK Helsinki and while his impact on the first team was non-existent he no doubt has some fond memories of his time in the academy.
In the 2015-16 season, Keto saved three penalties to win Arsenal a place in the semi-finals of the FA Youth Cup, knocking out Liverpool in the process.
He moved to Brighton in 2018 but once again found himself out of the first-team picture. Keto was granted a return to Helsinki in the summer of 2020 and spet two years there before joining Norwegian club Sandefjord in 2022.
Mathieu Debuchy
Despite remaining with the club for four years after signing in 2014, the diminutive Frenchman suffered an…
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