Unai Emery has had a pretty successful managerial career, winning his 11th major trophy and fourth Europa League title with Villarreal in the summer of 2021, but his spell at Arsenal is not one to be remembered fondly.
Laboured football, missing a top-four spot by a point and humiliation in the Europa League final to Chelsea meant that Emery ultimately got axed in November 2019.
Arsenal saw quite a high turnover of players during Emery’s 18 months in charge, and we’ve taken a closer look at the 10 first-team players to be sold under the Spaniard.
We’ve excluded anyone without a first-team appearance, including Stephy Mavididi and Xavier Amaechi, plus the likes of Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere, who didn’t command a fee.
Jeff Reine-Adelaide
Reine-Adelaide made his debut for Arsenal under Arsene Wenger in 2016 but was sold to Angers in Emery’s first summer in charge for less than £2million, after spending the previous six months on loan at the French outfit.
It looked like Arsenal could live to regret the midfielder’s sale after he was signed by Lyon in a £23million deal and helped the Ligue 1 side knock Manchester City out of the Champions League in 2020.
The 24-year-old spent the 2020-21 season on loan at Nice, where he started well before rupturing a cruciate ligament in February 2021. He still hasn’t returned to first-team action.
Chuba Akpom
A product of the Gunners’ academy, Akpom was a popular figure at the Emirates but struggled to make his mark, failing to score in 12 appearances.
The striker joined PAOK Salonika in 2018, where he became an absolute hero, firing them to a historic league and cup Double.
The 25-year-old returned to England in September 2020, joining Middlesbrough for £2.75miilion and scored on his debut against QPR, but only managed five goals in 42 games overall.
After another loan spell back at PAOK, he’s now back on Teesside and regularly turning out for Chris Wilder’s Smoggies.
Lucas Perez
Perez spent just one season at the Emirates before being loaned out to Deportivo and then eventually sold to West Ham. He didn’t last long at London Stadium either.
But the Spaniard thrived in a two-year spell at Alaves after returning to Spain in 2019, so much so that he was wanted by Barcelona in February 2020, only to reject a potential move.
“It is not the first time that Barcelona has called me, like other great clubs,” Perez told Marca. “The truth is that that does not distract…
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