Oleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus have been signed by Arsenal this summer, but buying from the champions is no guarantee of success.
GOALKEEPER: Petr Cech (Chelsea to Arsenal, 2015)
“He will save them 12 or 15 points a season,” said Chelsea captain John Terry of the impact Arsenal might have expected from Petr Cech as he packed his bags to head across London in 2015. The Gunners finished the prior season on 75 points, then collected 71, 75, 63 and 70 points respectively in the four campaigns Cech spent at the Emirates. Wayward mathematical predictions aside, the £10m signing won a fifth FA Cup and fourth Golden Gloves award in his three seasons as a regular starter, providing an accomplished bridge between the eras of Wojciech Szczesny and Bernd Leno.
RIGHT-BACK: William Gallas (Chelsea to Arsenal, 2006)
Both Willian and David Luiz made the previously rare direct journey from Chelsea to Arsenal after Cech, but before William Gallas in 2006 it was George Graham who last crossed the divide in that direction 40 years prior. The four years Gallas had at the Emirates will be remembered for one thing by most but his overt unravelling at Birmingham unfairly clouds an accomplished spell in which he served as an admittedly divisive captain. Similarly controversial was his adoption of the No.10 shirt, an honour he briefly fulfilled when becoming Arsenal’s third-highest scorer in their run to the 2009 Champions League semi-finals. Gallas carelessly lost the armband due to an interview in which he questioned the younger segments of the dressing room, before he left in a way that echoed his arrival in part-exchange for Ashley Cole: with a dispute over pay.
CENTRE-HALF: Nathan Ake (Chelsea to Bournemouth, 2017)
It doesn’t seem right that Nathan Ake is approaching 10 full years as a Premier League player but a decade will have passed since his debut in December. That breakthrough came under Rafael Benitez but Jose Mourinho turned a drip-feed into a completely dry spell and the young defender eventually had to make do with a series of loans. He was sent out to Reading first, then Watford and finally Bournemouth, with whom he spent the first part of the 2016/17 season before Antonio Conte recalled him that January. Ake played five more games for the Blues, winning three FA Cup ties and sitting on the bench for the final defeat to Arsenal, while featuring in two Premier League victories. His pathway to the Stamford Bridge first team was no clearer by…
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