It can be tough to make the grade at Arsenal, but failing there doesn’t always mean you should write off your entire career.
Few other clubs have played the youth game so well, bringing through the best from across the world, so it’s natural for a few still-good players to slip through the net.
While the likes of Cesc Fabregas made the cut in north London, others had to get it done elsewhere. On the other end of the ‘wait, he was at Arsenal’ scale, of course, you have those senior players who had blink-and-you’ll-miss it spells at Highbury or the Emirates Stadium in between stints elsewhere.
Here, we look at 15 players that you’d probably forgotten played for the Gunners.
Benik Afobe
A striker with more than 50 Premier League games to his name, Afobe was the subject of a strange bit of business in 2018 when newly-promoted Wolves signed him from Bournemouth, only to loan (and eventually sell) him to Stoke without him playing a minute for the club in the interim.
Long before that, though, the Democratic Republic of Congo international was on Arsenal’s books, still holding out hope of a senior England call-up after playing his part in the run to European Under-17 glory in 2010 alongside the likes of Jack Butland and Ross Barkley.
It never happened for him at the Emirates, and he left in 2015 without playing a senior game.
Yossi Benayoun
We remember Benayoun’s spells at West Ham, Liverpool and Chelsea, but his stint at Arsenal is often forgotten.
Strangely, though, he played more games in one season at Arsenal than in one and a half with the Blues, from whom he was on loan.
Even his most important goal, in the 3-2 win over West Brom to secure Champions League qualification, came when most non-Arsenal fans were watching Manchester City snatch the title.
David Bentley
Bentley achieved plenty in his career, including winning a handful of England caps, but none of the good bits came at Arsenal (unless you count making his senior debut for the club).
There’s a sense that his entire time with the club was whitewashed by his arrival at neighbours Tottenham as one of their most expensive signings at the time, though the highlights came earlier.
An eye-catching spell on loan at Norwich made people think he might get a proper Premier League breakthrough, and he did… only it was at Blackburn rather than Arsenal.
Leon Britton
Most of you will know Leon Britton spent almost his entire career at Swansea City, playing more than 500 games for the…
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