Matteo Guendouzi was supposed to signal a new era for Arsenal, on the pitch and in the transfer market. In many ways, he absolutely does symbolise a new era with Mikel Arteta’s new broom shooing him towards the exit door. Guendouzi arrived in the summer of 2018, just a few months after the club had committed a large chunk of its resource to 29-year olds Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Mesut Özil. Sokratis and Stephan Lichsteiner joined in the same summer as Guendouzi with the word on the grapevine that Arsenal had a recruitment brief to sign “men.” Guendouzi was the boy with the self-assurance of someone far more seasoned. Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan and Özil were...
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