Steve Nicol explains why the time is right for Hector Bellerin to leave Arsenal and return to Barcelona. N's Arsenal correspondent, Mattias Karen, explains who he thinks is likely to be playing at the Emerates next season. What links Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil, Aaron Ramsey, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jack Wilshere, Santi Cazorla, Kieran Gibbs, Wojciech Szczesny and Per Mertesacker? The answer is, of course, that in little over a week these prominent first-team players and personalities will enter the final year of their contracts. It is no wonder Arsenal have just recruited a new legal expert in Huss Fahmy; they may be wise to instruct an entire chambers. The distraction inflicted by this...
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