4 Arsenal players who need a great pre-season to save their career

Arsenal Football Club are going on a Pre-Season tour to Singapore where they will be taking on PSG and Atletico Madrid in Singapore. They will take on Chelsea in Dublin and Lazio in Sweden.

These matches are against high-quality teams and will determine whether the team’s spine is good enough to compete for the top 4 places that Unai Emery must fulfil if he wants to get off to a good start in his career with Arsenal or there will be many questions asked if he was the right man.

The full team consists of: Petr Čech, Bernd Leno, Emiliano Martínez, Héctor Bellerín, Sead Kolašinac, Calum Chambers, Rob Holding, Shkodran Mustafi, Sokratis, Dinos Mavropanos, Jordi Osei-Tutu, Mohamed Elneny, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Mattéo Guendouzi, Reiss Nelson, Emile Smith Rowe, Joe Willock, Aaron Ramsey, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Mesut Özil, Alex Iwobi, Eddie Nketiah, Lucas Pérez, Alex Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Arsenal will be hoping to have a good preseason and push on for their tough first two games against last year's Champions Man City and Chelsea.

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#1 Lucas Perez

The 29-year-old who joined Arsenal has had nothing but an underserved screwing over the Spaniard was brought in by Arsenal for 12.6 million pounds. At the time of only being 27 years old, there was great optimism about him due to his 17 goals and 10 assists he provided for Deportivo de La Coruña in his last fall season there.

When Lucas Perez did have chances in the Arsenal first team which was very limited did manage to score 7 goals and provided 5 assists in the 21 appearances he which he only played 948 minutes.

The next year after he was bought he was stripped of his number 9 shirt without being told and sent on loan to his former club Deportivo de La Coruña where he made 35 appearances and scored 8 goals and made 6 assists.

This year Lucas Perez will be hoping to impress Unai Emery in Singapore on their pre-season trip where they will play PSG, Atletico Madrid and Chelsea. His performances this pre-season will determine if he will have a future under Emery.

#2 Alex Iwobi

Alex Iwobi

The 22-year-old who joined Arsenal while still at primary school has made 98 appearances for Arsenal and has scored 9 goals and provided 18 assists. The fanbase is divided between him as on Iwobi’s day he can play very well and be a key part of the team but he is not consistent enough.

Which is why he may not be in Unai Emery’s plans this year which means he needs to have a great pre-season to cement his place in the team or else he could be sold or loaned out.

I personally feel he isn’t good enough and he isn’t at the level of ability that Arsenal needs to be able to get back in the Premier League. He may be able to play in cup competitions or the Europa league though.

#3 Emiliano Martinez

Emiliano Martinez

The 25-year-old Argentinian started his career at Club Atlético Independiente he joined Arsenal in 2010. Since his time at Arsenal he has made only 13 appearances and has been on loan at 5 other clubs which are Oxford United, Sheffield Wednesday, Rotherham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Getafe.

Emiliano hasn’t ever really been given a chance and has usually only been a 3rd choice keeper most of the time limiting his appearances with the chance of Ospina leaving and Petr Cech getting older and his ability decreasing massively this could be his chance to claim a stake in the first team and hope he can be the second choice keeper.

#4 Rob Holding

Rob Holding

The 22-year-old started his career at Bolton but was quickly bought by Arsenal in 2016 after his good performances with Bolton. The young defender has talent and there is no denying that, but he has not been able to consistently perform like he did in the 2016/17 season after he had an impressive performance against Chelsea to help us win the FA Cup.

Because of this he wasn’t given many chances and has moved down in the pecking order and doesn’t look like his normal self hopefully this season he will be able to play and perform to the standard the Gunners know he can.