5 players who don't deserve to be at Arsenal anymore

#3 Mathieu Debuchy

Mathieu Debuchy has rarely featured for the Gunners in recent times

It hardly comes as a surprise that Arsenal probably ought to consider moving Mathieu Debuchy on at this stage. After all, this is a player who signed for the club back in the summer of 2014, signing from Newcastle United as their new potential first-choice right-back.

Since then, however, it’s been an absolute disaster for the Frenchman. A litany of injuries have wrecked his Arsenal career and reduced him to a handful of appearances – just thirteen in the Premier League over the subsequent four seasons.

Granted, Debuchy spent half of the 2015/16 season on loan in his native France with Bordeaux, but even there, he failed to make an impact and only appeared a paltry 9 times.

Debuchy has actually started two games this season, but unsurprisingly neither of them were in the Premier League; one was in the Europa League and one the Carabao Cup – both competitions tend to be a chance for Arsene Wenger to use his fringe players, a group that Debuchy is certainly in now.

Given he turns 33 this summer, is there really any point in the Gunners hanging onto him any longer? At one stage he may have had the talent to play for Arsenal but at this point, with a long list of injuries behind him, that time has definitely passed.

Moreover, with Arsenal now deploying a three-man defence, it’s doubtful that a classical right-back like Debuchy would find his way back into the team anyway.

Why, then, do Arsenal still have him?

I’m honestly not sure.