Arsenal exodus? How Mikel Arteta could trim his squad this January

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The cliché is that Christmas comes earlier every year. At Arsenal, perhaps, the case is that spring cleaning is coming sooner. Mikel Arteta is spending January tidying up his squad, removing clutter by disposing of deadwood. If Arsenal’s summer window was about arrivals, the winter one is more about departures.

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Richard Jolly

Richard Jolly also writes for the National, the Guardian, the Observer, the Straits Times, the Independent, Sporting Life, Football 365 and the Blizzard. He has written for the FourFourTwo website since 2018 and for the magazine in the 1990s and the 2020s, but not in between. He has covered 1500+ games and remembers a disturbing number of the 0-0 draws.