Midfielders
Right Wing
Amaury Bischoff
On the right side of the midfield, we have Amaury Bischoff. The Portuguese arrived in 2008 from German side Werder Bremen and Wenger admitted the signing to be a gamble on talent, given Bischoff’s injury record.
The versatile midfielder was technically adept and could play anywhere across midfield but the gamble never paid off though, as the midfielder made just 4 appearances in his time at London, before departing in the subsequent summer.
Central Midfielder
Denilson
In the central midfield Denilson makes an appearance. Arriving from Brazilian side Sao Paulo for £3.4m as a signing for the future, Wenger described his new signing as ‘somewhere in between Rosicky and Gilberto. But contrary to that, Denilson lacked defensive ability and hardly contributed in attack.
He never really showed any flair that one associates with a Brazilian footballer and was passive and mediocre in most of his displays. Despite making over 150 appearances for the club, he hardly lived up to the billing and went back to Brazil after terminating his contract.
Central Midfielder
Kim Kallstrom
Alongside Denilson, we have Swede Kim Kallstrom in the centre of the midfield. Kallstrom was a surprise loan signing by Wenger in the winter transfer window of 2014. His history with injuries was well-known, but Arsene decided he could use some cover to ease a midfield crisis.
Kallstrom arrived in London carrying an injury and had to wait almost three months for his debut but could only make 4 appearances for the North London club before going back to parent club Spartak Moscow.
Truly, a strange one by ‘The Professor’.
Left Wing
Jose Antonio Reyes
Spaniard Jose Antonio Reyes was one of Wenger's more expensive buys coming from Sevilla in January 2004. He struggled to adapt and handle the physical nature of the English game, making it hard for him to fit in the Gunners’ line-up.
His physical presence, or lack thereof, was targeted by opponent players regularly. As Gary Neville states in his autobiography, “I knew above all that I had to get physical. I had to make Reyes lose his confidence.”
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After a decent start to life in London, the winger faded away into sharp decline. He scored just 23 goals in 110 appearances for Arsenal. Reyes struggled with homesickness and was eventually sold to Atletico Madrid for a fee in the region of £10 million in 2007 after a loan spell at Real Madrid in 2006-07 season.
