5 players Unai Emery should exile from Arsenal

#1 Danny Welbeck

Arsenal can and should do better than Welbeck

Never in doubt as to who would be atop of this list, how Welbeck has lasted as long as he has at Arsenal is a testament to the club’s malaise in the last years of the Wenger era.

Louis Van Gaal made a lot of mistakes when he was in charge at Manchester United. However, getting a top 4 rival (as Arsenal was then) to pay £16m for the England international now looks like a stroke of genius.

A fast and hardworking player, Welbeck’s good work is more often than not undone by his lack of balance, a terrible first touch and his all-round lack of intelligence.

The Ghanaian-born striker who can also play as a winger has not been lucky with injuries as well as in four seasons at the club, he has only played 112 times, scoring a pathetic total of 27 goals.

With proven goalscorers; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette expected to be the main men up front under Emery, the 27-year-old has no business being in the team.

Like Wilshere, Welbeck would be better suited to an ambitious but limited Premier League mid-table side (like Newcastle United) as it seems to be his level, not one with aspirations of winning titles.