#2 RB: Carl Jenkinson
Fresh from a successful loan spell at West Ham in the 2014/15 season, Carl Jenkinson returned to Arsenal to find out that Hector Bellerin had seemingly risen from being the 4th choice right back to a regular starter in the first team.
With Bellerin’s emergence and Debuchy’s return to full fitness at the start of the season, Arsene Wenger loaned Jenkinson back to West Ham so as to not hamper his development. However, his second season at the Boleyn has not turned as expected.
After wretched performances against Bournemouth and Tottenham, Slaven Bilic experimented with James Tomkins, a centre back, as a right back. The results have been brilliant and Tomkins has coped up really well with a seemingly unnatural position.
With Ogbonna, Reid and Collins fit, Tomkins is not required in the heart of the defence for the moment. The signing of Sam Byram, an exciting young right back, also does not bode well. On the periphery of the first team, Jenkinson now has a very unclear future for his current club as well as his boyhood club, Arsenal.