Nicholas Includes A Surprise Name In A List Of Five Players Arsenal Should Sell This Summer

Nicholas Includes A Surprise Name In A List Of Five Players Arsenal Should Sell This Summer

Former Arsenal player Charlie Nicholas has named right-back Hector Bellerin among the list of five players that the Gunners should consider offloading before the transfer window closes.

The fullback returned to the first team last September after a long period out with a knee injury, and Nicholas thinks the London club should consider selling him for the right price this summer:


“I would contemplate and look at, people have been mentioning, somebody like Bellerin if the right money came. Now, Bellerin has been a star but since his bad injury he’s never really recovered fully.”

Bellerin has been mentioned in a possible swap deal with Juventus centre-back Daniele Rugani, although it isn’t believed that talks have progressed very far. Nicholas also mentions four other defenders who should be sold:

“Mustafi will be sold. He’s injured just now but he will be sold, he has to go. Sokratis I think will say: ‘At my stage, I have to go’. Rob Holding, nothing against him, I don’t think Arsenal’s helped him. It was the wrong move at the wrong time for the lad. I think if the right offer comes in, he’ll go.”

“Obviously Calum Chambers, who has been in and out of the club unbelievable amounts of times, will have to go for his own sake, rather than his long-term future at Arsenal – it doesn’t exist. So they’ll be four out, you get the money in, you replace them.”

In Sokratis’s case, he already appears to have one foot out of the door, with reports in Italy claiming he is being pursued by Napoli and Roma. There is less certainty over whether the likes of Mustafi, Holding or Chambers will depart.

Holding has been mentioned as a possible target for newly promoted Leeds while Fulham are believed to be keen on re-signing Chambers, following a previous loan spell at Craven Cottage.

David Tully

David Tully

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