Arsenal will release 10 players from the Emirates this season including Ainsley Maitland-Niles, as Gunners plan to reshape their team in the summer.
Gunners ended the 2022/23 Premier League campaign in 2nd spot, which is there highest finish in seven years. They were in the title race for a long period, but fell short of Manchester City. Pep Guardiola’s side clinched the title for the third successive season.
It was a much improved season for Arsenal, as they qualified for Champions League after 7 years. Mikel Arteta is now planning to bring in more quality this summer, but they’ll also loose several players at the end of their contracts this month.
Ainsley Maitland-Niles is one of the player who will make his way out the Emirates this summer. The 25-year-old came through the academy ranks and made Arsenal debut in December 2014.
Back in 2021, Arteta was impressed with Maitland-Niles performance against Watford — a game Gunners narrowly won. After the game the manager praised him and said:-
“First of all, I see a different player in terms of his urgency, his commitment, the clarity in his play, his purpose. Since we made the decision (to keep him), it was clear what I was seeing that I wanted him to stay, because he was going to be useful.
“He has a huge talent because he’s versatile enough to adapt to almost any position on the pitch. Today we made use of him to do what he had to do in the game, which was really important.”
However, other nine players who will leave Arsenal this summer — Zach Awe, Joel Ideho, George Lewis, Matt Smith and Tom Smkith, Kaleel Green, Alexandar Kovacevic, Tino Quamina and Mathaeus Roberts.
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