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The Arsenal hierarchy had a clear strategy when it came to their summer transfer window: offload players on the periphery of things and sign high-profile replacements. Edu and Mikel Arteta didn’t necessarily want to increase the size of the Arsenal squad, they just wanted to fine tune it to improve the depth of quality available. Unfortunately, that meant selling some very popular personalities in N5, a lot of whom were graduates from the Hale End academy. Eddie Nketiah and Emile Smith Rowe both left, as well as Aaron Ramsdale who also felt like part of the Emirates furniture at this point of …

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