Andrey Arshavin, Denilson and Sebastien Squillaci all leaving Arsenal.
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-trio-set-to-leave-the-club
Such a shame really wanted to see Denilson back in the PL.
Denilson is just hilarious, its classic Arsenal bad player yet still wins a cup stuff that you almost couldn't write.
Denílson was sent off twice in his first three matches, with the latter of the red cards coming after he swore at a referee. Denílson then received a number of angry messages through Twitter. Denílson then branded the fans who moaned about then-head coach of São Paulo Adílson Batista as 'very, very annoying'. Denílson then claimed that he did not mean his comments in a negative way. This was followed by a row which ensued to such an extent that the supporters demanded that Denílson never to play for São Paulo again.
On 6 October, he scored a long range goal Golazo for São Paulo FC against Palmeiras.[19] Then on 13 December, he won the Copa Sudamericana 2012 after Tigre refused to play the second half in the second leg of the match. This resulted them the trophy and of course the winner of the competition. It was the first trophy he won since leaving Arsenal for loan.
So bad the fans demanded he never play again, sent off twice in his first three games, and then in his second season STILL wins a ruddy cup, albeit in ridiculous circumstances. This was that game where the what, police beat a couple of the away team players who then refused to come out and play, handing them the cup win.... lol. Even Denilson has now won a cup, almost everyone who leaves Arsenal seems to win cups, leagues, something, just not Arsenal. Song wins a title in his first year(despite being dire and heavily criticised), its just becoming a long running joke.
I still can't believe Arshavin's situation, people are calling Cazorla brilliant for a 12 goal 12 assist season, Nasri moved for over 20mil for a 11 goal 1 assist season, Arshavin played out of position, less centrally and starting significantly less games(Santi started 37 games in the league, Arshavin 25) got 10 goals 18 assists in his last full season, but was being treated differently by the end of the season and barely featured in the past two seasons. He was and is a fantastic player, he was brilliant for Russia in the last competition in all but the final 20 mins of the final game, which Russia/coach decided to blame the tired Arshavin for despite being clearly their best player up to the final 20 mins, while their strikers missed chance after chance after chance.
Maybe he isn't likeable, maybe he's a ****, but you win titles with ****'s in the team, you don't win titles with nice but crap players in the team. Chamakh was perfectly decent, even pretty good while he was playing, then people bang on about not scoring in 9 months or something stupid, yeah, he started only a few games and had 5-10 min sub appearances, he was completely dropped and never played well again because he was never given the chance to... however I don't think he was genuinely good enough to start, he certain had shown he was good enough to be rotated properly and used effectively, he just wasn't.
Don't forget Denilson was genuinely quite a good player in the Fabregas mould in his first 1-2 years, then we randomly turned him into the worst defensive midfielder the league had seen, he did become dreadful and very quickly, not really sure what happened to him... the really stupid thing is AFTER he got completely awful, we still kept giving him new contracts.....
Arsenal really are becoming a joke, player turns crap, obviously more starts, first team and more wages/new contracts. Player is one of the best players in the team.... bench, ignore, let leave on a free after spending millions watching him not play.