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Arsenal confirm the loan departure of 21-year-old winger

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After spending two and a half years with the club, Marquinhos will be heading out on his fourth loan spell, further confirming that he is not part of our long-term plans.
It would not be an understatement to call him a forgotten man, given the amount of time the 21-year-old has spent away on loan. Having recently returned from a year-long stint with Fluminense, he is set for another spell in the Brazilian Serie A, with Arsenal confirming his move to join Cruzeiro on their official website. He will be with the side until the end of the Brazilian campaign in December, spending the entire year with them.

Having contributed 2 goals and 2 assists in 29 appearances last season, the Brazilian will be hoping for a better campaign with Cruzeiro. In fact, he will be aiming to have his best loan spell to date, as his two previous loans with Norwich and Nantes were rather unsuccessful.

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For Arsenal, we will surely be hoping for a rise in his stock value, buoyed by an outstanding campaign, so that we can hopefully sell him for a profit. His transfer has clearly been a failed move, but we may yet receive a decent fee for him. On the other hand, Arsenal are still yet to sign an attacking player. There had been suggestions that he could be kept for the remainder of the season to provide an option in place of the injured Bukayo Saka on the right. However, it is now clear that this will not be the case following his latest move. Any hope of reinforcing the attack depends on who we bring in from outside, but there has been little indication of our willingness to spend this window.

As time goes by, all we can do is remain hopeful that things do not stay quiet for long—we need signings!

BENJAMIN KENNETH

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6 Comments

    1. I don’t believe this was that much our worst mistake to really worry about considering the level at which we got him.

      There’s real bad blunders we made and we may not be ready to correct them as fast …. that is if there’s a desire to correct them anyway. Our left side and especially the attack and even the central attack have become permanently experimental despite results showing how badly serious solutions are needed in these areas …… and we have mastered the art of burying our heads in the sand against this situation. With things as they are, I’m beginning to doubt if we, as yet, have a long term solution for our defensive midfield.

      MA might fight the best he can to spin us out of our mess, that he sometimes blames the match ball suggests we’re badly stretching him.

      1. Yes. But it was still a mistake for him to have come here instead of signing with Fulham. I think he would have had more playing time there. We made a mistake by not choosing better teams to which we loaned our young players. Brazilian football is a total mess (yes, I’m Brazilian) and here Marquinhos played more as a right back and defensive midfielder than as a winger. I saw that Monaco bought a strong striker with a good finish. Will we be paying 50 million for him in two years?

  1. Why are they still loaning him out. Why don’t they just sell him, they’re just mucking the poor lad around.

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