In total, Arsenal sent 15 players on loan this season between the summer and January windows, so let’s take a look at how those spells are going for each of them.
3Joel Campbell
- Position: Winger
- Loaned to: Real Betis – La Liga (summer transfer window)
- Appearances: 6
- Goals: 1
- Assists: 1
It’s another season plagued by injuries and struggles to break into the team for poor Joel. At first he was out with a knee injury, but returned in October in spectacular fashion, scoring and assisting in his first 13 minutes on the pitch.
Then, before even completing 90 combined minutes of league football, he sprained his ankle. Finally he came back to training in March, and he’s made a couple of brief substitute appearances since then, but Getafe are obviously wary of over-exerting him too soon.
Hopefully he plays a bit more in the final month of the season, but the key thing for him is to stay fit ahead of the summer’s World Cup.
Loan rating: 2/10
Jeff Reine-Adelaide
- Position: Winger/Attacking midfielder
- Loaned to: Angers – Ligue 1 (winter transfer window)
- Appearances: 8
It’s nice to see Jeff playing senior football again, since he hasn’t had much luck with Arsenal.
Mostly the problem is his fitness, and that’s not exactly any different in France so far. Although he’s up to 8 appearances, none of them were the full 90 minutes, and the most recent left him with a slight knock to his ankle.
Still, it’s been a decent short loan spell, and should prepare him well for pre-season with the Arsenal first-team.