Judging by recent deals, Arsenal seem to structure their contract offers (with obvious room for exceptions):
- Under 25 – 5 years
- 25 – 29 – 4 years
- 30+ – 3 years
The transfer window is now closed and the players remaining at Arsenal with one year left are likely to leave the club for nothing next summer if the club can’t find a buyer in January, so who is on their way out?
Arsenal currently have five players out of contract next summer and they actively tried to get rid of at least three of them this summer.
Arsenal contracts – Sead Kolasinac
Sead Kolasinac, as we know, is still at the club but won’t be for much longer, even if nobody else wants to stump up some cash for him. Turkish sides wanted him during the summer but his wages proved to be too rich for them and, as a result, he was still at the club which allowed Mikel Arteta to pick him against Manchester City.
Value walking out the door if he leaves for free – £5.85m
Arsenal contracts – Mohamed Elneny
Mohamed Elneny is another with just one year left on his contract and it seems as if his time could finally be up at the club too. That being said, we’ve thought that many times before. Another who could have left for Turkey, Elneny did manage to find an agreement with Galatasaray but Arsenal turned down Gala’s offer which most likely consisted of three jellybeans, paid over five years.
Value walking out the door if he leaves for free – £9m
Arsenal contracts – Eddie Nketiah
Eddie Nketiah could have been lining up for Patrick Vieira’s Crystal Palace this season after Arsenal agreed a deal to sell him but the 22-year-old couldn’t find an agreement over wages and will now spend the season doing not very much at all. Nketiah started four Premier League games for Arsenal last season and never played the full 90 minutes. In fact, he did that just twice all season – the FA Cup defeat at Southampton and the EFL Cup win over Leicester.
Value walking out the door if he leaves for free – £14.4m
Arsenal contracts – Calum Chambers
Calum Chambers is also out of contract next summer and the fact Arsenal have not offered him a new deal, nor has there been any talk about one, tells us that he will be on his way.
Arsenal took a bit of a gamble when they stumped up £18.2m to sign Chambers from Southampton when he was just 19 and had made just 25 appearances for them. Chambers has gone on to play 120 times for Arsenal during the seven years he has been at the club but his best season probably came when he was on loan with Fulham.
Value walking out the door if he leaves for free – £10.8m
Arsenal contracts – Alexandre Lacazette
Finally, Alexandre Lacazette, Arsenal’s fourth most expensive player in the club’s history, is set to leave for free in the summer with Arsenal not even bothering to pretend they want to offer him a new deal.
To be fair, Lacazette has been linked with an Arsenal exit since he arrived from Lyon in 2017.
Value walking out the door if he leaves for free – £25.2m
Total value of players out of contact in 2022: £65.25m
Arsenal players out of contract in 2023
- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
- Bernd Leno
- Ainsley Maitland-Niles
Arsenal players out of contract in 2024
- Granit Xhaka
- Cedric Soares
- Pablo Mari
- Rob Holding
- Nicolas Pepe
- Bukayo Saka
- Gabriel Martinelli
Arsenal players out of contract in 2025
- Thomas Partey
- Martin Odegaard
- Takehiro Tomiyasu
- Aaron Ramsdale
- Folarin Balogun
- Nuno Tavares
Arsenal players out of contract in 2026
- Kieran Tierney
- Ben White
- Albert Sambi Lokonga
- Emile Smith Rowe