Lucas Perez

While Arsenal are struggling to find goals from the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Özil and Alex Iwobi, Lucas Perez is scoring for fun on loan at Deportivo.

Just three of Arsenal’s nine loanees were involved over the weekend, as many continue to struggle with game-time or injuries. None of them were on the winning side either.

Lucas Perez, Takuma Asano and Kelechi Nwakali all started their matches on Saturday, whilst a few other loanees missed out.

Arsenal’s loanees continued to struggle in the latest round of games around Europe.

Arsenal’s loanees had one of their busiest weeks of the season so far, with the highlights being Lucas Perez getting among the goals and Emi Martinez finally getting a start.

Joel Campbell contributed three goals in 13 minutes off the bench for Real Betis, while Lucas Perez and Kelechi Nwakali featured as late substitutes in their respective games.

Olympique Marseille are still interested in signing Arsenal striker Lucas Perez, according to latest reports.

Lucas Perez has apparently suffered a thigh injury while on loan at his former club, Deportivo.

Marseille are reportedly still keen on signing Lucas Perez next summer.

Lucas Perez scored as none of the Arsenal loanees making appearances were on the losing side this weekend.

Arsenal’s financial results for the last full year have been leaked on social media, showing the Gunners increasing their football turnover to £422.8m.

Marc Bola was a standout performer against Blackpool, Lucas Perez featured against Espanyol and Nwakali, Mavididi and Asano made substitute appearances for their loan sides.

Marc Bola, Takuma Asano, Kelechi Nwakali and Lucas Perez all featured for their clubs last weekend. 

The season is starting to pick up some speed for Arsenal’s loanees now the transfer window is closed, and Saturday brought another round of fixtures for many of their sides.

Arsenal’s Kelechi Nwakali scored for VVV-Venlo, while Lucas Perez returned for his former club and Takuma Asano also featured.

Arsenal wanted to sell more than eight players this summer to free up space on the wage bill, in addition to clearing their bloated first-team.

David Ornstein claims that Arsenal were planning on keeping Lucas Perez and selling Olivier Giroud this summer.

In addition to Arsenal’s loanees getting game time for their respective clubs, there was also a lot of movement in the last few days of the transfer window.

Lucas Perez delivers a classy farewell message to Arsenal fans despite probably having every reason to feel bitter following his loan move to Deportivo La Coruna.

Lucas Perez thanks the fans, teammates and Arsenal staff following his loan move back to former club, Deportivo, but neglects to mention Arsene Wenger.