Speaking to the reporters in America Mikel Arteta said Signing Riccardo Calafiori was about the numbers. We only had six defenders in the backline and at this level you have to be really lucky to sustain the season like this.

We were because William Saliba for example and Gabriel Magalhaes nearly played every minute we played more than 50 per cent more minutes than the previous season

And if we are able to do that consistently over the next three or four years that a big question mark. Obviously you cannot just bet on that that a big bet and we dont want to take that bet.

With the addition of Calafiori as well as Jurrien Timber fully recovering from a devastating ACL injury Arteta will have his pick of options at the back.

However Arsenal are likely to ship out either Oleksandr Zinchenko or Jakub Kiwior and it the Poland international who most likely to leave.