Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's Arsenal career is over as the 32-year-old has joined FC Barcelona as a free agent after ending his Gunners contract by mutual consent.
The Gabon international's time in north London ended under acrimonious circumstances after being exiled from the first-team by manager Mikel Arteta after a disciplinary breach.
Aubameyang was last seen in an Arsenal shirt in early December just a week before he had the captaincy stripped of him, a move that highlighted there was very little chance of reconciliation between player and manager.
As a result, Arsenal are without a man that so often bailed them out of trouble across his four-year stay and came very close to gaining access to the Gunners '100 goals club' though it was not to be.
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He leaves the club with his tally sitting at 92 strikes, the first of which came against Everton on a rain-sodden Saturday night at the Emirates four years ago.
In one way, Aubameyang's Arsenal career came full circle as he both introduced himself and bid farewell to the Gunners faithful with contests against the Toffees.
Though his goodbye came in the form of a humiliating 2-1 defeat at Goodison Park just before Christmas, his hello saw Arsenal run out 5-1 victors.
But who else donned the famous red and white shirt the day of his debut? Mirror Football has taken a trip down memory lane to see just how many who lined up for Arsenal that day have survived Mikel Arteta's ruthless streak.
Goalkeeper: Petr Cech
Purchased by Arsenal from London rivals Chelsea to the tune of £10m, his former Blues teammate John Terry famously said Cech could save a team 10 points a season.
It didn't exactly pan out this way in north London, with Cech struggling to endear himself to the Arsenal faithful quite like he did at Stamford Bridge.
He spent four seasons with the Gunners and helped win one FA Cup but was eventually ousted by the more modern shot-stopper Bernd Leno.
Cech was actually replaced by back-up David Ospina during Aubameyang's debut after being forced off with injury with 20 minutes to play.
In June 2019, the goalkeeper returned to Chelsea in a behind the scenes role as a technical and performance advisor.
Right-back: Hector Bellerin
A much loved member of the Arsenal community but Bellerin has struggled to ever find the form that made him so useful since a damaging knee ligament injury.
While technically still on the books at the Emirates, Arteta sanctioned Bellerin's temporary departure from the club in the summer when the full-back was allowed to join Real Betis on loan.
The Spaniard's future at Arsenal looks increasingly in doubt as his replacement Takehiro Tomiyasu has been near faultless since joining on deadline day last August.
Centre-back: Shkodran Mustafi
The much-maligned German central defender endured an Arsenal career that was littered with high-profile mistakes that in turn ensured he was one of the less popular members of the squad.
Howver, he rarely put a foot wrong on Aubameyang's big night as the Gunners backline remained untroubled bar the Toffees late consolation goal courtesy of Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Mustafi was allowed to leave the Gunners on a permanent basis under Arteta's management, with the defender joining Bundesliga outfit FC Schalke on a six-month contract.
After their relegation, Mustafi signed for La Liga side Levante where he remains to date.
Centre-back: Laurent Koscielny
Koscielny is one of the longer serving Arsenal players in recent memory after spending nine years at the club.
He scored Arsenal's second of the evening against the Toffees four years ago as well as skippering the side.
The Frenchman arrived in 2010 with a tendency to put in some shaky performances but eventually became one of the Gunners most reliable stars.
It is for that reason the circumstances surrounding his 2019 exit are all the more unpleasant, with the centre-back refusing to travel for the club's pre-season tour of the United States and demanding to leave.
Koscielny eventually got his wish and was permitted to return to France with Ligue 1 club Bordeaux.
However, he is currently without a club after his high wages saw him released in January amid financial problems.
Left-back: Nacho Monreal
A no-thrills stalwart that rarely slipped up when called upon, Monreal is somewhat of a cult hero in the red half of north London.
Purchased from Malaga in 2013, the defender spent six years at Arsenal before eventually being moved on to Real Sociedad in the same summer that saw fellow left-back Kieran Tierney join the Gunners.
Monreal was unassuming and would quietly go about his business but did his job to a high standard for the overwhelming majority of his time in an Arsenal shirt before his return to Spain.
Central midfield: Aaron Ramsey
Ramsey would go on to actually steal Aubameyang's thunder on the night of his debut after the Welshman bagged his first Arsenal hat-trick against the Toffees.
Ramsey's presence in midfield is still arguably missed by the Gunners today who could do with the Cardiff City academy graduate's ability to pop up with goals from the middle of the park with his late runs into the area.
The midfielder is widely regarded as one of the finest Arsenal players of the Emirates-era and spent over a decade at the club before joining Italian giants Juventus on a free transfer.
Things would not go to plan in Turin and Ramsey has upped sticks to Scotland to play his trade for Rangers until the end of the season after joining on loan on deadline day of the January 2022 window.
Central midfield: Granit Xhaka
The only player to start the game that night who remains an ever-present in the Arsenal first-team four years later.
That in itself is an achievement, one made all the more impressive when you factor in how many times Xhaka could have been exiled from the first-team setup himself.
Xhaka has been a source of great frustration for the Arsenal fans at times given the side undeniably perform better with him in the side but the Switzerland international has never been able to shake off his tendency to self-destruct at the most crucial times.
Right midfield: Alex Iwobi
It may seem strange considering how many are in the current Arsenal side, but Iwobi was the only Arsenal academy graduate in the starting line-up for the visit of Everton four years ago.
Much of the Nigeria international's story so far is intertwined with the Toffees, as his first Gunners goal came at Goodison Park before he eventually joined Everton on a permanent transfer for a whopping £40m fee in the summer of 2019.
This particular fixture however passed him by without any contribution of note, the bulk of Arsenal's attacking output coming down the opposite flank.
Attacking midfield: Mesut Ozil
Without question one of the most divisive players in Arsenal's modern history, Ozil arrived in north London to huge adulation but left under a cloud.
The German playmaker was mercurial in fleeting moments but always struggled to nail down a regular run of stellar form in his eight years at the club.
The former Real Madrid man was eventually left out of Arsenal's 25-man Premier League squad during Arteta's first full-season at the club which prompted Ozil to publicly question the club's loyalty.
He has since joined Turksih outfit Fenerbahce but not before pocketing a stunning £350,000 per-week wages on an ill-fated contract that many Arsenal fans claim he should have never been offered.
Left midfield: Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Joining the club as part of a swap deal with Manchester United for Alexis Sanchez, Mkhitaryan got off to the best possible start with a hat-trick of assists on his home debut.
Many fans had salivated over the potential partnership that would form between the midfielder and Aubameyang given their shared experience at Borussia Dortmund.
Things started bright on that front with the Armenian assisting Aubameyang's first goal in Arsenal colours, but it failed to reach the heights it did at the Signal Iduna Park.
Mkhitaryan joined AS Roma on loan in the summer of 2019 before eventually joining the Italian outfit on a permanent basis a year later.
Striker: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
The man himself - Aubameyang's arrival garnered such excitement inside the Emirates that night and he wasted little time in showing fans what he was about.
A glimpse of his lightening quick speed was all it took to get the home fans inside the Emirates off their feet before sparking jubilant celebrations with his delightfully taken goal.
Latching on to an intricate through ball from Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang delicately chipped the ball over the onrushing Jordan Pickford.
Aubameyang would hit the back of the net 91 more times for Arsenal, winning the FA Cup almost single-handedly in the process before eventually upping sticks to Catalunya.
