Arsenal are edging closer to the exits of two first team players as Edu attempts to reduce the size of their squad, football.london understands. The Gunners have brought in Fabio Vieira, Marquinhos, Matt Turner, Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko this summer which has left them with a large group of players that Mikel Arteta has admitted he is keen to trim down.
"We have a large squad," the Spaniard said last month. "We have to make some decisions on the players that we're not going to be using consistently and be fair and straight with them and that's a process that is going to start very soon as well. We have to, and now we have to make things happen."
Nuno Tavares, Arthur Okonkwo, Charlie Patino and Flo Balogun have all left the squad on loan while Lucas Torreira joined Galatasaray in a permanent move earlier this week. Now it seems as though more are set to follow.
