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According to Sky Sports, Championship side West Brom are in talks with Arsenal over signing out-of-favour right-back Carl Jenkinson this summer.
What’s the word?
The 27-year-old has struggled to get regular first-team football at the Emirates ever since his move from Charlton and it appears he may finally get a permanent move away.
The boyhood Arsenal fan has made no secret of his desire to try and make things work in north London but with interest from Scottish champions Celtic as well as from the Hawthorns, Jenkinson could well have played his final game for the club.
The end of Arsene Wenger’s British core
Aaron Ramsey. Jack Wilshere. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Kieran Gibbs. Carl Jenkinson. When Arsene Wenger proudly announced his ‘British core’ back in 2012, who really could have predicted Jenkinson would be the man to stand tall at the end of it? The stuff of legends.
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During Wenger’s reign in charge, the Gunners gradually lost the homegrown identity that had been a staple of their success during the 20th century and became the first team to consistently have a line-up without a single English player. So when the Frenchman assembled that core of players there was a real excitement and a feeling that they would know perhaps more than others what it meant to play for the club.
Instead, the group were a big reason for the Gunners’ decline in the 2010s and really became a symbol of mediocrity. Of those players mentioned, none have really gone on to achieve a career close to superstardom – Ramsey maybe the closest of them all.
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Jenkinson played just eight first-team games last season under Unai Emery and became a bit of a parody for Gunners fans. Just how was he still at the club? How had he managed to outlast the others? So if and when Jenkinson does make his permanent departure from Arsenal official this summer, it really will spell the end of an era at the Emirates.