After six years at the club, it was announced this week that Julio Pleguezuelo will leave Arsenal when his contract expires at the end of June, with the defender set to join Dutch side FC Twente.
Pleguezuelo leaves Arsenal having made one competitive appearance for the first-team, which came against Blackpool in the Carabao Cup this season.
The former Barcelona youngster amassed over half a century of appearances for Arsenal U23s and will certainly go down as one of the club’s most prominent ever players at that level.
He had certainly reached the stage, though, where regular first-team football is a necessity as opposed to something desirable.
During his time at Arsenal Pleguezuelo gained experience while on loan at Mallorca and Gimnastic de Tarragona, but, somewhat surprisingly, he wasn’t sent out on temporary transfer this campaign.
It is hoped that Pleguezuelo will go on to enjoy a successful career elsewhere, but his departure will provide other young centre-backs, such as Zech Medley and Daniel Ballard, with the opportunity to get closer to the first-team.