ARSENAL F.C.
editWorksheet analysis of the ARSENAL first team squad
edit This worksheet last updated: 20 December 2010
Recent updates log:
- updated Note 1 on 19 Dec. 2010; Samir Nasri was added back into PL OWS listing at some prior time
- increased "effective squad size" by 1 to 26 (= 3 new "YTH" players less Ramsey and Lansbury on loan)
- increased "total squad size" by 5 to 32 (= 3 new "YTH" players plus 2 new "fringe" players)
- updated to reflect new loan status of Aaron Ramsey; Lansbury was already on loan when added to squad
- added Emmanuel Frimpong and Håvard Nordtveitto in a new pool of "fringe" players as per AFC OWS
- added Craig Eastmond, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas and Henri Lansbury to pool of "YTH" players as per AFC OWS
- added Note 1 at end of worksheet on 12 Nov. 2010 re Premier League OWS squad status of Samir Nasri
- decreased "effective squad size" by 1 as a result of Mannone's loan spell at Hull City
- updated worksheet to reflect the new loan spell at Hull City for Vito Mannone
- created the initial "Squad Status" classification of the Arsenal first team squad on 6 Sep. 10
CURRENT SQUAD STATI:
1 GK FOR-01 Manuel Almunia
2 MF FOR-02 Abou Diaby
3 DF FOR-03 Bacary Sagna
5 DF FOR-04 Thomas Vermaelen
6 DF FOR-05 Laurent Koscielny
7 MF FOR-06 Tomáš Rosický
8 MF FOR-07 Samir Nasri (cf. Note 1)
10 FW FOR-08 Robin van Persie
18 DF FOR-09 Sébastien Squillaci
21 GK FOR-10 Łukasz Fabiański
23 MF FOR-11 Andrey Arshavin
27 MF FOR-12 Emmanuel Eboué
29 FW FOR-13 Marouane Chamakh
4 MF ACG-01 Cesc Fàbregas - AFC Academy graduate 2003
15 MF ACG-02 Denilson - AFC Academy graduate 2006
17 MF ACG-03 Alex Song - AFC Academy graduate 2005
20 DF ACG-04 Johan Djourou - AFC Academy graduate 2004
22 DF ACG-05 Gaël Clichy - AFC Academy graduate 2006
24 GK ACG-XX Vito Mannone - AFC Academy graduate 2009 (XX - currently on loan at Hull City until 31 Jan. 2011)
52 FW ACG-06 Nicklas Bendtner - AFC Academy graduate 2005
11 FW YTH-01 Carlos Vela - AFC Academy graduate 2008
14 FW YTH-02 Theo Walcott - AFC Academy graduate 2006
16 MF YTH-XX Aaron Ramsey - AFC Academy graduate 2008 (XX - currently on loan at Notts. Forest until 3 Jan. 2011)
19 MF YTH-03 Jack Wilshere - AFC Academy graduate 2008
28 DF YTH-04 Kieran Gibbs - AFC Academy graduate 2007
30 DF YTH-XX Armand Traoré - AFC Academy graduate 2006 (XX - currently on a season-long loan at Juventus)
40 DF YTH-05 Craig Eastmond - AFC Academy graduate 2009
41 DF YTH-06 Jay Emmanuel-Thomas - AFC Academy graduate 2010
46 MF YTH-XX Henri Lansbury - AFC Academy graduate 2010 (XX - currently on loan at Norwich City until 20 Dec. 2010)
53 GK YTH-07 Wojciech Szczęsny - AFC Academy graduate 2009
35 MF YTH Emmanuel Frimpong - AFC Academy (Reserve MF has never played for the Arsenal first team)
50 DF U21 Håvard Nordtveit - AFC Academy (registered in "FOR" slot of UEFA squad on 1 Sep. 2010)
TOTAL SQUAD SIZE: 32
EFFECTIVE SQUAD SIZE: 26 = TOTAL SQUAD SIZE less all players out on loan (indicated TLA-XX) less any "fringe players"
N.B.: A "fringe player" is any player (1) not registered in either UEFA or EPL 25-man squad (indicated TLA-00), or
(2) yet to debut in a competitive match for first team (indicated by TLA only)
Last updated: (in order to resynchronize this worksheet with the OWS source identified below) - 19 December 2010.
Source: Arsenal first team squad, season 2010-11
- Note 1: On 12 Nov. 2010 the Premier League OWS listed 36 registered players for Arsenal - the 27 first team players listed above plus 11 other registered non-first team "U21" players not tracked here, less the newly removed Vito Mannone (due to his current loan spell) and Samir Nasri. It is not unusual for the registered squad listings of all twenty EPL teams on this OWS to contain some players that should by rights have been removed - for instance, the 36 registered players listed for Arsenal included Luke Ayling (who was released by Arsenal in May 2010 and now plays for Yeovil Town), Luke Freeman (who has been on loan at Yeovil Town since the start of the season), Armand Traoré (who has been on a season-long loan at Juventus since transfer deadline day) and Benik Afobe (who started a month-long loan at Huddersfield Town at the beginning of November). None of these 4 players should be listed as being eligible to play for Arsenal in the Premier League, but the OWS squad listings for many of the EPL teams contain a plethora of such bogus additions (of ineligible players that never play) to the actual core registered squads. However, the omission of Samir Nasri represents the first observed instance of a player that should be registered (in order to have been eligible to play in the recent EPL games that he has been playing in for Arsenal) not being listed. It is assumed that Nasri's omission is simply another instance of an EPL oversight (that will be fixed sooner rather than later) and not a case of Arsenal fielding ineligible players in its EPL fixtures. Nevertheless, Nasri's prolonged omission from Arsenal's registered EPL squad is still a little disconcerting! Update: On 19 Dec. 2010 Nasri had been added back into the Arsenal first team squad listing on the PL OWS (plus Armand Traoré had finally been removed); these corrections probably occurred at the same time that Aaron Ramsey was removed from the PL OWS listing due to the commencement of his new loan spell at Nottingham Forest on 25 Nov. 2010.
Squad Status breakdown
editThe overall Squad Status breakdown of the official Arsenal first team squad is depicted in the following table:
| Squad Status | No. of players in OWS first team squad | No. of players on loan to other clubs | No. of players in neither UEFA nor PL squads | No. of players in squad yet to debut for it | No. of players in "effective" first team | No. of players in UEFA Squad ("LIST A") | No. of players in PL Squad ("SQUAD LIST") |
| UNDER 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 * | (1) |
| YOUTH | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | (8) | (8) |
| HOMEGROWN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ACADEMY GRADUATE |
7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| FOREIGN | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| Totals | 32 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 20 | 19 |
- Numbers in parentheses are first team youth players that do NOT count towards the 25-man senior squad totals
- * An U21 player that has to be registered as a FOR player in the UEFA squad
Last updated: 19 December 2010.
Source: (for nos. in 2nd & 3rd columns) 2010-11 First Team squad
(for nos. in 4th & 7th columns) UEFA Champions League squad
(for nos. in 4th & 8th columns) Premier League squad