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Nacho Monreal: From back-up to Mr Arsenal

Two years ago this week, Nacho Monreal was lining up alongside Nicklas Bendtner, Ryo Miyaichi (FC St Pauli, to save you a Google), Carl Jenkinson and Lukasz Fabianski to face Chelsea in the Capital One Cup. A Blues side featuring Juan Mata, Kevin de Bruyne, David Luiz and Cesar Azpilicueta as an actual right-back won the game 2-0. It turns out Bendtner, Miyaichi, Jenkinson and Fabianski weren't good enough for Arsenal. At that point it looked very much like Monreal wasn't good enough for Arsenal either. One set of player ratings that described Monreal that night as ‘wasteful and occasionally timid' summed up the Spaniard's 2013. Arsenal had apparently paid £8m for a back-up...
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