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Alexandre, I can appreciate that with the time on your contract nearing its end, it is understandable that the next chapter in your career is on your mind. Why would it not be?

This will be an important moment as you assess what the next step will be, and will certainly be aware of its importance to how your career is left. However, I cannot be anything other than frustrated as an Arsenal fan when with seven games left until the end of the season, zero goals from open play in eighteen matches, and the side you currently captain is collapsing with you at its spearhead, that these words have become public now.

In an interview with , you said: “I am in discussions with a lot of clubs. I am open."

“I want to play in Europe, it’s been a long time since I played in the Champions League, I’m missing it. It’s a little more complicated, nothing is impossible in life, but it’s a little more complicated," you added.

Let me be open. As Arsenal fans, we know the feeling of missing the Champions League. The benefit it can bring, the doors it can open and the possible glory that can be earned at its conclusion. Even just hearing that theme play on a Tuesday night in north London itself.

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