Ranking every player to wear No.9 for Arsenal in the Premier League

Thierry Henry in No.14. Dennis Bergkamp in No.10. Ian Wright in No.8. Arsenal has been the home to some of the Premier League’s greatest goalscorers – but rarely in the traditional No.9 shirt.

There have still been a few success stories to have donned the famous squad number in the red half of north London, but there have also been a few flops.

We’ve ranked every player to wear the No.9 for Arsenal in the Premier League since squad numbers became permanent in 1993.

When we began compiling this list we were willing to cut Park some slack, thinking he was one of those typical Arsene Wenger punts on a young player with potential during a period of relative austerity at Arsenal.

But then we remembered the striker was 26 and had just been relegated with Monaco when he was handed the No.9 shirt ahead of fellow Arsenal legends Marouane Chamakh and Nicklas Bendtner.

Park’s debut campaign amounted to one goal in six appearances before he was stripped of the squad number and sent packing.

After three seasons as a promising teenager at Everton, Jeffers joined Arsenal in an £8million deal in 2001, with a further £2million in potential add-ons. To put that into context, Thierry Henry cost the Gunners £11million two years earlier.

Jeffers did not have quite the same impact as Henry at Highbury, struggling with form and fitness, and returned to Everton two seasons later with eight goals to his name in all competitions.

Arsenal’s signing of Perez from Deportivo in a £17.1million deal went under the radar somewhat in 2016, but it seemed like good business at the time: a pacy, direct forward coming off the back of a 17-goal season in La Liga.

However, despite a 39-minute hat-trick in a Champions League victory at Basel, Perez never