Former Arsenal left-back Armand Traore has claimed that fans won’t see Sead Kolasinac play for the Emirates Stadium club again.
Gunners boss Mikel Arteta loaned the former Schalke defender back to the German side during the January transfer window.
Kolasinac, who earns £100,000 per week at Arsenal, is contracted to the North Londoners for another 18 months or so.
But the fact that Arteta allowed him to go despite the fact that Kieran Tierney has a chequered injury history is enough to tell Traore that the Spaniard has zero intentions of ever using him again.
He said to Stadium Astro: “I believe that if Kolasinac was in Arsenal’s plans he’d still be at the club right now, given the fact that Kieran Tierney is proving to have injury problems. I don’t think we’ll see Kolasinac again.”
Traore, who played for Arsenal during Arsene Wenger’s reign, is more than likely right.
It really doesn’t bode well for Kolasinac that Arteta and technical director Edu let him leave, by virtue of the fact that they only had two real left-backs in the squad.
Cedric Soares has been deputising for the injured Tierney lately, but even then, he is a right-back by trade.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina international joined the club in 2017.
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