Santos is off

[Nicosia Gooner]

Following the deadline-day arrival of Nacho Monreal from Malaga, the left-back has been allowed to join the Brazilian club on a year-long switch in search of first-team chances

Arsenal full-back Andre Santos is set to join Gremio on loan on a year-long loan deal, according to the Brazilian outfit's executive director Rui Costa.

The 29-year-old is expected to arrive in Porto Alegre on Sunday morning to finalise the switch, with the Gunners able to cut the move short after six months if they desire.


"[Santos] is coming from Arsenal to Gremio. Naturally everyone is talking a lot about [Hernan] Barcos, but Andre is a huge signing for us.

"They are both players who want to be part of our project, who come to add a lot of depth to our squad and to win titles."

Following Kieran Gibbs being sidelined for up to six weeks, boss Arsene Wenger acted quickly in the final days of the transfer window to recruit Malaga left-back Nacho Monreal.

And Santos has now been allowed to find more regular first-team opportunities back in his homeland

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wish him the best though.

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in brazil now. got two world class full backs ahead of him now

[barrybueno]

club again

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was not smart and unforgiveable really

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Grinner]

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as he world class, we still better all round team this year then last year. more goals are coming from different players now then when robin was in the team

still if robin was in our team, we have won the league this year no doubt about it

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better player.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

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does not always work out as cygan proved in the past

[Mo Britain less Europe]

had to defend. It was his lack of pace and slowness on the turn that made him unsuitable for us.

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and his positioning for center back was awful. big gap in quality with him compared to sol and martin