Unai Emery wants to have a core of five captains throughout his first season at Arsenal, after the retirement of former skipper Per Mertesacker.
Lawrence Koscielny was vice-captain under Arsene Wenger and led the team for most of his last season in charge, but is now recovering from a long-term injury that he will likely miss on beginning of the new campaign.
Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere and Petr Cech past the armband around his absence but with Wilshere now in West Ham and Cech are likely to lose their first-team spot against new coach Bernd Leno, the Welshman may be the favorite of captain
Emery has already underlined the importance of Ramsey in his team and has communicated to Ivan Gazidis, Raul Sanllehi and Sven Mislintat – who collectively deal with transfers and contracts – that 's the only way in which they are. he wants the future of the midfielder to be resolved as soon as possible as he is entering the last 12 months of his contract.
"My first idea is to have five captains in the team," Emery said. "But for the moment, I do not know the names, I need to know more and also, firstly, Koscielny is the first captain now and for me, I have respect for that."
"Then we look, in search of who are the players whose personality is the best dressing. We want to keep the respect for these players and find the captain and choose very well the best player for that. "
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Arsenal made his fifth signing of the summer this week with the arrival of Matteo Guendouzi following the arrival of Swiss defender Stephan Lichtsteiner, Greek defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos, German goalkeeper Leno and Uruguayan midfielder Lucas Torreira
. these five could be the total of his summer affairs, unless a prominent player suddenly becomes available.
"Normally in my career, the big clubs do not close the door or the moment to sign a new player.Today, we are OK.Maybe we can bring one there. there is a very good opportunity for them to help us, but the club did a great job signing new players and I'm happy.
"We have signed the players we need and only if a player is a great opportunity for us, we will sign them.Normally, we think of young players, the possibility that they stay with us or that we They are playing in another team, we are also thinking of the players who were with us last year and if we need them to stay with us.
"For the moment I think the team is complete. We will only sign another player if there is an opportunity to bring a player or two players. We will only sign a player next month if it is a great opportunity. "
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