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In many ways, Jon Toral is the living, breathing example representing just how hard it is to infiltrate Arsenal’s first team picture in 2016.
Signed in tandem with Hector Bellerin from Barcelona back in 2011, Bellerin is recently returning to the Gunners’ pre-season camp after a spell at Euro 2016 for Spain while Toral has just earned his third career loan switch to La Liga outfit Granada on Tuesday.
Ultimately, Toral might’ve already made his first Arsenal appearance had it not been for the fact that he plays as an attacking midfielder or winger – a position in which Arsene Wenger can already call upon an abundance of talent in front of the 21-year-old Spaniard.
This isn’t to say that Toral can’t eventually make the breakthrough given the fact he has impressed wherever he’s performed on loan thus far, sweeping up a hat-trick of awards at Birmingham City last term where he won the Players’ and Supporters’ Player of the Season award, not to mention achieving the club’s Goal of the Season prize too.
But over the course of 2016 and 2017, Toral will be playing his football not at Emirates Stadium but back in his native Spain with Andalusian side Granada.
With this in mind, we take a look at five other Arsenal fringe stars who are the most likely to follow him out on loan over the course of the next month or so.
