Arsenal has an extensive catalog from African players to represent the club – but which of them has been the best?
And it is fair to say that those players enjoyed contrasting fortunes in English football. For each jewel there have been at least two players who are clearly impressed.
We have arranged every African player to represent Arsenal during the Premier League era from worst to best:
It is well known that Arsene Wenger brought a wealth of knowledge about European football to his role at Arsenal, who was really groundbreaking at the time.
For every Patrick Vieira, however, there was a Jehad Muntasser.
Signed at the Italian club Pro Sesto in 1997, the Libyan performed a short first team in the League Cup before he was borrowed from Bristol City and was released two years later.
It is difficult to forget a more accurate interpretation of the word.
Young African player?
One League Cup appearance before it was released?
Intended to become an impossible answer to future pub quizzes?
Check, check and check.
His trade for Marseille was currently and Bennacer was appointed player of the tournament, because Algeria was crowned champion of Africa in 2019.
His impact at Arsenal? One League Cup replacement will be published in 2015 during a thrashing by Sheffield Wednesday.
Still only 27, this is clear with some talent. But he cannot be seriously arranged on this list.
In his career, Diawara has traveled much more through France than a link from SuperFit cyclists, Diawara made 12 competition matches for Arsenal in 1999 without disturbing the score sheet.
It is not surprising that he did not last long in the club. Even less surprisingly he spent the 2000-01 season on loan at West Ham by Harry Redknapp.
Diawara later worked as a media expert with French TV station Canal+.
Another young talent with unfulfilled promise, the expectations about Owusu-Abeyie rose after having cut six goals in a match under 21 against Wolves in 2002.
Despite the score of two actual goals for the club, it never looked that the Ghana International would break through Arsenal.
In all honesty he competed with people like Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp for a place in the Invincibles team.
He had a nomadic career after his departure in 2006, the most successful with Panathinaikos.
If you want to know someone's true nature, observe their actions when leaving a place close to their hearts.
Frimpong, cousin of Lethal Bizzle, left Arsenal in 2014 for Barnsley where he went to Instagram and complained: “How am I going to draw girls now?”.
This was clearly a man who was not ready to embrace everything that South Yorkshire could offer him. That is not a dench.
Popular perception suggests that Chamakh is better remembered for his hair hairstyles than his versions in Arsenal.
But the Moroccan had a semi-successful first season in the Emirates.
Signed on a free from Bordeaux in 2010, Chamakh scored 11 goals in all competitions, while Arsenal challenged several fronts before their annual collapse of spring.
Then it went downhill when he (of course) was lent to West Ham for spells in Crystal Palace and Cardiff.
Given the sound around his signing, Chamakh definitely did not live up to the hype.
Traore seemed like one of those players who are used exclusively in the early round competition ties, where the newest series of Arsenal young people would hum some robust championship opponents with the ease of Usain Bolt who pours Peter Griffin.
But the Senegal full-back made a total of 32 performances for five seasons before he left for QPR.
You may not remember it, but it happened.
It is easy to forget the impact that Iwobi made on his breakthrough of the first team in Arsenal and scored in his first two Premier League matches in 2016.
At the time, he seemed a really exciting prospect, but the winger never completely encouraged this and was sold to Everton for a fee of £ 28 million.
The Nigeria International has become a Premier League position, starring the Toffees and Fulham, but is probably a class under the current standard of Arsenal.
Signed in 2015, Elneny 161 appears for Arsenal appeared without ever really threatening to settle himself as a first team starter.
The Egyptian midfielder had a decorated enchantment at Champions League Perennial Basel before he arrived in North Londs.
And Elneny does not settle with Arsenal. He just wasn't the new Vieira.
Gervinho personified Arsenal in the early years 2010 – talented, inconsistent and the true meaning of the word Enigma.
This may not be a surprise for a player whose entire game plan has been modeled on instinct and to turn everyone out, including himself.
Defenders were as much chance of predicting the next movement of the Ivorian as a dog does to predict the owner's return.
The attacker scored 11 goals in two seasons in the club before he left for a more successful spell at Roma.
The signing of Pepe in 2019 was greeted with more enthusiasm by Arsenal supporters than David Brent who prepared for comic relief.
This excitement seemed justified when Pepe sprinted in an early appearance past Virgil van Dijk, a moment when Arsenal Twitter led to losing all the appearance of perspective together.
A more accurate representation of the first half of his first season in North Londs would be his air shot in Bramall Lane a few months later.
He improved as time passed and left a deceptively brilliant highlights, but his time at Arsenal was ultimately disappointing in view of the fee of £ 72 million.
An unknown name for many younger Arsenal fans played an important role in the double-winning team 1997-98.
Signed in the summer of 1997 for £ 300,000, the Liberian Vital winners against Wimbledon and Bolton scored, while also giving the only goal in the semi-final success of the FA Cup over wolves.
Because of these exploits, Wreh The FA Cup final against Newcastle began.
Despite the scoring in the victory of the 1998 charity screen at Manchester United, Wrew was pressed out of the fight by the arrivals of Henry and Davor Suker.
He ended his career in English football in Bishop's Stortford and Buckingham Town, but overlooked it, but made a crucial contribution to one of Arsenal's best seasons ever.
Originally a tool player on the outskirts of the Arsenal team, Song soon became an integral part of the first 11 in the late 2000s.
With the air of such a relaxed person they do not have any bones, the midfielder had an impressive range of passing skills – as is apparent from his assist to Robin van Persie's volley against Everton in 2011.
Song left for a short-lived enchantment in Barcelona, ​​before he led the short push of West Ham for Champions League football in 2014-15.
Read: Reminder of the strange season Alex Song became Arsenal's new Fabregas
Partey came to the Gunners in October 2020 for £ 42.7 million from Atletico Madrid.
He made 167 performances for the club in all competitions and scored nine goals. Despite a strong campaign of 2024-25, the midfielder of Ghana was released by Arsenal at the end of his contract.
In the light of his frequent scapegoat by the Emirates -Mixte, Eboue eventually became a cult hero in Arsenal.
His abandoned response to the replacement of Wigan in 2008, after a performance that Eboue saw his own player tackling and gives possession at almost every occasion, leaned him to some.
His steady and dedicated versions won the respect of much more.
Every player who makes 214 performances for the club must have done something good. Eboue was more than one bad performance.
Lauren, a unshpted hero during his time in Arsenal, was a no-nonsense full-back that perfectly reflected the silk and steel of Arsene Wger's Invincibles.
Lauren gradually replaced Lee Dixon in the starting line-up and loved the Arsenal Faithful by scoring a winning penalty against Tottenham in April 2002.
There, after that penalty, his verbal abuse by Ruud van Nistelrooy did not stop a place in Arsenal Hearts forever forever.
Lauren was an extremely underrated player and Arsenal has since demonstrably had no more effective right back.
AdeBayor had a number of brilliant moments in an Arsenal shirt, the best of which was probably the incredible tee-up and volley in White Hart Lane in 2007.
The striker scored 62 goals for the club, 30 of which are in the forgotten Titlepush of 2007-08.
Despite collecting red cards such as Confetti, he also introduced the wishes of most supporters to Nicklas Bendtner in Kadraten during a derby in North Londs.
Unfortunately, the memory of a certain celebration in a shirt from Manchester City has turned the Togo striker into something of a pantomime villain among Arsenal fans.
Perhaps sufficient time has passed for a reassessment, but it means that it cannot be placed higher here.
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Some fans doubted the wisdom of issuing £ 56 million in a 28-year-old with a history of injury problems in 2018, especially when the club recently spent great on Alexandre Lacazette.
Others celebrated the purchase of one of Europe's most important attackers. The optimists would be well proven.
Forget the bitter end, Aubameyang was deadly in Arsenal colors and scored 92 goals in 162 club performances.
In addition, the Gabon striker scored a double in the FA Cup Final victory over Chelsea in 2020, which confirmed his status as a club hero.
Mumbled by Mikel Arteta, it can be claimed that Arsenal Aubameyang and his goal skills have never really replaced.
For many Arsenal fans, Kanu is the ultimate cult hero.
Take a witness to his competition -winning performance on Stamford Bridge during the first double -winning season.
Witness an inventive and ingenious goal against Tottenham, where he flashed the ball over Luke Young before we weigh the house.
Be a witness to the wagening limbs and two finger celebration that would now be protected by copyright than you can say 'opportunity for making money'.
Never a guaranteed starter, but a very popular part of the most celebrated squadrons by Wenger.
Long before Toure became an adverb for defensive accidents, the diminutive Ivory Coast International was a foundation in the heart of the Arsenal -Line.
Bought to replace Tony Adams in 2002, Toure 326 performances appeared for the club for a seven -year spell.
He impressed many observers with his positional game, tenacity and an eye for a handful of goals every season.
What is even more important, Toure seemed like a person with a radiant personality.
You can imagine that his presence in the dressing room would conjure up a smile on the weakest faces. Even when polishing the manager during a training process.
Now a coach at Manchester City, Toure is rightly remembered as an Arsenal legend.