Arsenal youngster Charlie Patino is set to join Deportivo La Coruña for £1 million.
The 20-year-old midfielder is considered one of the most promising talents in Arsenal’s academy and has spent the last few seasons gaining experience on loan.
Although Mikel Arteta handed him his senior debut, Patino has yet to convince the manager that he deserves a permanent spot in the Gunners’ first team.
Patino has long been regarded as one of Arsenal’s brightest prospects, and it was expected that he would attract significant interest this summer.
However, Premier League clubs have shown limited interest, and none have pursued him as strongly as he might have hoped.
Determined to secure regular playing time, Patino is now on the verge of a move to Spanish second-division side Deportivo La Coruña.
According to The Athletic, Arsenal has agreed to sell him for £1 million, including a sell-on clause, with negotiations in advanced stages.
Patino is ready to restart his career in Spain, prioritising consistent game time over remaining in England.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Patino has shown much promise since his days in our youth team and the smart thing to do is to offload him now and that sell-on clause could prove lucrative.
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We have a great academy. Fantastic “wonderkids”! Why do they all leave since Arteta took over?
Oh yes, I remember. Arteta would rather buy 28 year old Spanish players
Or he just wasn’t good enough for Arsenal
I think it’s the similarity in the name Arsenal and Arteta that makes people think every single think happening in the club is because of Arteta, lol.
Much the same as Arsene and Arsenal in the past Daulat.
Dougal,
Have you thought that Patino isn’t good enough to play for Arsenal? Let’s be honest, at a million pounds, its hardly a fortune and a career in the Spanish second division which isn’t Real Madrid.
20 year old with zero EPL experience vs. a EUFA Euro Champion (good enough to be on the best team’s roster). Now tell us, playing which one is more likely to win you the title?
So you would start the like of patino, balogun, obi, balogun (midfielder) etc to play against a man city or Liverpool and still expect so to challenge for the league
To all these people that rave on about what a great job Arteta is doing at Arsenal.
Yes he’s certainly helped turn them into challengers again. (Still no Premier League trophy though).
But certainly one of the things that can and should be leveled at Arteta, is the fact that no Academy player as come through in all his time there.
And please don’t give me the line, but some of the academy players train a lot with the first team squad. So what, big deal.
Last season for instance, instead of keeping Elmeny and Cedric on the bench, that was the perfect opportunity to have a couple of the academy players on the bench.
What’s the point in having an academy, if all that happens is other teams end up benefitting from Arsenal academy’s hard work.
There’s nothing a fan likes more than to see home grown players making it into the first team.
The way Arteta treated Smith Row was shameful at times. The player that should have been sold was Viera, no doubt about it.
100% Agree. Arteta will just finish the Academy.
Really GBH ? Iirc, he’s given debuts to 5 players from the Academy.
I hope that’s one heck of a sell-on clause.
Is/was Patino worse than Vierra? We keep a proven dudd in Vierra and sell a promising player (again) from our academy. Like someone said, last season we sat Cedric and Elnenny on the bench and never played them. Have we no accademy players, who could do that and grow into the team? If we haven’t, WHY?
Yes. That’s why he’s moving to the 2nd division in Spain for 1 mil. And I hope you’re not seriously comparing him to viera.
Yes I am. We paid a lot of money for a dud, to sit around doing zilch and we let, yet another young lad go. And what has moving to a second division team got to do with anything? Vierra cost us 35 mil, Patino, nothing. Why are we keeping Vierra but selling an accademy product? You are seriously not trying to say because the team is second division, it makes Patino second rate? If you are. Why doesn’t a premier league team buying a player, make him premier league standard?
Sad to see him go, especially if the fee is true, as I thought he would be Partey’s eventual replacement.
GB, he hasn’t got the build to be the replacement for Partey.
£1million? Is this a joke? This is a player Juventus were scouting just six months ago. I love our club’s turn around but this devaluing of our youth has to stop. Seeing ESR slowly getting pushed aside was heartbreaking but now players who haven’t even had a proper chance despite having ‘top potential’ getting shipped out for chump change… no thank you, Arsene would not be pleased. Sort it AFC.
Yet Juventus obviously didn’t want him, otherwise they would’ve tabled a bid for him.
Bang on the money HD
This is the point though, the club didn’t utilise him properly thus dropping his value. Arsenal need to improve this whole aspect or else the youth set up will lose a lot of its appeal to top young talents
So how do you utilise a player that struggles in the second half of a season, especially when the going gets tough ?
Coach/manage him better, it’s pretty simple. We’re talking about a widely regarded big prospect, not someone who’s already plateaued in their late twenties.
i remember a quote from his manager at Swansea last season saying about half way through the season that Patino had not developed his ‘out-of-possession game’ since arriving, at that point I knew he had no future in an Arteta system
good luck to him, the £1m fee with sell-on is obviously in the hope that his new team can develop his clear talent and on-sell for a profit for both parties
however as stated there was no realistic prospect to Arsenal first team given those comments
agree as the Swansea manager who was fighting relegation in 18th position said. ” At the top level of the Championship the physicality is just mind-blowing. I think this is probably the toughest thing for Charlie at the moment. ‘But I think if the team plays with control more and controls the game with the ball more, Charlie’s going to be exceptional”
So if he couldn’t cope with the physicality in the Championship, he would not cope with the Premier League at this point. A good move for both -sell on clause for Arsenal and he has the opportunity and time to immerse himself in the Spanish way of football which will improve him.
MB, the same thing happened to Patino when he was on loan at Blackpool. Started the season well, but in their fight against relegation he wasn’t physically strong enough.
So why couldn’t The Arsenal develop his clear talent and sell on for a profit to both parties?
We whine too much as Arsenal fans don’t we? End of story.
yes, it gets very dull
Wish him the best. If it was only 1 or 2 academy players it would be one thing, however NOT ONE under Arteta is worrying. Walters was on the bench 20 times last season; he could not finish even 1 of those matches?
It seems there is little appetite to develop academy talent within the first team; either they are ready for first team or they are sold off to other clubs.
Much easier to buy players then for the coaching staff to maximize academy resources.
No one is asking for academy players to get promoted into the rotation, but certainly 2 could have replaced Elneny and Cedric and had no impact on results or league finish.
Hi Durand
How do you feel about waiting for the season to develop? We do have prospects but we also have ambitions to win a title
Hi Sue
Of course we wait for this season, but I was commenting on the lack of using academy resources.
Seems endless patience for Nketiah who looks the same player as 5 years ago, who rides the bench on 100k a week soaking up a roster spot.
Or Vieira who can’t stay fit, and produces little to nothing.
For the little minutes they get, wouldn’t the club be better served giving those opportunities to academy players rather than wasting 34 million on Vieira?
13 minutes I believe was how much time academy players had on the pitch. I may be mistaken however.
THE CLUB should do better, it’s more than just Arteta/Edu.
For example, Nwanarei and Myles-Skelly and Heaven should be included in 1st team in near future. No spending on a 4th or 5th CB, develop Heaven for the next year or so.
No more luxury buys like Vieira when they should be further developing Nwanarei and MS.
Time the coaching staff start developing academy resources instead of constantly going to the wallet.
Not expecting them in the rotation, but develop our resources better.
SueP, I think Durand is referring to last season, especially as both Cedric and Elneny have left the club.
During our incredible goal scoring run (Sheffield Utd WHU etc) there were ample opportunities for MA to, not only give the younger players a chance, but to also rest the likes of Saka.
I still believe, however, that we have to win something like the PL, before expecting to see said youngsters grapple for such titles.