Arsenal: Complete player rankings for the 2018/19 season

Arsenal’s season didn’t end on the high we anticipated, but it certainly left plenty to talk about. Here is a comprehensive ranking of our players, from worst to first.

Unai Emery’s first year at Arsenal was… stressful. It was riddled with joy and triumph and burdened by failure and missed chances. Through it all, it became incredibly clear that while the machine has been put into motion, there is so much more oil needed to ensure that the cogs keep turning and, ideally, turning quicker.

No player was safe this year, with Unai Emery having to decide for himself who was worth keeping at the club and who wasn’t. So plenty of players got their fair share of opportunity, and that is how we have managed to have such a clear and comprehensive player ratings list.

Our ratings are based on overall impact on the club, as well as how much a player featured.

And, since you’ll want to know how the rankings worked between Andy and myself, this is what we did:

We added each of our rankings of each player and divided by two. So to make sense of that, as you will see from our first ranking, Andy and I both had Konsantinos Mavropanos as second from the bottom, 21st overall, but in the grand scheme, that made him the lowest rated player on average.

In the event of a tie, which also applied here, we would alternate between Andy and myself, whoever ranked him higher. In this instance. Elneny won out because Andy’s ranking of him was the tie-breaker.

Let’s start at the bottom.

22. Konstantinos Mavropanos

This ranking is more just a byproduct of not being used, and thus having no impact. He did not have a big influence this year and that left him without a lot of time to prove himself. He showed tremendous ability last year and undoubtedly would have followed up on it this year had his body agreed with him.

But it didn’t. And that left him further from a defensive solution than Nacho Monreal. Even when he did feature, in those small capacities, he wasn’t that convincing.

There is still a lot of optimism that he will still prove to be a solution going into the future, but the fact that we didn’t get to see that this year is a huge disappointment. Better luck next year, young man.

Andy (21), Josh (21)

On to No. 21.