Arsenal: 5 reasons everyone is wrong about Cedric Soares

3. No risk

No matter who the signing is, if it’s a loan, there is zero risk. Kim Kallstrom? Zero risk. Sure, he’s become a joke. But the reason he isn’t still moaned and groaned about is because he cost us nothing. It reflected worse on Arsene Wenger than it did on Kallstrom.

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Same goes with Denis Suarez. At the time, people called him a failure. But what did we really lose? He got hurt, didn’t play much, went home, and here we are just a year later and no one talks about him. We lost nothing. We tried something. It didn’t work. We ended it.

Cedric (and Pablo Mari for that matter) are in the same boat. Though I expect them both to do far more than Kallstrom was able to. And Suarez.

If, somehow, Cedric’s loan doesn’t work out. We just end it. No harm no foul. We don’t lose a ton of money, we aren’t forced to find a new home for him. We don’t have to worry about offloading him. He just leaves. Big whoop. So again I ask, what’s there to lose?

The correct answer is ‘nothing’.

No. 2 next.