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Arsenal: 5 players who are on the Christmas nice list

By Ross Kennerley

Arsenal's English defender Calum Chambers (C) celebrates scoring the opening goal during the English League Cup round of 16 football match between Arsenal and Leeds United at the Emirates Stadium in London on October 26, 2021. - - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
Arsenal's English defender Calum Chambers (C) celebrates scoring the opening goal during the English League Cup round of 16 football match between Arsenal and Leeds United at the Emirates Stadium in London on October 26, 2021. - - RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images) /
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Arsenal’s English defender Calum Chambers celebrate scoring the opening goal during the English League Cup round of 16 football match between Arsenal and Leeds. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images) /

2. Calum Chambers

Nobody dislikes Calum Chambers. It feels impossible to. He’s a really top man and professional.

But he gets on this list for another reason, something he didn’t intend on doing and inadvertently turned out to be one of the best things to happen to Arsenal this season.

He played atrociously. And we thank him for it.

Having finished last season so strongly, the belief within the camp was that with the colossal amount of work Arsenal had to do in the transfer market they could save some money on buying a right-back. Until January at the least, anyway.

As was reported at the time, the woeful level of performances that Chambers produced at the start of the season, namely at Manchester City, prompted Arteta to ask the owners for that little bit more money to secure Takehiro Tomiyasu on deadline day.

Thank heavens Tomiyasu came in, and thank you Chambers for being so bad that Arsenal were forced to.

(please be fit against Norwich)

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