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This article is part of Football FanCast’s Transfer Focus series, which provides opinion and analysis on recent transfer news…
As confirmed on the club’s official website, Arsenal academy product Dominic Thompson has joined Championship side Brentford on a permanent transfer.
What’s the word?
The 21-year-old featured prominently on the Gunners’ pre-season tour this summer and could have hoped to push for a role in the first-team squad for the upcoming campaign.
However, as reports continue to claim a move for Celtic left-back Kieran Tierney is approaching its conclusion, Thompson’s game-time would no doubt have been heavily impacted at the Emirates.
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The Telegraph journalist Sam Dean reports Unai Emery’s side will receive a fee in the region of £3m for Thompson, that could potentially rise to £4m.
Good business
Having joined the club back in 2012 as a youth prospect, Thompson mainly turned out for the Gunners’ U18 and U23 sides. So for the Arsenal hierarchy to get a decent sum of money for a player who hadn’t turned out for the first-team in a competitive fixture is some going.
Furthermore, Sam Dean’s claim that the north London side also have a sell-on clause inserted into the deal represents another shrewd piece of business from a club that has notoriously been questioned for its policy when it comes to moving players on.
The Gunners have spent big-money this summer, but selling players like Thompson for a sum of money when it appears evident that a first-team place was likely to be improbable, is another sign Emery’s side are heading in the right direction off the pitch.
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