Arsenal tour squad: Jeff Reine-Adelaide, Carl Jenkinson and Joel Campbell miss out but Lucas Perez travels

Reine-Adelaide in action against Boreham Wood, but he won't be making the trip to Singapore
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James Benge20 July 2018

Arsenal have left a quintet of big-name players out of their squad to tour Singapore with their futures looking increasingly uncertain at the club.

Standard Sport understands that Carl Jenkinson, Chuba Akpom, Jeff Reine-Adelaide, Joel Campbell and Krystian Bielik have all not been named in Unai Emery’s 25-man party for the trip, which will see them face pre-season friendlies against Atletico Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain as part of the International Champions Cup.

All five players appear unlikely to figure in head coach Emery’s plans for next season, with some expected to depart on a permanent basis and others move out on loan.

French playmaker Reine-Adelaide and Polish centre-back Bielik fall into the latter category whilst Akpom is expected to seal a £2million move to Belgian side Sint-Truiden.

Campbell, heading into the final year of his contract, is also free to pursue a permanent move.

One player who had been expected to depart this summer but will travel to Singapore is Lucas Perez, the Spanish striker who spent last year on loan at Deportivo La Coruna after struggling to impress Arsene Wenger.

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Lucas has featured more regularly under Emery in pre-season and is understood to be more settled with this manager than he had been previously. However there are as of yet no guarantees that the 29-year-old will stay in north London and any offer is likely to be given serious consideration by the Gunners hierarchy.

Emery’s squad includes a number of the brightest young players at the club, with 17-year-old Emile Smith-Rowe joining Joe Willock, Eddie Nketiah and Reiss Nelson on the plane.

Several of those internationals whose side exited the World Cup will also be travelling, most notably Mesut Ozil, Mohamed Elneny and Alex Iwobi. David Ospina, Granit Xhaka, Stephan Lichtsteiner and Danny Welbeck, whose countries reached the knockout stage, have not travelled.

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