Mathieu Debuchy could leave Arsenal in January



Debuchy has played only 16 minutes of football this season for the Gunners and is arguably Wenger's fourth-choice right-back behind Hector Bellerin, Carl Jenkinson and youngster Ainsley Maitland-Niles.

The 31-year-old has found himself frozen out of the first-team picture at the Emirates Stadium and spent the second-half of last season on loan at Bordeaux.

In an interview with L'Equipe, Debuchy said his relationship with Wenger had deteriorated and that a number of potential transfers had been prevented from happening.

"We acknowledge each other, we say hello, nothing more," Debuchy said.

"My situation doesn't meet what I had been hoping for, but that's football

There have been things, injuries and the coach's choices that have meant that I haven't played.

"Even if I don't understand, I'm not surprised, I know how it works

I have had some very difficult moments

Now, I try to channel that, to take it out in my work

I don't show anything, I dig in

I have always worked like that.

"(I want) a way out

I want to take on a new challenge, to get back into it, to simply do my job properly

At a given time, you miss the excitement, the adrenaline."

Debuchy went on to suggest he had been denied the opportunity to sign for Louis van Gaal's United last January, and that further chances to leave in the summer failed to come to fruition.

He added: "I wasn't playing a lot, it was United, there's nothing else to say

For me, it was almost unexpected, but the coach said no.

"It's something I did not appreciate

He wasn't using me, so I didn't see his interest in doing that.

"I had opportunities at the end of the transfer window

Unfortunately, the club didn't want to let me go

I had a good pre-season, I gave my all, but from the first game, I wasn't in the squad

It was a real blow

I said to myself that things weren't starting well."

But Wenger insisted on Friday that United never made a bid for the former Newcastle player

"They have never made an offer for him

It's completely untrue

It's sometimes surprising to hear things like that," he said.

He was also unequivocal when asked if Debuchy was for sale when the transfer window opens next week.

"Yes, of course (we are listening to offers) but we speak," he added.

"We have communication with all the players

It's a little bit of a frustrated article from a player who is injured, you know when you are injured you cannot play.

"When he had the opportunities to play when Bellerin was injured, he was injured

So I cannot do anything about that.

"I gave him last year the opportunity to go to Bordeaux on loan, but we had nobody coming in for him over the summer period and there are some things that are not true in this article.

"We never blocked him to go to Fiorentina, nor Espanyol

They had no interest in him at all because we checked that, so you have to take this (L'Equipe) article with a little distance."

Source : PA

Source: PA