Lucas Perez rejoins Deportivo La Coruna on loan from Arsenal

Another forward is departing the Emirates Stadium.

Lucas Perez rejoined RC Deportivo La Coruna on a season-long loan from Arsenal on Thursday. The Galician forward is returning to the Branquiazuis, with whom he tallied 17 goals and eight assists in the 2015-16 La Liga season, and there is no option to buy.

Perez's agent, Rodrigo Fernandez Lovelle, said in July that Deportivo tabled an offer for Perez, who joined Arsenal from the Spanish club for a reported fee in the region of £17 million.

"We have talked to everyone," Lovelle declared, according to the Guardian's David Hytner. "Arsenal know we want to go, that there are no opportunities here, and within a year there is a World Cup. Would you not be angry and sad and upset if you had your squad number taken without being asked?"

Perez donned No. 9 at Arsenal until the Gunners signed Alexandre Lacazette.