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.
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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.