MATHIEU DEBUCHY HAS joined Saint-Etienne until the end of the season after his contract was terminated by Arsenal.
The right-back joined the Gunners in 2014 but injuries were a contributing factor to him making only 13 Premier League appearances for the club.
The 32-year-old, who began his career and came to prominence at Lille, spent the second half of the 2015-16 season on loan at Bordeaux.
Debuchy made four appearances in the Europa League for Arsenal this season but did not feature in the Premier League.
He joins Yann M’Vila, Paul-Georges Ntep and Neven Subotic among the arrivals of a productive transfer window at Saint-Etienne.
Meanwhile, Chuba Akpom, Krystian Bielik and Jeff Reine-Adelaide have all secured loan departures from Arsenal for the rest of the season.
Akpom is the only one of the trio to have made a first-team appearance this season – a three-minute cameo in the FA Cup third-round defeat at Nottingham Forest earlier this month.
The England Under-21 striker has joined Sint-Truiden for the remainder of the campaign, currently sixth in the Belgian Jupiler League.
Reine-Adelaide will spend the remainder of the season with Angers in Ligue 1, while Poland international Bielik has joined League One club Walsall.
- Omni
breaking news,watford sack claudio ranieri.
Could be gone by Christmas
Gone in 6 months or will win the league next year
Kind of wanted them to go down the way they behave with managers but I like Ranieri so a bit conflicted.
Until the end of the season when he’ll be sacked for not winning the champions league
Still find it hard to believe he won the league with Leicester and then got sacked the next season crazy when think back…