Twomey: The success of Chelsea’s recruitment model depends just as much on their ability to sell profitably as it does on buying intelligently. Every player who is not absolutely integral to the team Maresca is building has a price, and Madueke has never managed to make himself indispensable at Stamford Bridge.

Arsenal are extremely busy in the summer transfer window, having completed a signing while negotiating deals for Chelsea winger Noni Madueke and Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres

Finally, Arsenal fans also believe that Madueke’s arrival will block Ethan Nwaneri’s path to regular minutes. Although the England U21 international is naturally an attacking midfielder, the majority of his senior game time has come as a right winger and Madueke will likely usurp the teenager in the pecking order.