Morning Gooners,

Details of the Premier League and Champions League squad are out.

Premier League

Each club have to name a squad containing no more than 17 players who do not fulfil the home-grown player criteria, the remainder must be home-grown.

Clubs can name up to 25 squad members, not including under-21 players.

Premier League squad:

Arshavin

Arteta

Cazorla

Chamakh

Santos

Diaby

Djourou

Fabianski

Gervinho

Gibbs

Giroud

Koscielny

Mannone

Mertesacker

Podolski

Ramsey

Rosicky

Sagna

Squillaci

Szczesny

Vermaelen

Walcott

Eastmond

Funny thing to notice is Craig Eastmond. All the rest are inย alphabeticalย order with the Englishman ‘plonked’ on the end.

Oh well, he’s in there much to my surprise, as is Squillaci – making up the numbers no doubt.

Andrey Arshavin is also included despite rumours about him being offered the chance to leave for free. The Russian transfer window is yet to close, so that move could still take place over the next few days, if of course it is true.

Champions League squad:

List A:

1. Wojciech Szczesny

2. Abou Diaby

3. Bacary Sagna

4. Per Mertesacker

5. Thomas Vermaelen

6. Laurent Koscielny

7. Tomas Rosicky

8. Mikel Arteta

9. Lukas Podolski

11. Andre Santos

12. Olivier Giroud

14. Theo Walcott

15. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

16. Aaron Ramsey

18. Sebastien Squillaci

19. Santi Cazorla

20. Johan Djourou

21. Lukas Fabianski

23. Andrey Arshavin

24. Vito Mannone

25. Carl Jenkinson

27. Gervinho

28. Kieran Gibbs

29. Marouane Chamakh

47. Serge Gnabry.

List B:

10. Jack Wilshere

22. Francis Coquelin

26. Emmanuel Frimpong

This list is yet to be completed.

Full Champions League rules can be foundย hereย but I have ‘stolen’ a shortened and more simple version fromย Arseblog News.

Every club participating in the Championโ€™s League must submit two lists of players to UEFA, List A and List B. List B is for young players and there is no limit to the number of players that can be submitted on that list. List A is for any player not eligible for List B. A maximum of 25 players can be submitted on List A, of which at least 8 must be โ€œlocally-trainedโ€, and of those 8, 4 must be โ€œclub-trainedโ€.ย 

If the club doesnโ€™t have enough players to fill the slots for locally-trained players it will have to leave those slots empty. If the club has more than eight such players, any surplus player will have to take up one of the 17 remaining slots, leaving fewer slots for players who are not home grown.

THE DETAILS

So, exactly how do we determine which players fall into which categories?

In order to be eligible for List B for next season, a player must be born 1991 or later and he must have already spent at least two full continuous seasons at the club. This means that if we buy a โ€œwonderkidโ€ we will have to register him on List A, even though he is young enough for List B. Loan spells at other clubs can also sometimes cause a player to not fulfill the second requirement, even though he arrived at Arsenal more than two years ago.

The composition of List A is as follows:

Slots 1-17: Any player can be put into these slots.
Slots 18-21: Only for locally-trained players (association-trained or club-trained)
Slots 22-25: Only for club-trained players

A club-trained player is a player who has spent a total of at least three full seasons with the club between the ages of 15 and 21. An association-trained player is a player who has spent a total of at least three full seasons with clubs affiliated with the same association as his current club between the ages of 15 and 21.

Great to see Serge Gnabry included in the Champions League squad but the thought of seeing Squillaci or Chamakh featuring in any match other than a dead rubber, is frightening.

Little bit of gossip, and that relates to Belgian 17 year old Ismail H’Maidat – the young midfielder is reported to be on trial with our club. You just knew there had to be a young one in there somewhere this summer…..

That’s it for today, only another eleven days until Southampton come visiting….

Have a good one..