One per club: Premier League players who need to make a move this summer

The transfer window is now in Full Swing and next season will be upon us before you know it. And at (almost) every club, that means someone who desperately needs to move on and re-energise a stalled career or just Escape Their [Insert Team] Nightmare.

Here is one such player for each Premier League club who needs a transfer, apart from the three promoted clubs because even we aren’t such bastards as to tell players who’ve just got promoted that this isn’t for them and they should probably f*** off back to the Sky Bet where they belong. It’s just mean.

Arsenal – Emile Smith Rowe
Arsenal don’t really want to sell him and he doesn’t really want to leave. Understandable on both fronts but surely not the best plan for a player whose path back to the first team isn’t going to get any easier if Kai Havertz joins the scrum of players ahead of him in the pecking order.

“It was tough [not playing], but we were in a title race and I understand the manager isn’t going to change the team if we’re winning every game.” That’s all well and good, Emile, but you still didn’t get much of a look-in after Arsenal conspicuously stopped winning every game. Go to Villa, on loan if need be, and gain the honour of becoming the first Arsenal player to shine under Unai Emery.

Aston Villa – Philippe Coutinho
Good vibes abound at Villa currently, but not from Coutinho who is the chief hangover of the Steven Gerrard Unpleasantness on an alarmingly long and no doubt chunky contract. Still three years left on that bad boy for a player whose last three Premier League appearances came in 4-2, 3-1 and 4-2 defeats. He didn’t feature once in the final 15 games of the season, during which Villa lost only twice to secure European football.

As with all current expensive Premier League mistakes, a Saudi move appears one obvious solution but there’s also talk of interest from Fenerbahce which feels absolutely correct and appropriate. Almost a pleasingly retro feel about Turkish interest in a Premier League flop now. This is Barclays heritage.

Bournemouth – Mark Travers
Nothing wrong with being a second-choice keeper but hard to do it when you’ve had a taste of being the No. 1. Admittedly, Travers’ taste of being a Premier League No. 1 was to concede an awful number of goals – 32 in 12 games – but still. At 24, it doesn’t really seem like sitting on the bench and playing a game of Carabao or two here and there is the best thing for him or anyone. A Championship loan or something.