Speaking on talkSPORT over the weekend, Perry Groves explained said: “Emile Smith Rowe, he has got to go because he is too good to be a squad player.
“At the age he is, he has got to be playing regularly, and this isn’t because of the Profit and Sustainability rules, it is because, at the moment, he is not good enough to get into Arsenal’s eleven, so he has got to go and play.
“He can play as a 10, he can play on the right-hand side, he can play on the left-hand side, and if you think, before he had his groin injury, he was one of the main players.”
Groves added: “Since he got injured, he couldn’t get back into the team, and I think as well, Mikel Arteta will be saying to him, ‘You need to go and play games’. The bonus is because he has come through the academy, it will all go on the PSR.”