£100,000-a-week player now staying at Arsenal today, he will leave in the summer

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Cedric Soares will reportedly stay at Arsenal beyond Deadline Day despite the defender attracting transfer interest from Turkish clubs.

The Portuguese international looked like the most likely senior player to depart the north London side for good this January, with Cedric’s contract expiring at the end of this season.

However, according to journalist Chris Wheatley, the former Southampton star will now remain with Arsenal until the end of the campaign, where the right-back will then leave as a free-agent.

Earning a reported £100,000-a-week, Arsenal getting Cedric off their books this month could have opened the door for the Gunners to make a signing or two, yet this now looks like an unlikely outcome.

Arsenal should have done more to sell Cedric this January

Cedric has hardly featured for Arsenal with Mikel Arteta clearly having his preferred right-back options this season in Ben White and Takehiro Tomiyasu.

And with Cedric earning as much as he does, the north London side should have made a real effort to offload the defender this month, especially with some Turkish clubs interested in signing the right-back.

Indeed, Arsenal will be kicking themselves for not trying harder to sell Cedric for good this January, especially with the Portuguese international’s contract coming to an end this summer.

Yet Arsenal once again dropped the ball, and the Gunners now have to live with the fact of what could have been had they acted on trying to sell Cedric this month.