Elneny joined Arsenal from Basel in 2015 and has featured for the team in 147 games, notching 5 goals and 10 assists in the process
By Kehinde Okeowo
Egypt international and Arsenals’ central midfielder, Mohamed Elneny has extended his contract at the Emirates by one year.
The 30-year-old’s deal was due to expire at the end of next month before he penned a fresh one-year deal, with an option to extend it.
According to football.london, the midfielder was spotted after the 5-1 demolition of Everton on Sunday, holding a pen and a piece of paper in front of him, as he posed for pictures with the club photographer.
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The North London outfit later officially announced the contract extension and the Egyptian has since then. expressed his delight.
“I love this club and I feel like part of this family.
“I want to continue at this amazing club and amazing family and I’m very happy and very excited for the future,” Elneny told Arsenal Media.
Despite barely featuring in the first half of the season, Elneny proved to be one of Arteta’s most precious assets during the final stretch of the 2021-22 season.
He started the final seven Premier League games after Thomas Partey’s thigh injury and Lokonga’s before-par performances in the three games Arsenal lost after Partey’s injury.
Arsenal went on to win five of the seven games he played in, winning tough back-to-back fixtures against Chelsea, Man United, and West Ham during that time.
Elneny’s new deal means that strikers Eddie Nketiah and Alexandre Lacazette are now the only two first-team players that have contracts set to expire at the end of June.
Like the Egyptian, Nketiah featured prominently during the final months of the 2021/22 campaign, netting five league goals in eight starts.
Elneny, who joined Arsenal from Basel in January 2015, has featured for the Gunners in 147 games, notching five goals and ten assists in the process.