Arsenal advised to cash in on Barcelona target Bellerin

A return to familiar surroundings has been mooted for the Spanish full-back who has struggled for consistency at the Emirates.

Arsenal selling Hector Bellerin would be a ‘good bit of business’, according to the club’s former star Kevin Campbell.

Questions have been raised over the right-back’s future at Arsenal amid rumors linking him with a reunion with FC Barcelona.

A product of La Masia, the Blaugrana’s famed youth academy, the 25-year-old signed his first professional contract with the Gunners back in 2012.

He played his first competitive game in a League Cup match the following year and, after a loan spell away, gradually established himself as the first-choice right-back in the Arsenal team.

Fitness problems and consistency issues, however, have troubled the Spaniard in recent times and, with the team also going through tough times, fans are starting to lose patience with him.

“Bellerin, by his own admission, has not been ripping trees up. He was getting exposed at times,” Campbell told Football Insider. “Maitland-Niles really sured up the right-hand side when he came in earlier this month. The performances were a lot more solid, especially on that right-hand side.

“There is a question to be asked of Bellerin and a lot of fans are asking it. Will the club sell him?

“There is rumours of Barcelona’s interest. It is his boyhood club, the club he loves and maybe that would be a good bit of business.”