Player Profile
- Name
- Albert Lokonga
- Squad number
- 23
- Born
- October 22, 1999/Brussels, Belgium
- National team
- Belgium
- Arsenal debut
- v Brentford (a), Premier League, August 13, 2021 (lost 2-0)
- Previous clubs
- Anderlecht
All-action midfielder Sambi is spending this season in Spain with Sevilla after a year in which he impressed on loan at Luton Town, making 19 appearances and scoring once.
Despite missing three months with injury, the combative Belgian established himself in the heart of the Luton midfield and regularly drew praise from manager Rob Edwards for his high-intensity displays.
Before that, Sambi helped Crystal Palace retain their Premier League status during the second half of 2022/23, following a promising debut season in north London in 2021/22 in which he played 24 times and made his senior international debut.
Highly rated from a young age, Sambi spent more than a decade with Anderlecht – making his first-team debut aged 18 in December 2017 – before joining Arsenal in July 2021.
And football is in the blood with Sambi’s family, as his brother, Paul-Jose M’Poku, is a Democratic Republic of Congo international who started his career at Tottenham Hotspur and has since plied his trade across Europe.
