Laurent Koscielny was not a name familiar with many people when he joined Arsenal in the summer of 2010. The then 24 year old had just played his first season of top flight football, having joined Lorient from Tours (where he was a teammate of Olivier Giroud). We paid £10m for him, he's played 324 games for us, scored in a cup final, scored a couple of vital final day goals, and having dealt with a chronic ongoing Achilles tendon issue for years, finally paid the price for putting his body on the line – and being asked to put his body on the line – on Thursday night. With nobody anywhere near him, he crumpled the ground in obvious agony. That Achilles had gone, ruptured, and with it...
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