Unai Emery and Sven Mislintat's shared mission to rebuild Arsenal's backline this summer won't end with the imminent arrival of Sokratis Papastathopoulos from Borussia Dortmund. In fact, The Independent believe the north Londoners will attempt to bring in up to four defenders this summer, but improving a side that conceded 51 goals last season, the most of any team in the top seven, is about changing the structure of the starting XI as well, to ensure a defence that was often left painfully open under Arsene Wenger is given the adequate protection it's previously lacked. Perhaps that's a big part of why Emery has been brought to the Emirates. The Spaniard favours a 4-2-3-1 formation that...
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