The N FC crew answer your tweets on Mikel Arteta's chances of replacing Arsene Wenger, contract extensions for Bayern's veteran players and more. Arsenal's first signing of the Unai Emery era was a 34-year-old, no-nonsense defender in Stephan Lichtsteiner. Their second, if a deal for Sokratis Papastathopoulos goes through imminently, will be an almost-30-year-old, no-nonsense defender. It is a recruitment strategy which has the feel of electric shock treatment after two decades of Arsene Wenger. But then, as he stretches his feet out under his desk at London Colney, the new head coach faces a very different scenario to that which greeted Wenger back in 1996. It was to the Frenchman's huge...
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