Arsenal completed their third signing of the summer yesterday with the shock capture of Greek centre-half Sokratis Papastathopoulos. Talk about out of the blue! I kid, obviously, as this is one that has been in the pipeline for some time, and he's now the third former Borussia Dortmund player to have been brought in in the last 6 months. Following the arrivals of Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Sven Mislintat has gone back to his former club to do another deal, and a fee of around 17m was enough to bring the 30 year old to North London. Is it particularly imaginative? No, but I do think this transfer period is one in which we look to address issues we have within the...
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