'We have a game based on movement, technique and pace. Reyes has all that. We have been following him for a year.” So said Arsene Wenger in January 2004 when we signed Jose Antonio Reyes from Sevilla. It was a club record transfer that stood for years, and thinking about it again yesterday after the awful news broke that he'd been killed in a car crash along with his 23 year old cousin, it was so, so exciting. Remember, this was an Arsenal team that had Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Kanu, Sylvain Wiltord, Robert Pires, Freddie Ljungberg, an up and coming Jeremie Aliadiere, and we still went out and added more firepower. I don't know what the equivalent might be these days, but we were...
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