“As always in football, clubs have to evaluate what they need, but they showed interest when they got in contact”, Perez told club’s official website.
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Daniel wasn’t the only naive Arsenal fan to make an outlandish promise should the 24-year-old centre back join the club, as one fan suggested that if the deal went through he would attend an Arsenal game ‘Gary Lineker-style’ in his bare trousers.
That said, we hope our ignorance isn’t bliss in regards to Lucas Perez’s signing with many Arsenal fans’ homework on YouTube having uncovered a striker who certainly knows where the goal is.
Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal’s final summer signing Shkodran Mustafi is already suited to the Premier League. “He’s got a good eye for goal and had an outstanding season previous year”, stated Wenger.
Perez arrives to Arsenal off the back off a fine goalscoring season in Spain with 17 La Liga goals and was the standout star of a Deportivo side that avoided relegation.
Mustafi and Perez follow Swiss worldwide midfielder Granit Xhaka, Japanese forward Takuma Asano and young English centre-back Rob Holding in arriving at Arsenal during the mid-year transfer window. He has won three England caps.
The English top flight’s other big clubs kept their powder dry on the transfer front on Tuesday. “The season is long; we’ll become stronger with every game”.
The German worldwide has already had a spell in England, joining Everton as a 17 year old.
Spending in the Premier League has rocketed after new television rights deals worth an estimated eight billion pounds took effect on the eve of the season.
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After officially signing for the club, the German defender sounded ecstatic. The Gunners, eighth in the early standings, spent an estimated 35-million pounds to bring German global defender Mustafi from Valencia.
