Arteta was signed from Everton at about 10.45 pm last night.
Arsenal has been Farcenal this week… and I’m so glad deadline day is over.
I detest deadline day because desperate Gooners keep phoning.
It’s not not not “great television” that leaves me glued to Sky Sports News all day.
Between 9a.m. and 11p.m. I only saw about 40 minutes of it.
Yesterday I was telling mates, “OK, he’s bought Mertesacker, Santos and Park but the real Arsene Wenger signing is AOC.
“Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is a 17 year old with burning pace. Wenger is a pace-junkie and always has been. He paid £12+2m for a teenager with phenomenal pace.
“AOC tells you who this manager is. He’s the true Wenger signing of the summer. He’s the player Wenger bought first, his priority, the guy he paid the most money for.”
Paul Hayward says the same things far more eloquently in The Guardian