Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Henrikh Mkhitaryan joined Borussia Dortmund in the same summer back in 2013 - and they subsequently both arrived at Arsenal within six months of one another.
Our new centre back is close friends with the Armenian off the pitch, and he says that on it he has all the tools to be one of the best playmakers in the Premier League.
"It’s everything," Sokratis told Arsenal Player. "With the ball, without the ball, how he works for the team, when he creates, when he returns with the team... it’s just amazing.
"What he showed in his last year in Dortmund, he was one of the best in the Bundesliga.