We reported on Monday that Arsenal confirmed the signing of Sokratis Papastathopoulos and revealed he would be wearing the No.5 shirt, and supporters are delighted with the news. The former Borussia Dortmund defender follows ex-Juventus right-back Stephan Lichtsteiner and ex-Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper Bernd Leno to the Emirates this summer.
Sokratis will bring much-needed experience to the Arsenal backline after Per Mertesacker hung up his boots and Laurent Koscielny suffered a serios achilles injury. Shkodran Mustafi, Rob Holding, Calum Chambers and Konstantinos Mavropanos make up the rest of the centre-backs but aren’t convincing options to take into next season, so Sokratis’ signing couldn’t come at a better time.