From Malaga is arriving Santi Cazorla (27).
Forget the price, it seems a lot of money, but the player brings to the team something that it is needed.
He brings vision, he brings accurate passing, and he brings a change of speed that could either be from slow to fast or the opposite way.
He knows how to kill the ball, hold on to it and accelerate when it is needed.
He also brings a winning mentality, as he has been part of the Spanish national team that has had so much success over the last few years.
But his main weapon is his dead ball ability. He can play the perfect cross, but he can also hit the direct free kicks with amazing technique and accuracy.
He used to be the understudy of Juan Roman Riquelme at Villarreal and the Argentinean midfielder’s free kick taking is legendary.
That midfield is now taking shape and giving the Manager, options, something that he lacked on the last term.
If Wilshere recovers and if he gets back to the level he was playing at before his injury, with Song as defensive midfielder and Santi Cazorla on the left (he can also play on the right as he is ambidextrous), the creativity of that midfield could bring the best out of the strikers RVP (if he stays), Podolski and Giroud.
I think the weakness of the 2012/13 team will once again be defending against teams who play with wide men, but there is still time to fix that.
Back to Cazorla, on his 2 stints with Villarreal he played 181 times and scored 26 goals, then played last season for Malaga (38 games and 9 goals).
At international level he represented Spain at U-21, playing 7 without scoring, and at senior level with 45 games and 6 goals.
The player was in London for a medical, and the fee is said to have been agreed with cash struggling Malaga, and it will be a record signing for Arsenal.