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Ix Techau Evil Mastermind 14,278 pts

Liquid football! Arsenal and Chelsea agree £10.9m deal for Petr Čech

Posted by Ix Techau almost 9 years ago · 4 replies

Done and dusted. Transfer Centre has been updated, so has the players page. We now have 27 first team players in need of registration for 2015-2016, so need to get rid of (or not register) at least three in order to bring any new players in (unless they're U21). We're good on the homegrown front though, with 15 non-homegrown out of 17 allowed.

Daily Mail with the exclusive this time, although it feels very much like a risky guess from the tabloid in order to be first with the news. Sky Sports followed a day after with confirmation.

Anyway, some facts:

  • Čech becomes Wenger's 28th goalkeeper signing and Arsenal's tenth most expensive signing of all-time.

  • Chelsea are now joint-fourth most dealt with club under Wenger (six deals in/out).

  • Helmet man takes Wenger's total Arsenal spend to £519m, of which £31.4m (6%) has been spent on goalkeepers.

  • Čech becomes the most expensive goalkeeper signing in Arsenal's history, a record previously held by Richard Wright (£6m in July 2001).

  • Čech has four Premier League titles, four FA Cups, one Europa League trophy and one Champions League trophy.

  • Worth remembering that in the last season in which he was first-choice (2013-2014) he won the golden glove with 16 clean sheets, but he had to share that golden glove with Szczesny.

Boom.

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