One of the major tasks on new Arsenal manager Unai Emery's to do list is to add the requisite bite to a midfield that has gone stale and become lifeless at times under Arsene Wenger in recent years. Grant Xhaka was the man Wenger pinned his hopes on when he did finally spend big on a holding midfielder and it is fair to say that the jury is still out on the Swiss international. Emery will hope to bring the best out of the midfield man and while work on the training field and perhaps his tactical scheme can do that, so will the personnel that the Spaniard recruits around him. One man who has been linked with a move to the Emirates in recent days is Roma's Lorenzo Pellegrini, so that's why...
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