Hello and welcome to Friday, the day that pre-season begins in earnest as we play our first real fixture in the build up to the new campaign. We face RC Lens tonight, and although it's likely to be a fairly makeshift sqaud/team with so many players still away, it'll give us our first glimpse of the Arsenal since May. More on that anon. Nothing stirring in the transfer market as yet, but Ivan Gazidis has been speaking to N about Arsene Wenger, the club's philosophy and our approach to building a successful team. I had re-read it a few times because it all sounded very familiar. Take this, for example, when discussing the transfer market and how we might act in it: We're making progress in...
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