Reports in Germany suggest that Arsenal are the favourites to sign 29-year-old centre-back Sokratis Papastathopoulos (via Kicker). Now that the season is over, most Arsenal fans will be turning their attention to the transfer window and which players the club should look to bring in. There are some key positions which are desperately in need of reinforcement and most will agree that centre-back is one of them. Per Mertesacker is set to retire from playing and Laurent Koscielny will miss the next few months with injury so the Gunners will certainly need to sign at least one player in the window. That is at least the thinking behind these reports from Germany where Kicker is reporting that...
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