The weekend approaches and with it some good news about player fitness. Yesterday, the club announced the return to full training for six players who have been sidelined recently. Hector Bellerin, Nacho Monreal, Laurent Koscielny, Dinos Mavropanos, Shkodran Mustafi and Mesut Ozil are all back in the squad and when you consider that five of them are defenders it must be very welcome news for Unai Emery. I know there's a lot of spotlight on what we do this month in the transfer market, particularly defensively, but as I've said a few times before unless a real opportunity presents itself which will allow us to sign a player we really want, then I don't think we'll buy a defender in January....
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