Delighted with the signing. Looks the part from what I've seen of him. Wenger says he'll challenge for a first team place within weeks and said he viewed him playing wide right up front in a 4-3-3.
In a week of high moral ground stances form footballers it was also lovely to see a player turn down more russian money becuase he feels the style of play, the opportunity to learn more from the players around him and the overall structure of the club is more important to his development (although let's not kid ourselves, he's gonna get well paid to do it).
Shaun Wright-Phillips has done a brilliant job in turning almost every talented youngster off joining Chelsea - maybe his aul lad was looking after his old club after all.
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