Arsenal: 3 great transfer ideas that aren’t talked about enough

2. Santi Cazorla

Santi Cazorla had about two days of serious popularity and then it all disappeared. But even in that two-day span, there was a clear and obvious theme—it would be as a farewell. Like a one-day contract or some nonsense to let him say goodbye.

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I’m more interested in signing him for the last two years of his playing career because clearly he is showing no signs of slowing down. He’s still putting up the same ridiculous numbers out of the midfield as he put up with us. Only this time he’s doing it with a less impressive supporting cast and he’s doing it in Spain.

Bring that smiling magician back to the Emirates, let him play 1000-1500 minutes or so as our central midfield pivot—a role we desperately need anyway, and do it for free! Free! We can pad our midfield presence considerably by getting someone we all already know and love and it wouldn’t cost us anything beyond the wages.

Or hell, throw him into the No. 10 role to replace Mesut Ozil. I don’t care how we do it, just get Santi Cazorla back to the Emirates. He is a very real solution to a very real problem.

Finally, I’m shouting into a void at No. 1.