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Silvestre Joins Arsenal from Man U

Written by Adeleke Afolayan

Thursday, 21 August 2008

Arsenal have made a shock signing by adding French defender Mikael Silvestre to its ranks from archrivals Manchester United for an undisclosed fee on a two year contract.

The move is the first by a player to either club in over 21 years when Viv Anderson left Arsenal for Manchester United in 1987 while Brian Kidd was the last player to move from Old Trafford to the North London club in 1974.

Silvestre, who spent nine years with the Red Devils after joining from Inter Milan, had been strongly linked with a move to local rivals Manchester City till the 11th hour when Arsenal came into the picture.

Meanwhile, AC Milan look close to sealing a return to the Serie A; and the club, for Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko who has had a nightmare two seasons in the Premier league after a £30m arrival from AC Milan.

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	1. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 22-08-2008 11:36 - Guest
	ARSENAL SHOULD GO FOR MORE STRIKERS Well, it's good but i think what arsenal need most now is more strikers, Adebayor is too slow, he alone can not do it as we all know that most of the strikers they have are still nursing one injury or the other. I want to encourage the coach to look at these young and talented players in this on going olympic and get one or two more strikers to assit Adebayour.Players like: Chinedu Obasi, Victor Nsofor, Peter Odewghie and a lot of other players in other countaries.

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