Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Ko te kaiwhakahaere o Arsenal a Arsene Wenger ka aro atu ki tetahi kaitiaki pokapū, he kaitiaki waenga me tetahi kaitiaki whaainga i tenei raumati me te putea whakawhiti £ 50 miriona. Ka taea e Per Mertesacker te utu mo etahi mahinga kino i tenei waa, me te haurua o Dortmund a Neven Subotic me Aleksandar Dragovic o Dynamo Kiev i runga i te radar Gunners. Ko nga kaitiaki o Arsenal a David Ospina me Wojciech Szczesny ka werawera ano hoki mo o raatau heke mai. Ko Petr Cech te whaainga pea, ahakoa kaore pea a Chelsea i te rite ki te hoko atu ki tetahi hoa whakataetae. Ko Arsene Wenger e kiia ana kei te aro atu ki te kaitautoko o Borussia Dortmund Ko Neven Subotic (maui) Ko Aleksandar Dragovic (tuarua matau) o Dynamo Kiev kei runga ano i te radar a Wenger mo te raumati. E ai ki ngā pūrongo, e 50 miriona pauna te tahua a te kaiwhakahaere o Arsenal a Wenger hei whakapau ki tana kapa i te raumati. Ko Wenger he kaiwhaiwhai mo te wa roa o Southampton's Morgan Schneiderlin, ko ia te kaitono nui mo te mahi o te waenganui. Ko te tūnga o Gabriel rāua ko Laurent Koscielny i roto i ngā mahere a Arsene Wenger mō te tau e whai ake nei e āhua haumaru ana. Engari ko te taenga mai o tētahi pokapū hou i te raumati nei ka whai pānga ki a Mertesacker. Kua whakahētia ngā mahi a te Tiamana i tēnei tau, ahakoa i tino pai ia i te wikitoria o te FA Cup i te Mane ki Manchester United. He maha ngā kōrero e pā ana ki a Wenger ki te kaitakawaenga o Southampton, a Morgan Schneiderlin (māui) Ko te kaitiaki o Chelsea, a Petr Cech, e kiia ana he mea nui ki a Arsenal, engari kāore pea a Chelsea e hiahia ki te hoko atu ki tētahi hoa whawhai. I tukuna ia e Wenger, engari na te whara o te hamstring o Gabriel i kite te kaitautoko i te huarahi tere ki te roopu tuatahi. Ā, ko te taenga mai o tētahi whutupōro hōu, ka taea te whakawātea i te tūranga o Mertesacker ki ngā mahere a Wenger. Ko te hopu i tētahi kaitiaki pokapū hou ka whai pānga hoki ki a Calum Chambers. Kua whakamahia te ao Ingarangi hei taupoki i te pokapū-whakamuri i tenei waa, engari ko nga mahere whakawhiti a te karapu ka taea e Wenger te kite i tana heke mai mo te wa roa i te taha matau, i te taha waenganui ranei.
E hiahia ana a Arsene Wenger ki te whakapai ake i ana kōwhiringa ārai i Arsenal. Kei te whai a Wenger i te kaitiaki Petr Cech me te kaitautoko a Neven Subotic. He maha nga wa i honoa ai ia ki a Morgan Schneiderlin o Southampton.