February 26, 2025
On February 2, 2009 Andrey Arshavin came to Arsenal and the Premier League for a club record fee, but there is far more to this infamous deadline day transfer than meets the eye. ESPN FC reporter James Olley tells the story of how Russia's young superstar went from team of the tournament at Euro 2008, to being caught by paparazzi in a London snowstorm, whilst Zenit St Petersburg and Arsenal negotiated a deal that went right down to the final four seconds of the January transfer window.
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