Viktor Gy?keres labours as Arsenal fall short against Villarreal and P?p

The ?64m man makes his home debut in friendly as Mikel Arteta talks about his ambitions for new season
New season, same old Arsenal? On an evening when Viktor Gy?keres was meant to announce himself as the solution to all of Mikel Arteta?s problems, instead it was a figure from Arsenal?s past who stole the show.
At ?72m ? ?8m more than they may end up paying for the Sweden striker ? Nicolas P?p? was an expensive Arsenal signing, a few months before Arteta replaced Unai Emery in 2019. Most of the fans who packed out the Emirates Stadium for this pre-season friendly will not have many fond memories of the Ivory Coast international?s spell in north London, but he clearly had a point to prove here.
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