Arsenal sign Podolski

Well, well, well, what a surprise we all go yesterday eh? Not only a relatively big name signing but one that was announced in advance of the transfer window even opening.  It seems like lessons might actually have been learnt after last summer after all.
We’d heard Podolski might be coming/was coming but in true Arsenal fashion the rumours built and built to the point where he was having a medical every week according to those trusty people in the know yet we could never manage to get the deal sorted.  It’ll be this week, no this week, not this week, and on and on it went.  When it was announced that Chelsea had signed their German there was a bit of an outcry wondering why we couldn’t wrap the signing of ours up as simply as they did.
Well, now we have.
At 26 years old Podolski should be just about hitting his prime.  He has an average...