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Rich Jones

Arsenal's "special" deadline day signing labelled ‘next Robert Pires’ by Arsene Wenger

Thomas Eisfeld could barely believe what was happening on 31st January, 2012.

It was a typically frantic deadline day in the Premier League.

As all the drama elsewhere captured the headlines, Eisfeld was flown from Germany on a private jet and found himself sat in Arsene Wenger ’s office.

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