Its Official : Silvestre a new Gunners!
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Arsenal has signed Manchester United’s defender Mikael Silvestre for an undisclosed fee.
The 31-year-old French, who missed a large part of last season with knee ligament damage, has agreed a two-yea deal at the Emirates Stadium after nine years at Old Trafford.
Silvestre is on the last year of his contract, having fallen down the pecking order at United and with Rio the Vidic partnership are Sir Alex first-choice partnership at the Red Devils heart of defence coupled with Brown and O’Shea can also provide cover in the center and have recently agreed new deals at the club, while Patrice Evra has made the left-back spot his own. (more…)