Who are you: Thomas Vermaelen?

So Arsène Wenger has done it again. Not content with making one big money, straight-to-first-team signing this year, he has gone and produced another.

The need for a new centre half at the Emirates has been well documented (and slightly exaggerated if you ask me) of late, with Kolo Touré's alarming loss of form, William Gallas' injury and temperament issues, and Mikaël Silvestre's.