2000: The big transfers and pre-season games
By Tony Attwood Robert Pirès arrival was surely the transfer to note in the 2000 pre-season period, joining on 3 July, while Sylvain Wiltord joined at the end of the transfer window. Nigel Winterburn, Marc Overmars and Manu Petit all moved on. Arsenal opened with the usual couple of low key warm ups in the pre-season starting with …
