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Southampton are building fast this summer, snapping up Lewis Dobbin from Aston Villa for nearly nine million pounds. The twenty-three-year-old attacker spent last season tearing up the Championship with Preston North End, posting eleven goals and eight assists in forty-one appearances. He becomes Southampton's fifth permanent signing of the window, and they are not done yet.
Over in the northeast of England, Sunderland have made a statement move, bringing in Belgium World Cup defender Thomas Meunier on a two-year deal. The thirty-four-year-old arrives from Lille with a career that spans Club Brugge, Paris Saint-Germain, Borussia Dortmund, and Trabzonspor, plus over five hundred fifty senior club appearances. That is serious pedigree arriving at the Stadium of Light.
And meanwhile, Arsenal are turning their attention to Georgia, with scouts watching seventeen-year-old Kolkheti nineteen thirteen attacker Andria Bartishvili last Wednesday. The Gunners are pushing hard after missing out on Jeremy Monga, who chose Manchester City. A teenager from the Georgian top flight could be heading to the Emirates if Arsenal move quickly enough.
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