Arsenal’s 2023/24 squad is starting to come together and a team likely to be very close to the one that Mikel Arteta could name for the Community Shield against Manchester City at Wembley next month took to the field against Manchester United at MetLife Stadium.
Kai Havertz, Declan Rice and Jurrien Timber each got their first starts in Arsenal colours, adding more than £200m worth of new signings to Arteta’s XI.
With Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Martinelli also staring for the first time this pre-season, it was arguably only Oleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus that could make the team…
