Adebayor Deal Is Done, But More Important For Arsenal, Mozart Is Back

Finally the deal has been done and Emmanuel Adebayor has signed for Manchester City on a five-year contract.

Seen as the vast majority of Arsenal fans were planning parties on his departure, more important news comes today in the form of the start of Arsenal's pre-season against annual hosts, Barnet.

Arsenal was captained today by an old face making a return and a brand new face and both went by the name Tomas.

After 18 long months out with injury, Tomas Rosicky, the man known as Little Mozart, made his return for Arsenal much to the delight of the Arsenal faithful.

To mark his comeback, Arsene Wenger handed the Czech the Captain's armband for the first half.

With 10 of the 11 starters being replaced on 46 minutes, the only player to play the full 90 minutes was handed the Captain's duties for the second-half. This player was the central defender Tomas Vermaelen captured from Ajax last month.

The game saw a mixture of experience and youth with Arsenal lining out at the start with:

Manuel Almunia, Johan Djourou, William Gallas, Thomas Vermaelen, Mikael Silvestre, Jack Wilshere, Mark Randall, Emmanuel Frimpong, Tomas Rosicky, Andrey Arshavin, and Sanchez Watt.

Arsenal looked disjointed at times during the first half, but this was to be expected considering the names involved and the long lay off since their last outing.

Happily for Arsenal fans, Tomas Rosicky got involved in play as much as possible and showed no sign of shrinking from any tackles.

Andrey Arshavin continued where he left off from last season, making some clever runs, one of which lead to the opening goal.

Sanchez Watt did good work out on the left, before looking up and picking out the Russian's run for a tap in.

Barnet got back into the game on the stroke of half-time with Yakubu heading home after Gallas failed to clear from a free-kick.

Half-time saw a rash of changes with only Vermaelen surviving to play the second half.

On came Vito Mannone, Craig Eastmond, Luke Ayling, Jay Simpson, Nacar Barazite, Thomas Cruise, Gilles Sunu, Conor Henderson, Francis Coquelin, and Jay-Emmanuel Thomas.

On 51 minutes, the Gunners were back in front after great work by Barazite.

The 19-year-old showed great confidence to take on a shot when it seemed the chance was gone.

With his back to goal, Barazite turned and curled a shot beyond Viner in the Barnet goal.

However, the game was destined to end and draw and so it came to pass as Charles equalised for Barnet in the 83rd minute after turning Cruise and Mannone desperately missing out on his first attempted block.

Emmanuel-Thomas did have the chance to win it for Arsenal but dragged his shot wide. However, he did extremely well to set up the chance.

In his debut for Arsenal, Tomas Vermaelen did quite well and appears to have good positional sense. A close eye will be kept on him in upcoming games.

Bonuses for Arsenal came in the form of Emmanuel Frimpong, Andrey Arshavin and Sanchez Watt who all had good 45 minutes. The of course there is the return of the man in the number seven shirt.

I think it would be remiss of me to end this article without saying something about the biggest news of the day, so from me to you:

Welcome back, Super, Super Tom, Super, Super Tom, Super, Super Tom, Super Tomas Rosicky.