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David Platt 效力阿仙奴期間 (1995-98)，球衣號碼為 7號。

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Arsenal FC

1995-1998



POSITION

Midfielder



DATE OF BIRTH

Friday, 10th June 1966



PLACE OF BIRTH

Oldham, Lancashire



LEAGUE DEBUT

Sunday, 20th August 1995 in a 1-1 draw at home to Middlesbrough (Aged: 29)



CLUB CAREER

65 League apps (+23 as sub), 13 goals










SEASONAL RECORD:
1995-98



After enjoying a successful spell in Italian football with Bari, Juventus and Sampdoria, David Platt returned to English football with a £4, 750, 000 move to Arsenal prior to the start of the 1995-96 season. His first season at Highbury produced the reasonable return of six goals from his twenty-nine League appearances, with his first goal in an Arsenal shirt coming in a 2-0 win at Everton in the second game of the campaign. Platt had been brought to the club by Bruce Rioch but in August 1996 Rioch departed and was replaced by Frenchman Arsene Wenger. Platt was a regular in Wenger's first season with the North Londoners and scored four goals in his twenty-eight League outings, mainly alongside young Patrick Vieira in the middle of the Arsenal midfield. Wenger boosted that department during the summer of 1997 with the arrival of French pair Emmanuel Petit and Gilles Grimandi. The manager's preferred central-midfield pairing was Petit and Vieira and they were nothing short of magnificent during the Gunners double winning season of 1997-98. This, of course, severely limited Platt's appearances and he was to make just eleven starts during the season, with a further twenty substitute appearances. He still managed to make a vital contribution to Arsenal's season, however, with a superb headed winner in a 3-2 victory over Manchester United at Highbury. The importance of that goal could be seen by the fact that United finished just one point behind the Londoners come the end of the campaign. That proved to be David's last season with the Gunners as he opted to take a year out from the game to study coaching before making the move into management. (David Scranage)