As is the tradition when a new player is added to the Arsenal first-team squad, the newbies who are on tour in Singapore had to stand on chairs and sing their hearts out.

Bernd Leno and Matteo Guendouzi were among the players who took part and while Arsenal also posted some snippets on Twitter, there was no sign of Sokratis belting out a tune. Perhaps everybody was too scared to ask him.

• Watch: Eddie Nketiah and Donyell Malen perform initiation songs for Arsenal squad
• Monreal on learning English and his initiation song
• Watch: Xhaka sings his Arsenal initiation song and it’s awful!
• Xhaka explains his initiation song
• Walcott and Gibbs reveal Petr Čech’s initiation

You can watch how it all went down in the video below (and above) and the Tweets that follow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDyGcCIWl8Y

• Watch: Eddie Nketiah and Donyell Malen perform initiation songs for Arsenal squad
• Monreal on learning English and his initiation song
• Watch: Xhaka sings his Arsenal initiation song and it’s awful!
• Xhaka explains his initiation song
• Walcott and Gibbs reveal Petr Čech’s initiation