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Arsenal Keep Reaching Finals and Keep Losing Them
Emirates Stadium, Wednesday 9 September 2026. Napoli sat deep and organised for eighty-odd minutes and gave up nothing until they
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Arsenal Keep Reaching Finals and Keep Losing Them
Emirates Stadium, Wednesday 9 September 2026. Napoli sat deep and organised for eighty-odd minutes and gave up nothing until they gave up the one thing that mattered, and Martin Odegaard...
Gyökeres Needs a Job Description, Not a Skill Set
On the last Sunday of July, at the Emirates, Viktor Gyökeres scored a second-half penalty in a game Arsenal lost
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The clock had gone past the eighty-minute mark at the Maradona when Martin Ødegaard did the thing Arsenal's
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11 September 2026
Gyökeres Needs a Job Description, Not a Skill Set
On the last Sunday of July, at the Emirates, Viktor Gyökeres scored a second-half penalty in a game Arsenal lost 3-2 to Borussia Dortmund. It was the Emirates Cup, a friendly, the sort of fixture that means nothing and gets reported as though it might mean everything. Afterwards he said
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10 September 2026
Ødegaard's Strike Answers a Question Nobody Had Settled
The clock had gone past the eighty-minute mark at the Maradona when Martin Ødegaard did the thing Arsenal's away record in Italy insisted he couldn't do — took it on the half-turn outside the box, in a stadium where this club had scored once in five previous
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Arteta
9 September 2026
Arteta's Calm About the Forward Line Is the Tell
Back in May, standing in the wreckage of a Champions League final lost on penalties to PSG, Mikel Arteta told anyone who'd listen that the summer needed three things: Arsenal had to be "very, very ambitious, very fast and very smart." It was the kind of
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Arteta
8 September 2026
The Unbeaten Talk Inverts Everything Wenger Got Right
Sunday afternoon, the final whistle goes at 2-1 over Chelsea, and the number on the scoreboard says one thing while the last twenty minutes said another. Arsenal spent that stretch defending a lead rather than defending a plan, ceding the ball in patches that would have made Arteta wince on
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8 September 2026
Arsenal's Back Three Is a Confession, Not a Gimmick
The habit at the Emirates this season is to watch the fullback tuck inside on goal kicks and wait for the shape to declare itself — back three when Arsenal have it, back five when they don't, and a wing-back doing the running of two men in between. It
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Wenger
7 September 2026
Wenger Survived Two Februaries Before He Won Anything
By the second week of February 1998, Arsenal sat twelve points behind Manchester United at the top of the table, and the back pages had started dusting off a joke that was by then eighteen months old. Arsène Who? had been funny in September 1996, when nobody outside French football
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Arteta
6 September 2026
Arteta's Shrug Is Doing a Lot of Work
There is a particular flatness to the way Mikel Arteta said "it is what it is" on deadline day, the sort of flatness a man reaches for when the alternative is saying something he'll regret in print. He'd been asked whether the window had
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5 September 2026
Arsenal Sold Its Patience Along With Its Fringe Players
Gabriel Jesus left for Barcelona on a deal worth an initial €10 million, with a further €4.5 million riding on how useful he turns out to be for somebody else, and nobody at the Emirates seemed particularly moved by it. That is probably correct. He had not been central
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transfers
4 September 2026
Arsenal Spent £201million Not To Buy A Striker
The goal that beat Aston Villa this month didn't arrive on a private jet in August. It came from a name already in the squad photo taken before a single fee was agreed this summer, from a player Arteta already trusted before Andrea Berta had signed anything at
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