£401,500 A Week Is Not An Arsenal Number

Somewhere in Madrid this week, Florentino Pérez is sitting across a table from Vinícius Júnior's people, and by

29 July 2026

Saliba's Absence Is a Structural Gap, Not a Blip

Thirty minutes into a World Cup semi-final in Dallas, on 14 July, William Saliba went down again. He had been

28 July 2026

Arsenal's Ambition Was Never a Famous Name

The banner going round the Emirates on the final day read "CHAMPIONS," which was accurate, and underneath somebody

28 July 2026

Christos Tzolis and the Cost of Buying Time

The announcement went up on a Sunday morning with the usual studio photo — the shirt held at chest height, the

26 July 2026

The Emirates Optimised for the Wrong Ledger

Twenty years ago this May, Arsenal played their last match at Highbury and moved four hundred yards down the road

25 July 2026

Andrea Berta Inherited Arsenal's Argument With Itself

In the last 48 hours of this summer's window, Arsenal were still trying to sign a goalkeeper who

22 July 2026

Ranking Six Arsenal Windows By What They Actually Fixed

The window is open again. It's the third week of July, the market is doing its usual overheated

21 July 2026

Saka's Bronze-Medal Hat-Trick Hides a Workload Bill Coming Due

Bukayo Saka scored his hat-trick in a game nobody wanted to be playing. England had already lost the semi-final, Argentina

19 July 2026

Arsenal Bought Tzolis for a Method, Not a Name

Thursday morning, half nine, tea not yet brewed, and the phone starts doing the thing it does in July, buzzing

18 July 2026

Álvarez Answers a Question Arteta Should Answer Himself

The story landed on a Sunday afternoon in July, the kind of month when transfer speculation moves faster than verification,

15 July 2026