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

4 September 2026

Selling Martinelli Would Be the Harder, Righter Call

The number moved twice before ten o'clock this morning, from sixty million to eighty-five and back to somewhere

29 August 2026

Konsa Solves This Year's Problem and Nobody Else's

Ezri Konsa signed his forms on a Wednesday, four years with the option of a fifth, £51million plus £4million in

27 August 2026

Arsenal Are Choosing the Academy Because the Market Said No

Wembley, the second of August, and Christos Tzolis — twenty-four days into his Arsenal career — sets up two goals on his

18 August 2026

Arsenal Are Selling the Academy in the Same Breath

Galatasaray's bid landed on 4 August at £38.4million, verbal at first and then formal. Had Arsenal accepted

16 August 2026

Martinelli's Contract Standoff Reveals Which Arsenal Is Winning

Galatasaray's £38.4million came in during pre-season, while Martinelli was still getting fit for the Como friendly, hand

15 August 2026

Nwaneri's Five-Year Contract Only Deferred the Problem

Nobody was in the ground when Ethan Nwaneri scored against MK Dons this pre-season. There was no ground, strictly speaking:

8 August 2026

Arsenal Can Produce Players And Still Lose The Pathway

On the afternoon of 18 September 2022, at Brentford, a fifteen-year-old came on as a substitute and became the youngest

4 August 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

The Alvarez Chase Confirms What Arsenal Already Are

Julián Alvarez said it in Dallas, of all places, in the mixed zone at the World Cup, still working his

13 July 2026