Selling Martinelli Was Never a Moral Test

Gabriel Martinelli was not in the squad for the opening day win over Coventry City. A 3-0 stroll that will

30 August 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

Martinelli's Price Keeps Changing, Which Is the Point

Sixty million in June. Seventy-three by July. Eighty-five, in euros, by the third week of August, from a club that

28 August 2026

Martinelli's Saudi Bid Tests What Arsenal Actually Value

By the third week of August 2026, nobody watching from outside could say with confidence which Saudi club actually wanted

25 August 2026

Arsenal's Summer Trades Panic For Patience, With One Bill Unpaid

Three-nil at Wembley in the Community Shield tells you almost nothing and everything at once — a trophy nobody puts in

25 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

Martinelli Says No, and the Old Fear Runs Backwards

On 17 August 2012, fourteen years to the day before this column was written, Manchester United confirmed the signing of

17 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