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

9 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

4 September 2026

Arsenal's Summer Window, Ranked By What It Proves

Arteta stood at the podium after the Champions League final defeat to Paris Saint-Germain and said the thing that eventually

1 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

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

Álvarez Is a Fit Arsenal Would Have to Invent

I was half-watching a Carabao Cup tie on my phone last Tuesday, the sound down because the bloke behind me

26 August 2026

Bruno Arrives Into a Midfield That Already Has Answers

Andrea Berta stood next to Bruno Guimarães for the photograph on Thursday morning, both men smiling for a fee that

9 August 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

Arsenal's Tzolis Fee Is a Bet on Time

Christos Tzolis's move to Arsenal was agreed on Thursday 16 July 2026, at a fee of around £34

17 July 2026

Judge the Bruno Bid in October, Not in July

Sometime around the fourth assist against Japan the phone started going in the group chat, and by the time David

7 July 2026