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

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

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

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

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

William Saliba's Back Is Not a Detail Anymore

At half past the hour on Tuesday, with the ball nowhere near him and no opponent inside three yards, William

16 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

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

Arsenal Keep Building Bids That Need the Other Side to Blink

The email arrived at Anfield in August 2013 with a figure attached that nobody had seen before in English football.

13 July 2026

Arsenal's Bruno Chase Forgets What's Already in the Building

Sunday morning, and the story arrives the way these stories always arrive now, via Ornstein, via the Athletic, a single

12 July 2026