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 Transfer Discipline Is Starting to Look Like Neglect

The concourse under the East Stand does a particular hum in the last days of August, half relief that the

3 September 2026

Saka's Goal Papers Over a Real Arsenal Problem

Fifty-nine minutes gone at Villa Park on the last Monday of August, and Riccardo Calafiori arrives on the overlap Eze

2 September 2026

Arsenal's Álvarez Fixation Is Solving the Wrong Problem

Atlético Madrid's asking price for Julián Álvarez is €150 million, the same figure Real Madrid had rejected outright

1 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

The Eight O'Clock Verdict On Any Signing Is Weather

The radio in the Bank of Friendship on Blackstock Road was tuned to five different stations by half past six

31 August 2026

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