From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match5 Feb 2028
Arsenal make it 8 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Arsenal have 8 straight wins of it.
Squad7 Feb 2028
11 goals and a season average of 7.60. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market7 Feb 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Arsenal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Feb 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gabriel and Arsenal agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match5 Feb 2028
Aston Villa made Arsenal work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Savinho left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Savinho will call it something else in private.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Arsenal release $37.9M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Squad7 Feb 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Loan watch7 Feb 2028
“I am playing every week here and I feel like a footballer again.” 25 appearances and 13 goals on loan, and a decision waiting in the summer.
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Steady
Market13 Sep 2027
The name of Mats Wieffer has come up in conversations Arsenal were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad13 Sep 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Kepa Arrizabalaga knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match11 Sep 2027
A 1-1 draw with Leeds United leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Dani Parejo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The terraces13 Sep 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Mats Wieffer
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Ebere Eze finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Arsenal have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market13 Sep 2027
The name of Benjamin White keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Arsenal say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Somebody is after Gabriel’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Gabriel suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Arsenal have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
24 appearances at Kalmar FF and the goals keep coming. Arsenal are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
Mikel Merino has left for West Ham United in a $13.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market28 Jun 2027
A conversation is coming this week. Arsenal will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market28 Jun 2027
Ivan Toney linked with a move away
The name of Ivan Toney keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Arsenal say nothing, which says plenty.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
13 appearances at Kalmar FF and the goals keep coming. Arsenal are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The transfer that hurt Gabriel most
Somebody else's move, somebody else's headline. What it left at Arsenal is an empty peg and a footballer who keeps glancing at it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match14 Jun 2027
Arsenal are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 64 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
127 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market14 Jun 2027
Hull City are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Arsenal will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market14 Jun 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Arsenal know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Leandro Trossard joins up with his country. Arsenal lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Gabriel called up by his country
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Arsenal that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Arsenal that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Loan watch14 Jun 2027
22 appearances at Olympique de Marseille and the goals keep coming. Arsenal are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Market7 Jun 2027
The paperwork is done: Ethan Ampadu joins from Leeds United in a deal worth $42.5M. Now comes the harder part.
Market7 Jun 2027
The paperwork is done: Joelinton joins from Newcastle United in a deal worth $27.2M. Now comes the harder part.
Market7 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
The spotlight tightens on Joelinton
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Gabriel loses the armband
The captaincy has been taken off Gabriel. Arsenal will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Somebody is after Bukayo Saka’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Bukayo Saka suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Arsenal have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market7 Jun 2027
Arsenal have made Dani Parejo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The captaincy goes to Declan Rice. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The language is coming and there is somebody to talk to in the dressing room. A footballer who feels at home plays like one, and it never shows up in a scouting report.
In brief
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Boardroom
The board put their hand in their pocket
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Boardroom
Arsenal board back the manager
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Loan watch
The clock runs down on Piero Hincapié at Arsenal
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match22 Mar 2027
Arsenal up to position 1
59 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad22 Mar 2027
7 goals and a season average of 7.43. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match20 Mar 2027
Three points for Arsenal, 1-0 the final word against Crystal Palace in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Martín Zubimendi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Louie Bradbury
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market22 Mar 2027
The name of Jurriën Timber keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Arsenal say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Gabriel called up by his country
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Arsenal that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
4 goals on loan for Ebere Eze
9 appearances at Burnley and the goals keep coming. Arsenal are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
20 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Bukayo Saka finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Arsenal have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market26 Oct 2026
The name of Viktor Gyökeres keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Arsenal say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad26 Oct 2026
1 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The shirt belongs to Gabriel now
At 28 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Arsenal have a decision that made itself.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ivan Toney asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Match10 Oct 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
The spotlight tightens on Ivan Toney
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gabriel called up by his country
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Arsenal that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.