The Arsenal Sentinel
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Arsenal make their move for Marco Carnesecchi
$37.1M on the table at Atalanta. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Fulham tell Arsenal: Kevin is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match23 Jan 2027
14 unbeaten for Arsenal
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Arsenal did not have in the autumn.
Match25 Jan 2027
The view from the top for Arsenal
48 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market25 Jan 2027
Mikel Merino hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Arsenal can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
Eyes on Riccardo Calafiori again
The phone has started ringing about Riccardo Calafiori again, and this time the name on the line is Inter. Arsenal are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Arsenal
Riccardo Calafiori was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match23 Jan 2027
Sunderland end the Arsenal run at 6
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 6 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Market25 Jan 2027
One of our own: Daniel Bell joins the Arsenal first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Bell is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Arsenal promote Mark Scott from within
- Match The run at home goes on for Arsenal
- Squad Defences have started doubling up on Bukayo Saka