The Arsenal Sentinel
Squad2 Apr 2040
Luca Battaglia keeps Arsenal in it on his own
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.
Squad2 Apr 2040
13 seasons of Nicholas Wright
85 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Arsenal know what they have.
Match31 Mar 2040
10 unbeaten for Arsenal
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Arsenal did not have in the autumn.
Market2 Apr 2040
Gabriel Martinelli wants more than Arsenal are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad2 Apr 2040
Ian Maatsen stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ian Maatsen and Arsenal agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market2 Apr 2040
Only the photograph left for Stephen Lawrence
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Stephen Lawrence will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Arsenal the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Apr 2040
Tempers go at Arsenal
Kai Havertz 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.
Match31 Mar 2040
Arsenal find a way past Birmingham
Birmingham made Arsenal work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings2 Apr 2040
Benjamin Bell runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Boardroom $31.7M on the table at Arsenal
- Market The Daniel James question follows Arsenal around
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Pietro Comuzzo