The Arsenal Sentinel
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Arsenal
Declan Rice 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Leon Chiwome would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Leon Chiwome is living that version at Arsenal, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Arsenal
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Arsenal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market17 Aug 2026
Arsenal promote Christopher King from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christopher King has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
Thomas Collins steps up from the Arsenal academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thomas Collins has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Jonathan Allen joins the Arsenal first team
- Market Arsenal promote Jack Brown from within
- Squad Somebody is after Viktor Gyökeres’s shirt
- Boardroom Arsenal spend it where nobody looks