The Arsenal Sentinel
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Ricardo Pepi
Arsenal and PSV have settled on $29.5M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Gianluigi Donnarumma
Arsenal asked and Manchester City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $35.2M for Diogo Costa
Arsenal have gone to Porto with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market17 Aug 2026
Myles Lewis-Skelly moves on
Hull City pay $40.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market17 Aug 2026
Arsenal turn down Borussia Dortmund for Martin Ødegaard
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Chris Rigg gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Chris Rigg has just signed for Arsenal, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Arsenal
Declan Rice and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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
Gabriel falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Luke Parker joins the Arsenal first team
- Market Simon Jones steps up from the Arsenal academy
- Transfer targets A loan move for Michael Kayode is in the works