The Arsenal Sentinel
Market5 Jul 2027
Arsenal turn down River Plate for Tommy Setford
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The Arsenal board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Declan Rice in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Arsenal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Real improvement from Samuel Murray at Arsenal
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Samuel Murray is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Jul 2027
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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Mikel Merino stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mikel Merino and Arsenal agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market5 Jul 2027
A season away well spent by Ethan Nwaneri
26 games, 4 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at Arsenal now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Arsenal release $13.8M 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Arsenal sign 10 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
In brief
- Market The clock runs on Mikel Merino's contract
- Market The Seb Ferdinand story refuses to die