Maxi

Left Wingback - Arsenal
30 Jun 2030
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Marked for Maxi

204 Edition

The Arsenal Chronicle

24 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Jun 2030

Leiner Lobo asks to leave Arsenal

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match22 Jun 2030

Arsenal make home a hard place to visit

13 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match22 Jun 2030

Arsenal find a way past Colegiales

Colegiales made Arsenal work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad24 Jun 2030

Words at Arsenal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexis Payes 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.

The terraces24 Jun 2030

The crowd has taken to Bautista Goncebat

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings24 Jun 2030

A masterclass from Alexis Payes

Marked 8.51 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings24 Jun 2030

Tobías Dieni in the eights

A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings24 Jun 2030

Nobody could get near Máximo Mendoza

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Jun 2030

Tempers go at Arsenal

Tomás Varela 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.

In brief

Back issues
202 Edition

The Arsenal Chronicle

10 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market10 Jun 2030

Giovanni Diosque asks to leave Arsenal

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match8 Jun 2030

Arsenal make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad10 Jun 2030

Luca Duarte 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.

Squad10 Jun 2030

Giovanni Diosque 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.

Squad10 Jun 2030

The manager makes an example of Luca Duarte

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad10 Jun 2030

Maxi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maxi commits to Arsenal for another 3 years.

Player ratings10 Jun 2030

Nobody could get near Máximo Mendoza

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings10 Jun 2030

Tobías Dieni takes the honours

Marked 7.71 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Arsenal had the best player on the pitch.

Match8 Jun 2030

Arsenal share the spoils with Racing

A 1‑1 draw with Racing leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

128 Edition

The Arsenal Chronicle

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces8 Jan 2029

The mood at Arsenal has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom8 Jan 2029

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Arsenal

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Boardroom8 Jan 2029

Arsenal spell it out for Benjamín Ponce

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Benjamín Ponce has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom8 Jan 2029

Crisis meeting at Arsenal

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Market8 Jan 2029

Máximo Mendoza puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Arsenal, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Tempers go at Arsenal

Dylan Cabral 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.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Tomás Rodríguez signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tomás Rodríguez and Arsenal agree another 3 years.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Luca Duarte 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.

Market8 Jan 2029

Arsenal buy the years ahead of Arthur Souza

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

  • Market A long bet from Arsenal on Maxi
  • Squad Too much change too quickly at Arsenal
  • Boardroom $15.3K taken back off the Arsenal table