The Arsenal Chronicle
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Noah Vázquez is out at Arsenal
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Miguel Ángel Ojeda minds the shop at Arsenal
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Miguel Ángel Ojeda recited it perfectly.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A falling-out at Arsenal
Nahuel Pezzini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Graduation day at Arsenal
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Words at Arsenal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro Brienzo 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.
Transfer targets5 Feb 2029
Arsenal rebuffed over Milton Zanotti
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sarmiento have kept their man, and Arsenal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets5 Feb 2029
The window shuts on the Enzo Gramajo deal
Arsenal ran out of time with Vélez. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Market5 Feb 2029
Arsenal promote Martín Benítez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Martín Benítez 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
Arsenal promote Profesor from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Profesor 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.
In brief
- Market Arsenal promote Mateo Godoy from within
- Market One of our own: Alejandro Méndez joins the Arsenal first team
- The dugout Iván Peralta gets it from the manager