Peter Bailey

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Arsenal U20
6 Aug 2034
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337 Edition

The Arsenal Sentinel

10 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Jan 2033

A knee injury of the worst kind for Matthijs de Ligt

114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Arsenal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match8 Jan 2033

Whatever happens, Arsenal do not lose

19 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market10 Jan 2033

Terms done: Erling Haaland is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Liverpool waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Arsenal is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad10 Jan 2033

14 days out for Peter Bailey after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Arsenal will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad10 Jan 2033

Defences have started doubling up on Erling Haaland

19 goals and a season average of 7.33 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Market10 Jan 2033

Coventry City join the queue for Josh King

Add another name to the list: Coventry City have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Josh King. The answer from Arsenal has not changed — yet.

Squad10 Jan 2033

Gabriel Martinelli 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.

Boardroom10 Jan 2033

Arsenal to lose Joshua Hamilton for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Joshua Hamilton has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Loan watch10 Jan 2033

Aaron Ramsdale’s loan is measured in nothing happening

13 clean sheets from 25 appearances at Burnley. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.

In brief

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336 Edition

The Arsenal Sentinel

3 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match1 Jan 2033

Whatever happens, Arsenal do not lose

18 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match1 Jan 2033

The run at home goes on for Arsenal

17 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Match1 Jan 2033

No mercy from Arsenal

Brentford will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Arsenal were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings3 Jan 2033

Erling Haaland scores twice — 8.83

Two goals and a mark of 8.83 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad3 Jan 2033

A fracture rules Peter Bailey out for 21 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Arsenal will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad3 Jan 2033

The season belongs to Gabriel Martinelli

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Arsenal have had the benefit of it.

Market3 Jan 2033

Erling Haaland attracts admirers

The name of Erling Haaland has come up in conversations Arsenal were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market3 Jan 2033

Gabriel Martinelli wants more than Arsenal are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Jan 2033

Gabriel Martinelli signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriel Martinelli commits to Arsenal for another 4 years.

In brief

335 Edition

The Arsenal Sentinel

27 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match25 Dec 2032

17 unbeaten for Arsenal

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 17 matches without defeat is a foundation Arsenal did not have in the autumn.

Squad27 Dec 2032

29 days out for Peter Bailey after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Arsenal will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match27 Dec 2032

Arsenal are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 42 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Player ratings27 Dec 2032

Axel Tape goes up and wins it — 7.98

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.98 for the rest of it.

Squad27 Dec 2032

Words exchanged at Arsenal

Erling Haaland and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Loan watch27 Dec 2032

16 goals on loan for August Priske

22 appearances at Burnley and the goals keep coming. Arsenal are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Squad27 Dec 2032

Defences have started doubling up on Gabriel Martinelli

6 goals and a season average of 7.30 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Loan watch27 Dec 2032

Nobody is scoring past Aaron Ramsdale at Burnley

11 shut-outs in 22 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Aaron Ramsdale has been having a lot of them.

Market27 Dec 2032

Tyler Dibling is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Arsenal has been clear about where Tyler Dibling stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

334 Edition

The Arsenal Sentinel

20 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match18 Dec 2032

Whatever happens, Arsenal do not lose

16 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match18 Dec 2032

Arsenal run riot against Everton

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Match18 Dec 2032

The run at home goes on for Arsenal

16 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad20 Dec 2032

Peter Bailey breaks a bone — 36 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market20 Dec 2032

Matthijs de Ligt raises the bar for Arsenal

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Arsenal heard it as anything else.

Market20 Dec 2032

Allan is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Arsenal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad20 Dec 2032

Erling Haaland is carrying Arsenal

16 goals and a season average of 7.28. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad20 Dec 2032

Words exchanged at Arsenal

Alexis Mac Allister and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings20 Dec 2032

Gabriel Martinelli was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.56. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief