The Arsenal Chronicle
Squad6 Jan 2031
Joaquín Ochoa Giménez damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom6 Jan 2031
Arsenal put Juan Manuel De Luca on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom6 Jan 2031
Emergency meeting at Arsenal
The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.
Squad6 Jan 2031
José Castillo breaks a bone — 42 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market6 Jan 2031
Uri Weissman 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 The request is on a desk at Arsenal, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout6 Jan 2031
Santiago Gutierrez frozen out at Arsenal
This is not rotation. Santiago Gutierrez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Arsenal is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets6 Jan 2031
Too dear: Arsenal walk away from Jorge Pérez
$800.00 was the most the club would pay and Mitre were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets6 Jan 2031
Arsenal rebuffed over Máximo Johnston
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Colón have kept their man, and Arsenal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad6 Jan 2031
Diego Zumbo 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.
In brief
- Squad A muscle injury sidelines Darwin Ramirez for 14 days
- Market Still no ink between Arsenal and Ramiro Cáceres
- Market Arsenal sign Guillermo Jimenez, one for the future