The Arsenal Sentinel
Squad13 Jul 2043
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marcell Washington
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.
Market13 Jul 2043
Robert Roberts 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.
Market13 Jul 2043
Charlton Athletic come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Arsenal did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market13 Jul 2043
Cristhian Mosquera 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.
Market13 Jul 2043
Only the photograph left for Steven Simmons
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Steven Simmons will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Arsenal the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Jul 2043
Benjamin Collins is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
In brief
- Squad Tyrique George in a row with a teammate
- Squad Alex Verón falls out with a teammate over standards