Morning all.
Arsenal Football Club stepped into the summer transfer window knowing that Mikel Arteta wanted a deeper and stronger squad. He got it.
Kepa, Martin Zubimendi, Cristhian Mosquera, Viktor Gyokeres, Noni Madueke, Christian Norgaard, Ebe Eze and Piero Hincapie all arrived at some stage throughout the summer. Hincapie was a loan deal but with an obligation to buy so he was ours for the foreseeable.
Not every Arsenal fan would have been pleased with all the names on the above list I’m sure but that’s life, not every person can be pleased all of the time.
As always, many players left the club too. Kieran Tierney, Jorginho, Nuno Tavares, Takehiro Tomiyasu and Jakub Kiwior being the main ones. Ethan Nwaneri left too but on a loan deal to Marseille. Fabio Vieira, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Reiss Nelson and Sambi Lokonga went out on loan again too. Thomas Partey left the club on expiry of his contract as did Raheem Sterling whose dreadful loan deal came to an end.
Other than the obvious, doing the double over Totts in the fashion we did it was great, as was repeating the feat against Newcastle Utd who had of late been a bit of a bogey team. Liverpool are another nemesis of ours and once more we couldn’t beat them. Nor could we beat Guardiola’s side.
A couple of draws in January and again in February led to the “bottlers” headline to reappear and they increased after we were beaten at home by Bournemouth before losing at The Etihad. As City raced to a 3-0 lead against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, remember “that photo” doing the rounds. Of course you do. It will haunt that Man City fans for the rest of his life.
However, it wasn’t Arsenal who ended up bottling what was a close race for the title. No, that was Man City as it was they who dropped points whereas Arsenal fought bloody hard to get the points needed to get us over the line. In the end, the points difference was **_seven__!_** Easy eh….
Like with transfers, not every fan was a fan of the appointment of Mikel Arteta but what he’s done has been remarkable really. Not for just winning the Premier League but for the way he, as well as others at the club, has dragged Arsenal Football Club out of the gutter and brought the club back into the mix. Not only in England but in Europe too. The fan base are together again, in sync with the club. The support both home and away has been fantastic and that’s because there’s been a reason to believe again which pre Mikel Arteta had not been apparent for a number of years.
Now we have to kick on. Bring in better players than we have, different players to who we have and now we’ve finally conquered England, let’s go and conquer Europe too. We made it to the quarterfinal, then the semifinal and last season, the final when only penalties divided ourselves and PSG.
#### **The Arsenal, 2025/26 Premier League Champions…**
