Honestly, I never recall a transfer window like this for The Arsenal.

Before the window started, news was that other clubs were “shocked” about how aggressive Arsenal had been in the market.

They had contacted player representatives and clubs to enquire about players, only to be told “he is going Arsenal”. It sent shock waves through football.

Despite this early news, Arsenal were not quick off the mark in confirming players – instead they chose to continue to negotiate to get the best deals and all transfers were delayed until July for the new PSR season. Unlike Manchester City, we did not need to get players in quickly ahead of the Club World Cup.

This perceived slowness did lead to criticism by some fans, which I have blogged on enough recently. What we are now seeing, however, is how quickly we are acting in the transfer market.

Last week a few players returned to pre-season training (many of those not involved in post-season international games). This week pre-season starts proper. And we are close to getting almost all of our business done.

Mikel Arteta had made it clear to Andrea Berta – he wanted the bulk of the deals done before the team fly out to Asia on our pre-season tour.

Before pre-season had started, we already had Kepa, Martin Zubimendi and Christian Norgaard in the bag. £70m spent before the deep clean of London Colney had even been completed!

3 new players and £70m spent before players had begun returning from their holiday was already groundbreaking for not only Arsenal but most Premier League clubs.

But Arteta and Berta were not finished. It was not a case of “that’s enough for now, lets do pre-season and sort out the rest when we are back”. No. A further £120m is set to be spent this week.

Yesterday, we blogged the more incoming were expected this week. It was not exactly an out there take. But we did not expect it to all happen overnight.

Noni Madueke was always going to be announced early this week having flown back from the USA, sacrificing playing in a post-season friendly tournament final to get a deal done to London’s biggest club.

Then overnight it was announced that we had made a breakthrough with Viktor Gyorekes. And now we are close to securing Cristhian Mosquera.

The deal for the Spanish centreback had gone quiet in recent weeks.

My theory has always been that he was always seen as a bit of an “extra”. If we had a spare £20m we would get him. And with the saving made on Gyorekes against what Sporting were demanding, we now have the confirmed free finances to secure him.

What we would not have wanted to have done is splash the cash early on Mosquera, and leave ourselves £20m short for either Gyorekes or Madueke if negotiations did not go our way.

As it happened, we got the deal done at the price we wanted for Gyorekes (lesson to all those kids moaning about us negotiating – so not pay the asking price when buying your first car or house), but probably paid a little more than we wanted to get Madueke.

But the Madueke overpayment did not affect anything as we know the Gyorekes price was all but done, and that his recruitment would not affect Mosquera.

These deals will happen this week. That will be £200m spent before the plane to Singapore takes off.

Incredible business.

PS: Ethan Nwaneri new contract is in the bag too!

Keenos

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Last Sunday I was sat in the garden having come back from a cheeky trip to Paris and I wrote how it would be a big week for The Arsenal.

My prediction was that we would see two, maybe three new signings. Within an hour of that blog going live, the deal for Martin Zubimendi was confirmed.

That deal was followed later in the week with confirmation that Christian Norgaard was an Arsenal player. An extremely cheap deal for a Premier League captain.

As the week continued, talk of Viktor Goryekes and Noni Madueke intensified. Both deals fuelling hatred for different reasons amongst the incel faction of Arsenal‘s fans.

It has to be remembered that damage to the murals in the tunnel was committed by one sad, lonely individual. It is not behaviour representative of Arsenal fans.

Likewise, the disgraceful abuse of Madueke was only by a handful of so called fans.

This is why I get annoyed when the likes of Rio Ferdinand two footed themselves into a debate and make it appear that those handful of individuals representative the club and use it to point score.

Meanwhile, he continues to remain silent throughout the abuse given to Alejandro Garnacho and Harry Maguire. He seems to turn a blind eye to abuse when it is towards a certain kind of player. What is his agenda?

It is ironic that the man who continually cheated on his dying wife continually talks about respect. Luckily his contact with TNT was not renewed and hopefully we don’t have to listen to his sub-par punditry again. He adds nothing to a conversation.

Personally, I would rather these pundits call out the likes of TalkSport, AFTV, Paddy Power et al whose modus operandi is to stir up hatred and anger in fans and rage bait them into generating advertising revenue.

These companies have a reach of millions, continually wind up fans and then sit back and watch the revenue come in.

This week for Arsenal you would expect an early announcement for Madueke. If you were not supporting his transfer, support the player when he is in an Arsenal shirt. If you refuse to support the player, then you do not have the right to call yourself an Arsenal supporter.

The Viktor Groyekes deal will monitor on with Sporting’s loudmouth President continually making public statements. Meanwhile we are acting classy and trying to agree the deal behind closed doors. My bet is it happens towards the end of this week.

The 3rd deal that could be completed before we hole on a plan to Asia is Cristhian Mosquera.

Everything has gone quiet around Mosquera, and my feeling is we put his transfer on the back burner for a bit whilst we completed other deals.

At £15-20m, Mosquera is a bit of a luxury when we do have Ben White and Jurrien Timber who can slot into that right handed centre back slot. Norgaard has also played there and we also have Jakub Kiwior and Ricardo Califiroi as defensive options.

My bet is we have held off spending the money whilst we got closer to completing deals for Madueke and Gyorekes. That £15m-£20m might have been needed elsewhere in the short term.

With Madueke done and Gyorekes nearing conclusion, we now know we have the spare money for Mosquera. A deal done for him would indicate that Gyorekes is in the bag.

After this week, I would expect things to go a little quiet.

Eberechi Eze and Rodrygo are still on the radar, but we would likely need to see some exits first – Reiss Nelson, Fabio Vieira, Albert Sambi Lokonga and Olexsandr Zinchenko first up.

Then I would expect it to be “one in, out” with Trossard departing for Eze and then Martinelli for Rodrygo. If either incoming deal does not happen, then Martinelli and / or Trossard will not depart.

So 3 deals this week hopefully. Then off to Asia with further deals to be completed closer to the start of the season.

Enjoy your sunshine Sunday. Remove hatred from your heart. life is too short.

Keenos

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— 🎗 ///SHE WORE/// 🎗 (@SheWore) July 13, 2025

From moaning about our lack of business to moaning about the business we have done.

In the last few days, we have seen online abuse sent to Noni Madueke, a petition started against his signing and the tunnel murals graffitied over.

Sadly we have become the most laughed at fanbase in England. And one of the most dispised.

Entitled fans who think finishing 2nd is a sackable offence. Who want to get rid of the man who has raised their expectation level for not reaching the high standards they do not even set themselves in life.

Social media has a lot to answer for. And ultimately I blame AFTV.

Their rage baiting content of the late 2010s has spawned a generation of entitled online incell fans that believe rage, anger, and hate are the go to emotions.

I am just glad that the majority of these fans do not go to games. Either due to living hundreds or thousands of miles away or because daddy will no longer pay for their ticket.

The atmosphere at the Emirates is very different to the one that is seen online. But sadly it is the online presence that opposing fans and the media see as the representative voice.

If you post to divide, post to create rage, post to transfer the negativity in your own life into others, then you ain’t Arsenal.

Victoria Concordia Crescit
Remember who you are and what you represent
Do you like Arsenal, or just Arsenal with trophies?

Keenos