When Mikel Arteta signed his last Arsenal contract in September 2024, his quest to bring major silverware back to the club was ongoing. Two years later, he agrees his new one after leading them to a long-awaited Premier League title.
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Mikel Arteta has agreed a new deal to extend his stay at Arsenal.
Sky Sports22 Sept
Manager’s current deal to expire at end of the season Spaniard can expect big increase on £10m-a-year salary Mikel Arteta has agreed a long-term contract extension with Arsenal that includes a hefty pay rise in recognition of his success last season and could take his reign as the manager beyond a decade. The three-year deal he signed in September 2024 expires at the end of this season and talks have been ongoing since May when Arsenal ended their long wait to be champions . Negotiations were put on hold during the transfer window but the Spaniard has reached a verbal agreement to extend his stay for a second time. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Ed Aarons22 Sept
Mikel Arteta agrees an improved new contract with Premier League champions Arsenal.
BBC22 Sept
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! For an elite head coach who isn’t used to seeing his team lose, suffering a rare defeat on the weekend before an international break is particularly hard to take. With the vast majority of your players hightailing it out of Dodge to rack up more air miles than Santa Claus across a decade’s worth of Christmas Eves, the chance to quickly put things right simply isn’t an option. With the first lull of the season set to be longer than any before, the potential for introspection, self-flagellation and over-thinking has never been higher. Luckily, Mikel Arteta has never struck Football Daily as the kind of intense, brooding and meticulous perfectionist likely to spend the next 19 days beating himself up over the monstering his team suffered from Brighton on Saturday. Whether it’s forlornly moving magnets around a tactics board or walking Win the dog around Arsenal’s largely-deserted training ground until her little legs are stumps, we’re confident the Arsenal boss’s every fleeting thought over the next three weeks will not be laser-focused on the manner in which the Seagulls viciously pecked his team of champions into submission and how best to ensure such a humiliation is never repeated. Oxford United’s decision to market an American college-themed ‘United 93’ kit shortly after the 9/11 anniversary, only then to have to recall it (Friday’s Football Daily, full email edition), is a tad unfortunate. But until 1960 they were known as Headington United, from their heady days in the Southern League. So I am eagerly awaiting the ‘1960 Ron Atkinson’ range celebrating both their history and leading appearance maker (still)” – Jon Harris. Following Andros Townsend’s freak (but miraculously not serious) on-pitch accident, will future fixtures between Prachuap and Pattani be known as the Roller derby?” – Phil Taverner. OK. I messed up. On 30 August, I made a claim that Emilio Martínez’s transfer to Chelsea for £7.5m might be the bargain of the season. Now five games in and 12 goals conceded, I wish to retract my statement. I will try to do better and stay away from any rash predictions” – Nigel Sanders. Football knowledge aside, I take great pride in knowing a lot about The Simpsons (earlier years especially … I haven’t watched it in about a decade). It was Wiggum who advised to dig up, not Homer (Friday’s Football Dailly letters )” – Mark Shrewsbury. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Barry Glendenning21 Sept
Arsenal’s 100% start to season comes to an end Manager says team put themselves in trouble from start Mikel Arteta admitted Arsenal were taught a lesson by free-scoring Brighton as their 100% start to the season was abruptly ended on Saturday . Not since 10 May 2023 – 1,224 days ago – when the same opponents won 3-0 at the Emirates Stadium had the Premier League champions lost by three goals. But they were second-best throughout as Pascal Gross, Charalampos Kostoulas and Chema Andrés rounded off a comprehensive victory. “They deserved to win the game and it’s a big lesson for us,” said a disappointed Arteta, who felt his players were not their usual combative selves. “From the first throw-in you could sense it, it was so clear. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Ed Aarons at the Amex Stadium19 Sept
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says Arsenal were "very far" from the standards required to compete after the Gunners lost 3-0 to Brighton - their first defeat in the Premier League this season.
BBC19 Sept
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has not ruled out loaning out Max Dowman in the future and says the club evaluates the 16-year-old sensation's progress every six months.
Sky Sports18 Sept
Teenager continues development with two goals at Ipswich Merino: ‘He is a big talent and we have to take care of him’ Mikel Merino says Max Dowman reminds him of Lamine Yamal after the Arsenal prodigy continued his development by scoring twice in his side’s 4-2 win against Ipswich . Dowman, who has been given a host of opportunities at senior level by Mikel Arteta, starred after being handed his first appearance of the season, at Portman Road on Tuesday. The 16-year-old attacker’s classy double eased Arsenal into the last 16 of the Carabao Cup and left Arteta admitting that containing the hype around the England youth international is not an easy task. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Jacob Steinberg16 Sept
Max Dowman shines with two goals against Ipswich Town - but boss Mikel Arteta warns Arsenal cannot rush his development.
BBC15 Sept
The bad news for everyone else is that Arsenal’s next generation is already here. Two mesmerising goals in a man-of-the-match display from Max Dowman underlined why the 16-year-old has been compared to a certain Lionel Messi by his manager, Mikel Arteta, as Ipswich were swatted aside with ease. Almost as impressive was the performance of 17-year-old Marli Salmon, who oozed class in central defence on only the second senior start of his career. Ipswich won here the last time these two sides met in this competition , in 2011, but lost 3-0 in the second leg of the semi-final at the Emirates before Arsenal infamously lost to Birmingham in the final . Fifteen years on, Gary O’Neil’s heavily rotated side stood no chance here against last year’s runners up after Dowman’s brilliant opening goal. Noni Madueke and the stand-in skipper Mikel Merino were also on target as Arsenal made it seven wins out of seven to start the new campaign. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Ed Aarons at Portman Road15 Sept
Jamie Carragher says Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta is "becoming the Sir Alex Ferguson of the Premier League right now" after strongly criticising the penalty awarded against his side in Saturday's 2-0 win at Sunderland.
Sky Sports14 Sept
Jamie Carragher explains why he believes Mikel Arteta has become the Sir Alex Ferguson of the modern Premier League, pointing to the Arsenal boss' criticism of officials after Arsenal's win at Sunderland.
Sky Sports14 Sept
Club want explanation after spot-kick given against them They are likely to raise penalty not awarded at Aston Villa Arsenal are seeking an explanation from Pro Ref over the penalty awarded to Sunderland on Saturday that Mikel Arteta described as “ unacceptable at this level ”. It is understood the Premier League champions contacted Pro Ref on Monday to request a meeting after Ezri Konsa was penalised after an incident involving Dan Ballard at the Stadium of Light. David Raya made a brilliant save to deny Enzo Le Fée’s spot-kick before Arsenal went on to win 1-0 thanks to a goal from Bruno Guimarães. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Ed Aarons14 SeptA furious Mikel Arteta described Sunderland's penalty in Arsenal's 2-0 win at the Stadium of Light as "unacceptable".
Sky Sports12 Sept
Arsenal produced a gritty 2-0 win against Sunderland, but Mikel Arteta fumed about the penalty that could have cost his side a result.
BBC12 SeptArsenal produced a gritty 2-0 win against Sunderland, but Mikel Arteta fumed about the penalty that could have cost his side a result.
BBC12 SeptArsenal produced a gritty 2-0 win against Sunderland, but Mikel Arteta fumed about the penalty that could have cost his side a result.
BBC12 SeptArsenal produced a gritty 2-0 win against Sunderland, but Mikel Arteta fumed about the penalty that could have cost his side a result.
BBC12 SeptArsenal produced a gritty 2-0 win against Sunderland, but Mikel Arteta fumed about the penalty that could have cost his side a result.
BBC12 Sept