Marius Baghestan

71’ and 04’ 🤫

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘁 - 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹’𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀

News has broken that Juliet Slot, Arsenal’s Chief Commercial Officer, is leaving the club and as a fan, I am gutted.

Slot has been instrumental in powering up Arsenal’s finances, enabling higher squad spending in recent years that has served as the platform for success on the pitch.

She joined the club half way through the 21/22 season and straight away, started renegotiating major sponsorship contracts for Arsenal, as well as securing completely new ones.

In fact, Slot and her team signed up 15 new sponsors in 25/26 alone, which should contribute another £65m per annum moving forward! (per @Lu_Class_ )

Aided by Mikel’s amazing work and improvements on the pitch, Slot and her team helped Arsenal enjoy some of European football’s fastest growth in commercial revenues since she joined, as illustrated in the chart below.

Arsenal were playing catch up and boy did she help make that happen.

She has helped put Arsenal in a position to rival the richest European clubs for financial power. In fact, in big part thanks to her incredible work on the commercial side, Arsenal will post the Premier League’s all-time record revenue in Financial Year 2026 (yes, more than Manchester City has ever recorded).

No two ways about it - losing her is a massive blow. I can only hope that the Board is weighing up some major executive appointments to the club. Ideally, incredibly competent and capable heavy hitters who can help the club commercially and strategically.

Regardless, Juliet Slot deserves her flowers and the gratitude of Arsenal fans everywhere 💐💐💐

[WhoScored @WhoScored]

Argentina stat leaders at this World Cup: 🇦🇷

🥇 Goals (8) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Assists (2) - Lionel Messi
🥇 G/A (10) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Shots (33) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Shots on target (18) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Chances created (21) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Big chances created (6) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Open-play chances created (11) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Successful dribbles (15) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Successful final-third passes (117) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Fouls won (14) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Accurate crosses (16) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Accurate through balls (4) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Accurate lay-offs (18) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Ground duels won (38) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Touches in the opposition box (37) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Corners won (8) - Lionel Messi
🥇 WhoScored MOTMs (5) - Lionel Messi
🥇 WhoScored rating (9.16) - Lionel Messi

[Leandro Trossard @LTrossard]

To all the Arsenal fans, thank you for everything, from the bottom of my heart.

Once a Gunner, always a Gunner.

Leo

[Marius Baghestan @MBaghestan]

😞❤️

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

We have reached an agreement with Beşiktaş for the permanent transfer of Leandro Trossard.

We will provide a further update once the transfer has been completed.

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

2 - Mikel Merino is the first player in FIFA World Cup history to score the winning goal in two different knockout stage matches as a substitute.

Dependable.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

It's just what he does.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

🗓️ MW17: Crystal Palace (A)

Lifting the Premier League at Selhurst Park 🤩

[Jamie Carragher @Carra23]

Unbelievable this 😂
He thinks he’s helping (Janni) Infantino but every word he mutters his ruining him even more 😂😂

[Petter Veland @PetterVeland]

Da var VM over for Cristiano Ronaldo, og da skal naturligvis lakken ripes og ettermælet smusses til av de som heier mer på han andre av de to har skjemmet oss bort i mer enn 20 år.

Please. Timing.

En ting er hva man tenker og tror om CR7 i forkant av mesterskapet, debatten om hvor god han er eller ikke er per 2026 og om Portugal kommer ut i pluss eller minus med ham som spiss. En annen ting er hvordan han (bør) omtales nå som det er over.

Respekt.

Man kan like ham eller ikke like ham. Man kan ha mer kjærlighet til Messi, man kan være Barcelona- og/eller Liverpool-supporter og kjenne på en "forpliktelse" til å mislike ham pga hans kamp med og mot Messi, og det er jo faktisk slik at man ikke kommer foruten den ene når man skal omtale eller vurdere den andre - slik peaken av karrierene deres var.

Men, kjære vakre vene.

Selv om man eventuelt sitter på argumenter for at en fyr fra Argentina har gjort enda litt mer, må det være mulig å anerkjenne, respektere og nikke særdeles anerkjennende til hva Cristiano Ronaldo har oppnådd siden han tråkket ut på José Alvalade for å debutere mot Inter i 2003. Det er så lenge siden at Christian Vieri spilte på det andre laget. Christian Vieri, som sendte oss ut av VM i 1998!

Scoring i seks forskjellige VM.
Eldste målscorer i utslagsrundene i VM.
25 scoringer i EM og VM.
EM-gull i 2016.
233 landskamper.
Tidenes desidert mestscorende for Portugal.
450 mål på 438 kamper for Real Madrid.
Tidenes mestscorende i Champions League.
Snart 1000 scoringer totalt i karrieren.
35 troféer.
Kåret til verdens beste fotballspiller fem ganger.

Respekt. Det fortjener fotballspilleren Cristiano Ronaldo. Virkelig.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Hincapie's here to stay 🇪🇨

The club is delighted to announce that Piero has signed a permanent deal at The Arsenal 👊

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

This is so wrong and so disrespectful.

[ESPN MMA @espnmma]

This photo of Justin Gaethje goes hard 🔥

[ESPN MMA @espnmma]

LOPES ON TOP 💯

[Kenzy @inHighburyN5]

Not one previous Premier League winner faced low block defences like Arsenal did this season.

This was the most hard fought title win ever.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

On your head, Martin 😅

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Metropolitan Police confirms that Arsenal's parade is the biggest ever parade held in the country.

Over 1.5 million people estimated.

[BEN @afc_ben10]

North London has never looked this red. ❤️🏆

Millions of Gooners, one city, one dream fulfilled. From every street to every corner around the Emirates, Arsenal fans turned London into a sea of red.

This is more than a parade. This is the biggest parade in football history. This is history.

[AFCAMDEN @AFCAMDEN]

Met police have confirmed this is the biggest football parade ever held in the country after drafting in support from Merseyside and Manchester police to help with the celebrations. Estimated 1.5m+.

[AFCAMDEN @AFCAMDEN]

Met police confirm this is the largest crowd gathering for a parade in London. Over 1m people estimated so far, potentially up to 1.5m.

[Premier League @premierleague]

Arsenal – 238 days
Liverpool – 34 days
Man City – 9 days
Chelsea – 2 days

A commanding lead at the top of the table this season for champions @Arsenal 💪