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BREAKING: 🚨💣 #arsenal are closing on an agreement for #alvarez 🇦🇷 fee around £130m. Alvarez is happy with the wage package offered to him and Arsenal have agreed to help as much as possible in terms of his family visa’s. Fee agreed soon. #afc 🔴⚪️
🚨| Arsenal's total squad is worth £1.1 billion. they built it for a fraction of that. and the profit on paper alone could fund an entire new squad. this is the most efficiently assembled title-winning squad in premier league history.
Let's talk numbers. Because the story of how Arsenal built a Premier League and Champions League final squad and what it's now worth is genuinely one of the most extraordinary transfer stories in football history.
Every fee listed is what Arsenal paid. Every current value is sourced from Transfermarkt and Soccerway as of June 2026.
◽ GOALKEEPERS
🔸 David Raya — signed permanently for £27m from Brentford in 2024. Current value: £55m. Profit on paper: +£28m
🔸 Kepa Arrizabalaga — signed for £4.5m from Chelsea in 2025. Current value: £7m.
🔸 Tommy Setford — free transfer from Ajax. Current value: £2m. Pure profit.
◽ DEFENDERS
🔸 Bukayo — wait, wrong section. Let's start with the extraordinary one first.🤣
🔸 William Saliba — signed for £27m in 2019. Sent on three loans. Now worth £76m and that's a conservative estimate from Soccerway. Transfermarkt have him closer to £90m. Profit on paper: +£63m on a player who cost less than what Arsenal just paid for Mosquera.
🔸 Gabriel Magalhães — signed for £27m from Lille in 2020. Current value: £75m. Profit on paper: +£48m. The best value centre-back signing in Premier League history.
🔸 Declan Rice — signed for £105m from West Ham in 2023. Current value: £106m already recouped in market value alone, and rising every week.The most expensive British player ever. Already worth every penny.
🔸 Jurrien Timber — signed for £34m from Ajax in 2023. Current value: £72m despite injury struggles. Profit on paper: +£38m.
🔸 Ben White — signed for £50m from Brighton in 2021. Current value: £38m. The one player whose value has dropped injury and England exile taking their toll.
🔸 Riccardo Calafiori — signed for £42m from Bologna in 2024. Current value: £55m. Profit on paper: +£13m in his first full season.
🔸 Myles Lewis-Skelly — academy product. Cost nothing. Current value: £40m. Pure profit from the Hale End production line.
🔸 Cristhian Mosquera — signed for £13m from Valencia in July 2025. Current value: £12m. The most underrated signing of last summer. Brilliant value for a player who started at right back in a Champions League final.
🔸 Piero Hincapié — on loan from Leverkusen. No permanent fee yet.
◽ MIDFIELDERS
🔸 Martin Odegaard — signed permanently for £30m from Real Madrid in 2021. Current value: £73m. Profit on paper: +£43m on a player Arteta made captain of a title-winning team. One of the best bits of business in Premier League history. 🔴
🔸 Declan Rice — covered above. £105m paid. £106m current value. Already broke even.
🔸 Martin Zubimendi — signed for £51m from Real Sociedad in July 2025. Current value: £47m. 2,911 Premier League minutes. 5 goals. Unsung hero of the title win. Still appreciating.
🔸 Mikel Merino — signed for £27m from Real Sociedad in August 2024. Current value: £43m a profit of £16m on a midfielder who barely played due to injury. Imagine what he's worth fully fit.
🔸 Fabio Vieira — signed for £34m in 2022. Current value: £12m. Another whose value hasn't tracked upward.