Mikel Arteta confirms the club will retake the team picture to include William Saliba.
It had already been rescheduled multiple times but they had to take it for commercial obligations.
🚨🔴⚪️ Arsenal are closing in on new deal for Declan Rice after Mikel Arteta, plan 100% confirmed.
Rice has already decided to stay and sign soon with final details of new deal now being discussed.
#AFC confident to close it soon, as @SamiMokbel_BBC reports.
Nobody is saying Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford or Sunderland are incapable of competing. That’s not really the argument.
The issue is what PSR did to clubs trying to accelerate their growth.
As a Newcastle fan, I saw it first-hand. We had to make difficult decisions around players like Elliott Anderson because of the financial rules, despite the club wanting to build a stronger squad. Anderson was an academy product who had made 44 Premier League appearances for Newcastle before leaving in 2024.
So yes, Brighton can recruit brilliantly. Brentford can develop players. Bournemouth can grow sustainably.
But that doesn't mean every ambitious ownership model should be forced to grow at exactly the same pace.
And comparing City with Brighton or Bournemouth also misses the point. City spent years building an enormous football operation: infrastructure, scouting, recruitment, coaching, analytics and a global football network.
Investors should be allowed to put money into football and build something — provided the rules are clear and applied consistently.
I support financial regulation. I just don't believe regulation should become a mechanism that protects established clubs from ambitious challengers.
And calling every successful smaller club proof that PSR hasn't restricted competition doesn't answer the bigger question:
How many Newcastle-type opportunities were lost because clubs had to sell players or slow down their investment to remain compliant?
Competition exists.
But so do financial constraints.
Both things can be true.