Mikel Arteta, Rodrygo Goes and Oleksandr Zinchenko (Photo by Eddie Keogh, David Ramos/Getty Images)
Thoughts on Arsenal’s Premier League fixture list
Well, you don’t get much tougher starts to a new Premier League season than the one Arsenal have been handed for the 2025/26 campaign.
I know the old cliche that ‘everyone has to play each other twice’, but even so, I think it’s pretty obvious that if you could choose your start to a season you would not opt for the one that Arsenal now have facing them.
To have United, Liverpool and Newcastle as your first three away games is far from ideal, especially with home fixtures against Leeds, Forest and City sandwiched in-between.
IN FULL: ARSENAL 2025/26 PREMIER LEAGUE FIXTURE LIST
But one thing these fixtures should do is focus Arsenal’s attention even more when it comes to the transfer market. The club needs to make sure they are ready to go as soon as the new season gets underway.
The new signings need to be in early so they can adapt and adjust through pre-season and be ready to hit the ground running in the early weeks of the campaign.
Arsenal and Mikel Arteta need to be able to just focus on the games, rather than having to worry about scrambling around in the last few weeks of the window looking for additions.
It’s incredibly tough to stay in a title race in the Premier League, as Arsenal know only too well.
And if you are caught going into a season under-prepared you will quickly get found out and Arsenal can’t afford for that to happen, especially having been handed such a brutal start to the campaign.
Nico Williams looks to be out of the picture for Arsenal
There’s obviously lots of chat about Nico Williams at the moment given it appears that he has told all the clubs that are interested in him that he would prefer a move to Barcelona, should he end up leaving Bilbao this summer.
That will be a blow to Arsenal and Mikel Arteta, who have held a strong interest in Williams for well over a year now.
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