Seems so late. I was pondering if I could see the dates and check if I could get a sneeky cheap deal flight and a weekend away. But nothing.

Loads of Spanish sides have a whole pre-season calendar ready. English teams and Arsenal here, seem so bad at it. I recall sweet F.A. last summer too.

LEAH WAS A MUST FOR THE COLLECTION
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SALIBA AND CATLEY NEXT

💭 One word to describe yourself? 
⚽️ Who was your footballing hero growing up? 
🎭 Any hidden talents? 

Quickfire Questions with our new Gunner, Misa ❤️ 

https://www.arsenal.com/news/misa-im-sure-well-have-a-great-year-aEqiP0w1APUP

https://www.arsenal.com/news/misa-rodriguez-joins-arsenal-azLJ89B2R8MD

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The 18-year-old goalkeeper joins us from Danish side Brondby IF, having spent time at Arsenal on trial last season. She is also a Denmark youth international and has gained experience at both Under-17 and Under-19 levels.

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Evening all! Long-time lurker, one-time poster (thanks to everyone who made recommendations for my trip across the pond!). Wonderful signing class so far this year, this is really feeling like Renee’s team she’s built to lead into battle. I’m intrigued to hear what people think will happen with the London City Lioness’ season - do they make a real run at top 3 or is it too many big names all on one roster?! I’m thinking the latter, but maybe I’m just hopeful. Either way, Arsenal’s new signings should help take this team far and beyond LCL!

Tim basically confirms the earlier report from COPE and says the deal is very close and expected to go through.

COPE News | Misa Rodríguez will play for Arsenal.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿The former Real Madrid goalkeeper, World Cup and Nations League winner with the Spanish National Team, will join the Gunners in the english league.

🇪🇸 She will share a locker room with Mariona Caldentey and Ona Batlle.

The 22-year-old Swedish forward departs Arsenal having made 19 appearances for us, scoring one goal.

Rosa joined us in August 2024 from Swedish side BK Hacken and made her debut in our UEFA Women’s Champions League qualifying win over Rangers at Meadow Park on 4 September 2024.

The Swede’s Barclays Women’s Super League debut followed on 22 September 2024, as she came off the bench to set up our equaliser in a 2-2 draw with Manchester City at Emirates Stadium.

Rosa’s sole goal for Arsenal came in our 2-0 league win over West Ham United on 20 October 2024.

In August 2025, Rosa joined WSL side Brighton & Hove Albion on a season-long loan. She made 24 appearances during her time with the Seagulls, scoring twice.

Everyone at Arsenal would like to thank Rosa for her contribution and we wish her the best of luck in her next chapter.

Our number 12 joined from Swedish side Linköping back in 2021 and has since helped win 2 FA Women's League Cups, UEFA Women's Champions League and the FIFA Women's Champions Cup, where she was named player of the tournament.

How Arsenal will use our new new signings video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqSwYsBGsSU

TWFC do a, mostly, good analysis on the new signings.

Good stuff:

Really good analysis on what Selina Cerci brings.

Some nice analysis on Reuteler's play

Not much on Stanway,

The bad:

The Frida Maanum errasure.

I think it's more like when we played with Smith and Kelly that Kelly will start on the left and Smith on the right. That was the more common line-up position.

Chloe Kelly and Leah Williamson have had injury problems, but previosuly whent hey have a bad season they come back for a full seaosn with no problems.

I also pushback on their idea that Arsenal have the biggest wage in the WSL due to this seasons transfer. they are determined to push this narrative in a few videos and comments. I disagree.

Looking at it, according to Deoitte's financial analysis Chelsea had a wage gap of 3.2 million more in 24/25. I suspect that increased by 25/26. My reasoning is when we brought in Smith & Borbe who, and lost a Walti, Ilestedt, Hurtig, Wienroither who were on good to high wages. One in good wages in and a reserve keeper wages vs 4 well paid outgoings. So that gap grew on that basis alone. Chelsea brought in Peng, Thompson and Carpenter, all should be on big money. In their exits only Ingle would be realistically have been on big money. Gap grown again.

Then this summer we lost Mead, McCabe, Zinsburger, Pelova and Codina. Codina didn't work but she'd have been on good wages. Mead and McCabe on massive wages as the face of the club who had multiple upgraded contracts over the years. We gained, Batlle who'll be on massive wages, say that matches McCabes, Stanway also, who replaces Meads. Reuteler and Cerci will be on decent but not top dollar and Baum is still a youth prospect who won't be on huge wages. It roughly matches our outgoings. Maybe a bit less or a bit more. Wages roughly the same as before but could be a bit more.

Now chelsea offloaded JRK, Reiten, Bright, Kerr, Macario and Charles. That's a big wage offload. To put in in context 3.2 million is 6 or 7 Sam Kerr wages. We could say Bright was not far off Kerrs wages and the rest a level below. Just the loss of those is about 60% of the 6 or 7 Kerr's wages. So it doesn't close the 3.2 million gap. We know McCabe will be huge wages, more than Charles wo'll be in thre decent range, and Matsukubo will be on big wages which stretch's Chelsea's bill out further. So while they, so far, have lost a big numebr of wages this year, they certainly went up last summer and they didn't lose 3.2 million in their player exits. Arsenal will most likely be on par with previous, probably a bit higher, but not much.

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