Arsenal column: Reaction to 2025/26 fixtures, Nico Williams & Rodrygo latest, plus potential free transfer

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...