{"id":517613,"date":"2026-09-10T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=517613"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:54:25","slug":"arsenal-close-to-finalizing-new-deal-for-manager-arteta","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arsenal-close-to-finalizing-new-deal-for-manager-arteta\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal close to finalizing new deal for manager Arteta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the transfer window closed until the next calendar year, Arsenal are now in the process of finalizing an agreement with boss Mikel Arteta over his protracted new deal.<\/p>\n<p>Talks to extend the Spaniard&#8217;s contract have progressed recently, and everyone at the club doesn&#8217;t doubt Arteta will renew.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Mikel moved unequivocally in August to remove any lingering doubt over his future: \u201cEveryone knows that the timing of the deal is not going to be a problem, because I enjoy being the manager of this club and see myself doing that in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy feeling for Arsenal is the same. That is why everything happens so naturally here. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Gunners chief executive Richard Garlick has claimed it was merely a &#8220;matter of time&#8221; before Mikel\u2019s new long-term contract was announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard can expect to become 1 of the best-paid head coaches in the world once he inks his new deal. The North London club committed to significantly improving on his current contract \u2013 worth 10 million pounds a campaign + 5 million pounds extra upon UCL qualification.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8JUST IN: Mikel Arteta is close to signing a contract extension with Arsenal <\/p>\n<p>Arteta is currently being paid \u00a310m per season plus an extra \u00a35m for Champions League qualification <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XHgd1e5lTS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XHgd1e5lTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Polymarket Sports (@PolymarketSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PolymarketSport\/status\/2098058168265826349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the transfer window closed until the next calendar year, Arsenal are now in the process of finalizing an agreement with boss Mikel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":517614,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,18106],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[366,1076],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Spaniard is close to inking a new contract with the Gunners.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517615,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517613\/revisions\/517615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517613"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=517613"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=517613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}