{"id":901281,"date":"2026-09-22T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901281\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:36:10","slug":"mikel-arteta-agrees-new-contract-to-extend-stay-as-arsenal-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901281\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta agrees new contract to extend stay as Arsenal manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mikel Arteta has agreed an improved new contract with Premier League champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spaniard&#8217;s current deal expires at the end of this season but talks over a new contract have been ongoing for a number of months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport reported earlier this month that an agreement between all parties was close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And it is now understood that Arteta has reached a final agreement with the Gunners to extend his stay at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is no confirmation over the length of his new contract but it is set to take him into at least his 10th year at the club following his arrival in December 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new contract will also include a sharp pay increase from his current salary of \u00a310m per year plus an additional \u00a35m in bonuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking about his contract talks, Arteta said last week: &#8220;They [the fans] don&#8217;t have to worry about any of that because I want to be here. I&#8217;m extremely happy and I feel very grateful to work with the people I work with.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta has agreed an improved new contract with Premier League champions Arsenal. The Spaniard&#8217;s current deal expires&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-901281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}