{"id":563564,"date":"2026-07-23T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:22:11","slug":"arsenal-suffer-brutal-rogers-dig-and-world-cup-headache-that-is-actually-man-citys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563564\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal suffer ‘brutal’ Rogers dig and World Cup headache that is actually Man City’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a distinctly Arsenal<\/a>-flavoured watching of the ol\u2019 media today.<\/p>\n

Made all the better by the fact they haven\u2019t actually done anything, or had anything done to them.<\/p>\n

Oh to read the headlines you\u2019d think they had. If you went by the headlines then poor old Arsenal<\/a> have had brutal digs chucked at them, responded to those digs, suffered an unmatched World Cup<\/a> disaster and done a \u00a370m deal.<\/p>\n

Thing with headlines, though, is that headlines are very often complete and utter bollocks.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Can you dig it?<\/p>\n

We heard the Morgan Rogers quotes after he signed for Chelsea before we saw the headlines, and knew precisely what was coming.<\/p>\n

Lo and behold, from the Mirror:<\/p>\n

Morgan Rogers fires brutal dig at Arsenal as \u00a3117m Chelsea transfer confirmed<\/p>\n

Their Reach stablemates across the desk at the Daily Star go with the slightly different\u2026<\/p>\n

Morgan Rogers aims instant dig at Arsenal as Chelsea complete \u00a3117m transfer<\/p>\n

And completing that particular Reach circle-jerk we have football.london\u2026<\/p>\n

Morgan Rogers aims brutal dig at Arsenal in first words on blockbuster \u00a3117m Chelsea move<\/p>\n

Elsewhere you have the Mail:<\/p>\n

Rogers takes aim at Gunners<\/p>\n

And The Sun:<\/p>\n

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: Morgan Rogers takes brutal swipe at Arsenal after snubbing champions for \u00a3117m Chelsea move<\/p>\n

Regular Mediawatch readers won\u2019t need two guesses at the precise number of times Morgan Rogers mentions Arsenal in his brutal\/instant dig\/swipe. Nevertheless, here\u2019s that instantly brutal swipe and dig aimed at Arsenal in full:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so excited. For me, Chelsea are the biggest club in London and a club I\u2019ve always admired since I was a kid.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited about the project with the new manager, the players we\u2019ve got and where the club is heading. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here and I can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also a brutally instant dig-swipe at Brentford, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Tottenham, Charlton, Millwall, QPR, West Ham, AFC Wimbledon, Bromley, Leyton Orient, Barnet, Sutt\u2026 well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Call and response<\/p>\n

Only one way to deal with a brutal dig, of course. Respond. And when the dig is fictitious, makes sense for the response to also not actually exist.<\/p>\n

Cue the Mirror:<\/p>\n

Arsenal respond to Morgan Rogers transfer snub as \u00a334m signing flies in for medical<\/p>\n

That would be Christos Tzolis<\/a>, then. A deal already agreed before the Morgan Rogers snub\/dig unpleasantness and thus not really a response in the traditional \u2013 and indeed only \u2013 sense of the word. A presponse if anything, but that falls down on the technicality of not in fact being a word.<\/p>\n

Still, the Mirror must have some idea of what Arsenal\u2019s actual response is going to be? Having put it right there in the headline?<\/p>\n

With Rogers now a Chelsea player, it is yet unclear where Arsenal will turn next in their attempts to level up the left attack position.<\/p>\n

Oh.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Get in there and make it about you<\/p>\n

Fascinating glimpse here from The Sun as to which massive English football clubs generate the clicks, and which ones don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

TAKING THE MIK:\u00a0Arteta suffers major injury headache as Arsenal stars clock up second most minutes at World Cup \u2013 how rivals compare<\/p>\n

Well we\u2019re going to stick our neck out and say one rival comes off worse in said comparison. What with that \u2018second most\u2019 clue in there.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s find out together. Takes a while to get there, but after wading through several paragraphs detailing the exhausting and exhaustive lengths those poor old Gunners had to go through in North America we finally get to this:<\/p>\n

In total, those from Arteta\u2019s squad clocked up 4,224 pitch minutes during their time in North America.<\/p>\n

Among Premier League clubs, only Manchester City players (5,925 minutes) had a higher total.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t just put it in brackets and hope we won\u2019t see it, lads. Man City players saw 1700 more minutes of World Cup action than any other Premier League club\u2026 and your entire story is \u2018Won\u2019t somebody please think of the Gunners\u2019?<\/p>\n

A timely reminder as the Premier League numbers gradually reassert themselves centre-stage that unless the Man City number in question is 115, find something else for your headline.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Deal with it<\/p>\n

Not all doom and gloom and racked-up minutes and brutal digs for Arsenal, though, despite the Rogers setback and ghost response and playing much less football than Man City during the World Cup. The Daily Star bring glad tidings.<\/p>\n

Arsenal news: \u00a370m deal done as Mikel Arteta misses out on one transfer but lands another<\/p>\n

They know what that headline looks like, you know what that headline looks like, and they know you know they know what that headline looks like. They just don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re here reading this page so will have already worked out long before now that the \u00a370m deal done is not what it looks like.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a new sponsorship deal with Emirates. It\u2019s not nothing. It\u2019s more money for the club. But it\u2019s not a the \u00a370m player signing very obviously being promised and never, ever delivered by that headline.<\/p>\n

Bet they couldn\u2019t believe their luck when that sponsorship figure turned out to sit so squarely in the Bruno Guimaraes ballpark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seeing many colours but the only one that\u2019s coming through is red<\/p>\n

Quick fact-check sadly necessary on this Daily Mirror headline:<\/p>\n

FIFA told World Cup expansion plans would kill football as Gianni Infantino left red-faced<\/p>\n

FALSE: the phrase \u2018Gianni Infantino left red-faced\u2019 implies he is capable of the human feelings of shame or embarrassment. This is not the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a distinctly Arsenal-flavoured watching of the ol\u2019 media today. Made all the better by the fact they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,103098,43,40,38,41,39,9418],"class_list":["post-563564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-morgan-rogers","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}