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Mikel Arteta signs new Arsenal contract until June 2030
Arsenal have announced a new deal for Mikel Arteta running to June 2030, a year after he delivered the club’s Premier League title. His backroom staff have also signed for four years.
by Lucas Morel · 2 min read
Arsenal have announced that Mikel Arteta has signed a new contract running until June 2030. His previous deal, signed in September 2024, was due to expire at the end of the season: the champions were not going into the defence of their title with a manager in the final months of his contract. ESPN reports that Arteta’s coaching staff have also extended for four years.
BBC Sport points to a pay rise on his current deal, which the English press values at £10m a year plus £5m in bonuses, and to a benchmarking against the salaries of Diego Simeone and Pep Guardiola. The club has not published the terms.
From the 2020 FA Cup to the title
Appointed in December 2019 from his post as Guardiola’s assistant at Manchester City, Arteta, 44, is now the longest-serving manager in England’s top four divisions. The FA Cup arrived in 2020, three Community Shields followed, then the Premier League title last season, the club’s first in more than twenty years. In May, Arsenal reached the Champions League final and lost it on penalties to Paris Saint-Germain.
“It’s a privilege to commit my future to the club and to continue to work with exceptional people who want the best for Arsenal,” Arteta said in the club statement. Richard Garlick, the club’s managing director, set the bar higher: “We want to create a winning era together with Mikel.”
The real job: the 2029 rebuild
For Sky Sports, the deal opens step five of the project that started in 2019, the one analyst Sam Blitz types with a wink: the D-word, dynasty. It has a concrete deadline. By 2029, Gabriel will be 31, Odegaard 30, Rice 30, Havertz 30 and Raya 34. The block that brought the title back will have to be rebuilt while the club keeps defending its place at the top, and Stan and Josh Kroenke have handed that job to Arteta.
The weakness is known: the attack. Nick Wright describes a club unrecognisable from 2019, a defeat at Brighton and shortcomings up front that the title did not erase. The next transfer window will have to answer them.