Saka calls out critics as players celebrate title at Emirates at 5am Figure caption, Arsenal react to winning the Premier League titleByGary RoseBBC Sport journalistPublished19 May 2026Updated 41 minutes agoArsenal players were pictured outside Emirates Stadium at 05:00 BST after they were crowned Premier League champions for the first time in 22 years, as their celebrations continued.
Eberechi Eze posted pictures on Instagram in the early hours of Wednesday, stood outside their stadium in north London alongside team-mates Declan Rice, Bukayo Saka and Jurrien Timber.
Dutch defender Timber posted a video alongside Saka stood by a blacked out Premier League trophy at the club’s training ground that was designed to light up once the team won.
“Light that up,” Saka says.
“Let me tell you something. Twenty-two years, 22 years. There was laughing, there was joking, they’re not laughing any more. Look, it is going to be shining, it is going to be shining bright.”
In another video posted by Saka, 19-year-old defender Myles Lewis-Skelly is seen holding a champagne bottle.
“They called us bottlers,” reported academy graduate Lewis-Skelly. “And now we’re holding the bottle.”
Eze’s Instagram post also included a picture of an Arsenal-branded bottle in another reference to criticism the team has received for finishing second in the league for three consecutive seasons.
An Instagram story post also showed captain Martin Odegaard with a bottle in his mouth.
Arsenal’s record goalscorer Thierry Henry wrote on Instagram: “Special thanks to this generation – finally now my kids saw us winning the league”.
The club will hold a trophy parade around Islington on Sunday, 31 May at 14:00 BST, the day after they face holders Paris St-Germain in the Champions League final in Budapest.
