Andrea Berta: Who is Arsenal's incoming sporting director?

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ian Stone is joined by James McNicholas and Art de Roché to discuss Arsenal’s incoming Sporting Director Andrea Berta, including how they feel about him joining the club and the challenges he’ll have to tackle in his new role.

The Athletic’s David Ornstein drops by to give us the details behind the appointment and we also hear from Spanish football writer Dermot Corrigan on Berta’s time at Atletico Madrid.

Plus Ian, Art and James reflect on the PSV second leg and a tantalising quarter final against Real Madrid to come, before looking ahead to Chelsea at home this weekend.

Produced by Robby Williams and Jay Beale

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC Podcast Network.
0:07.2	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:14.8	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:20.1	So the Arsenal are through to the core final of the Champions League.
0:23.1	I do like saying that.
0:24.3	I've got to be honest with you.
0:25.8	We beat PSV-9-3 on aggregate.
0:29.1	It's nice to be on the right end of one of those scorelines in the Champions League
0:32.4	knockout stages.
0:34.2	So I just read that.
0:35.1	Robbie, my producer, wrote that.
0:36.7	That's funny, actually.
0:37.7	It's funny.
0:38.7	We're going to start, folks.
0:40.4	Sorry, that's how many patronising as well.
0:42.0	Anyway, we're going to start by focusing our attention on our incoming sporting director today
0:46.9	before turning our attention to last night's game, round Madrid in the quarters.
0:51.4	Oh, and Chelsea on the weekend.
0:55.4	I'm joined by Art de Roche and James McNicholas.
0:57.7	Morning.
0:58.7	Good morning, Ian.
0:59.8	Morning.
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