Arsecast Extra Episode 427 - 02.08.2021
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this episode James and I chat about the pre-season game against Chelsea, and some of the key takeaways from that, including our first look at £50m signing Ben White. Thomas Partey looked good but then got injured, potentially bad news for fans and for Mikel Arteta. His replacement, Granit Xhaka, looked like a dead cert departure this summer but now he's going to stay – we discuss the implications of that as we still look to improve our midfield. There's a lot of transfer chat, with focus on the difficulties we're having moving players on, as well as listener questions about who might leave, the possible arrival of another striker as we target Lautaro Martinez, injury speculation, refereeing in friendlies, Eddie Nketiah and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. |
| 0:18.8 | This is Askast Extra. Hello and welcome to another Askast Extra, as always, with James |
| 0:42.8 | from GunnarBlog James, good morning to you. Good morning to you, Andrew, how you doing? How |
| 0:47.2 | do we count? It was okay, nothing particularly strange or startling. There was a game of football |
| 0:52.1 | yesterday that I sat in the garden and watched beyond that, you know, just kind of getting |
| 0:59.0 | ready for the new season. I'm prepared. Are you prepared? I'm sure you're prepared. Are |
| 1:02.8 | Arsenal prepared? That's the question. It's really close now, isn't it? The start of |
| 1:07.8 | season, it's next week. It's Friday. Nail bitingly close. Well, I mean, I'd love to say |
| 1:17.1 | I saw the entirety of the Chelsea game. I couldn't buy it. I tried to give the club 799, and |
| 1:23.7 | they would not take it from me. Same, same, same. I believe it was to do with a last minute |
| 1:29.0 | flurry of people coming along, realizing that they actually had to pay 739 to watch this |
| 1:35.1 | game. I thought it was part of the membership, but there you go. Not to be, and I think |
| 1:42.4 | it was a rush of people trying to do, but I like you got caught in that sort of feedback |
| 1:47.6 | or that loop where I couldn't buy it, but I found an alternative way to watch the game. |
| 1:55.3 | So yeah, I saw it. I saw the whole thing. Did you just see bits and pieces? Were you sort |
| 2:00.5 | of... I saw the first half, and then I've seen highlights of the second. I did see a fair |
| 2:08.1 | amount of it. I mean, it won't surprise you, too. I'm not a huge fan of preseason friendlies |
| 2:13.2 | against Premier League teams. No, no. We've spoken about this. Have |
| 2:17.5 | me. There is something particularly London teams and particularly teams that we are going |
| 2:22.9 | to face in the opening weeks of the season. I really... I don't care for it at all. Yeah, |
| 2:33.0 | but look, it is what it is. We've got to get on with it. We've got a game against Spurs. |
| 2:36.1 | Obviously, next Sunday, and that will be... That will be one which I think will grow in |
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