Arsecast Extra Episode 649 - 20.07.2025
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Phil Costa is standing in for James, and we begin by chatting about the 30 man squad that has traveled to Singapore for the start of the pre-season tour, and a couple who aren't quite men yet due to their tender age. Then we move to Ethan Nwaneri's new contract and his role next season, the confirmed arrival of Noni Madueke, and the latest from the Viktor Gyokeres saga with reports of a crying dad and a moving sofa. In part two we answer questions about the summer's business so far and whether we've improved the first XI, Christian Norgaard, how Martin Zubimendi can help the team attack, chaos factor, the need for another attacking signing, and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another Arstcast Extra, not with James from Gunner Blog because James from Gunner |
| 0:18.4 | Blog is currently on route or just landed in Singapore this Sunday morning. |
| 0:24.1 | So stepping into the breach to fill in for this early edition is Phil Costa. Good morning, Phil. |
| 0:29.2 | Morning, Andrew. I am not on route or on the way to Singapore, unfortunately. But I'm happy to be making my, |
| 0:36.0 | my Askast cast extra debut. Yes. I've done lots |
| 0:38.8 | and bits and pieces with you over the years, but this is the first time doing this. So, yeah, |
| 0:44.1 | big shoes to, big shoes to fill. Um, be nice to me, people. It's a, it's a big one. Yeah, |
| 0:49.9 | it's early on a Sunday. There's not a huge amount going on. So we'll do our best to muddle through everything as best we can. |
| 0:57.8 | You mentioned Singapore. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm heading out there tomorrow, but the team went yesterday. |
| 1:04.8 | A 30-man squad named lots of people who you would expect to be on the tour, a couple of people who aren't on the tour, a new signing who isn't quite official yet, Christian Moscarra, Nani Madwakei given some time off. |
| 1:19.6 | Any hot takes on the 30-man squad that we've seen? |
| 1:24.1 | Not particularly. I think there's a few young players. I'm excited to see. I think Marley Salman is a really promising young player. Obviously, we know about Andre Harriman Anous who's been around the youth teams for a little while as well. He's a kind of forward striker who looks interesting. Nice to see Declan Rice back as well, because obviously he's joined the |
| 1:44.9 | group quite late. So, yeah, I would have liked to have seen maybe a centre forward on this |
| 1:50.1 | trip, but look, maybe that will happen a bit later down the line as well, Mosquera, but I'm not |
| 1:55.8 | going to be too upset about them not being there officially straight away because things can happen |
| 2:00.4 | and negotiations delay |
| 2:01.7 | and things get stuck and all that stuff. So yeah, I'm just kind of excited to watch Arsenal, |
| 2:06.6 | to be honest, because I was quite burnt out towards the end of the season and it was just a bit |
| 2:11.3 | like, oh, I'm ready. I'm ready for this to be done and over and finish. But now the games are |
| 2:16.5 | there. I'm like, hmm, fancy Milan. |
| 2:18.7 | Spurs. |
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