Arsenal's best week, Arteta's future & summer transfers
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
A fantastic week for Arsenal as they progressed to their first Champions League final in twenty years against Paris St Germain. We discuss the semi-final victory over Atlético Madrid, the stylistic choices Mikel Arteta has made on his road towards success with The Gunners and whether that will succeed in the end. We also look ahead to the future and where Arsenal may strengthen depending on how they do in the final month of the season.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Kaya Kaynak & James McNicholas and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - a standard Tifo intro
4:42 - The Arsenal atmosphere on a memorable Champions League night
16:30 - Arsenal vs Atlético semi second leg
20:30 - Bukayo Saka and England
25:07 - A break
25:09 - The Rondo
31:22 - Arsenal vs PSG in the Champions League final lookahead
46:31 - another break
46:33 - A crucial moment for Mikel Arteta
59:48 - Arsenal’s summer plans?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | No |
| 0:07.4 | London forever |
| 0:10.4 | Whatever the weather |
| 0:13.8 | These streets are our home |
| 0:17.4 | And something about blood in the stone |
| 0:20.3 | Yeah Yeah Hello Joe will you do the yuccares celebration Of course I will and something about blood in a stone. Yeah. |
| 0:21.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.2 | Hello. |
| 0:23.0 | Joe, will you do the yukkarest celebration? |
| 0:24.3 | Of course I will. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello! |
| 0:26.2 | And welcome to the T. |
| 0:27.9 | I said it as sort of an Irish accent. |
| 0:29.6 | Oh, there. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello. |
| 0:31.9 | And welcome to the Tifo football podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Joe Devine. |
| 0:36.9 | It's quite hard to stop doing it |
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| 0:38.7 | And listen |
| 0:40.4 | For anyone that's offended by that |
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