Arsenal's starboy shines at the World Cup & Mudryk 'saga' begins

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Handbrake Off is back following the World Cup in Qatar, as Ian Stone is joined by James McNicholas and Art De Roche to get into the latest Arsenal talking points.

Fresh off the back of the World Cup, the panel discuss and dissect the Arsenal players' involvement out in Qatar including the likes of William Saliba, Bukayo Saka - who was named in L'Equipe's Team of the Tournament - as well as Gabriel Jesus, who was injured while featuring for Brazil.

The extent of Jesus' injury is also on the agenda, along with what impact that could have on Arsenal's January transfer plans, following David Ornstein confirming on The Athletic Football Podcast the intention to sign Shakhtar Donetsk forward Mykhailo Mudryk.

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.5	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.5	Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:20.0	Welcome back to Handbreak-off, the Arsenal Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic.
0:25.5	Yes, we've had a month off from the financially tainted world of Premier League football to watch the purity and probability of the World Cup in Qatar.
0:33.9	We are recording this podcast two days after the World Cup final, where in a fairy tale finish, I think we'd agree,
0:40.2	the biggest gang of cheating, housing footballers on the planet
0:43.2	help Linaw Messi to victory.
0:45.9	And if there was one thing that all football fans dreamed of,
0:48.4	it's the greatest player in the world,
0:50.0	wearing a traditional Middle Eastern costume,
0:52.5	raising aloft the World Cup.
0:54.0	We'll talk through some of the highlights and low lights for the Arsenal players at the World Cup,
0:58.9	as well as wondering who might be arriving in the January transfer window.
1:04.0	Our guest this week are two Arsenal analysts and writers for the Athletic.
1:08.0	James McNiclos and Art de Roche.
1:10.0	Morning?
1:10.9	Morning, Ian. Morning, Ian.
1:11.8	Morning, Ian.
1:12.7	Morning.
1:13.2	I'm pretty good, actually.
1:14.5	I'm quite excited.
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