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Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

Arsenal through the generations: Sesko vs Gyokeres

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6650 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to this special edition of Handbrake Off where the multi-generational crew have decided to reconvene to see if they can reach the kind of consensus Mikel Arteta and Andrea Berta need on the hot topic of a new striker for Arsenal. 


Amy Lawrence is joined by our range of Arsenal fans from across the years. Arthur, The Athletic’s resident teen, Handbrake's Art de Roché, and Richard, our most mature (legendary) supporter. 


So, the key dilemma that is keeping Arsenal fans from sleeping soundly is to Sesko or to Gyokeres, that is the question. The drip drip of whispers and hunches, breaking developments about concrete talk - god forbid any talk should be non-concrete - is already getting irritating.


The panel discuss the options, with the aim of agreeing on who they would choose if they were Arsenal’s new sporting director. 


Produced by Jay Beale.


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0:00.0

The Athletic FC Podcast Network.

0:07.0

The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.

0:14.8

Hello and welcome to this special edition of Handbrake-Off,

0:18.5

where the multi-generational crew have decided to reconvene

0:21.8

to see if we can reach the kind of consensus Mikhail Artetta and Andrea Burton need on the hot

0:27.8

topic of a new striker for Arsenal. I'm Amy Lawrence, scribbler around these parts, and I'm delighted

0:34.5

to be joined once again by our range of Arsenal fans from across the

0:38.5

years. Welcome back, Arthur, the Athletics Resident Team. All right, Arthur? Yeah, hi. Good to have you back.

0:47.0

Hello to my good friend and colleague, Art. How are you, Art? I'm all good, thanks. How are you?

0:52.8

Excellent. And lovely to have you back, Richard.

0:56.0

Our most, I think you'd prefer the word legendary, but I'm going to choose a mature supporter.

1:02.0

What, what, you mean lovely that I'm still alive?

1:06.8

Lovely in every way.

1:08.4

So we thought we'd base this chat around the key dilemma that is keeping Arsenal fans from sleeping soundly.

1:15.7

To Cessco or to Giacorez, that is the question. The drip, drip of whispers and hunches, breaking developments about concrete talk, God forbid any talk should be non-concrete, is already getting irritating.

1:28.9

So let's see if we can agree on who we would choose if we were Arsenal's new sporting director.

1:35.5

Okay, so we're going to just give it a quick outline. It's Victor Giocares, currently of Sporting Lisbon,

1:42.5

or Benjamin Chesko, currently of Leipzig.

1:46.6

They are both great big hulking presences, but they do have some differences.

1:52.2

And I think the biggest difference in the most interesting one of all is that you're almost weighing up.

1:57.9

Do you want to go for something a bit closer to ready-made, which

2:03.7

Giochorus appears to be, having scored tons of goals last season, a lot more experience,

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