Arsenal Women Arsecast 129: On the Smith edge
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🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast, Tim is joined by Clive Palmer from the Arsenal Vision Podcast to talk about Arsenal's £1m bid for Olivia Smith being accepted by Liverpool. They discuss Arsenal's identification of the player, what it says that the club were willing to meet Liverpool's firm asking price and the changing landscape of transfer fees in women's football, what Smith can add to the team and the importance of bringing the age profile down in the wide areas. They also discuss how her game at Liverpool can be scaled up at Arsenal and there's a little on greater use of squad players next season in the interests of making a firmer league title challenge.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Askcast on AskBlog.com with me, your host, Tim Stillman. |
| 0:18.5 | I think you can probably take a guess about what this episode's going to be about |
| 0:23.4 | because some big news dropped this week. |
| 0:25.7 | We've been talking on the podcast pretty much all summer |
| 0:28.6 | about how Olivia Smith was a serious target for Arsenal. |
| 0:33.6 | We had some whiff on Wednesday evening that there might have been a breakthrough. |
| 0:40.2 | We couldn't really bottom the information out, but that's no worries because Tom |
| 0:44.0 | Gary from The Guardian, who is an exceptional journalist with lots of contacts, he did. |
| 0:49.0 | And Arsenal have had a bid of £1 million accepted for Olivia Smith. |
| 0:52.9 | And frankly, I'm expecting this deal to happen |
| 0:56.2 | pretty quickly now. So we felt we should react to that. Now, Jamie is still in Switzerland, |
| 1:01.7 | covering the Euros. So I've invited a guest on, who some of you will probably be familiar |
| 1:07.8 | with, a little bit of crossover content, if you will, from Arsenal Vision podcast. |
| 1:12.9 | But I'm delighted to be joined by Clive Palmer. |
| 1:15.7 | And Clive, this is a player we've been discussing in the WhatsApps for the last few months. |
| 1:21.3 | And we're going to bring that conversation to life for an audience today. |
| 1:25.1 | If those WhatsApps ever got leaked, Tim, |
| 1:27.8 | they don't see everything that we talk about. And you've been educating me now for about |
| 1:32.6 | two, three years on this. I'm very glad to be here to share this moment, which we are both excited |
| 1:36.4 | about. Yeah, absolutely. And let's, I think let's, that there's a couple of interesting angles here. |
| 1:43.3 | We'll come on to the player herself and what |
| 1:45.9 | she might bring in a minute, but Clive, I am going to leak some of the WhatsApp star, |
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