Hello and welcome to the Arsenal Women Ask Castle on AskBlog.com.

Apologies that in the latter part of last year we were possibly a little bit slow in terms

of podcasts and we didn't put out quite as many as we usually do but we are absolutely

making amends for that in January. Not least because we will have podcasts on all of

Arsenal's new signings this month and that will keep us busy but also next week by the

time you're listening to this probably we will have something pretty special for you

from Arsenal. As many of you know are changing the wrap around Emirates Stadium. There's

going to be lots of representation for the women's team on that wrap and I'll be doing

some stuff with the club around that as well but probably even before that we might even

have another podcast on a new signing but and I'll admit that Arsenal caught me a little

bit on the hot with this because I was expecting an announcement on Monday and in the interest

of transparency I was in the pub having a liquid lunch when I discovered that they would

be discussing, they would be announcing this signing on Friday afternoon instead so we bought

the recording forward a little bit for you but to discuss the signing of Victoria Pelova

from IACS absolutely nobody better to speak to than Amrie Posner who covers both the Netherlands

national team and IACS. Amrie welcome back to the show. Hi, Dim, thank you for having

me. Absolute pleasure and by the way this means

that you go to the top of the leaderboard with Susie Rack and Leo Williamson in terms of

appearances on this podcast so you're keeping pretty good company there.

That's great. Well if Arsenal will keep having lots of Dutch players this is what's going

to happen but yeah. And Amrie very few people I think will have the sort of insight that

you have on Victoria Pelova so just as a starter for ten maybe for people who know nothing

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