Arteta's impact at Arsenal, profiling Jakub Kiwior, and Man City preview

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Joining Ian Stone to go through the latest news from Arsenal it's Art de Roche and James McNicholas.

On the show they discuss Mikel Arteta and Cesc's comments from the weekend that he has improved many aspects of the training ground at London Colney. We talk about how he's done it and the aspects that have gone into making it an elite place of work.

As Arsenal welcome new signing Jakub Kiwior to the fold, we find out about the Polish international and what he will be bringing to the team.

And there's a big FA Cup fixture on Friday against Man City, we debate how Arteta might set up to face his old club.

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Fun facts (01.00)

PART 2 - Artetaverse (03.00)

PART 3 - Kiwior and other signings (14.00)

PART 4 - Man City preview (27.00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.7	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:16.9	Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:18.4	This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:22.0	We're going to be chatting about what changes our manager has made to the club.
0:25.9	Our new signing, Jakub Kiwiol, and we'll take a look ahead to tomorrow's evening's fourth round FA Cup tie away at Manchester City.
0:35.2	We're joined by Art de Roche and James McNicholas. Morning.
0:39.3	Good morning. Morning, Ian. Morning. It's a good morning. I'm sure you'd agree. We all discovered
0:44.6	this week that the partner of our latest signing, Jakub Kirill, was runner-up in the European
0:51.3	Twerk Championships. Can you find me a fact about another Arsenal player or their partner that might blow our
0:58.3	minds, aren't?
1:00.0	Yeah, I'm not sure mine says interesting.
1:02.4	It's probably more nerdy than anything.
1:05.1	But I think a lot of people probably found out that Leandro Trosard is a massive Lego fan.
1:13.4	I didn't know that.
1:15.5	Yeah, so I think, like, it might have been during lockdown.
1:18.4	He made a Lego Taj Mahal, and apparently, yeah, he's a big Lego enthusiast.
1:24.7	So that's one, another one about the new guys for people to get familiar with.
1:30.6	He's a massive Lego enthusiast. How many times do you think he's trodden on it when he's just left
1:35.5	the piece lying about? It's really one, as someone who had kids, one of the most painful things
1:40.4	is up there with upturned plugs, all right, is what I'm saying. But anyway,
1:44.4	right, I didn't know that. I'm just, sorry, I'm just trying to conceive of a Lego Taj Mahal,
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