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Well tonight sees the coming together of the Master and the Apprentice or is it more the

Prodigal son.

Arsenal against Manchester City, Mikhail Artetta versus Pep Gradiola, and all with top spot on the line.

I'm Mark Chapman, this is the Athletic Football Podcast. The one team every time I scored a goal I jumped and back he was sitting there it was Arsenal

So in that moment I said that guy that guy likes Arsenal

What's a talking point here go well it's our technical and perhaps we're asking about that

We don't need to do that now the top of the league.

A great energy I sense it since I arrived after the Renfort game from the staff from every

at the club it was a mixture between anger and decided to play the next game

so we need to use that for tomorrow. When I look at this Arsenal team I see a lot of

shades of the early kind of Emirates era and the Arsenvenger.

So we have someone from either side on the pod to talk about probably the two most exhausting

managers to watch on the touch line. Manchester City Correspondence, I'm Leonard,

Arson writer Art Doroche.

Art, I'm going to start with you. Is he the Prodigal son?

To be fair, I feel like a lot of people kind of mocked him as that because he went straight from Manchester City to Arsenal but a lot of people forgot the managers he worked under before then.

Obviously, Arson Venger being a big one, but also David Moyes, and I think you've seen

traces of all those managers in this Arsenal team since he took over three years ago.

So when people kind of make that Pep arteta comparison and just leave it there,

it always feels kind of like you're just scratching the surface a little and you've seen sometimes they're

really happy to defend deep as a team sometimes they're very almost anti-PEP in a way but I feel like obviously with it being

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