Bring back Jack Wilshere

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It's Ian Stone, Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas back to talk you through the deflating defeat at Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup.

This week: with a season defining week ahead which players should Arsenal be looking to bring in to ensure better performances? Is it already too late to be bringing in players? And is Jack Wilshere the solution to all our problems?

That plus whether Arteta's contract should be extended and what's the biggest factor in determining that.

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Transfers targets (01.00)

PART 2 - Forest 1-0 Arsenal (05.30)

PART 3a - Arteta’s contract (25.00)

PART 3b - January deals (31.00)

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:02.7	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.2	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:23.2	A week is a long time in football. Certainly the balloon of hope has been somewhat deflated by the sharp pain of FA Cup defeat.
0:31.9	Here to discuss that and look forward to what is shaping up to be a momentous week.
0:36.5	In the recent history of the club, Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas, hello, guys.
0:41.9	Hello, Ian.
0:42.8	Morning.
0:45.0	We will talk about, of course, what happened in Nottingham yesterday.
0:48.8	James, you were there, yes?
0:50.7	I was, yeah.
0:51.6	I've got to stop making these trips up the M1. They're not going very well.
0:55.6	Jonah McNicholas, but we'll get to that. It's pretty obvious, James, your piece this morning,
1:03.6	and all the chat we've had is we need to sign some players before Thursday. We will have a chat
1:08.1	again about the transfer window, but we have a question.
1:12.3	Which one player do Arsenal most need to sign before Thursday?
1:17.9	James, I'll start with you.
1:20.6	Well, I've sort of got two answers, really, unfortunately.
1:23.6	But because if it's before Thursday,
1:26.8	then I think that the answer is a central
1:29.3	midfield player, especially based on what we saw yesterday. And in that context, I'd probably
1:35.9	go for someone like Ruben Neves of Wolves. It was linked in the summer and he's having a fantastic
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