Edu's departure & Newcastle analysis

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone to reflect on the news that Arsenal's sporting director Edu is set to leave the club.

The news comes at an unfortunate time, with Mikel Arteta's side without a win in their last three Premier League games.

The panel also analyse Saturday's defeat at St James' Park and look ahead to Wednesday's trip to the San Siro, as Arsenal face Inter Milan in the Champions League.

Produced by Jay Beale.

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC Podcast Network.
0:07.3	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:14.9	Hello, I'm Ian Sto. This is Hand-Break-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:19.6	Some big news has broken this morning.
0:22.1	The EDU reportedly is leaving the club.
0:25.2	We'll get into that and obviously Saturday's 1-0 defeat to Newcast at St James's Park.
0:31.8	I'm joined by Adrian Clark and Amy Lawrence.
0:34.4	Morning.
0:35.1	Morning.
0:35.7	Hello.
0:36.3	Now, we're going to need a new sporting director, is what they say.
0:39.5	Who would do the best job from the squad, by the way?
0:44.0	Who would be the best sporting director?
0:48.0	Amy, what do you reckon?
0:49.4	Ethan, non-erick, no, only joking.
0:51.4	It seems that he's the answer to every prayer at the moment.
0:53.5	So I think that if you're going to be a sporting director, you have to have good people
1:01.7	skills.
1:02.3	You have to be a people person as well as obviously having the contacts and connections and being
1:07.8	excellent at negotiating deals.
1:11.4	So I think the people person of choice might just be Declan Rice.
1:17.7	I reckon he gets on with everybody.
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