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Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast

Episode 525 - Summer of youth?

Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast

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Football, Arsenal, Premier League, Gunners, Sports & Recreation, Sports, Sport, Soccer

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show I'm joined by The Man from East Lower and Clive Palmer to discuss our final league position, the missed opportunity to finish in the top four, Unai Emery's chance of salvation in Baku when he could win a European trophy and get us back into the Champions League next season. We then chat about the big job coming up this summer, whichever flavour of European football we have, and that's the squad rebuild. Will Emery and the club be ruthless to deal with the many issues at hand? Can we do what we need to do with the budget we have? And do the circumstances suggest that doors may be opened for young players to take their chance in a squad that requires a lot of work? All that and lots more.


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com.

0:27.9

How are you? Hope you're well. Where are we? We are here. Well, no, I'm here and you're there.

0:38.5

Wherever there is, but there as far as your concern is here, but it's not the same here that's my here.

0:46.0

Because otherwise this would be a very, very crowded studio. You wouldn't all fit. Basically, that would be the main problem.

0:52.9

You wouldn't have any huge issue with it, but you just wouldn't fit in this room. It would be a bit of a squash assardine situation going on.

1:01.5

Nobody needs to be assardine. If you were going to be a fish of some kind, you'd be like a killer whale, an orca or a baracuda or something.

1:12.9

Not one of those crap fishes that swims around in shows and then gets pushed to the surface.

1:18.7

Not only do you get eaten by the big fish that are pushing you up. You get eaten by the fucking by the birds that dive bomb into the water and they get the fish at the top and the big fish get the fish at the bottom.

1:28.7

And then there's about three of these little Nemo fuckers left and they go off and make fish love together and make another big show and then they all get eaten.

1:37.7

It is, of course, the circle of life. That's what I'm talking about. Is there a thing called a lionfish? Could there be a lionfish king?

1:46.7

I don't know. I think I've taken this just a bit too far. I feel like I should Google that now. Lionfish. Is there a thing called a lionfish? And it's venomous.

1:58.7

It's also called the zebrafish, the firefish, the turkey fish, tasty fish or butterfly cod. What?

2:10.7

I think somebody's been playing around with Wikipedia here, but that's what it says right in front of me. Lionfish.

2:16.7

It looks sort of like you know the fish that Homer at the bit of in the sushi restaurant in the Simpsons and then they thought he was going to die and he didn't die. Well, he didn't die obviously because you know, he's still alive 25 years later or whatever it is. Homer is still alive.

2:33.7

So what the fuck is going on here? Well, the season is over and we have had a few days a little while to come to terms with where we finished in the table.

2:45.7

I still don't like it. I don't like it. But that's something we might say for our discussion. And we're in this weird strange place now where the season is over for pretty much everybody else.

3:01.7

But we've got two weeks just over just under two weeks before the Europa League final, which takes place in Baku in Azerbaijan.

3:11.7

And so much depends on that game. There's so much resting on it for what we need to do this summer and for what we will be doing next year in terms of the football we'll be playing the Champions League or not Champions League.

3:24.7

I mean, I hope we are. It is this weird thing, isn't it? Where, you know, we don't really have a realistic chance of winning the Champions League. It's not impossible as events this season have shown us that, you know, you can be absolute shit-conson, you know, beyond the verge of doing it. But that's a different thing altogether.

3:44.7

You know, but realistically we don't have a chance of winning the Champions League. But we all want to be back in the Champions League. And if we get there, it will be because we've won the European trophy that were best suited and most capable of winning.

3:58.7

But I don't think I would like another Europa League campaign. I sort of had my fill of the Europa League now.

4:06.7

The Thursday Sunday thing that gets old very, very quickly. It means you don't really play any games on a Saturday. And I know that that's true of many other teams. But in general we haven't had too many Saturday games this season. And you kind of miss those a bit. Sorry, my voice broke in the middle of that sentence.

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