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

How are you?

Do I even need to ask that question today of all days after what has transpired the excitement,

the enthusiasm after what felt like an eternity, an eternity?

We got a deal done that I don't think anybody really had expected Arsenal Football Club

to be able to do.

And I have to say, having had my doubts and having expressed some concerns over what

we were doing this summer, my hat, my cap is well and truly doffed to our head of football.

It'll capo de tutti capi, the man himself, the gruff voice, but with the negotiation

skills of a lion.

I don't know of lions negotiate, but you wouldn't argue with one.

Well, what can I say?

What can I say?

There's humble pie in front of me.

I'm eating the humble pie.

I just did not think that we in the state we were in at this moment in time could pull

off something quite as extraordinary as selling Tacuma Asano to Partisan Belgrade.

Dude, you have knocked it out of the park.

There's a pint on me next time you're in Dublin and possibly a bag of chips and a battered

sausage as well.

That's how highly I rate this piece of transfer business.

Of course I am being just very slightly tongue in cheek here.

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