Hello and welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Skast.

Here on R-Splug.com. How are you? Hope you're well. We are going into the final game of the premier league season almost a year after the season started. It's ending. It is ending and maybe not too soon from a premier league point of view. Of course, Arsenal still have the FA Cup to play for.

That's something we hope will be a cause for celebration. Not only will we win a trophy but we'll have European football next season. We can celebrate that. That's good.

But in premier league terms, this one has been a bit of a bust. But before I go into that and before I go into what this season has brought us or brought upon us, I just want to tell you that we have a competition a little bit later in the show where you can win.

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I was going to talk a little bit about this season, about the 2019-20 season from an Arsenal perspective. I was just thinking about some of the stuff that happened, some of the things that went on.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to forget stuff when I go through this. But it's fucking mental.

This season has been unlike any other I have ever known as an Arsenal fan. There have been many, many things have happened down the years at Arsenal on the pitch of the pitch.

There's been upheaval. There's been periods of stability. There's been great success. There's been frustration. But I cannot remember a season that has been anything, anything like this.

I'm just sort of going through stuff. I made a couple of notes here. If I've forgotten things, I apologize. But it's only because of the amount of stuff that happened that things just kind of get lost in the mists a little bit.

Let's go back. Let's go back in time to around this time last year, last July. Right now, this day, last July, Arsenal were on tour in the US.

They play games in LA in Charlotte and in Washington, DC or outside Washington, DC. But our captain was not on that tour because before the tour, he basically torched nine years of his Arsenal legacy by refusing to go on the tour and forcing a move, well, forcing a move.

He just did not want to play for Arsenal anymore. He said discussions have been going on for months. The club acted all surprised and all of a sudden we had this massive issue with Lauren Kishelny. He did not go on the tour and ultimately ended up being sold to Bordeaux to replace him.

We brought in David Louise from Chelsea, who had just signed a new contract at Chelsea. David Louise, of course, represented by Kia Jorabchen, who's been a long time working relationship or has had a long time working relationship with Edu, who's our technical director and Ralph Sonyeh, who is ahead of football.

Jorabchen has watched games from our director's box this season, which of course is a really, really, really healthy place for a super agent to be going back to the US and while we were over there, we spent a lot of money, surprisingly.

We spent 72 million pounds on Nicholas Pepe, assigning that nobody thought was possible or that ourselm were going to do anything like that in the transfer market. Of course, there was the weekcare, the use stuff that went on last summer as well.

And we get to the start of the season and it goes, okay, we start with a couple of wins and then we sell one of our best defenders, Nacho Montréal, the day before the North London Derby, which we draw.

Then we have that Wattfer game, that Wattfer game. You know the one I'm talking about, the one that is still etched into your brain where we're tuning it up and we play in a way which I don't know.

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