Episode 640 - Season Preview 2021-22
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we preview the brand new Premier League season which starts tonight against Brentford. My guests are Phil Costa and Andrew Allen, and we chat about the state of the squad before the first game, the signings we've made, the signings we have yet to make, the occasional departure and the players who are still around who haven't gone, what constitutes a successful season for the team, the pressure on Mikel Arteta, the difficult start we face and lots, 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. |
| 0:27.2 | How are you? Hope you're well. Hope all is good with you and yours. The new season is upon us. |
| 0:33.4 | That's right. Here we go again. Here we go again is right. It doesn't feel like a |
| 0:40.3 | whole summer has passed since the end of last season but it has. We've had a |
| 0:44.7 | European championships. We've had on Olympic games. We've had a successful transfer window. |
| 0:50.2 | Well, you know, two out of three ain't bad. We will of course be talking about the transfer window |
| 0:58.7 | in this episode. The things we've done, the things we haven't done, the things we still need to do |
| 1:02.7 | both inwards and outwards and we'll be talking about the new season. What are |
| 1:07.6 | realistic expectations for the club and for the team as we go into this new campaign. |
| 1:12.7 | What will be successful? What wouldn't be and you know what should we be expecting from a squad |
| 1:19.7 | that isn't that dissimilar from the one that ended last season but which still has room for improvement |
| 1:26.0 | and I think an eighth place finished for Arsenal last season was not good. It's well below |
| 1:31.0 | the standards that are expected and one of the reasons it was for straining was because the team |
| 1:36.4 | that we had, the players that we had are capable of better than eighth. I think that's fair to say. |
| 1:40.2 | So look, it's all ahead of us in this particular episode. My guess will be Phil Costa and Andrew |
| 1:44.9 | Alan were going to chat it all out but I just want to say welcome back to a particular kind of |
| 1:50.6 | listener. I know that there are some people who at the end of a season they just turn off. They |
| 1:55.8 | don't want to deal with all the summer madness and I quite understand that and I think this summer |
| 2:00.5 | more than any other summer the the transfer stuff has been absolutely crazy, crazy every single bit of |
| 2:08.6 | it because look for obvious reasons. People are interested. They're invested. They want to see the |
| 2:12.4 | club do better next season and part of that is what we do in the transfer window but it has been |
| 2:18.4 | I don't know this just it feels like it's gone to a different level but there are people out there |
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