Episode 731 - Saka Signs
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this week's show I chat to Kaya Kaynak about Bukayo Saka signing his new contract, the fact that he has earned his big wage increase, and the message it sends when Arsenal retain their best players ahead of a summer when they want to improve the squad. We also chat about the importance of selling well this summer, the possibility that Sunday could be Granit Xhaka's final game for the club, the pursuit of Declan Rice and why dealing with other clubs being interested is a fact of life, and Mikel Arteta's interesting comments about the season and psychology.
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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. Thank you very much indeed as always for being here. It is a beautiful |
| 0:33.9 | Thursday afternoon here in Dublin. The sun is shining. The air is warm. I've got the window open. I can hear |
| 0:39.7 | dogs barking. People mowing their lawns. I had a pretty good game of golf earlier this morning while |
| 0:45.5 | it was going very well until coming off the 12th hole at 4 over, which is not bad considering my |
| 0:51.1 | handicap is around 9 or 10. A fly, small little fly flew right into my eye and I had to sort of |
| 0:59.3 | dig it out and it was not great. I just wanted to, you know, if you've got to insect in your eye, |
| 1:04.3 | it's never good. Never good. But when you, you know, bits of it come out and it's not good. And I |
| 1:10.3 | remember thinking to myself, I hope this doesn't derail me. I hope this doesn't pop me off my stride. |
| 1:16.7 | Guess what happened? That's right. I played like an absolute twat for the next six holes. |
| 1:23.0 | I went from 4 over to finishing 12 over something like that. Which, you know, it's a very interesting |
| 1:28.9 | thing to consider. The psychology of sport. One minute you're going along great guns. The next |
| 1:35.5 | little idea gets in your head and then you're fucked. Now, are there parallels between that and |
| 1:42.2 | Arsenal season? Absolutely not. I just wanted to make it clear that flies are annoying little bastards |
| 1:49.0 | as if you didn't already know that. Anyway, welcome to the last arse cast of the 2022-23 season. |
| 1:56.3 | And that's kind of weird. I mean, it's not weird in the sense that the last arse cast of the season |
| 2:02.2 | takes place before the last game of the season. That happens every year. It just feels like |
| 2:08.5 | it's been no time since we were previewing the season ahead wondering what were we going to be like? |
| 2:13.8 | Would we improve? What was what was the football going to hold? What were Arsenal going to deliver to |
| 2:19.3 | us on the pitch off the pitch and all the rest? I mean, in some ways, it feels like it was ages ago. |
| 2:27.3 | In other ways, it feels like it was just yesterday. And we've been through a fair bit. It has to be |
| 2:32.6 | said a lot of highs, a lot of enjoyable moments, a lot of fun along the way, a lot of hope and |
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