Episode 739 - Alessia Russo signs for Arsenal
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm joined by Tim Stillman to discuss the signing of Alessia Russo. The England international has joined Arsenal after her contract with Man Utd expired, and Tim gives us the background on the deal, how it came to pass, what she'll bring to the team next season, and how the transfer market in the women's game is beginning to change a bit. We also chat about Cloe Lacasse and Amanda Ilestedt who have joined this summer, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of the R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com |
| 0:29.9 | We're going to get straight into it. |
| 0:55.3 | Tell me a little bit about this particular deal. |
| 1:05.3 | Give us the background on that. |
| 1:15.3 | The R-Splug is a very good friend with a lot of women and they both went to the US together |
| 1:22.3 | to go to college. |
| 1:24.3 | They cut their time out of their short because of the pandemic and the leagues they were playing |
| 1:29.7 | in stopped. |
| 1:30.7 | So a lot of came back to Arsenal. |
| 1:33.9 | At that point in the summer of 2020, Arsenal were very interested in bringing Rousseau as |
| 1:39.0 | well. |
| 1:40.0 | The time, I think it's fair to say because of the pandemic, Arsenal were counting their |
| 1:44.8 | pennies a little bit and decided not to do it. |
| 1:48.4 | At the time, United had Casey Stoney as manager who was very convincing, convinced several |
| 1:55.7 | United players to go there, several big players to go to United and maybe we'll talk about |
| 2:02.4 | if we talk about United a little bit later. |
| 2:04.6 | So they wanted a three years ago. |
| 2:07.4 | Since then, basically Arsenal have needed a striker for a little while. |
| 2:11.6 | Since they took the decision about 18 months ago to move Vivian Medema back into a slightly |
| 2:17.4 | deeper number 10 position. |
| 2:19.0 | They bought Swedish striker, Steena Black, Stenius, Lars January, but really she's the only |
| 2:24.6 | outright striker that Arsenal have had ever since. |
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