And the Hello and welcome to a brand new Arslog Arscast right here on Arslog.com.

How are you?

Hope you're well. Thank you very much indeed as always for being here.

It's a day early. Yes, I know we usually do it on a Friday, but it's an

interlul, there's not much going on, so why not get something out for people to listen to? Is it a day early?

Listen, time is just a construct. There's no law that says the

podcast has to come out one day or the other, is there? There is not. So we're not

breaking the law and you're not breaking the law by listening to this.

A bit later on, because obviously there's a bit of Ben White chat in this particular episode,

because, well, Ben White is not out of the news for half a second at this moment in time

so we will talk about him but if you stick with us you will have a chance towards the end of the show to win something quite exclusive indeed. I will

explain in more detail towards the end of the show but we should just get on and have the conversation

that we're going to have in this particular

podcast and as ever it's my pleasure to welcome back you'll know from the

Arsenal Vision podcast it's Clive Palmer hi Clive.

Hello Andrew how are you? I'm doing all right, thanks very much.

I'm sort of coasting through this interlol,

on a sort of sea of tranquility, if you like, Arsel or top of the table. We'll come to that because maybe it won't be as tranquil in a few weeks time.

But for the moment we can enjoy being where we are. I want to start with the big story of this week I suppose is the new

contract for Takehiro Tommy Asu, a really excellent player. And I suppose there are two things

at play here. People will say, yes, he is a fantastic player,

a guy who can play across the back line, right back, left back, either center half position,

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