Episode 840 - The final step
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I'm joined by Andrew Allen and Laura Kirk-Francis to discuss the start of the new season, as Arsenal get ready to kick off on Sunday at Old Trafford. We chat about the summer business, how ready we are to compete and to take that final step from second to first, the make-up of the squad as it stands and whether we need some extra before the end of the window. There's discussion of outgoing transfer business, the pressure on Mikel Arteta to deliver silverware with the media gaze very firmly on the manager as well as fan expectation, players we're looking forward to seeing, Tony Adams' comments about the captaincy and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by now, where you can stream Sky Sports and watch 215 Premier League matches up from 128 last season. |
| 0:09.8 | This is a big, big season for Arsenal after three successive second places, can we go the distance? |
| 0:15.6 | Can we finish first after all these years? And there's no better time to watch your team even more in the Premier |
| 0:21.3 | League this season than with Sky Sports on now. We'll all be looking forward to seeing Victor |
| 0:26.1 | Yocchrez banging in the goals and Mikhail Artetta driving everyone mad by being three inches |
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| 1:00.1 | Full terms apply. Hello and welcome to a brand new arse blog, arsecast, right here on arseblog.com. |
| 1:31.0 | How are you? Hope you're well. Thank you very much indeed, as always, for being here. |
| 1:35.5 | Well, it's that time of year again. The summer has been and gone, although it is very, very warm here in Dublin this week. |
| 1:43.5 | So we're getting a bit of a last hurrah from the summer. |
| 1:46.8 | But in terms of football, the summer is over and we stand on the precipice of a new season. |
| 1:55.8 | We've done the transfers. |
| 1:57.3 | We've done the rumors. |
| 1:58.7 | We've done the discussions, the arguing, the debates, the way it's all |
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