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Gab and Juls: Do Arsenal need a new striker?

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Arsenal’s 2-1 defeat to Fulham in the Premier League as they miss out on going top for the second game in a row. The guys ask whether long-rumoured Ivan Toney is the right fit for the Gunners or whether the likes of Kai Havertz could be better utilized up front instead. Also on the show today, Carlo Ancelotti’s new Real Madrid contract, Manchester United’s reality check & Juventus withstand Roma resistance to move two points off the Serie A top spot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gabby's Jules Blue Sky's over West London. Happy 2024! First show of the year.

0:12.0

Oh, I've been 24 for-24 for a couple of hours.

0:14.0

What better way is there than spending it with you?

0:16.0

Producer Friday behind the glass bright and early?

0:19.0

Oh my goodness.

0:21.0

But you know what?

0:22.0

We got to be here because we have a duty to our audience.

0:24.4

There's so much going on.

0:26.4

We had a full week of Citi A, Uventis, beating Roma, inter dropping points. have man city winning Manchester United losing

0:36.0

Chelsea nearly losing but we got to start with Fulham and Arsenal and I went I saw an Arsenal team that looked really bad.

0:51.2

They actually if this was like 20 years ago, I would say, oh, they were out on the town over the holidays.

0:58.0

Now, we know this is not the case.

1:00.0

But Arte agrees with me. He said it was one of the worst performances of the year.

1:04.4

Yeah and I agree with you too. I... There's the defeat against West Ham where I think

1:10.6

Arson were at the better team and on another day they win that game.

1:15.1

And then there's this Fulham game where Fulham deserves to win.

1:17.8

They were better than Arsenal.

1:18.8

Our son were really below par in every sense of it.

1:22.4

They're defending, they're attacking attacking the lack of sharpness the lack of energy

1:26.8

technical mistakes pretty much everywhere bad passes bad touches

1:30.7

Despite even taking the lead so early so you think okay they took the lead

1:34.0

they've done the hardest but even away from home that they can control a little bit they

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