Is this Arsenal squad as good as we think it is?

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

James McNicholas joins Ian Stone to reflect on where Arsenal are at as we enter the final international break of 2024.

We use the start of the break to assess how good the squad we have this season actually is.

Who’s underperformed? Who’s overperformed? Have we been unlucky with injuries or are there things we could have done in the summer to avoid some of the problems we’ve faced?

Produced by Steve Hankey.

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0:00.0	The Athletic FC Podcast Network.
0:07.2	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:15.1	Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:16.5	This is Handbreak-Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:20.8	Yeah, we're in the final international break of 2024, which considering the Arsenal's
0:25.8	recent form, may actually be a welcome chance to reflect and regroup. To do this, I'm joined
0:31.1	by James McNicholas. Morning. Morning, Ian. How you doing? You're right? I am. I'm doing
0:36.9	all right. We were wondering whether Art was going to join us.
0:40.5	But it turns out he's off.
0:42.3	Sure. He's on international duty. It transpires.
0:45.1	That's right. He's gone away with...
0:48.1	He's gone to Norway. That's the done thing, I gather.
0:51.3	A few players, of course, haven't joined up with their national team.
0:54.8	It does tell you how much people think that the Nations League means to national teams
0:59.5	when pretty much half the England team haven't joined up,
1:02.2	including the two that we care about as well.
1:05.2	Martin Herdecard, he went.
1:07.4	Did he fly out to Norway, James?
1:09.3	Did he fly out and then came back?
1:12.1	Or did he just not go? I hope he flew. There's no other good way of getting there. Yeah, he took the ferries in
1:19.5	away. He did actually go out. Yeah, he went out to meet up with the squad and say hi to everyone,
1:26.1	I guess, and be assessed by their medical team,
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