January transfer wrap: au revoir Auba and a leaner, meaner Arsenal

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Join Ian Stone, Adrian Clarke and James McNicholas for a discussion on Arsenal's (lack of) business during the January transfer window.

This week: how do the panel rate our January out of day? Memories of Auba, and who are these two new signings we've brought in?

Plus is it Europe or bust for Arteta?

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1 - Rate January out of 10 (01.00)

PART 2 - Transfers, Auba, and who we brought in (04.30)

PART 3 - Trust the process? (28.30)

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:02.7	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:18.1	Hello and welcome to Handbreak Off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:22.6	I'm Ian Stone, and over the next 40 minutes or so, we're going to take a closer look at all
0:26.7	our many new January signings and how Michel Artetta plans to integrate them into our squad,
0:33.1	which is the intro I'd written a few days ago in the what now turns out to be forlorn hope that we'd strengthen the squad in our bid for the top four.
0:41.2	But as things turned out, we only made a couple of signings and one of them,
0:44.2	actually both of them, don't arrive until the summer.
0:46.9	All the same.
0:47.7	Myself and the guests will talk about the new players and the depth of the squad,
0:50.7	what it means for the remainder of the season and also in the long term. We're joined this week by James McNicholas and Adrian Clark.
0:59.0	Morning, guys.
1:01.0	Hello.
1:01.3	Morning here.
1:02.1	Morning.
1:02.9	Before we get into the meeting discussion, a general question to open, which is to rate
1:07.4	January out of 10.
1:10.2	By the way, out of both domestic cup competitions,
1:13.6	lost one league game we deserve to draw at least,
1:16.2	drew one we probably should have won,
1:17.7	and then failed to bring in any reinforcements,
1:20.2	but did get some players who were surplus to requirements off the books,
	...

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