Mikel's Transfer Partey

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

The Athletic

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas join Ian Stone to discuss the much-anticipated arrival of Thomas Partey on deadline day.

They reflect on the rest of the business carried out by the club during the transfer window, and look back at some memorable transfer stories from yesteryear.

They focus on the not-so-illustrious list of players who have previously worn Thomas Partey's number 18 shirt, and a song that everyone can agree on, care of the Beastie Boys.

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0:00.0	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:22.3	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is the hand break off. Hello, I'm Ian Stone.
0:23.8	This is the handbreak off podcast for the Athletic.
0:28.4	The Arsenal podcast, I guess, this week are the writers for The Athletic.
0:31.5	Amy Lawrence and James McNicholas, good afternoon.
0:34.7	Good afternoon.
0:35.3	Hello, hello.
0:36.1	Hello, hello.
0:37.0	Now, we are recording this on the afternoon after transfer deadline day and the last minute
0:43.1	acquisition of Thomas Parte from Athletica Madrid for the best part of 50 million quid.
0:50.0	Before we get into the meat of that story, we'll maybe talk about memorable Arsenal transfer stories.
0:55.5	Amy, we'll start with you.
0:58.8	I'm just going to head straight for Dennis Bergkamp.
1:01.8	Yeah, yeah, it's a good one.
1:05.0	It was really great.
1:07.1	I mean, it doesn't take much to get me wistfully nostalgic about Highbury anyway, but being
1:14.2	in a, being called to the home of football in those days and up the stairs through the marble
1:21.7	halls and up those beautiful staircase, pass that picture of Highbury under floodlights, give Herb's bus a little nod on the way up,
1:33.2	and into the press room upstairs, just off the kind of main hallway, where you had the director's
1:42.1	box on one side and the press sounds was on the other.
1:45.0	And it was only a little room, the big red sort of plastic cannon behind the plinth.
1:53.0	And there was Dennis with what felt like an army of Arsenal representatives.
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