MNC: What next for Arsenal & is Iraola right for Liverpool?

Football Daily

BBC

Soccer, Sports

4.3 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman is joined by Conor Coady, Chris Sutton and, Adam Crafton as they react to Arsenal’s Champions League final defeat to Paris Saint Germain. PSG won their second consecutive Champions League title after beating Arsenal on penalties. The panel dissect Arsenal’s setup throughout the game and, whether Arsenal need to change their approach. Why do people get so frustrated watching Arsenal? How will Gabriel missing the deciding penalty impact him? Does Luis Enrique’s PSG need to be in the conversation with the great teams such as Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona.

Is Andoni Iraola the right replacement for Arne Slot at Liverpool? Liverpool have opened talks with the former Bournemouth manager. The panel discuss how hard the step up to manage a ‘Big 6’ club is. Slot spent two seasons at Anfield winning a Premier League title in his first season, so where did it all go wrong for the Dutchman?

And a number of rule changes have come in ahead of this summer’s World Cup. Our Football Issues Correspondent Dale Johnson joins the Monday Night Club to discuss them all.

TIME CODES

00:00 Intro 00:30 Chris Sutton and Columbo 02:34 The Champions League final 10:00 Could Arsenal have approached the game better? 12:30 Do Arsenal need more quality? 14:40 Should Arteta change his style of play? 17:30 Gabriel taking the deciding penalty 19:30 PSG retain the Champions League 23:40 Liverpool sack Arne Slot 28:00 Did Mo Salah have an impact on Slot’s departure? 30:00 Where it all went wrong for Slot 31:10 Will Andoni Iraola be the right replacement 39:40 The impact of character and personality at Liverpool 43:00 World Cup rule changes 52:00 New VAR checks

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0:46.7	The Champions League final on the slot leaving Liverpool.
0:49.7	Looks like Andoni Airola will replace him.
0:52.1	We will start with the Champions League final. You were on radio two this morning, Chris, a clip of you talking about your highlight in Budapest, visiting the statue of Colombo. Yeah, that was a highlight. I'm a big fan of Colombo. And Murder She wrote, Angela Lansbury, but I'd say Colombo number one for me. So, yeah, I got there. I had to get my accreditation, but I made a dash for his statue. Right. And, yeah, yeah. And for those that don't know, why is there a statue of Colombo in Budapest? I don't know. Oh, okay. I honestly don't know, but I know there is a statue. You know? Well, Adam Crafton, do you know? It's the kind of thing the athletic may write 5,000 words on, so I don't know. I don't know. I'm Googling it as we speak. Right. Okay. Have you found it? Well, no, I'm looking. It takes time.
1:44.3	Is it not filmed in Budapest?
1:45.6	Is that not why there was a statue there?
1:47.1	That's what I thought you were getting at?
1:48.2	No.
1:48.7	Before we came up.
1:49.4	He was quite a long way away.
1:52.4	L.A.
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