Pogba's future, Arteta at Arsenal, Upamecano update
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Coming up today, host Mark Chapman & David Ornstein discuss issues surrounding Mikel Arteta's first year at Arsenal after a terrible start to the Premier League season.
The Athletic’s Laurie Whitwell will join us to detail the inside on Paul Pogba’s time at Manchester United and what might happen next..
And our German writer Rafa Honigstein will be with us to discuss the future of Leipzig’s Dayot Upamecano & his exclusive interview with Bayern Munich’s Leon Goretzka.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Allsena and Chapman podcast on The Athletic. As usual, we bring you exclusive insight and stories from our team of writers. |
| 0:16.2 | And coming up today, we'll discuss some of the stories from David's weekly column, including the strange case of William Saliba, one of the many issues surrounding Arsenal's poor start to this season. |
| 0:27.2 | The Athletics, Laurie Whitwell, will join us with plenty of detail on Paul Pogba's time at Manchester United and what might happen next. |
| 0:35.9 | And our German writer, Raphaonigstein, will be with us to discuss the future of Leipzig's |
| 0:40.8 | Dio Upamakano and his exclusive interview with Bayern Munich's Leon Garetska. |
| 0:46.1 | Read all the articles we discuss on today's podcast in full over on the Athletic. |
| 0:50.2 | Right now, if you subscribe to the Athletic, you can give another subscription as a gift for free. |
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| 1:16.6 | slash Ornstein and Chapman. And I'm back on this podcast feed on Thursday, alongside Matt Slater, |
| 1:22.6 | for our new podcast, The Business of Sport. So David, we'll get to your column in a minute, but this time last year, |
| 1:29.8 | much of your writing on The Athletic and much of you are talking on this podcast featured |
| 1:34.8 | really exclusive detail on the sacking of Una Emery and the succession plan that saw Mikhail Artetta |
| 1:40.8 | appointed. It's been a busy year, hasn't it, since then, for Arsenal's |
| 1:45.4 | writers at the Athletic. Artetta's arrival hasn't necessarily calmed at times the circus that is |
| 1:52.6 | around the club. I mean, we've had exclusives on everything from Gennasaurus to your interview |
| 1:58.5 | with Meza Erzell. Yeah, it's been a tumultultuous roller coaster year for Arsenal, like it has for many clubs. |
| 2:03.7 | They don't need to be singled out in that sense, especially with the COVID pandemic. |
| 2:08.2 | But yeah, if you think back to this time last year, Artetta came in, Arsenal were facing all sorts of problems on and off the pitch. |
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