Rayan Cherki - Signing of Summer? Emery or Arteta. Amorim (Successfully) Succumbs. [MW #18]
Sam's Army
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
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PREMIER LEAGUE: Aston Villa keeps playing possum and Unai Emery keeps pulling all the right levers. City's Rayan Cherki making a strong push to be signing of the summer. Ruben Amorim successfully capitulates on tactics. Preview of this week's massive Arsenal vs Villa match.
HALFTIME: Pop Quiz on USMNT goalscorers at World Cup 2026
ROUND THE WORLD: AFCON news and notes
STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs
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| 0:00.0 | The The All right, everybody, welcome back Sam's Army Match Week 18. |
| 0:32.7 | We've got a lot to talk about. |
| 0:33.7 | We're going to start with the Premier League, where some things we will touch on include Ryan Cherokee, Emery, or Arteta, and Amarin finally did the ting. Halftime will be a pop quiz |
| 0:45.4 | on the U.S. Men's National Team at World Cup 2026 around the world. Might touch on AFCON, |
| 0:51.4 | maybe some MLS news and notes. We'll see how much time we got. |
| 0:54.4 | And then stoppage time with having Tony's best bets and everybody's favorite segment, |
| 0:59.0 | Gois. |
| 0:59.8 | Now, time to welcome in this week's panel of beauties. |
| 1:02.0 | We will start with Mr. Mitchell Goulet, aka overtime Mitch. |
| 1:07.2 | We got New Year's coming up. |
| 1:09.1 | What's your resolutions for 2026? |
| 1:11.6 | I am, every time I watch a sports game, I want to take a couple notes on it. |
| 1:16.6 | Whether it's a basketball game, a football game, a football game, I want to just take notes. |
| 1:23.6 | I have a notebook I already got for it. |
| 1:26.6 | And, oops, each page is going to have one game's worth of notes. I have a notebook I already got for it. And, oops, each page is going to have one game's |
| 1:30.8 | worth of notes because I want to be able to look back on my year and watching sports. I'm going to |
| 1:35.2 | try to do one a day. I think I usually watch at least a sports game a day in some form. |
| 1:40.4 | It'll just be an interesting diary to keep throughout 2026. |
| 1:45.3 | For someone who hates the written word that I'd never in a million years would have guessed. |
| 1:50.1 | I don't hate the written word and you trying to push the narrative that I do is just wrong. |
| 1:56.3 | I hate your written word sometimes. |
| 1:59.8 | Not all the time. I hate your written word sometimes. Not all the time. |
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