The Arsenal Women Arsecast Episode 29: Oh Tobin a-Gooner!
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🗓️ 4 September 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This episode of the Arsenal Women Arsecast is all about the signing of USWNT star Tobin Heath. First of all, Tim talks to Gunners boss Jonas Eidevall about the signing, how it came about and how Heath fits into a squad already replete with attacking talent. Then Tim talks to co-founder and writer on Equalizer Soccer, Jeff Kassouf (@JeffKassouf) / Twitter, who broke the story last week that Tobin was looking to stay in England and play Champions League football. Tim and Jeff talk about the move, Heath's international career past and present and what Arsenal fans can expect from the American winger.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode, a hastily assembled episode, it must be said of the |
| 0:18.2 | Arsenal Women's Ask Cust on arsplog.com. I bet you can't guess what this episode is going |
| 0:24.0 | to be about. Fran Stenson's loan to Brighton, maybe not the signing of Tobin Heath for Arsenal. |
| 0:31.1 | Tobin Heath supports Arsenal. She now plays for Arsenal and in the words of Martin Tyler, it does |
| 0:37.6 | not get any more emphatic than that. A big signing obviously, absolutely huge mega-star |
| 0:44.4 | coming to Arsenal. A bit of a surprise signing as well for a few reasons. First of all, this was kept |
| 0:50.2 | pretty quiet. It must be said by Arsenal until Anita Assante, who was a guest on the last podcast, |
| 0:57.0 | actually, when we spoke about Jonas Aidaval, unwittingly leaked the news on Sky Sports News that the deal |
| 1:04.2 | was close and then lots of us were scrambling to speak to contacts to confirm the deal and then it |
| 1:10.4 | became apparent that Tobin Heath and Arsenal was a marriage that was going to be consummated for |
| 1:16.0 | one of a better word. Now she plays for Arsenal. Obviously, had to get a podcast together quite quickly, |
| 1:24.3 | which I managed to do on Thursday evening just before this signing was announced. I'm really, |
| 1:29.3 | really grateful to our guest on this podcast. Jeff Kassouf, Jeff, some of the American listeners |
| 1:36.2 | might be familiar with Jeff. He's one of the founders of Equalizer Soccer, one of the biggest |
| 1:43.1 | women's soccer publications in the US. He broke the news last week that Tobin Heath was |
| 1:50.6 | wanted to stay in England and wanted to play for a Champions League club, which obviously |
| 1:54.9 | really narrowed things down. I speak to Jeff a bit later in the show about Tobin's career, |
| 2:01.6 | how the move came about, and her status both at international level at the moment and historically, |
| 2:09.5 | and how she might fit in at Arsenal and what type of player she is for those of you that don't know. |
| 2:14.2 | Again, our American audience, I'm pretty sure are very familiar with what type of player |
| 2:19.0 | Tobin Heath is. But first, I had the opportunity to speak to Jonas Idavout on Friday afternoon in his |
| 2:26.8 | pre-CLC press conference. And I was interested in a couple of questions really. First of all, I guess |
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