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The Football Reporters: How Arsenal take the next step with Arteta

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Sports, Soccer

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Mark Ogden, James Olley and Rob Dawson look back at another trophy-less season for Mikel Arteta and Arsenal and wonder what the club has to do to win silverware on a consistent basis. Plus, a lookahead to the FA Cup final between Crystal Palace and Manchester City, and Don Hutchison joins to remember the best of Goodison Park, as Everton’s men’s team prepare for their last fixture at the iconic ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the football reporters.

0:10.7

What does Mikhail Artetta need to do to Arsenal to help them kick on next season?

0:15.3

And is he the right man to do it?

0:17.4

Do Manchester City have the hunger to get out of their current malaise ahead of the

0:21.2

FA Cup final this weekend? And we say goodbye to Goodison Park with Don Hutchison

0:26.1

looking at some of our favourite stories. Well, welcome along. Hello, gentlemen. How are we?

0:31.6

All back together. Yeah, it's been a while. Yeah, it's cold in there as well, isn't it? That's why I've got a cardigan. First moment of the day in the first five seconds.

0:38.3

Who had, yeah, who had five seconds in the sweep?

0:41.3

Well, I think we all assumed in the summer that if City weren't going to win the

0:44.3

Premier League title, it was probably going to be Arsenal who were front and centre to lift

0:48.3

the trophy.

0:49.3

Obviously it's not happened.

0:50.3

They've falling short. Again, James, you're the one that watches them more than anyone.

0:55.8

Where's it gone wrong do you think?

0:57.2

And what did they need to do to fix it?

0:59.7

Easy one to start.

1:04.3

They started short.

1:06.4

They didn't have enough last summer. And I think they relied on a player availability being as optimum as it was the year before,

1:14.6

when they could pick pretty much the vast majority of the same team every week.

1:19.0

And they relied on getting the absolute maximum out of their two key players, Martin Odegaard and Bukai Osaka.

1:25.9

And so when they went into this season

1:28.9

and they didn't strengthen, and I know we're going to talk about side of the striker and

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