Transfer window round up, bye bye Bellerin, and ear defenders at the Emirates

Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show

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Soccer, Football, Sports

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Amy Lawrence and Adrian Clarke join Ian Stone for a look back at the transfer window deadline day and sum up whether it's really as bad as some people close to keyboards are making it out to be.

The team go into the reasons why things didn't work out, why Arsenal's outgoings aren't as good as other clubs' and how the team might set up if and when other injuries occur. And why it might be a good thing that another D Luiz didn't join.

There's a look back on Wednesday night's victory over Villa and the speed at which Arsenal keep bouncing back with goals when conceding. Plus a look ahead to Sunday's match up at Old Trafford.

And finally we bid farewell to Hector Bellerin after he joined Barcelona this week.

RUNNING ORDER

PART 1a - Trust-the-process-o-meter - 01.00

PART 1b - Transfer window review - 07.00

PART 2a - Arsenal 2-1 Villa - a dominant 2-1 - 23.00

PART 2b - Manchester United preview - 36.00

PART 3 - Hector Bellerin departs to Barcelona - 41.00

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:09.7	The only way to score is, of course, to play with a handbreak-off.
0:17.7	Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Handbreak-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.
0:23.8	We thought we'd wait until Friday morning, just in case there were any last minute transfers.
0:28.7	And lo and behold, nothing happened.
0:32.0	So to talk through all that, as well as the excellent win over Aston Villa,
0:35.7	I'm joined by two of the finest Arsenal writers and analysts available in the price range on a Friday morning.
0:42.2	It's Adrian Clark and Amy Lawrence morning.
0:46.4	I just think you need to just check out with various intermediaries that we are actually able to appear on this show.
0:57.5	I'll get my people to talk to your people.
1:00.3	What are they called? Have the deal sheets gone through in time?
1:03.6	Well, well, we're in now, aren't we? What deal sheets, I hear you ask?
1:05.5	We're talking, I'll tell you what, right?
1:07.7	Obviously, a lot of people were hoping that maybe someone was bought in on the last day of the transfer window,
1:13.7	but it didn't happen.
1:15.0	And Amy, we were just talking before we came on air about how there's people winging.
1:19.3	How are you feeling?
1:20.3	Where are you, as an opening question, on the trust the processometer?
1:25.1	All right?
1:25.5	Are we marking it out of 10 or 100?
1:27.8	How are we doing it?
1:28.6	I see a sort of thing like a vault meter, you know, where a little dial, I don't know.
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