What next for Arsenal? & Is Iraola better than Slot?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
After a “painful” defeat in the Champions League final.
What do Arsenal need to do to close the gap on PSG next season?
And what next for Liverpool after the departure of Arne Slot?
Host: Adam Leventhal
Guests: Tom Williams & Art de Roché, James Pearce
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
Producers: Mike Stavrou, Paul Iliffe
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Hi there and welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Adam Leventhal. |
| 0:09.0 | Coming up today after a painful defeat in the Champions League final, |
| 0:14.0 | what do Arsenal need to do to close the gap on PSG next season? |
| 0:21.9 | Gabrielle versus Saffinooff has to go in. |
| 0:27.2 | Oh, he's missed it! |
| 0:29.6 | He's missed it! |
| 0:35.0 | It's heartbreaking for Arsenal. |
| 0:38.2 | Soul destroying for Gabrielle. |
| 0:40.7 | So a lot happened over the weekend. |
| 0:43.7 | We'll deal with the Champions League final. |
| 0:46.6 | Arsenal's Premier League winning parade. |
| 0:49.8 | And also, Arnus Lott departing Liverpool. |
| 0:52.1 | James Pearce is going to be joining us for that a little bit |
| 0:54.5 | later on. But first up is hello to Tom Williams, French football journalist. How are you? |
| 0:59.0 | Hi, them very well. Thanks. How are you? Yeah, all good. All good. And also, hello to the |
| 1:04.2 | Athletics Arsenal correspondent Art de Roche. How are you? I'm good. I know you probably |
| 1:10.1 | expecting a different answer, but I'm actually okay. A little bit sleep deprived, but I'm all good. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, so it's interesting. Obviously, the defeat in the Champions League final, but then the parade, it's quite a switch in emotions. How was that parade for you? |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah, I mean, I can only speak as one of the over a million |
| 1:29.4 | people who are there. So everyone's going to have very different experiences. But for me, it was |
| 1:33.9 | a joyous occasion, really. I mean, for me, I tried to be as smart as I could with the logistics |
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