Zinchenko exclusive & Forest preview
Handbrake Off: The Athletic FC's Arsenal show
The Athletic
4.6 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today's Handbrake features an exclusive interview with Oleksandr Zinchenko, who spoke to The Athletic after Arsenal's win over Crystal Palace last weekend.
Adrian Clarke and Art de Roché join Ian Stone to reflect on the interview, talk about the women's demolition of Reading, and preview the Nottingham Forest fixture ahead of Tuesday.
Plus, should Emile Smith Rowe start at the City Ground, and who from our academy is ready for a loan?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The only way to score is of course to play with a handbreak-off. |
| 0:16.8 | Hello, I'm Ian Stone. |
| 0:18.5 | This is Handbrake-off, the Arsenal Arsenal podcast brought to you by The Athletic. |
| 0:23.5 | We have an exclusive interview with Alexander Zinchenko for you today. |
| 0:27.9 | To reflect on that, talk about the women's thrashing of Reading last night and preview |
| 0:32.0 | forest ahead of Tuesday. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm joined by Adrian Clark and Art de Roche. |
| 0:36.1 | Morning. |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning. Good morning. Morning. Good morning. Good morning. |
| 0:39.0 | Morning. Nice to see you guys. Transfer window. It is the transfer. It's open. It's open. It can't be open. |
| 0:48.1 | It's happening. It is ridiculous. Nothing is happening at all. Nothing. It's like finally everyone's gone, oh my God, financial fair play. |
| 0:57.2 | We can't spend a billion quid. There have been reports linking Kareemezima with Arsenal, |
| 1:02.6 | like it's 2013, all of a sudden. Who's a player that got away that you'd like in our current squad? |
| 1:09.6 | Who's a player that you think, oh yeah, shame we missed out on him? |
| 1:13.7 | The one that sprung to mind straight away was Halsem Auer from, I think it was four years ago now, |
| 1:19.7 | which seems ridiculous. |
| 1:21.2 | I remember he's a player who's only 10 days younger than me in real life. |
| 1:25.1 | So he was one of those guys, I'm sure you guys had it as well, |
| 1:28.1 | where you just, you see them and you're like, wow, that's kind of like one of me, basically. |
| 1:34.0 | So I was really excited when all those talks were going on, but sadly it didn't happen. And now he's |
| 1:39.7 | at Roma, I believe. So yeah, the time's probably passed for that one, but at the time, |
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