The Arsenal Transfer Show EP390 – Arteta Cleared, Partey Return, Jorrel Hato & More!

Ajax fan here. Hato is unreal. Most talented player I have seen in years and at Ajax we have seen a lot of talents. But Ajax will never let him go. It’s impossible. He will stay for another season. Summer 25/26 will be the first transfer period where you might have a chance.

Just interested, if you don't think Ivan Toney is a fit who do you think would be?If you said already forgive me I missed it.

Toney is premier proven can score 20 goals a season thats eddie and jesus combined would be a big upgrade for scoring. Jesus overall play is better than eddie so sell eddie and bring in toney.

Women's game being banned for 50 years and "standard" is a bit of a dog whistle imo.
Same with equal pay (Both national teams here are paid the same), better coverage (I'll get to that) and a seemingly never ending fixation on crowd numbers or demographics. Or, when all of that ceases to be an interesting spectacle the self-defeating "Even if you don't like it, don't slag us off" mentality.
Equality is about equal, not better than.
Merit and opportunity are two different things. Let's not confuse the two.
I have the luxury to watch and support Arsenal men's at the highest level because largely I value and decided years ago as a child that imo the highest level of play and eventually relationship I could engage with in football was to enjoy this club.
Mainly because of Dennis Bergkamp and Ian Wright. But that's another story.
Some people have religion, some have knitting, some have according to American television serial murdering. I have this.
Since then, I've taken sport in some ways very seriously, but in other ways not seriously at all. I value analysis, high-end detail and work put into it's coverage, but not exclusively to this sport, almost all in fact, which at it's height I view as a mix of both at times bespoke art & science.
The UK women's game personally doesn't appeal to me in the slightest at the levels and access that I have presently, firstly selfishly I don't have the bandwidth, secondly I find the majority of the coverage amateur at best, and at worst tends to unfortunately misguidedly devolve largely into a poor aping of the worst parts of the men's superficial cheerleading and attempting to be "mates" coverage, which I find sycophantic and dull.
If I were however to decide to drop everything and invest significant time in the women's game, as I have in the past, the two teams I was most interested in in terms of high end aesthetic and tactical perspicuity were Barcelona and Lyon. Lyon have my favourite women's player Ellie Carpenter who I've watched casually since her days in the W-League here. Very fun right back who not only bombs on, takes long throws but does a lot more that I won't go into because I'll be here all day. And Barca are well, Barca. Other than the language barrier what relegated my interest levels to indifferent at best recent Spanish FA black eyes aside was; and it might be different over there, but the recent Women's World Cup here brought out a whole new group of cheerleading partisan fanatics, most of which whom have very little to no actual knowledge of the game and considered watching the Australian women's team tantamount to a Taylor Swift concert.
My philosophically generally is "Like what you like, try not to be a dickhead about it"
I also do not like Sam Kerr, which to these people basically put me on the level of a war criminal or "Haterrrrz". The reason I don't like Sam Kerr, is similar to how I feel about some of the antics Mbappe gets up to at PSG, Kerr has from day one over here pulled a lot of PR based stunts that are very much about her and what she considers "progressing the game", but in reality is more about her personally, financially and "her brand". Her brother Daniel, who was a very successful AFL player here had a lot of the same instincts. Great player, average human being. Put Ronaldo in that camp as well, but you can't explain this to new women's football fans. Oh well. Bandwagons happen.
Just seems recently discourse has entered into this self-centred and puritanical mode of expression. Shutting things down is the norm more than exception. But typically not with yourself Tom. So thanks for that.
My vague point was I appreciate the in-depth and nuanced coverage from you Tom, but not all those who aren't interested in women's Arsenal coverage are misogynist a-holes. 🙂
Have a good day mate. Sorry about the waffle.

The pronunciation (as a mexican gooner) for Santi Giménez is as follows: “HE-MEN-EHS”. none of that Spanish (from Spain) accent stuff.

Women can do things just as good as men if not better in my opinion

Thanks a lot for the podcast, Tom! This has become my daily morning routine, although I can only catch it live during the weekends, because in the week I have to take my kids to the school and daycare exactly at the start of the show. But just wanted to let you know that you´re being heard by a fellow Gooner from Madrid everyday. I´m Venezuelan and Spanish. My Spanish grandparent got me into Arsenal since I was a kid. He watched all kind of football, and he saw Wenger quality since Arsene arrived at Arsenal. I had the pleasure to watch the Invincible's league tittle with him, and also we watched the UCL final against Barca. Although that day was a little tense, because I was rooting for Arsenal and he was rooting for Barca. But it was a good game. He passed away many years ago. It would have been nice that he had the opportunity to see Arteta´s work in the club. But that´s how life works. 

Also, I wanted to let you know that I saw the team live from the pitch for the first time in my life this year. I traveled to Sevilla and it was an unforgettable night. I moved from Venezuela to Spain five years ago, and although I had the chance to see the team in the Europa League a couple of times, I was determined to wait for our Champions League return. It was my first Champions League game live from the stadium too. I´m not sure if I can attend if we play against another Spanish team in the knock-out stages, mainly because football is REALLY expensive (plus traveling and all that stuff). But if we end up playing against Atlético de Madrid or Real Madrid, I will surely assist to the game here in the city. I live about 15 minutes ride from Wanda Metropolitano. Great stadium, great team and great atmosphere in their games (I have attended a couple of Atlético´s games here). My wife is an Atlético de Madrid fan, and we´re trying to get our kids into Atlético too. She says to me that they will support Arsenal because of the passion that I show when watching my team. She likes football, but she´s not a crazy football fan like me. But I said to her that they need to have a Spanish team in their hearts, and certainly Atlético is better than my favourite Spanish team (Tenerife). XD

Sorry for writing such an extend comment. And sorry for my English too. Keep up the good work, mate!

COYG!

Poor Charles Watts absolutely butchered Odiriles name when he read out a question the other day. Give him some tips Tom!!

Sorry I gotta disagree on Emma Hayes. She's a bit too whiny and Mourinhoish when her side doesn't win. I mean saying Arsenal bullied cheatski when they just plain out played them.

Morning Tom! 👋

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Hato is left footed Timber.

Giminez will cost around 80 90 minimum and he doesn't have PL experience either. Watch Oshimen in Napoli vs Liverpool last season and you will know everything you need to know about what he can do against Van dijks of this world