Art De Roche

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277 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Portugal survive + why are Newcastle selling their best players? · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

I was just wondering, as someone who's watching from afar and looking back to last summer where the ESAC deal kind of dragged out right until December,

September do you reckon there's maybe been you know a decision made okay rather than waiting so long and dragging things out get things done early so then you can as you say reinvest in the team ahead of the new season and not you know kind of almost waste the first couple of weeks of the new campaign yeah

Definitely.

I think, to be fair, looking at the back end of last season...

There are a few people who I do know who are more Spurs orientated than Arsenal.

And they were saying in the first couple weeks or so, they could tell in terms of what he was demanding in training, in terms of what Spurs were doing on the ball in possession.

And we know how specific Deserbe is with that from his time at Brighton.

But they could tell the difference almost immediately in terms of the training demands.

And of course, that bled through into performances.

But then when a manager actually gets players who fit that kind of style of play, I think it is really beneficial.

And you should see that growing.

I was about to say hopefully, but I don't know if I want to say hopefully, but quite soon into the season, because also a lot of these guys are coming in before preseason has actually started.

I know Van Hecker's obviously going to have some time off after being at the World Cup, but Tenali's not been at the World Cup.

Fernandes hasn't either.

So you should have a nice kind of group of players to work with and get those principles in play quite early.

No, what I really loved about the group stages was that Messi and Mbappé were playing basically within a couple of hours of each other every day.

So you'd see Messi score two and then Mbappé feels like he has to respond.

Or the other way around where Mbappé scores two and then Messi scores a hat-trick.

So yeah, that's been a really, really entertaining subplot of the tournament.

I think looking at both of their fixtures, and I don't want to be disrespectful to Cape Verde or Paraguay, but... You're going to be?

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