James Olley

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395 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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ESPN FC · Enzo Fernández and Transfer Deadline Day Deals! · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

So I'm guessing, does that mean next year they're going to do the defence?

I don't know.

I d it's a very sort of strange methodical way to go about it.

Mr.

But you do but it but I think if I was a United fan, I would be thinking, well

How have we started with the same back four that, you know, has been so maligned for so long?

It i i it's the obvious area of weakness and when you're now throwing in Champions League football into obviously what was a a promising start under Mik Michael Carrick, you do just think this this is just there's no strength in depth here.

There's some good individual options, but are they cohesive as a back four?

Not really.

And if they get injuries, there's a big drop-off.

So it you know

The fact that they've not addressed it now they can sort of paint the picture of well we're keeping our powder dry and we've tried to be a bit more frugal in the market.

But if come October they're leaking goals left, right and centre, Luke Shaw's injured and they're scrambling around for options at the back, you're just gonna get one massive I told you so from half a football.

Yeah, I mean there's been a bit of a a a negative reaction I think amongst some of the supporters about the fact that they've not strengthened the forward line and actually you know they've got one in in Solis and three have gone out in Jesus, Trossard and Martinelli.

And I think this kind of comes back to a uh a uh a statement that Mikhail Arteta made straight after the Champions League final, where he talked about we need to be ambitious in the market and we need to, you know, really push ourselves, try and go to the next level.

And that was sort of interpreted as go and get a superstar, basically, because it's the one thing that that Arsenal are missing in that in that forward line.

I think Bakayo Saka's got the potential to be that.

I'm not sure he's quite.

There yet.

But I think that's why they then spent the summer talking about Barcola, never really got anywhere with that one.

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