Joel Penny
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850 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Joel Penny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's a lot of players and a lot of players.
Yeah, and so if they're going to be going through a season of contract negotiations with all of them,
then that's going to complicate things.
Because as we've seen with Liverpool, is that when you've got that going on in the background, it can start to harm things, particularly that kind of chemistry and harmony and unity within the squad.
So that's another element that they're going to have to deal with.
But in terms of the on-pitch stuff, I'm fascinated, we've kind of focused a little bit more on the rules changing to stop them from scoring goals.
And we've all fixated on that because Arsenal don't really look like they have a lot of ways of scoring goals.
They only conceded 27 goals in the league.
Like, that's going to be the problem for anyone trying to chase them.
How do you score against them?
I think there might be, and particularly if, as you say, Maresca was planning to try and not change too much, a little bit of evolution rather than revolution.
Because, as you say, Bernardo Silva was such a key component.
Not only did Guardiola pick him more than he picked any other Man City player, he picked him more than he's picked anyone else in his entire career.
He loves him.
So the idea, he was so pivotal, even at times when people thought, oh, well, surely he's not the best person for that job.
He was always in there because of, like you say, that versatility, the intelligence, the understanding of what any game needs at any moment.
And I think there are some other City players within there who may well have some of that.
But I'm fascinated by the Rodri question because...
He is in the last year of his contract.
They haven't really gone into much detail with him signing a new contract.
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