John Brewin

I suppose this is... Arsenal is a football club, it's a football team trying to win things, but also we're in a world of social media and being an outward-looking corporation and engagement and all these things, and some very highly paid advisor is advising them to do these things.

But it goes against what makes for teams and makes for success, and what we've got now is...

Arsenal fans are entitled to wonder what all this stuff is.

It's not authentic.

It's not getting the job done.

And we go to a cliche here of success has many fathers.

If this Arsenal team falls short...

the failures will be blamed on stuff like this and the distractions and the TikTok playing at the training ground.

You watch that and you do think, and listeners won't like me for saying this, can you imagine Sir Alex Ferguson allowing this?

I don't know.

Yeah, I mean, the first thing I would say is watching Bournemouth is a privilege.

They do play very exciting football.

It's great to go down there and...

And yeah, anyone that joins Bournemouth, I think there's a tacit agreement that we're a club that can provide you a platform and then your next move in football will come and because we do things, quote unquote, the right way, other clubs will want to take you.

And Iriola is a prime example of that.

Every press conference that I've been to of his, and that's a lot at this point, he's asked about the new contract and he will say nothing about it.

In fact, he will deflect and say, you know, that's not decided yet or whatever.

The expectation is that he will move on.

I presume Bournemouth have plans in place for this.

They also have Tiago, a sporting director, who...