Arsecast Extra Episode 705 - 27.07.2026
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What does the arrival of Christos Tzolis mean for Arsenal’s squad?
Hello and welcome to another ArsCast Extra as always with James from GunnarBlog. James, good morning to you and congratulations. Congratulations, but what for, Andrew? Well, you as a an ancestor of the fine county of Mayo in Ireland can today Enjoy the celebrations as Mayo won their first All Ireland football championship since nineteen fifty one. There was a curse on the county, but it has been lifted. They beat Kerry yesterday at Croak Park, so you and all the Mayo people around the world and in Ireland should be very happy this morning.
I have to say actually I did watch uh the highlights of uh the GAA final and uh it's it was quite something. I mean, those scenes at full time, seventy five years. Is that the right sense? Not that long. Yeah. And the curse is quite dark. The curse reportedly was or allegedly we should say was that They would not win. The All Island Final until Every member of the nineteen fifty one team was dead, I believe. Um well that has happened now. Mm. So presumably it was real the curse all along.
Yes. And now it's over. It's done and dusted and Mayo can uh can enjoy themselves. They've been to a number of finals over the last uh few years in particular and lost them all. Uh so people were really invested in the in the curse. So yeah.
Yeah, I and by the way, if you've uh my new American friends, like uh some clips of the game and stuff like that. If you've never seen uh Gaelic football, it is it is worth just checking out the highlights 'cause it is a it's an interesting sport, like Did you have any of experience it of it growing up?
I didn't really play it that much, uh, to be honest, 'cause I was always uh more into football and I went to a rugby school, so obviously I fucking hate rugby because of that. Um But I I think football meets rugby meets basketball as well. Aussie rules. There's a there's elements of that in it as well. Basically, you've got like rugby posts and you've got a goal, like a football goal. So you can score a goal or you can score points. So I think the final score yesterday was Was it one hundred twenty to one hundred seventeen? So one goal each but twenty points. So you can kick the ball over the bar and score points. It's tr it's it's one of the funnest things here in Ireland every year when they have the All Ireland football uh final and the All Ireland uh the hurling final.
Hurling is essentially the same pitch, but you have uh lunatics with sticks smashing the ball at incredible speeds. Um i it's uh it's a ridiculous game. It's so much fun. But you know, every year there's this like It happens on social media. There's a phenomenon of people going, What the fuck is this?
Yeah.
And they're just like, I can't believe this is a game. Why don't we have this game? Um so yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been um yeah, a great weekend for the for the people of Mayo.
I know. My my f yeah, but uh I I listen They love a bandwagon, my family. I think they'd be lying if they said they'd followed the season closely, uh, you know, throughout the campaign. But certainly they were tuning in for the final and and very, very happy about it. So yeah, congratulations to everyone. In Maya.
Yeah, from the old village of Bahola. I did a little bit of a googling there and find I found an article from the uh Castlebar Chronicle from eighteen eighty seven, in which a James McNicholas of Bahola County was found to have punched an oxen in the face at Barley Hill Farm. He was arrested and questioned to his motives in reply to the judge, he looked at me funny. So I sought to give him a sound thrashing. MacNicholas was jailed for nineteen days before he left the village of his own accord, telling locals he was going to make his fortune in London. He was never heard from again.
Wow. Well, I mean Th we'll never know, will we? We'll never know if there's a connection there.
We'll never will. You know. There's nothing obvious there that would make us think that in any way. No. I
haven't punched many cattle. That's the that's the one thing I would say. But
I I think that's fair. That's a g a good way, a good rule of thumb.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does the arrival of Christos Tzolis mean for Arsenal’s squad?
0:13–9:31
2
How realistic is Arsenal’s pursuit of Vinícius Júnior and what are the financial hurdles?
9:31–22:07
3
What would a Vinícius Júnior deal mean for Arsenal’s wage structure and squad dynamics?
22:07–34:46
4
How could signing a superstar like Vinícius affect the dressing‑room culture at Arsenal?
34:46–47:09
5
Is Arsenal’s new transfer‑market ambition sustainable after their recent successes?
47:09–59:29
6
Why did the team release the Vinícius story early and how does that impact transfer reporting?
59:29–1:11:37
7
Should Arsenal consider swapping William Saliba for a forward if Vinícius doesn’t materialise?
1:11:37–1:21:19
8
What do fan‑submitted questions reveal about Arsenal’s PR and future plans?
1:21:19–1:31:41