THE ARSENAL OPINION - BY LE GROVE

Pete and Jacob. The transfer window is starting to move properly and there are two names doing the rounds that have both of them very excited indeed. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Jacob makes the case that Bruno Guimaraes could be the best player to change clubs anywhere in the Premier League this summer. Pete pulls up the data comparison between Bruno and Zubimendi and the gap is bi...

Jacob is in flip flops and a vest. Johnny doesn't blame him. It's hot, the World Cup is electric, and they needed to get on the mic and talk about it. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Jacob goes political on the biggest sporting event in the world, and the take lands harder than you'd expect. Johnny goes after a player everyone is treating like it's 2015 and he's not having it 🌍 The Wo...

Jacob got in at five. Pete is ready to go. England beat Mexico. The World Cup is alive. And there's a lot to get through before Belgium. Here's what's inside: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Are Through — the debrief, the Bellingham penalty question, and why Pete thinks Tuchel just pulled off something quietly brilliant in the Azteca 🌟 Arsenal At The Core Of The World Cup — Odegaard, Rice, Gabriel, Martinelli,...

Pete, Matt and Johnny. Six hours until the Azteca. England vs Mexico. Everyone's nervous. Nobody's going to bed early. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Matt has breaking news on Balogun's red card being rescinded and goes straight after FIFA's transparency problem. Pete did altitude research for this podcast and it shows. Johnny goes 2-1 Mexico. Everyone is concerned about Declan Rice's...

The Arsenal Opinion | Thursday Therapy — Spurs Have Lost The Plot Pete and Matt. World Cup on. Ronaldo ticking down his games. And Spurs have just spent £185 million on two midfielders. Wonderful stuff. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Pete has a FIFA World Cup playlist directive that drops jaws. Matt is done with England, going as far as choosing an Arsenal win over Coventry on opening...

Johnny and Jacob have a chat about the haaaawtest Arsenal topics. Here’s what’s inside: 🎤 Hottest of Takes — Comedy Origin Stories — Johnny and Jacob answer a Discord question and go deep on how they actually got into stand-up, the open mics nobody remembers, and the path that led them both to AOP ⚖️ Morgan Rogers vs Bradley Barcola — The Real Debate — a Twitter thread sparks a genuinely brillian...

Pete and Matt, Matt live from New York, World Cup fever in full swing. A quick hit today, a Power 30, but plenty packed in Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Matt makes the case that Arsenal have been completely misusing one of their own players, and it's been staring everyone in the face for years. Pete's take is the pessimistic one: after the high of last season, he's bracing for a genu...

Pete, Jacob and Matt. The script gets thrown out the window early when an insider account drops a midfielder update mid-recording. Buckle up Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Jacob's gone full worried parent over a strapped-up calf that's got him spiralling about the rest of the World Cup. Matt goes full economist: a deep dive into transfer fee inflation that puts some of Arsenal's most...

Pete and Johnny. Pete's loving every minute of the World Cup from St Louis, watch parties and all. Johnny's slowly coming round to it too. Plenty to get through on Arsenal's business as well Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Johnny makes the full case for why a certain Arsenal midfielder could be lifting the Ballon d'Or this year if England go all the way. Pete goes the other way entirel...

Johnny and Jacob are sweating through a London heatwave to bring you this one, but they push through. World Cup talk, transfer talk, and a proper look at Arsenal's plan for the season ahead Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Jacob makes the case for exactly how Arsenal should handle Saka coming back from the World Cup, using England's tactics as the blueprint. Johnny goes bigger picture:...

Pete and Matt. World Cup raging, transfer news bubbling under the surface, and a slide deck Pete's clearly proud of. Recording on Monday, landing in your feed Tuesday morning Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Matt makes a prediction about the future structure of football itself that he's already been dragged for on Twitter. Pete counters with a love letter to World Cup referees and one s...

Pete's back with Jacob and he's been busy. Slides, gradient data, percentiles — the full scouting deck. A summer of midfield reinforcements is taking shape and Pete wants to show his working Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Jacob is all in on a name from the World Cup that's caught his eye in the worst possible way for his bank balance. Pete's take reframes the entire midfield strategy...

No Jacob today, so Pete calls in Johnny. England's opened their campaign, the World Cup has properly started, and neither of them planned to talk about it this much. No apologies. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Pete has a theory about Barcola that involves Thierry Henry at Juventus and it's going to stay with you. Johnny goes after the most obnoxious nations at a World Cup and means e...

Johnny and Jacob are back for the transfer-only pod. No World Cup talk, no apologies, just BEASTLY transfer business injected into your veins. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Jacob makes the case for a guilty pleasure reunion that splits the room. Johnny throws out a name nobody else is talking about as a serious option up top, and dares Jacob to actually engage with it 🖊️ Arteta's New...

Johnny and Jacob are back with a new midweek format. World Cup is on. Arsenal's window is heating up. This is part one. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Jacob wants Saka sent home from the World Cup. Right now. Johnny's take is a long overdue verdict on one of Arsenal's biggest calls of last season — and whether they got it badly wrong 👶 Ethan Nwaneri — Don't Write Him Off — Johnny mak...

Pete and Matt are back for the Monday debrief. The World Cup is underway, the transfer window is fizzing, and there are two enormous stories to get through before England vs Croatia on Wednesday. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Matt goes all in on England winning the World Cup after watching the Brazil game and makes a genuinely compelling case. Pete is suspicious. The Tuchel appreciat...

Johnny has been trying to schedule this for two weeks. He's been buzzing. That tells you everything you need to know about how his predictions went. Pete, Jacob and Matt sit down to wave the receipts and apportion praise and blame accordingly. Here's what's inside: 🔥 The Receipts Are In — category by category, prediction by prediction, the lads go back to what they said in August and face the mus...

Johnny and Jacob launch a new summer format — the Midweek Roundup! Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Jacob drops something that will genuinely upset people: a feeling about Calafiori and a name that could make it happen. Pete's take is seismic — a complete attacking overhaul is coming this summer, and he thinks nobody's position is truly safe. Including Saka's 🌍 World Cup Chaos — Ian Wr...

Pete and Matt are back for the first Monday debrief of the summer. World Cup is days away, the transfer window is heating up, and neither of them can quite stop thinking about Arsenal long enough to care about England vs Croatia. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Matt's World Cup dark horse will raise eyebrows and he's got the data to back it up. Pete goes with a Scandinavian option feat...

Pete and Jacob. No more games. The season is over. And they couldn't be more excited about what comes next. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Jacob drops a cold shower on the most talked-about transfer target of the summer and makes the case for someone else entirely. Pete pumps the brakes on the whole conversation and reminds everyone what this team just actually did 🌊 Bradley Barcola...

The one Johnny’s been building towards all year. Every number, every game, every player — compiled into one spectacular mosaic. This is the hallmark of the AOP calendar. We are giving you a little taster of what you get by being a member of the AOP. Here’s what’s inside: 🏆 Player of the Year — Timber wins it for the second year running. Johnny makes the case that the most consistent player at Ars...

Jacob is joined by Tim Stillman — of Arsenal Vision and Arseblog fame, and the most thorough writer covering the Arsenal women's team — for a Dugout that goes deep on the season just gone and the summer ahead. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Tim opens with a claim that will provoke debate: Myles Lewis-Skelly starts in central midfield next season. Permanently. And Zubimendi quietly fin...

Pete and Matt. Post-season, pre-window. The football's gone and they don't know what to do with themselves — except talk about transfers. Which is exactly what they do. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Matt makes the case for selling Ethan Nwaneri this summer and using him to fund the hot boy window. Pete's take is that we do one more year with Gyökeres — but he's getting relegated to t...

Johnny's at the parade, voice destroyed, heart full. Pete's at home, processing. Arsenal are Premier League champions. They were Champions League finalists. And there is a lot to say. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Johnny holds two things at once: enormous pride in what this team achieved, and real hunger for what comes next. Pete's take cuts straight to the summer — the attack needs...

Pete and Jacob. 48 hours to Budapest. Jacob's hotel canceled on him. He needs this. Two lads trying not to lose their minds before the biggest game of their lives. Here's what's inside: 🔥 Hottest of Takes — Jacob goes full conviction on the team sheet. Pete's take is about a game plan that will shock everyone expecting Arsenal to sit deep 📊 Are We Sleeping On Noni? — gradient data that will make...