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Podcast: THE ARSENAL OPINION - BY LE GROVE
Episode: MERINO - BEST ARSENAL PLAYER OF 2025?
Description: Pedro and Jacob dive into a nervy but valuable midweek win over Brentford, unpacking:
🔥 How Arsenal completely neutralised Brentford’s set-piece circus
💪 Merino’s outrageous form and whether he’s now undroppable
😬 Declan’s calf tweak, Mosquera’s knock, and the growing fitness crisis
🤕 Arteta’s rotation choices and the training-ground intensity debate
📉 Why Odegaard divides the fanbase despite strong numbers
⚡️ Noni Madueke: chaos merchant, future star, or finishing project?
🧱 Timber at centre-back and the state of the stand-in defence
🤝 Which attacker combinations actually work
📦 January loans...