The weekend may now be closed but Marcus, Luke, Jim and Pete are on hand to preview a plethora of blockbuster mid-week action. Once they have finished discussing Ravishing Rick Rude and "Macho Man" Randy Savage, obviously. 

Don't worry, we do still delve into the weeks' biggest football stories, including Man United's £100m move for Antony, Phil Collins' son signing for Hannover and the West Brom striker who washed his clothes with dishwasher tablets. For 8 months…

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Manchester United will play host to Arsenal in tomorrow’s big game, and the Darren Bent and Andy Goldstein have vastly disagreed on the predicted scoreline.

The Red Devils have returned to form of late, winning three straight games on the bounce, but you would have to say that their performances have been far from perfect.

Arsenal on the otherhand have started their season with a 100% winning record, whilst mostly playing some really dominant football also, and already sit top of the table despite many of the other teams (including Manchester City) having played six times already.

While you can understand why both sides would have reason to back their teams going into tomorrow’s clash, the Man United and Arsenal fans on TalkSPORT had very differing predictions.

“If #MUFC lose, I wear an #AFC shirt!”

Manchester City failed to take their opportunities against a struggling Aston Villa side this evening, leaving Arsenal top of the table before they take to the field against Manchester United.

While our game is no gimme, given that we travel to Old Trafford for a Super Sunday clash with one of our long-time rivals, but with the fact that we have opened the new campaign with five straight wins and are playing with confidence, the chance to move four points clear of the current Premier League champions is one that we will hopefully achieve.

Man City couldn’t reclaimed top spot had they beaten Villa, but despite Erling Haaland scoring his tenth goal in only six league games since joining this summer, they were unable to hold out for the win with Leon Bailey finding the all-important equaliser.

Now we head into their city in search of our own victory as we take on Erik Ten Hag’s newly revitalised side, having won their last three outings themselves after a torrid start to their season, but their overall performances have been far from impressive, and I can’t help but feel like we should go into the game as favourites to claim bragging rights.

The fact that a draw will keep us on top at this stage will be solace should we settle for just the one point, but a win would make a statement of intent as we try to mount a title challenge as one of the underdogs going into the new campaign.

THE TRANSFER SHOW – Summer review discussing every player that has come to Arsenal this summer…

On today’s transfer show, Alfie, Rob and Daniel discuss Arsenal’s transfer window in its entirety, looking at all the incomings, the outgoings and then the stuff we didn’t do.

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Arsenal are claimed to be eyeing a move to sign Danilo from Palmeiras come January after failing to bolster their CM role before the summer transfer window closed on Thursday.

The Gunners were strongly linked with Aston Villa’s Douglas Luiz in the final 48 hours of the window, and despite supposedly lodging two offers for his signature, the Brazilian wasn’t permitted a move away from the Midland club.

While we could well return for his services again when the new window opens, the Express claims that we are keen to move for the younger Brazilian in Danilo.

The report by FourFourTwo adds that while the Palmeiras star could be eyed to play the more defensive of the two midfield roles in our side, he has all the makings of a number eight also, and could well be a clever signing due to his versatility to play either option at the base of our midfield.

We have shown a clear preference for younger players in previous windows, but the fact that both Douglas Luiz and Youri Tielemans are into the final 12 months of their playing deals, both could potentially be available for a bargain fee come the new year, and both could well pose as players who would easily increase their monetary value to be sold on at a later date if needed.

In recent weeks we have been focussing in on each of the players in the Arsenal Womens squad, hopefully helping to build your knowledge of this fantastic team.  Today we focus in on Kaylan Marckese.

We only have Midfielder Mana Iwabuchi left to focus in on and we will have covered the whole Arsenal Women squad.  We hope you enjoy this article on Kaylan Marckese and look out for our last ‘Focus In On’ article tomorrow.

Today we focus in on Kaylan Marckese (Goalkeeper No.18)

Born in 1998, in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. St. Petersburg, Florida, USA Kaylan signed to Arsenal in July 2022, from Danish side HB Koge.

Marckese was Arsenals first signing of the 2022 summer transfer window, she was recruited to provide top competition for Manuela Zinsberger between the goalposts.

Arsenal can repeat Saliba trick with this youngster

William Saliba developing into a fine defender is for everyone to see.

The youngster was signed from French outfit Saint-Étienne in the summer of 2019 for a whopping £27 million.

After such a massive outlay, there was expectation among the club’s faithful that the 18-year-old would become a regular started immediately.

However, it became frustrating for the fans, when they saw the Frenchman being loaned out for three successive seasons.

Obviously a lot of Arsenal fans are worried about the team losing their 100 per cent start to the season when we visit Old Trafford tomorrow afternoon, and now those worries have increased dramatically after Mikel Arteta’s injury update.

We now Know that we have both Mo Elneny and Reiss Nelson out with very long term injuries, which wouldn’t matter too much in the great scheme of things if we weren’t already short of Thomas Partey and Zinchenko in midfield as well.

Now, on top of those two, Arteta revealed that both Odegaard and Ramsdale have not been able to train after getting bad knocks in the game against Fulham.

So now Arteta has big selection problems on how to set up the team at Old Trafford, so I am going to see if I can make an educated guess on how we will line up without those players.

First of all, I’m not sure that goalkeepers need so much recovery time, so I am hoping that Ramsdale can start. Although I am sure Matt Turner has potential, I would prefer him to get his debut against Zurich on Thursday than the cauldron of Old Trafford. It’s too big a risk in my opinion…

Arsenal are currently under threat of missing key players Martin Odegaard and Aaron Ramsdale when they take on Manchester United at on Sunday, and Paul Merson is reluctant to see Fabio Vieira come in to replace the Norwegian.

Odegaard is our new club captain after our previous leader Alexander Lacazette departed to return to Lyon this summer, and he has taken the armband in his stride in north London.

He has been amongst our best players so far in 2022 in fact, and should he prove to be below 100% this weekend, he will be sorely missed, and Mikel Arteta could be forced to decide on who will replace him in the starting line-up.

Vieira and ESR are the two most likely options to come into the AM role in his absence, with Eddie Nketiah or Marquinhos other options to come into the starting XI, but Merson insists that Smith Rowe should be the one to be called upon.

“If Odegaard is injured, I’d go with Emile Smith Rowe,” Paul wrote in his Sportskeeda column.

Arsenal will make the trip north to take on Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday, and they could well come up against their new signing Anthony.

The Brazilian completed a Deadline Day move to the Red Devils on Thursday, for what seems to be a crazy price on what he has shown thus far, but he clearly has the potential to be a star.

I personally would have no issue seeing him line-up against us, as I struggle to see him making an immediate impact, but manager Erik Ten Hag will have to make that decision after seeing him train with the squad for the first time yesterday as confirmed on their official website.

The boss did admit that Anthony Martial is one player who will not be available however, as he struggles to overcome an injury picked up against Liverpool.

On both Aaron Wan Bissaka and Luke Shaw the boss was not so certain however, and claimed a decision would later need to be taken on their availability.

So Arsenal’s biggest game of the season so far is coming up tomorrow at Old Trafford, and despite the fact that United lost their first two games, they have bounced back and now won three in a row, including beating Liverpool at Anfield.

But the Gunners are also in a rich vein of form, but Arteta is well aware of the challenge our weakened team faces tomorrow. The boss said in his pre-game press conference: “When you look at the squad that they have, the players that they have signed the amount of money they have spent in the market, it is no surprise – they are going to win a lot of football matches. The history of Manchester United tells you this is going to happen. They are a big rival, we know that and we are going to compete with them.”

When asked if this was our biggest test of the season, he declared: “The test in the Premier League is every single week, every opponent that you play. You see it in every game that will be played this weekend and I don’t expect anything different.”

We have historically got an awful record at Old Trafford, but Arteta is not worried about previous records but the focus is on tomorrow. Does he think it could be a problem? “I don’t think so. We have gone through things like that when we hadn’t won at Stamford Bridge for 20 or something years, but you need to believe that you will do that. If you can play the way you want to play, you will win football matches. We’ve done it, and that’s the belief that we have.

“It’s not something new. We’ve done it, we have to do it again and we have to believe from today, yesterday and straight after the game that we are capable of going there and playing how we want in the match.”

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There’s grumpy fans all over the gaff in the Premier League this weekend! Leicester City head to Chelsea under pressure, while David Moyes tries to inspire optimism among the fanbase.

Marcus, Andy, Pete and Jim also discuss the Champions League draw and sweat over the future of Callum Wilson. Well, Marcus does.

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It’s a huge weekend in Serie A! Dotun, Andy and Nicky Bandini chew over Roma's trip to Juventus and wonder just why Romelu Lukaku and Lautaro Martínez fit so perfectly together ahead of Inter's inevitably feisty clash with Lazio.

Elsewhere, there’s an extraordinary capitulation in Dortmund thanks to last-minute goals from unlikely British sources. And are Atlético Madrid *really* keeping Antoine Griezmann on the bench to save money?!

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Earlier this summer, Andy travelled to Sweden to explore the increasingly strained relationship between Zlatan Ibrahimović and his hometown of Malmö - especially after his statue was unceremoniously torn down two months after its grand unveiling.

On today's special episode, Andy speaks to journalists and fans across Sweden about Ibrahimović's journey from hometown hero to football's ultimate pantomime villain. We also hear from Lars Sivertsen about the legacy that remains, after investing in rivals Hammarby and seemingly turning his back on the club where it all started.

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At last, welcome to the most important episode in the Ramble’s history. Jim, Pete and Luke provide a definitive lowdown of that most glorious of football phenomena: animal pitch invasions!

From Anfield’s plague of cats, to a dog being interviewed pitchside in Argentina and the time a pigeon had a poo in Ashley Young’s mouth, we relive all of football’s weird and wonderful meetings with the animal kingdom!

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Welcome to our very first Ramble Reacts! We kept Marcus, Andy and Luke up late to relive an astonishing Manchester United win.

Lisandro Martinez defied his critics and his height, while Marcus Rashford got back on the scoresheet ahead of his World Cup-winning goal in December. But what on earth has happened to Liverpool? Elsewhere, Graeme Souness fights Casemiro at a wedding and we uncover shocking revelations that Andy’s godfather is in fact Louis van Gaal.

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Jules, Vish and Luke fan the flames of a whole load of barn-burners across the Premier League this weekend!

Miguel Almirón silenced his doubters at Man City with a vintage crotch-first finish yesterday, while Jesse Marsch’s men took advantage of Chelsea’s London-Leeds jet lag.

Elsewhere, the Ferryman takes to the waters once more and when he’s not smashing teammate’s windshields, Aleksandar Mitrović is *still* smashing in the goals! Also, why everyone’s going to be top at Christmas.

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Marcus, Jim, Luke and Andy gear up for another wonderful weekend of Premier League football!

There’s a literary theme as Cristiano Ronaldo opens up his secret notebook and Neil Warnock pens a poem about his career. Elsewhere, Nottingham Forest and Everton each take their slice of the transfer madness pie and Eddie Howe has some bright ideas…

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Lars Sivertsen is back on the pod! And he brings good tidings from Norway…

Dotun, Andy and Lars discuss Kylian Mbappé’s jaw-dropping display at the weekend (for all the wrong reasons) and whether efforts to push Neymar out will really come to fruition. 

Plus, Barcelona got (almost) all of their new signings registered, but why didn’t it click on the opening weekend? And which youngsters are going to rip it up in Europe this season? Look no further than another Englishman at Dortmund!

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