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Pete and Jacob are in good spirits heading into the international break \u2014 the Carabao Cup hangover is gone, the fixtures look winnable, and the Captain is coming back. This one is part title race optimism, part brutal summer honesty, and part gleeful Spurs schadenfreude.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what\u2019s inside:<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd25 <\/span>Hottest of Takes<\/strong> \u2014 Jacob makes the full-throated case for Odegaard\u2019s return, while Pete delivers a take about Saka and the World Cup that\u2019s so spicy he can barely make eye contact saying it<\/span><\/p>\n \u26bd <\/span>Big Vik Hat-Trick<\/strong> \u2014 the Jockstraps are back. Pete interrogates what it means, what it doesn\u2019t mean, and whether we\u2019re all just riding an international break sugar rush<\/span><\/p>\n \ud83d\ude2c <\/span>The Big Earners Problem<\/strong> \u2014 an honest look at Arsenal\u2019s bloated wage bill and the players collecting serious money without delivering serious football. Can the club afford to rebuild with these contracts on the books?<\/span><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfe5 <\/span>Noni\u2019s Injury & The Saka Mileage Question<\/strong> \u2014 Mad\u00fceke limped out of the England game in a brace. If it\u2019s serious, the GCSEs are cancelled and Max Dowman boots up. Plus \u2014 is Saka\u2019s body simply paying the price for years of overuse?<\/span><\/p>\n \ud83e\udd23 <\/span>Spurs Are Going Down<\/strong> \u2014 Pete maps out their remaining fixtures game by game and genuinely cannot find a way out for them. This section will make you very happy<\/span><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcc9 <\/span>Liverpool\u2019s Collapse & Mo Salah\u2019s Exit<\/strong> \u2014 from champions to chaos in 12 months. Pete and Jacob on the fall of a dynasty, and whether Salah belongs in the conversation with Thierry Henry<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pete and Jacob are in good spirits heading into the international break \u2014 the Carabao Cup hangover is gone, the fixtures look winnable, and the Captain is coming back. This one is part title race optimism, part brutal summer honesty, and part gleeful Spurs schadenfreude. Here\u2019s what\u2019s inside: \ud83d\udd25 Hottest of Takes \u2014 Jacob makes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}