Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of the Arsenal Women Askcast with me, Tim Stillman.

Yeah, that's right. We interviewed, we had an exclusive interview actually on Friday afternoon with Renee Slagers.

Upon her appointment as the permanent head coach of Arsenal women, we were granted kind of 15, 20 minutes with Renee to have a chat.

And we wrote that interview up. You might have read it. It's been on the site since kind of 15, 20 minutes with Renee to have a chat. And we wrote that interview up. You might

have read it. It's been on the site since kind of Friday afternoon. But the audio came out

quite well. So we thought, why not publish it as a podcast? So really the purpose of this interview,

because obviously we're not the only people who got some exclusive time with René,

but the other outlets were really kind of broadcasters and people who pay lots and

lots of money for that type of thing. But clearly our kind of, you know, our aim as a site is to

really kind of serve Arsenal fans. So we really wanted to ask some particularly focused questions to René about her approach and her plans

and maybe some other things as well.

So that Arsenal fans could get a really good insight into Renee, the coach, the person and the former player as well.

So that's what we were aiming to do.

So without further ado, here is me talking with René Slager's

at the Sober Realty Training Centre,

which I'm obliged to say, London Colney,

to the rest of us on Friday afternoon.

Very much think Arsenal did the right thing.

And one of the great things in my job is everything i say

is recorded and written down so i can always prove it when i say these things but uh actually my

first question um has been stolen by ian right uh which was going to be about like your philosophy

and your style of football but i can see ian already asked you that so instead I like to ask you about your journey into football and how it

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