£100m Transfers And An Abrupt Farewell
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The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Tom Roddy and Alyson Rudd.
We’re back and there’s a lot we need to catch up on before the Premier League season starts..
Harry Kane is having ‘showdown talks’ with Nuno Espirito Santo as he continues his bid to leave the club. Will Kane get his way and has he acted professionally? (00:00)
Jack Grealish is the most expensive British player after his £100m move to Manchester City. Do the club actually need him and can he step up to an even higher level? (25:05)
Lionel Messi finds himself in an unexpected and emotional situation as he move on from Barcelona. The Times’ Ian Hawkey joins us with more on Barcelona’s financial worries (34:02)
Do we fully buy into Messi’s press conference tears, just a year on from him trying to leave the club? Where would we really like to see him playing, instead of PSG? (45:55)
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| 1:00.2 | Hello and welcome back to the game for the 2021-22 season loads to look forward to. |
| 1:07.1 | Today we catch up on what we've missed as we focused in on the euros, of course. It was great, |
| 1:11.9 | but loads has happened. Today Harry Kane gets set for a showdown talks with his boss |
| 1:16.9 | Nuno Espirito Santo at Spurs. We'll ask is Jack Grelishworth £100 million? We're about |
| 1:23.6 | Lionel Messi's tears Barcelona of falling apart and Inter Milan are following close behind all |
| 1:29.4 | of that and more to come on today's episode of the game. |
| 1:35.6 | To help me through it all, Alison Rudd, Gregor Robinson and Tom Roddy. How are you all nice to see? |
| 1:41.3 | You reunited. That's how it feels anyway for me. How are you? |
| 1:45.2 | Good to you. Nice to see you. I'll thank you. I missed you all too. You all look exactly the same. |
| 1:50.0 | Well, you said I was shredded under this. What do you mean? It's been a transformational summer |
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