An Interview With Nashville SC CEO Ian Ayre

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Grant speaks to Ian Ayre, the former CEO of Liverpool and now the CEO of Nashville SC, which begins its first MLS season on February 29 when it hosts Atlanta United. They discuss what he has been doing over the last 19 months to prepare Nashville for MLS; the choices that went into hiring coach Gary Smith, signing DP midfielder Hany Mukhtar and assembling a roster that includes Dax McCarty, David Accam and Dominique Badji; the progress on Nashville's 30,000-seat soccer stadium (set to open in 2022); how much money they'll have to spend on players; and what he would consider "success" for the team in 2020. Ayre also provides his thoughts on the current success of Liverpool, where he worked until 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.8	Hey there I'm Grant Wall.
0:30.0	Welcome to the Planet Football podcast. Our interview guest today is Ian Ayer, the CEO of
0:36.5	Nashville FC, formerly was in that position at Liverpool FC. A quick reminder, if like the podcast it would really help us if you go to
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0:50.7	podcast to someone you know. Onward!
0:54.0	Our guest today is Ian Ayer, the CEO of Nashville-SC, which starts its first season in
1:00.3	MLS on February 29th when it hosts Atlanta United at Nissan Stadium in
1:06.4	Nashville. Ian was also formerly the CEO at Liverpool. Ian, thanks for coming
1:11.9	back on the show. Oh, thanks for coming back on the show.
1:13.0	Thanks for having us. I'm really looking forward to talking to you.
1:16.5	Yeah, the last time we had you on the show was not long after you took this job in Nashville,
1:21.8	it was May 2018 19 months have passed since then and I'm
1:27.3	wondering how how would you describe the work that you have done over those 19 months
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