Ask Ornstein: Nwaneri, Guehi and Glasner's future
The Athletic FC Podcast
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We’re already halfway through the January transfer window.
So what moves should we be looking out for in the final weeks of the window?
Host: Ayo Akinwolere
Guests: David Ornstein, Jack Pitt-Brooke
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead, Guy Clarke
Producers: Mike Stavrou, Nick Thomson, Liam Warburton
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akimwaleri. |
| 0:09.1 | We're in the final weeks of the January transfer window. |
| 0:12.6 | So what moves should we be looking out for coming up? |
| 0:16.0 | Well, we've got David Ornstein to tell us more. |
| 0:20.3 | Well, here with us today. We've got Jack Pitt Brook, who's online. We've also got David Ornstein to tell us more. Well, here with us today, we've got Jack Pitt Brook, who's online, and we've also got David Ornstein in the studio to talk through transfers as well. Right, David, let's start with you on this. Let's talk about the deal sheet, and one that's popped up this morning in particular. Ethan Wanieri from Arsenal could be on the move. Can you tell us more about that? |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah, it was a late call actually, or you could say an early one because we were preparing to |
| 0:42.3 | have our one to watch this week as Oscar Bob and we'll come on to speak about him in a bit. |
| 0:47.5 | But I was starting to hear that a Wanyeri move could well be possible on loan with Marseilles pushing to get it done. |
| 0:55.7 | There are some others in the mix as well, Premier League and around Europe. |
| 0:59.5 | And then literally ahead of publication, got the green lights that this is one that is good to report on. |
| 1:07.3 | And so that's why it leads to the deal sheet, a bit of lifting the curtain there on |
| 1:11.7 | our journalistic process. Yeah, so there's no agreement yet, but Marseille are in a good |
| 1:17.8 | position on this, depending on what time this pod airs, things could have even moved on by then. |
| 1:24.5 | They've had positive conversations between their coach, Roberto Deserby, |
| 1:29.7 | the Arsenal manager, Mikhail Artetta, Deserby and the player Waniari himself. The idea would be a |
| 1:36.2 | straight loan or dry loan, as they call it in Europe with no option to buy. That's because |
| 1:41.9 | Arsenal see him as a huge part of their future, obviously, not long ago. |
| 1:45.8 | He's signed a new contract. They want to get him out to play football for four months. |
| 1:49.6 | And I think he would like to as well. That wasn't the plan. I think we reported in the transfer |
| 1:54.7 | radar towards the end of 2025 that he would be part of the squad. |
| 1:59.1 | He signed a contract very recently. Sign the contract. Part of the squad challenging for all of these major honours. |
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