Aubameyang To Chelsea: Unfinished Business, The No. 9 Curse & Boehly v Barcelona
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Host Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Liam Twomey and Pol Ballus to put Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's deadline day return to the Premier League under the spotlight...
Where does the 33-year-old goalscorer fit in, six years on from being coached by Thomas Tuchel at Dortmund, and how will his arrival impact Sterling, Havertz & Mount? Xavi's reluctance to sell at Barcelona, Auba's status at London-rivals Arsenal and a case of some unfinished business in the Premier League.
Plus more on Todd Boehly's first transfer window since the Chelsea takeover and the shared desperation/chaos/bad-planning that kept drawing Barcelona and Chelsea together throughout the summer.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, he arrived with a broken jaw and a bruise reputation, but Chelsea did secure Pierre |
| 0:09.2 | Emric Obamiyang's Premier League return just before Thursday night's transfer deadline. |
| 0:14.5 | We're recording this on Tuesday morning, and tonight he's poised to make his first start for his |
| 0:19.1 | new club in the Champions League |
| 0:21.0 | at Dinamo Zaragreb. |
| 0:22.7 | Is he the final piece of Toboli's big jigsaw? |
| 0:25.3 | Why were Barcelona happy to let him leave so soon after he had joined? |
| 0:29.7 | And how does this 33-year-old version of Obamian fit into Thomas Tuchel's team? |
| 0:35.3 | We will achieve some big things, I'm sure, about this. |
| 0:38.2 | So I will try my best to help the team and come on your blues. |
| 0:42.5 | Joining me to explain all the athletics, Chelsea correspondent Liam Toomey, |
| 0:46.3 | and a man who knows everything about Barcelona, Paul Ballas. |
| 0:49.5 | I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:50.5 | This is the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:57.6 | About me, yeah? Chapman, this is the Athletic Football Podcast. Bamayang, we find a way through. |
| 1:00.4 | You bet he can. |
| 1:02.1 | That is top, top class. |
| 1:04.3 | They were always stereo players in a way and over as one of these guys. |
| 1:08.4 | He was seen as a good influence to that dressing room, probably because he had a point |
| 1:13.0 | to proof in Barcelona after like a bad departure from Arsenal. |
| 1:17.4 | There was one Abramovich era signing, I'm not going to say who, who point blank refused |
| 1:22.5 | to take the number nine shirt at Chelsea because they'd been told that it was cursed. |
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