Better Call Saúl
Straight Outta Cobham: The Athletic FC's Chelsea show
The Athletic
4.9 • 871 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The transfer window hysteria is over...until January at least!
Matt Davies-Adams has got Liam Twomey and Sam Parkin alongside him to wrap up the Blues' business - including the deadline day arrival of Saúl Ñíguez from Atlético Madrid, the departure of Tino Anjorin to Russia - and what the future holds for the likes of Ross Barkley and Ruben Loftus-Cheek.
Plus, with the eve of the 2021-22 WSL season upon us -The Athletic's Women's Football Correspondent Katie Whyatt joins us for a closer look at the title credentials of reigning champions Chelsea - who get their campaign underway at Arsenal on Sunday.
And for all you quizzers out there - Matt's done it again with a (more than) slightly tenuous connection to birthday boys Ruud Gullit and Pat Nevin...
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | It's time for another straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:13.3 | This is the Chelsea podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:15.9 | And on this episode, need a backup midfielder? |
| 0:18.9 | Better call Sowell. |
| 0:20.1 | We round up the Chelsea transfer window |
| 0:21.9 | winners and losers and look ahead to the new WSL season. Available for free. Wherever |
| 0:26.3 | you get your podcasts and add free on the Athletic. This is straight out of Cobham. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome in then, listener, the window is shut. Hope it went well for you. I'm Matt Davis Adams. |
| 0:38.6 | Joining me today are the Athletics Chelsea correspondent Liam Toomey. Hi Liam. |
| 0:43.4 | RIP Kunday Update. Hello. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah, it'll be back. Don't worry. I still had a few tweets saying that. Also with us, |
| 0:50.4 | the former Chelsea Academy player termed broadcaster Sam Parking. Hi Sam. Bring back |
| 0:55.5 | Kunday update. Morning Matt. Well the transfer window was gently pulled into the locked |
| 1:01.4 | position on Monday night. Did Chelsea win it? We'll discuss that next. Breaking news this |
| 1:08.7 | Thursday morning that Tino Andrian has completed his loan move to Locomotive Moscow. |
| 1:15.0 | Liam, we've been talking about this for the last couple of weeks and it's been reported on the Athletic. |
| 1:19.0 | It's a loan with an option to buy and then an option to buy back, we understand, which is very 2021. |
| 1:25.7 | Yeah, many layers to this one. |
| 1:35.6 | It's a very interesting deal because I know that Anderin has had loan interest and permanent interest for the last couple of years from various clubs in England and in Europe. |
| 1:41.2 | We didn't really hear about locomotive Moscow as even an option until quite |
| 1:45.6 | recently. And I think the presence of Ralph Ragnick there has been quite prominent, both in |
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