Booing Gareth Southgate, Spurs' "Aggressive" Transfer Window & A Surprise Everton Takeover?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Irving is joined by The Athletic's England and Spurs reporter Jack Pitt-Brooke to reflect on a historically bad evening for Gareth Southgate's England against Hungary - Is his relationship with the supporters now broken?
David Ornstein is on hand for a mid-week transfer window round-up with Kalvin Phillips to Manchester City, Man United's offer to free-agent Christian Eriksen and Spurs' surprisingly ambitious approach to the market, all on the agenda - Could Conte's Tottenham actually be the biggest threat to both Liverpool and City next season?
Plus, Everton writer Greg O'Keeffe details how a consortium led by former United and Chelsea Chief Executive, Peter Kenyon, have proposed a shock takeover.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.9 | Welcome to the Athletic |
| 0:02.9 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast, I'm Ian Irving and coming up on today's show. |
| 0:18.7 | David Ornstein joins us for a midweek transfer roundup |
| 0:21.2 | with Manchester United's offer to free agent Christian Erickson, |
| 0:25.0 | Calvin Phillips moved to Man City and Tottenham looking like they mean serious business |
| 0:29.3 | all on the agenda. |
| 0:31.0 | Plus, Everton correspondent Greg O'Keefe has been digging into the fascinating story |
| 0:35.1 | of a surprise proposed takeover of the club. |
| 0:40.5 | First up, though, the athletics jackpit Brooke is here to reflect on what's been a strange week or so. |
| 0:45.5 | That's one word for it, for Garrette's Southgate's England team. |
| 0:48.4 | The result last night, an embarrassing 4-0 home defeat to Hungary, |
| 0:52.9 | was the country's heaviest home defeat in nearly a century, |
| 0:56.6 | the worst defeat anywhere for 12 years. It's piled the pressure it seems on Gareth Southgate, |
| 1:02.4 | if you listen to the fans, if not the squad. |
| 1:04.6 | Tonight was the sort of night that a lot of my predecessors have had and experienced, |
| 1:09.0 | and it's difficult to stand stand and I'm not going to |
| 1:12.1 | say it doesn't hurt but four games during this nation league period one goal and just one point |
| 1:18.6 | with only two games to go to Qatar are we allowed to panic yet jack yes I think so but I wouldn't |
| 1:25.3 | panic about the performances so much because I do take |
| 1:28.7 | Gareth Southgate's argument that this is such a weird set of four games at the end of the |
| 1:34.0 | season. It's been an exhausting season. He hasn't got his full squad available. He's had to rotate. |
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