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The Price of Football

Chelsea and Saudi Arabia, Reading charged for late payment of wages

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Sports, Business

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Kieran discuss Chelsea's links with Saudi Arabia, and find out more about Reading being charged by the EFL for late payment of wages. COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: - Chelsea's relationship with Saudi Arabia - Wigan's new owners confirmed - Reading charged by the EFL - John Textor and Lyon - Football agents launch legal action against the FA and FIFA - Oxford United's stadium move - Burnley loans - The Premier League, Chelsea and Paramount Plus - Chelsea and Stake - Stevenage FC new investment - Everton and financial fair play - Manchester City fans boycott Community Shield Follow Kevin on Twitter - @kevinhunterday Follow Kieran on Twitter - @KieranMaguire Follow The Price of Football on Twitter - @pof_pod Support The Price of Football on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/priceoffootball Check out the Price of Football merchandise store: https://the-price-of-football.backstreetmerch.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the price of football. The show that looks at the money behind the

0:14.8

beautiful game of me Kevin Day and Liverpool University's Kirin McGuire. How are you Kirin?

0:19.9

I'm okay Kevin, but I've had a few barbecued lighting issues. This is why we've had the

0:27.5

latest show. I just couldn't get me colds going, which is which is unheard of, but all's well

0:33.4

for him. Kirin, I was given to believe that we're not the people at home care about the

0:39.2

fact that we delayed the recording to the evening talk. I assumed it was down to the usual

0:43.6

media commitments, but no, it turns out the barbecue couldn't be lit. Why was it so

0:48.8

terrible? How embarrassing for the alpha male of the house was his old fashioned 1970s

0:55.1

barbecue apron and his toms? Well, talking to some of you, and you may know it's

0:59.8

I'm feeling slightly shippered, because yesterday was the longest day. So it's all downhill

1:06.0

to Christmas now. So we're over the hump. Apologies to listeners in Australia, when it

1:11.6

calls it's all uphill to summer. You have nice sympathy, but I think people in Australia

1:16.6

have got other things on their mind at the moment, celebration. Also, we have to be a

1:20.6

little bit quiet. This is really strange. This is what modern showbiz has come to. I'm downstairs

1:27.0

recording an award-winning podcast, Kirin and my son is upstairs recording an award-winning

1:34.8

live stream Dungeons & Dragons game. Wow. I know. And so we've both agreed to keep our voices

1:40.6

down. We're both, I think, at heart slightly embarrassed by what we're doing with our lives.

1:46.3

He's making a lot more money out of live, live thieving than we are at this. But it's

1:53.7

news day, Kirin. We have a lot of news stories. One of them, I think, is a full on 100%

2:01.8

horror, I'm hoping. But there's a couple of conspiracy theories that I've sort of masked

2:07.3

a story. The first one, Kirin, we saw what looked like suspicious going on between

2:13.4

Saudi Arabia and also Saudi Arabia suddenly buying three, four, five, two hundred Chelsea

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