Chelsea at a crossroads

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Chelsea correspondent Liam Twomey joins Dan Bardell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes to discuss a club who find themselves at a crossroads. Liam looks at the impact of Antonio Rudiger's imminent departure from Chelsea. How will his departure, and that of fellow defender Andreas Christensen, impact the club as they go into the summer transfer window under new ownership. They discuss the importance of the club's academy and its young stars ahead of the new era. And what will Thomas Tuchel do with Romelu Lukaku this summer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic. Oh, Hello, I'm Dan Bardell, and I'm Floyad Hughes. And welcome to the Athletic
0:28.6	Football podcast. It's Wednesday and as always we're joined by one of our writers at
0:32.1	the Athletic to focus on
0:33.2	some of the great work they've been doing on the site. And today we're joined
0:36.4	by the athletics Chelsea correspondent Liam Toomey who has written a number of
0:40.4	articles recently about a club at Crossroads as they wait for their new
0:44.3	owners to be confirmed.
0:45.3	Yeah he's been a busy boy laying but today we're going to focus most of our attention
0:49.0	on the on-the-field matters at Stamford Bridge after it was confirmed that
0:52.0	Antonio Rudiger will follow his fellow
0:53.9	centre back Andreas Christensen out of the club this summer.
0:56.7	It's all very narrow but it's all very Chelsea.
0:59.4	Will Rudiger go for glory again?
1:01.8	Oh my God he's finally done it.
1:04.0	Four years he's been threatening that, Tony Rudinger.
1:10.0	Four years.
1:11.0	Yeah, Flo Liam wrote the other day,
1:13.4	this is emphatically not a crisis,
1:15.3	so why is this angst creating the whiff of one?
1:17.8	I think this was off the back of Sazaa Blocquetta
1:19.8	having a bit of a Barney with a Chelsea supporter
1:22.3	at the end of the Arsenal game.
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