Chelsea Q&A special: Transfers, tickets, and what next at Stamford Bridge? Plus Man Utd vs Tottenham in top-four race
The Sky Sports Football Podcast
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4 • 718 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
PART 1 | Man Utd vs Tottenham – is there extra pressure to bounce back after the hosts’ defeat to Man City last weekend? Who has more riding on the game, and how will Harry Kane’s form play a part? Plus we make both the case for a home win, and look at how Spurs can grab a big three points on the road.
PART 2 | Kaveh Solhekol joins us to explain the latest developments around Chelsea following Roman Abramovich’s sanctions from the UK government on Thursday. Where does it leave the club? Can they rescue their transfer plans? Will away fans be allowed in, and who’s going to buy the club?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sky Sports Football Podcast brought to you by Bet365, where every now biting nil-nil, every bizarre VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap-in, full-start, dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing. |
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| 0:35.0 | Another quiet week in the Premier League, huh? |
| 0:43.9 | Welcome to the Essential Football podcast at the end of a few days where matters off the pitch have taken precedence over the action on it. |
| 0:50.9 | With Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich sanctioned by the UK government on Thursday and a lot of uncertainty around Stanford Bridge as a result, |
| 0:57.2 | will be joined by Sky Sports News chief reporter Carve Solholicol later in the podcast to give some clarity to the situation. |
| 1:05.4 | But first, I'm delighted to be joined by senior football writer Olly U and digital football journalist Declan Olly to look ahead to this weekend's games. |
| 1:11.4 | Now we'll start off with a humdinger at Old Trafford on Saturday night football where Manchester United and Spurs will go head to head as the race for the top for intensified. |
| 1:16.5 | Olly, how much do United need to bounce back from that defeat to City last weekend? |
| 1:20.3 | Not only for points, but also a little bit of momentum in that race. |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, they certainly need to get their fans back on side really and just get some |
| 1:28.7 | positivity back in the club. The results have not been like so bad. I know the city result is a |
| 1:34.9 | poor one, but throughout Ranjik's time, it's not been horrific, but I think we keep saying every |
| 1:39.7 | week seems like a new crisis and a sort of a new problem for Man United, but they need a statement win now, I think. |
| 1:48.2 | They need something for everyone to cling on to and to build on for the rest of the season. |
| 1:54.5 | But, I mean, it can't get much worse than it was at City. |
| 1:57.5 | But, yeah, they go back to Old Trafffford and it's not been the greatest of runs there |
| 2:02.7 | in the last four games they've struggled and they're coming up against the Tottenham side now |
| 2:07.2 | who seem to have found their form and not flying because we know with Tottenham, you know, |
| 2:14.5 | how good they've been. There could be that result around the corner where it flips for them. |
| 2:18.8 | But, you know, at the moment they look really good with Kane and Son at the heart of that. |
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