Chelsea’s winning start and Liverpool’s significant summer business

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

Soccer, Unknown, Soccer,, Sports, Football

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jimbo welcomes Daniel Storey, Seb Stafford-Bloor and Matt Davies-Adams to the pod with the first few days of the Club World Cup in the books.

Chelsea beat LAFC thanks to a helpful cameo from Liam Delap in front of a largely empty stadium. Bayern are 10-0 winners over amateur Auckland. Was Ander Herrera the person that made us feel something about the Club World Cup?

Florian Wirtz is almost a Liverpool player. How will he strengthen Liverpool and are Arne Slot’s side stretching even further clear of their rivals?

Gennaro Gattuso is the new Italy manager. And are Brentford about to take a massive gamble on their new manager?

Plus the situation at Sheffield Wednesday and the situation surrounding Palace’s place in Europe.

Produced by Charlie Jones.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1: Chelsea 2-0 LAFC (04.00)

• PART 2a: Boca-Benfica, Bayern hit 10 and more CWC (13.00)

• PART 2b: Palace, Forest and European complications (24.00)

• PART 3a: Wirtz set to further strengthen Liverpool (30.00)

• PART 3b: Who next for Brentford? (40.00)

• PART 4a: The state of Sheffield Wednesday (45.00)

• PART 4b: Gattuso becomes Italy manager (47.00)

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