Chelsea x Christopher Nkunku: Will It Work?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Host Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Chelsea correspondent Liam Twomey and German Football expert Raphael Honigstein, to explore RB Leipzig forward Christopher Nkunku's prospective move to Chelsea in the summer... Where he would fit in, the inevitable questions about 'Bundesliga tax', whose feathers will be ruffled in Potter's existing squad, a potential attacking duo of Nkunku and Lukaku and why the new owners have elected to pay over the odds now, rather than wait til next Spring.
Plus, an assessment of his strengths, character, form and whether the next superstar to arrive in the Premier League from the Bundesliga, will ultimately turn out to be more Haaland or Werner?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:04.9 | So not even the transfer window closing could stop Chelsea's new owners from shopping. |
| 0:10.1 | On yesterday's pod, we revealed that R.B. Leipzig's Christopher and Kunku has signed a pre-contract agreement to join Chelsea next season. |
| 0:19.0 | Today we take a closer look at the player. |
| 0:21.4 | They'll be getting. |
| 0:23.6 | It's a good. |
| 0:25.2 | Cristofaure and Cuckoo! |
| 0:27.7 | A bechew to boot. |
| 0:29.6 | Counted on and Cuckoo with a hat-rich Charles, |
| 0:31.7 | which he takes for three. |
| 0:33.6 | The young French player who has had a starring role here tonight. |
| 0:36.7 | He has actually signed, as we understand it, a pre-contract agreement to join Chelsea. |
| 0:42.9 | And now the defensive slice of open. It's a Kikou! Of Kukuz who has been up with a scoring for Leipzig. |
| 0:48.8 | You might say that Chelsea have been a bit of a graveyard for talent in recent years. |
| 0:54.6 | We haven't really seen players necessarily develop that much. |
| 0:58.4 | I think a lot of it has to do with the instability. |
| 1:01.0 | Our German football expert, Rafael Honestine, |
| 1:03.4 | and Chelsea correspondently in Tumir here as we explore |
| 1:06.1 | what Enkunku would bring to the bridge, |
| 1:08.8 | the knock-on effect of his arrival, |
| 1:10.8 | and if his impact coming from the Bundesliga will be more Erling Harland or Timo Verna. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm Mark Chapman. |
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