Everton sack Benitez, Martinez, Rooney linked & Eriksen in Brentford talks
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Adam Crafton, David Ornstein & Greg O'Keeffe to discuss Everton's sacking of manager Rafa Benitez and how they plan to replace him.
Our Brentford writer Jay Harris joins the pod to detail his exclusive story that Brentford have offered Christian Eriksen a six-month contract with the option of a further year.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast with us this week, |
| 0:18.5 | Adam Crafton, David Ornstein, |
| 0:20.1 | and of course our Everton writer writer Greg O'Keefe. |
| 0:23.0 | That's because Everton sacked Rafael Benitez on Sunday after six months in charge. |
| 0:30.3 | Who is in charge at Everton, Greg? |
| 0:31.9 | Well, I mean, Duncan Ferguson will be taking training this morning, but I think the wider question we could be here all day and |
| 0:41.5 | night trying to try and debate that. That is probably the issue, really. The accountability and the |
| 0:47.2 | various factions vying for influence Everton a dizzying, but ultimately in charge, you know, is the top man for Hardin Meshiri |
| 0:55.8 | and he flexes muscles again and dispensed with yet another manager. |
| 1:00.7 | Probably after one of his shorter appointments really, I think I saw some earlier |
| 1:05.5 | saying that at this rate, Sam Maladais will be able to claim to be one longest |
| 1:09.8 | servant ever to managers in the past 10 years. |
| 1:12.8 | The club to an outsider and probably to a lot of Everton fans here, Greg, was being shaped |
| 1:18.7 | to Rapha Albanetes's desires, right? Director of Medical gone, head of recruitment gone, manager of scouting, gone, director of medical gone head of recruitment gone |
| 1:27.6 | manager of scouting gone |
| 1:29.4 | director of football going or gone |
| 1:32.3 | Lucas deignor sold |
| 1:35.3 | two players brought in |
| 1:36.9 | and then the manager sacked |
| 1:39.1 | at the end of all of those decisions |
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