Football Behind the Scenes with Adam Crafton
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Adam Crafton of The Athletic joins Tifo to discuss the story of Emiliano Sala, Romelu Lukaku and Ole Solskjaer's deteriorating relationship over the summer, and the behind the scenes of the transfer market; how clubs, agents and players actually do deals.
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Adam's transfer piece: https://theathletic.com/1112938/2019/08/05/agents-buying-beds-for-clients-players-demanding-set-piece-bonuses-and-payment-of-divorce-bills-what-really-happens-in-the-transfer-window/
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| 0:32.7 | Hello, and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:35.5 | I am Joe Devine, and I was delighted to be joined for today's |
| 0:39.5 | episode by Seb Stafferblor and also Adam Crafton from The Athletic. Now Adam Crafton, he used to be |
| 0:46.3 | the Daily Mail. He is now at the Athletic and some of his pieces in the early months of the season |
| 0:52.0 | have been fantastic. We talked about a few of them today. |
| 0:55.4 | The first one was about Emiliano Sala, the non-player, |
| 1:00.1 | who very sadly died in an air crash on the way back to Cardiff. |
| 1:05.4 | And of course, at the moment you may have seen in the news |
| 1:07.1 | that there is a bit of a dispute between the two clubs |
| 1:09.2 | as to whether or not Cardiff are legally obliged to pay the first installment of the transfer fee that was promised |
| 1:19.1 | to non as a result of some fairly technical issues which we will get into. Adam explains the |
| 1:24.6 | situation behind it, the story up to date for anyone who hasn't got on board. |
| 1:28.7 | I'm so sorry, the air conditioning has just come on. |
| 1:31.1 | Hopefully you can't hear that. |
| 1:33.2 | Adam will explain the story, you know, for anyone who didn't read about it originally or hasn't kept up to date on it. |
| 1:38.4 | Needless to say, it's a very sad story. |
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