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Gab and Juls: Are teams terrified to spend?

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens take a deep dive into the summer transfer window and discuss why it has been so quiet for most clubs around Europe. The guys also chat about the Champions League qualifiers, plus they learn what Cristiano Ronaldo’s favourite colour is from his record-breaking YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gab, he's Jules. Great skies over West London, but it doesn't matter because Jules is back to Brighton the day.

0:14.0

We have we have we're talking a lot of transfers on the show.

0:17.0

Yeah because we're in that that weird week after one week of the season

0:21.0

so weird midweek League qualifiers.

0:23.0

I just want to talk about the Chancery Market, because it feels, I think,

0:28.0

as if this summer, very little money has been spent.

0:32.0

There's still a ton of uncertainty out there.

0:35.0

I want to break this down in a somewhat intelligent way, if we can.

0:40.0

But first and foremost, you and the numbers don't lie about this. It's yeah, it's just not a feeling

0:47.4

Gabba I think is the fact that in every league including the promo league which is the most the richest the most powerful league in the world

0:55.6

even some clubs there are very careful on how they spend their money where they spend it

1:00.3

and looking at selling well even before selling place Liverpool for

1:04.8

example yet to sign anybody they will be adding a few players we will talk about

1:09.7

that in quick hits later but it's still strange that you've got four clubs in France

1:14.1

who are not going to sign anybody who haven't signed who were just thinking about

1:17.2

selling same in Spain and Italy and Germany as well it's not the numbers that we

1:22.3

used to see in previous

1:23.8

transfer windows. Although I even wonder if last season I wrote a piece after

1:27.8

the summer market closed last year if this trend hadn't actually begun last summer as well. It's just that we didn't notice it that much because you got this

1:38.3

big boost of money from the Saudi probably, you know, recirculatingulating around Europe that money's not there now

1:44.6

and you still but oh it's but it's a lot less it's a lot lot less and what I'm

1:51.8

wondering right now is, is this just down to profit and sustainability rules and the

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