How can Barcelona afford Dani Olmo?

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

World Cup, Premier League, Champions League, Sports, Soccer,

4.0 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Fresh off an outstanding Euro 2024 campaign with Spain, Dani Olmo is close to a 60 million euro move to Barcelona.

But given their ongoing financial issues, how are Barca affording this?

And with plenty of stars already established in midfield, do they even need Olmo?

Host: Ayo Akinwolere

With: Pol Ballús and Tomás Hill López-Menchero

Executive Producer: Abi Paterson

Producer: Mike Stavrou

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode of the Athletic FC is brought to you by TNT Sports, your destination for football's not normal moments.
0:06.3	Whether it's the Premier League or your way for Champions League or the men's and women's FA Cup,
0:10.3	every match day brings drama, excitement and brilliance that simply cannot be explained.
0:15.0	What do we mean?
0:16.0	It's Cole Palmer with ice in his veins scoring a last-minute winner.
0:19.3	It's a trademark lung-busting box-to-box
0:21.4	run by Declam Rice, Islamin Yamal embarrassing defenders almost twice his age. TNC Sports brings
0:27.3	you football in its most unpredictable jaw-dropping glory with the very best domestic and
0:31.6	European club competitions live and all in one place. So forget normal because normal's boring.
0:37.4	From the outrageous to the unexpected with added bits of chaos, craziness and fun that only football can deliver, it's got to be TNT Sports. With the Premier League, UEFA Champions League, Europa League, Conference League, Emirates, FA Cup, and Adobe Women's FA Cup all in one place, TNT Sports, not normal.
0:54.8	Stream TNT Sports on Discovery Plus or watch TNT Sports channels on EE, Sky and Virgin Media.
1:00.2	Subscription required, it's over 18s only and T's and T's apply. The Athletic FC Podcast Network.
1:21.2	Fresh off an outstanding Euro 2020 campaign with Spain,
1:26.3	Danny Almo is close to a 60 million euro move to Barcelona.
1:28.3	Great ball in, well defended,. Almo, brilliant feet.
1:30.2	It's 2-1.
1:33.1	It's gone in off Kundi.
1:35.4	It might have been going in.
1:36.6	But given their ongoing financial issues, how are Barcelona affording this?
1:41.7	And with plenty of stars already established in that midfield,
1:45.5	do they even need Almo? I'm Ayahu Akimu Lerere. Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast.
2:09.1	So with me for this one, we have our Barcelona correspondent, Paul Balus, and also Spanish football editor Thomas Hill Lopez Mencherro.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.