How The Winter World Cup Will Affect The Summer Transfer Window

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Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's senior writer Dom Fifield and England correspondent Jack Pitt-Brooke, join host Ian Irving to discuss the impact of a winter World Cup on this summer's transfer window... Why Premier League stars like Gabriel Jesus, Marcus Rashford, Conor Gallagher and countless others might be inclined to 'side-step' or even stay put before November's curtain-raiser in Qatar? The 'unique opportunity' for heads of recruitment to get creative in the loans market and what free-agent Gareth Bale might do next. Plus, the panel also discuss Chelsea Director Marina Granovskaia's exit and the news that co-owner Todd Boehly will fill the role himself on an interim basis! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic. Welcome to the athletic football podcast I'm Ian Irving and as this
0:18.6	summer's transfer window appears to have kicked into overdrive already
0:21.6	on today's show we'll be taking a closer
0:23.6	look at how the Winter World Cup might be responsible. To do that I'm joined by a
0:28.0	couple of the athletics big hitters, senior writer Don Fyfield and our Spurs
0:32.3	an England correspondent
0:33.7	Jap Pitt Brook.
0:34.8	We'll also touch on some of the big news stories from the last couple of days
0:37.9	and point you in the right direction of some essential reading
0:41.2	before we're through.
0:42.4	But Don, let's kick things off.
0:43.7	You've written a piece all about this
0:45.3	on the athletic at the minute.
0:47.1	Essentially, is it all about regular game time
0:49.5	for players ahead of guitar now?
0:51.3	Yeah, essentially.
0:52.2	I mean, people people the footballers target
0:56.1	World Cups they see them as massive opportunities in their careers they may
1:01.6	only get one opportunity to to feature for their country at a major finals like this.
1:07.0	So the calendar is obviously a bit altered this year given that the world Cup was taking place from November to mid-December.
1:14.8	So the first six months or five months of the coming season are critical.
1:19.0	Players need to be getting regular game time in that, getting a rhythm of matches, form and fitness together so that they go to
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