Inside Barcelona's Summer Transfer Window: De Jong, Laporta & 'Levers FC'
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Irving is joined by The Athletic's Adam Crafton and Pol Ballus to explain the story of Barcelona's summer transfer window... How exactly returning President Joan Laporta 'rescued' the Catalan giants from being 'clinically dead', why in-demand stars like Raphinha and Kounde chose Barca over Premier League rivals and how on earth they got themselves into this mess - dating all the way back to the aftermath of Neymar's transfer to PSG.
Plus, more on 'Operation Salida' and whether any of their new recruits will be registered in time for the first game of the new La Liga season, Bernardo Silva interest, Frenkie de Jong's choices, why Real Madrid actually need a competitive rival and if there is any chance of a Lionel Messi comeback.
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| 1:00.6 | The Athletic. Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast, I'm Ian Irving, |
| 1:15.9 | and this episode is all about FC Barcelona. |
| 1:21.5 | It's been the most enduring story of the transfer window, no doubt, |
| 1:25.1 | a crazy summer of spending, of claim and counterclaim, |
| 1:27.8 | of economic levers and new and weird and wonderful ways of running a football club, it seems. |
| 1:32.5 | We're going to explain it all over the course of the next hour. You don't want to miss this one. |
| 1:38.9 | It's a difficult one because La Liga are doing something I think that's pretty brave, actually, |
| 1:43.5 | in modern football, |
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