Ivan Toney’s return & rehabilitation
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
After eight months away, after being banned for 232 betting offences, this weekend marks Ivan Toney’s return.
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by The Athletic’s Brentford writer Jay Harris and Senior Football writer Oli Kay to discuss how much the Bees have missed their talisman ahead of the second half of the campaign.
David Ornstein shares the state of play in the transfer market regarding the striker before co-editor of Beesotted Billy ‘The Bee’ Grant reacts to the continued speculation over Toney future, fuelled in no small part by the player himself.
Plus, ahead of Euro 2024 this summer, can he do enough to earn himself a spot in Gareth Southgate’s 23-man squad that will travel to Germany?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:05.7 | After serving an eight-month ban for betting breaches, this weekend, Ivan Tony returns. |
| 0:13.0 | It's prepared to try and create another one in this side. They have taken it. |
| 0:17.5 | Ivan Tony is in there lurking within ten. |
| 0:20.7 | Yet after so long on the sidelines, is he already eyeing an exit from Brentford. |
| 0:25.6 | It's obvious that I'd like to play for a top club. |
| 0:27.6 | Everybody wants to play for the top clubs, fighting for titles and these kind of things. |
| 0:31.6 | So whether it's this January the right time was to be, |
| 0:35.6 | a club would to come in and pay the right money, who knows? |
| 0:39.3 | Given that he's been out for so long, |
| 0:41.6 | should Tony even be talking about moving |
| 0:44.0 | or should he concentrate on regaining his form |
| 0:47.5 | and repay the support of the Brentford fans? |
| 0:51.2 | Amaya Joaquin Malere. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 1:05.3 | Thank you. fans. I'm Ayahuakim Malare. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. Today we've got the Athletics Brentford writer Jay Harris as well as our senior football |
| 1:09.5 | writer, Oli Kay, as well. |
| 1:11.8 | Right, let's start with this tweet that Ivan Tony dropped, saying, I'm free. |
| 1:17.4 | After eight months away, how do we feel this moment has been leading up to, Jay? |
| 1:23.2 | Because I know you've been covering Ivan Tony for a while and you've been covering Brentford for a while. |
| 1:27.0 | This is a big one for Brentford, considering where they're in the league. Yeah, this is huge for Brentford, and it's huge for Tony. I think people haven't forgotten, but this time a year ago, he was getting called up for England. And he made his debut for England against Ukraine in March. And this ban has completely stalled his career. I think that's the perfect way |
| 1:45.9 | to describe it. He scored 20 goals in the Premier League last season. Only Harland and Harry Kane got more. |
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