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The Athletic FC Podcast

Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid: The Transfer That Didn't Happen

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Dan Bardell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes are joined by The Athletic's Spanish football correspondent, Dermot Corrigan, to assess the fall-out from Real Madrid's failed pursuit of PSG forward Kylian Mbappe... Dermot explains the origins of Real President Florentino Perez' 'obsession' with Mbappe, as well as how PSG could afford to reject £180M! Plus, the impact of La Liga's salary cap, the chaos in Barcelona and how well Atletico's Saul Niguez will fit in at Chelsea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Athletic. Hello, I'm Dan Bardell. And I'm Floye Hughes. And welcome to the Athletic Football

0:19.8

Podcast. It's the morning after the transfer deadline has passed for another summer and it's

0:24.2

brought to end a truly remarkable winter.

0:27.0

Yes and well usually Dan and I would dive into a brilliant specific piece on the

0:31.8

athletic we're actually going to go a bit bigger today

0:33.9

because we're going to be talking about a couple of different pieces because it's been a mad summer for the transfer

0:38.4

window. We've had messy Rinaldo, Lukaku and more on the move and we're going to be talking about the one that didn't

0:44.2

happen which is Killian and Bape to Real Madrid and that's a really interesting one and

0:50.4

thankfully we've got the athletic Spanish football correspondent joining us

0:54.3

don't we Dan? Yeah looking forward to chatting to Durham a very La Liga

0:57.4

centric show for us today but before we get his thoughts on everything that's

1:01.9

going on in the mad place that is Lalega,

1:04.8

let's talk a little bit about Transfer Dead Line Day ourselves, Flo, or as it was for me as

1:09.3

a Villafan, a completely normal Tuesday.

1:12.4

Crystal Palace, finally have got a goal score of flow.

1:15.0

Well I think that's a bit harsh on Ben Tecker. I didn't write the script there

1:17.6

Christian. If you are listening I'm still a big fan of Christian Ben Tecker

1:20.8

yeah but Edouard has signed.

1:23.2

Eduard, I've got to work on my French accent.

1:25.4

I think that's it.

1:26.3

I think that's it.

1:28.1

I don't know if it's a bit of panic, but obviously it hasn't quite been the start

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