Libero 047: Euro-trouble... is the Premier League's financial might causing problems on the continent?

Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The European club season is now underway, with the Champions League draw to follow on Thursday. James Horncastle and Miguel Delaney join John Brewin to discuss some of the key questions from the continent. The rest of Europe is taking some surprising decisions to keep up with the Premier League’s riches. Each of the so-called top-five leagues have taken different approaches. Can they work? Or are the major clubs now in control? Plus, some more logs are thrown on the PSR fire. Produced by: Tom Bassam DISCLAIMER: Producer Tom experienced significant technical issues while editing this episode and as a result the audio quality is not up to the usual standard. We apologise profusely and will ensure a return to normal service for episode 048. Email in via liberopodcast0@gmail.com Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, hello, good evening and welcome to the latest edition of Libero, the podcast about the most important of the least important things.
0:10.5	As I said, as I think F. Scott Fitzgerald once said to his friend, Gertrude Stein.
0:16.2	Now, do you know what, I'm actually written impotent there, which I think might also work.
0:21.2	So we're the most impotent of the least impotent things.
0:25.2	So how that works.
0:27.7	Anyway.
0:28.1	I think John's pitching for some ED advertising there with people.
0:32.7	We're all of an age.
0:35.2	We're all of an age.
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0:53.4	So, anyway, I'm joined in the studio today by James Horncastle of the East Riding and Athletic.
1:01.2	And Miguel Delaney adopted son of the Onesworth Delta of the Independent.
1:07.2	You may have noticed that we didn't do a European season preview.
1:10.9	We got bogged down in all types of dryness, PSR and so on,
1:15.1	a bit more of which later.
1:17.5	But in mind of the fact that most of it kicked off this weekend,
1:20.8	apart from Spain, which obviously started the previous week,
1:24.7	and with the Champions League draw to come later this week,
1:28.1	we're going to try and discuss the lie of the land on a continent.
1:34.4	But as ever, it's probably a good place to start, is the Premier League.
1:39.2	Some observations from there.
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