Lionel Messi special: Why he wants to leave, role of the Barca board & is Man City his next move?

Transfer Talk

Sky Sports

Soccer, News, Sports News, Sports

4.5 • 886 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In a special episode of the Transfer Talk podcast, host Pete Graves is joined by Dharmesh Sheth and Spanish football expert Terry Gibson to discuss everything Lionel Messi. They analyse the reasons behind Messi’s desire to leave the Nou Camp (04:44), the Argentina striker’s meeting with Ronald Koeman (14:15) and how the Barcelona board have contributed to his unhappiness (19:41). But if he is to leave Barcelona, what will be his likely destination? Sky Sports News reporter Ben Ransom joins the show to evaluate Manchester City’s chances of signing Messi (25:04), while Terry analyses the possible reunion with Pep Guardiola (34:27). And finally, it wouldn’t be an episode without Pete’s final thought as he weighs in with his own view to what is becoming the story of the summer (42:45).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Transfer Talk, brought to you by Bet 365, where every nail biting Neil-Nil, every bizarre
0:06.8	VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap in, false start, dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing.
0:16.8	From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsports.
0:20.3	Whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet 365. Hello everybody welcome back to a special episode of the
0:37.1	transfer talk podcast focusing on all things Leonel messy My name is Pete Grieves.
0:45.0	I tell you something, Pete, you know last week I was saying to you that someone had
0:50.3	tweeted me saying, can you stop doing that? Yeah. Well, that guy... someone had
0:53.4	treated me saying can you stop doing that?
0:52.6	Yeah.
0:53.4	Well, that guy is a gentleman called John
0:57.6	and he's heard the last podcast
1:00.3	where I interjected and explained that he had complained and he has since come back to me
1:07.3	deleted his initial tweet, believe it or not and said I love the opening of the last podcast so for me John's given me the
1:16.3	license to carry on. John you have let me down John I thought you were on
1:20.3	team graves there well as I'm here I am here and so as Darmes Chef. Never lets me get through an intro.
1:26.0	Welcome to you, but most of all, welcome to our football expert from Spain.
1:30.0	Mr. Terry, how are you, sir?
1:33.0	I'm very well.
1:34.0	I was waiting for Darmish to do the voice on Terry Gibson there as well.
1:39.0	Really disappointed.
1:40.0	I'm going to send the tweeting.
1:42.0	Oh, wow.
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