Lukaku future, Newcastle transfer targets, United's identity crisis
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman discusses the future of Romelu Lukaku - after he was dropped from the Chelsea squad - with The Athletic’s Simon Johnson & James Horncastle & Adam Crafton.
Adam Crafton was at Old Trafford last night for The Athletic and has plenty of thoughts on United's struggles following their loss to Wolves.
And with the transfer window now open, The Athletic's Newcastle United writer Chris Waugh joins the pod ahead of a very busy month on his beat.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, I'm Mark Chapman, welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | Coming up today, we'll discuss the future of RomulululKaku following the interview that saw him drop from the Chelsea squad. |
| 0:23.4 | The Athletic Simon Johnson and James Horncastle will join us. |
| 0:26.9 | Adam Crafton with us as usual. |
| 0:28.8 | Lucky for him, he was at Old Trafford last night, so he'll talk about Manchester United. |
| 0:33.1 | And with the transfer window now open, we'll talk to our Newcastle writer Chris Woff, |
| 0:37.1 | who could be very |
| 0:38.4 | busy over the next month. Well, let's start the pod with Romilly Lukaku, who was dropped for |
| 0:45.9 | the Liverpool game following a interview where he said he wasn't happy with his role at Chelsea |
| 0:51.2 | and would like a return to Inter Milan while still in his prime. |
| 0:55.7 | Adam Crafton with us as usual, along with our Chelsea writer, Simon Johnson, |
| 1:00.2 | and our Italian football writer James Horncastle. |
| 1:04.9 | Simon, let me stand with you, because one of the things that struck me in the La Cacru |
| 1:09.1 | interview is that quite a few of the things that he said |
| 1:11.3 | actually chimed with stuff that Thomas Tuchel said back in, I don't know, maybe around October time, |
| 1:18.9 | about actually they haven't managed to get their tactics right to get the best out of La Cacou. |
| 1:24.7 | So in many ways, they've said similar things on the Chelsea side of things. |
| 1:29.8 | Yes, and we've been saying it too. We've written a piece about it. He also, just touching on the |
| 1:36.4 | into Milan side of things, he was honest sort of before the Chelsea transfer came about there, he wanted to stay into Milan. |
| 1:46.5 | So that wasn't new either. |
| 1:48.5 | It's just all been, it's a combination of being clumsily expressed and particularly the timing |
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