Lukaku & Ings on Man City's radar
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The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's David Ornstein, Adam Crafton & Sam Lee to focus on Manchester City and detail the shortlist of strikers they have drawn up for the summer.
And they'll also discuss the increased levels of online abuse towards players and officials following Premier League referee Mike Dean informing police that his family has received death threats on social media platforms
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, welcome to the Onsena and Chapman podcast on The Athletic, as well as David today. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm joined by The Athletics, Adam Crafton, and our Manchester City writer, Sam Lee, who also co-hosts the Why Always Us podcast, |
| 0:18.7 | and we're going to focus on Manchester City today and the shortlist of strikers they've drawn up for the summer. |
| 0:25.5 | We'll also discuss the increased levels of online abuse, not only towards players but also towards officials following Mike Dean informing police that he has received death threats on social media platforms. |
| 0:37.4 | All the articles that we discuss on today threats on social media platforms. |
| 0:40.4 | All the articles that we discuss on today's podcast are available in full on The Athletic. |
| 0:44.0 | And you can subscribe right now to The Athletic for just £3.99 a month |
| 0:47.7 | and you'll get all the great analysis, |
| 0:49.8 | the in-depth features from the very best football writers around, |
| 0:52.7 | and ad-free versions of all of our |
| 0:54.7 | podcast. So to do that, Theathletic.com slash Ornstein and Chapman, Theathletic.com slash Ornstein and |
| 1:02.5 | Chapman. Let's start, David, with the lead story from your column this week, which is all about |
| 1:07.5 | Manchester City and their pursuit of a new striker. Yeah, absolutely. Well, they didn't seem to need a new striker, judging by their performance |
| 1:14.9 | at Liverpool on Sunday. But they did line up without a recognised striker. Not for the first time. |
| 1:20.4 | Sam leaves with us today, and he'll tell us a bit more about that. They used Phil Foden there, |
| 1:24.4 | Gabriel, J. Zeus was on the bench. Sergio Aguero, whose season has been ravaged |
| 1:29.2 | by first knee injury and more recently COVID issues, of course, is not back yet. And that for a while |
| 1:35.5 | has been sort of rumbling on in the background. I've been across it, but it was fairly quickly |
| 1:40.4 | established by us at the Athletic that talks are still yet to take place with |
| 1:45.8 | Sergio Aguero over a new contract on the deal that expires this coming summer. City are yet to |
| 1:51.7 | approach him. There's no animosity. It's not unprecedented by any means. Sam will probably |
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