Messi’s happy, but Lewandowski’s forgotten
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
It’s the first Euro pod of the season as Jimbo, James Horncastle, Raphael Honigstein, Julien Laurens and Alvaro Romeo cast their eyes across the continent.
PSG are 5-0 winners at Clermont with Lionel Messi scoring the first overhead kick of his career. Hear why he’s happy and why this could be his last season in Paris.
The Bundesliga kicks off with a 6-1 win for Bayern at Eintracht Frankfurt. After being so reliant on their Polish icon, why don’t Nagelsmann’s men miss Robert Lewandowski?
Speaking of Lewandowski, Barcelona are a confusing financial mess ahead of the new La Liga season. Will they be ready for the big kick-off this weekend?
After a summer of hype, are Jose Mourinho’s Roma set to launch a title challenge?
Plus Rabiot’s move to Man United and the Ramsey curse strikes again.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Moment of the weekend (02.00)
• PART 1b: Bayern win big in the Bundesliga (05.30)
• PART 2: The mess at Barcelona and the return of La Liga (17.00)
• PART 3: Happy Messi and the return of Ligue 1 (30.00)
• PART 4: Rabiot to Man Utd and can Roma challenge for the title? (41.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a totally football show. |
| 0:10.5 | It's Tuesday, so we're talking Europe. |
| 0:13.0 | Bundesliga and League Unterway, and the title races are not quite done yet. |
| 0:17.6 | We salute Leo Messi and his amazing bicycle kick and ask how are Bayern looking |
| 0:22.1 | even better without Levendovsky? Meanwhile, from Leva to Barcer's levers, will the Catalan's logic-defying |
| 0:28.5 | summer catch up with them? Can they register these new players in time for this weekend? |
| 0:32.8 | And was hiring Pizza Ridstill as their general manager? Maybe not such a good idea. |
| 0:36.8 | All that plus, why Roma are going to win the titling city out and more in this totally football show. |
| 0:52.3 | All right, welcome back to the big Euro team. |
| 0:55.6 | We got that James Horncastle for you. |
| 0:58.6 | Good I. |
| 0:59.3 | A substand de Julien Laurent. |
| 1:01.9 | Bonjour, everyone. |
| 1:03.6 | Hola, Alvaro Romeo. |
| 1:06.1 | Hello, amigos. |
| 1:07.1 | How are you? |
| 1:08.1 | No, very good, thank you. |
| 1:09.9 | And good entag, Raphael Honigstein. Good and tag, very good. Thank you. And good entag, Rafael Honigstein. |
| 1:13.3 | Gooden tag, man liber James. |
| 1:15.0 | Nah. |
| 1:16.0 | This show, listener, goes out to you, because you're special, and also to producer Charlie, |
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