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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Steve Crossman is joined by Conor Coady, Chris Sutton and Rory Smith to discuss the opening weekend of the Premier League season.
Who has made the best first impression? How much of an asset could Cunha be for Manchester United this season? How do Arsenal help Gyokeres to adapt to the Premier League? And did Reijnders have one of the great Premier League debuts?
Off the pitch, what can we expect from Pep Lijnders working with Pep Guardiola?
BBC Football Tactics correspondent, Umir Irfan gives his analysis of Ekitike’s Liverpool debut and how he expects the reigning champions to play this season, given their new signings.
Plus, Conor Coady tells us all about life at his new club Wrexham; he says he “can’t speak more highly” of what the opportunity is bringing him personally.
Time codes: 2:10 Manchester United fans happy despite loss? 3:10 Cunha shines 8:52 Coady says Manchester United need someone who plays “on the edge” 15:31 Is the Gyokeres judgement fair? 18:07 What can Arsenal take away from Sunday’s result? 21:47 Bayindir’s error 25:00 Rating Reijnders’ debut 29:20 Pep Lijnders’ role at Manchester City 34:10 Umir Irfan on Ekitike and Liverpool tactics 40:45 Liverpool’s defence 45:29 Conor Coady on joining Wrexham
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0:00.0 | This is the Monday Nightclub with Steve Crosman on the Football Daily podcast. |
0:08.3 | So welcome to the Monday Nightclub with Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Connor Cody, |
0:13.1 | all with us. |
0:13.8 | A lot of first impressions chat. |
0:16.8 | Echateke, Yocchrese, Cunia, Sesco, which got us thinking, Chris, what was your first impression |
0:24.3 | of Rory Smith? |
0:26.8 | What was my first impression of Rory Smith? |
0:28.4 | Don't answer it, Chris. Don't answer it. |
0:30.2 | Yeah, no, nice chap. Very nice chap, Rory. |
0:34.4 | But the longer I've got to know him, my estimation of him has gone down. Down, yeah. Not really. Not really, Rory. That would be fair, to be fair, if it had gone down exposure, is not my friend, I don't think. Yeah, that is a very diplomatic answer from Chris. I'm impressed. I think it's because he probably knew that I was going to ask you the same question right off the bat, isn't it? No, I'm sure I've said this before. The thing I get asked most on the rare occasions whenever anyone hears my voice and says, do I recognize that voice? You do the Monday nightclub. Normally they're just too shy to say anything. The first question, in fact, the only question I ever get is what's Chris like? |
1:11.8 | And the little bit of his, is Chappa still doing it? Now he's doing match to the day. |
1:17.6 | Can I just say, this is a one-off that I'm here before you try that? |
1:22.2 | And I always say that Chris is lovely, which I think maybe isn't helping Chris's brand to an |
1:26.5 | extent. But yeah, people are fascinated to know what Tris is actually like. |
1:30.6 | Connor, have you ever made an especially good or bad first impression? |
1:36.6 | Or has a teammate made one on you? |
1:39.6 | Because you've just signed for a new club. |
1:41.1 | You've just joined Wrexham. |
1:42.2 | First impressions are important? |
1:44.1 | Massively important, massively, yeah. I think being at Wrexham, they've for a new club. You've just joined Wrexham. First impression is important. |
1:44.6 | Massively important, massively, yeah. I think being at Wrexham, they've made a big impression on me. I think the people there, working with the people there, they've been brilliant and working with really good people, really nice people who try and improve you every day as being good. Someone who made an impression on me was Ruben Nevis, at Wolves, I loved him to bits. I thought his professionalism from when he first came in, his will to win, how he wanted to do things. |
2:04.1 | That's the biggest one. one who made an impression on me was Ruben Nevis. At Wolves, I loved him to bits. I thought it's professionalism from when he first came in, his will to win, how he wanted to do things. |
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