MNC: Palace demoted, Grealish Everton bound & Hürzeler on Brighton
Football Daily
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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by Rory Smith, Chris Sutton and Izzy Christiansen as the start of the new Premier League season draws ever closer.
The panel discuss Crystal Palace losing their appeal against being demoted from the Europa League to the Conference League after the Court of Arbitration for Sport supported UEFA's assessment that they breached multi-club ownership rules.
Plus, will a move to Everton reinvigorate Jack Grealish? And Brighton head coach Fabian Hürzeler joins the podcast to look ahead to the new season and discuss Brighton's famed recruitment strategy.
Topics: 00:19 - Palace's demotion to the Conference League 02:24 - Could Palace's demotion be a blessing is disguise? 09:08 - Are the European elite treated differently? 12:27 - Does this end with Palace winning the Conference League? 13:19 - Will Palace's season be defined by whether or not they keep Guehi and Eze? 22:03 - Is Jack Grealish on a season-long loan to Everton a good move? 30:42 - Brighton head coach Fabian Hürzeler joins the podcast 35:47 - Brighton's recruitment process 41:40 - Brighton's private pre-season 44:43 - What does success look like for Brighton this season? 45:56 - Is Hürzeler worried about big clubs circling his players? 53:38 - Should Brighton keep hold of their best players to challenge for trophies? BBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries: Wed - 2000 - UEFA Super Cup - PSG v Spurs Sat - 1500 - Premier League - Sunderland v West Ham Sat - 1500 - Premier League - Spurs v Burnley Sat - 1730 - Premier League - Wolves v Man City Sun - 1400 - Premier League - Chelsea v Palace Sun - 1400 - Premier League - Forest v Brentford Sun - 1630 - Premier League - Man Utd v Arsenal
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.9 | This is the Monday Nightclub with Mark Chapman on the Football Daily Podcasts. |
| 0:13.5 | Let's crack on with the Monday Nightclub, MNC at BBC.co.com, if you want to get in touch with us. |
| 0:18.9 | And I do wonder, and I'm going to start with you, Rory, |
| 0:21.4 | because we're starting with legal matters. |
| 0:24.5 | And I do wonder, we'll come on to all the exciting stuff. |
| 0:28.7 | But it is a depressing sign of where we are at, isn't it? |
| 0:32.7 | The palace judgment. |
| 0:33.9 | Yes. |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah, I think it shows kind of the mess that football has brought itself in, to be honest. It's really hard not to have sympathy with them. It feels an awful lot like they have been done on a technicality. They've kind of missed an administrative deadline for legitimate reasons. They've then had the rules enforced, like technically, but maybe not in a spiritual sense. Does that make sense? Like, it feels like they've, they are, you know, what they did was wrong. You're not meant to do that. They missed a deadline, but it's very harsh to ban them for it. There has been no common sense applied, and it kind of all speaks to this thing of, maybe it would be better if football clubs had one one owner and that owner didn't own any other football clubs. |
| 1:12.7 | Maybe that would make everyone's life a lot easier. |
| 1:14.4 | The deal is, is he here, that they're going to play in the Conference League, not the Europa League, |
| 1:18.2 | because today the Court of Arbitration supported UEFA's assessment that they breached multi-club ownership rules. |
| 1:25.3 | The caste rule in the key points were that regulations are clear |
| 1:28.4 | and do not provide flexibility to clubs that are non-compliant on the assessment date as Pallas |
| 1:34.7 | claimed. That assessment date was at the beginning of March, the 1st of March, and what UEFA, |
| 1:40.3 | and presumably CAS have upheld, is that other clubs, if they've been in this situation, |
| 1:45.3 | have managed to sort out their ownership issues by a deadline. |
| 1:50.3 | Yeah, and of course I think, you know, |
| 1:52.2 | you go back to yesterday where Palace won the Community Shield |
| 1:55.2 | and if you're a player in this situation |
| 1:57.6 | to have that level of focus to perform |
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