MNC: What next for West Ham and Tottenham?
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman, Andros Townsend, Joe Hart and Rory Smith look at the fallout from West Ham’s relegation in the Premier League, and ask what is behind the club’s struggles. Football finance expert Rob Wilson discusses the potential financial impact on the club. The panel also looks at what comes next for Tottenham after successive 17th-placed finishes in the Premier League.
05:30 – West Ham’s lack of a strategy 13:00 – The atmosphere at the London Stadium 19:00 – The financial impact of relegation 28:40 – Where next for Tottenham after staying up? 46:00 – Joe Hart gives his reaction to Pep Guardiola’s comments about regretting not giving Hart a chance to prove himself.
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| 0:05.6 | Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about |
| 0:09.4 | You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC |
| 0:13.9 | and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry. |
| 0:17.9 | Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, |
| 0:21.2 | evil genius, or in our time, |
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| 0:26.3 | a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. |
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| 0:30.8 | to hear the very latest in history |
| 0:32.6 | and loads of other good stuff, |
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| 0:37.3 | This is the Monday nightclub with Mark Chapman on the Football Daily podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to the Monday night club, Joe Hart, Andros Townsend, Rory Smith with us this evening, |
| 0:48.9 | MNC at BBC.com.com. |
| 0:50.8 | If you want to get in touch, you were at the Yetty had, weren't you, Joe, yesterday? |
| 0:55.4 | I was, yeah. Yeah, I was evening everyone. Were you in tears? I wasn't, no. But it was an emotional day. It was emotional. It was nice, you know. It was nice to be in a stadium where everyone was happy. Villa were happy. City fans were happy. new stand opened, obviously Pep going, John going, |
| 1:13.9 | Bernardo going. Like I say, Villa were in great spirits. They were all, they couldn't |
| 1:19.3 | believe that they managed to pull that performance out. It was funny talking to a few of their |
| 1:22.2 | lads after saying a sport science is a load of rubbish, but no, it was just a magical day, magical day |
| 1:28.9 | and the right send off for some pretty special people. |
| 1:32.1 | Do you think then that will change Villa's perspective next season |
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