Monday Night Club: Emery’s excellence, the Raya wave and Bielsa’s bucket

Football Daily

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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman, Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Micah Richards are back with the Monday Night Club. They talk Aston Villa after their best start to the league in 25 years, and the importance of Ollie Watkins after he scored his 5th goal of the season. Euro League’s Guillem Balagué joins the pod to talk about Unai Emery and how he has used his time at PSG, Seville and Villarreal to influence his managerial style at Villa. Hear from Erik Ten Hag as the panel talk about what is going wrong for Manchester United. Is it a case of the system not working? Do the players need to work harder? Former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson joins the pod to give his thoughts on the David Raya and Aaron Ramsdale debate at Arsenal. Plus, find out how Bielsa’s bucket made it’s way to South America TOPICS: 1.30 - Aston Villa 7.20 – Guillem Balagué on Unai Emery 19.30 - Manchester United 27.50 – Paul Robinson on Raya and Ramsdale 37.26 – Bielsa’s bucket with Simon Rix

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0:40.0	On the Football Daily Podcast, this is the Monday night club with Mark Chapman
0:46.0	Micah Richards Chris Sutton and Rory Smith.
0:50.0	Welcome to the Monday Night Club Chris Sutton, Michael Richards and Rory Smith are with us.
0:55.2	Rory not with us quite yet. He's running around different studios at BBC Radio Cambridge
1:02.3	trying to find one that that works at the moment.
1:05.8	He's in your neck of the woods, Chris, and he was going to stay with you, I think, but you've
1:09.4	decided to go to London instead.
1:11.6	Yeah, and that that's why I came down to London because Rory was in my neck.
1:15.5	That's quite odd isn't he? You can't get a studio which works. Well that's what he's saying yeah and he's trying to get the Wi-Fi to work so we can see him as well so it's it's all
1:26.7	He's just struggling what if that was me you'd be taking more than mick out Rory. Somehow the elegant and eloquent Rory somehow
1:36.0	gets away with it. Now if you are a regular listener of the show that you will know
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