Monday Night Club: Mateta’s move off, City’s slump & Liverpool’s new star man
Football Daily
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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman, Steph Houghton, Chris Sutton and Rory Smith react to an underwhelming Transfer Deadline Day and the big talking points from the weekend’s action in the Premier League.
They discuss; whether Tottenham’s second half comeback to draw with Manchester City can be a turning point, what’s causing City’s slump in form, Arsenal’s six-point lead at the top of the table, and Hugo Ekitike stepping up as Liverpool’s new star man.
01:17 – Transfer Deadline Day with Sami Mokbel 13:06 – Manchester City fan Rachel Herdson on their poor form 31:30 – Tottenham’s turning point? 36:10 – Too much focus on nervousness around Arsenal? 48:32 – Hugo Ekitike: Liverpool’s new star man
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.7 | This is the Monday Nightclub with Mark Chapman on the Football Daily podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome to the Monday Night Club. Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Steph Horton are with us. |
| 0:19.4 | You can watch on the eye player. You can watch on the IPlay. |
| 0:23.5 | You can stream on the BBC Sport YouTube channel. |
| 0:31.6 | If you do that, you will notice that Chris has got a new angle for his... You've had the same angle for the last five years, something like that. |
| 0:37.4 | And now we're looking to, |
| 0:39.4 | we're looking into a different part of the, is that, what is that, the Sutton Drawing Room? |
| 0:44.6 | What is it? I don't call it a drawing room. It's just one of the many loungers, which, which, which we |
| 0:51.7 | have. No, I've had this camera for about five years, but just not been able to work it. |
| 0:57.9 | And then I got talked through it today by Grace, who we both know very well. |
| 1:04.2 | And she was laughing at me a lot, so I had to get my son in to help me set it up. |
| 1:09.0 | But yeah, North Norfolk is moving on for the older generation |
| 1:12.0 | and technology. Right. Okay. Okay. You and Alan Partridge both leading the way. Are you in North |
| 1:20.2 | Norfolk? Yes. Here we are. Yeah. I know what you're thinking. Come on. It's transfer deadline night. |
| 1:26.7 | The window shut at seven o'clock. |
| 1:29.3 | Surely there are more exciting things to talk about than the angle of Chris's camera in one of his many loungers. |
| 1:36.3 | And Sammy Mockbell, I'm not sure there were up until about two minutes to seven. I'm not sure there were many more interested things, were there? |
| 1:43.5 | I know. it's been |
| 1:44.4 | it's not been slow because my phone's still been going off but we've not had any confirmation of any deals until 7 o'clock when we know now that Jorg and Strahan Larson has signed for Crystal Palace. But yeah, there'll be all the deal sheets will be, you're not going to ask me to explain what I deal with you. |
| 2:01.3 | No, I think I think most most people know. But yeah, they'll be all the deal sheets will be, and you're not going to ask me to explain what a deal sheet is like. |
| 2:01.6 | No, I think most people know that... |
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