Monday Night Club: Paul Scholes, Dean Smith & AI transfers
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Shay Given on a Monday Night Club episode which features former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes as a guest.
He discusses the pressure on manager Ruben Amorim after an underwhelming start to the season. Then, Dean Smith joins to talk about his old club Aston Villa struggling and his current MLS side Charlotte FC flying high.
The show also covers Noni Madueke's form at Arsenal and difficult times for Rangers under Russell Martin. Finally, Oli Mann from the Sheff United Way podcast describes how he feels about the reappointment of Chris Wilder at Bramall Lane.
TIMECODES: 00:50 - Manchester United 08:45 - Paul Scholes joins 25:05 - Aston Villa 27:06 - Dean Smith joins 34:53 - Noni Madueke 46:03 - Rangers 52:52 - Sheffield United
COMMENTARIES: 16 Sep - 1745 -Athletic Club v Arsenal in the Champions League on 5Live 16 Sep - 1945 - Sheffield Wednesday v Grimsby Town in the 3rd round of the EFL Cup on 5 Sports Extra 16 Sep - 2000 - Brentford v Aston Villa in the 3rd round of the EFL Cup on 5 Sports Extra 2 16 Sep - 2000 - Crystal Palace v Millwall in the 3rd round of the EFL Cup on 5 Sports Extra 3 17 Sep - 2000 - Bayern Munich v Chelsea in the Champions League on 5Live 17 Sep - 2000 - Swansea City v Nottingham Forest in the 3rd round of the EFL Cup on 5 Sports Extra 18 Sep - 2000 - Newcastle United v Barcelona in the Champions League on 5Live 18 Sep - 1950 - Manchester City v Napoli in the Champions League on 5 Sports Extra 20 Sep - 1500 - Brighton v Tottenham in the Premier League 20 Sep - 1730 - Manchester United v Chelsea in the Premier League 21 Sep - 1400 - Sunderland v Aston Villa in the Premier League 21 Sep - 1630 - Arsenal v Manchester City in the Premier League
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| 0:40.2 | On the Football Daily podcast. |
| 0:43.1 | Welcome to the Monday nightclub, MNC at BBC.co.com. |
| 0:48.6 | Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Shaygiven are with us. |
| 0:52.7 | We'll be joined by Paul Skulls in a little while |
| 0:55.2 | to talk about Manchester United. |
| 0:56.9 | The former Aston Villa, |
| 0:57.8 | manager, Dean Smith, will join us later on |
| 1:01.0 | to talk about Villas worrying maybe start to the season. |
| 1:05.8 | We'll talk non-in-Madueke as well. |
| 1:08.6 | We'll look at Rangers and Sheffield United too. |
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