Nkunku to Chelsea agreed, Foden contract close & why Wolves sacked Lage
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's football correspondent David Ornstein. They discuss Man City's demolition of United with The Athletic's Sam Lee with news on a new contract on the cards for Phil Foden.
The Athletic's Wolves writer Steve Madeley tells has all the details as to why Bruno Lage was sacked and we hear how the influence of agent Jorge Mendes at the club who could be lined up as the Wolves manager.
David also has news on Chelsea's pursuit of RB Leipzig forward Christopher Nkunku.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Coming up after an eventful weekend in the Premier League, |
| 0:06.6 | we'll discuss Manchester City's demolition of Manchester United. |
| 0:09.9 | We'll have details from David Ornstein's column |
| 0:12.8 | on Chelsea's move for Christopher in Kunku. |
| 0:16.5 | And after another defeat at the weekend, |
| 0:18.5 | Bruno Large has been sacked as Wolves manager. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:22.5 | This is the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | We are a different team when we have a striker in front of us |
| 0:37.7 | and we don't have lucky with Raoul, we don't have enough with Sasser and we need to solve it now with Diego. I'm not sure what the identity is. They tried not to be a counter-attacking team, have a bit more possession but at the moment they are not creating enough. Bruno Lodge has been sacked by Wolverhampton Wanderers. I think there'll be players in there going, |
| 0:35.1 | Connor, |
| 0:35.8 | but he's also, |
| 0:37.6 | he's also, Bruno Lange has been sacked by Wolverhampton Wanderers. I think there'll be players in there going, Connor. |
| 0:56.7 | He's us, he represents us. |
| 0:59.5 | Naturally, when things aren't going well for you, players are talking and we're going, |
| 1:02.7 | Connor wouldn't have allowed that. |
| 1:07.9 | So let's start with the Wolves story then that they've sacked their head coach Bruno Large. |
| 1:11.8 | It's understood that he was informed on Sunday |
| 1:14.0 | that he'd be leaving following a poor runner form |
| 1:17.0 | which has seen them win just one game this season. |
| 1:20.2 | I'm joined by the Athletics, David Ornstein |
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