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The Athletic FC Podcast

Nkunku to Chelsea agreed, Foden contract close & why Wolves sacked Lage

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 34 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Athletic.

0:04.0

Coming up after an event for weekend in the Premier League, we'll discuss Manchester City's demolition of Manchester United.

0:10.0

We'll have details from David Ornstein's column on Chelsea's move for Christopher and Kunku.

0:16.8

And after another defeat at the weekend, Bruno Large has been sacked as Wolves Manager.

0:21.6

I'm Mark Chapman, this is the Athletic Football Podcast. We had a different team when we have a striker in front of us and we didn't have

0:39.3

knock with Raou, we don't have a monkey with Sasser and we need to solve it now with the ego.

0:44.1

Not sure what the identity is. They tried not to be a counter-attacking team, have a bit more

0:47.4

possession, but at a moment they are not creating enough.

0:50.2

Bruno Lage has been sacked by Wolverhampton Wanderers.

0:53.5

I think there will be players in there going,

0:55.2

Connor.

0:56.2

But he is also, he represents us.

0:59.4

Naturally, when things aren't going well for you,

1:01.1

players are talking and we're going,

1:02.6

Connor won't have allowed that.

1:08.0

So let's start with the Wolf story then that they've sacked their head coach Bruno Large.

1:11.7

It's understood that he was informed on Sunday that he'd be

1:14.6

leaving following a poor run of form which has seen them win just one game this season.

1:20.1

I'm joined by the athletics David Ornstein and our Wall's reporter Steve Madele who's written in depth about largest downfall

1:26.6

Because it's not just this season is it Steve? It's not though you can you can face it back to the end of last season when they went

1:33.8

seven games without a win and from things we've been told I think relations

1:38.7

between large and the players took a real hammer in around that time.

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