Ole or Carrick? Chelsea's new coach & are West Ham doomed?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Manchester United’s potential interim managers, Chelsea’s new head coach and West Ham United’s Premier League survival prospects were all discussed in the latest Tifo football podcast.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Jon Mackenzie & Seb Stafford-Bloor and is produced by Steve Hankey.
Listen to The Athletic FC’s episode with Liam Rosenior here - https://pod.fo/e/344882
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00:00 - The first, intentional & alliterative intro
02:53 - The second, unsanctioned, vigilante intro
05:06 - Final reflection on Amorim’s exit from Man Utd
07:35 - Who should be Man Utd’s interim manager?
26:00 - The role of executives in footballing matters
28:46 - Can the Sporting Director model work at elite clubs?
34:32 - A break
34:34 - Strasbourg’s relationship with Chelsea
43:15 - The Liam Rosenior era at Chelsea begins
48:26 - Liam Rosenior the man
56:08 - Are West Ham doomed?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Joe Devine and today I'm delighted to be joined by John McKenzie. |
| 0:15.3 | Hello. |
| 0:16.1 | Also Steve Hankies here. |
| 0:17.4 | Hello. |
| 0:18.0 | And he joined us for most of the episode, but he's no longer here now. |
| 0:22.0 | That's confusing from a timeline perspective. |
| 0:24.2 | It was Seb Stafford Bloor. |
| 0:26.0 | So that was very fun. |
| 0:27.3 | Here's some things that we talked about on today's episode. |
| 0:30.9 | As the Man United managerial merry-go-round... |
| 0:34.5 | Right, Steve, as the Man United managerial Merry-go-round moves on, we discuss the potential interim managers who are being touted to take the reins until the end of this season. |
| 0:46.9 | Do you stand? |
| 0:48.0 | Ask Steve Oligan Assulshar or Michael Carrick. |
| 0:51.7 | We debate which of those would be better and indeed why they offer different things or mean different things. That's a classic double alliteration from Steve in that sentence. He loves that. That might be why you struggled with it a little bit. I mean, it might be slightly more. It was, you know how S, sybilance is the kind of is the S word? You can do that without it being at the beginning as well, right? You could still do it in the middle of the words. Militeration, I think it was. Should Manchester United ignore nostalgia and hire someone with no association with the Ferguson era? Leave the past to the past, right, Steve. Did we talk about that? I don't know. Yeah, broadly. |
| 1:27.9 | Steve's sneaking his own opinions into these intros. |
| 1:31.2 | Our Arsenal, the best team in the... |
| 1:32.7 | What? |
| 1:34.2 | No. |
| 1:35.5 | We talked broadly about the sporting director model and whether it can actually work at |
| 1:40.2 | top tier clubs. |
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