On The Continent: Lionel Messi’s summer of discontent, PSG face selection issues, and The Mustang rides again
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a brand new season of On The Continent! Every week, join Dotun Adebayo and Andy Brassell as they bring you the biggest stories from across European football.
On today’s show, alongside The Independent’s Miguel Delaney, we look back on a tumultuous summer for Lionel Messi and ask where he and Barcelona will go from here. We also wonder what the start to the Ligue Un season might hold for PSG, after multiple players tested positive for coronavirus after a trip to Ibiza, and celebrate the Portuguese return of Andy’s one true love: Ricardo Quaresma!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this episode of Upfront is brought to you by Transport for London. |
| 0:06.2 | TFL are taking a zero tolerance approach towards hate crime and abusive |
| 0:10.0 | behavior on public transport and making sure the network is as safe as possible for passengers |
| 0:14.6 | and TFL staff. If you find yourself witnessing an incident you might wonder what you can do to help. |
| 0:19.7 | More on that later in the episode. on the continent, |
| 0:23.0 | one, |
| 0:25.0 | on the continent, |
| 0:30.0 | welcome to on the continent, your one-stop shop for all things European football. I'm |
| 0:35.9 | Dotton adibio. I'm Andy Brassal and I'm Miguel Delaney. On today's show |
| 0:40.5 | we look back at something of a strange summer I think it's fair to say |
| 0:44.7 | for Leonel messy and Barcelona obviously and maybe even for Man City. |
| 0:49.8 | We'll come on to that in a moment or see it. And we'll be wondering who on earth will play for PSG, |
| 0:57.0 | whether they've played for a certain North London club or not, |
| 1:00.0 | and also coronavirus problems, not just for PSG I suppose right across the continent in football and Ricardo |
| 1:07.4 | Kerezme well that's got me the story of this podcast for me in any case. |
| 1:13.0 | Andy, Lionel Massey, Barcelona, what on earth is going on? |
| 1:27.0 | It's been coming for a long time. I think that's pretty clear. I think the interesting |
| 1:31.6 | thing about the whole messy and Barcelona situation |
| 1:35.9 | is that I know some Barcelona fans and some regularly match-going Barcelona fans who were almost not happy of course with their 80 defeat |
| 1:46.2 | to buy Munich in the Champions League but sort of at a point that now the rest of the |
| 1:51.6 | world knows we're not mad. They know we've not been |
| 1:54.4 | exaggerating the problems that have been brewing at this club for a long time and the |
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