Phoenix FM #2: The Squad Takes Shape

The Square Ball: Leeds United Podcast

The Square Ball

Sports, Unknown, Leeds United, Lufc, Comedy, Soccer

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Leeds United phoenix club in Football Manager finally has some players for its mission to escape tier 6 and hunt down RB Leeds. 🌎 Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code thesquareball at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/thesquareball ⛵️

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0:00.0	The Square Bowl podcast.
0:04.4	Hi, welcome to Phoenix Football Manager.
0:07.6	It's 2014 and David Hague has sold Leeds United to Red Bull.
0:11.9	RB Leeds have taken our place in the championship.
0:14.3	Jesse Marsh is the manager, which is going to please Rob a great deal.
0:17.6	We are in charge of the Leeds United Phoenix Club,
0:21.9	currently in the sixth tier of English football. Eddie Gray is our chairman, and we're playing at Headingley Stadium,
0:27.2	and the John Charles Centre for Sport is our new training ground. We, us, we are the manager,
0:33.7	Arcadia Brendan Chisholm, which is an anagram of all our names, Chris, Dan, Dean, Michael and Rob.
0:39.6	We are an experienced English coach whose birthday is October the 19th, the same as League United.
0:44.5	We speak many, many languages.
0:46.8	We're going to have to, by the sounds of it.
0:48.4	Yeah, because we are assembling a multilingual, multi-talented squad.
0:51.7	Well, that's the aim anyway.
0:52.9	We started with a completely empty squad in the last episode and half a million quid in the bank to do the job. That was raised from all the fans who contributed to. Very kind of everyone. And sponsors. And the fundraising schemes. Yeah, good sponsors. I don't know who is the shirt sponsor. Levi's? We were playing at Headingley, aren't we?
1:11.6	So, Techlies?
1:13.0	Yeah, could be. Yeah, yeah. I really like the idea of playing it Headilly. It's the old Headingley as well, the old South Stand. It'd be brilliant. That's what we're saying, like, terraces and all that. One person who could be an associate sponsor of the club. Okay.
1:26.1	Is it Sailie.com?
1:28.1	That's the one, yeah.
1:29.2	It's what I use when I'm traveling to... associate sponsor of the club. Okay. Is it salee.com?
1:28.1	That's the one, yeah. It's what I use when I'm traveling to, I'm looking at my shop, it's now Argentina, Philippines, Italy, Austria. Why is that? Is it? Because it's an E-SIN product that works in over 200 countries giving you data wherever you're going? You're absolutely right, yeah. Oh, wow, Michael. can just seamlessly go place to place, can't I?
1:44.7	You can just add an additional easy.
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