The Athletic. Hello, I'm Mark Chapman. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast coming up after the impact of Rinalda.

David Ornstein tells us poor Popba could now sign a new contract at Manchester United.

The Champions League returns this week. I'm joined by the athletics Ollie Kay,

he'll tell us why he believes despite its imbalance excesses.

The tournament is fantastic and there is lots to get excited about this season.

Our Wall's writer Tim Spears joins us to assess the start of manager Bruno Large and also to tell us about his

interview with the cod's owner Jeff Shee and the athletics German football writer Raphael

Honestein joins us to talk about an exciting start to the Bundesliga.

Well, let's start the pod with the exclusive Paul Pogper line in David Ornstein's weekly column on the athletic

So from what you understand David he's leaning towards signing the new contract at United,

which I'm guessing is based purely on the fact

that he loved Park Life so much in the city this weekend

was dancing on stage and just once more of that.

I was about to say, don't we all all but you and I don't go to things

like that anymore so. I may have done new order on Friday night that's more my era but now we're talking even then I just thought I'm still I'm too I'm too old. Any

So I mean this is really interesting and maybe it's quite helpful for our listeners to explain a bit of the

journalistic chronology as well because I was looking into some

potential stories around United coming into the weekend and well preparing the Monday column.

And it was actually looking like this

might go the way of him leaving as a free agent

and United starting to come to terms with that

because there's been no significant progress over talks on a new deal and the idea that he makes one more big lucrative move to a PSG or Real Madrid has been gathering quite a lot of

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