Raheem Sterling's Man City Future & Relationship with Pep... It's Complicated
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The Athletic
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🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Dan Bardell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes are joined by The Athletic's Man City writer Sam Lee, to discuss Raheem Sterling's 'complicated' relationship with Man City and manager Pep Guardiola as the prospect of leaving the reigning Champions at the end of his current deal looms large for the England superstar...
What is it like to play 'Pep Roulette' as a City squad member and more on Guardiola's January transfer plans, Plus, Dan and Flo find time to react to Roy Hodgson's impending return to the Premier League with Watford.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.9 | Hello, I'm Dan Bardell. |
| 0:16.9 | And I'm Floy Lloyd Hughes. |
| 0:18.3 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 0:20.2 | It's Wednesday, which means we'll be picking out some of the best work available on the Athletic right now and putting the author under the spotlight. |
| 0:31.0 | Here's the boy now. |
| 0:33.2 | Sterling with a touch. |
| 0:35.3 | Danilo pulling it back. |
| 0:36.4 | It's Rahim Sterling! They've done it! Rahim Sterling with a touch. Danilo pulling it back. It's Rahim Sterling! |
| 0:38.9 | They've done it! |
| 0:41.1 | Rahim Sterling! |
| 0:44.7 | The man who rescued them against Everton on Monday night has come up with the goods again, |
| 0:46.9 | and here's their stop-it-time saviour with a winner. This week we're going to be highlighting a piece fresh from Manchester City correspondent Sam Lee entitled Rahim Sterling's future. It's complicated. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah, excited to get stuck into this one with Sam and Sam is right. It's definitely more |
| 1:11.7 | complicated than I'd previously thought. We'll bring him in in just a moment, but Flo, what's new in |
| 1:17.2 | your world? I mean, we have to talk about Raniari getting sacked and... I can't believe he's |
| 1:23.7 | taking this long. How is he taking so long? Roy Hodgson, of all people, being literally wheeled out as his replacement, I did not see that coming. |
| 1:32.2 | I thought the man was well and truly feet up, done, retiring and, you know, off into the sunset vibes. |
| 1:40.8 | And somehow he's back here again. |
| 1:43.2 | He can't resist, can I? |
| 2:01.7 | Roy Hodgson does not need to take that job. No, not at all. It seems like an unnecessary headache. Yeah, exactly, the stress. I mean, we all know the impact that stress can have on your body. The man is 74 years old. He does not need the stress of the chaos of Watford right now. And, you know, obviously, if he pulled this off, it would be legendary. But really, like, he's achieved so much already in his career. |
| 2:07.4 | It's a weird one for me. We are going to chat about it in a bit more depth after we chat to |
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