Sacking season, the January transfer window opens and the WSL returns!
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Eder, Rita – welcome to the WSL! Make sure to hold on tight to this merry-go-round here and get that seatbelt on. You're gonna need it.
Chloe and Rachel are back from the Christmas break, although Rachel remains in Norway where she's presumably been looking for Spurs' next wonderkid signing.
They discuss Jocelyn Prêcheur and Rehanne Skinner's sackings just before Christmas and where those decisions leave London City Lionesses and West Ham. Plus, Manchester United get on top of their business, Arsenal do their classic January window thing, and the girls share the one player on their transfer wishlists!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Up Front. I'm Clay Morgan and I'm Rachel Sullivan. Happy new year. It's 2026 and the football rumbles on. To kick off the year in start, we've got a couple of big sacking to talk about. West Ham and London City Lionesses have new bosses at the helm and there's plenty |
| 0:21.7 | to get stuck into already. The WSL resumes this weekend with a huge fixture between Arsenal |
| 0:27.6 | and Man United, both determined to get themselves back in that title race. Will their January |
| 0:32.4 | signings prove the difference? Speaking of which, we take a look across the table at the most |
| 0:37.4 | recent transfer market business. Who has been making moves and who's been keeping the difference. Speaking of which, we take a look across the table at the most recent |
| 0:37.8 | transfer market business. Who has been making moves and who's been keeping their |
| 0:42.0 | powder dry until summer? We do have some very, very exciting news to start the year. |
| 0:55.0 | We have our winner, finally, for the signed Lucy Bronze shirt. |
| 1:00.4 | I never thought we'd see the day that we'd actually allocate. |
| 1:02.6 | Longest competition in the world. |
| 1:04.1 | I genuinely thought this was going to be a 2027 reveal. |
| 1:06.8 | Thank you so much to everyone that took part in the survey. |
| 1:09.5 | These things are such a massive, massive help for us and allow us to continue bringing more of our shows to you that you love. But of course, there could only be one lucky winner despite all the entries. A big, big congratulations to Freireiki. Please do send us a photo of where you're going to be hanging up your Lucy bronze iconic shirt |
| 1:28.1 | I definitely enjoy that very very well deserved and thank you so much for taking the time to |
| 1:32.3 | participate rach is so nice to see you in a fresh new year like I'm looking out of my window |
| 1:37.8 | there is frozen grass and frozen cars and windshields and like nearly gone over my ass |
| 1:43.7 | couple times |
| 1:44.2 | on the slippery pavements |
| 1:45.4 | but you're in a completely different setting |
| 1:48.0 | slightly more magical, slightly more Christmassy |
| 1:49.9 | and still living in a festive bubble |
| 1:51.6 | where are you? What are you doing? |
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