Seamless City unstoppable as Pogba plants seeds with Mourinho
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The Times
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🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Gab Marcotti and Natalie Sawyer are joined by Matt Dickinson and Oliver Kay after the opening weekend of the Premier League season. And it’s clear the rest of the division should be very worried by Manchester City after their comprehensive victory at the Emirates.
There’s no new broom at Arsenal who don’t look any different under Unai Emery. Paul Pogba’s cryptic comments about his manager open up a can of worms at Old Trafford. Are Manchester United and Mourinho acting a bit rich over their most expensive signing? And who’s more important to the club?
Also on the agenda – have English clubs backed themselves into a corner with the early closure of the transfer window? Plus Kante, Keita and a chronic lack of VAR.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the game podcast from The Times I'm Gabriel Marcotti and alongside me is my new co-host |
| 0:37.5 | although you're not quite new given that we've already done one show together |
| 0:40.7 | Natalie Sawyer. Yeah that that's quite right. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you, Gabb. |
| 0:44.0 | The Premier League is back and it's back in some style as well. |
| 0:48.0 | All of last season's top five were victorious, |
| 0:51.0 | while the promoted trio of Wolves, Cardiff and Fulham found out just how tough life in the top division can be. |
| 0:56.5 | Today, among many discussions we're looking at Trouble for Marino in Manchester and Modrich at Madrid. |
| 1:02.1 | In the studio with us today is Times Chief Sports writer Matt Dickinson and down the line from his hidden conservatory in lovely |
| 1:09.7 | Ripenden. |
| 1:10.7 | It's the Times' very own chief football correspondent, Ollie Kay. |
| 1:16.0 | We start at the Emirates, says Manchester City pick up where they left off last season, |
| 1:20.0 | a dominant 2-0 win, ruining Unire Emory's first game in charge of the gunners so |
| 1:24.8 | Oley were city great or were Arsenal average? I don't think it was anything like the |
| 1:30.3 | standard that would be the accepted norm from Arsenal this season. |
| 1:33.3 | I mean obviously they were playing against Manchester City, the best team in the league, |
| 1:37.8 | or the best teams of the world currently and, but I was, I was disappointed by also and I know that sounds really really harsh but I expected to see more signs of a new way of playing and more signs of players having a spring in their step and looking different. |
| 1:56.3 | I know it's been difficult with this pre-season. |
| 1:58.0 | I know some players have come back late but they've had a better pre-season more |
| 2:05.3 | a more settled pre-season and a lot of other teams. I just felt if you were watching them |
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