Smith Rowe contract update & what next for Spurs?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Host Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic’s David Ornstein, Adam Crafton and Jack Pitt-Brooke to discuss a difficult week both on and off the field for Tottenham which was capped off in the League Cup final - so what’s the plan now for Daniel Levy and Spurs?
David also reveals that Arsenal are still paying Mesut Ozil a huge sum of money has details on new contract for a young star.
And The Athletic's Sam Lee joins the pod to give his thoughts on Manchester City’s Phil Foden - is he ready to start for England?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, welcome to your senior chapman pod on The Athletic, along with David. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm joined today by the Athletics Adam Crafton and Jack Pitt Brook. |
| 0:14.0 | Coming up a difficult week, both on and off the field for Tottenham, |
| 0:17.1 | was capped off by yesterday's defeat to Manchester City in the League Cup final. |
| 0:21.6 | So what is the plan now for the club and for Daniel Levy? |
| 0:24.9 | We'll continue our look at how the England squad is shaping up ahead of Euro 2020 as well, |
| 0:29.5 | and our focus will be on Phil Foden. |
| 0:32.3 | Don't forget you can subscribe to the Athletic for a special price of £3.99 a month for six months. |
| 0:37.2 | That's 40% off the full price of a subscription. All you've got to do, go to the Athletic for a special price of £3.99 a month for six months. That's 40% off the full price of a subscription. |
| 0:40.3 | All you've got to do, go to theathletic.com slash Ornstein and Chapman. |
| 0:48.1 | Well, I think the majority of this pod then is going to be dominated by Tottenham because, |
| 0:54.0 | Jack, it feels like they have more issues |
| 0:57.0 | than probably any other Premier League club going into this summer. Would you agree? |
| 1:01.8 | I think so, yeah. Almost everything is on the table this summer with Daniel Levy and Spurs. |
| 1:07.9 | They've got huge decisions to make about their players. They haven't got a manager. |
| 1:12.4 | They don't know what European competition they'll be playing in next season. They're facing a new |
| 1:17.8 | round of unpopularity, a new wave of unpopularity from the fans after the Super League attempt. |
| 1:23.6 | The Totten Hot Spurs supporters trust have called for the resignation of the executive board and the replacement with a new board with fan representation. It's a difficult time in terms of the finances, as it is for many Premier League clubs, but especially Spurs. They're very financially reliant on filling the new stadium, which they haven't been able to do because of COVID. So it's tough. It's, you know, Daniel Levy's got a huge set of decisions to make this summer. |
| 1:45.5 | And it's really anyone's guess what Tottenham will look like in next season and beyond. |
| 1:50.6 | Jack, just while you're on the subject of Daniel Levy, |
| 1:53.7 | it wasn't so long ago that Spurs were opening their new stadium and he was giving guided tours |
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