The Art of a “Fine Wine” Transfer: Beth Mead, Bunny Shaw and Sam Kerr
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What is the link between Beth Mead, Khadija 'Bunny' Shaw and Sam Kerr's transfers?
Host Jillian Sakovits is joined by The Athletic’s Tamerra Griffin and Melanie Anzidei to discuss the art of a "fine wine" transfer, players who have proven themselves successful and still have time left in their careers to be leaders on any team. The trio breaks down the latest on Kerr's future with Chelsea, Shaw's impact and movement this summer and Mead's recent announcement that she will leave Arsenal this summer.
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Tamerra Griffin, Melanie Anzidei
This podcast was produced by The Athletic.
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Referenced on the show:
Chelsea Women don’t just need a striker. They need to resurrect their winning culture
Arsenal confirm Beth Mead will leave club as a free agent this summer
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| 0:00.0 | it's almost like marionette strings in a way where like Sam Kerr, Beth Mead and Bunny Shaw |
| 0:06.5 | are all kind of connected to each other in a way because if one, let's say Bunny Shaw stays, |
| 0:11.7 | that might change things for Beth Meade potentially going to city. |
| 0:14.4 | If Sam Kerr goes, then that's going to change the conversation that Bunny Shaw's having with Chelsea |
| 0:18.4 | about because then they're really going to need her. |
| 0:20.9 | Yeah. Like do they get into like, yeah, do agents get into cahoots here and like, yeah, this is all |
| 0:26.4 | the stuff where we've got to have like an agent and a sporting director on for part two of this |
| 0:29.7 | episode. Like, tell me how it really goes down. It feels like a TV show, 824 drama happening right here. |
| 0:43.3 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to full-time. It's presented by Amazon Prime. Jillian Zakovitz with you today alongside the one and only Tamara Griffin. |
| 0:49.9 | Hello, Tamara. Hi, Jill. You ready to get into it today? |
| 0:55.5 | No, we're not using the word elder. |
| 0:57.6 | We're using the word fine wine, senior, et cetera, et cetera, on today's show. |
| 1:02.3 | And that's because Tamara, it is the end. |
| 1:04.3 | It's almost the end, I should say, of the European season. |
| 1:06.9 | So with that, we are getting the goodbye announcements and the tears. |
| 1:12.6 | As this transfer rumor mill just heats up and up and up. There are reports, confirmations, and rumors, like I said, |
| 1:18.3 | of several big name players like Bunny Shaw, Sam Kerr, Beth Mead, Lindsay Heaps, as we all know, |
| 1:24.7 | leaving their teams. There's been a lot of chatter surrounding these players. |
| 1:29.2 | So we are specifically today going to focus on the transfers of big name fine wine players, |
| 1:35.9 | what they could bring to their new teams, what the correct new team would be. And if there's any |
| 1:41.2 | drawbacks. So to get into all that, we're going to bring in Melanie Anzi Day in just a moment. |
| 1:46.5 | But before we do, let's wet our appetite a little bit here. |
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