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The Football Reporters: Will Fernandes & Isak injuries spark January moves?

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Soccer, Sports

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Mark, James and Rob wonder how injuries to Bruno Fernandes and Alexander Isak will impact Manchester United and Liverpool with the January transfer window approaching. The trio also debate Viktor Gyökeres’ impact at Arsenal so far and Don Hutchison joins to open up about football’s relationship with alcohol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Coming up this week we look at how Manchester United in Liverpool will cope with injuries to Bruno Fernandez and Alexander Isak.

0:48.3

We debate Victor Jokores' ability to fire Arsenal to a league title after his first goal since the start of November at Everton.

0:56.7

And Don Hutchinson joins us to discuss the prevalence of alcohol in football.

1:03.7

So it's another huge weekend in the Premier League and I think the biggest game, probably the biggest story, is Aston Villa.

1:08.7

For the first time in over 100 years, winning 10 successive games in all competitions, beating Man United 2-1. It felt like the Morgan Rogers story. Rob, I know you wrote back the game afterwards. We'll get to the Man United Island at first, but how good of Villa? How good is Morgan Rogers? Well, I mean, the biggest compliment you can pay Villa is that they weren't particularly good, but yet they still won a big game.

1:28.2

They had Morgan Rogers who came up with the two best moments of quality in the entire game,

1:33.2

and it was enough to win who won.

1:34.9

And if you're looking for signs that Villa could possibly last the course in this title race,

1:40.8

obviously, they're not going to be favourites in that behind Arsenal and Man City.

1:43.7

But if you're looking

1:44.2

for science, the fact that they can win, you know, these quite big games without actually

1:48.1

reaching their full potential is a massive positive for Runei. I'm sure that he'll analyse the game

1:53.8

and think that they could have done an awful lot better. But ultimately, you know, at this stage

1:58.0

of a season, particularly when you get into these kind of difficult days in December, the most important thing is to win. And at the moment, they've got probably the most informed player, or one of the most informed players in the Premier League in Morgan Rogers, and he has got the quality to win games. You know, that says everything about this validity. I think they deserve a massive pat on the bat for the way they've gone about it.

2:20.3

In the last sort of 10 games, you mentioned there about the record.

2:23.0

First time they've won 10 plus games since 1914 consecutively.

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