The Athletic Hello, I'm Dan Bardell, and welcome to the Athletic Football

podcast with myself and Floye Hughes.

Unlike the Tuesday show with Mark Chapman on Wednesdays, Flo and myself are going to pick

out just one article from the athletic and put the writers under the spotlight. Today Laurie Wittwell is with us to talk about the secrets of Oligon

of Sal Shars around Manchester United and if he now has everything he needs to

challenge for the title. We're also going to talk

about Roy Keying at 15 and point you in the direction of a few other great

pieces up on the site before we're done. I'm going to say hello to Laurie in

just a minute but first Flow reunited after a summer together in the euros. How are you?

I'm all right I think I've just about recovered from the grief and the trauma of the euros but I guess for you Dan unfortunately that never ends because you went from

Euros

Misery to J.G. Tends departure so I think it's more important than how are you doing?

You know what? I'm actually okay. I took it a lot better than I ever thought I would do if you

just said to me 12 months ago that what's the day going to be

like when Jack realish leaves Astonville Football Club I'd have said it's going to

be catastrophic I'm going to be in tears but actually the way the club acted and

the way they've conducted their business so far in this

window I'm not worried at all which is really really weird when you you lose your

best player it's a feeling I'm not used to at all I mean there's loads going

on at the moment isn't there messy cane lakako that there's tons to catch up with on the on the athletic

What if you're made of it all? Yeah, it's been a it's been a frantic transfer window and I think I mean there's lots of people who have written about this but I think it is concerning I think when you think about the future of football and its finances and especially with the messy and inter-malan situations about where football is heading

and the bankruptcy that looms for so many of the biggest clubs, the biggest brands in football who have so much history.

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