This is a global player original podcast.

Hi, I'm Gabby.

And I'm Mark.

And together we are the sports agents.

We're a brand new extension of the news agents family.

So at the moment, I suppose we're like their very annoying younger brother or sister just trying to... our way find our way and get their attention

which is what we're doing here by intruding on this feed isn't it absolutely and we want to

tell you a little bit about what we've done already in our first week on tuesday we focused heavily

on the red bull christian horner story which actually became a wider Formula One story,

the potential power play that was going on there, and whether or not perhaps this could be

something to do with Formula One losing a few viewers globally because of a very uncompetitive

season ahead, it looks like.

We also talked with Joe Makin, who was Phil Foden's first youth coach. And Phil Foden this week had been

described by Pep Guardiola at Manchester City as the best player in the Premier League. So we found

out a little bit about what Foden was like as a kid. And then on Thursday, we switched to boxing,

didn't we? We did. And of course, with Anthony Joshua fighting a crossover, an MMA fighter in Francis and Gannu,

we looked at MMA fighter switching codes. What's the attraction for them? As you probably

guess, it was money. But it's a bit more than that as well, actually. And it shows you how

the two sports are run very differently. And that, of course, led us to a Saudi Arabia conversation.

It did. Feels like virtually every massive boxing fight at

the moment takes

place in Riyadh.

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