United working to sign Rabiot & Barcelona threaten legal action over De Jong contract
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's David Ornstein, Adam Crafton & Laurie Whitwell to discuss Manchester United's pursuit of Adrien Rabiot from Juventus & Marko Arnautovic from Bologna..
David exclusively reveals a huge story from his weekly column that Barcelona told Frenkie de Jong that they have evidence of criminality around contract given by old board and cause for legal action vs all involved.
We are also joined by our Aston Villa writer Gregg Evans after a disappointing start to the season for Steven Gerrard - will he get to spend the money from the sale of Carney Chukwuemeka.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.3 | A new season, but still the same old problems. |
| 0:06.3 | David Ornstein, Adam Crafton and Laurie Whitweller with us for the start of this pod. |
| 0:11.8 | And just to be clear, you are not the problem. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:17.1 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | Music Chapman, welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. March finds a way through. Gross is there again and scores again. |
| 0:35.7 | Taskar Gross has started this season on fire |
| 0:38.9 | and is blowing Manchester United away |
| 0:42.4 | those Brighton fans ecstatic |
| 0:45.4 | they've never ever won at Old Trappard against Manchester United |
| 0:48.3 | but the glum expression of the new United boss |
| 0:51.5 | says it all from their perspective |
| 0:53.6 | The of the new United Boss says it all from their perspective. |
| 1:00.0 | Right, let's crack on then. |
| 1:02.5 | The first weekend sees Eric Ten Haag, |
| 1:06.2 | lose his first game as Manchester United manager to Brighton. |
| 1:10.2 | Adam Crafton and our United writer, Laurie Whitwell, |
| 1:28.2 | are with us. Laurie was at the game. Here we go again. You're loving this, aren't you, Chappas? You've missed these Mondays. Oh, yeah, I know. I live for a cynical, miserable Monday morning talking about United. I mean, it's pretty bad this one, though, isn't it? I mean, opening day of the season, there was expectation in the air, a bit of hope. |
| 1:26.7 | You could sense the people around Old Trafford. The sun was out. We're kind of walking to the stadium, you know, kind of with a bit of a bouncing step. The atmosphere felt good, had a kickoff. And then the action started. You know, it was kind of a bright start. I think to how I thought it was okay. I certainly thought the kind of movement up top was interesting. |
| 2:02.5 | And then Brighton started to play United, conceded, confidence went down again at this place. You know, Brighton scored again. And you could just see they were a much better constructed team, knew their roles, had a purpose about them. And it's getting to desperate situation, really, for United, because you're looking at the kind of signers that they're now trying to approach. |
| 2:05.0 | It's getting that sort of frantic feel to it and clearly Tenhard needs reinforcements. |
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