United working to sign Rabiot & Barcelona threaten legal action over De Jong contract

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic. A new season but still the same old problems. David Ornstein, Adam Crafton and
0:08.6	Laurie Whitwell are with us for the start of this pod and just to be clear you are not the problem.
0:14.4	I'm Mark Chapman welcome to the athletic football podcast. March finds a way through approaches there again and scores again.
0:35.6	Pascal Gross has started this season on fire
0:40.0	and is blowing Manchester United away.
0:42.8	Those Brighton fans. and is blowing Manchester United away.
0:47.5	Those bright and fans ecstatic, they've never ever won at Old Trafford against Manchester United, but the glum expression of the new United boss
0:51.8	says it all from their perspective.
0:54.0	Right, let's crack on then.
1:00.0	The first weekend sees Eric Ten Harg loses first game as Manchester United manager to Brighton.
1:06.3	Adam Crafton and our United writer Lori Whitwell are with us.
1:11.0	Laurie was at the game.
1:12.0	Here we go again. You're loving the sight of your chapters. You've missed. Well, our withers, Laurie was at the game.
1:12.6	Here we go again.
1:13.6	You're loving the City Chappage.
1:14.7	You've missed these Mondays.
1:15.9	Oh yeah, I know.
1:17.3	I live for a cynical, miserable Monday morning
1:21.6	talking about United.
1:22.8	It's pretty bad this one though, isn't it?
1:24.5	I mean, opening day this season, there was expectation in the air,
1:27.7	bit of hope you could sense the people around Old Trafford,
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