The Athletic. Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and welcome to the weekend preview on the Athletic Football

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Slightly different this week as we're in the midst of the first Premier League break of the new season, which just means there's plenty of international football to talk about as well

and as usual I've got my co-host George Eluk and Steve Freeth of Bet 365 alongside me in

order to do just that how are you both? I'm good. Good to watch England. Put that

Euro's final behind them wasn't it and score a few goals in the process. So happy off the back of that yeah real dismantling in the second half

Steve you good as good as the West Brom fan can bear I'm all good mate yeah I've been enjoying

Warsaw Stephen in on Saturday, Papa Johns, Burton against

MK Don's, I've got Port Vale Rochdale on Saturday and Bolton Burton Monday night.

I am absolutely living the dream. I presume he said Papa John as you're

talking about the football not having a few beers. Well both you can see you can see.

Yeah. Before we do get onto the England game then guys let's touch on the transfer window

a crazy transfer window in general and just so much has happened.

George who would you say the winners and losers from the summer transfer window 2021?

Yeah, it's quite tough. I kind of went through all this this morning trying to find a loser and I think most teams look to me to have had pretty good windows I mean the losers you would say the teams who've lost key players

But I wouldn't call Aston Villa a loser because they lost Jack realish because they replaced him with Emmibundir, Leon Bailey and they brought

some Danny Ings, three great signings. I wouldn't call Norwich losers even though

they've lost Emmibundir because you look at the amount of players they brought in

and the quality as well, in my opinion, despite their poor starts of the season, which I think is more based on the fixture list than actually what they've done so far.

They've moved well to bring in plenty of players to replace him.

So in terms of losers I'm not so sure.

I think the team who looked to me like they might struggle.

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