Werner to Chelsea: The Inside Story
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Leventhal hosts a special bonus podcast to bring you the inside story of how Chelsea have landed Timo Werner from Bundesliga side RB Leipzig so long a transfer target for Liverpool. Adam is joined by Athletic’s football correspondent David Ornstein, German football writer Rafa Honigstein and Liam Twomey who covers Chelsea. Details include how calls with Frank Lampard helped convince Werner to choose Chelsea, how his Liverpool dream wasn’t possible in the timeframe and how Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was also an option for Chelsea.
Liam, David and Rafa have contributed to an incredibly detailed piece on this Werner story that you can read over on The Athletic now, If you’re not already a subscriber, you can sign up right now and take advantage of our 30-Day Free Trial by going to www.theathletic.com/ornsteinandchapman to enjoy the best football writing anywhere, just as the season makes its return.
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| 1:19.0 | We have assembled three of our writers to bring you the inside story of how Chelsea have landed Timo Verna from Bundesliga, R.B. Leipzig, so long, a transfer |
| 1:29.7 | target for Liverpool, of course. I'm joined by the Athletics Football Correspondent David Ornstein, |
| 1:35.1 | our German football writer, Raffer Honestine, and Liam Toomey, who covers Chelsea for us. Gents, |
| 1:40.5 | thanks very much for coming on board. Liam, David, Raffer, they've contributed to an |
| 1:46.9 | incredibly detailed piece on this Werner's story that you can read right now on The Athletic. |
| 1:52.8 | And if you're not already a subscriber, you can sign up and take advantage of a 30-day free trial |
| 1:58.3 | by going to theathletic.com forward slash Ornstein and Chapman to enjoy the best |
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