What can Newcastle learn from the PSG project?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by The Athletic’s George Caulkin and French football writer Tom Williams to explore some intriguing parallels between the state-backed 'projects' at both Newcastle & PSG - ahead of their hotly anticipated clash in the Champions League...
Have Newcastle actually learnt from PSG’s mistakes, and, after turning over a new leaf under Luis Enrique - are PSG actually trying to be a bit more like Newcastle?
Produced by Adonis Pratsides
Additional Production: Mike Stavrou
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.2 | The Biggesting is a way through. |
| 0:09.7 | That's the moment. |
| 0:12.1 | Just listen to this place. |
| 0:14.7 | It's the Johnny boy who scored it. |
| 0:17.8 | The big picture is clear. |
| 0:20.4 | Newcastle are no tourists when it comes to the Champions League this season. |
| 0:24.6 | And under the lights at St James's Park, even in Bappe's PSG could flinch. |
| 0:29.6 | The cross coming in and it's a good one. |
| 0:32.6 | It's a historic, the Hattrick for Lestria. |
| 0:36.6 | The financial parallels between the two state-backed clubs are obvious, but have Newcastle |
| 0:42.5 | learnt from PSG's efforts to build a side capable of challenging at the very top? |
| 0:47.9 | I'm confident in my ability and I still feel that I'll play. I'd back myself ahead of anyone. |
| 0:53.1 | And after turning over a new leaf under |
| 0:55.4 | Louis Enrique, are PSG actually trying to be a bit more like Newcastle? I'm Ayahuakimuelere. |
| 1:02.3 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. It's Isak. It's eight. |
| 1:15.2 | I think when you work that hard to achieve this for us, we don't want to waste it. |
| 1:16.5 | I want the players to enjoy. |
| 1:18.2 | I want our supporters, obviously, to enjoy it. |
| 1:20.3 | But really, that will come from us performing at our best. Okay, let's get into this. This is massive. Newcastle versus PSG. |
| 1:32.1 | Joining me for this one, the athletics, George Culkin, and also French football writer Tom Williams as well. |
| 1:38.1 | George, let's start with you. Champions League back at St. James's Park. You're smiling. Look at you. You can't contain yourself. This is a massive moment for the club, isn't it? It's massive, yeah. It's huge. I got a taste of it. I was in the away end in Milan a couple of weeks ago, and I should just say, sort of a couple of months after canceling my BT sport subscription, thinking to myself, I'm sick of all |
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