What Messi's move means for Mbappe & Pogba, why Lukaku is Werner's 'dream ticket' & Haaland's strategy assessed

Transfer Talk

Sky Sports

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4.5 • 886 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week, Pete and Dharms are joined by German football expert Rafa Honigstein to discuss what the knock-on effects will be for PSG after they secured the big-money signing of Lionel Messi (03:48). Kylian Mbappe is yet to sign a new contract at the Parc des Princes, so could Real Madrid come calling for him? The panel discuss that as well as PSG's chances of securing another free transfer signing next summer in Paul Pogba (11:33). Rafa explains why Romelu Lukaku's return to Chelsea could be the tonic for an improved campaign from Timo Werner (20:18), and he also discusses what the transfer strategy could be for Erling Haaland and his agent Mino Raiola next summer (39:03). Pete and Dharms go head-to-head in the transfer quiz once again before Pete delivers his final thought, this week on Tottenham's Harry Kane (55:20).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Transfer Talk, brought to you by Bet 365, where every nail biting Neil-Nil, every bizarre
0:06.8	VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap in, false start, dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing.
0:16.8	From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsports.
0:20.3	Whatever the Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Transfer Talk podcast.
0:34.3	What a week we've had.
0:35.7	My name is Pete Graves.
0:37.9	Pete Graves, it's like the London Bus.
0:40.4	Wait for one for ages and then two in a row come a log on once.
0:44.0	You're absolutely right I'm here and so as you can hear is Sky Sports News reporter Darmes Sheath
0:48.8	and delighted to welcome back on at the podcast the athletics football expert
0:54.2	Raphael Huntington Ruff
0:56.2	great to see you mate how you doing you're looking well and you know you
1:00.8	I guess you've been busy yeah it's been busy
1:03.9	busy more busy than I expected I think a lot of people thought this summer is going to be
1:08.0	pretty quiet no big deals no big deals over a hundred million euros or so a
1:12.2	hundred million pounds but no I guess it doesn't stop,
1:14.9	at least it doesn't stop for some clubs.
1:16.9	For those of you who are listening to this only, Raff Honingstein's background is incredible again. I asked him our fair before what if this was the
1:26.8	east wing of his house and he actually said it's the west wing of his bedroom.
1:37.0	Made. wing of his bedroom. Yeah, it does look sensation. One day we'll have to do a Transfer Talk special where you just give us a tour of your mansion raft, that would be brilliant. tour cribs we call it hey that's a great idea
1:50.1	well listen I've already slept this week because as well as all the transfers happening,
1:54.7	we do a quiz now at the end, Raff, you'll not be here, thankfully, because Darmish is like a
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