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Tifo Football Podcast

What's Going On At Leicester City? 2020 Edition

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

Premier League, Sports, Champions League, Soccer,, Football Transfers

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What's happening with the new stadium expansion and the new training ground? How are the club expanding their commercial operation? Should supporters be concerned about transfer speculation? And which player has improved the most since Brendan Rodgers' arrival? The Athletic's Rob Tanner joins Tifo to discuss all of the above and more.


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm joined now by Seb Stafford Bloor.

0:09.3

Hi Joe.

0:10.0

Hello. Seb and I were joined today by Rob Tanner, who is the Leicester City correspondent for The Athletic.

0:15.9

A very knowledgeable man about all things Leicester City. Seb, what did we talk about in bullet points, please?

0:21.8

Oh, all kinds.

0:22.9

We did the commercial department, the appointment of a new commercial director.

0:27.9

We did plans for stadium expansion, new training ground.

0:32.2

Did a little bit on Brendan Rogers and the kind of the softening of his personality, should we call it?

0:39.4

Yeah, it's super interesting. Rob was great. Yeah, cool guy. I particularly enjoyed the bit about the golf course. Yeah, that was a bit

0:49.2

actually. I don't know why it took me so long to think of the words golf course, but it did. Anyway,

0:53.9

there's a bit about

0:54.5

golf course, and there's a lot of stuff about Lester City. Personally, I think they're an incredibly

0:59.1

well-run club. They're very exciting for me to watch. And I know I make this analogy every other

1:05.1

episode and have done for, I don't know, 10 years, but they remind me of that Everton team from the mid-2000s.

1:12.7

Don't do that again.

1:13.6

Do you remember that one?

1:14.9

No, no, just honestly, it's true.

1:17.1

It's true, though.

1:17.9

The one that has all of the good players,

1:20.3

had a lot of good players just outside of the top four,

1:23.0

but it managed to maintain for numerous years,

1:26.7

a squad and a first team of excellent players.

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