What will Neymar cost, why Real need Pogba and what next for Celtic after CL exit?
Transfer Talk
Sky Sports
4.5 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
With the new La Liga season starting on Friday, we get a full preview from Terry Gibson (15:39), who tells us why Real Madrid desperately need a centre midfielder (21:55), assesses the transfer business done by Real’s city rivals Atletico (29:27) and the players to look out for this season (32:25).
Former Celtic striker Charlie Nicholas delivers his damning verdict (34:25) after the club crashed out of the Champions League in the third round qualifier to Romanian side Cluj and tells us where Neil Lennon’s side must go from here.
The panel also discuss the new signings who impressed on the opening weekend of the Premier League (46:22), why Manchester United must keep Alexis Sanchez and Paul Pogba (46:15), and if Giovani Lo Celso can replace Christian Eriksen at Tottenham (57:10).
Plus, Dharmesh Sheth keeps us across all of the done deals and those that could happen in the final few remaining weeks of the European transfer window (63:37).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Transfer Talk, brought to you by Bet 365, where every nail biting Neil-Neil, every bizarre |
| 0:06.8 | VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap in, false start, dead heat, |
| 0:13.2 | and absolutely expected defeat is amazing. |
| 0:16.7 | From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsports. |
| 0:20.0 | Whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet 365. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Transfer Talk. My name is Dave Reed. |
| 0:37.0 | Exactly. Back again. |
| 0:41.0 | Back again. They've let me back in. me in the studio Sky Sports News reporter Darmes Sheth. |
| 0:46.5 | Hello and Spanish football oracle Terry Gibson. |
| 0:49.5 | Hello Terry Gibson. |
| 0:51.5 | Glad to be here. Yeah great to have you in the studio excited for the start of La Liga. |
| 0:56.0 | It all gets underway tonight. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes, I'm really excited. |
| 0:59.0 | I mean, people know I do love my Spanish football. |
| 1:02.0 | But particularly this summer I think it's been a |
| 1:05.9 | head of a transfer window for all the clubs more clubs are buying players now than |
| 1:09.7 | what they have done in the past normally we've relied upon just three clubs possibly |
| 1:14.0 | bringing some excitement to the transfer we know the rest of the teams not spending a lot |
| 1:18.6 | of money but in recent years the TV revenue has been distributed fairer and now we're seeing teams |
| 1:24.8 | further down the league being able to splash the cash not in any way like a |
| 1:29.7 | Premier League team but compared to recent seasons it's a big improvement. |
| 1:34.2 | But it has been amazing hasn't it the transfer activity in Lalego. |
| 1:37.8 | It really has and it's some exciting I mean Ralph Ewell-Forkeer just for instance |
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