Why Mbappe is not for City & how Gerrard won the title
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Host Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic’s David Ornstein, Adam Crafton & Jordan Campbell.
David outlines the reasons that Manchester City will not be making a move for PSG striker Kylian Mbappe but Erling Haaland remains an option.
Jordan shares the inside story of how how Steven Gerrard delivered the Premiership title for Rangers and what how he might look to cement his legacy at the club and beyond.
Plus, in his weekly column for The Athletic Alan Shearer thinks the next round of international matches should be called off - is he right?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, welcome to the Orsene and Chapman podcast on The Athletic. |
| 0:11.7 | As well as David, today we're joined by The Athletics, Adam Crafton and our Scottish football writer Jordan Campbell. |
| 0:18.1 | Right now you can subscribe to The Athletic for a special price of |
| 0:21.0 | £3.99 a month for six months. So that's 40% off the full price of the subscription. You'll get |
| 0:28.6 | all the analysis and the in-depth features and add-free versions of all of our podcast. So go to |
| 0:34.6 | theathletic.com slash Ornstein and Chapman to take advantage of this special 40% discount. |
| 0:41.3 | That's theathletic.com slash Ornstein and Chapman. |
| 0:45.4 | We'll get the inside story of Rangers Scottish Premiership title win with Jordan very surely. |
| 0:51.6 | But let's start with a story from your column, David. City, looking like |
| 0:56.4 | they need to strike it maybe after yesterday, but again, their wage structure comes into play, |
| 1:02.7 | which you would imagine would make it difficult to get one of the very top names. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, I think this is actually a fascinating subject, Mark, because we know Man City have been in the market or are in the market for a top striker this coming summer. |
| 1:17.9 | We know that Sergio Aguero is out of contract. |
| 1:20.8 | We don't know whether he'll be extended or not. |
| 1:23.1 | But either way, I do think the Manchester Derby underlined the need for city to bring in another and a greater source of goals. |
| 1:33.2 | And it's not something that they're not aware of. |
| 1:36.1 | They've got lists for all positions when they're looking at recruitment. |
| 1:39.9 | But for this coming summer, I think centre forward is at the top of their priority list. |
| 1:45.5 | And we explained a few weeks ago, didn't we, that Romulo Lukaku is among the options, |
| 1:50.9 | which surprised many city fans. |
| 1:52.8 | I remember us talking about it with Sam Lee. |
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