Why Mbappe stayed at PSG & City's shrewd early Haaland move
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Adam Crafton & Sam Lee to discuss City's title triumph and imagine what the mood would have been like had they lost out on the title to Liverpool.
Coming up later in the pod we’ll hear how PSG kept hold of Kylian Mbappe, why City moving for Erling Haaland early means they didn't face competition from Real Madrid who will no doubt look to react in the transfer market.
And Phil Hay will join us - in a much better mood than last week - after Leeds United managed to avoid relegation from the Premier League after a terrible season.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Mark Chapman, Adam Crafton, back with us this week. |
| 0:19.0 | Coming up later in the pod, |
| 0:20.2 | we'll hear how Paris Sanchoman kept hold of Killian Mbap and how Rail Madrid can recover |
| 0:25.2 | after missing out on their prime target. |
| 0:27.7 | And Phil Hay will join us in a much better mood than last week |
| 0:31.7 | after Leeds managed to avoid relegation from the Premier League. |
| 0:37.3 | Let's start the pod at the top, then Manchester City of won the fourth Premier League |
| 0:41.3 | title in five years after Pepc Gardeola side beat Aston Villa 3-2 on a dramatic final day. |
| 0:47.9 | Sam Lee was there for the Athletic and joins us now. |
| 0:52.8 | Guadiola summed it up afterwards by saying it's like the service |
| 0:55.8 | game to win Wimbledon. It's the most difficult the tennis players say and it was the same for us today. |
| 1:02.0 | Does that sum it up? Yeah, I think it does. They obviously did struggle a bit with the occasion, |
| 1:06.7 | doing their normal thing, playing their normal game, imposing themselves, scoring the early |
| 1:11.4 | goals. |
| 1:11.9 | They scored 18 goals in the first 15 minutes this season. |
| 1:14.8 | In 15 different games, it's been a feature of what they've done. |
| 1:17.8 | It's helped establish themselves in games. |
| 1:20.2 | But yeah, they couldn't do that. |
| 1:21.5 | As Guardiola says, the occasion was somewhat difficult for them, but to come back in a way |
| 1:27.4 | that they don't normally |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.