Winners from a quiet window & what next for Dele Alli?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's David Ornstein, Adam Crafton & Dominic Fifield to look back on the January 2021 transfer window:
Why was it so quiet? Who stands to benefit from it being so quiet? And we’ll look ahead to what we can expect this summer and beyond..
They'll also pick the bones out of the main stories of transfer deadline day including the mechanics behind the players Arsenal got out of the door, why Daniel Levy may have blocked Dele Alli's path out of Spurs and the challenges faced in moving elite players in the current climate.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, welcome to the Unseen and Chapman Pod on The Athletic. |
| 0:10.1 | As usual, we'll bring you exclusive insight and stories from our team of writers. |
| 0:15.4 | Today we're going to look back on the January transfer window why it was so quiet, |
| 0:19.1 | who stands to benefit from it being so |
| 0:21.7 | quiet and maybe how it will affect the summer and beyond, as well as David. I'm joined by |
| 0:27.6 | the athletics, Adam Crafton and Don Fifeield. The interesting thing here, David, is that whilst |
| 0:32.9 | on the surface it's been quiet, for everybody involved in it, from what you've been saying, |
| 0:40.5 | it feels like it's been as busy as ever. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah, I'm not sure if quiet's the right word. |
| 0:45.7 | Maybe unspectacular, unexciting for some people, |
| 0:49.5 | a bit drab, depending on what club you support. |
| 0:52.2 | But if you're working in it, |
| 0:53.8 | it's been probably as busy as |
| 0:56.1 | ever because there has been loads of activity underneath the surface, behind the scenes, |
| 1:02.2 | attempted deals being struck, despite everyone in the game, as always saying nothing's going to |
| 1:07.7 | happen. They said the same in the last window. And quite a lot did happen, |
| 1:12.1 | but it just wasn't that high profile. It didn't grab the headlines in the way that the huge |
| 1:17.5 | money deals of previous windows have. And so on a personal level, I'm as exhausted, if not more, |
| 1:25.8 | than ever before. But maybe the output isn't quite as headline-grabbing as the input. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, I wonder, Dom, whether people have had to, behind the scenes, people have had to work hard, not journalists, to be fair to David. |
| 1:41.2 | I'm not complaining. |
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