Wirtz to Liverpool and Cherki joins up with Manchester City
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It has already been a busy summer of transfer activity. Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool have all brought big signings in to their teams.
In this episode we hear the latest from Manchester City’s camp as they welcome new signing Rayan Cherki to their Club World Cup campaign and from our Liverpool reporter Paul Joyce as they prepare to break the British record transfer fee for Florian Wirtz.
Plus, a low down on how the Club World Cup is being received in the states and if/when it is likely to get more competitive.
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| 0:49.1 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:53.3 | The Club World Cup is underway with games including a dismal nil-nill-nill draw |
| 0:58.2 | between Inter-Miamy and Al-Ali and a farcical 10-0 win for Bayern Munich against Auckland City. |
| 1:05.0 | On today's show, we'll hear about the opening of the controversial new tournament |
| 1:08.4 | from Our Man in America. |
| 1:10.8 | We'll also discuss Manchester City summer spending and look at another side making moves |
| 1:15.2 | as Liverpool agree, a huge deal for Florian Vert. |
| 1:19.1 | I'm Tom Clark and joining me today, we have the former footballer and journalist Gregor |
| 1:22.4 | Robertson, who is back home in London, and we have our football reporter who normally covers |
| 1:26.7 | the Manchester clubs but is currently out in America at the Club World Cup. Paul Hurst is with us. Hurstie, |
| 1:31.6 | hello. Hello, how are you doing? Yeah, very good, thank you. Whereabouts are you |
| 1:35.3 | exactly? I'm in Miami. I've just been for a just been rollerblading down ocean drive this morning |
| 1:40.5 | just to get warmed up so. Oh that picture of get warmed up so yeah that picture of that image hair tie |
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