Xavi, Conte, Emery: 'Club DNA' & Modern Management
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Dan Bardell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes are joined by The Athletic's Andy Mitten to discuss Xavi's 'inevitable' return to manage Barcelona... Senior Writer Dom Fifield sheds some light on what Spurs fans can expect from new boss Antonio Conte and with David Ornstein reporting that Unai Emery could soon become Newcastle's first post-takeover head coach, they discuss the true value of 'club DNA' in modern management as big clubs continue to turn to inexperienced former players to get them out of trouble!
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.1 | Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and I'm Flo Lloyd Hughes. |
| 0:18.2 | And welcome to the Athletic Football podcast where every Wednesday we pick out an article from all the brilliant writing |
| 0:23.2 | available on the Athletic and put the authors under the spotlight. |
| 0:28.3 | Loars it in. |
| 0:29.5 | Kicks off and it's shabby. |
| 0:31.8 | Lips it home for the goal. |
| 0:34.6 | It's classic Barcelona football. |
| 0:37.9 | What do you mean? |
| 0:42.3 | Chelsea, Premier League champions for 2017. |
| 0:44.6 | Antonio! |
| 0:47.2 | Antonio! |
| 0:49.8 | Antonio! Antonio! |
| 0:50.8 | Antonio! |
| 0:50.8 | Antonio! |
| 0:52.8 | It's an amazing moment for us to celebrate this win. |
| 1:04.0 | Today, however, we're going to focus on Barcelona legend Javi Hernandez |
| 1:08.3 | and what feels like his inevitable return to manage the Catalan |
| 1:12.0 | giants since Ronald Coleman's sacking. Plus, as one legend of the club is poised to replace another, |
| 1:18.3 | why a growing list of big clubs are turning to X players to save them. There are actually a host of |
| 1:23.2 | articles related to Javi and Barcelona up on the site right now from the likes of Dermit |
| 1:27.5 | Corrigan, Michael Cox and more. But senior writer Dom Fyfield kindly joins us to discuss it further. |
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