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The Transfers Podcast

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Episodes
73
Releases
Every two weeks
Typical length
58 min
On air since
2024
Latest episode
1 month ago

Episodes

73 episodes, newest first

  1. ‘Organised and Clear’ - Manchester City Transfers Podcast special

    Season 1, Episode 73

    Show notes

    Nick Harris joins Duncan Castles for a Transfers Podcast 'Sham'

    City special.

    🔻UK’s greatest sporting scandal

    🔻Abu Dhabi’s ‘irrefutable evidence’

    🔻City’s guilt an opportunity for the Premier League

    🔻Man City headed to National League, Abu Dhabi removed as owners? What

    should the punishment be?

    🔻Burnham’s repeated errors

    🔻How Abu Dhabi lean on PMs

    🔻City new defence: The Crown Prince’s Court

    🔻£1bn+ damages case?

    🔻HMRC monitoring City

    🔻Guardiola’s stained legacy

    🔻Why UEFA lost at CAS

    🔻Rui Pinto + Villain

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    1 hr 46 min
  2. Premier League's 3.5bn summer | Biggest deadline day ever | The future of transfers

    Season 1, Episode 72

    Show notes

    Paul Macdonald and Cameron Smith join Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast special.

    + Premier League spends 3.5bn ⁠

    +⁠ Enzo, Rogers and the PL transfer merry-go-round

    +⁠ How can other leagues compete?

    + The real Super League

    + ⁠⁠The biggest overpays of the summer

    + Estimated Transfer Value vs Reality

    + Arsenal’s clever long-term approach

    + The best signings of the summer

    + Players and teams to watch and enjoy in 26/27

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    53 min
  3. Europe should be worried about Morgan Rogers | Madrid’s new Galactico era | Bundesliga’s €1bn dilemma

    Season 1, Episode 71

    Show notes

    Paul Macdonald joins Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast special.

    + Anderson & Rogers reshape the market

    + Chelsea, the transfer market gurus

    + Man City’s reaction to 115 charges

    + Bradley Barcola’s ever-increasing transfer fee

    + Aston Villa and Newcastle’s financial woes

    + Diomande a risk for Real Madrid

    + Mourinho and Madrid’s new Galactico era

    + Barcelona’s Usain Bolt

    + The Bundesliga’s €1bn dilemma

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  4. The new €100m benchmark | The price of Premier League proven players | Diomande & Bouaddi future fees

    Season 1, Episode 70

    Show notes

    Robin Bairner joins Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast special.

    + How €100m is the new benchmark for transfer fees

    + Rogers, Anderson, Tonali and the new €100m gang

    + The price of Premier League experience

    + La Liga enters PL market

    + Bouaddi & Diomande the next €100m players?

    + Are youth players now overpriced?

    + The impact of TV deals on the market

    + Barcola as Salah’s heir

    + Wayne Rooney, World Cup hero

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    33 min
  5. Transfers Podcast Special: Summer transfer madness begins now

    Season 1, Episode 69

    Show notes

    Paul Macdonald joins Robin Bairner for the Transfers Podcast of the summer window.

    + ⁠Barcelona: Where is the money coming from?

    + ⁠⁠Real Madrid election incoming - and so are players

    + ⁠Chelsea need to sell to fill massive revenue gap

    + ⁠Will Liverpool replace Salah?

    + ⁠Arsenal and PSG targeting the same attackers?

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    57 min
  6. Transfers Podcast Special: La Liga’s young stars to watch

    Season 1, Episode 68

    Show notes

    Martin Del Palacio joins Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast Special

    +⁠ Exciting winger who is the future of Morocco

    + Villarreal’s brilliant attacking duo

    + Basque star Athletic are determined to keep

    + Arsenal’s next centre-back target?

    + The wonderkid who could leave Barcelona

    + Real Madrid in crisis

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    47 min
  7. Transfers Podcast Special: Ligue 1’s young stars to watch

    Season 1, Episode 67

    Show notes

    Robin Bairner joins Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast Special

    +⁠ PSG’s next world-class superstar

    + ⁠Maths genius dominating midfield

    + ⁠Future Chelsea signing

    + ⁠France’s next number 1

    + ⁠Jacquet’s successor at two clubs?

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    37 min
  8. Transfer spend hits records | Jacquet to Liverpool | Saudi moves | Strand Larsen fee

    Season 1, Episode 66

    Show notes

    Football Transfers founder Paul Macdonald & Ligue 1 expert Robin Bairner join Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast special.

    + Premier League’s £390m spend

    + Man City's €0.5bn 'investment'

    + Strand Larsen’s record Palace deal

    + Saudi's new strategy

    + Jacquet’s €60m Liverpool move

    + France's broadcast crisis

    + Hero & Ronaldo

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    48 min
  9. Chelsea's Palmer problem | Dembele pressures PSG | Man City's €0.5bn spend| Chasing strikers

    Season 1, Episode 65

    Show notes

    Duncan Castles joins Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast special.

    + Chelsea's Palmer problem

    + Fernandez demands Barca exit

    + Dembele pressures PSG

    + Man City's €0.5billion spend: More money wasted than Liverpool?

    + Besiktas pursue Ake

    + Saudis outbid Premier League for 'top talent' Meite

    + Villa bring band back together

    + Robertson's Anfield escape

    + Palace, Leeds, Forest buying strikers to avoid drop

    + Paqueta's record fee

    + Adama reunited with Nuno

    + Blatter & Villains

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    1 hr 19 min
  10. Ornstein x Castles: Carrick's Man Utd | PSG to secure Enrique | £100m Anderson

    Season 1, Episode 64

    Show notes

    David Ornstein joins Duncan Castles for a Transfers Podcast special.

    + PSG resume Enrique talks

    + Madrid to keep Arbeloa

    + Man Utd job Carrick's to lose

    + Options to replace Amorim

    + Would £100m Anderson choose Man Utd over City?

    + How City landed Guehi

    + Parish calls Glasner's bluff

    + Villa, Palace pursue Ramos as Mateta seeks exit

    + Atletico tempt PSG's Lee

    + Ornstein: How to break an exclusive

    + Bournemouth rearm with Hungarian record sale

    + Iraola's future

    + Brentford's eccentric genius

    + Hero & Rodri

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    00:00 Intro

    01:24 Luis Enrique, Alvaro Arbeloa

    06:09 Manager market explodes

    21:42 Michael Carrick

    31:36 £100m Anderson

    41:18 Marc Guehi

    51:37 Glasner vs Parish

    01:06:43 Mateta, Abrahams, Ramos

    01:16:42 Bournemouth

    01:25:19 Andoni Iraola

    01:32:10 Hero & Villain

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    1 hr 37 min
  11. Portugal's next great talents | Iraola contract talks | Mourinho out? | Hjulmand deal

    Season 1, Episode 63

    Show notes

    Sergio Krithinas joins Duncan Castles for a Transfers Podcast January window special.

    + The fight for Rodrigo Mora

    + Can Benfica keep Anisio, Banjaqui, Neto?

    + Hjulmand's agreement

    + Bournemouth to open Iraola talks

    + What next for headstrong Amorim?

    + Why Gyokeres has struggled at Arsenal

    + Mourinho's hard homecoming

    + Jesus Ronaldo's choice as Portugal coach?

    + Porto improve Farioli's contract

    + Why Semenyo chose Man City over Liverpool, Man Utd

    + Hero & Wenger

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    1 hr 20 min
  12. Man City approach Alonso | Man Utd sack Amorim | Can Ratcliffe get anything right? | BlueCo Hell

    Season 1, Episode 62

    Show notes

    Jonathan Northcroft joins Duncan Castles for a Transfers Podcast January window special.

    + Man City sound out Xabi Alonso

    + Man Utd sack Amorim; what took them so long?

    + Ancelotti to follow Utd's interims?

    + Will Ratcliffe ever make best-in-class hires?

    + BlueCo's Chelsea priorities: Transfer values, medical records or trophies?

    + Rosenior's qualities

    + Hero & Infantino

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    1 hr 18 min
  13. Why Chelsea want Rosenior | Semenyo selects Man City | Jacquet the new Yoro? | Premier League encourages spend

    Season 1, Episode 61

    Show notes

    Duncan Castles joins Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast January window special.

    + Why Chelsea want Rosenior

    + Maresca leaving Chelsea for a better place?

    + Semenyo selects Man City over Utd

    + Johnson chooses Palace over Bournemouth

    + Jacquet the new Yoro as Zirkzee, Mainoo seek MUFC exits?

    + West Ham gamble on Pablo & Castellanos; bid for Traore

    + UEFA complicates January shopping

    + Premier League encourages spend

    + More Saudi disruption

    + Hero & Villain

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    1 hr 2 min
  14. Transfers Podcast Special: Salah, Slot and Liverpool Civil War

    Season 1, Episode 60

    Show notes

    Peter Staunton joins Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast Special

    + Salah’s explosive interview causes chaos

    + Who is right? Salah or Slot?

    + Liverpool’s biggest problems

    + Will Salah play for Liverpool again?

    + Xabi Alonso to replace Arne Slot?

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    46 min
  15. Transfers Podcast Special: Eredivisie transfers and Ajax chaos

    Season 1, Episode 59

    Show notes

    Lars Leeftink joins Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast Special

    + What’s gone wrong at Ajax?

    + PSV and Feyenoord’s stars to watch

    + AZ Alkmaar set for two record sales

    + West Ham trying to sign half the Eredivisie

    + Frimpong’s struggles for club and country

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    40 min
  16. Arteta buys control | Liverpool self-destruct | Amorim the new Fergie? | 'The Erling Haaland Team'

    Season 1, Episode 58

    Show notes

    Football Journalist of the Year Jonathan Northcroft joins

    Duncan Castles for a Transfers Podcast special.

    + Arteta buys control

    + Liverpool self-destruct

    + A year of Amorim: Is he the new Ferguson?

    + €462m to build 'The Erling Haaland Team'

    + Sell & Win: Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton

    + Berbatov & Villain

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    1 hr 27 min
  17. Transfers Podcast EXTRA: Juventus best and worst transfers

    Season 1, Episode 57

    Show notes

    Carlo Garganese joins Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast Special

    + Paul Pogba best AND worst

    + Juventus’s current crisis

    + Juventus’s past crises

    + Pirlo, Buffon and the GOATs

    + Buying Brazilian

    + Expert advice for scouts and technical directors

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    40 min
  18. Liverpool Special | Summer transfers analysed | Team in transition?

    Season 1, Episode 56

    Show notes

    Peter Staunton joins Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast special.

    + Liverpool in transition?

    + Ekitike’s incredible start

    + Wirtz becomes a meme

    + Best yet to come for Isak

    + Slot’s dilemmas

    + January business expected?

    + Crisis? What crisis?

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    42 min
  19. Transfers Podcast EXTRA: Borussia Dortmund’s best and worst transfers

    Season 1, Episode 55

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    Author and journalist Uli Hesse joins Ronan Murphy to break down Borussia Dortmund’s five best and worst signings.

    + The Scot who won the Champions League

    + The unheard of Japanese legend

    + The African Footballer of the Year who flopped

    + The attacker who retired at 29

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    30 min
  20. Summer window review | Arsenal to challenge Liverpool? | PSG & Bayern dominate | Serie A’s big TV problem

    Season 1, Episode 54

    Show notes

    European football experts Robin Bairner & Carlo Garganese join Ronan Murphy for a Transfers Podcast special.

    + Liverpool’s huge summer of spending

    + Arsenal to finally win the Premier League?

    + Chelsea, Man City continue to splash the cash

    + The Man Utd transfer curse

    + PSG have a new rival

    + Serie A’s massive blunder

    + Xabi Alonso’s new Madrid era

    + Bayernliga & Ten Hag

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    1 hr 1 min