Andy Mitten

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6,483 appearances 25 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 3d ago

Andy Mitten’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show · Problems pile up for Carrick & Man United · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

I've got a piece on him coming out in a day or two on the athletic. matched

all of that? matched

It's damaging if you lose one of your best players. matched

Look, academies lose their best players and there's more money going into football at that level now than there has ever been. matched

There's a lot of power with the players and the people around them. matched

It's really important that they have good people around them. matched

And Manchester United have actually been particularly aggressive in going for players from clubs like uh Tottenham Hotspur, for example, for uh from Arsenal. matched

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And Jason Wilcox had success in Manchester City's Academy. matched

So you'd like to think he knows what he's doing in terms of organising a good academy. matched

I think the academy was good when I went in there. matched

I spent two years, um, two days behind the scenes there, two years ago. matched

Did he go to words? matched

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Peace for the athletic. matched

I tell you what, I was struck by having spent two days at access all areas, sort of asking difficult questions. matched

questions and that came out of me writing a very critical piece a decade ago saying the Academy what it wasn't what it had been was that retaining players is as difficult, if not more difficult, as recruiting players. matched

It's really hard for clubs to keep hold of players. matched

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in England because of the geographic proximity of rivals that makes it even more worse and I remember someone going from Manchester United to Spain and speaking to his counterpart at Barcelona and saying, you know, how do you deal with the rules and regulations? matched

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