Carl Anka

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1,124 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 14 Aug

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The Athletic FC Podcast · France look unstoppable + Spurs win Fernandes race · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

I was allowed to watch the first half of all these matches, but I got sent to bed.

So I remember watching the first half of England-Romania going, where's Michael Owen?

Michael Owen's the greatest football player of all time because I was the exact same age as Critch.

So the first time I got to watch Michael Owen properly at this World Cup was against Argentina.

My mum was doing some sort of event.

So we watched the game in the kitchen on like a tiny TV on top of the fridge.

And yeah, watching Michael Owens score that goal next to my dad.

This is amazing.

So yeah, watching the formative memories.

85 million guaranteed in June.

That's going to have a big impact on the rest of the summer transfer window.

I think if anyone's trying to buy quote-unquote prem-proven central midfielders now, any selling club will go, well, Elliot Anderson's gone for 116 million.

Mateus Fernandes has gone for 85.

Our asking price is now 5, 10, 15 million more.

So that's going to be very, very spicy.

As far as I understand it, and Critch, please correct me if I'm wrong, United did want Mateus Fernandes, but it wasn't necessarily as their number one A defensive midfielder, sort of the Casemiro successor, but perhaps more as their...

Kobe Maynew alternative this person to play instead of Maynew so I think the price point United initially had was closer to maybe 60 million or perhaps even lower than that so the fact that West Ham have done this number so high and the wage also seems quite high as well it's probably led Manchester United to walk away from the table this is a time when under Ineos United want to get the wage bill down as well among other things so look I think Mateus Fernandes is a very very good football player and he will be worth 85 million eventually

But £85 million right now, and by all accounts, he looks to be Tottenham's highest paid player, or at least in a similar realm to Conor Gallagher, who is on, I believe, £200,000 a week as well.

Nice, but a little bit too rich for my blood.

Absolutely.

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