Cerys Jones

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2,397 appearances 21 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Transfer latest: Baleba, Konsa and big-spending Ipswich · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

But it comes back to that broader point of, you know, chucking money at your team, going for matched

perhaps a lot of quantity and a lot of potential, it's not necessarily enough. matched

The spend doesn't translate if you don't have it in the right areas of the pitch. matched

I think there's an increasing trend of promoted teams maybe looking at solidifying their defense and like the spine of their team when they come up, which is completely understandable. matched

But I d I think teams are increasingly struggling to survive that way without bringing in the firepower as well. matched

Agree with that. matched

There's two things that really stand out to me. matched

Number one is the sort of traditional big six clubs who have spent pretty heavily without selling particularly well so far. matched

So I would put Chelsea in that camp. matched

There's been a couple of sales like Mark Cucareo, but I think you can see from the amount of players in their squad that they need to do far more. matched

Manchester City, I know they've got a couple of of maybe sales that they're looking at, but they're not there yet. matched

Manchester United, I think, are are consistently quite poor at at moving people on at the moment. matched

Spurs likewise have spent an awful lot of money. matched

So that I think this dynamic continues of those kind of traditional powerhouses being just having spending power completely outsized to everyone else and using that to pick on other teams we've seen, you know. matched

You know, Spurs taking Mateus Fernandez, Sandro Tanali. matched

We've seen Arsenal taking Bruno Gimmarais from Newcastle. matched

So that trend continues. matched

A sort of more niche one that I'm just really intrigued by is Bournemouth's business or kind of lack of of sales, I suppose. matched

We've seen them be really good at selling their best players, getting great value for them, and replacing them really well. matched

And this summer they seem pretty determined to hang on to those players who have got them into Europe. matched

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