James Olley

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395 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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ESPN FC · Enzo Fernández and Transfer Deadline Day Deals! · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

And I've sat in enough sort of opposition press conferences where they've talked about how well drilled his Chelsea was and how dynamic his Chelsea was.

And I think I remember Arteta even saying that Chelsea.

With the best attacking team in the league at one stage when everyone was sort of thinking, Well, where's that hang on a minute, where's you know, where's that come from?

So he's very highly respected in the game.

He obviously knows uh City from his time working as a as a coach there under Guardiola.

For me though, we we're talking about this midfield and and you know it's a huge ask for anyone to replace Rodery.

He is just everything went through him.

And I think although a lot of the

Focus is going to be on Enzo Fernandez, understandably, because he's moved today.

Elliot Anderson's actually the one for me because he's the player who's been brought in.

By the way, his fee is essentially the reason why everybody else's fee has gone up because I don't think anybody six months ago would have said Elliot Anderson was worth 116 million quid or that anyone would actually pay that.

And I think that that deal really has, and probably along with the Morgan.

And Rogers deal has actually really triggered this inflation.

But what we're talking about here is Elliot Anderson being able to control and dictate games in a way that he did for Nottingham Forest.

Can he do that with England?

That was always the big question at the World Cup.

Not sure he was entirely convincing in that position.

And now he's got to go and do it for Manchester City.

And he played an awful lot of football last season, he played right the way through the World Cup for England.

I I d that's the one for me.

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