Matt Slater
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3,219 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
Matt Slater’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, football clubs are pretty sophisticated businesses now, so there's that.
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Then I think the other thing that's that's that's really influenced what's going on now is Brexit.
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So when we were in the EU, this is not a party political thing, when we were in the EU
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You know, there was freedom of movement, which meant a sixteen year old talented Belgian or sixteen year old talented Italian could come and work in the UK.
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Now they can't.
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It has to be eighteen.
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And that is because just because of home office rules and kind of how people move around.
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English academies lost access to EU sixteen to eighteen year olds.
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Which meant they became even more competitive about the best talent here.
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Right.
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So suddenly
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The game, the ev everyone's game is up.
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It's like, oh my God.
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So once upon a time I used to be able to get a brilliant kid from Paris or or Brussels.
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Now I'm looking at Manchester, South London, you you know, th that that's where the battle is.
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So those those things have changed and those things have kind of like really kind of stoked up this this this battle for talent.
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Well a hundred percent.
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And and I do just a another plug for Jordan's piece, because Jordan's piece, which is about r really it kind of
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He wrote it before this story, but it c it does kind of explain it's the context, isn't it?
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