Rory Smith
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1,580 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Rory Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Football Daily · MNC: Ollie Watkins’ future & why aren’t Premier League teams ready · 24 Aug 2026
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that it's difficult to fully commit to the intensity of a Premier League game if you're worried about I don't want to get injury injured because it'll cost me 80 million pounds or whatever, then I think that that is not an that's not a ridiculous stance for Watkins to take.
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I think we treat footballers this is m this is new season, new me.
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But I think we expect them to behave too often in ways that normal people don't.
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And if you had a to life changing offer, even if your life was already pretty nice, then you probably wouldn't want to jeoparise it.
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I think that's not a ridiculous thing way for Watkins to behave.
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Yeah, and it makes sense.
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I think I I actually think we probably see that a little bit more than we realise we do in football to me.
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Uh in terms of recruitment, yeah, a hundred percent.
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I think it's it's the defining it was kind of my defining takeaway from the weekend was the number of teams that you saw and you thought, well you've got you've got so much work left to do and it's August the twenty-fourth.
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Why have you left it this long?
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And I get that obviously the World Cup
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Exhausted us all chappers.
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Um and the gap between the the end of the World Cup and the start of the season was relatively short, but you you did kind of know that.
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Like that's been it's been in the calendar for a while.
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Um and I and I listening to Jacob actually is interesting that I think there's like a compounding effect where when teams like the the transfer market often needs a trigger, and if lots of teams are kind of trapp trapped in
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like a holding pattern, that trigger never comes.
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And so it gets the last week.
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And at some point people start thinking, well, look, the last few days are gonna go bananas anyway.
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So let's just wait for that and ride it out and see what we can pick up.
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I think there's probably a lot of teams who are looking at the same players, which has given a lot of kind of age.
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