Tim Spiers

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2,293 appearances 13 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Sep

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Abramovich bought Spurs instead of Chelsea? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

the estate.

It's like

well, along those lines, it's you know, what happens if they don't lose the Champions League semifinal to to Monaco that season under Ranieri, like would would Abramovich have been ruthless enough to sack a Champions League winning

manager in Rannieri.

I also think it's it's a sliding doors moment is the is the way that Roman Abramovich decided to go about it.

It's not like he came in and was like, right, let's rebuild the training ground.

You know, let's really sort out the academy and like build build for the longest sort this stadium out.

He literally came in and just right we're gonna blow we're gonna rip everything up out of the water with the wages and the transfer transfer fees.

And that then over the last sort of twenty odd years

Escalates and escalates year on year.

New owners come in and try and outdo them and just spend more and more and more.

And then you get to the point where on deadline day this week, Newcastle by a player who's played eighteen times in his career for thirty-four million quid.

It's just nonsense.

Some of the some of the fees we are absolutely crazy.

And that's that all started with Obramovich.

the you know, the Premier League never becomes the best league in the world, quote unquote.

Um I think for better or worse, I'm okay with that.

I mean I hate it and love it at the same time, you know?

But yeah, I think uh it's yeah it's it's hard to say that it's a good idea.

Do I have any

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