High Press Episode 12 – weekly football prediction

Excessive Press Episode 12:

Episode 12 of Excessive Press takes a have a look at the January Switch Window, discussing the most effective and worst strikes through the years.
Host Alison Bender is joined by journalists Mark Ogden, Ollie Holt and Steve Bates to take a look at the chaos in January and what it’s like behind the scenes at a membership throughout the window.

The chaos of a switch window

Bates will get the dialog rolling by saying, “If there’s one phrase that springs to thoughts with a January switch window, it’s ‘chaos’.”
Bender references a selected event when she was stood outdoors Fulham’s floor within the snow, and Bates mentions how huge the switch window has turn into for soccer media within the UK.

Manchester Metropolis tried to signal Kaka

Ogden brings up home windows in different international locations shutting at later dates, which suggests the information by no means actually stops fairly after we all count on it to across the Premier League deadline.
strikes which have fallen via, Ogden says, “The one which stands out to me is Manchester Metropolis and Kaka. They have been about six months into the Abu Dhabi takeover, they’ve are available with all this cash and signed Robinho.

“You get to January, and Kaka was in all probability the most effective participant on this planet… they might have damaged the file to signal the world’s finest participant and it obtained actually shut. Talks have been going down in Milan, Milan needed the cash, and I feel Kaka thought ‘I don’t need to signal for Man Metropolis’.”

Bates responds with a outstanding story about Tottenham utilizing a helicopter to distract Sebastien Bassong once they have been making an attempt to signal him from Newcastle. Everton have been unable to contact the defender whereas he was within the air, and Spurs finally accomplished the switch.

BEST January signings

Shifting onto the most effective January offers, Holt says Virgil van Dijk is the deal that ‘stands out’ for him. Holt describes van Dijk as a ‘cornerstone of Liverpool’s fashionable success’.
After agreeing on van Dijk’s significance and mentioning the arrival of Luis Suarez at Anfield, Ogden picks out Bruno Fernandes, who has been very important for Manchester United since signing in January 2020.

Bates sticks with the Previous Trafford membership, however opts for Nemanja Vidic and Patrice Evra. Each gamers loved immensely profitable spells at Manchester United.

WORST January signings

Bender strikes the dialog on to the worst January offers, and inevitably Fernando Torres is the primary identify talked about. Speaking in regards to the Spaniard, Bender says, “Everybody [at Chelsea] was so enthusiastic about this one. To be truthful on the Chelsea gamers, they supported him via thick and skinny. I feel it was 16 league video games he went earlier than he scored his first purpose.”

Andy Carroll is of course talked about, too, as his switch to Liverpool with the funds from the Torres deal didn’t work out a lot better.
Holt goes in a barely completely different route, as an alternative choosing Alexis Sanchez to Manchester United.

“Partly it’s such a nasty one as a result of United have been so determined to signal him and fought off Metropolis, and virtually hijacked the deal [to City]…
“The opposite motive I bear in mind it was as a result of he was a spectacular, spectacular bust, however I bear in mind writing on the time, ‘what an excellent transfer it was, it was a no brainer for United, incredible signing.’”

Ogden additionally brings up Holt’s now notorious tweet after Charlie Adam signed with Liverpool and Manchester Metropolis landed Sergio Aguero.
There are some revealing anecdotes about deadline day typically, with Ogden saying that journalists are ‘principally informed lies’, even citing Manchester Metropolis’s claims that Chelsea have been after Alexis Sanchez.

Behind the scenes of a soccer membership

Bender recounts when she labored for Chelsea, and was in a position to make use of a membership photocopier. She remembers how she discovered a full record of each participant they have been in for.
The January window has supplied some well-known drama through the years. What would be the greatest transfer within the coming weeks?

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