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This is a Global Player original podcast.

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Hi, Gaby. Hi, Mark. So another busy

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week on the pod, Premier League clubs

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voting in favour of a salary cap,

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some brilliant guests joining us in the

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studio as well. So as per usual,

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here's the best of the sports agents

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in case you've missed them.

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We were treated to a sit-down, no-holds-barred

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interview with the one and only boxing

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promoter Frank Warren. Lioness's legend

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Jill Scott stopped by to talk

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Kane against Bellingham in the Champions

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League. But after Premier League clubs

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voted in favour of a salary cap, we

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asked whether bringing one into the English top

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flight would really bridge the gap to the

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traditional big six. The

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thinking is, and nobody knows in

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particular who has driven this,

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but the assumption is it's come from...

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Steve Parrish. Yeah,

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it has come from, I was

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going to say, the sort of

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middling Premier League clubs who

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look at the imbalance in

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what teams can spend and

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fear that if nothing is

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done, then it's only going to

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get worse. Whatever they try to do,

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I'm not sure they are going to

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be able to bridge the gap. This

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latest suggestion, which incidentally only Manchester United,

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Manchester City and Aston Villa voted against,

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there was a lot of fun on

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social media with fans taking the Mickey

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out of Villa saying, oh yeah, one

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decent season and now you think you're

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a cemented big six. Yeah,

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but Villa have really wealthy owners. There is

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a lot of money behind that. Well, it's

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quite interesting. That shows you their aspirations and their

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intentions, doesn't it? Absolutely. And

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Chelsea, of course, abstained, which neither of us can

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work out why you would do that. We're not sure about

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this. We'll let the rest of you decide. And

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so this would limit spending. for an

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unconfirmed multiple, but we know the

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baseline money will be the lowest

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TV money in the Premier League.

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So, for example, last season, that

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was Southampton's TV revenue of

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103.6 million. And then you

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timed that by whatever the multiples decided, which is

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five or three, depending on who you read, could

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be four. Either way, that's a

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lot of money still to spend on a

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squad. The other thing then to say about

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this is if you use the multiple of

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five, if you go back to the 2022-23

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season, the only team it would affect

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who were over that spending were Chelsea.

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Abstaining Chelsea. Abstaining Chelsea. But that's

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partly because they went bonkers

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under a new owner. So, for all

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the discussion and all the

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debate, you look at the figures.

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That's a lot of money. It's a lot

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of money. That those middling and lower clubs

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could only ever dream of spending. Yeah, absolutely.

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The towards agents. And then that led us

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down a path of wondering if a hard

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salary cap could see more English stars moving

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abroad like G Bellingham and

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Harry Kane, who faced off in

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the Champions League semi-final. Jill Scott

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joined us to talk about their

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amazing years abroad. You

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will have been touchline for Channel 4

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this season and last and seen Bellingham.

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And I was at the second leg

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of City Real Madrid, which is the

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first time I've seen him in person

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since he'd gone to Real Madrid. He

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is an imposing lad, isn't he? I mean,

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you don't I don't think you get the

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idea of just how tall and physically imposing

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he is. And he

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ran that that night for me. Look, he wasn't

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always on the ball, but he was everywhere. It's

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like he set the tempo for Real Madrid.

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Yeah, I think when you're up close to him, I

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remember going, wow, look at his legs. And I think

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he might have heard this. I was like, for that

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reason. You can't actually

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believe like he's solid, isn't he? So

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solid. But to go then have the

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impact he's had. Sometimes it takes a

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year to settle in. Obviously, you're moving

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abroad, stuff like that. But he's. been

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amazing. He seems to drive whichever team

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he's in, doesn't he as well, in

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a way that belies his years and

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to go to a club like Real

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Madrid with its incredible history in Europe

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particularly and to be able to

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impose yourself in that way, to break Cristiano

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Ronaldo's goalscoring record in your first 15 games

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and that presence of mind. Interestingly,

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he did his first proper interview only this month,

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was still in April. It feels like he's been

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there for longer in a way because it feels

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like we've heard about so much of his success,

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but actually he's just, as always, he's

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just pitched it perfectly, hasn't he? Yeah, he

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has and I think when you say with

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England, I could see when Coby Mayneu came

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on the pitch and you can see him

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talking to him and I think you don't

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just build them relationships as soon as you

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step over the white line. He's obviously been

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like that in the changing rooms and he's

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gaining the trust of the players. So yeah,

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I think he's definitely a future captain. We

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often talk about leadership, don't we? And you know, when teams

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don't do well, they haven't got any leaders, what are they

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going to do? I can't think of

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another footballer in the last 10 to

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15 years where you go, you

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are the next England captain. The sports agents.

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Jill Scott was as fun,

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informative and brilliant as ever. She's a

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real star, isn't she? Yeah, and I appreciated it

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even more because when she came into the studio,

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as I went to hug her, I poked her

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in the eye. So that wasn't a brilliant, wasn't

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a brilliant, brilliant start. We try

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and keep you in Manchester as much as we can.

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You also compared her entourage with Mariah

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Carey, which she took very well. She did take

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very well. She's had a massive entourage with her,

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but we covered so many things here. I know

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we did Bellingham and Kane, but we talked women's

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super league cap, but we also had really good

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discussions about soccer aid, about what it's

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like to work with Roy Keane. It

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was just a really nice half hour with her,

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wasn't it? Yeah, from the very beginning of covering

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the Lionesses, kind of back must have been like

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close to her first cap. She's one that stood

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out and not for the obvious reasons. She's

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invariably the tallest player in the squad, But

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she's just always had that natural ability to, to catch

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up. The next I think with people

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and she's She's a brilliant leader at

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while not being tapped. Into. Enemies as well

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as beautiful that just bring people together. And we had

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really good fun with us. Or. We also

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discovered that the to be when growing up

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but more than happy to supply the fuck

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stream of the state you did miss any

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symbol of much as well. You know our

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experiences of growing up in the North Sea.

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very different a to yours and an eye

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on that was see saying the full interview

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with Jill Scott will also be made available

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to was in full on Global player so

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I'm to Thursday's pulled Our interview with legendary

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boxing promoter front was. One

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of the seems Eddie Hearn talked about was a

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looking at a to fight deal with some of

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these big big fights when one could be in

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Riyadh and then the other could be back in.

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As leslie as best as it was as

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how Uri Aj fight a British crowd, a

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British audience would find it very frustrating when

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they were one of those mouthing what you

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find his way you know is that. Provide.

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Make both keep winning. That fought will

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be made in that I'm and the

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first outgoing Saudi it rodents that's true

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for mattress and then rematch and and

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will be a rematch that would probably

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be hit books. In Out in September

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with during a Riyadh Season five at

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Wembley Stadium sesame a huge event is

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coming The Saudi of an. Advertising.

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Read season at Wembley Stadium it would be

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a sold out of it will have Id

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five thousand people there and when you see

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was being put together they you I love

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out Se ha on Sunday had of the

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Madison and he said that he's been told

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to be ready for September so this is

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over see where we're going it but when

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not going to see by that stays than

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if you've just said the Aj Fury fight

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will happen says that that that move them

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September that definitely won't be surrounded. Books in

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of up my phone guide to the Daytona

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Month this issue announcement bus. Was being

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put together is something special for

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four seasons and will. I was

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amazed that Were is Frank was

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how. long it had taken him

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to me eddie obviously he knew

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eddie's dad's blurry that he had

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not seen met Eddie until quite

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recently, honey. No, and they have

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both said, haven't they, Frank and Eddie to us.

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That has all come about through the Saudi

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influence and the money available and so on and

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so forth. But I was surprised by

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that, that really the two juggernauts

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of boxing promotion had always kept each

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other at arm's length. But again, a

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bit like Jill Scott, we went in

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all sorts of different directions with Frank,

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didn't we? Because he took us in

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all sorts of different directions. And

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also, he would appear, while Eddie is

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the master at managing his social

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media, Frank's not averse to it.

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I would say he's probably a little

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bit more tech savvy than you. Considering

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he's about 25 years older.

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Well, I'm not sure it's savvy. I mean,

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I think I can, in this Manchester studio,

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I can open my own microphone and turn

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it off as well. I think it's more

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he embraces it maybe, a little bit more

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than I do. He's not

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just a voyeur either. But

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there's loads of stuff on that

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Frank interview, including that he was

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really honest and open about the

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time that he was shot. And

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then he also talked about all the different boxes that

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he'd worked with, how the sport might look in the

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future. And even if you're not interested

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in boxing, but you're interested in deal making, I feel

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like that is a fascinating part of

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what he does and how he makes them come off.

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So that was this week. Scroll

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back through the sports agents feed to listen

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to those episodes in full. You

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can do that on global player or wherever

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you get your podcasts. And we have more

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every Tuesday and Thursday. So we'll see you

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next week. Just off to

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shut down my own microphone now. The

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sports agents with Gabby Logan and Mark

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Chapman.