Make Time for This - GSPN's Podcast for Pop Culture and Other Things · GSPN, Blue Wire

The Premier League is back, but world football is creaking under the weight of its insane finances and sportswashing projects

·1 hr 23 min·5 clips

It is a football detour. Adam McGee and Andrew Snyder open by saying they are not talking movies, TV, or even music, because the Premier League's return has pulled them into the sport for once. The bigger frame stays in place, with football's wider stakes sitting behind the conversation. They joke that a full-time football podcast would not be impossible for them, though there is clearly no time for that, especially not for Adam. That leads straight into the English Premier League season and what it means to have football back. Manchester United take over the middle of the show. Andrew and Adam ask what the club should actually be aiming for this year, and whether top four is the right measure of success. They land on that as the realistic goal. From there, the discussion widens to whether Erik ten Hag is finally getting a team that matches the way he wants to play. The summer signings matter here. The show says United still have ins and outs to sort over the next couple of weeks, so the squad is still taking shape. David de Gea's departure is part of the reset. Andre Onana becomes the most dramatic arrival in the discussion. They call him maybe the most transformative signing in the Premier League this year. That is tied to how he plays. His distribution and willingness to operate high up the pitch are treated as a major shift from de Gea, with the Champions League final used as the clearest example of why the move matters. The hosts also accept the cost of that change. They expect plenty of ugly mistakes as the defenders and the goalkeeper learn each other, even while believing the long-term result should be positive. By the end, the episode has turned a broad Premier League return into a very specific argument about how much one goalkeeper can alter a club's shape.

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United's summer reshaping gives this Premier League detour its sharpest edge.

Make Time For This turns the Premier League's return into a tidy football discussion that sits just outside the show's usual movies-and-TV lane.

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Premier League talk that narrows in on Manchester United's summer reset.

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