18 Burst results for "Karim Benzema"
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"karim benzema" Discussed on ESPN FC
"I got my doubt as well. And I agree with this TV that Real Madrid is know how to pull results from these kind of moment. Even when they looked at it and I think that the last Super Cup is a massive example of how this run might always raise from nowhere. When they are in trouble, when they look like they can not anymore, they can run suddenly. They start running the suppressing this time of scoring goals and we can not forget that front they have players who can finalize and that's something very special. Very difficult to find with Karim Benzema as a main man. We've been in junior with Alberta with Rodrigo players who can capitalize any single chance and we've seen it in the last game. They were not doing anything. They were being dominated by the Bilbao, but in two chances that Real Madrid managed one of the they went into the net. And that's the way that this Real Madrid is getting results at the moment. I let the go Madrid needs to continue building or what they are this kind of momentum. They had a fantastic game against violet, he goes, morata. Now they go make the pie back in this political medicine so it's going to give them something special with griswold bean. They keep layering without your authentic. So can they manage to get a good result against Ramadi? Yes, but they have to do it with a very good defense and try to break that ball to the main man from the east but then from there all. I think that they can win this Real Madrid. But ramad is probably. That sounded like the dreaded vote of confidence there from Luis Garcia on athletic. Anyway, you'll be able to find out tomorrow. Thanks so much, Luis Garcia and Gemma soler. For being with us, that game between Real Madrid and athletic will be taking place in the copper
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"karim benzema" Discussed on ESPN FC
"To do with the question. David Beckham's got a documentary coming out. We're going to say about nothing to do with anything here. Move on. Your job is on the line. Ali is taking a penalty against sharing goal. Who are you backing to succeed and thereby saving your job? No brainer. My feelings are a little bit hurt. You have to call me doctor. Awesome. Right. I've just decided you could go for a shackle, but after that. It's a no brainer, isn't it? No. Look, we have established that shotgun in his prime. Yeah, he could dive and get to balls. Come to sending toe already, isn't it? But nowadays, he just doesn't move very well. It's that fair. Ferris. Final point. For the panel, now that Lewandowski is coming to La Liga, who's the best player in Spain and why is it Karim Benzema? Yep. I agree. Yeah. I conclude. You can care. Wonderful to have you back. No, I'm not here. We're back to normal. I'm moving my daughter into university. Oh, congratulations. Yeah, very nice. Congratulations. One more thing. Want to go. Wow, Shaq. And then my wife and I have decided we're moving home. We know you've been telling the kids where we're going. Just leave them on their own. What are you going to go? Will it be closer or further away from work? Did you live quite far away anyway? I do. I'm not talking to them. Oh wow. I'm not telling anybody. You could move to New York. Okay. You know, cattle now. That's right. It castle. Is anywhere? Will the new house have AC? Rub this up. All right. Doctor Lee thinks to do. Right, let's move on. Please. Yes, we had actually back on this great tomorrow. Maybe the doctor of shepherd's pie. What knowledge what experience?
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"karim benzema" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Well, that's a different question. So I'll go back to K's question. Now that I've addressed all of Stevie's concerns, I think is 60 40 at Manchester City. They display what was a beautiful show of how to play offensive passing and the attack in half. The rotations and the options for players ahead of the ball was fantastic for Manchester City. The final touch wasn't quite there. But they are a better team than Real Madrid. I'm going to say 60, 40 matches a city to advance, but do not. By any under any circumstance, please do not overlook Real Madrid and be surprised if they find a way back. Again. Go on then. It's just something he said. And he's probably right. As you probably sat on a play, another boss here wherever as he's carved, these taxi whatever. Thinking, we can't possibly defend his body again, right? Only he's got to do those things, hold on, man. I saved that after an hour against parliament. And I said that after the game, against Barcelona, so there's three occasions. Recently, the complete and Otto disaster. And yes. So do you think that you can be as bad again and get away with it? Picking when they league title this weekend, they still in with a shot of winning the Champions League title. So maybe he does a thing. He can get away with it. Unfortunately, they've got to play Monsieur. I do just want to get a quick comment from Ian on Karim Benzema. And you've obviously commentated so many players over the years and had the pleasure of seeing so many, but talk to me a little bit about Karim Benzema. He's amazing and he's getting on to what 34 now over 40 goals this season. I think he's heading for the bell on door this year. I mean, that first goal that he scored yesterday. There was absolutely nothing on when that ball came to him, and he conjured up a just a phenomenal finish just instinctively.
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"karim benzema" Discussed on ESPN FC
"City will be much better defensively with Rodriguez sitting in front of him. Hang on, so let's look at it though. It's four three, so it's a goal advantage going into this game. Let us know where it goes and all that, but I can see set is going. I can see city scoring. In Madrid. So this is still an advantage going to the Bernabeu for the second leg with just the one goal on you. You have no confidence immediately. Defense is relative to be honest. And I know they'll be all these players back, which is great. But yeah, I mean, it's not a pretty good result in the face of it. If you just flick the TV on now and say fourth of the great game, protect you take the lead to bear in the bail, the fee goes, don't make much of a difference in terms of the a wiggles because that's not our own anymore. What really intrigued the performance was actually better than that, but the result is not, and that's just a fact of the matter. So yeah, I mean, I think of make those mistakes make those mistakes again. And Madrid, I think they'll go out. Because he's just up front, they'll just clinical. The ruthless. If they don't, and this is us all the time, I say that as we said. It's about the basics, the so good. Going forward. It's about the basics for them. If they get the basics rate, like not diving and in front, like going to pressure the ball when you should, when somebody is driving in the box, if you do the basics, the rest will take care of itself for city. If they don't, that's what's on the backside in previous years. We'll find out which city Tom knock next week. When they were in full control of this game early on and they're winning two zero and there is a chance for re admirers. It takes a right foot, should have been three nothing. It is not. There was no life to Real Madrid. The life for the Real Madrid came by Manchester City, loosened the ball and bad areas. By errors on trying to play just a risky ball. I know necessary bowl by taking a chance and I know that this is the way that you play and maybe this is a personality of the team and so edits only has the freedom to do these things. Okay, so be it. But maybe there are moments in which judgment should be a little bit better. You're in full control of the game. Why? Why give it Real Madrid life? And that's the part that I think Manchester City ignored today. There were moments in which this game could have been and should have been killed off, whether by scoring another goal or defending better, putting some numbers behind the ball and not allowing one V one situation, all right isolation or transition. And yet, this is a webmaster city place, and this is the way they think of themselves, but maybe there are moments in which managing the game should be more of a priority. And it isn't because we saw that they got in a back and forth with a Real Madrid and Real Madrid was more than comfortable in doing that. And one thing we know Stuart is when Karim Benzema on the pitch, anything's possible for Real Madrid. Well, they were two nil down and a ball comes into the box. And he's not really favorite to get it on target. It's a great finish. He doesn't make the perfect concept, but he's in the right place. He arrives at the right time, he gets across the front of zinchenko and just guides it into the corner. It was a brilliant finish and got them back into the game and some of his closing down and now he just mentioned it. Edison gave Real Madrid a chance on two.
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"karim benzema" Discussed on ESPN FC
"There's a match winning hero. What a wild when it was for Barcelona over Levante epic, say the Catalan sports daily sport, looking back on that performance at a performance where Levante had three penalties yet Barcelona still came out with all three points at the death thanks to that late goal from Luke young. Now Barcelona are in second 12 points back of Real Madrid, but they do have a game in hand. Real Madrid are playing Seville on Sunday and we do have back with us, our team to talk about everything we're seeing Ian Frank and Jules and I'll start with Ian E and their voice on our coverage for La Liga. And I think I'll probably ask you this every single week Ian until the distance is actually not achievable. Could there be a title race on if Real Madrid lose at the weekend in Barcelona win? Well, there is a title race on if that actually happens, but will it happen? Not convinced that severe are going to beat Real Madrid severe or seem to be the draw specialists and they seem to have gone off the boil a little bit without West Ham, defeat as well in the Europa League. So now I think the gaps too big, if I'm honest with you, really with so short a time to go in the season. It's the pity, there's not another classico mind you. From a neutral perspective, just to spice it up a little bit more, but Barcelona have made a heck of a run, haven't they? Are they really have? They really have in Jules I'd like to talk to you because one player that we've seen with a real renewed vitality in his play is usman dembele. We just heard a Bama Yang talking about him there. We know the connection that the two of them have. Usman dembele is actually level on Karim Benzema with 11 assists this season. His contract situation with Barcelona is ongoing and reported to be entering the key stages. What can you tell us about what you know on that situation? When we can tell.
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"karim benzema" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Some is given a clinic. Every day that he steps in the field is given a clinic as to how to play the center forward position. For as much as I love the goals, they were all sorts of different movements that he had in this game that go along with the finishing qualities that he has displayed. That tell you he is just a full package in terms of playing the position. If you're a young kid out there man, you watch this guy play because his the variety that he gives this team. He can give you the hold up play. He can drop underneath and play from there as well. The movement away from the ball. And then the hunger to get into late in your box and finish the chances. And once it gets himself into the position to finish the chances, then the decision making that goes into executing those headers as we saw yesterday. It's a fraction of a second that he has in order to decide how am I going to put this in the back of the net and he is so very resourceful. He has been outstanding. He has been the best player for reality for years now. And let me tell you something. The one player that you have to wrap very carefully, the rest of the season and you make sure that you take care of him, has to go on massage Karim Benzema and say, go and do it Carlo, because he is the key to their success. Yeah, and three goals in this one. Heavy favorites, as you can imagine, going.
Men In Blazers
"karim benzema" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Goals. Yeah, this is not helping. Let's get on and get a nearer to the questions, David. Let's talk about you a lot. Yeah. Oh, we got them exactly where we want them. Chelsea. End up losing to Real Madrid, three, one. A big player roger making big plays in big games in the case of Karim Benzema, the big plays always seem to come in threes. Yet another hat trick for the French man in the Champions League Real Madrid signature three one, rod just mere days after you featured his story on your European knights podcast with Rory Smith, Karim Benzema delivers, wow, an outstanding performance. Yeah, I mean, what a game. High tempo from the off. I actually thought it was too cool trying to drain the batteries of Real Madrid's over 30 team before half time. But honestly, the way Benzema and this year's junior were just partnering all over that final third. It was actually Real Madrid that truly thrived. And it was really no surprise when Vinny pulled the ball back. And have you ever seen a header like that? It was a thought hammer. That was the longest range fastest header. Header with most power that I've ever seen in my life watching football. I've never seen that. I don't think I've ever seen that goal. It's very rare that you see a new goal. Oh, that's a goal I haven't seen before. I don't have ever seen that goal. A lot of people like, how did you get beat that you need a post by that? You get beaten at your near post. When Benzema powers the ball, it was like watching the only thing I've ever seen like it. Is big B and trainspotting just delivering the Glasgow kiss. I mean, it was a Glasgow kiss of a headache. It was a masterpiece, 36 goals in 36 games. And as you mentioned, perhaps even more impressively in that moment, the curse of roger after Rory and I went really deep on what is a fascinatingly complex twist and turn human endeavor story of Benzema in our European nights but if you're not listened to it getting it because it is, I think it's inspirational. It's also incredibly dark. But then ya Chelsea did not learn from PSG that Karim Benzema is most dangerous in the two minutes after he skewed. Yeah, ball comes in again, you know, didn't seem like a very Modric, dangerous. Yeah, yeah, it didn't really seem like a very dangerous position for Chelsea to be. And yet, there he was, open again, and does a lot, and with that second header, it was now this was a very different kind of out of. This was the sort of the delicate drop shot. It was beautiful. It was incredible. By the way, we should say the moderate floating in that. Stunning ball from a moment that didn't look dangerous, suddenly creating danger by splitting the two center backs. Benzema, again, flinging himself one way, sending the ball the other. It was Guy Ritchie action movie S it was a fantastically angled dink as well, David computer time and space, almost bending time and space to bentham as well and in that moment it looked like Brentford in white. Yeah, well, I mean, and actually to be fair to Chelsea on this night, Chelsea actually were playing pretty they started very well. They're actually doing pretty well. I'm not sure there are many Premier League strikers who with apologies roger to Dominic Calvert Lewin, who would have scored either of those goals that bends in a scored, or even have put the ball over the moderates put over, and they were suddenly too down. Having started pretty well and playing much better football than they played against Brentford at the weekend. John in the chat says Benzema got the Euro pee in night with Rory Smith bump. Yes, that's how it works. We just pick up obscure players who no one's heard of text story. And then they suddenly just get double hat tricks. Can I have it? Go ahead. I'll grab one of my own. Ben's actually missed an easier chance and any other ones he buried to hat trick it up, but then he decided, yeah, fancy it. And in a moment of mending inspired slap stick. What happened? What are you talking about? Oh, the third one, the third Benson the goal, like I don't even, I don't even know roger. I know we went down three one after I have a sequel with a fantastic move at a fantastic goal, but the one thing I was going to mention paramount plus have no rewind function on their on their thing. So I looked up from one email, suddenly we're down three one. I haven't seen the goal. I tried to ask my son if he'd seen it. My son hadn't seen the goal either. So I have no idea what happened on Benton's hat trick. Decided to go walk about in the vicinity of the man who just scored two goals on you. And rudiger, who he dumped a self sabotaging past due, let's just say from a Chelsea perspective, Ruger rudiger didn't want to get stuck in on his future teammate Benzema. And in that moment, Ben's came only the third player in history to go hat trick hat trick in two Champions League games with Ronaldo 2017 against by an Athletico doing it Louis Adriano doing it in the group stages in 2014. What an incredible footballer he is in every bloody regard that garlic rich described the goal. He says everyone has in there Everton, Chelsea just displayed there. So I've got to say Everton funds wish peacock didn't have a rewind function. There was a magical course was at Jaime for life tweeted Courtois best to both since Tim think about it. But Chelsea, that was an amazing save for the one from azpilicueta and then Rommel who missed an absolute sitter and easier header than either the ones that Karen Benson. Brentford, Devo, is it more than a blip? No, I actually think this was, you know, you can't insult Real Madrid like this Real Madrid played them, just had amazing moments in which they punished them. That's what happens at the elite levels of football Chelsea. I think played pretty well. I think they'll feel I think too cool will rue the mistakes, particularly what is clearly a huge mistake for the third goal. But I think that he'll feel like Chelsea had great spells in this match. And I know this is going to seem ridiculous, but I don't think Chelsea are out of this time. Chelsea have been through season after season after season, and they've shown it this season, even with all the distractions, despite what happened at the weekend and I know there's a lot of short term thinking that most recent ism. But Chelsea are a emotionally, very strong, mentally tough team. And I don't think this tie is over. I certainly don't think Real Madrid will be celebrating too long on the training ground tomorrow. I think they'll be preparing for what's going to be another very hard match back in Spain. I will say, Christian Pulisic, we shouldn't know at a fairly one of his anonymous setting games. Yeah. But you've got to look at that away like and look at Chelsea's form and wonder if you're going to be this wasteful less and syncopated again or whether there is a rot that is set in, which is fully understandable, by the way. Outside of the club, you do kind of feel it is going to kick in. But you can be at the philosophy. We're not going to be this, but again, we actually do have a chance Richard hall in the chat. David, you and me, both huge losers in different ways, different ways, different scales of misery if we're really being honest. Can we reprise the police so lonely rigid or honestly, if I do this so lonely after every Everton loss, I do fear it's going to lose its meaning. So I'm going to have to. No, no. No. I feel no. God, I feel bad. Thank you. Does that make you feel better? No. I'm not sure I do. And then get into the questions. Yeah, Villarreal won, Bayern Munich nil, the German giants catch the taste of the emerys proving unable to break down the Spaniards compact side after former Bournemouth men en route than Yuma open scoring in the 8th minute. And in yesterday's matches, these were great Liverpool defeated Benfica three one away..
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"karim benzema" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Not as to how close he is. He is right there. The confidence with which Vince's junior is playing is one thing because you can be confident. But he's also bringing substance with that confidence. I imagine the moment that Venezuela junior saw that Danny alves was going to match him up out there isolated and one V one situation. He said, okay, Danny. I appreciate the fact that you're a legend in our country. But you're about to get house. And he did. It's a mismatch and over distance he was killing Danny out of his short spaces. He was killing Dani Addis. The issue is that it's not only dynamics. Whoever you put out there, an isolate them against beneath his junior, beneath the general is just going to have a field day. Because he's playing with that sort of confidence. And because there are substance behind it, now you have to address it. And so the movement, the combinations, the understanding when Karim Benzema, the final thoughts, the final decision, and then the execution of the goal, all of that has improved for Venus's junior and he is right there in terms of the conversation as to who is playing at the best level right now in the world. Well, beneath his generous playing out very high level right now. And that's talking about right now. Sid's Kareem Benzema upwards of 300 goals now for Real Madrid. This is a player who's gone from being massively underrated and underappreciated to a player who is already a real armored legend. You see ahead of him, Cristiano Ronaldo. Alfredo is Stefano and raul on the gold scarring list. Is this a player that's going to be mentioned among the legends? Once his career is over at Real Madrid. Yes. I suppose it's the kind of depends on how you define legends and how high up the list of the best players they've ever had. He needs to be before we really say he's one of the all time.
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"karim benzema" Discussed on ESPN FC
"We're certainly I love David Moyes. I'm going to say 35% Manchester United because christiano Ronaldo said he won't accept a 5th or 6th place finish. I'm going to say 30% now. Now I'm going to say 25% arsenal and 25% spurs because they got all those games in hand. Yeah, nice. I think also would finish fourth so I give them 35% chances. I think united would be the closest behind 30%. Then I've got spurs on 20 because I still think they show off players and of talent in Spain having maybe the best manager of all of them. And then that gives me 15% for this time, which I think is fair because there's your small squads. Yeah. No chance for the field. Interesting. That way. Chris was Corona AKA ticket to is close to joining severe garb. Is this enough of a boost for them to keep challenging ram Madrid? He's hardly played for portrait of this season, but he's a guy that obviously is going to pass the port on her. Apparently really wants. He gives you an alternative out wide. I think his contract was expiring as well in June. In June. So it's another body. I think savia need bodies because there are multiple fronts. They look tired at the end, and then in depth. Not just Philippe Coutinho, but look at the Aston Villa serious jewels. Yeah, 25 million of my friend Luca, which I think is a good, I think it's a fair price for someone like him. Yeah. I think 25 million for a really talented French international left bag. They already have a very good left back. That clearly, they think this one is better than you think. I think it's a bit harsh on target. I have to be honest. But if you really want an upgrade, I think it's an upgrade on target, then yeah, that would cost you 25 million. So maybe you could have spent that money somewhere else, maybe they still have more money to spend somewhere else. But I think continuing for short continue, I'm still waiting to see what kind of formula shape, much fitness, all of that. But potentially, it's very good job. You guys have meanwhile, gab, have signed Chris Wood from Burnley for 25 million that's 25 million pounds. He's 30 years old school three goals this season, yes, that's three goals this season. That is a lot of money, right? I mean, he was in double figures last year and scored a bunch of goals a year before. But that was within a certain system and a certain style of play at Burnley, which might not suit you. I don't want to be mean to Chris Wood, but he does strike you as the kind of striker that works when you play a certain way. If they're thinking of him as a replacement for Callum Wilson, I don't know. There is the big benefit to the team, though, that you're signing Chris Wood and you're really weakening Burnley. Because I think we've actually Barnes has been in and out. I know they have what he is and vidra? And they have the guy who's been touring all the goal but helping out the blanking on his name. Maxwell. They never come back. No, no, no, they would come in, but he's not there now. No, no, no, no Conan, no wood, no bonds. I think the idea is we can Burnley so that we can stay up and they're taking a long time. I hope that's the idea. Many had Algeria as Afghan favorites, but they were held by Sierra Leone in their open and nil nil. Jules should Bel Mary be worried. We all love them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think so. Loads of chances, mom would come around and go to Sierra Leone go with one of the match, the young goalkeeper was amazing, really, I think you made 7 or 8 saves. I was a bit disappointed by some of the tactics and the fact that the foot back to the adjective football didn't push too much apart from the end when they actually created the two biggest chances that the team had the lack of intensity and press but it was again very hard and very soon two kick-off. Yeah, yeah, that was crazy. And it was like, listen, we missed a lot of chances. We didn't lose the 35 unbeaten streak right now. Just two behind Italy. So it's still pretty good. And they will qualify because even the third place would qualify. So I don't think they're worried at all. We've been chilling out, Chelsea have record Kennedy from his loan of Flamengo gap, they wanted MSN, but London didn't release him. Does that make sense to you, Kennedy? I think it makes better look. I think it makes Microsoft has his limits in certain games and certainly in the 40s what it is. But I think if you're going to play the system he's played most of the year with the three, four, one, two or two one. I think Microsoft is fine. So all you need is somebody who will come in and not screw things up excess I think Kennedy Kennedy's fine. He says 25 years old didn't have a great time flamingo as I understand it. But he's got plenty of experience in Europe. And that's the advantage of having this enormous. You can that you can turn to certainly makes more sense to me than going and spending money on your boy Luca dean. No disrespect. Definitely. This was a few days ago, but as you know, news travels slowly in this day and day and day and age. Arian's ham is Rodriguez. You may have heard of him. Was reportedly instrumental in helping I'll walk when he collapsed during the Qatar stars league game after suffering a heart attack. Kula Bali's in stable condition, his wife took to Instagram to reassure us. There was quick thinking George. In the videos out. It's pretty remarkable. His head straight so he can breathe, which is he related to straightaways, really remarkable and well done to hummus for having the presence of mind to just go straight and having that desire to help and everything. And knowing what to do, especially knowing what to do. It's like no one to do and clearly saving coolly by his life. I think it's pretty incredible. Gambia had been Mauritania one nil in the Africa Cup of Nations, but got any players when pleased at all when the wrong anthem was played before the game twice. What does this stuff keep happening? And it's not just in Africa. We've seen it many other countries. We've seen it in my job. We've seen it. I can't remember that the World Cup or the Euros. We've seen they've messed up Slovenian Slovakia. I don't understand it. I mean, you could talk about it, and you're not happy. They said, oh, why don't you guys just sing the anthem? Yeah, 11 dudes on the pitch in a stadium..
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"karim benzema" Discussed on ESPN FC
"So the natural thing for the club is, oh, let's wheel out Cristiano and ask him to speak now. And obviously, I don't think would have done this. He's not a rent to quote at this stage. He wouldn't have come out. It was club's choice to wheel him out now, but it was his choice to say what he said. I think he said the right things. He does need more time. But I think it is indicative that there are deeper things going on. And you know the stuff within the squad isn't not all as well. In the dressing room. And he said, we have to change our minds, which I think shows that he means the attitude is not right. Meanwhile, arsenal are heavily linked with Arthur in midfield, at least in terms of reports. But my ability should go for now. Not just very handsome, but man after my own heart, which of course, though that can't happen, because I've already decided he's going back to Anfield unknown. Any of this makes sense. I mean this happened because none of this makes sense. No, but they need to play a like Arthur. They need the glass with someone who is wrong. That's not our own. There's the little cartoon character with the glasses. I know, but you play a holding midfielder, and you just pass the ball and you dictate. This is not genius. But that's not what they do. That's not what they do. They complain front of the bike for. That's not what. And that's not the profile. And then that's not the profile, the profile. One of them is not the profile advertised looking for right now. The profile is in your type of player. Not as good, but it's not as good, but you get the idea. I don't know if author will happen. I don't know who will happen. They want someone on loan because then party and then they're going to come back. So there's no point that's your 40 minute to go to Liverpool. Yeah, I've been having love that of course, of course. You've got two more weeks and then this is yours. Roma have announced the arrival of Sergio Oliveira from Porto Gaby saloon with an option to buy a €17 million. I think we mentioned on the show on Monday, he obviously had no Juventus in the Champions League last season. So there probably the fans were probably love him already. But he's not really the physical midfielder, Mourinho was thinking about, is he? Well, it's tough. Maybe he's a late bloomer, right? We saw that with Bruno Fernandez. Nobody realized, oh, who is this guy, right? And he bounces around, goes abroad, which is what happened with surgery. He was a pal. He was everywhere. Exactly was it not? And then people turned out that he's a really, really good player. Security is Marino said we want we need a more physical midfielder. I don't know that it's this dude because he's tall he's got the ponytail, he's got the look and he's energy, but he's not physical. He's also really thin too. He's not. He's not that kind of player. Look, if it's a loan deal, fine. He had some quality into the mix. He can help. Obviously, it's not lost on anybody. The trend is who this guy's agent is, and it's not lost in anybody that he was offered to fill in teen over the summer wanting stupid money. 17 million, 29 years old, that's what's going to cost you, maybe you can negotiate it down as well. But he's not the physical midfielder. No. Kingsley Coleman has reaped on his deal with buyers. Jules, they're set out wide for years to come now. You're right, and Musharraf. Was y'all can become more and then anything you won't come in with the big one, third highest earning now. So all the negotiations wanting a lot of money first. I think he wanted 20. They settled for 17 a year, which is gross of course, but still a lot of money. What is a ton of money? So who makes more lever and noise? I would think so, yeah. It's definitely the third highest. I think he's played fantastic decision. The little injuries are still a bit of a problem. You need to sold that up. But I think they wanted to keep him. He wanted to stay. They had to keep him. Everybody's happy. 2020, 2021 was a tough dynamic here for most clubs. As we know, but most of the city made a profit 2.4. Million pounds while recording record revenues of nearly 517 million pounds for the first time ever gap, they have their own more money than most of united. Yeah, obviously it was a COVID year, so united make a ton of money from Old Trafford from max day receipts and obviously there are no match day receipts. Obviously, the mantra city either, but obviously city make a lot more less money because their ticket prices are cheaper because their stadium's smaller. And so on. And I think so they're less affected by it. And the other thing is they have some really big sponsorship deals with related parties. I don't think I'm making just a secret. It's not illegal. There's nothing wrong with it. No, but that's what I do. That's how it rolls. They made a big loss of previous year. And in the end, people were complaining about city. Oh, they're putting their money into it owned by the state. We get audited. There are companies that decide, okay, this is the fair market value for this transaction. As long as that part is working properly, I wish there was more transparency frankly, because I don't like the idea that three nerds with glasses who pretend their accountants are marketing people say, yeah, this should be worth 8, but let's not tell anybody that just to prove these accounts. I know. I like more transparency there, but there's no question. This is a very, very well run club. It is. You can't stop Jared Bowen. You can only hope to contain him. He scored twice as West Ham defeated Norwich to go back into fourth place. Jules, they can do this, can they? Yeah, of course they can. Especially if they learn from last season with a missed up just not really on the top floor, but they were very good on season. They went through a bad patch of resort, but they see the believable in the league. They'll be sitting in a leak as well. They've got kazuma coming back. Remember, by the way, is made a name? It's the first name I think is something to do with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Happy. Happy zoom, but why would you be happy if your Kurt Zuma? Exactly. And his bike and I think they also probably will try to get another defender in. Because avenging Angelo of bonus still out there. So we're thinking of him. We certainly are. But hey, at the risk of embarrassing ourselves, just being clipped and they go, don't we look stupid? Should we do some percentages of who we think will finish it for? We're going to update these throughout the season because it does look like a legit race. I'll go first. I'm going to say 1% the field because it's football crazy things happen. Maybe wolves get in there. Who knows? 14%, I'm going to say West Ham, much as we all love David Moyes..
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"Basically, well, we just had ice bath. We're not going to go out in the heat and humidity out. It's crazy. Now be a fakir assigned a deal through 2026 with birthday's jewels as contract was up in 2023. This is pretty huge. It is huge, and he's been fantastic for the decision wearing the armband as well. At times, really back to his best, maybe the best level he's ever had even when he was really good with Jon and France. To do sunflower Sagar rumors on gab, reports suggest that arsenal could meet the asking price, but his agents are the big turn of here. They are. Now, my understanding is that with and I didn't catch a living. But even if other states and they have to keep paying him, they could meet his demands. His wage demands. And obviously the fee is going to be big. €70 million could be a little bit less. Bonuses, whatever, but the issue is the agents. And we've talked about this before, but the numbers that are out there are something like 15 to €20 million in commission now to make this deal happen. Plus they want 10% on a future sale, which is really unusual, which is extremely unusual. And it creates a pretty dangerous precedent. And this is what's turned off a lot of my understanding is that a lot of clubs have inquired about vlahovich from Bayern, to spurs, obviously that will be a Harry Kane situation to Manchester United to around Madrid. Not that they said we want to buy another one of course. Even your boys even nasty. Yeah. And then when you hear from these agents, they're like, well, we're not going to do that. And somebody put this to me very, very well. Because his agents say, well, we're charging market rates. They're in line with market rates. They're in line with market rates if your name your first name is mino and your last name is raiola. And you're moving Holland. Ravi is great, but he's not early Holland, not yet. Secondly, when early Holland moved, there was he had a release clause. So from Leipzig, they were only going to get turned out from Leipzig from Salzburg. It was only 20 million. Yeah. So obviously then there's more money that goes to the agent. And on top of that, minoria has got a ton of pull because he's got players all over because he helps move players and whatever. These guys look after violet, do not. That's why they can't charge a kind of money and it's tough on the player. I hope it doesn't end until. I hope it doesn't end up with him just sitting on the bench or getting injured or whatever else, because he either needs to commit to Fiorentina or he needs to come up and say, I want to go now and say clearly, but he's having the best season of his career. It's a tricky one. I got the itch for some more quick hits. See what I did there. Alexis Sánchez gets a last ditch winner in the Italian Super Cup in the 121st minute Jules and since you like your substitutions. It was Daniel Correa de Marco and of course Alexis involved everything going right for Simone zagi. Everything and to be fair to deserve to win the final without a doubt. They were the better team overall even if you visit the opening goal and western mckenney but I thought they created more chances especially in the second half and the rise of the Marco cross Damian is a bit more aware in the box. Sunni with Alexandra, and then it's a great finish by Alexis who doesn't score many this season. I think that's the fourth one, but important ones. And it's a big word to say. And all of that. He said, I'm like a lion in a cage when you release me on. I love that. Love that. There was a pretty nasty banner as well gap in the game against president Andrea Lee displayed some zero. Some ubi fans turning on him, not happy. Yeah, so the banner the banner was displayed before the game and then but you couldn't fully display the pictures they saw like there was one letter which wasn't clear. It was either a nearly 40, which means a nearly out or worse and nearly more than nearly died. So not good. I think there are fans who are against him. I think part of the ownership are not questioning this. I don't think it's necessarily because the team's not doing badly or a legally coming back or whatever. I think it's more the way this team has been run the last couple of years and specifically putting all your eggs in the Cristiano basket. And along with a bunch of veteran highly paid free agents who now you can't get rid of like Aaron Ramsey and so on. Also the fact that he hasn't spoken out much in public, the Super League debacle, the accountancy stuff. I was just not a good time for him. No. We won't see Paul Pogba for a few weeks and I think we're in agreement that he's in no rush to make up his mind. But George I was intrigued by this. Yeah. It says he's most likely to return to Paris Saint-Germain. And you start written either, although you may not return to Paris, where he was born. What would you go play for red star Paris? You can't return to PhD when you never played for them. We turned to Paris as well. So basically, this was a bit of a hardware thrown in from a mistaken. Juventus from Madrid and piaget had the three clubs really who are the most interested in him. Now, with united, of course, still being a possibility that he stays there's a table, he will make his way in the summer, but I think he would like the idea of going back to Paris and play for PSG. And I think PSG in our shuffle in midfield. I think again, as a free agent, could be interesting for them. So we'll have to see. I would love it. I would love it. You're containing yourself. But yes. Kristin Renato share this thought on Friday and united season, Gabby gave an interview and he said he won't accept anything below third place. He's not there for 6 or 7 or 8 places set and arrived needs time. That makes sense to you, right? Okay, so there's two things, I think, indicative here, right? Because I don't know how that doesn't speak very often. And obviously there were all those stories that appeared funny enough all at the same time about discontent, the players Googling Ralph Frank Nick because they don't know who he is. I hope it was only one or two of the players would never hurt them..
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"He said, I'm all for bringing football to places where you can develop pay and doesn't think that Qatar is one. And you can say something about Saudi Arabia and Spanish food. I said, we need to leave it there. Thank you so much. My pleasure. All right enough classy goal. How about some quick hits instead? Let's go. Chelsea beat the mighty spurs one nil to advance the League Cup final with a three nil aggregate score. Droves this felt a little too easy over the two legs and kind of weird with all the deflected goals. Yeah, the two of the three goals the penalty that was struck off as well value. So the three big cores were the right course made. I don't know how they gave the penalty in the first place. The Kappa out on Lucas Mora, I was like, well, okay. Well, even the other penalty, I mean, you can you expect a professional referee. What VAR is there for? Mariner a few years ago, he was more highly rated than he is now, and I think he's kind of like on the but this was a terrible day at the office right now. Oh my God, horrible. And I think again, we go back to what we said after the first legacy, the gap between Chelsea and spurs right now, but enough good players to be able to compete especially over two games with Chelsea. This is what did you think of two horse formation? What it was? Did you just go and I guess this is a good game to experiment. I think he knew they were never going to get knocked out and losing three little there. And then the fact that you spoke early early ish puts you in such a conference to say that you need to lose two nail remember. Yeah. But final, since you arrived a year ago, obviously, if I cut that I lost a busy day one and then this one is never lost to semifinal before. It doesn't mean that it's all the finals then I went on to play, but never lost the semifinal, which is pretty good record to be fair. I think Josie Marino hadn't lost a semifinal for the first ten years of his time. Steven Jarrett never lost the semifinal. Actually, maybe he hasn't Scotland. Never mind. Okay, yeah, it's good. How do you keep saying his respect for taking with spurs? Respectful of the club when it comes to transfers, you have what does that mean? Because he's biting his tongue. No one has arrived yet. So look, my understanding is that, obviously, we've had this in the past where we've come to demanding transfers. We know the story. But Kant is not an idiot. Continue what Tottenham situation was going in. He knew who Daniel Levy was. He had Fabio parachute the club who could tell him the situation. I think obviously he wants to bring in players. I think people made a big deal about the wing backs. I think he's thinking more a center back on a central midfielder and a reserve striker. I think that would be his wish list. But above all, what he wants most of all, and I think should be the priority. Although I know, I'm not drinking it an answer is what is Harry Kane wanna do? Is Harry king going to leave? He's going to leave in January and I'll leave in the summer. Easy we committed. I think it's very difficult for spurs to plan anything until they know what happens there. And so I have a bit of sympathy for Daniel Levy here. Nacho gives Nigeria a win over most of us Egypt in the Africa Cup of Nations. Joe, were you expecting a bit more from Egypt? And did we underrate the super eagles in the absence of Victor oshima? I think we did the best thing that we've seen so find in the tournament Nigeria, they were fantastic I thought the way the price they look so sharp by the sharpest of all the teams in terms of fitness, much fitness. If you're on team girna, aren't you? I'm just gonna suck bless him, which is not ideal either and knows him and no Emmanuel Dennis and there's a few more missing. But I thought they were fantastic. And Egypt, this is why expected from them. I think they're solid, really disciplined and well structured team. But apart from Salah, I think he likes a lot of time for the moment of magic. There's not much at the start and at the end of everything. So I think to go all the way, I think they will have to improve massively. He probably must. Penalty give Mali a win over Tunisia on Wednesday. But gabb, the story is referee, Janice, who blew for the final whistle when they were still 5 minutes left to go. And he, by the way, had a bit of previous as well. Yeah, so this is weird. I've never seen this incredible. He blows for the final 5 minutes to go, which is weird because they just had a drink, you know, the drinks break down at the same time. So it was really hot, and he looked a bit dizzy at times, I thought. And then he just wanted to get out of there because then they come back and there's and then he blows 20 minutes early as well before the 90th minute. 20 seconds sorry, 20 seconds early. Yeah. In no time added on, despite the fact that they had VAR they had also. When you say previous you're referring to the fact that taking 2018 is that controversial African Champions League evolving esperance, I think against was it an Angolan team primarily Augusto? I think it was. Check it out. Correct me if I'm wrong, Twitter. By the way, it was clear it was clear that it was a bit. I don't know if the heat got to him, but there should be somebody in his ear saying like what are you doing? We've got time to go. You know, there are people in his ear, hopefully they investigate this and then you want to come back and 20 minutes after the president went back to the dressing room calf said let's play again. Let's play the remaining 8 or 9 minutes..
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"Because that mean that tomorrow, that banana is starting to go a bit squishy and a bit black and it's not so good anymore. More black, you know? How close how close arm would you to be? Because Madrid know this by the way. There's a reason they signed coming and there's a reason they have very Valverde. They are aware that at some point that transition has to happen. But of course, Luka Modrić keeps on putting it off by being brilliant. Yeah. So there you go. So the banana hasn't turned all black. Then you add a vespas to a Madrid back in 2003. I mean, I can't even believe my brain can't even process this stuff. I believe to score that goal, he was a famous goal where he dribbled past Hugo Sanchez and Raphael Martin Vasquez major anger dio all in one run. That's how long ago it was. I finally said, excuse me, played in Saudi. It's not unusual for super cups to even play abroad and say the eyes done it. Yeah, you can plenty of time. Where'd you go? Yeah, Morocco, he's right, China, Canada. There you go, all over the world. Kind of what the French speaking part I assume here? Yeah, it was real. But obviously with Saudi it is more of a loaded issue as well, given the human rights record. Were you surprised that raul Garcia, the Atlético bowel guy said before, but before this game about why are we doing this? Why are we going here? I was surprised because I was surprised that a player was prepared to say it. I think I should probably caveat this in terms of rail Garcia. Because Rao Garcia, the way he expressed this was actually not about the politics. He didn't talk about the Saudi regime. He didn't talk about Saudi society. He didn't talk about LGBT rights or women's rights. He didn't focus it on that at all. He focused it on a very, very much more simple thing, which takes it away from Saudi Arab and goes back to all those examples you were just reading out. On a very simple thing of this is the Spanish Super Cup. Why are we going abroad? Not just not necessarily we're going to tell you, but in Rao Garth's defense, because, well, I don't know if counsel's defense, but I think so. He talked about it as a part of a broader thing of not really caring about the fans. And here, by the way, of course, we have to recognize this. It's a narrow view of what fans are. You know, she's talking about the fans that go to your games every week. The fans that are in your kind of local community, which of course, if you play for athletic club, is an even more powerful statement in a way, because you're talking about a club that's very much of its community. And he said, we don't do things thinking about fans. So for example, he even picked up on or mentioned, you know, the games we play in Spain are at bad kick off times. We're doing things for markets and for sponsors, not the fans. And in that sense, of course, as I say, it's not about the political element of going to Saudi Arabia. It's about the fact that you're taking it somewhere else. And I want to slightly defend raul Garcia as well from the accusation. The inevitably has come from this, which is, well, you make a load of money because of all this. Well, he doesn't actually make a lot of money because of all this because this is the first time athletic club had been forced to go abroad. Now this cyber contract four years ago before any of these happened. So he's not saying let's not have money, that's not have commercial viability. Let's not Chase investment. Let's not say sponsorship. He's saying, let's not lose sight of those theoretically simple elements, and he also caveated this or preface it by saying, look, yeah, I'm quite old fashioned. I see the football in slightly different terms. So I don't see the hypocrisy that he's accused of because of the simple fact that he's paid to play football. That doesn't make him a hypocrite. What? Because he's paid money. He's not allowed to have an opinion. He's not allowed to say hang on. Should we stop this? I just think that's a nonsense argument. It just doesn't stand up, in my opinion. Well, if anything you could argue he's entitled to more of an opinion because he benefits from it. You see what I'm saying? He's actually advocating something that could be the detrimental to him. He's advocating not going there and not having that money. And you know what, if that means we have less and I have less, I still think it's the right thing to do. And as I say though, it wasn't focused on the political side of it, which has been talked about a bit, but less sona now because it's the second time they've gone. The first time they went, the president of the Spanish federation rubiales. I tried to suggest that this was a moment of perestroika. This was opening things up. We will go there and this will help women's rights. This will help open up Saudi society. He even tried to call it the Super Cup of equality. So, you know, by us going there, this will change things. I think this time he's realized that that's actually probably backfired on him. Out of it. Joe Joe's, I mean, as I see it, there are about as it says. The club is very rooted in its community and in the Basque Country and so on. Around Madrid, I think, in justice legitimately say, well, that's not us. We're a global brand. We have found some all over Spain..
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"But I want to just very simply, right now, with the addition of Ferran Torres, and obviously transfer windows to open is January. Now that they've registered, I look at this and I say, you know what? I don't think they need to sign other players to finish top four. I obviously can't hurt. But of course, if I were chavis boss, I would say, you know what? You got this. I know, like all of a sudden, nobody seems to like to pie anymore. He gets injured and it's not a big deal, and he comes back. I mean, I'm sure he'll play, but you've got enough to finish top four. Because maybe Real Madrid and severe dead certs, but you'd expect Orioles already falling off. That is falling off. I don't know. You know? You're not that far away, right? Now look, you're not far away at all. In fact, I would go so far as to say that that statement isn't even defendant on the arrival of sedan forests. If you have everybody fit even without anthropologists. Exactly. The 11 is really not bad. Now there's a lack of strength in debt, and there are flaws to the squad, and all those things are true. But for example, let's ignore for antibiotics and say everybody's fit. Well, a forward line of dembele and sulfate in the pie, for example, right? I don't think there's a forward line in Spain, better than that apart from Real Madrid. In terms of in terms of look at the names, look at how good these players should be. You've got a midfield that's like fragments like busquets, gavi and pedigree. And maybe Nico, and Frankie the young. Well, there isn't a midfield in Spain better than that or a collection of midfielders in Spain. Just in case you'd say there's three of them maybe four, if you include canna bingo. Barcelo, I've just named 6, I think. So yeah, absolutely you should be getting in the top four anyway. Okay. So we've given Barcelona fans up somehow. And we've seen improvement with Chevy as well, like we said in the second half in the game on Wednesday night. There's something clearly he's building something. That's day one. There's an idea there's an idea. I must admit, I think the improvement has been erratic. I don't think it's been continuous. I think there are big flaws and have been moments even when you can say I'm not sure that javi did the right thing. But the really important thing I think is there's an idea and there is something to follow and the authority to see it for. One more quick question on Barcelona just come curious about this. So they made a big deal about their savings on use of demeanor. And obviously they're not really savings because he was on loan. But basically, if you reach a certain number of appearances, that would trigger they would be forced to buy him from rapid Vienna. It's 10 million. Now obviously they're not going to trigger that, so they don't have to buy them, so presumably he's going to go back to rapid Vienna. From what you've seen when people have said, he's very young. 10 million pounds or €10 million for an 18 year old is a ton of money. Is this something Barcelona gonna regret? I appreciate you probably only seen a little bit of yussef damir, but you're there you're around. That's fine, but if the mere turns into the next in bopping, then but what I'm saying is from what you're there you're around all those nerds who watch Barcelona B and like who knew Ricky pooches like underwear size when he was 12 years old, all those people, right? They must have an opinion on use of demir. Yeah. I mean, I'm reluctant to rely on their opinion and also equally reluctant as you rightly say to offer my own because I've not seen a huge amount of them. I suppose in a way and forgive me for being sort of flippant about this. There's a simple answer to your question. Will I regret it? Tough luck because you're in a position where they have to do this. Financially, they're not in a position to do anything else. They don't have that 10 million. So you say, will they regret it? Well, will I regret not buying that Ferrari? Well, yeah, maybe. But I can't afford it. I would assume that. What do I need a Ferrari? Exactly. I would assume if they really wanted them, they could probably go and renegotiate somehow with rapid Vienna, right? Because it's an agreement where you have to buy 10 million meter number of appearances. You say, hey, rap, let's make a new deal where we'll give you 15 million in a year from now if you make the problem. And if the player wants to stay in whatever priority anyway, clearly not. No, he's not. I was just curious about him because obviously there was so much hype. I was struck by something by a tweet from a colleague of yours, Santi Jimenez, who is a Barcelona based reporter for Monica, I think. I don't know. He's a dude with red hair in the glasses, us. Yeah, he's a daddy last year. And he pointed out that the last time dining alvis played in a classico, there were 6 Real Madrid players who are still there. But in the meantime, half this Barcelona squad, we had an even gone to Manchester United yet, half as Barcelona squad. It seemed to be kids and so on. And when he put it like that, it seemed pretty striking. It seems to me that Real Madrid are okay. If these teams were fruit, Barcelona would still be one of those sort of disgusting hard green bananas that you know could be good one day. But for now, whereas round Madrid are ripe and in full maturity as a team. That's kind of the analogy made. Let's use the banana analogy..
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"It's true that they could still run the counters. It's true that barcelo vulnerable when they did so. But I must admit, and let's go back to what I'm saying a minute ago. For a midfield with cross and moderate in it, I think it's a little uncomfortable for real to have allowed Barcelona to have seen bars and have quite so much control. But yes, broadly speaking right. This works for them. It works. And it works very well for them. I like this chocolate bachelor's reaction up personally to the chavi effect. And the fact that we see this with managers come in, it gives them a list. You've got to charismatic guy and I think this team does have a ton of personality in younger players. Sticking with the game said mentioned the counter attack there. When Venetians accelerates like that, is he really that much faster than everybody else or are they slow? Was against him. So it could be. Well, no, but he's also leaving raoult behind, too. Well, there's that chance in the first half where we think actually gets injured. What we thought maybe the pretty fast as well to catch him in that forces, I think, finishes to take the shot, the shot would be early. But yeah, it's incredible that partnership between Benzema and Vinicius and the way they understand each other. And especially when you think back about the motion radar, incident and all of that is pretty remarkable. But if you play on Venice's strength, it's a bit like the earlier if you play on the young strength it can be good for you very good for you. If you play on the strength, it would be amazing for you. And accept the fact of space is probably a little more multi dimensional than the way they used them yesterday, the way they used them on Wednesday night is very one dimensional. I want to touch upon this state about the jewel set at the instruments of our partnership. Because I'm going to exclusively reveal to our listeners that it has his own podcast, which he does with a very, very handsome man named Phil kitter mellitus. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. On the handsome one. Honestly. If you like your man a little more her suit, you know more into pasty English people. But anyway, the point was, you pointed out that this is slightly media hype machine in the sense that it's not a partnership Benzema Vinicius because they play in a front three. Yeah. Is that just us being pedantic when we say this? There's no front three plus. It is pedantic, but it's also true that you kind of create the idea that this is a two. It seems a unfair on a sense of whoever the other one is. And B it's kind of artificially breaking up. Now if you're playing a four four two and it is a two man forward line, then I think it's slightly different. That said, that said, and this is where I contradict myself very slightly. It's very much becoming a partnership. Real Madrid are a team that are very much dressing to the left now. That Benzema, it's not just that Benzema is playing well, and Vince is playing well. It's loud playing well together, and they're combining while in Benton's drifting to the niches aside. And they're playing off each other a lot. In a way, by the way, but Benzema doesn't do with the right side of the tack up. So there is a partnership developing there, even if it's within a three. What I think is beneficial for ASCII in all of this is precisely that point. I think the more you watch Madrid gravitate to the layer. The more you see Ascension usually or Rodrigo or the spine there, following up the pitch on the other side, go, hey, there's no one anywhere near me. Right. Because genuinely, you're seeing the defense sucked in to that kind of what would you call it? I suppose, but zone of influence, which is which has been to mar and Venice. And I think that's beneficial for someone like a sensio, who can basically turn up into that empty space on the other side of the area. I'd imagine it's also linked to the fact that Ferdinand is one of those left backs who is a left back rather than an attacking left back the way a lot of people are a lot of modern gamer. You've got recycled wingers at fullback, whereas that naturally means that you can send two people over to that side, know that you'll have the cover behind with mendy, or maybe sometimes you can somebody you have to because Mandy is not going to go and take on the opposing right back a lot of the time. I'm going to ask you the existential question about Korean Benzema. Kareem the dream. I know George on this. But we have discussed it. I feel quite passionate about it, even putting my own 30 wishes for 2020, 2022, which is I want somebody to explain this to me. All right, so Kareem Benzema. In 2009, Kareem Benzema moves to Real Madrid. For €40 million. So young listeners today might be like, ah, what's this? €40 million, nothing. It's a bargain, right? €40 million in 2009. 21 year olds. Four 21 year old especially was just stupid amounts of money. If you look at what it was, except that Cristiano Ronaldo signed up for what was it 90 million at the same time? Right. So it was immediately dwarfed..
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"I'm gab, he's jewels. It is a foggy morning in West London, although the sun's trying to compete to come out. It's called for sure. It is certainly nippy. It is certainly nippy but we have a full sugar warm us up. We have the classical the semifinal the Spanish Super Cup from Saudi Arabia where it's not nippy. We've got the Italian Super Cup. We got Chelsea going to the Tottenham stadium and winning one nil. They're advancing to the final. So tons of stuff we also have because China went on. They had some transfers too. So let's get right into it. Let's start with the classical. The Saudi classico, if you will, Sid. We got to see Ferran Torres who was finally registered. That was exciting. He starts up front. Did this game come too soon for him? Yeah, I think it did. He did a couple of things. There's a couple of times where he sort of escaped Real Madrid behind the sort of left back stroke less than to back position. Both times one of them he sort of scuffed a bowl of the other, he tried to pull the ball back. That was about it, and they did improve at the start of the second half when he'd been taken off. I think fundamentally you're right. I think it was just a bit too soon. More importantly, we got to see pedry and answer fattie as well. I know, as we talk about the game, we're going to say that Barcelona Madrid were able to counter attack effectively and play through Barcelona's press when they pressed them and blah blah blah. Which is fine, but I'm also thinking I personally like they did if I'm chopping, I'm gonna say, you know what, with all due respect, I got bigger fish to fry than the Spanish Super Cup. So I'm gonna go out there. I'm gonna play my game. I'm gonna use this as a confidence booster. I'm gonna show my guys that you can go and you can more than hang with these people also because I have the cavalry coming back. Yeah, that's not a bad plan. Oh, and the second half's only proved that not so much the first half despite the girlfriend badoon who did nothing else. It's not bad to you. You didn't even know about it. Nothing about that goal. Mistake. But the second half was far more promising with Petro coming back and we knew it was a very different team with Pedro in it than with that. But certainly that second half I think is very, very interesting. I think sorry, before we go on and get you in the game said, I need to get your verdict. You need to be the tiebreaker here because Jules and I have had this dispute, where I make the argument that looked a young can actually be relatively in certain situations. And that he no longer needs deserves to be called. Because Frankie de young hasn't been great and that the young gap between the two has narrowed a little bit. Who side are you on? I'm absolutely unlooked the young side. Which is my side. But that seems to dental. I'd like to make it very clear here that I'm defending loop the young, not Gavin Marcos. It's a very important, that's a big difference. Yeah. Look, I'll tell you something else, and I realized this is a slight reach, but let me make this slight reach if only to make a point. Barcelona lost control again when the young went off. He was really important in terms of the mechanics of the team. It's true that he has limitations. But we know what those limitations are. Don't ask him to do things he can't do. And I think he as a kind of a pivot position as someone that others could play off. I thought he was used for he had a couple of headers of course before he scored the gold. It's true that the goal itself, I disagree with you, by the way, I don't think he does know nothing about it. This isn't just militia cooking against him. It's militar going to cross and the young getting in front of it. He is trying to get that ball. Now I know it's still basically a fluke. I'm not going to claim otherwise. But Luke, do you want me useful? Yes. He is. Of course he's not. You know, we're talking about Barcelona. He's not a busy, right? We talk about a club that has had David B and Samuel L two and Leo Messi and Ibrahimovic and Gerald Marie and I would tell me some other players they've had some really good Luis Suárez. And yes, he's not one of those. But then to be fair, nor his Memphis to pi. All right, steady with a dump. We'll get to the pie later, but I think we need to watch some lower gram drip because we need the media. We love to focus where the crisis is where the story is. The reality is, this was Real Madrid's first 11 until David Alaba got hurt just before kick-off. I thought, said they had the right game plan. I thought they could have scored more on the counter. I saw they were never phased. This is kind of what obviously they would have rather not have gone to extra time, but I thought the game plan kind of worked out for carletto, or am I wrong here? No, I think you broadly right. I think that this is one of the nice things about angelotti is that he doesn't pretend, and you've had a lot of realm of managers partly, of course, because of the way that the football is consumed in Spain if you're like culturally and in the media and amongst fans, there is this almost this idea that the counterattack is a dirty word. You know, that you're not supposed to embrace the idea of a counselor. You're supposed to want possession. You're supposed to want to keep the ball in all these things. So it's by the way, Graham just generally can do pretty well as well. Because of course, when you got midfielder that includes Tony Cruz and Luca Modric, it's not surprising that you can do that well as well. But I think Antonio is nice in that he stripped away some of the taboos and said, well, look, with the players that we've got with the kind of quality we have, why wouldn't we run counter attacks? Now why wouldn't we invite teams to us and go and then go beyond them? I think there were different phases though to the game, just to slightly introduce a little bit of nuance to it, which is I think for the first half an hour up until the Madrid goal and then maybe a little bit beyond it. It wasn't just a counter attack. It was that Madrid seemed to me to be able to cut through the middle of the bus on a so easily. But when they scored they could already have scored three or four, because they'd broken through lots and lots of players going up a pitch really easily. And at that point I just thought they'd just much better than Barcelona, even if Barcelona have quite a lot of the ball. Once pass on a story, once we did scored boss on rats and I thought, this is okay and then in particular start the second half of 20 minutes from last night and I thought this is actually really very good. And at that point I thought my dribble slightly less comfortable..
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"Even more so when you lose someone like Kareem Benzema, so early on in the game, but it showed maybe the real title credentials of this side that they go on to win it and win it in the manner that they did. Yeah, and not just win it in the manner that they did, but of course look at the other results today. Barcelona have been beaten Sevilla just edged a one nil victory, of course I could have been beaten by definition by Real Madrid and you saw athletica Madrid defeated as well. So that's a really, really big step towards. Not necessarily towards the title yet because a bit early to say that, but certainly to be putting them in a position where they're very, very strong favorites. And also the context of this down I think is quite interesting because in Spain at least for the last couple of weeks, the big debate has been about rotation. Why isn't Ancelotti rotating why isn't he going through players? Why is he forcing people like Luka Modrić at 36 to play every game? And I think what part of the reason for that and part of the answer to that question was because he trusts his starting 11 and was less convinced about the players coming through. In the end, what happens tonight, of course, is he's effectively forced to rotate by the injury for Karim Benzema and jovich comes on and produces the two key moments in the game. An assist and a goal that leads realm into a victory which, as you say, if that reinforces their title credentials, it does so in a way if you like in spite of what we thought of this squad. Is that The Rain we can hear said? Yes, yeah. It's very, very cold. And very well. Any long elongated questions we should ask ourselves. What's the weather like this? Reverend Trinidad. That's all I want. Do you want to stay to do extra time? So would you like to leave now? Yeah, I would really love to stand here getting increasingly wet and cold. That would.
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Karim Benzema Earns Real Madrid Draw Against Chelsea
"The back of the english newspapers dominated by chelsea's one one draw against rambler. We can pull this off a young a lot on the back. Page and stop in spain. Marker going with a draw to keep dreaming meanwhile benz emma is. It was an interesting game wasn't in the spanish capital dominated once again from a strike as perspective about team verners. Miss chances yagan thomas to coming out afterwards and saying you know this. Is this kind of life. This is what's happening with him at the moment. How much trust have you within him again. That he can find the back of the net once again. Maybe soon i've total trust in him because he knows where to be in the right time and right now maybe there. He misses one and that specific moment. So so that's something to deal with for strike. Oh and you have to kind of just think about the next opportunity comes along like you know michael jordan said so he missed more shots than east called and t-mobil no. It's just like you know if you fail moments it makes you only stronger and the kit is good. The kid has a tremendous amount of drive and talent and he knows where the ball will fall in the box and he can also know makes things happen himself of his speed and going at people. So i'm i totally have trust. And t mobile. He will go through that stage and who knows. Maybe he's causing the next game in the second leg or he's goals in the final of the champions league you know. He was very young when he was twenty. One being meaning the golden boot at the confederations cup in russia in two thousand seventeen and he scored one hundred goals in the gym bundestag already. And he's only twenty five to kit is good and a kid will prove it but obviously it has to deal with the criticism when you miss a big chance. That's normal night. Goalkeepers do as well when they make a mistake. You know the the all over them but I hope that he gets plenty of opportunities going forward.