Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode

you'll hear an elite football or tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.

All of them come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter,

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This is from a cracking interview with Simon Stainroad,

recorded in Paddington Station in a lovely restaurant,

on how he discovered Uzman Dembelly while he was still at Wren and didn't cost

140 million euros why Patrick Vera didn't take Denbelly to Manchester City and

Simon's reasons for believing that the young Frenchman can be a better all-round footballer than in Bape.

Our interview was recorded in March 2019. Everybody were talking about a player who Simon knew supported and was in a position to

advise clubs about when Denbelly was still in the academy at Wren before Dartmouth and he's now, albeit with bumps, you know, he bumps about sleeping in and missing training and missing team meetings.

His Barcelona without him, and when Barcelona without him him they're a lesser team already and the kids

you know half a third of the way through his second season one season at Dortmund he's

beyond where he should be and he's literally extraordinary.

Let me tell you what he does.

When he's got the ball, if he's going to make a pass and there are two choices,

he makes the pass that's most dangerous and makes it well.

If he's got a dribble, he can beat a player in so many different ways.

If he's going to cross it, he can whip it in, he can chip it up, he can cut it back,

left footed or right footed.

He's completely ambidextrous.

He can shoot his left foot the same as he shoots his right foot.

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