Caught Offside: Xabi Alonso is Out, Michael Carrick is In & Liam Rosenior is Aging Men
Caught Offside
Caught Offside
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
It may have made sense on paper but in the end, Xabi Alonso was just not the right fit at Real Madrid. How much of it was his fault and how much of it were just the pitfalls of trying to coach a squad loaded with massive egos? Then, we'll get into Manchester United's decision to hire Michael Carrick as their head coach for the remainder of the season. He may be a familiar face but is he the right face? We'll discuss.
Plus, Semenyo and Cherki lead City to a first leg win over Newcastle while Arsenal manage to overcome the "Aging Men" of Liam Rosenior's Chelsea in their first leg.
And finally, Timo Werner is coming to MLS, Conor Gallagher is headed to Spurs and the Africa Cup of Nations has a final that will hopefully be better than the two semis.
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| 0:00.0 | Caught Offside with Andrew Gunling and J.J. Devani. |
| 0:07.1 | Oh, yes. Caught offside from just outside of New York City. |
| 0:12.1 | From an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 0:14.1 | Andrew Gunling, J.J. Devaney? |
| 0:16.3 | What's up, brother? |
| 0:18.0 | Andrew, I stumbled across some audio today. |
| 0:22.8 | And I, I want to start the pot with it. |
| 0:26.8 | Um, it's so bad that I love it. |
| 0:30.0 | This is new Chelsea manager, Liam Ressinger. |
| 0:33.3 | In some kind of video that Straz, that was done at Strasbourg, breaking down management. |
| 0:41.4 | Let's take a listen. |
| 0:42.9 | Management is making sure that you have a strong culture, that your players have rules and regulations, and you manage them in the right way. |
| 0:50.6 | In English, manage, if you split the two words, it's man age. You're aging men. |
| 0:57.0 | It's men aging, Andrew. When you sent this to me, for me to listen to it, you provided no |
| 1:05.0 | commentary. You just said, hey, I want this in the show. So I went listened and downloaded it. And I |
| 1:10.8 | wasn't sure if it was meant |
| 1:12.2 | as something insightful or if it was meant as something comical. Now, I took it as comical, |
| 1:19.6 | but I wasn't sure until you just introed it here. And I'm glad that you see it this way, |
| 1:26.0 | because I'll say this. And we'll get to Chelsea Arsenal, |
| 1:29.0 | fun game, really fun game. We'll get to that in a little bit, Carabelle Cup's semifinal |
| 1:33.8 | first leg. I think I like him. I like, I don't know, I'm in on this guy, and I'm going to |
| 1:39.9 | give it a chance and all that. But when I heard this quote, I immediately was like, |
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