Classic Big Interview: Paul Clement Part One
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Paul Clement from season one.
Season 2013/14 was a special one for Real Madrid. It was the season of La Decima, their 10th European crown. Paul, assistant to Carlo Ancelotti, saw it all. And this is his account. From a fastidious breakdown of a typical day on the training ground with Ancelotti, Zinedine Zidane and Fernando Hierro, through the positional alterations and squad characters that lifted the team at crucial times. Enjoy part one of a fascinating conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it is Graham. Welcome to a classic big interview. Today, join me. We're going |
| 0:20.4 | back to season 2015, 2016. This is what I had to say about it back then. |
| 0:28.6 | Hello baby. |
| 0:31.4 | It's been weeks since I've mentioned the big bopper but there he is like a long net goose |
| 0:38.2 | Paul Clement I was very very proud of I'd watch his dad play for QPR, I'd seen his brother come through the ranks at Chelsea, and when he emerged to coach PSG to success under Carlo and Chilotti and then moved to Spain. He fascinated me. He'd read both Barza and the Spain |
| 0:56.0 | book which tried to draw on the involvement and access that Vincent de El Bosky and his squad gave me during three tournaments that they won. |
| 1:06.0 | That book is now in paperback at 999. |
| 1:09.0 | It's got incidents like the Spain players allowing me in the dressroom at the end of the World Cup final |
| 1:14.4 | what I saw what they told me during the tournament. Have a read. I think you'll enjoy it. |
| 1:18.7 | But Paul coming to Spain and succeeding to me as a journalist born in the UK seeing a Brit coming abroad and not only |
| 1:27.4 | winning but convincing and showing a skill has terrifically proud and although |
| 1:32.2 | there were many highs and lows during the |
| 1:34.1 | agility Paul Clement era remitted the key thing was in 2013 14 they were |
| 1:39.0 | presented at the beginning of the tenure with a really difficult problem the |
| 1:42.3 | arrival of Gareth Bale late in the summer |
| 1:44.5 | injured because of the way in which Daniel Levy had conducted the negotiations and Garth had |
| 1:50.2 | either missed training or missed key matches and had strained himself and was coming into a real Madrid where |
| 1:56.8 | Clement and Anchelori had to re-jig the squad a number of times, integrate Garth Bale and they did it absolutely brilliantly. |
| 2:05.2 | Here Paul talks in great detail about a typical training day at Real Madrid. |
| 2:10.5 | If you want to do what we hope the big interview often does for you and take you inside football |
| 2:16.8 | This is the one to listen to |
| 2:18.7 | Paul will tell you about the meetings the plan in the communication the pressure he was under and the but I like most in this first part because part two is coming out on Saturday on the day of the Champions League final because he will take us through minute by minute of the days around and at Lisbon 2014 when |
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