Euro Leagues: Is spying acceptable in Europe? Neuer & Neymar return to the World Cup
Football Daily
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Steve Crossman is joined by Rafa Honegstein, Julien Laurens and, James Horncastle. The panel give a continental view on ‘spygate’ and how Southampton’s actions have been viewed around the rest of Europe. It’s something that occurs regularly in Europe, but has anything to this scale ever occurred before?
Manuel Neuer has come out of international retirement to be named in Julian Nagelsmann’s Germany squad for the World Cup. Is this shocking given how insistent both Neuer & Nagelsmann were that this wouldn’t happen? Hoffenheim’s Oliver Baumann has been backed as Germany’s new number one when Neuer retired after the 2024 Euros, and some fans want him to keep his place. Elsewhere, Neymar will return to the Brazil squad after it looked like he may have been set to miss the tournament.
Elversberg will be one of the smallest teams to have ever played in Germany’s top division, having been promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time in their history, having finished the season in second in 2. Bundesliga. The club has bounced back having just missed out on promotion the season before, then losing the manager of six years Horst Steffen to Werder Bremen. The panel are joined by Lars Joeckel from ELV Friends Bliesen fan group to reflect on a historic season.
And it’s the final weekend of the Serie A season with several clubs chasing Champions League football. Cesc Fabergas’ Como are one of the main talking points of the season. And are there issues brewing at AC Milan and Juventus.
TIME CODES 00:00 Intro 01:20 Continental view on spying 02:00 Spying in Germany 03:50 Spying in Italy 05:50 Journalists spying 12:00 The profile of Tonda Eckert 15:30 Manuel Neuer’s Germany return 18:50 Julian Nagelsmann’s socks 19:50 A potential goalkeeper headache for Germany? 21:00 German goalkeepers 25:00 Neymar is back for Brazil 28:10 Could the pressure become a problem? 32:20 Joao Pedro left out 35:20 SV Elversberg reach the Bundesliga 41:00 Rafa trying not to spoil the fairytale 43:20 Looking forward to the Bundesliga 44:30 What club does Rafa actually like? 45:50 Champions League race in Serie A 48:00 Issues at AC Milan & Juventus
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| 0:43.4 | Coming up, World Cup squad announcements as Manuel Noir comes out of international retirement, |
| 0:48.5 | and Namar is picked for Brazil. |
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| 0:53.6 | Oh, Raf Honestan, I knew I was going to get that wrong. Can you help me please? Svau, Elfusberg? Elversberg. Once more, with feeling. Elversberg. Elversberg. With feeling. Svau Elversberg. So we're going to speak to one of their fans. It's a town of just 13,000 people. The club have been promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time in their history. Raff is with us, the athletics. James Horncastle is with us. Hello. Hi, Crossie. Some great stories that we're going to get into. I'm really looking forward to talking about the World Cup squads. When are Italy announcing theirs? |
| 1:29.2 | Grossing! |
| 1:30.9 | Every time I'm on. |
| 1:33.0 | I mean, I'm truly here to talk about. |
| 1:36.9 | Carlo Ancelotti's decision to bring in Neymar, that's what I'm following. |
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| 1:44.8 | weeks. So there we go. Lovely. ESPN's Julianne is going to join us very, very shortly as well. |
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