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Euro Leagues: UCL Final set & Marti Cifuentes on his career

Football Daily

BBC

Soccer, Sports

4.34.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

John Bennett is joined by Guillem Balague, ESPN's Julien Laurens and the former Leicester and QPR manager Marti Cifuentes to discuss the fallout from this week's Champions League semi-finals.

Is setting the right culture the key to Arsenal and PSG's success? Has Arteta taken the next step? Are there any weaknesses in this PSG team?

The panel also discuss Real Madrid's troubles with Kylian Mbappe becoming increasingly unpopular with the fans and Marti talks about his managerial career which has seen him work in 5 different countries.

TIMECODES: 03:46 - PSG show their class 13:57 - Arsenal's rise continues 16:31 - How will the final go? 24:14 - Barcelona on the brink of La Liga title 26:22 - Kylian Mbappe's troubles at Real Madrid 33:09 - Athletic Club and Villarreal's managerial changes 34:36 - Where next for Andoni Iraola? 37:44 - Marti Cifuentes on Leicester, managing in Scandinavia and his future

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On the Football Daily podcast, the Euroleagues with John Bennett.

0:42.6

Hello and welcome to Euroleagues with me, John Bennett, on the Football Daily podcast.

0:48.1

Joining me this week, Guillem Ballagay and ESPN's Julian Lorenz.

0:52.5

Hello, guys.

0:53.4

So, Guillem, you've been busy. You're at Arsenal, Athletico, Madrid. We'll get some stories from that. Then you're in the match of the day studio. And Jules, of course, was in Munich last night. He looks very tired, but it's a happy tired. But I think there's a dilemma, Guillem, for Jules, because I think I'm right in saying this.

1:12.2

It's Jules' household, the Leron's household. It's half PSG, half Arsenal, isn't it? Is this right? Yeah, that's right, man. It's the worst final ever. Literally, literally so bad that for my marriage, it would be better if Arsenal won that final. The kids can't really say anything, but they're, you know, they're PhD fans.

1:30.0

We all know that, but we won't last year. They were very happy last year in Munich with me to witness PhD winning that. So I guess, you know, if he was awesome to win, they would still be very happy. And like I said, my life would be so much better for it. But this is like New Year's Eve, right, where you want to be together and celebrate together, the jump into the new year. But I bet nobody's going to see each other until right at the end. Is that right? I bet. Absolutely, man. We can't even talk about the final already in our house, you know, and we've got another three weeks to go. It's a few weeks to comeules. It's not just us three. On Euroleagues this week, Guillem, you have brought us a special guest. Introduce us to our guest this week. Yeah, I just thought that having seen the two semifinals of the Champions League, so many tactical discussions that we can get into by not getting somebody who has been brought up in the Catalan coaching culture and

2:19.7

went from youth to senior and then decided to leave everything he knew behind and go to Scandinavia

2:25.8

everywhere but Iceland to coach and then eventually jump into English football in one of

2:32.6

the toughest league in the world, which is the championship.

2:35.0

So we've got with us, Marti Fuenes.

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