Euro Leagues: Who wants the Barcelona job?
Football Daily
BBC
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Ben Haines makes his debut - and is joined by Guillem Balague, Julien Laurens and Rafa Honigstein. They discuss the pressure of managing Barcelona and who would be the right fit to succeed Xavi at the Spanish club. They also debate whether Xabi Alonso is right for Liverpool, explain why January has not been smooth sailing for Bayern Munich and, with Green Football Weekend returning in England, the team shed some light on sustainability initiatives taking place across Europe. They also pick out their favourite January transfer.
TOPICS… 1 mins – Busy in Barcelona, catalogue models on the ski slope. 2 mins – The timing of Xavi’s decision to leave and the pressure involved in managing Barcelona. 12 mins - The team discuss whether the job is still attractive to prospective managers – and who might want it 16 mins – Rafa explains why it might be a good fit for Julian Nagelsmann, but maybe not for Hansi Flick. 19 mins – The team pick who they think will end up with the job. 21 mins – Will Xabi Alonso end up at Liverpool? Rafa explains why he thinks Liverpool would be a good fit. 27 mins – Why January has been busy for Bayern Munich. 35 mins – The team highlight sustainability initiatives in the leagues they cover. 39 mins – Favourite transfers of the window so far.
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| 0:34.0 | On the Football Daily Podcast, this is the Euroleagues. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Euroleagues podcast on the Football Daily. |
| 0:45.3 | Ben Haynes here with you today sitting in for Steve Crossman. |
| 0:48.8 | Now it's my first cap on the Euroleagues so I'm hoping there's no outrageous reducer challenges coming in from |
| 0:54.2 | our big three in the middle today. Jules Laurent Raff harness Stein and Giam Balaget |
| 0:58.8 | Giam how are you I imagine it's been a very quiet few days out in Barcelona. |
| 1:03.2 | Never quiet but but yeah you have to sing is it singing that they have to do |
| 1:08.8 | those that are initiation that's just yeah know, first cap, initiation, Guillaume is right. |
| 1:14.3 | Go. Is it like up on the chair and kind of like in front of everyone? |
| 1:18.0 | It could be a cheer and, you know, Adele, we know you like them both, so Taylor Swift if you want it's okay with |
| 1:24.7 | what did Steve do as his initiation oh that was so long ago that was so long ago we |
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