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Gab and Juls: A promising start for Barcelona?

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Barcelona’s start to the season under new manager Hansi Flick after their 2-1 victory over Rayo Vallecano. The guys also chat all things transfers with last minute moves and deals happening before the transfer deadline, as well as remembering Sven Goran Eriksson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.8

I'm Gab, he's Jules. I have no idea about the weather in London because I'm not in London. I'm in Monaco. I'm remote. I'm here for the Champions League draw, Jules, you're on holiday, you kindly took some time off to join us because this is big. The Champions League draw is coming up in a couple hours as we record this. We're in the last

0:25.8

days of the transfer window. We'll be talking, we'll get into all these transfers that are

0:29.3

happening, some of the transfers that could happen. But I want to start with something else today, Jules. I want to start with Barcelona.

0:37.0

Because look, we've been going on for a long time about how tough it is.

0:42.0

What a bad position they're in with a horrendous situation that they inherited from

0:46.9

Bartomeo, a situation which I think, a lot of people think, part that made worse long term by pulling his levers

0:56.4

yeah but on the pitch so far three wins and three most recently a two one went away that I. The kids that have been thrown in there have done the job. They had

1:06.6

three 17 year olds, I think, starting at the weekend. Danielmo looked fantastic on his debut.

1:14.1

Some people are doubt over Hansi Flick,

1:15.6

but he's getting it done.

1:17.6

It's all good, right?

1:18.9

At least that's a pitch.

1:20.1

Yeah, so far so good.

1:21.8

That was still out. Yeah, no, no, I mean, so far so good. Three games, three wins, not always

1:28.4

pretty convincing, but clearly per moment you could see what they were trying to do you could see that

1:34.7

physically they're already on good form you can see the intensity in

1:37.8

possession out of possession we were waiting for Danny Olmo to finally make his

1:42.3

debut to finally being registered.

1:44.4

They were able to do that thanks to because of, I'm not sure which one to use, the Christensen injury

1:50.5

and the duration of it. So that means that for now certainly not for the whole season but for now

1:56.2

then you're all more can play and he did play really well when he came on for the last 30 minutes

2:01.1

or so RIO like you, on Tuesday night with hitting the cross bar foot and then scoring the

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