Gundogan: the brain of Barcelona - ESPN weekly
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
I've interviewed Ilkay Gundogan at length twice - once for this podcast - and I've spent the past 12 months learning the reasons why his arrival in Barcelona became imperative for his new club and its manager, Xavi.
For ESPNFC, here's what I know - why Gundogan can be the bridge from pragmatic title winners to a tougher, smarter European competitor, and what makes him the perfect lieutenant for his new boss.
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| 0:00.0 | As they say in comedy films we have to keep meeting like this. Okay they may say it differently. |
| 0:20.0 | I was recently encouraged by Duncan McMath who's the director of Take the Ball, |
| 0:28.0 | and I hope you all watched the phenomenon, ill phenomenon if you watched it in Spanish about Ronaldo Nesario. |
| 0:35.0 | He was the director of those two projects and he's the leader. |
| 0:40.0 | He's the owner of Zoom Sports, the company where occasionally I dabble and try not to screw things up. |
| 0:47.2 | And he encouraged me recently to watch the film where the fly and the-in-the-wall cameras follow Graham Taylor's doomed last campaign of |
| 0:59.5 | qualification and it reminded me because he's one of the protagonists in this the late Brian Wulno |
| 1:08.8 | used to say time now and where do I find you? |
| 1:16.2 | So where do I find you? |
| 1:18.1 | It's Lake June right now. |
| 1:21.3 | The mighty all conquering Supreme and Swaggering dandies have today |
| 1:29.6 | re-signed Graham Shini. They have added Reese Williams from Liverpool. A man who I had the good fortune |
| 1:40.5 | to interview when he had been playing for Liverpool in the Champions League as a youngsters, a young centre half, |
| 1:47.2 | playing against Mitzieland, I think it's Iax too, and also in the whipping of Atlanta. I liked him then. I know that he's spent time at Kidderminster. |
| 2:00.4 | We've only got him on loan from Liverpool, which I guess says something about what they |
| 2:06.7 | think is footballing value or transfer value might be. Anyway, I decorate. I'm really excited |
| 2:11.4 | because having kept Laitin Clark who's a gem of a footballer. |
| 2:16.0 | It's been a big day for the dandies I'm sharing as has it been a big day for you so far? |
| 2:21.0 | Have you been watching the ashes is your club doing the right things in |
| 2:26.3 | the transfer market to you you care how much deckin rice costs eventually do you agree with me as I've been arguing for many seasons that he's exceptional and again in my opinion is likely to get very much better as he plays in a more demanding |
| 2:45.4 | environment with better footballers anyway which of these things all none some |
| 2:52.1 | are occupying your your brain as you move into move slowly and elegantly |
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