Libero 020: Never Go Full John Terry

Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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As European domestic seasons draw to their close, Jonathan Wilson, John Brewin and Tariq Panja consider how and why a different set of clubs have lifted trophies across Europe. They discuss the collapse of the pay-TV market in France to suggest not all is milk and honey within the global game. Has football finance’s growth in importance turned us all into reluctant accountants? (28:58) And, as the Champions League final in Munich beckons, they share memories of 2012 and Chelsea’s achievement of Roman Abramovich’s dream, and that night’s setting of trends for future trophy celebrations. Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in at liberopodcast0@gmail.com Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, first of all, the standard plea for reviews and rating. I know it's annoying. I know you want to
0:06.3	get into it, but this is the way whether we grow. So please do leave reviews, positive reviews,
0:11.4	please do rate us. And obviously tell people about us, that's how we grow. That's how we keep going.
0:15.9	So that's the way, let's get started.
0:22.6	Welcome to Libro Episode 20.
0:24.8	I'm Jonathan Wilson.
0:25.5	I'm with Tykepanja from New York Times and with John Bruin from many places, but perhaps
0:30.2	the Guardian, most notably.
0:32.7	Today we're talking about this sort of raft of new blood.
0:36.1	You have a raft of new blood?
0:37.2	This infusion of new blood. This raft of new sailors who are winning things this season. You've had Newcastle winning the League Cup, Palace winning the FA Cup, Spurs winning the Europa League. In Germany, we've had Stuttgart winning the Poccal. We've had Aberdeen winning the Scottish Cup. In Belgium, we've had Union Saint-Giluars winning their first title in 90 years.
0:57.3	So we've seen these scenes, very emotional scenes of fans who are not used to winning, winning.
1:02.8	What's going on? Why is this happening?
1:04.6	Is this the end of the Superclub era, Tariq?
1:07.2	I think it's too early to tell.
1:09.0	I think we've got to separate the Premier League as well
1:11.5	from the rest of those. Newcastle are on the cusp of maybe becoming a super club themselves,
1:18.7	aren't they? Like if you look at the spending power of the Premier League in general, compared to
1:25.0	rivals elsewhere, you've got teams like Bournemouth are able to outspend
1:28.1	Juventus. And then on top of that, you ally Saudi Arabia. The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has bought
1:33.1	Newcast. Alexander Isaac, for example, would not be moving from Real Sociedad as he did to Newcast.
1:40.2	If you think, you know, would the seventh best club in any of those other leagues be able to buy the top striker in Spain? Probably not. So it's great. It just shows you the depth of the Premier League in a way. And we're getting new teams and that's really good. And in terms of the other leagues, it's almost the, in my opinion, I think it's the opposite of that, where you're kind of having
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