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Libero 040: Is Jose Mourinho More Like Liam Gallagher Or Lenin?

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Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On today’s podcast, James Horncastle, Jonathan Wilson and Jack Pitt-Brooke turn their attention to next week’s Champions League qualifiers, and particularly Jose Mourinho, who will take his Fenerbahce team to Feyenoord. So why are we still so fascinated by Mourinho even as his career moves further away from the top of the game? Does he embody something that the modern game is short of? And why did football start moving beyond him 10 or so years ago (35:07)? Ultimately it comes down to how you measure or assess greatness, and the episode ends with the question of where Mourinho ranks compared to Pep Guardiola, Sir Alex Ferguson et al, and what his managerial legacy is. 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 Music: Kid Kodi - Blue Dot Sessions 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

Hello and welcome to Libero, a podcast about the most important of the least important things, as Malcolm Allison once said to Joe Mercer. My name is Jack Pitbrook. I'm from The Athletic. I'm joined today by James Horncastle from The Athletic and Jonathan Wilson. So I went to go and see Oasis last night, and if you're going to Oasis at Wembley, in Dublin, in Melbourne or even Mexico City, and you're queuing up for your overpriced Adidas t-shirts and your 35-pound bucket hat,

0:24.4

why not just turn... in Dublin, in Melbourne or even Mexico City, and you're queuing up for your overpriced

0:21.3

Adidas t-shirts and your 35-pound bucket hat.

0:24.4

Why not just turn to the people in the queue next to you and say, have you considered listening

0:27.9

to the Libero podcast?

0:33.2

It's a big week next week.

0:34.6

It's the Champions League, third qualifying round, first legs.

0:38.2

And I think that the tie of the round, at least in the league path, is Fionnord against Fennabace.

0:44.3

This one's got Jonathan Wilson written all over it. Are you going, Jonathan?

0:47.7

I'm not. I wish I were. It's a classic championship qualifier.

0:52.5

The Robin Van Percy Derby, the Sopheen Amrabat

0:55.1

Derby.

0:56.0

Both of those figures, of course,

0:56.8

involved.

0:57.7

Van Percy is the coach

0:58.6

of Firenard and Amrabat

1:00.3

probably moving quite slowly

1:01.5

at the back of the Fenabatch in midfield.

1:03.5

So, yeah, it's just a, it's a good game.

1:06.3

It's a game between two sides

1:08.2

who you feel have proper

1:09.7

championship league pedigree with all these other strings,

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