Libero 063 | Ange Postecoglou’s Main Character Energy

Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Ange Postecoglou was sacked as Nottingham Forest manager on Saturday, after just 39 days in charge. On today’s episode, Miguel Delaney, Rory Smith and Jack Pitt-Brooke discuss his brief tenure and ask why Postecoglou took that difficult job in the first place. Postecoglou has had a distinctive career and remains an interesting figure. So what is it about him and his skills that stands out? Is it his attacking style of play? Or is it his capacity to talk persuasively in public and frame a narrative around himself? And in the modern Premier League era, is that one of the most important skills of all? P1: (19:57) P2: (30:58) Produced by: Tom Bassam, who apologises for a slightly rougher edit than usual. Unfortunately the AWS outage reduced the available edit time. Email in via liberopodcast0@gmail.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Follow us on TikTok @liberopod Follow us on Facebook @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 Libro, this, the 63rd episode of the podcast about the most important
0:07.0	of the least important things, as Sean Connery said in his brief cameo in Robin Hood, Prince
0:11.5	of Thieves, relevant to today's episode, of course. Please be sure to like, leave ratings
0:15.6	and comments, Apple, YouTube, all usual formats, if you want this podcast to continue in its best form.
0:27.7	I'm joined today by Jack Rip, the Athletic, Rory Smith of the Observer and various other platforms,
0:35.5	including many podcasts today discussing Liverpool, I believe.
0:38.5	We'll get to that. We'll get to that. Do we have to do? Yes, yes, we do. And I'm, of course,
0:43.0	Miguel Delaney of the Independent. So today we're mostly discussing Ang Posta Coglu and the curious
0:51.2	career decisions that managers take. But before we get into that, we should really reflect on a big Premier League weekend.
0:57.3	And it was a big news cycle weekend, especially, of course, with the Super Sunday game.
1:02.3	Rory.
1:02.9	I reject the news cycle, to be honest.
1:04.8	Yeah, it felt quite significant to me, I think.
1:10.9	You had, I think, a friend of yours accused me of being glass half full on Liverpool previously,
1:16.5	which I think it's not a bad position to be, and I think we should try and be positive
1:18.8	and optimistic in life in general.
1:21.1	And I think there's still that, you can still make that case that in all three of their
1:26.5	domestic defeats, I thought they were generally just quite bad in it's got Tataray, to be honest. But against Palace and Chelsea and United, it doesn't take much to flip it the other way. You know, Liverpool hit the post three times on Sunday. Gapomis to sitter in the, what, 85th minute. If that's a draw, we're probably having very different conversations, same at Stanford Bridge,
1:44.6	Teller's Park. But I think the bigger thing for me, the two things are, one, like the overall
1:50.7	performance, even if the chances they've created get them out of it. They're still playing
1:55.0	without any control, any sort of discernible system. They don't really look like they
1:59.8	understand what they're meant to be doing.
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