Lionel Messi requests the unthinkable, England's latest squad, and Louis van Gaal's musings
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It seems the grass may well be greener on the other side, even for the GOAT: Lionel Messi has told Barcelona he wants to leave! Marcus, Vish and Jim are here to unpack this startling news and wonder where Messi might end up should he move on. Is Mike Ashley’s long-term plan finally coming to fruition?
We also look over Gareth Southgate's latest squad for England's upcoming Nations League matches, praise friendly neighbourhood superhero Victor Lindelöf and revel in Louis van Gaal’s recent comments about his time at Manchester United.
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| 0:57.8 | Now it's Wednesday the 26th of August. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Jim Campbell. |
| 1:01.2 | I'm D'Lutioner Hunter Roger. |
| 1:14.2 | Well, well, well, here we are gentlemen. What a Wednesday. What a Wednesday-Vish. |
| 1:18.9 | I know, yeah. I bloody love Wednesdays. Yeah, midfork as the Germans call it Jim. |
| 1:23.5 | Midweek. Halfway. Exactly. |
| 1:26.6 | All right. The very structured those wonderful people. There's a cinema. I swear there's a cinema |
| 1:32.2 | in Peckham that was doing orange Wednesdays long after orange stopped being company. |
| 1:37.4 | What's really going on here? Why can I get to the cinema for two pounds |
| 1:41.4 | and buy a bin bag of popcorn for a pound? How are you making money? What's going on? |
| 1:45.0 | I thought you can say log off the Wednesday like it was in Friday morning and it's still |
| 1:50.2 | a little bit of orange Wednesday. My goodness. Well, is it? We always start with the biggest news in soccer ball. |
| 1:54.2 | We've known for a little while now that he's wanted out. The paperwork was always going to be tricky and contentious, |
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