Nagelsmann’s naivety, Mbappe’s pivot and Xabi’s smart start
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo and the continental panel of Raphael Honigstein, James Horncastle, Julien Laurens and Alvaro Romeo shine a light on the big stories in European football this week.
Bayern throw away a 2-0 lead in Dortmund, with questions starting to be asked of whether Julian Nagelsmann is the long-term future of the club. But it’s the perfect start for Xabi Alonso at Leverkusen.
Bayern’s former striker Robert Lewandowski is a bit starved of service at Barca as they face Inter in a huge Champions League clash.
In France, there’s more Mbappe melodrama at PSG with the star striker criticising Christophe Galtier’s tactics on Instagram.
Elsewhere, Kristof Terreur gives us the lowdown on the perfect Club Brugge and Jules purrs over the perfect Enzo Fernandez.
Plus some harsh red cards and some not so harsh red cards.
Produced by Charlie Jones
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1: Moment of the weekend (01.30)
• PART 2: Germany – Klassiker classic and a not too Xabi start (06.00)
• PART 3: Spain – big weeks for Barca and Real (18.00)
• PART 4: Kristof Terreur on the remarkable Club Brugge (29.00)
• PART 5: France - more Mbappe melodrama (37.00)
• PART 6: Italy – champions Milan stay on Napoli’s tail (49.00)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:08.7 | Totally football show, European edition. |
| 0:11.7 | Today, ahead of the Midweek Champions League action, we're talking de classicer. |
| 0:15.7 | Modest, is he overdressed? |
| 0:17.8 | Chavi Alonzo, is he? |
| 0:19.6 | And who's being a grumps now at PSG? |
| 0:22.0 | Bruganites and Brahim the Dream for Milan? |
| 0:24.8 | It's a bumper edition of the Totally Football Show. |
| 0:27.4 | Yeah! |
| 0:29.1 | No, it's possible. |
| 0:30.5 | Envoyabu. |
| 0:32.9 | Aalabu. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm a bit. |
| 0:45.2 | This is done. Desiripres. I'm going to. Tuesday, the 11th of October. Listener, you join me with my continental pals, James Horncastle, Julian Lorenz, Alvaro Romeo and Raphael Honnixstein. |
| 0:58.2 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:59.5 | Bonjour. |
| 0:59.9 | Hello. |
| 1:02.1 | Bom dear. |
| 1:03.6 | There's some big things to talk about from the weekend. |
| 1:05.2 | It's the usual story. |
| 1:06.5 | Big things from the midweek as well. |
| 1:09.3 | We've got match league four in Champions League with some teams poised to |
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