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🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Dotun and Andy are joined by Miguel Delaney for today's star-studded episode, as some of European football's elite struggle to settle into their new homes.
Mauricio Pochettino's famed man-management skills are being put to the test in Paris, as Lionel Messi wants more game time and Kylian Mbappé reminds everyone he's still the main man. Antoine Griezmann's found similar troubles in Madrid, but Mario Balotelli's blowing the doors off in Turkey - might there be one last Italian Job for him?
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0:00.0 | Hello, this episode of Upfront is brought to you by Transport for London. |
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0:15.9 | If you find yourself witnessing an incident, you might wonder what you can do to help. |
0:20.0 | More on that later in the episode. |
0:26.2 | Welcome to another edition of On The Continent, your one-stop place for all things to do with European football. |
0:33.2 | I'm Dotton Adibio. I'm Adib Rassel. And I'm a girl Delaney. |
0:37.0 | Signing him was easy, relatively, but what about managing Messi alongside Neymar and Mbappe? |
0:44.0 | Posciotino's man management is put to the test by his three musketeers. |
0:49.4 | Also a greasy return to Atletsi for Antoine Griezmann, is he finding out the hard way that you should never return to your previous lover? |
0:58.7 | Unless your name is Cristiano. And how has Balotelli proved to be such a Turkish delight? |
1:06.1 | So we're talking Super Mario and the taste of European promise. |
1:13.0 | And should we start out with PSG, beating Leon at 2-1 convincingly? |
1:21.2 | Not sure. That's for you to decide. But nevertheless, the issue here is of Neymar and Mbappe and Messi together on the pitch. |
1:31.1 | Did it work? |
1:32.8 | It's a work in progress. It was clearly going to be a work in progress. |
1:38.7 | And the whole fantasy football element of it has been a little bit underplayed, I think, from the beginning. |
1:45.2 | I guess because of the whole star quality of Messi going to Paris Saint-Germain. |
1:53.6 | There was, for a long time, very little discussion of the fit, how it would work. |
2:00.1 | And the fact that Paris Saint-Germain had been here before in the recent past, |
2:05.1 | the fact that they've been top heavy, that they've struggled to find balance |
2:12.3 | since the signing really of Neymar. |
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