The Athletic. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast, I'm Ian Irving and today's show is all

about the new Brazilians, a new blend of energy, industry and functionality and attack that's so different

to the magical mythical mega stars of our childhood. You can't sing like the canary, you can be a virtuoso, but believe me, you can make only beautiful music if you know how to play in an orchestra.

We'll focus in in particular on Gabriel Jesus, with Chalison and Raffinja.

We've all made big money moves this summer, but don't worry,

we'll also be reminiscing a little bit as well.

And we'll ask the question about how the makeup of a modern day Brazilian superstar has changed

over the last 25 years, and is there still room for a

little Joga Benito at the highest level? To answer that question we're

joined by Jack Lang, Staff writer for the Athletic, an expert of course on South American football.

Our Spurs in England correspondent Jack Pitt Brook is with us as well or J.P.B.

Throughout the duration of this podcast, considering we've got two Jacks.

And Michael Cox, our tactics writer is here as well.

Gentlemen will talk about the trio of transfers in just a moment but let's take a look

back first and J.P. B. Just a couple of weeks ago on this podcast we revisited

the 2002 World Cup people can go back and listen to that if they fancy a trip down memory lane.

It was great fun to do and we had a brilliant reaction to it as well. But that team of Ronaldo,

Ronaldineo, Rivaldo and others of course. The thing that jumped out to me straight away when reflecting on it was why we never saw any of those three in the Premier League. What do you think?

That's a really good question. I think it's probably because at that point the Premier League didn't have the financial dominance

over the other leagues that it has now.

At that point, you know, the World Transfer record would have been Zedan to Real Madrid.

It wasn't common for Premier League teams to go and buy the best established players from other

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