Real Madrid chaos, Mourinho return? & Liverpool: Slot's future
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Barcelona’s La Liga victory, ructions at Real Madrid, the possibility of Jose Mourinho returning to the Bernabeu as manager and Arne Slot’s Liverpool future were all discussed in this episode of the Tifo Football podcast.
This episode of the Tifo football podcast is hosted by Joe Devine, features Mark Carey, Jack Pitt-Brooke & Reuben Pinder and is produced by Steve Hankey.
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00:00 - a Eureka intro
4:58 - Barcelona have won La Liga
6:14 - ruckuses at Real Madrid
17:40 - Real Madrid’s tactical issues
21:54 - a break
21:56 - THE RONDO
25:48 - THE RONDO… again
32:11 - Somehow, Mourinho returned?
48:20 - Marcus Rashford to stay at Barca?
50:47 - a break
50:50 - lacklustre Liverpool draw with inconsistent Chelsea
1:05:39 - Points Are Bad
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Joe Devine. |
| 0:12.4 | And today I'm delighted to be joined by Dr. Mark Carey. |
| 0:16.4 | Good morning, Joe. |
| 0:17.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:17.7 | Very well. |
| 0:18.3 | Also, oh, I'm sorry. |
| 0:19.6 | What did you say? |
| 0:20.2 | Got to ask how you are. Oh, I'm very well. Do you know what? I wasn't expecting. |
| 0:23.2 | Did they never normally do that? They never ask. They never, they don't want to know, do they? No, Ruben Pinder's here, too. Hello. Hello. All right. Oh, thank you. I am well. Also, Jack Pitt Brooks here. |
| 0:35.1 | Hey, Joe. Not a doctor, though. No. No. There you go. Not even close. |
| 0:39.0 | Not even close. Do you have a degree? also Jack Pitt Brooks here. Hey Joe. Not a doctor, though. No. No. |
| 0:37.7 | There you go. |
| 0:38.2 | Not even close. |
| 0:39.0 | Not even close. |
| 0:40.1 | Do you have a degree? Yes. I was just checking. I don't like to bang on about it. No. What did you study? History in politics. Oh, good Lord. No wonder you don't want to bang on about it. Now, what did we talk about today? Well, you know, you could have said anything, and I would have said that. |
| 1:08.8 | Let's start by discussing La Liga. Yes, that's what we did, Steve, wasn't it? La L'League. It's not a Spanish for The League. Let's start by discussing The League. Yeah. Oh, that's interesting. I never thought, of course, it's the League, isn't it? I was doing a joke because that's obvious. I've never thought about that. |
| 1:09.8 | I've genuinely never thought about that. |
| 1:10.9 | I've never thought about that. |
| 1:10.9 | And then Seriat is series A. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah. |
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