The Big Thing: How Barcelona got their groove back
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
For the last few seasons, Barcelona appear to have been lever-pulling their way towards financial peril - unable to register players and selling off large chunks of their future earnings, while they play in a temporary stadium generating far less matchday revenue than normal. But here they are, riding high at the top of La Liga and playing fantastic soccer as they head into this weekend's Clasico! The TSS Gang investigates...
Oh, and here's the amazing 'Barcelona' song Ryan references in the intro.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big thing on total soccer show, the show where we take our time to dig into one of the biggest topics in the beautiful game. |
| 0:27.1 | Today, we're talking about the place to go for bachelor parties, songs sung by Freddie Mercury and Montserac Caballet and clubs who pull a lot of levers and seem to take huge financial swings and get away with it. |
| 0:38.9 | It's Barcelona. |
| 0:40.3 | It's been a transformational time for the Blaugrana who in the last few years have moved away from the Camp New during its renovation, |
| 0:46.4 | compromised the integrity of the league with their emergency signing of Martin Braithwaite, |
| 0:50.4 | hired and fired a club legend as manager, and made financial decisions that surely give their |
| 0:55.4 | accountants sleepless nights. |
| 0:57.6 | But here they are, playing fantastic soccer under Hansi Flick with a great squad at the top of |
| 1:02.2 | the leaguer, flying high in the Champions League, and looking forward to holding their own |
| 1:06.3 | in the Classico this weekend. |
| 1:09.0 | Today we're looking at Barcelona and how exactly they've landed on |
| 1:12.0 | their feet and what the horizon looks like for them. My name's Ryan Bailey. Join me today to talk |
| 1:17.2 | all things Barcelona. Taylor Rocco, hello Taylor. Hello, Ryan. That was a lovely introduction, |
| 1:22.3 | including informing me that Barcelona is a bachelor party destination. I did not know that and I |
| 1:27.2 | didn't know that song either. I've learned a lot today destination. I did not know that, and I didn't know |
| 1:27.7 | that song either. I've learned a lot today already. Oh, the Barcelona 92 Olympics song with the |
| 1:32.3 | Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballet is a bang of Taylor. You could have made up several of |
| 1:36.5 | those words that I wouldn't know. Graham Muslin's here. Graham, you know, Barcelona, don't you? |
| 1:42.0 | Indeed I do. Now I think you are making it. Hello, Ryan Bailey. I don't you? Indeed I do. Okay, now I think you are making it. |
| 1:46.6 | Hello, Ryan Bailey. |
| 1:50.9 | I don't think those references landed for Joe either, because I saw the look of panic in Joe's face as he thought, wait, we're doing an episode about Barcelona today, right? |
| 1:54.8 | Honestly, the tone from the intro, I was like, wait, are we doing a listener question show? |
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