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Ranks FC - A Football Podcast

The Postbox: Messi Goodbyes, The Paris Globetrotters, Barcelona's Bounce, Lit Ligue 1, Lukaku in London, Spurs' Kanundrum, Interouble and Getting Warnocked

Ranks FC - A Football Podcast

Big Pond Podcasts

Soccer, News, Sports

4.9 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Hello Rank Squad! It's a special week here on Ranks, where we're giving you a wee glimpse into what life is like as part of our Ultras community over on Patreon, where we do two extra episodes a week [https://zencastr.com/publish/Ranks-FC-A-Football-Podcast/episode/patreon.com/ranksfc]. The first of these is the Monday Postbox, where we break down the best (and worst) weekend's action across Europe and beyond, answering your questions on what went down in the world of football . Here's what's inside today's postbox. MESSI  —How can PSG fit all these players into the same side? —Where does the defending come from if it's Messi/Hakimi down the right? —Short and long-term planning in Paris —Is this the mark of Ligue 1's rise to prominence —How do Barcelona look without Messi? —Reaction to Joan Gamper trophy, Memphis, Collado and beyond FRANCE —What a brilliant opening weekend —Monaco, Nice, Lille and Rennes all held —Brilliant Marseille are the most fun team around —PSG's second string against an impressive Troyes side —Lille haven't lost the spirit of last season's campaign! ENGLAND —Chelsea, Lukaku and what constitutes success —Who are the main contenders for the Champions League? —Lautaro, Tottenham, Arsenal and the battle for his signature —Christian Romero and who would be his best partner —Kane's return to training and the tricky situation —Arsenal's pursuit of James Maddison —Are City better than last season with Grealish in for Bernardo & Aguero? —Who will be the first manager to get the boot this year? ITALY —The mercurial rise and fall of Inter —Does Inter's breakdown mean the league loses its edge? —AC Milan: Will they try and play Giroud & Zlatan together? —Demiral to Atalanta - potentially a brilliant bit of business —Mourinho, red cards, and the passion alive at Roma RANDOM —If you could pick one manager in the world to be right now, who would it be? —Celtic, Rangers, Kyogo Furuhashi and is there a title race in the SPL? —Christine Sinclair and the Gold Medal she deserved —Harvey Elliott and fighting for a first team start —Neil Warnock, the Championship and Fulham getting kicked to death If you like what you hear, and you fancy coming to get involved on a permanent basis, we'd love to have you - you can find us over here. [http://www.patreon.com/ranksfc] We'll see you on Wednesday for our full Premier League Preview and on Friday, where we look ahead to the La Liga campaign.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

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0:00.0

Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you're listening to the Ranks FC podcast.

0:40.9

Hello, Rankanks Squad. Welcome to a very special week here on Ranks FC. We're showing you what life is like as a member of our Ultras community on Patreon, where we release two extra episodes every single week. So if you like what you're here across the course of the following five days, the link to come and join the best community in football is in the description.

0:45.4

Every Monday we do a post box where we answer the best of our ultra's questions on football across the globe, from Milan to Miami, Barcelona to Birmingham, Wellington to Warsaw and

0:50.8

beyond. My name is Jack Collins and I will be your host today and joining me as ever as the rank of

0:56.3

Mrs Sam Sai. Yeah, the resident expert on Wellington reporting in. Reporting for duty. Of course.

1:02.2

Dean Jones, Warsaw. I don't think we've ever spoken about Warsaw. I think that is the one place we've

1:07.2

never discussed. Well, okay, fine. What do you know about Leggia Warsaw?

1:11.6

I like the kit a lot, so that's good.

1:13.6

And that's a lot.

1:14.2

We have discussed them because the European adventures have featured.

1:18.2

Well, there you go.

1:18.7

I was wrong.

1:19.2

I was wrong.

1:19.5

So they're wrong as usual.

1:21.8

And look, let's talk about, well, probably the biggest news, apart from our free week here, to happen in football in ages, which is, well, one certain, you know, messy, looking like his days of Barcelona are pretty much done.

1:38.5

Looking like, as soon as he just sobbed in a press conference, I think it's fair.

1:41.3

I mean, you never know.

1:42.3

You can never write it off.

1:43.2

I usually say you never know, and I was a bit, I was like, is that this will turn back around. Like, they'll somehow

1:48.2

re-sign him, but it doesn't really look like it. It doesn't. It doesn't. It's probably got a PSG

1:52.9

shirt on by the time people are listening to him. Well, he's going to be wearing the number 19 questions we asked on Friday, what happens next? Like when we were doing our live

2:00.8

streams, Sam, on YouTube, we were talking about the big question really being what number

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