Trippier: Simeone, Man Utd Offer & Spurs Secrets | Overlap Exclusive
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🗓️ 15 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Join us for an exclusive interview with Kieran Trippier on The Overlap, brought to you by Sky Bet.
Gary Neville joins Kieran to discuss a wide range of topics, from his experiences playing for Newcastle United to his time with the England national team. Kieran shares insights into his life on and off the pitch, including his adventures playing abroad and his thoughts on the future of English football.
As the conversation unfolds, Kieran and Gary delve into the upcoming football season, discussing Newcastle's ambitions and England's prospects in international tournaments.
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| 0:00.0 | I still speak to some of them now, but I sort of blinded from it at the time where, you know, |
| 0:04.0 | I was doing all right at Berlin and I was going out thinking it's the right thing to do. |
| 0:08.0 | But when I moved to London with my wife, looking back now is the best thing that ever happened in my career for sure. |
| 0:17.0 | Why was it Newcastle? Why here? |
| 0:20.0 | Everyone raised their eyebrows. I took less money coming into Newcastle than I did at Madrid. |
| 0:23.6 | Looking back at some pictures, I looked like I swallowed about three pillars. |
| 0:27.6 | You know when you just know, don't you? When your time's up, it's up. |
| 0:31.6 | You don't play for the money. It's more for the pure enjoyment of playing football. |
| 0:36.6 | I want you to start this in. for the money. It's more for the pure enjoyment of playing football. |
| 0:43.3 | I wanted to start this interview with Athletical Madrid because it fascinates me at that movie. |
| 0:45.3 | I was all, at the time, I actually felt quite proud that an English, |
| 0:50.3 | intrigued and proud that an English defender would be able to go over and operate under Simone, which... |
| 0:57.0 | It's tough. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah, I played a game against him, by the way, when I was in Spain, Valencia. |
| 1:03.4 | The Beatles 2-0, and it was an experience. |
| 1:06.7 | I felt like I was being suffocated, as in on the touchline he was there, he was imposing, he was aggressive. He walked past me at the end of the game, didn't shake my hand, and was almost like dismissive. I thought, you are one horrible, good. Yeah, but if you play for him, it's... Yeah, so I was thinking, how did that come about to start with? To be honest, I think, obviously, when it was the 2018 World Cup, you know, I thought had a decent tournament, say it was my first one, and then maybe in that time, the season after, I didn't really know how to have maybe handle the pressures of, you know, being more known and things like that. And then that season I didn't really do too well. |
| 1:44.8 | You know, I'm the first to admit that I didn't go to the Nations League with England. |
| 1:48.4 | You know, I had a good chat with Gareth, which I knew anyway. |
| 1:50.9 | And then, yeah, you know, there was a few clubs, to be fair. |
| 1:53.0 | Like, I weren't expecting, like, teams in Italy with Antrolotti and Napoli. |
| 1:57.0 | It was nearly done there. |
| 1:58.0 | And then out of nowhere, Madrid came in. And, you know, I went back to preseason with Tottenham. |
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