What-ifs: Arsenal Had Hired Cruyff, Abramovich Bought Portsmouth, Ibrahimovic Never Joined Barca, and Bayern Signed Neymar | Stadio Podcast

Stadio: A Football Podcast

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Musa and Ryan take another stroll through alternate soccer universes, beginning with what if Roman Abramovich had decided to buy Portsmouth, instead of Chelsea (03:30) in 2003. They then discuss what would have happened had Arsenal hired Johan Cruyff, not Arsène Wenger in 1996 (18:30), the Barcelona board hadn’t sanctioned a deal for Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2009 (34:26), and Neymar had joined Pep Guardiola’s Bayern instead of Barcelona in 2014 (46:20). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kana. Sorry. Oh, Hello and Ryan,
0:23.0	Ryan,
0:25.0	welcome back to the Stadio Podcast and Ringer FC.
0:28.0	I'm Misupkwanger.
0:31.0	I'm Ryan Hunt. C, I'm Meissau Kwanger. I'm Ryan, how are you doing?
0:34.0	How am I doing? Well at the point of recording I'm doing okay.
0:38.6	How are you doing? Actually I'm laughing because I was just about to wear my yellow studio
0:44.8	t shirt this morning. I was like, no, like don't do that. That would be a bit like,
0:48.3	I think you're wearing your yellow studio t-shirt. It would have been like the
0:52.1	Spider-Man meme when we're pointing each other.
0:54.0	Hey, it's you, your studio, no your studio.
0:59.0	Except you're far more talented.
1:00.0	Anyway, move on.
1:01.0	At what exactly? At what exactly?
1:03.0	At what exactly?
1:04.0	At many things.
1:05.0	Self-promotion maybe.
1:07.0	Stop here.
1:08.0	Marketing.
1:09.0	Moose or go on a marketing genius.
1:11.0	The worst at marketing.
1:12.0	You're good at marketing your friends. I don't know if people who
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