Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday the first contested Presidential elections at Real Madrid for 20 years will take place, so Gabby, Mark & Nedum are joined by Spanish football writer Guillem Balague to discuss some of the false promises being made on the campaign trail...
Will any of Erling Haaland, Rodri, Jose Mourinho or Jurgen Klopp head to the Bernabeu this summer?
And as Liverpool edge closer to appointing Andoni Iraola - four of the biggest clubs in the Premier League will be managed by coaches from the Basque country - what's so unique about football culture there and how did such a tiny region of Northern Spain produce so many top coaches?
Plus, the guys answer some of your World Cup questions - including which presenter is most likely to get arrested in US?
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| 0:35.6 | Football in this land is a little bit like a cartoon. |
| 0:39.2 | Realistically, Holland isn't going to go there, |
| 0:41.3 | and this is the bit that's going to get clipped up when he does go there. |
| 0:45.2 | And you remember what Lys Figo did before the elections? |
| 0:48.1 | Massive cover in Catalan newspaper, sports saying, |
| 0:51.1 | It's All a Lie. |
| 0:52.6 | We're now in a situation where a fifth of the Premier League's managers next season will be Basque. |
| 0:58.8 | You know, a lot of what I'm saying about the Basque culture feeds the Liverpool culture, no? |
| 1:05.0 | So anyway, closest you've ever come to getting arrested. |
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