Ben Symes

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6,538 appearances 88 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Sep

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OTB Football · THE GREEN SCENE: Squad picks for international window | Finn Azaz debate | Parrott benched but Abankwah nets in San Siro · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

that.

Yeah,

Well, I would always say that playing first team football is

There's no substitute for it.

So like he might he playing Liverpool Academy which is obviously outstanding, but you cannot compare that to first team football and

I just think there's a lot to be said for

Being willing to go and try it.

Being willing to go, God, I've seen so many players go down the leagues in England and they can kinda wither away and they get a little bit lost and then their contract inevitably runs out with the Premier League club that they're owned by and they might get picked up by someone who's struggling in League One.

For a player like that who's like a really tricky, skilful dribbler, his dribbling is outstanding.

This is really encouraging for me.

The goal

Like knew the dribbling ability that he had, but didn't know what the Anne Proud was like.

And he scored six goals in the league, scored three goals in the cup as well.

Uh like yeah, like I don't know.

You say that he's not gonna be, you know, somewhere in the senior squad.

I know that Cote d'Ivoire are

very, very strongly keen uh keen on him, I will say, would be the words I would use.

Um they are very aware of the performances that he was already even putting in in the Liberal Academy.

And I believe they may have even tried to make contact with him.

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