Carl Anka
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1,124 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Carl Anka’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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His playing relationship with Harry Kane has improved, I'd say, since Euro 2024 and indeed the last World Cup in Qatar.
There are fewer times where Bellingham is going off the ball when Kane can't quite get there and the shape is voided.
And they just trust each other innately now.
There's a moment towards the end of that game when Bellingham's run over to Jed Spence, which sort of shakes him.
I'm going, my God, there's the brotherhood.
That might get you a World Cup.
Yeah, I put Baleem just ahead.
Just ahead of this performance.
I'm still... Well, his defensive contributions as well.
This is not to say Harry Kane shies away from doing dirty work in his own penalty area.
But sometimes I think we get too focused on the fact that Jude Baleem scores loads of goals.
And we forget that he's also phenomenal at all of the other midfield stuff.
There's a reason why he wore 22 when he was at Birmingham in...
The whole conversation when he was in that academy was he wanted to be good at everything you want from a central midfielder.
And he is good at everything you want from a central midfielder.
And he's also scoring goals like he's Alan Shearer somehow.
Liam Tharm tweeted partway through the game about how one of the conversations has often been, who's going to replace Harry Kane when Harry Kane is no longer the centre forward?
And Liam Tharne made the point that you could do a lot worse than just move him due belly him up to the number nine.
Carlyle and Charlotte used him at the top of a 4-4-2 midfield diamond when they won the La Liga and Champions League and he just kept crashing the box and basically played as a nine.
And there have been times where you're looking at him and going, that is proper, classic centre-forward play.
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