Carl Anka
speaker
2,705 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Carl Anka’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 15 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 7.
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So I think I did, I tried doing some maths and it was something around 668 appearances before turning 30.
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And that's a very crude metric for,
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Cristiano Ronaldo had 710 before turning 30.
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Yeah.
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Now, you can make the argument that for players that do play loads of minutes before turning 30, if your game is predominantly reliant on pace, that's going to be the real downturn.
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You lose your burst of pace and it's not going to be fun anymore.
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Neymar hasn't looked as good anymore because he's lost his burst of pace.
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Paul Pogba...
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Body seems to have fallen apart.
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Tielemann's game isn't predominantly based on pace.
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It's largely based on his incredible match-reading intelligence.
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This is a football player who, yes, he's a very good box-to-box player.
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He can be a deepest midfielder, and he can be a playmaker too.
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So I'm not expecting him to play the majority of the 60.
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Hopefully, games might just not apply.
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But what is good is that when he does come on, we know he's going to offer a lot of quality.
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I think this is, to my mind, this is a signing that has...
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He should be all right.
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He does need a bodyguard, which again, I think we'll get into that conversation about the mythical third midfielder, either today or on another podcast.
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Yeah, I think it's worth noting that Tielemann's deal, that's hitting his release clause.
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