David O'Leary
speaker
967 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 14 May
David O'Leary’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Jimmy asked me, could he come train?
I said, of course you can.
And we sell Jimmy.
I remember going down, we played Chelsea this Saturday, Gary, flew down to Lisbon on a Sunday to watch Jimmy playing the Mickey Mouse game, middle of nowhere.
I thought, he'll do.
And that, 12 million.
Jimmy came back from a World Cup and said, I want to leave.
He wanted more money.
I'll tell you a story and Jimmy can come back.
When you have a top player, you don't want to lose him, because if you lose him, it puts you under pressure, you've got to buy him.
And we didn't sell Jimmy, or I didn't get rid of Jimmy, and he would become a bad player.
He went on to Gladio Madrid and did what Jimmy was doing, scored goals and really top player.
Went to Chelsea and was top player.
So we didn't get rid of him.
Jimmy came back and demanded, I can only believe Peter Ridgedale, who was a generous man and wanted to give players what they wanted.
money that the club couldn't afford.
We didn't find Atletico Madrid.
His agent found them out of the blue and gave them the money.
I think one thing we did benefit from, and I think Peter Ridgely did a great deal, I've been told, is because of Atletico's finances, they couldn't spread it over three years, we had to get all that money up front.
And we were able to buy a few players and spread the cost that way.
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