Guillem Balague
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784 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Guillem Balague’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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With the help of sporting directors and et cetera, sure, but they just know exactly what they need to...
what kind of player they need to make this team better.
So when Luis Enrique and Luis Campos go and find Joy Neves, for example, who's an 18-year-old from Benfica, who not many people have heard of, it's because they just know exactly for the kind of football they want to play and this relationalism that is very in trend right now that Luis Enrique is doing.
So all those variations, all that movement, all those permutations.
If you go and get this...
tiny, young Portuguese who's never come out of Portugal before, but he's maybe the smartest player you would ever play with or coach, then you know this is perfect for what you need.
And Mikel Arteta has done exactly the same with his Arsenal squad.
Let's not forget, because we talked about Luis Enrique and Pep Guardiola, who usually have inherited, certainly for PhD and Man City, some top squads even before they made it better by investing more and by improving those players.
Mikel Arteta arrived, and we said that on Sunday from a league show before, and it's not a dig at Rob Holding or Socrates or Mustafi, players like that.
But this is the kind of players that, when Mikel Arteta arrived at Arsenal, were in the squad.
When you look at his first squad and the current squad, it's day and night, obviously.
And I think this is also a big part of the success, is that they know exactly who to get that will improve their team.
The way Pacho moved from Frankfurt in Germany to PSG like he did, I mean, there was not many people in France, for example, who knew about him when he was signed and made that step up, which I guess is the same when he left to go to Belgium and made that step up.
Then from Belgium to Bundesliga, it's another step up.
And then Bundesliga to PSG and the Champions League.
Did you always thought that he had that, having that capability of making that step up every time and raising his own level?
You also mentioned Moses Caicido, the Chelsea midfielder, who also came from your academy.
Why is he in the water at Independiente del Valle?
Because it's not just them three.
We can mention others that went through your academy and then went to Europe and everything.
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