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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Football Daily · Euro Leagues: Perez’s ‘disaster-class’, Mourinho’s Real return, and Como’s UCL challenges · 14 May 2026 podcast

We're not going to go back again on what happened.

I think we explained it really well on the show at the time.

And then you bring Jose, who could be very charming and very close to the players and have that kind of, I'm defending you here, don't worry, I always have your back kind of mentality, which is fine.

Although that was when he was really good, which was a long time ago, by the way, let's not forget that.

Or he could also just explode in two, three, four, five, six months even, because that dressing room might struggle with...

Mourinho's methods, Mourinho's personality, the fact that how difficult Mourinho could be at times.

On one hand, I can understand somebody like Casillas saying, I don't want him to come back here.

I don't think he's the right fit.

And I kind of agree with that.

On the other hand, just for the popcorn and for the kind of Hollywood scenario that we could actually see very soon, I want him to come back and just see what happens.

And maybe we'll be surprised in the way that it could work.

somehow I've got my doubts on this both on the pitch off the pitch tactically and with the players that he will have with him but also the whole rebuilding thing that he will have to do now because we expect quite a lot of players to leave and obviously if many leave like 6, 7, 8 then obviously 6, 7 and 8 will also arrive and I'm not sure he's the right guy for that to have that kind of squad gelling with newcomers but I'm very happy to just patiently sit down and wait and just observe

Really?

I can't really see it, but I can't wait for it, to be honest.

I really want to see if at some point, you know, two...

I was going to say alpha male, but we used that word already.

So let's say two very strong personalities can say, actually, we have to make this work now because you can't go again in a season where things are going wrong and when you change again after six months.

And, you know, we talked before with Guillaume about...

What Mikel Arteta has done at Arsenal, for example, in the space of six years, and Mourinho won't have six years anyway, but it was different context.

Change the culture, change the identity from top to bottom.

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