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Guillem Balagué

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The News Agents
Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

Because I believe that if he hadn't played for Arsenal, the first couple of years probably would have led to him leaving the same way Unai Emery did a year earlier.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

So, yeah, I don't know.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

It feels quite strange.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

I think they've got a really significant summer replacing some real key talent, losing the likes of Canarte, you know, Salah going as well, and Robertson going.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

But here comes this new manager.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

But again, they're a long way from being ready for the new season.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

To be honest, what I like about this is the fact that we are talking about, say, the four Spanish managers, but they're all different.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

They're all different in terms of their backstory in England, their backstory, say, for their careers, and also the way that they play football, because you could argue that all four managers have a very different style.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

I think probably 10, 15, 20 years ago, we're talking about like a Spanish style, it's possession-based, it's this, it's that.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

I think Erol is very different to that.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

Erol is a very front foot manager, high turnovers, winning the ball back high, not so much about keeping possession.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

Then you've got the Alonso with success that he's had, especially in Germany with something like a back three, which isn't something we'd associate with Spanish football as such.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

And then you have Arteta who spent, was it 12, 13 years of his actual career playing in the UK, playing for Rangers, playing for Everton, playing for Arsenal.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

And you see the way that he sees football now.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

Again, it almost doesn't feel Spanish.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

But the question is, will there be four bus managers?

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

in the premier league at the end of next season given the pressures of some why don't you answer your own question because i'm not a time traveler and i do not know the answer but it but it is interesting because you could argue for as much as there's more instability there i would say alonso in some ways will have the easier job footballing wise because they're not in europe the nirola

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

because they're not in Europe.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

Of the four, I'll say of the four.

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Who's lying in Madrid's Presidential race, Iraola & the Premier League's Basque Revolution - The Sports Agents

I'll say of the four, just because they're not in Europe.