Miguel Delaney
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1,634 appearances
13 recordings
6 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 4d ago
Miguel Delaney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was good with Spain, and I think he started the process of moving them to a core, because they were obsessed with this for a while after 2018, just restoring a more vertical game, getting out of this specific idea they were stuck in.
And they were really good in Euro 2020.
He got to the semifinal, lost to Italy on penalties, probably should have got through.
Then they had a bit of a regression in 2022, but...
Which maybe points to something bigger here in that Luis Enrique was a manager coming in on top of Spain, whereas De La Fuente, he's worked with most of these kids for years.
They're not kids anymore, now they're men.
But he worked them as kids.
And they're not just the closest in terms of a club team as an idea, but also as a kind of a culture, because they've all come together through that way.
And it's sort of amazing, we're still having these discussions, I suppose,
Because I remember all this stuff coming up around the year 2008, and now Scotland have been obsessed with the same discussion.
Why can't we... And it's like Spain have set a best practice.
Even if they don't win, it's the fact that they come back again and again.
Whereas there's still so many other countries kind of wrestling with it.
It does sound like Ireland, the FAI, initial steps have been made.
I mean, obviously a lot of dysfunction.
But I suppose we know what a pathway looks like.
Yeah, and again, I have to say, I was feeling the exact same, because he didn't start the tournament well.
It came after a bit of an erratic season with City by his standards, where he did rise to big games, so he was brilliant in the 2-1 win over Arsenal, but consistently wasn't as good as we've known him.
And I think from that, there were fair questions over how much his cruciate injury affected him.
But now it does seem, in terms of Spain's World Cup, at least as regards to getting to the final, it's one of those situations that kind of, it's ensured his timing, sorry, it's ensured that the timing has actually ended up inadvertently maybe...
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