Nicky Bandini
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1,942 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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And he named uh Cruif and and mentioned how the Spanish system got overholded he he's positioning himself as the Cruif that that that Italian football needed.
And maybe that will fly with some people, especially given the Milan fans already had that feeling about him.
I think some of us and this was put really well in a piece I was reading by um Amanuele Aturo from Ultimate Warm Up, great writer because saying, if that was really like how you felt the important thing was a decade long project
Then why would you flounce then leave just 'cause you couldn't get your manager right now?
Okay.
If it's a ten year project, fine.
Suck up that you can't have your manager right now and and and and think about the ten year project.
So
There's there's a whole thing going on with Maldini and whether or not he was the right the right ideas.
They've ended up on a manager, Mancini, who probably isn't the worst choice, but certainly isn't
Well listen, he he won the Euros and Italy have failed to qualify for three World Cups.
It's a pretty huge standout success in that chapter.
Um, but it certainly doesn't feel like anything systemic has been done to fix at the moment what we've talked about for a long time.
These are systemic problems.
extraordinary.
Um, extraordinary footballer, extraordinary individual.
Um I actually uh it was one of the things that um
that came up in the interview, of course, Mardini was talking about Brazi and and their connection on the pitch and uh and I think that could he could be seen as a bit cynical him trying to link himself to Brazi, but I think it wasn't.
I think that was just genuine human connection and and and what they meant to each other.
But um yeah, I I I it's it's hard to to to think of something to say about Brazi that hasn't already been said in the in the last few days with all the the beautiful writing that's been done about him.
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