Nicky Bandini
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1,942 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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He's scored six goals from midfield for them and I think there's been a feeling in Italy that this was kind of his moment to launch to a big move this World Cup.
There's been talk about some of the big clubs in Italy coming in for him and...
Not insignificant amounts of money being thrown around, €30 million type fees for him, which I don't know if some of those, again, is paper talk.
But listen, it's never, it doesn't matter what stage of the career you're in, it's never going to be a nice moment to suffer a horrendous leg break like that.
And it was really encouraging to see him sitting up and giving the thumbs up to the crowd as he went off.
But it does feel like it's an especially awful moment for a young footballer who was on the verge of, I suppose, having that, I don't know, explosion in his career, perhaps.
Yeah, it's an interesting dynamic, isn't it?
Because what he actually said after that first game was, he said, if the coach brings players in and you don't have the discipline for certain positions, then it becomes difficult.
He was basically having a go at Manzambi for, in his not quite so many words, for freelancing, for not doing what the team required.
So that dynamic at the end then of, well, no, the team rules say that I take this penalty and you don't get your hat trick.
It does feel like
a tension there, almost a little power struggle happening, which perhaps you can leverage that and make it a good thing.
But I do fear with that sort of dynamic at a World Cup, these are the things that you all have to live together.
You all have to get on together in a training camp for this period of time.
And it does feel like that's maybe not been resolved or maybe been brought to the fore some more.
It was a slow watch, I would say, at whatever it was by full time, 4 a.m.
local time.
It certainly took its time to come alive, didn't it?
Which is a shame because it was the one of the four games today that I was most looking forward to.
I think it was something like 0.1 XG for each team at halftime.
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