Rory Smith
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1,580 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Rory Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think the job now is too big for them to... Black Chris isn't, obviously, but well, the managers had a lot to do when I was playing as well.
But the...
The job is too big for them to be doing that as well.
Those deals are too complicated and there's too many staff.
You know, the organisations are massive.
I think it's very unlikely that there's many clubs out there where the manager's not part of those conversations, whether that's Arteta and... So it's kind of semantics here, though, isn't it?
There is a structure around them that does a lot of that stuff for them, but the centrepiece of the structure is the manager.
Yeah, that seems to be the way that those clubs are run.
Strikes me it would take an enormous amount of strength of character to continue to think like that, as you say, in the years afterwards when you're kind of on loan and you're looking at City becoming this kind of all-conquering force.
To not look at that as a hinge point at which things can change for you.
It just strikes me as being genuinely amazing not to have any resentment about that.
But that might be because I'm a very bitter person.
Like you were watching an era end more broadly, though, that Salah's one of the most recognisable players the Premier League's had for the last 10 years.
Guardiola has obviously reshaped City, the Premier League, English football.
He has been, I think, probably the defining character of the last 10 years of the Premier League.
And I can't remember...
Another day like that, other than maybe when Ferguson stepped down at Man United, when it felt like something was shifting, something was changing.
That's the only real comparison I can think of.
And I remember being at Huddersfield when Wenger left.
But by that stage, it was four years too late and Arsenal were trying to finish fourth.
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