Kane on target, Barcelona stay perfect and Ballon d’Or debate – Football Weekly
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What are the opening topics and guests introduced at the start of the episode?
This is the Guardian.
Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly, a Europod with a panel of Galacticos. Part one, Sid is here for part one. Talk Bars' flying star, and if Jose is settling things down at Real, the Serie A, Brit Watch, Stones, Chalaber, Winks, Bowie, as well as Lazio top of the table, despite chaos off the pitch. In Germany, they're talking up Harry Kane, Ballon d'Or, while in France, PSGF 15th, they always do this. Short intro, big panel. This is the Guardian Football Weekly.
Welcome to the Galactic Host. Philippe Oclair, bonjour Savard.
Bonjour Sava. And may I correct you immediately, Max? Parry Paris Saint-Germain, after their uh crappy little victory, are now seventh in the tape.
Okay,
well that
does take away a a lot of the sting of the intro. I mean, really, a professional would re-record it, but we don't do that here. I want to keep you have to. You have to for integrity's purposes, you have to keep this stuff in, but I will have many people fired. Um uh the racing post, Mark Langdon, hello. Hi Max also
if this is the sort of galacticos, I feel like the uh pavon um in the Zidane of Sid, Nicki and Philly. So
uh
I'll take it. Hey, they're always needed. They're always needed. Uh Nicki Mandini, hello.
Good morning.
And welcome, uh part one, Sid. Hey Sid. Good morning. Right well let's start we we better start with you, Sid. It'd be good if we did the Bundesliga
in part one. It would be brilliant. Can I just talk about Harry Kane? You know what? I I'd actually really like to talk about Harry Kane, if only so that I can be involved in a discussion that isn't tiresome about how Killin Mbappé or Lamin Yamal has to win the Ballon d'Or. I'd like to talk about someone else winning it.
Go on then. Well we start with that and then you have to save to do the Spain bit. I've got that wrong, haven't I? Yeah, sorry, I'm not sure. Extra five minutes. I mean I don't care who wins the ballon d'or mark, but Harry Kane's record is good. Like I Do you think he'll I still don't think he'll win it. I still think I I reckon footballing
snobbs won't give it to him. But he's got a very bad record in this. I don't think he's ever finished in in the top ten in the voting. Like you could argue he the season individually w was great for him, um, but you know, the World Cup um you know finished at the semifinal, they didn't win the Champions League. And I I think as Sid alluded to there, um Laminha Mau was spent kind of this weekend saying, It can only be me or Killian Mbappe and like Harry Kane just isn't as famous and doesn't uh he he doesn't talk in in that kind of way either. And I I think the Ballon d'Or, you do have to do um, you know, the political voting and the kind of being seen in in, you know, saying the right things and and Kane doesn't do that.
But there is also this um I I think certainly in the background that the feeling that Kane is quite a strong favourite, um, despite what Laminha Mal thinks. In fact
you're saying to them, be more like Janine Fantino. Maneuver the dark recesses of international football. Go and talk to each member of the jury. That would take you a while. It would cost a lot of money as well. Uh my money my money if I were putting money on it would be on Hurkane. Still. I think there's a feeling as well within the because don't forget it's the football journalists which use the panel door, there's a feeling that this guy um deserves more recognition. That what he's achieved with Bayern is absolutely astonishing. I mean the w we're gonna talk about the bully later, but here he is. I I have to say I when I read that he had just scored his a hundred and fiftieth goal for Bayern Munich, I could barely believe it.
Like what? Hundred and fifty goals. And England actually were not rubbish at the World Cup and uh all these things put together and he's got he's got a nice image. Kiki Kiki's not going to get it, he's ruffled too many feathers. Uh but Yamal if he carries on like because the the voting is still going on, right? So um If Yamel carries on what he does. But I think I would vote for Harry Cade myself.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What are the opening topics and guests introduced at the start of the episode?
0:00–5:48
2
How do the panelists assess Harry Kane’s chances of winning the Ballon d’Or?
5:48–19:34
3
Why is Barcelona’s perfect start to the season generating so much buzz?
19:34–33:20
4
What impact has Rafinha had on Barcelona’s attacking play?
33:20–48:09
Speakers
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