Chapter 1: What highlights from the Premier League action are discussed?
Welcome to the Goals on Sunday podcast. Joining Cami and me on the sofa this week, former Wolves Everton and City centre-back Julian Lescott. We're going to look at all of Saturday's actions ahead of the title race and of course reminisce about that goal Aguero scored in that title winning season. Enjoy. Good to see you.
Happy Christmas. Thank you, and you? Happy birthday. Yeah, thank you, thank you. It's your second Christmas not playing. How does that feel? Nice. Nice?
Yeah. Same, just off air then.
Chapter 2: How does Joleon Lescott reflect on his time away from football?
Didn't leave the house for two days, which is what everyone else does when they're not playing football.
Yeah. So you're not missing it then?
At this time of year, no.
No?
Not when it's colder than that. No, but obviously got children and that, so just spend time with them and playing all sorts of games.
So you've been there, seen it, done that, and now it's family time.
Yeah, for the time being, yeah, definitely. I'm enjoying that. I'm enjoying spending time with the family. They've sacrificed a lot of time, especially around this time of year, for me over the coming past previous year, so I'm just enjoying that at the moment.
You've rejoined 2018, so you rejoined Manchester City in sort of a mentoring role for all the loan players, is that right?
Yeah, well, I started, I think it was October 17, but then officially... in the 18, year 18, basically there's a group of players that go on loan from Man City. At the moment, the total is 30, I think. And then we kind of designated... Players in between the group of us, there's ten of us that actually look after them and help guide them through whatever situations they face.
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Chapter 3: What role does Joleon Lescott play in mentoring loan players at Manchester City?
So you can certainly see the benefits from it. And would the loan players say that they're feeling the benefits of it as well?
I think the ones that it's worked for, I think that's the case with any scenario. I think the ones that it's worked for, they would see the benefit, and then there's ones that it hasn't worked for and not enjoyed their time away. But as I said, you've also got the safety net, which is not always a good thing of having a parent club.
So you go on loan, it doesn't work, you come back, you think, oh, I'll go again, and I still can go again where there's going to be opportunities now and times in the future where you go on, you just leave a club. and then you're in there, you're in the deep end, and you might not be able to cope with that.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to get everyone's thoughts on that, actually, if you're interested in understanding a bit more about what Jolyon's talking about with the loan system. Do you think it's working? Do get in touch with us, we'll give you the Twitter details in a bit. We're coming towards the end of 2018, so I thought we'd start with a few highlights.
Cammie, what's been your highlight of 2018?
We won a penalty shootout. England won a penalty shootout. Unbelievable. Oh, it was something else. It was really something else. Pickford's save, Cam. Oh, Pickford's saves were magnificent. And then Eric Dier stepped up, didn't he? After Jordan Henderson missed and then scored. That's when Pickford made the saves. You can see Jordan Henderson like...
High as a kite, thank God, you've got me out of trouble. It was an amazing moment though, Jolien. But Gareth Southgate, and he's just been honoured in the New Year, quite rightly so, and brilliant. That was the highlight of my year.
Do you remember that? The World Cup was great, to be fair. The whole tournament was unreal, but England did exceptionally well.
So that was Cammy's highlight. What about your highlight, Jolien?
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Chapter 4: What are the development goals for loan players at Manchester City?
All this season, Jolyon, we've been asking our guests about their favourite Premier League match that they played in, if they can remember back that far. Some of them are a little bit older than you, of course. Tell us about the game that you've gone for.
Yeah, Man City, Aston Villa, the run into when City won the title the first time. I think it was, what, three or four games before the end of the season. We had to kind of win all the games to win the title. Involving that run was... So this is the table at the time.
United had just won, so they'd gone ahead of you, and it was a real scrap that season as well, wasn't it?
Yeah, of course, yeah. As I said, there's... There's obviously games and points to be played for, but we knew that it was in control and we were in control of our own destiny, so we had to kind of win pretty much every game. It was nice, obviously, growing up Villa fan. I had a good scoring record against Aston Villa as well. You did, yeah.
Sometimes, you know, as a player, you go to games and you think, I may get a chance today. And that was one of them games.
You're feeling that way.
Yeah.
And, of course, having had United win that, that adds a little bit of pressure.
Yeah, of course, but pressure you expect. There's no easy titles won. You earn them, so we knew we kind of had to earn this one.
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Chapter 5: How do loan players benefit from their time away from their parent club?
The Town Hall was kind of hired out by the club, and they had a party that every member of staff was involved in. It was great. That's something I'll remember for the rest of my life.
And it came in your third season. Were you starting to worry that it wasn't going to happen, that you might not get that title? Because there was so much expectation on the club.
Yeah, but the fact that you'd not won titles or trophies in previous, what, 30-something years, to get a group of players together and then win it within three years is a credit to the owners, to the manager at the time, and then the players. Obviously, it was documented at the time, I've said it before, that we was only... seemed to go to Manchester City for money, all of us.
There was no talk of title like hopes, the ambition. And that was kind of a driving force within the group. So these are the signings that all came in with you at the time? The bargain, yeah. Yeah. As I said, the recruitment that year was great. And one of them names there, a hero of mine, Gareth Bray, was like an unsung hero. And as I said, we're all friends, all of us still now.
So that was a special time for us all.
And Vincent Kompany, who was there when you got there, I mean, the partnership that you had with him, I was listening to a really great podcast that you did talking about sort of what an influence he had on you and what a character he was.
Yeah, Vinnie's just like, he's a natural leader. Even before he was given the armband, he was there to kind of lead the group and... give his knowledge. He's a very intelligent person and player. He leads and plays with his heart on his sleeve. I've said it before, him, Nigel and Michael Richards, the first training sessions I was there, I'll always remember the intensity they train with.
That was a surprise to me. I thought, you cannot play and train like that every day, and they did. That's the reason why they've had great careers and won the titles.
Just amazing. Do you think, though, that Sheikh Mansour and the amount of money and infrastructure they've created at the club, they're still as engaged and they're still as keen? I think so.
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Chapter 6: What were the highlights of 2018 for the guests?
Yeah, it's key. Winners of that game, let's say the winners of that game.
The winners of Thursday's game will win the league. That's a good way of sort of hedging your bets a little bit, isn't it? Sadly, we're out of time, Jolyon. Thank you very much for joining us. We've got a cheeky line next week, haven't we? We have indeed, yeah. No goals on Sunday. You get a rest from us. Get a rest, thank goodness. We'll see you the week after, though. Have a great one. Bye-bye.