The Best of Goals on Sunday – 3rd March
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Welcome to the Goals on Sunday podcast. Gus Poirier is joining Cam and me on the sofa this week to talk through the trials and tribulations of management. Most recently, he's been all over the world, but Bordeaux was his last club and it didn't end quite how he'd want it to. We also find out what his favourite game is and it's a belter for Chelsea fans. They beat United 5-0 back in 1999. We talk through all the major talking points from the Premier League and look forward to what could be a fantastic end to the Premier League season. Enjoy. How are you guys?
What challenges did Gus Poyet face in his managerial career?
It's been a long time since we've seen you.
Very good. It's been, yeah, three years, probably. Yeah, it has. I try to go away from a little bit, and I've been everywhere.
All over the world, sort of globetrotting.
Yes, I think sometimes, I don't know if you agree, you are in one football for so many years, you get, like... Every day the same and I wanted to open up a little bit And my idea was to go somewhere and I finished in Greece, Spain, China, France.
Crikey.
Not bad.
Did you speak the language of all of them? No Chinese. You speak Chinese fluently?
Chinese? No, no.
Did you have a go? Because obviously you're good at languages. You've spoken plenty of languages over the years. Was that the one that really stumped you?
Yeah, Chinese was impossible. And to be honest, you try a little bit in the beginning, you know, with all the stuff we've got nowadays, iPads and things, but no chance. No chance. I think you need to really learn when you are young. Maybe we can, but you need really time to do it. To get in there and get stuck in.
Did you know that you weren't the first Uruguayan to play in the Premier League?
Yes, it was... Do you remember who it was? Well, not Premier League, England, top division. Aye, aye, yeah, I remember the name. Aye. A Uruguayan international? Yeah, you would kill me. Played for Ipswich? Yeah, no, no, no, but I know the name, the problem, I don't remember now. I'm getting old. Would you like me to put you out of your misery?
Come on. It was Adrian Paz. Adrian Paz, here he is.
He played with Mauricio Tarrico, with my... Your assistant? With my assistant. Good right wing. I played with him. We trained together. Oh, did you? In the national team. In the national team, it was very good that we were not able to play. Not him, not me. We were just in the group. Just in the group, yeah. There were two good, Francesco Liz and Ruben Sosa.
But what's interesting was that the year after he left the Premier League, he went to China and he went and played in China as well, back in 1995. So he blazed the trail for you, Gus. Can you imagine what it was like back in, if you've been there more recently, what it was like in 95?
I can imagine, yes. And probably not the same.
Once again, Gus, we've got you on, but we're talking about someone else.
No, it's good. You were the second. You were the second. What have you made of the Premier League so far this season, Gus?
Incredible. I think it's good to have two or three teams, or two now, going for the title. The things that they can change when you change managers, for good or for bad, United, all the teams. That's the click that you need with the players nowadays. I think society changed completely and football is part of the society. So us, maybe a little bit older characters from the previous generation, we need to adapt a lot to the new people now. A lot. I mean, it's totally different. We cannot compare. You know, when we always say, Chris, we know, you know as well. Things that happen in the dressing room, dies there. Now everything is coming out, almost.
Everything.
Everything is coming out. It's too many things. We used to lose, you know, people will stay in the dressing room in silence for ages or a few hard words in there. Now after five minutes, it's music and people taking pictures and filming themselves. It's another society. We can say easily it's wrong. But they are different. They are different. And somehow, even if it hurts, you need to get into that and accept that it's a different way of living.
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