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Messi Nets Three & A Closer Look At Yan Diomande | The Breakfast Wrap

17 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates from the World Cup?

2.765 - 29.38

Keitetään kahvit. Mikä ihana lause. Saa hengähtää ja unohtaa hetkeksi huolet ja hommat. Siinä mieli virkistyy ja sydän kevenee ja kuulee maukkaimmat jutut. Tai saa vain hetken olla ja nauttia. Arkea ikä kaikki. Ja se on hyvä niin. Eloveena. Täyttä eloa.

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30.524 - 45.352 José Ramón Fernández

Once upon a time there was a pessimist, an optimist and a sadist. The pessimist was always afraid of the worst. The optimist wished for the best and even thought too much. What about the sadist?

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45.613 - 49.36 Bruno Satin

Well, the sadist succeeded. The sadist succeeds!

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Chapter 2: How did Messi perform in the recent match?

50.622 - 70.438 Neil Atkinson

It is the Breakfast Wrap. Neil Atkinson with John Gibbons and Rob Gutman on this Wednesday morning for you. Already people in the comments letting us know. Traffic is building near Ipswich Airport. Rumours, Paul Gorborn says here, rumours in the area suggest it's to depart. It's for my departure for my summer break. People wanting to come and say bon voyage, John.

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70.979 - 74.605 Neil Atkinson

That's what Paul reckons is going on. But I'm not flying from Ipswich. It just wouldn't have been cost effective.

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74.585 - 83.622 John Gibbons

I didn't even know they had an airport. I didn't know they had an airport either. So there we are. I mean, it's handy for Ed Sheeran, I guess, flying in for games. But yeah, fair play.

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Chapter 3: What insights do we have on Liverpool target Yan Diomande?

83.643 - 85.867 Rob Gutmann

What destinations does Ipswich Airport do?

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86.047 - 91.057 John Gibbons

We'll find out after one of the breaks. New York. Because you never really see it as an option, do you?

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91.077 - 91.177 Neil Atkinson

No.

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91.257 - 97.369 John Gibbons

When you're booking a package holiday or whatever. Rarely offers you Ipswich, I would say. No, not as often as you'd think.

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97.349 - 106.427 Neil Atkinson

Ian McPhee has already been on to let us know that the traffic is getting busy around Heaton Park in North Manchester as park life preparation begins, so that's all going on as well.

106.527 - 117.568 John Gibbons

It's festival season, I just had a bit of jiggery down there because obviously we've got on the waterfront this weekend, so every now and again they'll just put something on solely to make it harder for us to get to work.

117.548 - 118.97 Neil Atkinson

Oh, they love that.

118.99 - 131.264 Rob Gutmann

I'm not happy about that. I just walked past it. It's just like there's a prison camp being set up on the pier head. We've got this beautiful, iconic waterfront and they've set up like a stalag something on our waterfront where Weller's going to play or something.

Chapter 4: What are the implications of Messi's hat trick for football fans?

132.125 - 133.507 John Gibbons

It is Weller, isn't it?

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133.567 - 136.65 Neil Atkinson

Yeah, it is Weller. Capaldi is, I think.

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136.67 - 151.066 John Gibbons

No, he's on in Sefton Park. It's Capaldi, Sefton Park. Yeah, so you got confused because on said... borders that they're advertising Capaldi. But that's for September. Red Vogue coming on Friday night. Good little band. Still tickets available for that if you want to go see Red Vogue coming Friday. That'll be good.

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151.106 - 152.807 Neil Atkinson

You're allowed out of the prison complex.

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153.228 - 159.494 John Gibbons

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, there is something about it that kind of feels... We could see it from our office.

Chapter 5: How does Yan Diomande fit into Liverpool's plans?

159.554 - 175.62 Rob Gutmann

Hey, let's put some music on the iconic waterfront, but let's come everyone in so they're inside a prison. They could be anywhere in the fucking world. I think they can see the water from inside. They can see a bit of water. Not from the sides, they can't, because that's all. I mean, from inside, they get a little view of Birkenhead, basically.

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175.64 - 185.119 Neil Atkinson

You've got that bit. You can see it from in there. It is worth bearing that in mind. Went late to the World Cup, by the way, John. I think Austria and Jordan were still playing when I woke up.

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185.099 - 214.313 Neil Atkinson

uh yeah so when i woke up uh there was a football match happening live and i just couldn't engage with it whatsoever it was not like when the cricket's on in australia and then and you do get straight away you're putting test my special no not at all i didn't think that's be a gay like i was thinking i'll check what's happened overnight or messi scored a hat trick oh oh what what's this austria versus jordan now come on uh something's gone wrong here it's a bit lots of injury time but no i wasn't expecting it and they it came as a real shock to me so the world cup went late

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214.293 - 216.617 Neil Atkinson

yesterday. Did you catch much of it?

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216.637 - 221.986 John Gibbons

Yeah, I watched France-Senegal live, which was an interesting game.

Chapter 6: What are the challenges Liverpool might face in the transfer market?

222.027 - 236.031 John Gibbons

Obviously, France, much better second half, sort of exploded into auction. A really nice Bacola goal for fans in Liverpool who might be buying it. He took it really well. For a lad who's apparently got no own product, he took it beautifully.

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236.011 - 252.94 John Gibbons

I know it was a great run and finish a really really good goal Mbappe was awful first half and then great great second which was into Eliseo's brilliance he's so good they've got a lot of good players haven't they yeah they have they keep saying like that and somehow still Mbappe

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252.92 - 257.01 Neil Atkinson

Yeah, Rabiot somehow playing centre mid. What? Rabiot still playing centre mid for France.

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257.211 - 268.279 John Gibbons

Is Mars in the stands? Maybe she's picking the team. Because it makes more sense than almost any other. Yeah, so it's world-class players and Rabiot. He's not a bad player. Will he put the ball through for Barclay? Yeah, he's...

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Chapter 7: How does the current World Cup affect player valuations?

268.259 - 283.376 John Gibbons

He's probably not as old as you think. He's probably in his late 20s. But yeah, so I watched that live, and then I watched a tiny bit of Norway, then went to bed, but watched the highlights this morning. So the best thing in my life at the moment is getting up in the morning and me and my lads watching the highlights from the games.

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283.756 - 295.549 John Gibbons

So I've been really good at not finding out, but I woke up quite early this morning, so I went on my phone and I saw a message called a hat trick, and I was like, I just can't wait for my lads. My lads are going to lose this shit.

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295.529 - 317.993 John Gibbons

because he loves Messi like he loves Argentina because he met Alexis McAllister once but like he's on to like Messi and like the greatness and in school they have like who's better Messi or Ronaldo debates and stuff like that and he didn't really understand it for a while but now he's like team Messi rightly so is anyone still team Ronaldo yeah surprisingly there were quite a lot of people surely only seven year olds

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317.973 - 320.157 John Gibbons

Well, I mean, he knocks him out with a lot of them.

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320.397 - 326.729 Rob Gutmann

Yeah, he does knock him out with a lot of them. You can say CR7, which is cooler than Messi, if you're seven, I think.

326.929 - 329.033 Neil Atkinson

Yeah. Say CR7 again.

329.113 - 330.335 Rob Gutmann

CR7. Excellent stuff.

330.616 - 331.618 John Gibbons

So, yeah.

Chapter 8: What can we expect from Liverpool’s summer transfer strategy?

332.018 - 349.869 John Gibbons

So I was, like, really excited for him. And then we got down there, we watched it, and then Messi just started scoring. And he's, like, jumping up and down. But then my daughter got really into it as well. I think it's because she's got a little Into Miami kit with Messi on the back because it's pink. Yeah. Of course, I think I'd gateway her into a fussy kit. So she's got one of those.

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349.969 - 370.423 John Gibbons

So she was just chanting Messi and it was just lovely. I mean, my poor wife was trying to work. So it was a fucking nightmare for her. because she works from home and starts at seven. But yeah, we were having a scream. My lad's just going mad because he's just excited. My boy, he's excited about life. He's one of his best qualities. He's excited. He's just into it.

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370.603 - 375.992 John Gibbons

So he's like screaming his head off. My daughter, his folks go, mercy, mercy. And I'm like, this is fucking brilliant.

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375.972 - 397.474 Rob Gutmann

what a start to the day it's a weird parallel universe the World Cup you think about it where you've got a football tournament that's been taken credibly that's got Messi Ronaldo and even fucking Rabiot playing it's almost like a legends tournament do you know what I mean it's not like real football because those two players incredible as they are they're not getting a game in Europe anymore are they not at the high level Messi is is he yeah

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398.028 - 423.9 John Gibbons

I'm not sure I think he's I think he's saved a lot of his energy from this but Messi's so good I think he's I think he's massively benefiting from not you know playing not playing as much sort of intense football and I think he picks and chooses sort of a little bit as well which doesn't always go down well because you know if he's playing away they've hacked the tickets up because Messi's mentality doesn't turn up I know there's been a little bit of that and the tours and stuff but

423.88 - 437.651 John Gibbons

It's hard to tell. I don't think he'd play in the Premier League. I don't think he'd want to play in the Premier League. But could he still be playing for Barcelona? Probably. I don't know if they'd want him in terms of the money it costs. I suppose Lewandowski does, doesn't he? Well, did.

437.671 - 440.057 Neil Atkinson

Yeah. He's a year older than Lewandowski.

440.077 - 462.511 John Gibbons

Yeah. So it's also last season's... But the great thing about this World Cup is if you're six or you're watching as a six-year-old, all the big guns are coming to the party. So last night, you had Mbappe score, Haaland get two, and then Messi get a hat-trick. And a goal by the ghost of Georgie Best. And you're like, what more do you want?

463.493 - 467.198 John Gibbons

All the players that you're going to meet are all just blamming it in, which is great.

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