Deco

Well, it doesn't get that much better.

Obviously you got Deco.

Now, I've put of Porto fame and, uh, failure at Chelsea.

Um-

It's the only award.

Uh, 2006.

Deco, what did you think of him? You can...

Especially Chelsea.

Paulo, since you went first, do you mind reading off your starting 11?

So my 11 is Diogo Costa, Maxi Pereira, Pep, Ruben Dias, Nuno Mendes, Danilo Pereira, João Moutinho, Deco, Ricardo Coresma, Angel Di Maria and Oscar Cardoso.

Nice, very strong.

Kevin, do you want to give me your 11? Yeah,

So that's some news coming out of Barca.

I think another news is the fact that Deco, during this international break, you know, Fabrizio likes to interview everybody that, you know, means anything to the world of sports.

And Deco, of course, being the Barcelona sports director, is one of them.

So he was interviewed.

um about um about um the last transfer window in and out and it was like oh we're now done with we tried to get him but we didn't so that's it about it we're happy with our squad now i don't know what january would be i don't know anything can happen things can change before january there's a lot of Things that can happen before January.

Estavio is frustrated with his lack of minutes under Xabi Alonso, having played just 23 minutes in the first five Premier League games of the season.

Deco has had first-hand information about his situation and Borussia continue to follow what happens in London.

Of course, last season when Chelsea were under, you know, Maresca and another...

Who was the other coach for the second half of the season? I forget.

regularly um and when they brought him in from Brazil of course they waited a year and then brought him through last season of course scored against Barcelona in the Champions League so he's at the required level and now with Xabi Lozo coming in and it's a different system different style of play doesn't really suit Estabio to what his playing style could be of course Barcelona were heavily heavily heavily linked with him when he was making his move to Europe in the end He chose Chelsea, and I think Chelsea had the money and could agree with the deal more with Barmieres more than Barcelona.

But Barcelona were in the race at the time.

I think they were using Deco as kind of a liaison at the time because Deco was an agent at the time to help facilitate this move to Barcelona.

He, of course, did an interview saying that he's a Barca fan.

Now, it's not the last time me and you were on a podcast together, but I think it was the last time we were on a podcast together during an international break where I think you mentioned that there'd be a reporter just designated to covering JJ Gabriel and how... bigger prospect he was for Manchester United now that was less than a year ago and now here we are since and everything's kind of done a bit of a 180 hasn't it and the latest development is surrounding Deco who's at Barcelona and he's kind of distanced himself hasn't he from the teenager yeah

Yeah, it wasn't a surprise the quotes surfaced last night.

It wasn't a surprise to read what Descartes had to say.

I mean, he just got it up here on BBC's website.

He said, there's nothing to say about this boy.

Hansi Flick's tactical setup built around relentless high pressing, rapid verticality, and total fluid- fluidity has turned this squad into the most feared attack in, in Europe.

Now, off the pitch, uh, the sporting director, Deco, gave an exclusive, exclusive interview dissecting the summer transfer window.

Deco explained how Barca managed to complete major move without any constant leaks.

He says that, "We have a tight circle," and it makes this tough for anybody trying to leak anything or get any, uh, information from Camp Barca.

Deco expressed total confidence in Flick's project, noting, uh, that the energy, attitude, and the tactical discipline shows, it is showing in training daily, made the explosive start a surprise... and w- not a surprise for the board.

Deco also addressed the most talked about transfer saga of the summer regarding Julián Álvarez.

Deco revealed that Barca submitted a formal respectful offer of 100 million euros paid over three years, but Atlético Madrid refused to negotiate.

The correspond directly to Gil Marín's comment in stating that Barca acted with total respect and professionalism throughout the whole, the process.