Galácticos

And there's some quite interesting lines from it.

So look at this one As things stand, we're in the midst of Anfield's failed Galácticos era.

For Liverpool to become the first club in the world to field three 100 million pound footballers is bewildering.

To me, it's wrong.

Nothing has changed my mind.

Whatever Ayola achieves, no one will convince me Liverpool have executed a well-conceived plan.

There's bits of that where I'm like, "I agree." And there's bits of that, that you're like, "Really?" I mean, what's the, the midst of Liverpool's failed Galácticos era.

No, r- like, you think Real Madrid, they had players all round the pitch and spent fortunes on every area.

Yeah, name that author.

Day number three, this soccer star was a member of Manchester United's famed class of 92 before later joining Real Madrid's collection of international superstars known as the Galacticos.

Name that soccer player.

All right, number four.

Henry David Thoreau connecting to Patrick Henry.

All right, number three.

This soccer star was a member of Manchester United's famed class of 92 before later joining Real Madrid's collection of international superstars known as the Galacticos.

Yes, that's going to be David Beckham connecting to Henry David Thoreau.

Louis Van Gaal was the manager for Barcelona.

So again, we're in that kind of, I don't want to call it like the post-Croix lull, but it did kind of feel like there was a bit of a as far as El Clasico is concerned, in terms of the quality of it, it felt like after the Cruyff era and just before the beginning of the Galacticos and Rijkaard era, It felt scrappy.

It felt like El Claticos were always on a knife edge because you just didn't really know which team were going to turn up, basically.

And obviously, this was always going to be a big task for Real Madrid, as I've mentioned, not winning there at the Camp Nou in 16 years, not scored in the last six seasons, missing key players as well, Paul, like Fernando Hierro, Roberto Carlos, Stephen McManaman, John Toschak's in the stands for this one, which I'm sure he would have absolutely hated.

You know what? There is very, very little we can do to stop the Premier League juggernaut at the moment.

I mean, a case in point is PSG that went from spending, being the Galacticos, to now finding, particularly in Paris... you know, the suburbs of Paris, like the suburbs of London or Manchester, replete with great young talent, is that Mbaye, that's come to Aston Villa, played very well in spells against Coventry midweek, and watch out for him, Paul, tomorrow, if he starts or comes on.

Very, very tricky, takes up different positions across the front three.

Is that, I'm sure Paris Saint-Germain didn't want to sell him, but when a club like Aston Villa come in and offer ridiculous money for an 18-year-old, They've now baked it in like Chelsea as part of their business plan.

Palestra apparently took part in training, which is really, really good.

Alongside superstar Galactico.

Jordan Henderson.

Both could genuinely be useful.

They will have to just hope that his registration isn't ended before December because our sources have also heard that basically every top club around the world are watching him, including Real Madrid and Barcelona, who are putting moves down now to try and get the youngster.

You know...

They're super talented in the UK when, you know, these Galactico clubs are trying to sign 15-year-old Englishmen.

It's like when they, you know, targeted...

And when I would go to Spain when I was kind of young, late 90s, early 2000s, and again, really attuned to football media.

I used to be stunned about how like this was a league like in 96, 97 had Ronaldo, you know, in the early 2000s, the Galacticos, like an array of stars.

And yet you pick up the front pages, sports pages, which was obviously bigger than the internet at the time.

And it'd be about like to be an offside line drawn or some complaint about referees.