Ibrahim Mbaye

I mean, I picked him up and dropped him in the Listener League.

I tell you who I would be looking at as a forward, who's for some reason only 31% owned, Ibrahim Mbaye.

Yeah.

Do you think that's just because he's in and out of the team? No.

And then again, Nicholas Jackson with his second in the

60th with an assist from Ibrahim Mbaye.

A little rhyming there

from the assist makers, assist givers.

He follows up.

And Mbaye takes one touch, two touch, and then puts it into Jackson's run.

And Jackson hits it with right foot.

Donnarumma cocks up.

It's a great ball over the top.

He makes that decision so quickly and it's perfect.

And then Mbaye picks the pass.

He picks the pass.

And obviously, just following on from our last interview, podcast where we talked about some of the uh leadership issues at CAF and there's that yeah he's he's obviously the president of the Cameroonian Football Federation and um there's been some links with him potentially becoming the president but he's got a few skeletons in his cupboard to say the least um which you covered didn't you as in a story but um yeah so in terms of the There's so many players of African heritage, though, who are at the very top of the game.

But perhaps we're seeing with Ayub Bouadi and Ibrahim Mbaye that players that are born in Europe and raised in the European system are actually going to play for their parents' homelands or their heritage.

So that could help potentially a Ballon d'Or winner in the future, couldn't it? You could see someone like Bouadi.

I mean, he looks like he's going to be the best midfielder in the world, doesn't he? Yes.

And by the way, we should all be grateful that he doesn't have that many touches instead of laughing at it, because if he did, it'd be 12 goals a game.

Aston Villa, God bless, responded by unleashing Ibrahim Mbaye off the bench.

18-year-old creator, arrived for 63 million from PSG, and his impact was instant.

I think it was 52 seconds, give or take, after taking a field whip down the right, last a deep low pullback, and again...

I'm trying to think of what players had the biggest impact.

Who would you say at the new signings had the biggest impact? Because I sort of flip-flop every week between one Manzambi, then Suzuki, then Jackson, then Mbaye.

It's just ridiculous.

There's a few to choose from, but they're bringing the likes of Matty Cash's quality up.

The current manager has gazumped the old manager.

What am I doing here now? Alisson is out.

and Mbaye is in.

Yeah, because I think

I know it's a bit sore for Newcastle fans, but he does look a good player, obviously.

Mbaye, another really good player.

I'm thinking where have they got these from man they've just gone and replaced them again so yeah I think they deserved it I mean I only watched the last sort of 25 minutes because obviously I was at the Arsenal game so I could only see what I could see in the concourse but I'll be real like it looked it looked like Aston Villa got what they deserved and Manchester City I think they've got a holding L because when you make mistakes like that you know LB was saying oh we basically gifted them the game but When you make mistakes, though, it don't matter, does it? Don't make mistakes then.

You know what I mean? Don't gift them the goals because Donnarumma should have saved the second one and the first one.

You knew Tielemans, Watkins, Rodgers.

They were guaranteed to play.

Now it's like, does he play Alisson? Does he play Mbaye? Does he play Manzambi, Buendia? No.

McGinn, Jackson, Maggio, like all these players that he's got.

City just couldn't do anything.

And then Jackson starting the winning goal off by chipping it over to Mbaye, who with his first touch takes it down the wing, plays it in, and there he is, Jackson popping up because Mbaye knows where Jackson's going to be.

So I know people say that Donnarumma could have got down quicker.

You can say that.

They can literally do it through Suzuki.

If you look at some of his highlights from the whole season so far, some of his passings is cutting out the opposition's midfield.

which is great for Jackson and Mbaye and Alisson and all these players that we've got because they're just in and behind straight away.

I took away, I was obviously looking at Ilham Aninjai because he's gone there for City, of course.