Ivan Perišić

Um, he managed them excellently away to PSV Eindhoven in match day one of the Champions League and got a 1-1 draw.

Um, uh, PSV were captained by, uh, Ivan Perisic, the Croat, 37 years old.

Um, but, uh, Shakhtar took the lead and, and PSV equalized, uh, through right back, American, USA right back, Sergino Dest, who didn't make it at Barcelona and didn't make it at Milan, and is back in, in, um, the Netherlands with, with, uh, PSV.

Um, but he was a jovial presence on the touchline, hugging the PSV coach before and after the game.

I'll never forget the first World Cup with VAR, which is the 2018 World Cup in Russia, and the final between Croatia and France.

You remember the opening penalty for France, where Ivan Perisic jumped from the corner? And the referee went over, I think it was the Polish referee, Marciniak, have a look.

He's gonna ...

He's looked at the replay seven or eight times.

and the final between Croatia and France.

Remember the opening penalty for France, where Ivan Perisic jumped from the corner? And the referee went over.

I think it was the Polish referee, Marciniak.

Have a look.

In fact, I would not say that there is another left back in the world with the same profile as Alphonso Davies, someone who is that quick and also that good at being able to make recovery runs, but on top of that, also able to, you know, get into the right offensive spaces and provide support to the offense.

I do not think there is another... left back in the world who operates at that level and can do what Davies does so in that sense Bayern Munich has an extremely unique player here and we need to leverage it that's what we did so well in the treble year we leveraged Alphonso Davies' unique talents and that's why Hansi Flick got so much success out of him even though I would say that Kingsley Coman and Serge Gnabry that year and even Perisic none of them were as good as Diaz should be theoretically should be so here is what I have to say That is partially true.

The company needs to be doing more to integrate Davies and Diaz.

And it's problematic that Diaz is still so far behind on linking up with Davies when this should come much easier to him than playing with someone like Stanisic.

yeah and let's say if you've got second trips then you've got a crossy boy

yeah and if Sosa and Juranovic are back then you have two full backs that can cross and Perisic we don't need to talk about but yeah we'll see probably next week if there's a good list that comes out and maybe Modric retires because today was a meeting there was a meeting between him and Bilic reportedly no news so far so let's wait and see

well I mean obviously we've already had Dzeko announce his retirement for well yeah for 2nd of October so you know I think that's I think that's one sort of where, you know, if you're Modric, you probably want to manage the news so that you're not...

Yeah.

I'd do it straightaway.

I'd liken it to the Perisic signing.

You know, we didn't make the most of that Perisic signing-

No

... because he was so cheap we didn't wanna pay his medical bills.