Milan Baroš

I had a couple more in there just in case for tie breaks.

Milan Baros.

Where did he go after uploading mine? Sictus.

Dortmund.

I was a little bit, you're always a little bit skeptical or I am when you sign somebody and it feels like you're, it feels like maybe you're signing them off the back of a good international tournament in the summer.

You know, maybe, I don't know, your Villa fandom is probably a bit too young to remember Milan Baros, but, you know, it's this kind of thing where you're maybe gambling on lightning in a bottle carrying on.

Manzambi didn't really ever feel like that.

He felt like this is a player that you can trust the Villa scouting team have had their eye on for a while, which I think was confirmed by people like Jacob Tanswell after the signing.

Like, I, I understand that some people are, you know, hesitant to believe that the Premier League will give them the punishment that they deserve, but I, I think they're gonna get absolutely destroyed with these punishments.

Uh, Milan Baroš held his retirement match six years after he retired.

So he had a 22-year career and played up until 2020, and then had to wait six years for his retirement match.

He was meant to have it during COVID, but obviously COVID held it back, and then it just got pushed, and pushed, and pushed.

Former Liverpool teammates Vlado Šmicer, Jerzy Dudek, and Salif Diao, as well as Petr Čech, Tomas Rosicky, one of my favorite players, and Jan Koller also played.

There was 15,000 people packed into the stadium.

Like, we do forget with a lot of players like Baroš, who obviously, look, Milan Baroš won a European Cup with us and, and was really good in that final and had some great moments with us, but he was only at the club for four years, and he never really consistently hit the levels that had been hoped for when we signed him.

We signed him off a couple of years with Baník Ostrava, where he looked like he was gonna be the next, kinda, great player to come out of what was the old Czechoslovakia, and he never really hit the heights for us.