Portugal national football team
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Sep 15, 2026
Mo ChatraHOST
Yeah.
Dave HendrickHOST
Let him go to Benfica, I think with the idea of, you know, we've got a bit of a pipeline coming from Portugal.
Dave HendrickHOST
Let him go there for a year.
Dave HendrickHOST
They're paying 16.
15 MINS LATER
Dave HendrickHOST
And it's not that Julian's not good at the job, because he never really got an opportunity to show if he was good at the job.
Dave HendrickHOST
We know that Edwards was very high on him.
Dave HendrickHOST
He worked with the Portugal national team, he worked with City as a scout, joined us as a scout.
Dave HendrickHOST
Edwards elevated him to the, the loan management gig, then he made him the technical director as he was getting ready to leave to get him ready for the sporting director role.
Mick McCarthyPANELIST
[laughs]
Eoin SheahanHOST
... officialdom, officialdom really wound me up in the first game between Portugal and Ireland in the World Cup qualifiers, when the referee was, like, this Cristiano Ronaldo super fan.
Mick McCarthyPANELIST
Oh.
Eoin SheahanHOST
And obviously it was very cathartic when in the return leg he gets sent off.
Eoin SheahanHOST
I was bulling about that because that really felt like, you know, we were being toyed with as a smaller nation footballing-wise than Portugal and, you know, we didn't have a superstar on Ronaldo's level, and they were getting An unfair Robert Green because they had a far more famous player in their ranks than we did.
Mick McCarthyPANELIST
Yeah.
Eoin SheahanHOST
That, that was the, the last time I was really, really annoyed by-
Mick McCarthyPANELIST
Having...
JackHOST
On the international side, he's also doing pretty well.
JackHOST
He's already won multiple youth tournaments with Portugal, including the Algarve International Tournament in 2026, which funny enough, is actually more than his dad did at the same age.
JackHOST
What makes Cristiano Jr. very different from the other sons of famous footballers is how seriously he's taking it.
JackHOST
He said himself that he wants to reach his father's level, but that will be incredibly hard to do.
JackHOST
He was the one people expected the most from, a midfielder like his dad.
JackHOST
He even scored on his Real Madrid debut in 2016, but after that- Things didn't really take off.
JackHOST
He bounced around a lot playing for different clubs in Spain, Switzerland, and Portugal.
JackHOST
In the end, the pressure and constant comparisons just got to him.
Barry McKnightHOST
Um, one of them is actually technically called Zaire, I guess.
Barry McKnightHOST
Uh, but the Democratic Republic of Congo, I'll just go ahead and tell you, they tied Portugal yesterday.
Barry McKnightHOST
It's a draw.
Barry McKnightHOST
1-1 score.
Warren MatthewsHOST
I mean, it was-
Barry McKnightHOST
He-
Warren MatthewsHOST
And, and, and he's so high profile that if it'd just been Portugal, okay, what the hell? But, but he is, you know...
Warren MatthewsHOST
It's, it's the opposite of the Messi situation.
Barry McKnightHOST
Congo? Are you ki- yo- k- Congo?
Warren MatthewsHOST
... is getting two against Portugal.
Warren MatthewsHOST
Two against Portugal.
Warren MatthewsHOST
So he's going, "Hey, don't question it."
Barry McKnightHOST
But-
Warren MatthewsHOST
So.
Barry McKnightHOST
Uh, they're playing down in Houston, where the Texans play.
Barry McKnightHOST
Portugal, who has one of the all-time great players in Cristiano Ronaldo, against Congo.
John MurrayHOST
Uh, which you two have been involved in.
John MurrayHOST
Uh, Ian, just back from Portugal.
Ian DennisHOST
Yes, the, uh, Estadio do Dragão to see Manchester City beat Porto by two goals to nil.
Ian DennisHOST
Hadn't been there for seven years, and, uh, very impressive stadium.
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Alistair Bruce-BallHOST
But as you say, John, you know, you look at Liverpool in the last two seasons, both times they've run, then run into Paris Saint-Germain in the knockout stages, and Paris Saint-Germain have been better than them on both occasions.
John MurrayHOST
You were able to get, I presume, Ali, to Anfield quite easily there and back.
John MurrayHOST
Whereas I did worry about you, Ian, with all of the, the air traffic control business going on this week, thought you might still be in Portugal by now.
Alistair Bruce-BallHOST
Yeah, only a minor delay.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
I'm gonna be in the 14% and say that I don't really have a problem with him not subbing Bruno at the moment because Bruno Fernandes didn't have a pre-season.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
He played with Portugal in the World Cup.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
He only got back for pre-season about two weeks before we played Hull.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
So, he's not had a complete pre-season, and the quickest way to get up to speed is to play games.
22 MINS LATER
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
I don't think he's ever won a league title.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
I think Sporting started winning titles after he left.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
He won't win a World Cup with, with Portugal either.
Mark GoldbridgeHOST
Um, but has he wasted his career at Manchester United? Yeah, the number of managers, the lack of backing for those managers, the number of sackings of those managers.
Andrew PetrieGUEST
yeah I'm pretty sure it is let me double check but yeah Okay,
Andy BargeHOST
yeah, it's a sore one for Suter, that it's panned out this way, because he did have a bit of a redemption arc, didn't he, when he came back after missing the Euros squad, and all of a sudden, a month later, he was one of our starting centre-backs in the Nations League against Portugal and stuff, and then he was in the team for the qualifiers, and then, I know it was only a couple of months ago, but he wasn't a starter at the World Cup, was he,
Alan RiskGUEST
really?
Andy BargeHOST
No, so it's kind of gone full circle for him almost.
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Thomas McIntoshGUEST
and obviously making changes and I don't think there'll be as many strikers that come along and he won't be taking three right backs on this camp but yeah the big one for me is Ryan Gould I think he's got if he's fit and he's available he's got to be in the squad
Andy BargeHOST
It's been a couple of years now for Ryan Gould, Alan.
Andy BargeHOST
He was in the Nations League squads when we had Portugal, Croatia and Poland.
Andy BargeHOST
Looked pretty good in his appearances from the bench.
Eve ConwayHOST
Well, that's according to the Morocco Football Federation and their president, Fouzi Lekha, who has claimed that Casablanca will host the next World Cup final.
Eve ConwayHOST
The majority of the 2030 tournament is to be held there alongside Portugal and Spain.
Eve ConwayHOST
There will also be three centenary games held in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay.
Eve ConwayHOST
In August, however, FIFA dismissed reports that its president Gianni Infantino had promised the final to Morocco, leaving them as false and misleading.
ArunaHOST
I mean, if you put him in any other team, he would have probably been going further in the World Cup.
ArunaHOST
Unfortunately, he played in a Portugal team.
ArunaHOST
But for me, mostly it was bad coaching in the sense that this thing, you are relying on a 40-year-old as your striker There's no fluidity in your game.
ArunaHOST
You will really want to just out-possess your opponents and try to score them that way.
DaluHOST
For me, Bruno
ArunaHOST
didn't have...
ArunaHOST
You know, one thing I would tell you, Bruno did not have the freedom he gets in Man U to be that player in Portugal.
ArunaHOST
He had to play as part of his system.
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