Richard Ríos

the quality that was needed to break the defense there was absolutely ridiculous.

I think you got to give credit to Richard Rios for a superstar play there.

It was ridiculous.

On the ball, his little handles, back and forth, find space, create space.

And...

the evolution of our play just continuing what we did at the 2026 world cup that gets me excited rafa knows his team and i think he knows how to build it into an even better more dangerous side going forward he's got my trust based off of this one performance and now just a quick note on colombia for any colombian fans watching out there as this was their first game since the world cup what are your thoughts on this team's performance and how they looked in the preview I may note that I was a little worried about how they would play in this game specifically because of how I see Mexico is closer to their full roster in this game than Colombia, who's missing guys like Luis Diaz, Jefferson Lerma, Mojica in the fullback position.

Still having their good players in the midfield like Richard Rios, Puerta, Munoz in this game, but not their full strength 11.

I had that concern that this was going to show, and I think it kind of did in moments.

You know, Mexico generally, even with Cesar Montes, it's still a pretty strong unit.

I think for this window and the Colombian midfield is probably going to be John Arias, Gustavo Puerta, maybe Richard Rios.

So I think he's falling out of favor.

I don't know what Lorenzo's going to do.

And from there, like I said, it turned out, I just, the old days started towards the end.

And I really wish that, that Marco Silva still had Richard Rios to send out at that moment and to just send a message, let's go down to nine, but go, go and do, go out there and give somebody a tattoo when they start clowning that much, you know, when the old days start and just go out there and show a little pride and, you know, take down one of their guys.

And if they're going to take three points this way, make them pay something for it.

But no.

£24 million signing for a championship club.

funny uh richard rios also went to saudi on an initial loan deal um so yeah oh and ultimately went back to river plate so as always plenty of incomes plenty of outgoings for benfica they're a team in a club that knows all about churning players ultimately and they actually had a a negative net so they made a transfer profit is what i'm trying to say this summer um how are we feeling about this one boys i think this is going to be a tough one

I mean, yeah.

This is a competition that Benfica will take very seriously.

Not many people can say that.

yeah he deserves to be respected and i think anybody kind of who's been crapping on him i think is kind of short-sighted i think there's a lot of other players who we've actually spent big chunks of money on who have performed less i.e sudokov and probably richard rios i don't think it's really i mean they shipped them out for a reason so i mean if you're gonna hate on like i think you can hate on those players who actually cost us a fortune 10 times more

Yeah, exactly.

So we move from the goal and Benfica look comfortable.

Yeah.

And we have to get together for Cafeteros so we can talk about that because we've been planning on getting back to talk about the European players and how disappointed we are that Richard Rios went to Saudi Arabia or whatever.

We'll do that on that show.

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There's got to be teams in the middle of the table in England and in Spain and in Italy that can use a goalkeeper of his caliber.

And I think on a team like that, where there's a bit less pressure where it's not so scrutinized not so under the microscope he'd probably do great because he has games where he's unbelievable and then he has other games where you know the ball goes dribbling as slow as possible past his near post beats him near side every time um On the Richard Rios thing, I have such mixed feelings about it because I think we're losing some really good qualities that he can bring in certain matches.

You know, especially...

And you can't build a team to just play against Porto either because the season is long.

And it became 2-1 very quickly.

So the game was by no means over.

And they went, you know, straight to they brought him and they brought a kid in and Richard Rios stayed on the bench.

And that told me that there's probably something coming.