Thierry Henry

says to you how good Davi Raya is that that Estabal save is probably not in his top five best saves for us

yeah exactly exactly uh right i could definitely play a midfield says mike yeah listen okay let's move away from that uh let's move on to something uh else just while we're talking about the champions league on this day years and years ago cesc fabregas signed for arsenal um but the reason i want to talk about him is obviously his signing anniversary so i thought i'd mention it there's been a lot of talk on cbs what a great team they are a jamie carragher Big Meeks and Thierry Henry.

They've been talking about Cesc being the best young coach in the game.

Now, try not to let your dislike for the way that he left get in the way of some nuanced football takes here.

They did get one in the Champions League, obviously, but I think that will be heavy on United's mind.

Even Martinez, Lito Martinez, said after the game, I think he was speaking to Jamie Carragher, Thierry Henry, and Michael Richards, and CBS, And he said it was important to get a clean sheet.

Michael Carrick also said it was important that in the Champions League, United got a clean sheet as well, because they haven't been getting them in that regularity.

I do think that will benefit them going into this, but it's a completely different kettle of fish that United are dealing with, with Manchester City and with Erling Haaland, and with all the threats that City have in their team.

[coughs]

Alessandro Del Piero, Thierry Henry, and Ronaldinho-

Yeah, I remember the cover

... are running around the stadium to helicopter spotlights and-

Yeah.

Bend it round like Thierry Henry, or whatever.

Of course, Martinelli would've stuck it in the net, wouldn't he?

Hmm.

I come out the press box, I went down onto the running track.

I was on the running track when the Arsenal players came back out of the tunnel.

Thierry Henry came by.

Martin Hi- Keown embraced me, nearly broke my leg.

I can't remember who was saying it.

Was it Thierry Henry? Who was saying, like, I never thought I'd see another Busquets, but Rodri is Busquets again for Barcelona.

And that's what it is.

Great.

So we've got Luke Benstead, who worked in analysis at Everton under Roberto Martinez and then Ronald Koeman.

And then he was... appointed as a performance analysis at Manchester United and that was kind of the era where Jose Mourinho was there and then after that Roberto Martinez actually asked him to join up with the Belgian squad for the World Cup in 2018 so he also worked with Thierry Henry there and then four years later he was given the assistant manager role for the 2022 World Cup and he has just left Istanbul with Saksa here as an assistant and set-piece coach so there's a lot there but A lot of big names as well.

He's worked under Roberto Martinez, who's a big fan of his.

Ronald Koeman, Thierry Henry, Jose Mourinho.

So he's got a lot of good experience there.

He's been, you know, he's left for this role.

And Ferguson leaves Van Nistelrooy out, not only of the team, but the squad.

And he sat and watched a 0-0 draw against Charlton, as I think Thierry Henry did what he needed to go and win the Golden Boot.

The message very clear, they mean fuck all, unless you win the title.

he would win a title and the golden boot this season um what else to talk about arsenal not doing huge exciting things either job out of silver adam made sense