Episode 934: Nagelsmann’s Big Brain, Levy’s FX Blues, Alexander-Arnold

Losing 2-1 to Liverpool in a gripping Champions League playoff doesn’t change the fact that Hoffenheim coach Julian Nagelsmann’s big brain is the toast of Germany. 

Nagelsmann on Klopp saying LFC let TSG have ball in certain areas: “He would say that, he won’t say ‘Hoffenheim played well & we were shit’”

— Sam Wallace (@SamWallaceTel) August 15, 2017

We run through some of the coaching prodigy’s big ideas for reforming the game.

Football is changing but are these changes always for the better? What would Steve Harkness and Brian Deane think?

25 years ago, Blades fans were celebrating…#OnThisDay in 1992 Brian Deane scored the @premierleague's first EVER goal against @ManUtd… pic.twitter.com/cCETKqp2eq

— Sheffield United (@SUFC_tweets) August 15, 2017

Raphael Honigstein joins us to talk about Nagelsmann’s ambitions and to settle the debate over Jurgen Klopp: is he a bad defensive coach, or does he just have bad defenders?

Plus is Trent Alexander-Arnold the next Gerrard or the next Mellor and our latest scumbag of the week.

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.@ConroyMickey on Mayo/Kerry, the 2014 semi-final replay, and why it's the one game people still talk to him about https://t.co/sOi5cBuhb8 pic.twitter.com/V1Zafr6rpv

— Second Captains (@SecondCaptains) August 15, 2017