Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros of The Cooligans react as Portugal’s manager decides not to renew his contract with Portugal. Check out the full conversation on the “The Cooligans” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.
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Video Transcript
But here we have some breaking- Yeah news We just got in our ears.
What is it?
We don’t know what this is.
Ben Jacobs- Roberto Martinez will leave Portugal after this World Cup regardless of how the team performs.
Martinez has already decided not to renew his contract, which expires after the tournament.
He is open to a Premier League return, but hasn’t ruled out taking another.
Another, probably, uh- Another job international, uh- Yeah, yeah job.
Okay.
Okay.
USA?
Okay.
Martino’s leaving.
Well, r- That’s the rumor.
That is the rumor.
R- and Roberto Martinez was, an, like, a commentator for, like, ESPN for- Yeah a long time, so he’s very familiar with the, with the- He speaks English.
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He does.
Okay.
Well, interesting.
I mean, the I’m sure there’s also the feeling of, like, “Bro, why you talking about this now, bruv?
Yeah, we haven’t even started playing.
Why you, why you blowing up my business?”
Maybe it’s his way of emotionally winning over the locker room.
You know what I mean?
Oh, are they gonna be inspired by a leaving Roberto- At that time, yeah, and everyone’s gonna walk past Ronaldo, and Ronaldo’s gonna be like, “Am I not here?”
And be like- I’m not the guy with 58 statues like Roberto, we saw what you did at Everton and- Yeah, yeah.
We were- We’re all Wigan fans.
The way you were in the Champions League and the Championship at the same time.
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Not necessarily a huge surprise.
I, I also think his hiring was also quite a, quite a surprise from, ’cause he was the Belgian coach.
Yeah.
and it was r- a fairly unsuccessful run, in, the last World Cup, and then immediately he is hired, for, for Portugal.
Yeah.
And everybody’s like, “Is this man, my man is failing upward?”
Yeah, yeah.
“How is this, working exactly?”
I’m actually a Roberto Martinez stan, man.
I think he’s great.
I lo- I love him.
I think he’s great.
I mean, he’s definitely a, a great person, great personality.
I, I, I love the chapter, from Grant Wal’s book, a- a- about him.
fascinating guy, but then it’s just the, just the shortcoming.
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He obviously I’m an Everton fan.
He was the Everton manager for a while, and, just a little, there was always a little bit, like, underwhelming, a little slightly unimpressive, but nobody ever said he was a bad dude, so, uh- I certainly didn’t.
Remember that everyone.
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