Stadio: A Football Podcast

What-ifs: Arsenal Had Hired Cruyff, Abramovich Bought Portsmouth, Ibrahimovic Never Joined Barca, and Bayern Signed Neymar | Stadio Podcast

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Musa and Ryan take another stroll through alternate soccer universes, beginning with what if Roman Abramovich had decided to buy Portsmouth, instead of Chelsea (03:30) in 2003. They then discuss what would have happened had Arsenal hired Johan Cruyff, not Arsène Wenger in 1996 (18:30), the Barcelona board hadn’t sanctioned a deal for Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2009 (34:26), and Neymar had joined Pep Guardiola’s Bayern instead of Barcelona in 2014 (46:20).

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