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Kyle Walker From Man City To AC Milan | Top Or Flop? (Clip From Ep. 487)
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Kyle Walker is on the verge of completing a transfer from Manchester City to AC Milan this January transfer window.
Nima Tavallaey and Carlo Garganese, discuss, debate and analyze what impact Kyle Walker's transfer to Milan will have.
This is an extended clip from this week's free Monday episode of The Italian Football Podcast which is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube podcasts.
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Kyle Walker's Transfer to Milan
00:00:04
Speaker
august Let's talk about Kyle Walker. um So that deal is is is almost certainly going to be done now. um He's Kyle Walker from Manchester City. He asked to leave City and just over a week ago um and he has agreed terms with
Loan or Purchase: Transfer Dynamics
00:00:22
Speaker
Milan. and Milan and Manchester City are now in in pretty much advanced talks over over how the deal is going to be done. Is it going to be a six month loan with an obligation to buy or an option to buy? um
00:00:40
Speaker
but it's a deal that's
Walker's Current Form: Asset or Liability?
00:00:42
Speaker
it's going to be done. Kyle Walker is is going to join Milan and it's an interesting interesting one really um for Milan because they do need defenders as we've discussed in this show. um They need defenders, but is he the is he the right man? I mean, he's he's he's had a bad season. Obviously like legendary player for me in the last decade, he's been been consistently one of the best right backs in world football, one of the fastest defenders in the game, ah one of the few players that's takes out killing Mbappe every time he plays against him. he's's He's been a fantastic player, from a defensive point of view, he's been a fantastic player. But this season he's been a bit of a disaster. He's looked like he's started to show his age. I know a lot of the ah Man City players have been in the in the same boat there.
00:01:30
Speaker
And, and it's not just him, but he, he really has struggled. In fact, even earlier back in 2024, like he didn't have a very good euros. He struggled at the euros as well.
Financial Risks for Milan
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Speaker
And he, you know, even find himself out of position and he's never been the best going forward. So the question is, you know, are Milan signing a player that's, that's really past his best or way past his best, even based on this season's performance, or are they signing someone who, you know, will still be able to do it in Serie A and is going to, to, to, to bring the experience and tighten up that Milan defence that really needs to tightening up? what What do you think? ni I mean,
00:02:18
Speaker
again, Calabria, okay, Emerson Royale has been all right defensively. Calabria is just not good enough. I think we know that. And you're bringing in Carl Walker with a big question mark around him again. Look, it's um it's again,
00:02:36
Speaker
I don't know what to make of it. I really don't know what to make of it because it's not it's not an ideal situation and I feel that
Walker's Tactical Role at Milan
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Speaker
Milan are taking unnecessary financial risks here.
00:02:53
Speaker
um Instead of actually correctly addressing the problem and and but then again, you can say well, okay someone like our Walker he brings experience You know constantly he he he's a fighter. He has he's very mentally strong. He's a winner He knows what it takes to win the the biggest trophies a club level football and that's the kind of mentality you need in the dress He has the right mentality. Yeah, like he wants to defend like what we were saying like Milan defenders don't want to defend They don't like defending he he likes to defend and he actually you know, he, you know, stopping tackling a defender like he he lives for that, you know, stopping a play going past him, you know, he wants to defend players like Teo don't want to defend. And the interesting thing for me is kind of where will Kyle Walker play because I've seen a lot, a lot of suggestions that they're actually not signing him as a right back.
00:03:45
Speaker
they're signing him as a centre-back. Fine by me. Which is, I mean, interesting because, I mean, when he has played as a centre-back, it's always been the right side of a back three. I can't remember him playing in a back four, unless someone can correct me that's listening. I don't remember him ever playing in a back four. I always remember... You know what I think it is? I think they're going to play him as a right, like they can play him... I think the Milan are going to invert in the sense that Teo,
00:04:14
Speaker
I think Konsi-Sao understands that tail strength lay an attack, so you need someone who can who is quick enough to play as a right back in ah and a back three when they invert, if you know what I mean, so that they become a back three when in possession. Which means his starting role is, yeah, but maybe that means that could be it, but that means his starting role is as a right back. And and and that means you Emerson, goodbye, you're out of the team.
Walker's Personal Motivations
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Speaker
Well, send your thoughts to Moncada. I mean, again, like, or Moncada. I think if they buy him in as a right back,
00:04:47
Speaker
then Calabria has to go. Like, Calabria goes in January. He goes before the end of the window. If you sign him as a sense of that, then again, that like if they're planning to sign him as a sense of that, then that raises its questions over whether they still want to sell Tamoori. I know Milan or Constance doesn't want him gone, but if they're signing him as a sense of it, there's a lot of strands to this. It's going to be interesting to see what their plans are with Kyle Walker. I can tell you, Kyle Walker wants to leave England for for for my understanding is is also for being very highly publicized his private life and all the stuff that's been going on pretty messy yeah okay well probably best to keep it that way because it's very messy and that's why is it like we're talking you Kardashian drama so
00:05:33
Speaker
Probably worse, actually. That is impossible. Thank you. Excuse me. That is impossible. In fact, see i want how much you love the e-card. Has his ex-wife come out and said that Karl Walker took sex videos of his of of her and his threatening expression? No, but he's he's got... I want to get this right. He's definitely got at least one kid with with ah with a mistress. Wonder has how many children with how many men?
00:06:01
Speaker
I'm sorry. What are you talking about? It it gets very defensive. anybody when everybody's twice tweet to say that there's a border ah i'm sorry but When she went out on Argentinian TV and said that Mauro Icardi has 200 sex videos of me and and is sending them around to his friends, I didn't know i thought I was daydreaming.
00:06:25
Speaker
OK, it's not that it's not that bad, but it's pretty messy. Anyway, I think I think he wants to leave England just to, you know, get away from all this. It's what is going on based and and in Italy is a very right place to go to as well, because they don't give a shit about your personal life unless you and unless you're wondering. cards Well, unless you're that, whatever that is, whatever that relationship is, if you don't do that,
Living and Playing in Milan: A New Chapter
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Speaker
you're fine. um and and and And I think it's it's i think also, you know he's at the point of his career where he's played in England his whole life.
00:07:01
Speaker
It's not, you know, you know, you players want to try new things, you know? it's ah there's There's worst fates in the world to live in Milan and play for one of Inter and Milan. Do you know what I mean? It's like you're literally a superstar and you live in one of the coolest cities in the world. we'll see We'll
Walker's Potential Impact on Milan's Success
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Speaker
see what happens. I mean, I think Champions League, it could be useful, you know, bringing in someone with that experience.
00:07:24
Speaker
will help probably in the in the Champions League but for Serie A getting the top four, um yeah a lot will depend on on you know how they use him, what their plans are for him and also who else they bring in and Milan and Juventus to decide kind of who will finish ahead ah you know who will finish ah ahead of the other team out of Juventus and Milan and that might not even be enough because there's Lazio