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BBC News
01-05-2025
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'You'd hear the sound of their legs smashing into each other'
Former Tottenham defender Kyle Walker says former midfielders Victor Wanyama and Moussa Dembele were always going to be effective at Spurs given how they performed in full-back played alongside the duo who formed a dynamic partnership in the middle of Mauricio Pochettino's side."I remember at Tottenham when Wanyama and Dembele were there and in training you used to hear that sound of the legs just smashing against each other," he told The Kyle Walker Podcast."They were two big, big lads , and you half winced when they went into a challenge there because you know that they both fully committed to it. "They didn't want to hurt each other - obviously they were playing for the same team - but it showed their desire. They wanted to be the best in training and I think that just shows why they both had such fantastic careers."Walker has also spotted a Premier League rival that plays like his former team-mate Danny on The Kyle Walker podcast, he highlighted Arsenal full-back Myles Lewis-Skelly: "He is physical. He reminds me of a little bit of a guest that we had on the first season - Danny Rose. "It's how he plays. He uses his body well and he's got a good left foot on him and a good football brain."Listen to the full podcast on BBC Sounds
BBC News
24-04-2025
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Walker explains 'nobody here is Messi' comments
AC Milan defender Kyle Walker made headlines three weeks ago for something he told forward Joao the players came off at half-time of their Serie A game with Napoli, the England right-back was speaking to the Chelsea loanee in the tunnel and said "pass the ball, nobody here is Messi".Milan, who are ninth, trailed 2-0 at the break and lost 2-1 to Napoli, who are 34-year-old, on loan at Milan from Manchester City, explained the comments on the BBC's The Kyle Walker Podcast."It wasn't me saying to Joao 'you're not Messi, pass the ball'. It was saying 'let's make sure we have a process'. He agreed with me and said we need to have more passes and a bit more control," he said."I didn't just say it to Joao. I didn't know there was a camera there. But I still wouldn't have changed anything I did say."Walker explained that there are only a few players in the world he thinks can change a game single-handedly, while referencing Barcelona and Argentina legend Lionel Messi, who currently plays for Inter Miami."The comment I said was nobody is Messi," the ex-Tottenham player added. "That's in every team in the world bar certain individuals who can turn a game on its head when they want to. I give them their plaudits - it's Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Jr, Mo Salah and Ousmane Dembele, who has been on fire since the start of the year."Apart from that you say it's a team game."Talking about Milan winger Rafael Leao - Felix's Portugal team-mate - Walker said: "What I was saying to Joao is Leao is fantastic. One of the players who you can give him the ball and he can go past three, four, five players and put it in the top bin. "At [Manchester] City most of our joy over the last number of years was from a process. Everything was the process of working out where you were on the pitch. That was with passes."If you have a player like Messi he can take on four players and put it in the back of the net. It makes the game so much easier. "But against good-level opposition like Napoli I feel you need a process of passing the ball and wearing them down. Then the gaps appear. That was the conversation with Joao."
