discussed the struggles facing german football after its disappointment world cup exit in russia ed mccambridge from the sports desk joins me now welcome ed. has been speaking to exclusively and he had some very critical things to say didn't he did and he was entitle to do so i mean let's not forget this was germany's worst performance of world cup since one thousand nine hundred thirty eight and it came as defending champion so naturally a lot of very high profile figures in german football have come out and criticized love since then but none of them are in the same league as michael ballack we're talking here about one of love's former players an ex captain of the german national team now it is worth pointing out here that there is a bit of previous between balloch and love it was famously dropped by love following the twenty two world cup which he missed through injury and he was said to be very disappointed with the deal and particularly at the time so if relations were already frosty his comments now certainly haven't helped that so let's have a listen thought he had to say. as an outside

sports news the champions league returned on tuesday night and to take us through all of the drama ed mccambridge from sports we have to talk about buying the winning in athens let's begin with that does it mean the mini crisis is over well personally i don't think they're out of the woods just yet their problems haven't really been so much in europe this season of struggle domestically. and they were actually on a six game unbeaten streak away in europe and they made it seven last night against a pretty poor inside to be perfectly honest i mean it's always a pretty fiery atmosphere in the stadium but they and they struggled a little bit at the start but they made the breakthrough in the end i made it seven seven wins in a series seven games in a row away in europe and they actually put in joint top of their group with like i say it's been going ok for them in europe so far this season but what they do next domestically will be the real test of the crisis that was only one of the matches last night we know that there were seven others talk about you know a lot of flipping the channels there what

he discussed the struggles facing jail in football after a disappointing world cup in russia ed mccambridge from both says join me joins me welcome and. former captain of germany had some very critical things to say well he did i think he had every right to i mean let's not forget this was germany's worst performance at a world cup since one thousand nine hundred thirty eight and that came as defending champions now naturally many high profile figures in germany have come out and criticized the form it says and criticized in particular but they don't come much more high profile than mr barak as yourself former captain now he's not attached to any club at the moment so he's free to speak his mind. and it's worth mentioning actually that the two do share a very fractious relationship that was dropped from the germany squad after missing the twenty third world cup through injury he never played for the for the country again and he says he feels very disrespected by the deer in particular but let's hear what he has to say now. as an outsider i was surprised as well as many other people that he

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