"CALM DOWN!" Jamie O'Hara STUNNED after caller BACKS Rio Ngumoha to win the BALLON D'OR!

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talkSPORT callers rave about Rio Ngumoha, with one tipping him for the Ballon d'Or as the hosts urge calm

The show debates Rio Ngumoha's performance after Liverpool's 4-3 win over Villarreal, with callers rating him above Saka, tipping him for the Ballon d'Or and even wanting him in England's XI; the hosts accept his talent and impact on the night but say talk of the Ballon d'Or or Hazard's level is far too early and needs long-term consistency.

Jamie O'Hara and Jason Cundy spoke to Liverpool fans after their 4-3 victory in the Champions League against Villarreal. Subscribe: https://youtube.com/c/talkSPORT 🏆 Ready to win? Check out the latest prizes at talkSPORTwin.com Enjoyed this YouTube video? 😍 🖥️ talkSPORT's Website: https://talksport.com/ 📲 talkSPORT's Twitter: https://twitter.com/talkSPORT 📷 talkSPORT's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talksport/?hl=en 👤 talkSPORT's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/talkSPORT/ 📱 talkSPORT's Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talksport ? 🔴 Download the talkSPORT app HERE! - https://talksport.com/apps/ 🔎 Want to see if you feature on our YouTube channel? Check out our Best talkSPORT callers playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFVMnSsi04LGLa9pS9xDvme-Gjmlu2 talkSPORT PremierLeague

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Let's go back to some calls though. 100 % Mo, he's throwing us up. Liverpool fan, right, Mo? Here he is. i'm good i'm good uh candy first of all we we're just giving teams to gold star yeah tonight the boys were absolutely superb we're giving team two goals start you know what we gave him a two-goal star and you know you like having to pop up floating words again he was super stop criticizing floating words candy come on he's getting boring that man now No, hold on. Listen, what do you mean? See, the first 35 minutes, you lot were an absolute disgrace. No, we're just kidding. Well, look, we said to the yellow submarine, come on, show us some splash. But they didn't have no splash. I know, mate. But Moe, come on, mate. I know you... Come on. You can't start games like that. No, I mean, come on. We... Look. We knew we were going to be yeah you didn't know you turn you down you know we did come on candy this is not tournament it's not Chelsea it's Liverpool let's see you you know what you you've got as much chance of winning this Champions League is Chelsea and Spurs have you just buyers money you're bias bias right there's no right you like you like that you like one of them plays every little chance you get a referee's not watching you're kicking the opponent that's what you're doing Florian Wurz what's he done to you candy what's he done for Liverpool look at Rio look at Rio I I mean, like the other corner said, you got so, like, you got in your heart. You're so jealous that he didn't want to play for you lot. He said, forget it. I don't want Chelsea. I want to go and play for the best team on the planet. Listen, good luck to the boy, right? But Florian Verts will go down as the biggest failure in Premier League history. He won't, he won't. He's on his way. He's on his way. He won't, Gandhi. You're absolutely talking... He's on his way. He's well on his way. I know, mate. If I can agree with you. Mate, if I can agree with He's making a good fist of it. I don't know this. There's been some bad money spent. There's always bad money spent. What about Mudrick? Mudrick, right? Yeah, that was poor. But the biggest much verse cost double what mudrick cost double yeah right inflation might listen he's got some work to do overts mate it's all well and good popping the ball around when it's when you cut back in the game but you wait till ellie anderson gets his hands on him i absolutely bullied him forget ellie anderson he'll be playing in banana roma league soon so forget about him yeah are You were talking about, what's he called, Rio and Saka. Rio is better than Saka right now. Well, Rio... The way Rio dribbles, the way Rio dribbles, he reminds me of john barnes and my waters so why is verse not doing that what do you mean word that's the right position isn't it no no why is verts not having the impact on their games forget arsenal verts rio engamoa is embarrassing inverts listen listen rio is a different kind of player embarrassing in my it's embarrassing no if you want to compare real compared to morgan rogers he's better than him now listen if you want to compare liverpool with liverpool rio engamola is showing verts you said saka right he's showing verts not in the same league yeah he's showing verse he's showing verts he's got bottle verts lacks heart he lacks bottle listen can that you you're just absolutely talking rubbish again the real anger moya more is gonna be one of the best players on the planet the next ballon door winner so you you've got the cheek and the nerve saying that you know what he's not even better than soccer i mean jimmy g tried to like he was no junior come on get it out of here in the dressing room in the dressing who's the best player for Liverpool tonight where's vats no that's the Rick who's the best player you know what can be right you know who's your best who's your best player listen candy i can see you making a mask of words and wearing it to jimmy no no i'm i'm asking you the question you're an absolute disgrace candy you you are an absolute disgrace I'm asking you the question you're just biased who's the first name on the team sheet everything about Liverpool and you talk nonsense all day every time you talk nonsense and do you know what people out there listening to you they think what an absolute bronca you are really really bad i'll tell you what no i gotta ask the question what happened tonight in the back mate what happened tonight in the back listen mate look it's like You've been a professional footballer, yeah? Yeah, go on. You're going to go and play a team. You're playing a lesser team. The lads are just chilling. Come on. He's on. They were just chilling. I don't know if they were chilling, mate. At the end of the day, what, much is the rush virgil mate what's happened to him where's that what's that was he twerking all the time on the planet we're doing one day there's your vent work why is virgil van twerk giving a ball away this one why is virgil van twerk why is virgil van twerk giving the ball away all the time wendy it's your old man you're just biased you are you're bad you are good player mate good player mate he's all right you know listen all over teams of good players yeah we're not we're not talking about spur will i struggle against commentary last night he's on yeah listen yeah and the quad is definitely on yeah and i'm telling you now sandy candy Kendi, we will go further in the Champions League than Chelsea and Tottenham, Kendi. Yeah, but you might as well join us on the sidelines. No, Kendi, you're just biased, man. You can't just take it, can you? No, all right then, Kendi. can do you tell me right who's better than Rio Angamore right now in the England set up have you turned it around let's talk about verts right I'll name i'll tell you what i'll do all day i will name half a dozen players in the english setup that better than verts right tonight foden foden better than verts right right bellingham better than verts rogers better than verts palma better than verts all right it's about rio candy is about real better than verse there you go there you go off your pop candy candy no no listen before you knock me off yeah before you knock me off listen to me stop talking over me here i ask you a question answer me a question answer me a question you just named me one england player at this moment in time who's better than rion on gomora go on tell me not no words he's a german no no listen right real in gomola asking me that question you ask him the same question i have just picked him up and i said that sucker needs to look over his shoulder right i've said it you obviously don't get me wrong back listen listen don't get me wrong sack is a good player talented player yeah you don't listen to the whole show over you mo you can't tune in at 11 o'clock mo at this moment in time yeah candy right used to doing my head but he was not in in english sector was better than him no i'm mo you're just talking guffman i'm i'm i'm i'm talking not listen i've asked you a question you do clowns you're not answering me when did you tune into the show i tune out at 10 o clock no you didn't you didn't because we had this conversation no you didn't i tune in at 10 o'clock every night candy probably did you know well how could he how can he be so thick then and ask the question that we we spoke about him right yeah i said him we're picking him up we're picking him up he's amazing i asked you a question can you answer the question right do you know mo called at 10 15. well he only said 10 15. you miss he missed that first 15 minutes in no I was listening to your intro for 15 minutes what did we say and who said good evening everybody this is the first one that's what Jim and you said he didn't listen he didn't listen I did don't know mate it's getting a bit fishy now would you say good evening good evening on everybody don't know mate Rio is the top player yeah we said that we said it right well we had that conversation you obviously tuned in mate at 10 o'clock you would have heard her say i could real him no no no see look look i just the only reason candy's not saying that like i said he is a bit like he's got his chelsea head on every time he sits in that studio it's always like he's got a chelsea i've said he's not being fair you're not being fair candy you are not being I said this at the top of the show, that Saka needs to look over his shoulder. I said that. No, that's not... Yeah, but Saka can look over his shoulder. He might see somebody else behind him. What I'm trying to say to you, you need to say this, yeah? On this show now the rio angumo is better than bakaya saka at this moment in time number of the last 24 hours is that what you're saying yeah yeah well you can't have 20 no no no okay i'll tell you all right all right then all right i'll ask you a question candy right no if if if if mr tucha was going to pick the england team right now do you think he'll pay rio or do you think you'll pick bukaya saka let's call a second don't let me ask you this if if that's was english if that's was english who's he picking verts or bellingham listen leave words alone listen off your pop turning at 10 o'clock next time right come on don't lie to us keep your calls coming in 0 3 7 1 7 double 2 double 3 double 4 you're listening to the sports bar and talk sport which also bet uh bet 10 pounds get 100 free spins on big bass football bonanza but let's turn our attention back to Liverpool they won 4-3 manager and only Iriola just been singing his praises at Rio and Gamora in his press conference I'm happy with his attitude because he is I'm happy with his attitude because he is I'm happy eager to improve the things that we think he needs to improve he's eager to add more things to his game has changed the sites a lot has played a lot on the right lately he's feeling so comfortable now and i think he's had in even some shoots with the left that he hasn't scored but he's getting there and if he can add these small things not to his game it will put him in a better position and that's the good thing with Rio. He's still 18, he's not still the full package. He can add things, fortunately for us also, and I hope he continues the same way, he's not going to be always like this. He will have ups and downs in the process, but I'm happy because attitude-wise I've seen him in a great place. All right. How are you, Jack? Good? Yeah, not too bad. I've heard you going on tonight about Rogers, Palmer and Foden and Engamo has not been mentioned. I think Engamo is on that level now. The boy is obviously a special talent, but he needs to be doing it. Phil Foden, six years ago, was going to be the next Bloor Boy and he's found it difficult at Men's City. I think we just need to slow... He's got six Premier Leagues. Yeah, but I think N'Gamoah will win Ballon d'Or in five years. Mark my words. I mean, listen. Listen. Calm down a bit, guys. Let's calm down. He's got two assists tonight. No, I've watched those tonight and we're on to the double and Spurs are getting relegated. Listen, I remember Sterling ripping up trees when he first went to Liverpool, right? Similar vibe. Similar what's going on. Oh, come on. Sterling's not real. No, but Sterling was... Sterling was... Sterling was special. I agree. I agree. He's very exciting and we all should be very excited about what, you know, Liverpool fans in particular, but England fans as well about what he might do. But I've been here before. I've seen this before. What, what you're doing, right? It's fine. And I get that fandom. That's, that's what we do. But to keep that level up, he's a young 18 year old who doesn't, who's fearless and at 18, you can be fearless. You've got to do it every season, every single season, every single season. That's hard. And there will be a dip in full. I'll ask you a question now. Do you think Engamore will go down with a better legacy in the Premier League than Isan Haddad did? No chance. one of the best players in the Premier League seen I mean if he does if he gets half as Eden Hazard he's done well you don't know because he's only young you don't know no I know but I'm saying if he does if he gets if he gets anywhere in there no You're so wrong about that. The thing is, you see a lad so young like Rio just going out tonight on a Champions League night at Anfield and seeing that, and then you can just see a talent that's going to come from him. Yeah, I know, but, you know, how many times we've seen 18-year-olds step up and do this, right? He is exciting, and I cannot wait to see what he turns into, right? Tuchel now has got a lovely problem on that right, and the left, because he really plays on the left. And he might solve a problem with Anthony Gordon. He's got to get rid of Anthony Gordon. He's got to get rid of Saka. Well, Anthony Gordon's playing for Barcelona. Saka's playing for the champions. So that's the level he's got to try and get to and consistent. Let's slow down. The boys are talented. The thing is, I think if Engamo would have started for England squad, we'd have gone a lot further. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe. You know, maybe. That boy fights for 90 minutes straight and our England team gives up. He just played every single pass tonight, every ball, every run, every cut inside. It was perfect. He tried and he tried and he tried. And for a young lad that age, he never gives up. Listen, you're 100 % right. But to be making predictions about where the boy is going to be, I've seen this too many times. We all have, right? We have, haven't we? We've seen young players come on, burst on the sea and how excited we are. You've got to do it every season. Yeah, he's got to do it every week in the Premier League consistently for two seasons to be even put on that level. Tonight, give him his flowers. Give him his flowers because he was outstanding. And we have done. But, you know, to start talking about getting to Eden Hazard's level... Yeah, I mean, calm down.