Joe Hart reveals KAKA and BUFFON nearly joined Man City!

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of Birmingham. because this was the big one, right, this was the beginning of your real kind of yeah, let's go and start doing some now, so this is good, I like it, I like that you said that because I was um I. I signed for City when I was 19 years old. I did a season, I did some loans, they assigned me as a three, just to see what I was made of.

Which was great. You know, the Premier League series is back. League two. The Premier League ended on the bench. a lot of injuries and the year after Sven came in and then Sven was 20 years old in Sven Casper, yeah, sorry, Casper and Andrés Izakson, the number one that was the series, who got injured pretty early, broke his thumb, like that that it was just me. and Casper, two young puppies and, uh, Sven ended up doing this. Casper started the season. I was dislocated as you know. Casper probably and easily could have been number one, but Andreas had broken his thumb.

I dislocated my finger, so Casper started the season and then. Sven decided to put me in seven games and then he wanted to give Andreas seven games. Wow, really strange, but everything was very cozy. You know, I don't know if you noticed him, but he was charming, charming, yes, he would. You're very calm, lovely man, yeah, and uh, and then it was 21 games in over 38 and then he did this thing where he was going to decide he was going to go and score and he picked me and I played the rest of the season. so i had a good season 29 21 and then mark hughes came in so i was under cinewatra attacking cinewatch yeah that i don't know how it ended but it's not for me to say probably the lawyers oh yeah leave it online and then um and then the Abu Dhabi currency group came in, yeah, with Kaldoon and, um, so we said yeah, okay, is this genuine or not?

It turned out it was and they bought Mark Hughes to do an incredible job at Blackburn and started spending big. a lot of money and Mark I'm 22 21 I don't know how many I'm 21 22. Casper is the same age as me and he wants a proper number one, he wants an established number one, yeah whatever you got I got this money I feel like a number one is important you know they're trying to sign Kaka they're trying to sign buff they're like real big dogs um and he was just at Blackburn and I'm like number one more at the moment so I'm waiting to see what happens .

Anyway, they couldn't get who they wanted in, so I started the season, played about 50 Prem games and then at the end of February they were trying to get Bradford. or trying to get Brad Friedel and then turned their attention to the form, they bought the absolute bit of Shane's yes, given that he's shaking like, Newcastle, Newcastle was struggling. Shea was making noise that he wanted to leave, he bought Shane, so I was back on the bench. and then City is like at this point, yeah, whatever you've gone for, go and do it, but I think I was the first year of a four-year contract at a time when I was doing well, something is a dilemma.

Obviously I like to make the noise that if you don't want me, that's fine, but I have to go. I want to go and play it. You know, if it's okay with them, go and find somewhere to go, so I went to Birmingham with intention. "Leaving like I only went on loan because I had too much time left in my contract and they were probably pricing me too high. Yeah, yeah, before you were guaranteed to leave, you could show everyone what you are." I would have teams like lining up to sign I hope so that was the plan obviously that was the best case and you know Alex Mcleish came in and yeah fair play he obviously took me on and um and it didn't start I was.

I was good to start with Mike yeah Mike Taylor is a top goalkeeper who just bought Mike and Colin Doyle had bought them from the Championship um and it was good and then around the fifth game I think we played City so Mike played against Drew Neil. and a big decision had to be made, really, yeah, yeah, a big decision and he and he said, look, I think I bought you here, I believe in you and then the season went really well from there and then they fired Mark. Hughes. Mancini came in and wanted a different type of goalkeeper than Shay and you know, everything was aligned and I started what I was actually doing at Manchester City at the time, so that loan from Birmingham.

I remember, I remember seeing some of your performances that season and, oh God, I remember one away from home. Stoke City, remember this mate? Okay someone made a save so you could have had three or four for the show, mate really, it was ridiculous just Relentless save after save after save and that's when it obviously ended that season like You smashed him and you could have signed, probably if Man City I wouldn't have kept you, there would have been at least eight or ten Premier League teams, we would have left, yes, we'll take it, 100 we'll take it, it's ready to go.

So the next season begins. Then I moved to the

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of Birmingham, so I'm filling your boots, so even then I'm immediately thinking, Oh my God, like we don't need this. Do you remember when we come back? from Las Vegas, this is amazing, right, we were in the, we were coming home from Las Vegas, and I just signed for Birmingham like a week before and there were four huge blue nose fans in the line in front of us and they left. bear yeah big boots to film mate and I hadn't even thought about it yet until this guy said big boots to fill Joe Art like he was the man.

I'm thinking I don't need this, that was, that was serious. At the time, yeah, it was like that, I think that's when I realized it wasn't like that, but yeah, did you feel pressure because Joe had destroyed it the year before? um, no, not so much, I don't think because I was, but for me it was a huge thing, so I had to go home. I was living in the Midlands again. I was back home and I was comfortable and everything. I just had the feeling that everything would work out. It was absolutely gold. but that particular season, I remember the first game of the season, so we were at Sunderland, we tied one, I think we did, and all the lads were, by the way, Lads Loved You, boom and they absolutely blew you away like they were .

I'm always looking out for you and I remember talking to some of them before the game started or whatever and we were talking about Man City and you were playing Tottenham and I remember saying I was worried about him. although because I just can't see Mancini is going to put it in Shay's head, given a shay, you know what I mean, he's proven himself to be what he is and then the game was over and then that game you played you started the game , so photo of Mancini before I shared it and then I watched the footage again oh my god I can see you kicking who was the young man or someone like yeah they're another block or something and then oh that was wild dude cuz He He brought me back and said look please just come and you know let me make a decision yeah Shay I don't know if you know Shea what an amazing guy yeah I love it I'm glad you did That being said if you absolutely decide.

I love shadow, I love him, I love him as a goalie, I love him as a pro and, um, when he came in, you know, he had that moment, obviously, he's Senior Pro, like he didn't have to have that moment with me, but it was like if I. It was like look, I love you to pieces, so whatever you have to do, do it, it's not up to you and he was right, always treating me wonderfully, yeah, it's nice, yeah, um, and obviously, when I came back, he had state, I realized, I think. he got injured towards the end of the season and like him and Mancini, I don't know why they just clashed, yeah, and she's strong, she's like, yeah, they won't take her for granted, or I think Robert is I like being Italian. he had this idea of ​​being a bigger goalie, yeah, and he kind of held it against you like you wouldn't let him just be shy, yeah, he wanted something more from Shea that wasn't Shea, yeah, I think he just, instead of just enjoying what a great goalkeeper he was and then Shea could probably sense that and there was a little bit like Roberto saw that I did well and asked me if I would come back because he was convinced that I was gone, yeah, I was, I was like what do you want me to do? come back?

And he said, "You know, come back," so anyway in the preseason we shared it a lot and we didn't know until he flipped the board in the morning, oh wow, who was going to play with him? thank you everyone for watching we hope you enjoyed this fuzzcast clip if you want to watch the full episode it is now available exclusively on Spotify for free overseas.