Gary Lineker has admitted that Kyle Walker has proven him completely wrong since joining Manchester City.
Speaking on The Rest Is Football podcast, the well-liked pundit was speaking about the £50 million (Guardian) man.
Gary Lineker has said that all the doubts he had about Kyle Walker when he signed for Manchester City have been put to bed.
Gary Lineker says he ‘wrong’ to have ever doubted Kyle Walker
Branded as an ‘elite performer’ by The Athletic, the former Tottenham Hotspur right-back was hailed by Phil Foden after his impressive outing for England against Scotland.
Assisting Foden’s opener as well as being a constant attacking threat and being typically reliable at the back, Walker was a class act on Tuesday.
Gary Lineker admitted that he had a hot take about Kyle Walker that he has been proven incorrect by him since his move to Manchester City.
“I must say, talking of Kyle Walker, I kind of upset him I think when he left Spurs and obviously, I was a bit of a Spurs man. He left Spurs at whatever his price was, can you remember what it was now? £50, £60 million, wasn’t it?”
“I think it was £50 million and I tweeted, I occasionally get myself in trouble with tweets. And I tweeted something along the lines of, ‘what a player. Imagine how much they’d had to have paid if he could cross the ball.’
Gary Lineker also revealed that he had a face-to-face chat with Kyle Walker and apologised to him, saying, “I shouldn’t have done it really. I think it upset him a little bit. And he’s come on so much since then. I hosted an event for Vincent Kompany, for his charity and I went up to Kyle and I said, ‘I said this once and I just wanted to say two things: one, you’re one hell of a player and two, I shouldn’t have said that. I was out of order.’
“I just felt I was wrong. I wasn’t scared. He couldn’t catch me anyway, could he?”, Lineker joked.
Fair play to Gary Lineker for holding his hands up about Kyle Walker, who continues to cement his status as an all-time great.
