Gary Neville (second from left) joined Deborah Meaden, Stephen Bartlett (centre) and Peter Jones on the BBC show. Photo: BBC < p>So, about Gary Neville's difficult 13th career after leaving football. Pundit, failed manager, failed assistant manager, property developer, football club owner, university founder, restaurateur, podcaster, YouTuber, soldier, spy. A sharp change of course on Thursday evening, when Neville turned into a real dragon.
You wonder what other defenders of his time think when he inevitably appears on whatever screen they look at. Paul Konchesky is hustling around at home, with his modest business interests and occasional radio work, and wonders what might have been if he had attacked the day a little harder?
Perhaps he could consider proposing Neville and his new friends in their business prison. The battered Dragons' Den set is showing its age now, as it was quite edgy at the start of the show. Now it looks like a crumbling branch of the Brewdog pub empire.
A soft start for Neville with a visit from the charming Billy Childs and his football memorabilia business. His mandatory service trick was a penalty shootout and Neville won't want to see replays of Deborah Meaden beating him in the bottom corner. Touker Suleiman mispronounced Thierry Henry and Neville humorously corrected him. Especially when young Billy mixed up Jamie Carragher and Redknapp, and you saw a flash of irritation on Neville's face. Soon after, the asking price and business premise were neatly dismantled.
On one of the programs, Neville was invited along with Sarah Davis to a penalty shootout. Photo: BBC
The Cardiff couple then unveiled their “cozy cinema”, which immediately seemed too dingy for the pre-watershed BBC. Neville saw a sex cave on Netflix and thought of a modular construction solution to the housing crisis, bidding £60,000 and demanding a radical change in direction. Suleiman paid 20 thousand for Neville's proposal and asked for a larger share in the business. A deal was struck, the dragons cooperated, and Neville is now part owner of several barns in South Wales. Career 13: Achieved
Giselle Boxer wanted £50,000 for 10 per cent of her acupuncture and wellness seeds. Neville offered her everything she asked for without asking any questions of his own because otherwise his mom might get mad at him or something.
A string of offers followed and Boxer settled on Stephen Bartlett, who asked for the highest percentage of the business for his £50,000, all because she was told one day that she would meet a man named Stephen who would be important to her . Little of it seemed to make sense. We could end the session after the “Day” around the Monday Night Football tablet and the decision being overturned.
Finally, the cocoa-loving man who looks like the offspring of Jason Orange and Gareth Ainsworth got everyone chanting. He was from Manchester. “Sold!” said Neville, who by this point was apparently just giving away his money to the locals for fun. Honestly, it's quite refreshing to see this on television.
Surprisingly, given his ubiquity, we got to see a slightly different side of Neville in this context: ruthlessness and compassion. He politely explained to the first person who asked that the players would not give away their equipment for someone else's benefit. In the saturated market of football chats, such details are rarely heard. Neville's answer was no, but he showed genuine sympathy. I left with the feeling that working for him would be a demanding nightmare, but a boss who could be your mentor.
And yet, despite all his undoubted intelligence and success in retirement, Neville didn't seem like a natural Dragon. Too wasteful and overly optimistic. Based on this evidence, he's unlikely to discover the next reggae-reggae sauce. More like the next Eric Djemba-Djemba.
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