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Catching up on calcio craziness - Supercoppa & Serie A - Ep. 211 · The Calcio Guys

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We're finally back baby culture guys, Idano, Johnny and Nicholas. We should
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be more of the travel guys at this point. We got to take some
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time off the past few weeks. I was in Brazil, Johnny was in
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Charlotte, Irana, was in the West West Island of Montreal. But guys,
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are you how you doing? Guys. We're good, We're good.
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We're back, guys. We're back. Culture guys back. I don't know
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what episode of is tool or whatever. Happy to be back, you got
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me, I'm I'm happy to be back to as I say, have a
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little bit of a time off, but it's always good to do these things
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and get back in track. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's it's been
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a while. I think our last episode was right before Christmas. It's episode
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two eleven. By the way, Adrian out just funny story before we start.
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On our way back from Brazil, we land on Montreal airport and I'm
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coming out and I see three CF Montreal fans, Montreal Impack fans, and
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they're there with their scarves and hats whatever. It's just three of them.
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It's nothing big, it's not a crowd or anything. And I'm like,
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kind of confused. You know, It's like seven o'clock in the morning on
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a Sunday. I'm like, what are these guys doing here? Obviously they're
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diehard fans, you know. I thought maybe the team went away and they're
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coming back and they're just there to welcome the team, you know, like
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fans. I didn't even I didn't think twice of it. Whatever. I'm
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even like too tired to even like ask them questions. I thought, Okay,
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maybe there's a transfer coming in, but I don't really pay attention to
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the CF Montreal transfers anyways, so whatever. I go on Twitter later that
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day and I see pictures of those three fans with a player that I guess
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came again. I didn't know of this player. I think his name is
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Mattios. I'm gonna butcher his name Kokua or something. And I think he
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was on the same flight as me coming back from Brazil because he came from
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a Uruguay a team from Uruguay, and and there was only two flights that
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morning, one from I think Doha and then one from Brazil, so he
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must have been on the same flight. These fans were clearly not waiting for
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me, but that's my culture story, and that's my culture story. I
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was on the same flight as a c F Montreal player. I don't think
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he was in economy class with the rest of us. He was probably sitting
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in business class. But it was just funny to see, and I think
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the the impact much of all the official announce it today. So I just
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wanted to share that with you, guys. It was a funny story on
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from Brazil. No autographs, signatures, no no, no again. I
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don't know who this guy is. If he's good, I'm going to tell
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this story forever. If he's not, I'm gonna forget about it. Well
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now it's all fit to the world forever, so you can hide exactly exactly.
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But while we were away, guys, there was the Super Copah new
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format this year. I don't know if you guys paid attention much to the
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new format where they had the semifinals and the finals. I did. I
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don't really know. I think it so Napoli played for Arantina and interplay lots,
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so I don't know. I don't really know how they came up with
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this, uh format. I guess it was the city I winner. Napoli
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played the Cope tally runner up Farantina, and then the Cope tally winner played
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the city runner up. I guess that's how it was at the end of
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Napoli and Inter both went three nothing at the end. It's the final Internapoli,
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exactly what would have happened under the old format. But guys, I
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don't know, what do you think of this, this new format. I
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don't know if you had a chance to watch the games at all. I
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was on a flight on an I didn't have a jenny lot of fight.
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I can't say I really caught much of much of it either, just so
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you know, just coming off the holiday break and just busy with other things.
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But I did see, like you know, the outcomes and the highlights
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and stuff like that. And you know about the format, I mean,
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yeah, it's it's it's it's something different. I mean kind of well,
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uh, you know, semi final final action. Does it have to be
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all the way in fucking Saudi Arabia? Guys, I don't know, Uh,
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you know, I don't know why we can't have this, you know,
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set up, you know, in in in the country of Italy.
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But there's a very easy answer to that question. It's the money. They
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the money. You know, it's sorry, I get I get, I
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get where you're coming from, but it's just it's I don't know. I
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I do as well, but you know, it would be so much more
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beneficial to have that money within But you know, I guess that's not how
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the world works in terms of the economy of this day is in age,
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so I I get it, but it just you know, at the same
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time lit for it to be in Italy, but uh, you know,
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nevertheless, you know they're there and uh, you know, it breaks up
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because they missed Setia game. So now they have now they're you know,
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they're they have a game in game in hand, all these teams. So
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I think those makeup games in about a month time, if for a couple
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of weeks time, if I'm not mistaken. But yeah, I think it
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was pretty convincing. I think the better teams won, uh in the in
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the semifinals, and then you know, the final was what it was.
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I think we're gonna we're gonna beat a dead horse throughout the season we have
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been with with Inter being the best team in Italy right now, and you
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know, I think the better team won it. Took it took their mister
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reliable this season, Hower Martinez to score the goal and and to get them
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over the hump. And you know something with super Copas and you know,
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uh, you know Cimoni and Zagi. Sorry, that kind of go hand
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in hand. I think it's his is his fourth fifth Super COPD trophy if
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I'm mistaken, h with with the clubs he's he's coached, so h yeah,
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it seems to be his his trophy to to win all the time.
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And it's kind of how it played out. And again not going to beat
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a dead horse again, but in there the squad we know it. We
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said it just the ability to to have to have depth on on on the
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bench and and you know, guys performing at an all time high this season,
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you know, lat Taro being one of those guys that really you know,
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stepped up big time so far this season. So yeah, third straight.
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I didn't realize it was the third straight Super Copa, but uh,
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into third straight. So yeah, at the end of the thing, was
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just a better team one bro. Yeah yeah, and you know with this
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this format, one thing I would propose like if you want to do this
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format, fine, no problem. I know Aliga does it exactly, you
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know, in the Middle East as well, whatever Copula Eliga. Do your
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think, Yeah, but why not have these games also count for the city
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at points, like you're gonna take this game, you know, the game
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Latsio versus Napoly, let's say, or sorry, Napoly played Farantina for this
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this game, you know, instead of playing one of the games. Let's
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say you take away, let's say the game in in Florence, just because
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you know, Napoli won the Scuolato. They deserve the rights to play all
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their games at home. Whatever, you take one game away from Florence,
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or you just play the game in Florence and you just say, this is
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what counts as a super Copa semi final and it's city match day whatever twenty
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two. Just have that double standard, and then and then whatever, whoever
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wins their games, they play an actual super Copa game, maybe you count
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that extra. It's harder to schedule around that. But if you're gonna throw
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in these extra games, why not have a double count, count it as
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double make it meaningful, you know, or or uh, you take the
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four teams that are gonna play in the Superkopa again, you know you want
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them to play two city games at the same time. Semi final counts as
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one game team makes it to the final. The teams that make to the
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final count as another game teams make it. Uh. The teams that lose
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in the semifinals, third place game, it's still going to count. They
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play each other still counts as a city game for them. For the players,
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the city I game probably counts more than these super couple games. So
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maybe that's one way to make it more interesting where they're actually gonna bowot battle.
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There's three points on the line, and as a bonus, there's a
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little trophy at the end. I kind of agree in a way that like
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it makes scheduling so much easier, It would make uh, you know,
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planning or going around this much easier, but uh, I really have like,
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like my my main point to disagree. My main point to disagree is
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that if you put it as part of a regular season game, you kind
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of remove the whole hype of it. Like it's a like all it's a
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regular season game, plus it's a copy Italian match, and it gets confusing.
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It kind of just gets disorganized. But it also in a way it's
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like, well, no, it can also be simple. It's like it's
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it's a Copeytalia game, so like this coounts for double and he does give
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a little bit more to that. I think if I think, the reason
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why they don't do it as like one thing throughout the season and this game
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counts for the super Copa or copy tally or whatnot, is because it would
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just like get confusing at times, like like for scheduling reasons and stuff.
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So I guess that's maying that's certainly only like main argument I have against it.
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I I kind of agree with you. Yeah, no, I see
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Whereohnny's coming from. But again, like with the super Copa, it's,
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you know, all these years, like there's never really like okay, besides
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the trophy, and you know, we'll waveboard however we want to, you
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know, rank it as a as a trophy. Obviously it's not the biggest
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of ones. But again, there's not really much of an incentive besides like
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you know, obviously the bit of a bit of my that's coming in,
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Like I mean, like the incentive is there. So I kind of see
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when Nick is coming from to try and make it somewhere of an incentive to
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to to and something to really play for besides just the you know, the
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end all trophy there. But yeah, I don't know, Like I don't
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mind the you know, the different format. It gives it a bit of
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more than just a one off, one off game in the middle of Saudi
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Arabia for two teams that I agree. It kind of gives it a bit
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more of a of a feel to it. But yeah, I think there's
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still you know, ways to probably improve it. Will will that happen?
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Probably not, but I guess it's a it's a wait in sane. Well.
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What's interesting is also one thing I kind of like what the city I
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did is the teams that did play the super Copa the week after, they
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just played each other, like lats of play. Napolya, Fioran Tina played
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intern so they weren't really at a disadvantage of traveling back to Italy playing a
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team that was that remained in Italy that didn't have to play let's say,
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these extra games. So I think they did a good job with that.
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The only thing is Lato Anapolis the Rezero Fiorentina in through one nothing, So
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were these guys tired? I know we talk a lot on this podcast,
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how many games these guys play. Maybe maybe it's just andotal evidence. I
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don't know, but as one goal across two games and including a miss Pelly
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from Fiorentina, I don't know, maybe the guys weren't weren't in it.
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I don't know if Johnny had a if you had a chance to watching the
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Latto Anapoli game, No, I haven't had a chance by because of school
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and like my life just trying to get everything in order and stuff. Like
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I I apologize to listeners, like I've been super busy with things and I've
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been really lacking on watching the games. I've been keeping updates and stuff on
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my phone and stuff. That's that's, that's that's been about it as that's
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it's. It's unfortunate, but that's what my life has become right now.
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I don't blame you. I don't believe. I think I think both.
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I think, like you said, I think the teams were still stuck in
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Saudi. It was clear one goal across two games. They definite. They
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definitely were uh still still kind of the super copa hangover. I don't know,
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but again not we not with this season and Johnny can attest. It's
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kind of been that type of season. It's it's been that foot flop and
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nowhere near what we saw last season. Obviously we've said it before, but
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you know, I just they've they've been that foot fop team and obviously they've
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run through a lot of changes in terms of you know, coaching, you
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know players. What I did like about uh not is that, you know,
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especially in this mercato because we're coming to the closing stages of of of
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the winter mercato, you know, they they've they've actually went out and and
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tried to work something out in the metcanto to try to bring uh some new
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air uh and some new players into the system and and try to still you
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know, quote unquote you know whatever is uh you know savable in this in
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this situation. So which which I which I have white lotso on the other
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hand, again too a bit of a foot flop team. So far this
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season, they've they've made strides in the right direction and and I again I
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still think they're they're they're able to trend forward. Uh. It's just a
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matter of them being consistent enough to you know, to do so. And
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to be honest, it's kind of for both these things and lots. So
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the zero zero they really shock me a bit because you wish for more goals
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and more action. But again, uh, it's kind of maybe defined and
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maybe their season their seasons a bit. This this no no draw in this
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type of matchup. Uh, but ager, I think another draw this weekend
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kind of disappointed you though, to too with Bologne. I know we talked
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about a lot about Bologna on this podcast. I know we hype them up
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a lot and then and then push comes to shove and then they tire,
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they tire, beloved me. Even though they've they they've they haven't been doing
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so. Uh, they haven't won in four straight games, two draws,
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two losses. They come up with this too dry against Melon Milon remains in
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third. I mean, we haven't spoken about our teams. We can each
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take a turn speak about our teams, and we haven't. You know,
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we haven't talked about them in over a month. Guys. If there's anything
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you see in Agean over this past month that you need to vent flour is
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yours. It's not even it's not really about vent. I mean the game
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against Bolonia, it kind of that's not the result I mean, at the
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end of the day, I think Milon should have won. I mean,
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you know, missing missing two penalty shots. Obviously it's the nature of the
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game. Things do happen, the ballways around. At the end of the
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day, things go in, things don't. So I understand all that,
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But for it, I think I was reading the first time in like seventy
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odd years that Melan missed two penalties in the same game, Like it's something
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that doesn't happen every other on there, right, So again does it have
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to does go back on to me and it has to be better? Sure,
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But I still think that you know, they they they deserved, they
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deserve more in the game, and uh, you know, maybe a you
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know, a bit of a bit of luck on that on these aspects weren't
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on their on their side. But I liked what I saw from Loft,
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his cheek, and this is a player that you know, when he came
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in, I wasn't really sure about him. I'm like, Loft, his
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cheek, you know, Chelsea, it wasn't really Yeah, he was okay
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back about a few years ago. Then he kind of like dipped off and
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I didn't I don't know if we're gonna get like a washaway type of player.
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But you know, he's really stepped up, he's really been uh went
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healthy and went on. He's a he's a key part of that midfield,
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especially with Ben Assara coming back and uh, you know Ryan there's has been
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has been top to so addle kind of coming into the mix. So his
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performance obviously the Pieta was was huge. It's a shame. It's a shame
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that you know, we let it all slip at the end, uh,
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because we were we were leading to one. You know, we get up,
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we give up our penalty of our own Uh you know, tell that
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channel newly acquired, new on player hasn't gotten many minutes. Uh. Kind
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of in my opinion, makes a bone head mistake. Uh. You know,
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you put yourself at that risk of of of getting called for for for
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a foul and then for a potential penalty when when you put your hands on
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the player in the box, you know, you talk on the jersey a
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bit. We have the bar now so everything is is, uh is under
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the microscope. So again, bonehead a mistake from him, something that I
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think he'll eventually learn from hopefully. Uh. You know, so we you
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know, we have to deal with that, uh, you know, still
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sticking third, like you said, but should have been more in my opinion.
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But yeah, overall the month of in the month of January, I
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mean, it's it's it's been a it's been a pretty decent month coming out
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of the break, you know, besides the loss in coptalit to to to
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Atalanta, which I think, you know, it should have been better there
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too. They've they've been pretty uh they've been pretty good, you know,
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picking up points, uh, pretty much in every other game. If I'm
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not mistaken, I don't think they've lost in twenty twenty four, uh in
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in Seraya. So uh, it's it's positive. They've they've gone on that
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a little bit of a of a run, you know, Top two is
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what it is. It's where it's been for for a while now. But
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you know, and if they want to do anything near better than where they
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are, they just you know, they have to obviously be be better and
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you know, hope for some results you know, the other way that that
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kind of favor them. But again they're they're kind of you know, faith
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is in their hands in terms of their destiny, in terms of where they're
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going to finish this season. I think if it be third, if it
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magically be second, we'll see. But I think it would be a huge
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shame if if if they somehow bow out of the top four. I think
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top four is in their hands and it's it's it's it's up to them if
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they want to, if they want to, you know, take take that
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on and and and and continue on this this decent form, you know,
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picking up points against you know, I think it was roma, you know,
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amplely kadd. I mean, it hasn't been like the biggest of competition,
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but at the same time, we'd see me want struggle with these smaller
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teams before. So for them to be able to pick up the points it's
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been, it's been huge. It just needs to be a consistency thing at
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the end of the day. So obviously we had the incident against the with
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Mike Magnan, the racist chance and all that, and again, guys,
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if I mean, you know, we said it, how long we've been
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doing this show a couple of four or five years now, it's from from
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day one till now day whatever, we've been saying the same thing about uh,
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you know, about these things and racism in Italy and in the stadiums
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and with the fans, and it just for I mean, it just creates.
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At this point in twenty twenty four, we're still we're still talking about
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these things, and I don't think it will stop, unfortunately, talking about
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these things because I don't see I would would hope to see a future that's
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that's brighter, and I'm very positive for that to happen one day. But
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it just they keep putting us down with with incidents like this, and you
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know, we don't you know, we don't like to see that with any
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player, no matter if it's for your team, for another for another team,
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or anybody in this league. It just is a big no no.
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You know, Maniel had every right to to do what he did, and
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but I haven't really liked I mean, I don't know, I haven't really
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followed up with like all the reports. But it's like one day it's like,
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oh, yeah, they've found you know, the fan. They're banning
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him for life. Now they want to you know, they were saying that
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they were gonna play closed doors. I believe no fans for a game.
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Now that seems to be you know, revisited, and maybe that's might be
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uplifted and only the corva and it's like, guys, can we just have
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a strong stance on this and like just try to make some sort of strides
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in the right direction. It's unfortunate, but again it's something that obviously we're
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we're against and you know we stand by you know, the players and anybody
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who obviously faces these types of things. So but yeah, in terms of
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in terms of melan uh, it's been so far, so good. I
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can mean in twenty twenty four, like I said, and I'm just I'm
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just hoping for for for more consistency. And you know, I don't think
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these rumors of content to Mealan are gonna end anytime soon. So we'll see
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if that how that turns out, if that pans out, it's all paper
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talking for now. But yeah, there's you know, we play what Sunday,
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I believe, Saturday against Rosen, Super Bowl Sunday against Johnny's not Buy.
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So there's some big games coming up, and there's still there's still Europe
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to to take care of. Two in terms of Europe, a week that
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I believe starts next week if I'm not mistaken, Europe starts back up or
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no, if it's on next week, the week after, I don't remember.
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But yeah, not too much ranting for me from Melan, you know,
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if we will call me maybe more in the moments of certain moments throughout
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these games, maybe, but uh, trying to trying to keep even keel
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head going into going into the rest of the season. Uh. Speaking about
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Melan, it was that Milan that beat Jenny's Roma, that was pretty much
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the final straw for Jose Mourinho. We haven't talked about that. I feel
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like if we're doing the podcast, if we're doing the podcast at that time
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and we're recording that week, it would have been a whole show dedicated to
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the firing of Rino. Yeah, like obviously, you know when I saw
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the news, of surprised to see that it happened that day. You know
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when you read it, Oh wow, we actually got fired. But we've
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talked about it so much on this podcast, right Johnny, like he's he's
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a three year man. We knew it was coming up. Like, yeah,
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thoughts, I was shocked and surprised because I'm like, just right out
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his contract till the end of season. Why I you know, you like,
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do the firing now? In the middle, like it like he does
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well in European competitions, right, you're still in Europa League. I know
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the season is not going as well as you want, right, but it's
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it's it baffles my mind that they you know, fired him halfway through or
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like you know, like like it's there's still so much culture left to play.
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That's that's that's that's what basically irked me about it. I'm like,
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there's still so much culture left to play that it seems sort of redundant to
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fire him now because wait and see what happens later on the season. Now,
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Like I didn't read any points of like maybe the players are having a
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mutiny or like, you know, like, uh, some players are expressing
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oh my god, what's the word, like, uh, not disinterest,
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but resentment. I guess like there was there wasn't any commentary about uh,
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you know, like players having a secret media about it, unless you know
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those that news didn't go out get him, didn't get out there specifically,
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But all in all, I would have preferred that they wait till the end
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of the season, right out the contract and see what happens from there.
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Now, Uh, that Ossie comes in, which I don't hate, like
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I have zero problems with it, but we know he's temporary, he's just
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filling in the spot. And I don't like the fact that he's got like
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a lot of pressure or a lot of follow up now because you're the coach
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you had before, was Josie Mounino. You know. It's it's something that
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like like hopefully doesn't like doesn't affect his future coaching career, because I would
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love to see him coach Roma. I just think it's a bit too soon.
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But given the circumstance is fine, it's the cheapest option. It's it's
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like you get your prima Veta coach because you don't want to spend the salary
23:48
on another coach, right, So that's where the logic comes in. But
23:53
I would have preferred if they waited towards the end of the season, wait
23:56
till after Europa said and done, just to like, you know, see
24:00
what happens after that. So, but it is what it is. He's
24:03
fired. I was. I was one of those that I had zero issues
24:08
with. The guy was really happy he he he coached a Roma, was
24:15
really happy he was involved with the team. It's just, you know,
24:18
just kind of like I would rather later on. So that's the Roma side
24:22
of things, towards the towards the Monopoli side of things. I just want
24:29
consistency, man, I just want something to stick. I just want,
24:33
you know, the team to find its form, you know, Like I'm
24:34
tired of the drama, tired of the commentary. I'm tired of every week
24:38
there's something new, Like it's just it's it's it's exhausting, That's what it
24:42
is. It's just it's just exhaustive. It's uh, it's something that it's
24:48
it sucks out the enjoyment from the team, you know, like it's it's
24:52
it could be one thing if you're struggling in the season, but when you
24:53
have like also all this drama and stuff going on, it's like die basta,
24:59
you know, Like like I'm tired of like each week is a new
25:02
comment or it's a new thing where it's like oh, Steven might not renew
25:06
or oh talking about like he wants seven million, and when you're offering four
25:11
million, it's like can we can we please stop? Can we just like
25:14
not you know what I mean, Like can we just not have especially on
25:17
like the such the high that you know, was on like last season,
25:21
it's like to come for it to come like I would pretty much say,
25:25
crashing down the way it has, it's like I think, I think it
25:27
adds to to all the you know, the drama un di discomfort of fans,
25:33
I would think, and you have to think, like a one point
25:37
what point does this start from the top? You know, at the end
25:41
of the day, clubs clubs does clubs they they they almost control what comes
25:49
out of the room. You know, they not that they're in bed with
25:52
the media or whatever. But if you don't want something to be passed on
25:56
to the media as a club, as an owner, al you make sure
26:00
it doesn't get passed on. And it seems like every week, like you
26:03
said, Jenny, there's a new story, Well it depends. But if
26:08
it's coming from the camps of the players and stuff, if it's coming from
26:11
it's like where're they're they're entourage and stuff like or even like you can't control
26:15
thatman's uh interview with CBS. I was seeing like he he like like he
26:22
accepted the interview. He did the interview and you said what he said,
26:23
and and that just by him doing that is I mean, I'm not gonna
26:27
say, oh, you can't go and interview with whatever. But like again,
26:30
that causes more quicks, that causes more drama or I already know my
26:34
decision where it's gonna be. Yeah, but it's But the thing is,
26:38
we're exactly all shocked and stuff. But let's look, let's look at it
26:42
like actual analytically. Right since day one, we knew, see men like
26:47
Monopoly wasn't the main squad, it was the it was a stepping stone.
26:51
It's not like as if this is something brand new. Huh, I said,
26:56
no disrespect but it no, no, but it's but it's reality of
26:59
the situation. And he's not an Italian. These players don't have any love
27:03
or lineage or ties to the to the country, not as if they have
27:06
to, you know, like some players like Merchants fell in love and just
27:08
wanted to stay till the end, right and he didn't. But it's because
27:11
of whatever the team at the end of the day, it's a business,
27:14
right like, But that's how that works. It's a business. And these
27:18
players have a right to say, like my favorite team is real, my
27:22
favorite team is Chelsea, my favorite team is x Y or Z team.
27:26
They have a right at the end of the day, they're fans too.
27:27
That's why they played the sport. That's why they love playing the sport because
27:30
they love it and they were fans of their own respective teams. So for
27:33
him to say, like, I made my decision right, that's fine because
27:37
like we always knew one day, whether it was sooner or later, he
27:38
was gonna leave. It's not freaking brand new. But like people need to
27:45
also understand he did a favor Tonopoly. You won't know what that favor was,
27:48
extending that contract, making that new release clause, right because at the
27:55
end of the day, but nobody is bigger than the club. John No,
27:57
but I'm saying no. But like like he did the team of favor
28:00
by saying like by signing that, now Napoli gets him for like they like
28:04
if he leaves, they get one hundred and fifty MILI for him. It's
28:08
not like as if they're gonna get ninety or seventy or forty or sixty.
28:11
They're getting one fifty. They're not gonna break even. They're gonna make a
28:14
bit. If yeah, they're making they're making they're making sixty million in profit.
28:18
And with one hundred and fifty million, you can reinvest in so many
28:22
different spots for the team, you know, And that's that's always been Napoli's
28:26
m It's always been their uh mortus operandi, where it's like like, for
28:29
example, the sofaella, you got Cavani with his money, Cavanni got you
28:33
he Guayane mertens Kulibali, those guys landed, jews Up Gwaiyan landed a juas
28:38
Cemen. Now Semen's gonna laund you so much more, you know. It's
28:42
it's how it works for Napoly. They're not they're not one of the big
28:45
three in Italy. We're like, oh, we're guaranteed x million a year
28:48
because we have fans around the globe. They're just willing to spend all this
28:52
money for us, you know, Like that's that, this is the reality
28:53
of the situation. You need to make your money through your player selves.
28:56
And if Napoli wants to remain competitive and they want to keep on, you
29:00
know, getting some talent to the team, you're gonna have to sell talent.
29:03
It's like what what Melan like like what Jordan's uh? Jordan Mark is
29:08
our our friend on the for the pod Uh I love your buddy shouting you
29:12
out. Uh he like he said it perfectly. When when when Milan sold
29:18
Sandro Tonale, you love Tonale, like you know, he loves playing for
29:22
the team. You know, he grew up supporting the team. It's it's
29:26
it's not about it's business. At the end of the day, it's it's
29:29
it's not anything. It's not it's not nobody's talking. He didn't talk bad
29:32
about the club. He didn't talk shit about the club. He didn't talk
29:34
about the fact like you know, like at the end of the day,
29:38
yeah, but yes, but at the end of the day they did for
29:45
them. It's like, okay, well he gets to go to a place
29:47
where he makes more money and you know, you know, gets more exposure,
29:51
more deals or whatever, and he helps out the club by getting them
29:53
more money for him to sale. It's a win win scenario, you know,
29:56
Like, especially if you love the team, you don't want to do
29:59
that to them. You want dick them over from making money just because I
30:00
go, fuck it, I don't want to be sold, you know,
30:03
it's like I want to stay here. Obviously you have the right to say
30:04
where you want to stay. But that's why for me like like this all
30:08
cemen thing right, Like I'm not pissed off about it. Everyone's like all
30:11
irritated and like blowing up about it. The guy wanted to screw with that
30:15
though for Napoli, he's done his job. But what I prefer from the
30:18
stay absolutely because he's not a striker that you can find anywhere at all.
30:22
He's not a striker. If you could just wake up and just like,
30:23
oh, okay, well he's replaced for like ten million. No, he's
30:27
not one of those guys. But for one hundred and fifty million, you
30:30
can't say no to that deal. It helps out with so many freaking holes
30:33
that we've been talking about for this team this whole time. That left side
30:37
is no man's land for Cabat Skelly, he's got no support. You could
30:38
definitely help him out. Zelensky's leaving, so you need to replace a guy
30:42
like Zelensky in the summer that one hundred and fifty million can help do with
30:45
that, you know what I'm saying. Like it's there's a lot of like
30:48
moving parts that a lot of people are getting too emotional to even think about
30:52
or see. So if he goes on it, if he wants to go
30:55
out there and say like, oh, I made my decision already and by
30:57
the summer I'm going to realit or I'm going to Chelsea or whatever. Okay,
31:00
that's fine, that's great, because that means we're getting a hundred fifty
31:03
million from them. We're getting money from those guys because it's it's that's the
31:07
absolute baseline. If you want to talk to Austin Man, you need to
31:08
be willing to give ANPP one hundred fifty million euros, which looks like it's
31:11
gonna happen. So thank you, Austin Man, thank you for helping us.
31:15
When it's with that Kopetalia, you know, like you've you've done,
31:18
You've done your job, but like it's it's life, man. Players can't
31:22
stay on the same team forever anymore. It's the time of the bandier.
31:26
They are are gone, they're there, it's done. It's a business.
31:30
Yeah, you're right, it's a business at the end of the day.
31:33
So it is what it is. But so that's my I guess I don't
31:38
want to say rant. It's just more like we're getting fed up and tired
31:41
of like people creating drama or commentary and stuff. It's like just like like
31:47
the the Antonio Contevi. Just just one normal day, that's all I ask,
31:49
Just for a normal day, you know. But you know what's interesting
31:56
because it's in his contract. Great, I think it's I'm just read it's
31:59
one hundred and thirty million to release release clause. That's what you're referring to
32:02
Jenny there. But with the preise tag that clubs are going to have to
32:07
pay. But what's interesting is that, like how many clubs are there that
32:12
could pay that? English clubs real, I'm sure one of them will want
32:16
him, Yeah, definitely. Yeah, Like he's he wanted to go play
32:22
the prem so it's going to be a PREM team for sure. If there's
32:29
sure Menu has that money, they need some firepower City. I mean,
32:34
they're good. Imagine imagine they spend that much money for all us he meant
32:37
to sit on the bench behind Holland and Alva would be ridiculous. But you
32:45
know again, you know PSG, you know, you ever know, I
32:47
mean, I don't think he wants to go back to France, I think
32:51
exactly, but I think he really wants to go back to UH to go
32:55
to the prep. Does have this money. Yeah, okay, well,
33:00
yeah he does. Well, we spend it at a different different story.
33:07
Yeah, Joey, if you're listening, Yeah, that's it. It Felso
33:15
that cups to Montreal. He's filling seats at that stadium. Guys. It
33:22
was funny, like I just went on Usuman's Wikipedia page pages because I wanted
33:25
to. I forgot how long he's been with the team. I thought it
33:30
was like, oh yeah, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two. Yeah,
33:31
yeah, not too long, twenty twenty it's been this is for season
33:35
twenty twenty. Yeah. You go down to the personal life section of Uzu
33:39
man and and I'll read you this line. Uh. He has stated that
33:45
he has drawn inspiration from Sadiomney. I mean, at this point, you
33:50
don't want to be drawing too much inspiration from that guy his latest news.
33:57
Yeah, but we'll leave it, will leave it at that. Yeah,
34:01
but uh no, you know, yeah exactly. Uh. I don't know
34:07
if you spoke too much about this, Johnny, but roma, I mean,
34:10
it's only even three games with the ras See, and we know when
34:15
teams make a coaching change, there's always a bit of a hot streak for
34:17
a bit two to one win versus Rowana, to one win versus Al Shabab
34:22
in a friendly because they needed to play another game and to one against Clearn
34:29
China. Johnny, do you think that do you think that was part of
34:31
the hot streak or like do you think they really needed that change, the
34:37
coaching change? Yeah, I know he said it, but more like more
34:42
like do you think there's like because of the coaching change. Yeah, It's
34:50
hard to tell unless you're a fly on the wall. Is what is actually
34:53
what it is doctor? You know, right, is that you know theabolic
35:00
injury. Yeah, that makes a difference, you know, you know l
35:05
So I mean like, yeah, exactly makes a difference. So it's I
35:10
wouldn't I really really, I wouldn't really attributed to like the coaching change because,
35:14
like I said, prior to you know, the the firing, right,
35:20
like, there wasn't any news that the team was like from what I
35:23
saw, From what I saw that the team was very unhappy with Mourinho.
35:29
Like I like, it just seemed like the common idea for going to play
35:34
in in in Roma was that Morigno's the coach. You want to go play
35:38
in a Roma because Moriennio is going to be your coach. So it's that
35:43
just that just would seem what the feel was. But like like I said,
35:50
I haven't seen anything that like really suggested to me that the team's better
35:53
motivated now because he's gone. Uh. News came out today that but a
35:58
Loti's being loaned out to to Fidentina z In. Yeah, gonna is going
36:05
to be coming in, which is I like it. I like it a
36:07
lot too too, So I'm excited to see that happen. Like it's like
36:15
you can say it's positive news, but it has I don't think it has
36:17
like anything like directly related to modin Neil's time. Uh maybe maybe they sacked
36:22
him now, But like even even in terms of like the whole thing that
36:25
that makes sixty million euros by the summer, it's like you can't really attribute
36:29
it that to salary because you still have to pay the man by sacking him.
36:31
You know, it's like as if you're cutting out unless it's unless it
36:35
becomes like partitioned because of like you have to pay out the remaining times they're
36:37
know like how buyouts work in salary cap for for like hockey and stuff,
36:43
it's like a partial amount like maybe that's maybe that's how it works. I
36:45
don't I don't know. I'm not an accountant, so I'm not gonna show
36:47
how long was this was his contract up after his contract was getting me up
36:52
this summer. There's contract was giving me up this summer, and there was
36:57
talks that he was interested in renewing. I guess they saved themselves a headache
37:01
for for for that, I mean, I don't know, and they rather
37:05
just go fresh in the summer. Probably they give themselves a bit more time
37:09
now because now we have to see, right like they're all see like you
37:14
said, Johnny, you know, I don't want to say band aid solution,
37:16
but you know it's a temporary fixed right you know that all see obviously
37:22
club legend, uh, you know, one of one of them pretty much.
37:25
So it's it's you know, I think he can obviously motivate the guys
37:30
as much as he can, and you know they can they you know,
37:32
not to say that Modinial didn't. I think Modino really he's always been you
37:37
know with his guys that he that he that he's that he's you know,
37:42
that core that he that he creates. He's usually like very very approachable with
37:45
the players really sees, you know, it comes to their level and really
37:49
like integrates them to that group and and you know there all sees what it's
37:53
going to be. But it gives them some some more time to kind of
37:57
to kind of just the signe. Now it's like, you know, maybe
38:00
if if you want to look at the other side of you know, and
38:01
I agree, Jenny, I I didn't think they would sack them in the
38:05
right now. I thought they would probably do it in the summer, or
38:07
guarantee do it in the summer. But but on the flip side of yet,
38:13
it gives themselves a bit more time instead of you know, rushing throughout
38:16
the summer to really actually find somebody concrete. And but on the flip side
38:22
again to that they have to take this time and really use it to their
38:25
advantage to actually really go and look for another coach because again, the coaching
38:30
market, it is what it's going to be. Like. There's obviously some
38:32
big names out there right now, but who's who's realistic for Roma, who
38:37
knows. We didn't think, we didn't think Modiemio would ever go. We
38:40
didn't think, we didn't know Moreino was gonna go. When when you when
38:43
when they pulled that out of the hat. You know, uh, the
38:45
freaking's really you know done, have done their business really under the radar,
38:50
which I respect. Have they made all the right moves along the way.
38:53
Maybe maybe not again I'm not here to say that, but moving in silence,
38:58
I've liked and you know, they brought, you know, one of
39:01
one of the more decorated coaches to back to Sadia and and and and to
39:06
the Eternal City. So okay, you part ways with him that as is
39:09
your band aid. Let's see what you have for for the summer. Who
39:13
are they going to go for? You know they have they have to make
39:15
strikes forward because a team, Mike Roma, if they want to be serious
39:19
in terms of Top four contention and getting back to the Champions League and and
39:22
all that. You know, it's it's it's gotta start now. So we'll
39:25
we'll see. But yeah, I don't know, but you know, blot
39:30
the out and the baldanze and I, like you said, johny, I
39:32
do like it as well, so young player exactly. And you we already
39:37
know the ball is not gonna be on the field every game. That that's
39:40
proven. Uh you know, uh with injury and so forth. Uh,
39:45
Pelgreene has kind of dipped off, which I've it's been a bit of a
39:49
shame injury to a bit. So yeah, I think, you know,
39:52
Baldanz hopefully he gets minutes and I think he will, maybe not right away.
39:58
I don't know. We'll see how that plays him, but pretty exciting
40:00
to see a young Italian make that that that that week forward to one of
40:05
the bigger clubs in early and lastly, I guess it's my turn with you've
40:12
a great start to January. Everything was going positive. Colpe itally wins six
40:16
to one for nothing against Celearning, Tan and Froze. You know, end
40:22
of the year with the winning against Roma. Started it with that dramatic win
40:28
against Learning Tona, picked up that win against so Solo through nothing, another
40:31
win against Lata three nothing, and then very disappointed with the draw this past
40:37
weekend against Empoli. This was a game that you gotta win, Like you
40:43
know, you're in right in the thick of the scudet the race. Now
40:45
you have the advantage because you know you have the the well inter has the
40:51
game in hand, but you know you're still in first and then score first.
40:55
Everything's going well you know in this fight the red hard and then just
41:00
a leazy goal to get scored on, just lack of defensing. And it
41:06
was that ball dancing his last goal for Amply before going out to play for
41:10
Roma. And it's just I was I was so disappointed watching that. Just
41:15
everyone was ball watching, Like, come on, if you want to watch
41:19
something, go to the cinema by a popcorn sit down, watch the movie.
41:22
You're not here to watch watch the game. Defend Volvich. Got to
41:28
give him credit. He's been He's been on fire these past few games.
41:30
Feels like it's only him scoring, which at the end it is not a
41:35
bad thing because they paid seventy million for this guy who really struggled the first
41:38
half of the season, didn't score for a few months, and he's finally
41:43
catching on. It's great. I just what I want to see from him
41:47
is this consistency. And I've said it on the podcast multiple times. At
41:52
him, we know the talent's there, is just on the head and when
41:55
he gets frustrated, he gets so frustrated. And then now when he's hot,
41:59
he hot. But now let's just just consistent, especially heading into this
42:06
part of the season, this part like February March. It's gonna it's gonna
42:12
make or break the season. Of course, the games come April and May
42:15
are still gonna count. But if you don't get it done in February March,
42:17
the games in April and May aren't gonna they're not gonna mean too much.
42:22
You know. If if you want to win that school that so you
42:24
need to start winning in February. You're gonna need to win in March.
42:28
You're gonna need to need to win in April, and you're you're gonna need
42:30
to win in May. So that's what I want to see from him,
42:35
you know. Regarding that Schuetta race, I mean, we have the big
42:38
game this weekend. No, it's a derby. It's for me. It's
42:43
almost make it or break it. I know. I said that when we
42:45
played into the first time, but this time even more so because it was
42:51
it did finished tied last time. And this is a game. If Youvey
42:55
loses with Interro with the game in hand, I think it's pretty much done.
43:00
If if it finishes a tie, there's still plenty of soccer to be
43:05
played. But I'm still gonna give into the advantage. And if you've a
43:08
wins, they go two points up, but Inter still doesn't have that game
43:12
in hand, so it really doesn't guarantee much. It's gonna be really tough.
43:15
It's in me line. Ves is kind of getting some injured players back.
43:22
I think he is a trained with the group. I don't know if
43:23
he'll play, but I'm I'm really excited for it. I'm nervous for it.
43:29
One thing I'll say though, is also regarding Inter. We know how
43:31
good of a team they are. Yeah, you've said it on this podcast.
43:36
I still think that the best team in Italy. It's just that they
43:39
have Champions League coming up, and as you fan, I'm gonna want them
43:45
to go far, so they tire themselves out, so they drop some points
43:47
down the road in the city app Is that gonna happen? God knows.
43:52
They do have good depth. There's a team. If there's a team that
43:55
can handle City on Champions League, it is them. But again that's where
44:00
the game's now for you've account. I think after this game they do have
44:07
a few more winnable games. Uh, you know, they play Udines,
44:10
they play Verona and Frozen Frozen, and then they do play Napoli and Atalanta.
44:15
So the rest of February should not gonna say easy wins. There's no
44:21
such thing as an easy win. We just saw. But the rest of
44:23
February after that are games that ve is gonna aim for nine points out of
44:29
nine. If they win this one, combine those nine points, I think
44:31
they're in a good spot come March. But it's exciting. It's exciting.
44:36
I feel like last year the Scudetto race was over in like January. At
44:39
least this time around, it's kind of like two years ago when intern at
44:42
Milan, we're battling it out. You know, at the end of the
44:44
day, we just want something that's gonna that's gonna fight out until the end
44:49
of May, whenever the season ends. As a fan, it's exciting because
44:54
it's been a while, right, You've has been in such a race.
44:58
We haven't won the Scudetto and in four years and that was a good that
45:01
was a good race that year. But it's a six point game, yeah,
45:07
it's a sixth's it's huge, it's huge. Just one thing. I'll
45:12
say. They played each other at the end of November, and under the
45:16
old scheduling format, you just played, you know, the first set of
45:21
pictures. You played it, uh again the second time, so they would
45:24
have played each other later in the season. It would have been nice if
45:29
they did play each other later on, But at the end of the day,
45:30
you're still You're still playing the same team two times, no matter when
45:34
in the season. Yeah, no, it's it's like I said that,
45:37
it's a six point matchup. I know we're like carbon coffee from from when
45:43
we spoke about it last time, and I don't think you have the like
45:45
you said, the same, the same feeling. But again it was it
45:50
was a big game then and obviously it's an even bigger game now. I
45:52
mean, no matter what you know, these these derby games are huge if
45:59
you're first in scing or if you're you know, sixth and seventh, or
46:02
if you're nineteenth and twenty, it doesn't matter. Like these these games are
46:07
huge no matter how the teams are doing. The fact that you know they
46:10
are one and two right now and and it's close obviously makes it even more
46:15
exciting and it makes it obviously more important. You know, both have been
46:22
on good form. Obviously, I think it's gonna be a tough one to
46:24
call, honestly, Like I I you know, it almost seems as as
46:29
much as I guess neither fan base wants that this to happen, but it
46:32
almost seems like the draw is probably the fair result. Seeing how these teams
46:37
have been playing and seeing how they've how they've been on their their good form,
46:40
and you know how they're how they're their their top men are are are
46:45
scoring, it almost seems that it has to end in the draw, will
46:50
it. I don't know, We'll see. I haven't really picked up on
46:55
on you vas away for him, you know, certain certain teams like Away
47:00
and and at Home or two different beasts. I haven't haven't noticed. You
47:02
know, you used trackpack over that this season. But again, despite all
47:07
that, at the end of the day, it is a dead beat.
47:09
You know, these players have to go in there with that mentality and and
47:14
uh and honestly, like I said, that six point game mentality. Yes,
47:19
they have the game in hand, but you know, we all know
47:22
what happened when he to have that game in hand and fighting for the scudetto
47:24
with Melan so so you never know, you never know. Uh, yeah,
47:31
I'm curious to see how that how that game plays out. It's it's
47:35
on Sunday or Saturday, Sunday Sunday, right, yeah, so yeah,
47:39
it's probably the primetime game on Sunday. So again, guys, tune into
47:44
that one because it's it, it should be and hopefully delivers to be a
47:47
great matchup. Uh to around out this weekend. And guys, I know
47:54
at the end of January, I know we missed the boat in New Year's
47:58
resolutions. But if we had to have one resolution for each of our teams
48:01
for twenty twenty four, what would you want to see? Are they going
48:07
to stick to it? That's a whole other story. If you started in
48:10
January, there's a better chance because when you started in February, everyone,
48:14
and sorry, if you satured it in February, there's a better transfer you
48:16
to stick with it because when everyone starts on January first, they forget it
48:21
by January second. So you nick, you started off and since you went
48:27
last year, you started off. What do you want to see scudetto even
48:31
simple, that's what I want to say. I want to see consistency these
48:35
last sixteen games. I want to see sixteen wins and I want to see
48:38
a scudetto straight up. Okay, all right, for Italy. I want
48:44
to see a euro win. That's it. I I want to have another
48:49
fun summer, Johnny, I would like for either team to hit top four
48:54
place. I might. It's looking like it is gonna be the first season
49:01
like since probably like the like probably like since the nineties. I have to
49:07
take proper I have to take a proper look that neither neither one of my
49:13
teams would have would would finish in the in the top in the top four,
49:19
like no Roma or Anapoli. I have to actually like dig deep and
49:22
look it up. But it's probably gonna it's looking like that, So it's
49:24
it's kind of crazy. So for me, I'd rather hopefully I get to
49:27
see one of them finish the top four and obviously at least to win Euros.
49:30
Actually just hit semies at least semis because it makes does makes sense to
49:36
not hit the seventies. Uh yeah, no, good points. I mean,
49:40
I mean for me, I don't know, just not to make me
49:45
Ryan Thingleed Banana's me one. I don't know. Most of the Mashing tables
49:47
in twenty twenty four, I I don't know. Again, Consistency is probably
49:52
the main one amongst the three of our teams, you know, for for
49:57
for me and I I again just you know, stay in the court worse,
50:00
uh, you know, managing their expectations. Uh, you know,
50:04
how will this season ends? You know how will next season? You know
50:07
be? I don't know, like it's ply on board, it is purely
50:10
not. But again, walk out all the noise, all the paper talk.
50:15
They can click, they can type, they can write whatever they want.
50:17
Just you know, focus at the task. I hand melon and you
50:22
know, see where the see where the chips fall. I mean, I
50:24
think, like I said earlier, tough four is is obviously the goal we
50:30
would have wanted. More. I don't think obviously mathematical, it's not it's
50:36
not matthflematically done that. You know, they can't win the Scudetto. But
50:38
again I think that might be a bit too out of reach, you know,
50:42
second or third place. It could be a bit more realistic. Hopefully,
50:46
like I said earlier, it's in their hands. Uh you know,
50:49
they're they're in the driver's seats for for for anything that continues on going forward
50:53
in this season and again hopefully take you know Europa League. Seriously, Uh,
51:00
I would like to see some some shape or formance soilverware this season,
51:05
and if it's a Europa League title, I mean I guess we'll take it.
51:07
You know, the team, the club has never won it, so
51:09
we never had to win it. So but yeah, again, just one
51:15
game at a time, strive, strive for for top four, which I
51:19
think, like I said, is manageable and and uh yeah, I just
51:22
want to see good performances, none of this, none of this you know,
51:27
bs and and and stuff like that. So we'll see. I'm hopeful,
51:30
uh and yeah, like like you guys said, freely, I mean,
51:34
we'll never not say it fairly not to win, right being Italian.
51:37
So if it's if it's another if it's another euro Championship, I mean we'll
51:44
be on top of the moon. That that's for sure. Will it happen
51:45
again, I don't know. But again like next set, I guess,
51:49
you know, shoot for the stars. And we're hopeful for fairly to have
51:51
a good euro twenty twenty four this summer. Uh how many most ways,
51:57
I think it's like what five months, four and a half months, four
52:00
and a half months away of March, all April me and a bit of
52:08
June. Okay, for it's pretty close, guys, it's pretty close.
52:12
Unless there's anything you guys wanted to bring up. I think that will do
52:17
it for us in our turn. So we'll be back next week. Maybe
52:20
we'll get a guest on next week. We'll see. Yeah, no,
52:22
I gat again just before I think, before we wrap up, I know
52:25
we haven't been here, we haven't been recording about a month obviously, the
52:29
Italian world. Uh, it seems like every so often now we're we're losing.
52:34
We're losing. We're losing so many, so many great, so many
52:37
legends. But the late and great passing away again we send our condolences otter
52:44
that I know that happened. It wasn't a couple weeks a week ago or
52:46
so, or a couple of weeks ago carliery legend obviously at Judio legend,
52:52
a winner on both fronts. You know it'll be top score all time with
53:00
that thirty five goals. So just a legend of the game, obviously before
53:05
our time. But again we you know, we respect and and and and
53:08
pay our pay our respects to to to the greats of this of our sport
53:14
and of the country that that we love so much. So yeah, I
53:16
just wanted to put that in the in there because you Knowva and anybody that
53:22
spoke about him, that was close to him, or that played with him,
53:27
play against you know, it was just he was He was really a
53:30
top guy on all fronts. Obviously he had a stint with with with within
53:36
the Azuri wind and outside of his playing career. So yeah, just a
53:42
legend of the game, an icon, and obviously you know, losing him
53:46
at seventy nine is is is unfortunate, and again we we send our condolences
53:52
to that. But again, guys like next Sight, I think, uh,
53:55
you know, that will pretty much do it for us. We appreciate
54:00
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54:04
know, like we said early on, we haven't been on for about a
54:07
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54:09
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54:38
next week talk about more culture. Well, one thing, one thing I
54:44
want to say about Gigiriva. So he has most goals ever for Italy thirty
54:47
five. It doesn't seem like a lot, It does not seem like a
54:52
lot, but obviously he has. Only two other players are even even scored
55:00
thirty Silvio Piolo who played in the thirties and forties, and and Giuseppe and
55:06
Maat who played in the thirties. The closest. Next closest, more more
55:09
recent was del Piero and Bajo Alta Belli also twenty five in Zagi twenty five,
55:15
which is pretty crazy. Player octave players is active player. I think
55:20
I think it's still immobile if I'm not mistaken, but like he's on like
55:24
fifteen or something seen fifteen. The last international goal Riva scored was in nineteen
55:31
seventy three, so this record has stood for over fifty years now. It's
55:36
going to be broken eventually, like probably in our lifetime too, especially with
55:38
the amount of games that players are playing. Is just that Italy's just never
55:43
had a striker of who's gonna putt goals as often has heated, which is
55:49
pretty crazy. So at least for the foreseeable future, Yeah, that record
55:52
is going to stand. We'll see how long it stats for. But but
55:57
that'll do it for us. Guys. Catch us on our latest, on
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56:23
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56:28
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56:31
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56:35
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