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Roma Return for Ranieri & Azzurri Nations League Preview - Ep. 247 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: Finally, that's probably the sentiment that Roma fans are feeling,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the count guys, Jenny, Adriano, Nicholas. You can
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  Speaker 1: us wherever you get your podcasts. From episode two forty
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  Speaker 1: seven guys. So we're approaching two fifty. But before before
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  Speaker 1: we get into all the negative stuff with throw oh
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  Speaker 1: my gott to ask you, guys, how's it going?
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  Speaker 2: That could be better for me?
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  Speaker 3: MA, could be better for me? No, no, I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's good to be back. Forty seven of the
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  Speaker 3: culture guys is crazy man. Nick posted a picture in
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  Speaker 3: our in our in our culture guys chat of six
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  Speaker 3: years ago back at CE Joe. Oh it's time fly
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  Speaker 3: is like Jenny said, so happy to be back. Always
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  Speaker 3: a pleasure and uh yeah man, ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah six years ago, Uh today you were complaining. It
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  Speaker 1: was the one year anniversary of Itallly losing versus Sweden,
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  Speaker 1: so you were complaining. And you know that was probably
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  Speaker 1: the Adriana rant of these first two forty seven episodes.
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  Speaker 1: It's an absolute classic. We might, I don't know, we
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  Speaker 1: might have to find the video and post it, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, seven years ago today it was when Italy
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  Speaker 1: lost versus Sweden. We'll talk to Italy later a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a lot more positive since then, not so
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  Speaker 1: positive for Roma. It feels like, Johnny, every week we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about it. You know, last week you talked about Urich,
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  Speaker 1: who already was their second coach this season. This you
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  Speaker 1: know you've talked about it. Feels like Napoly last year,
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  Speaker 1: who went through three coaches. Who was it? They started
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  Speaker 1: with Garcia and then they went to Madzadi and then
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  Speaker 1: it was cubs on. I was at it Wynnopoly last year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then now Roma, d Rossi, Urich and Rennieri. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just all over the place. You got a club
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  Speaker 1: legend and a player Urich comes in out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: and then you got a club legend as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know, how do you how do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about this whole situation.
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  Speaker 2: Johnny, honestly speaking.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever at this point, just to stop stop the leak stopped,
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  Speaker 4: it stopped.
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  Speaker 2: With the problems.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, like, I just need something
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  Speaker 4: to We just need something to be fixed. We need
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  Speaker 4: something to work. That's that's what we need here. We
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  Speaker 4: need just need something to work. So hopefully Claudio comes
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  Speaker 4: in helps makes things better. But you know, honestly speaking,
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  Speaker 4: I I think he just like steers the course. Like
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  Speaker 4: I think he just maintains that Roma into city and
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  Speaker 4: then just look into next year to see what they
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  Speaker 4: can do.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's basically.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think everyone is just frustrated and checked
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  Speaker 4: out for this season.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the like the spirit's not there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's and I'm pretty sure I've seen he's uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's pretty much just there until until June, just until
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  Speaker 3: the summertime, until the summer and then they can get
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  Speaker 3: a new coach next year. I think, listen, it's it's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 3: It's something that I know Johnny us pokelout last week
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  Speaker 3: and just even in previous episodes that it's something that
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  Speaker 3: you didn't want kind of a repeat of what now
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  Speaker 3: we went through last year in terms of the coaching carousel.
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  Speaker 3: Three coaches in a calendar year, it's uh, and even
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  Speaker 3: going dating back to even Mourinho right like the whole
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  Speaker 3: Mourinho thing and then from the Rossi Yodic and now
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  Speaker 3: Claudia or Anieri for for another time at Roma, but
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  Speaker 3: is there is there anything to salvage or or or
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  Speaker 3: is it all loss? Is it all too late to
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  Speaker 3: salvage anything for this season? In your opinion?
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  Speaker 4: Honestly speaking, I think it's just there's nothing to salvage.
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  Speaker 4: I think the only thing that you can salvage is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, eighth place.
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  Speaker 2: That's about it. Really. I think at this point the
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  Speaker 2: damage is done.
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  Speaker 1: We're ready.
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  Speaker 4: We're almost at the halfway point in the season, and
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  Speaker 4: it's it's tough, like you're you know, twelve games in
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  Speaker 4: out of nineteen out of the first half, like it's
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  Speaker 4: it's a third of the season's gone. Like I know,
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  Speaker 4: I said halfway, but the third of season's gone. So
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  Speaker 4: it's all looking good. It's honestly not I I honestly
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  Speaker 4: don't think it's like that's the best you could do
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  Speaker 4: eighth place. And that's even me being super optimistic. I
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  Speaker 4: think the best thing that you want from this kind
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  Speaker 4: of situation is just to keep the team afloat into city.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: I think there is it. I don't know if anybody
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  Speaker 3: has the table up, but where are they, like five
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  Speaker 3: points away from relegation spot they are?
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  Speaker 4: I haven't opened their twelve Yeah, twelve yeah, and they're
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  Speaker 4: technically four points away from relegation because yeah, yeah, because
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  Speaker 4: of the brain no work, eighteenth places has nine points.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're I don't see them being risked
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  Speaker 1: to go down. You know, there's a lot of bad
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  Speaker 1: teams in the city, like Legay as well. They just
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  Speaker 1: fired Luca Gatti. They brought in Marco John Polo another
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  Speaker 1: of heuch your guide legends, you know, legendary and coaches
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  Speaker 1: that I absolutely love to talk about. You know, legend
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  Speaker 1: is a team that they want to salvage their season
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  Speaker 1: and stay in the city. There are at nine point
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  Speaker 1: points their eighteenth place, so you know what, for Romano,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a matter of you know, relegation at this point. Obviously.
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  Speaker 1: I think the management probably has that in the back
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  Speaker 1: of their mind, like for every team, relegation is of possibility, right,
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  Speaker 1: And when you're only five points above the safety zone,
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  Speaker 1: it oh, sorry, four points, it's you know, it's there.
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  Speaker 1: But because there's that cushion of six other teams in
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  Speaker 1: between them, like you know it, it helps you know.
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  Speaker 1: On the flip side, there's six points sorry, four points
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  Speaker 1: above eighteenth place, but they're five points behind Meland in
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  Speaker 1: seventh place, So you know, they're a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: weird you know, in a weird state where if they
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  Speaker 1: could go on a run of like four or five wins,
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  Speaker 1: they could you know, launch themselves back into you know,
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  Speaker 1: European race. Again, that's probably not the goal this point.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they get they get No, it's a it's
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  Speaker 3: a it's a big is I think I think of
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  Speaker 3: anything like, I don't know if, like I asked you
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  Speaker 3: the question, Johnny, if anything's salvageable, just because you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're also still in Europe with the Europa League. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just curious. I just wonder how run here he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna kind of you know, pick his cards and and
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  Speaker 3: play and play them in these competitions. Like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if if in your opinion, Johnny, if Europa League
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  Speaker 3: is anything like, is I lost already or is that
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  Speaker 3: something that maybe even.
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  Speaker 4: Well no, I wouldn't say that's I mean, like you
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  Speaker 4: could you could explore your options there and maybe you know,
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  Speaker 4: try try out for something there because the league right now,
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  Speaker 4: you're just trying to stay afloat as much as you can.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I.
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  Speaker 2: Know, it sucks to sound doom and glue.
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  Speaker 4: But it's like like there are some players that are
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  Speaker 4: still in it, like Al Schrot's still playing with all
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  Speaker 4: his heart and everything, you know. But it's also tough,
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  Speaker 4: like to rally a group right now, uh, given how
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  Speaker 4: they're performing in the league, to be like, hey, you
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  Speaker 4: know what, I think. I think trying to sell them
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  Speaker 4: on the league to get into European spot might be tough,
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  Speaker 4: but I think you would have an easier time selling
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  Speaker 4: them I'm trying to win the Europa you know, Like
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  Speaker 4: I think that's that's where you would probably get them
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  Speaker 4: to collectively be like, you know what, fine, let's go
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  Speaker 4: for it. I think that's what you have to I
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  Speaker 4: don't see, I guess bargain with That's that's your bargaining
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  Speaker 4: chip for for that for that same season. And if
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  Speaker 4: there's a guy who's good at getting the players to
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  Speaker 4: rally around him or you know, believe in something, it's
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  Speaker 4: I think is.
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  Speaker 3: That kind of guy, especially in Rome? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Especially in Rome?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Because he so this is this is actually a third
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  Speaker 1: state now As Roma manager, he was there two thousand
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  Speaker 1: nine tenty eleven and then twenty nineteen twenty nineteen he
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  Speaker 1: replaced was it d Francesco at the time, right, sounds
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  Speaker 1: sounds like yeah, because yeah, because.
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  Speaker 3: He rolled the ship. He rolled the ship there too,
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  Speaker 3: he said like he you know, was that caretaker coach? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: if I'm a mistaken to end the season there too.
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  Speaker 1: Remember, yeah, I have to I have to look at
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  Speaker 1: his record at that at that at that point, I
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  Speaker 1: don't I know, he wasn't there for long.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 1: He came in on March eighth and in twelve games,
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  Speaker 1: six wins, four draws and two losses. So like it was,
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  Speaker 1: it was fine, you know, for caretaker job. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if that's what Rome was hoping to go
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  Speaker 1: for kind of that, you know, just about five hundred
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  Speaker 1: kind of record or around five hundred. But it's interesting, Johnny,
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  Speaker 1: did you think with you riche fired, they were gonna go,
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  Speaker 1: like do you think Granary was their first choice or
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  Speaker 1: do you think they.
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  Speaker 3: Want came out of retirement. He came out.
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  Speaker 1: He came out of retirement. Yeah, he wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Even in my opinion, I don't even think he was
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  Speaker 3: in the in the in the limelight, in the cards
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  Speaker 3: of choosing like you know, and expecting a guy like
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  Speaker 3: him to come out of retirement and coach. But I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. Sorry, I don't want to cut you off. No, no, but.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's the option that they're basically lucky to have,
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  Speaker 4: that they're blessed that they're essentially like, okay, well he's
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  Speaker 4: probably gonna do it for almost next to nothing, because
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's it's cloud you right, he's a roma legend.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's why they did it.
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  Speaker 4: It was more of like they took advantage of a
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  Speaker 4: guy who's willing to take a team cut, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like take a to take as it was a costly
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  Speaker 4: effective method. It wasn't. It's it wasn't because he was
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  Speaker 4: the best possible option. It's because like, okay, well the
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  Speaker 4: best possible option is gonna cost us a lot of
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  Speaker 4: money right now, we're already paying for the salaries of
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  Speaker 4: Mourinho and now Duridich that they're gonna have to pay
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  Speaker 4: for for the season at this point. You know, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's like, well, you know, let's let's cut our losses
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  Speaker 4: what we can. We can't have three managers on the books.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that's that's honestly what it is to me. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: they're taking advantage of a man who would who would
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  Speaker 4: bleed and.
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  Speaker 2: Die for this club. That's that's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: And he's a Roman if I'm not mistaken, he's he's
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  Speaker 3: he's Roman born. So I guess, you know, even though
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't maybe on the radar, I guess you know,
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  Speaker 3: it does make sense and if you want to call
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  Speaker 3: it sense in this crazy world to set. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 3: I saw somewhere this morning actually on I think it
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  Speaker 3: was on Opta through on Twitter, uh, a stat that
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  Speaker 3: uh you know, percentage wise, winning percentage wise, he's he's
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  Speaker 3: third behind Spalletti and I don't remember the other name
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  Speaker 3: in terms of winning percentage Aroma. So it's quite a
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  Speaker 3: rorin aaria. So listen, you know the numbers are I
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  Speaker 3: guess there if if you want to call it that,
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  Speaker 3: But we all know this is just a caretaker bandage
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  Speaker 3: solution until the summertime. I don't see it going past that,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I think I think the Freakings really need
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  Speaker 3: to retool, you know, reorganize themselves and and really look
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  Speaker 3: out for, uh, you know, a proper target come the summertime,
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  Speaker 3: and and really take this Roma side to a level
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  Speaker 3: that not only they they want to they want to
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  Speaker 3: get to. But I think that the fans deserve you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's been a long time since Roma's done, you know,
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  Speaker 3: much noise in terms of in the league, and you
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  Speaker 3: know obviously in Europe, so you know, and the and
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  Speaker 3: the fans are frustrated. You see it. You see the posts,
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  Speaker 3: you see you see you see the clips, not only
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  Speaker 3: in our backyard here in Montreal or you know North
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  Speaker 3: American cultural fans, but you know over there in Rome.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're they're frustrating. You know, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: you see, you see all the posts, you see the clips,
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  Speaker 3: you see the you see the hardcore tefosi, you know,
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  Speaker 3: stopping stopping the players at their cars and and trying
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  Speaker 3: to get an explanation from Mancini from you know, the Telgrini,
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  Speaker 3: from salad makers, from this guy, from that guy. It's
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  Speaker 3: just crazy. So it's I guess they're lucky, like you said, Johnny,
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  Speaker 3: to have uh, you know, Daniel in their back pocket
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  Speaker 3: to kind of pull out that wild card and uh
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  Speaker 3: kind of use it at any time. So we'll see
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  Speaker 3: how it goes. But I'm really interested to see how
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  Speaker 3: how he balances, you know, because they're still in three
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  Speaker 3: competitions as surety. As this season has gone for Roma,
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  Speaker 3: they're still in three competitions right in terms of playing
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  Speaker 3: for the league, you know, obviously not winning it, but
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  Speaker 3: playing for some sort of pride in the league, in
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  Speaker 3: Europa League, and obviously still in Copetalia. So I'm curious
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  Speaker 3: to see how that pins out for Danieldi and Roma.
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  Speaker 3: And I guess, I guess, like we always say, only
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  Speaker 3: time Hotel agreed.
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  Speaker 1: Us City. That is funny because I was just looking back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some man material changes this season. There's been
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  Speaker 1: three firings and two of them are from the same team,
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  Speaker 1: and the other one was the other day with Leche.
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  Speaker 1: But I was looking back at the firings last year.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot more last year, even at this point
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  Speaker 1: a year ago. On fourth, Jenny, so actually November fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: so we're recording this on the thirteenth. On the fourteenth
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  Speaker 1: was when Rudy Garcia got fired, and that was already
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  Speaker 1: the fifth. That was the fourth firing of the season,
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  Speaker 1: and there were let's say four or five, six, seven,
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  Speaker 1: eight nine, about fourteen fifteen firings in total. Last season
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  Speaker 1: had four sorry, four different coaches, Okay, I mean makes
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  Speaker 1: sense that they got relegated of course. Yeah, yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: this is typical city.
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  Speaker 3: I just I just none of our predictions they got
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  Speaker 3: were correct in terms of who was the first firing,
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  Speaker 3: And I just want to put that out there. We all,
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  Speaker 3: we all, we all didn't think it was going to
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  Speaker 3: be that Allsie.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, actually, I'm curious though if if I mentioned
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  Speaker 4: that it was not did I say that. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: I did say that. I'll see I probably said something.
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  Speaker 3: You have it pinned there. Yeah, I don't remember who
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  Speaker 3: we said.
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  Speaker 4: But let's actually take a look, because I think I
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  Speaker 4: said defend makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be him.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, I said the Versaiana said different
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  Speaker 1: Cesco and Johnny said Palladino, which seems.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely not the one. Yeah, Johnny's didn't get it time.
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  Speaker 2: Not this time.
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  Speaker 4: That como pick isn't. Look it's too great either right
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  Speaker 4: now either.
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  Speaker 3: But there's still at still a lot a lot of
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  Speaker 3: time to catch up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I think you know, that's enough with Roma.
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  Speaker 1: But guys, we want to look at, you know, city
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  Speaker 1: of match day twelve, last one before this international break. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know what kind of led to the firing was
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  Speaker 1: the blow in the Aroma game. Bologna. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about them because they've been they've been hot. They
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  Speaker 1: you know, it feels like they started off slow with
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  Speaker 1: the Intelliano coming in and you know what, that happens,
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  Speaker 1: and we kind of expected this, right with especially with
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  Speaker 1: the players that they lost. They lose their coach to
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  Speaker 1: bring the new coach. But they've been getting better. They
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  Speaker 1: still have I think, just one point in the Champions League.
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  Speaker 1: They lost a late goal against Monaco last time out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it just seems like they're.
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  Speaker 2: Doing so well too. It was unfortunate.
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  Speaker 3: It was one night.
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  Speaker 1: It was one nill. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, So it seems
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  Speaker 1: like they're they're probably gonna be one of the was
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  Speaker 1: it eight teams eliminated, but you know, maybe they could
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  Speaker 1: pull off some magic in these last couple of games
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  Speaker 1: in the Champions League. But City, they beat Aroma three
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  Speaker 1: to two, they beat le one nothing, they beat Kledy
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  Speaker 1: two nothing. They tied Genoa, they tied Parma, they tied Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: and they haven't lost in Citia since they lost. This
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  Speaker 1: can't be correct, since they lost Annapoli in August twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're missing a game and they're guaranteed.
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  Speaker 1: That one loss all season. This is a shock to me.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like they were doing so much worse. They
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of draws. They have six draws and
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  Speaker 1: only four wins, and but they're in eighth place eighteen points,
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  Speaker 1: so tied with Milan. Guys, that's actually a shock to me.
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  Speaker 4: One loss for one shock because.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, one loss and only Inter and Fiorentina have one
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  Speaker 1: loss on the season and you've has on in the city. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so that's actually it's actually good for them. So look,
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  Speaker 1: their sluw star was just draws. But anyways, or Sulini, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's scoring goals. He did he get called up? I
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  Speaker 1: forget if he got called of course he didn't get
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  Speaker 1: called up to the national team because why would we
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  Speaker 1: need goals? Why do we need why would we need
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  Speaker 1: good players?
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  Speaker 3: Is?
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Uh, you guys think is Bologna. I want to say
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: back to what they were, but you know, would you
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: consider them really one of the top teams in the
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: city again, like almost like a threat. You know, let's
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: say Milan plays Bologna or plays Bologna. Do we do
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: we think this is okay? This is gonna be a
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: tough game. It's not a This is not a pushover
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: game anymore. Because I think I think this person. I
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: think they're they're you know, they got the gears going.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: They're not they're not going to qualify for Champions League
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: again most like, most likely not. But I think this
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: is a team. If Supputo invests properly and they get
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: good players over the years, they could almost become like
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: in Atalanta, where they're building through the youth. They're they're
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: qualifying for Europa League. You know, obviously Atlanta's on another
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: level there. Maybe the Cats, Yeah, well not.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Because they're like, they're doing this, they're doing that. Like
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: my computer liked the bit, so I want to I
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: was joking the Cats.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're doing this. They're doing that. They're eating the dogs,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: the Cats.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: But even like if Furentina, Look, Ferentina is in third
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: place right now, maybe that's like a blueprint, their blueprint
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: they're following. Hey, they hired uh Fiorantina's old coach, so
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: it's interesting what what the team could do with money too.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, I mean listen, I think I know,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I know Tella gets a lot of hate and especially
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: on this Ergentina days, everybody was like, you know, Italiano
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: ball it's over hired, it's overrated. It's fine. I still
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: think he's a good coach, that can that can give
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: you results. It's a shame I think in the big
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: matches he still lacks. But you know, it's it's it
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: was gonna always be an interesting one for this Bowl.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: After last season. We already we all we all knew it.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: After the big guns left, you know, the color Fiordis,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: you know, the Zeras of the world, and obviously there
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: there their mayestro in terms of multi leaving two was
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: always going to be tough. We we said it, and
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: we don't want to beat that dead horse anymore. But uh,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: you know, bringing in the Taliano, which which I think
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: for him, you know, getting this experience in in Champions
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: League in Europe, and you know, on other front, it's
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: it was positive. It's it's it was a leap from
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: from Fjordentina to to Bologna. As much as that is
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: weird to say, uh, it's on this one off season
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: that that seems to be more of a more of
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: a jump. But listen, he I think he's uh, you know,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: slowly but surely getting these core, these core group of
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: players together and and and you know, they're providing results
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: that I think they would have only one loss in
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: the season. No, but those draws kind of way way
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: heavy I think in that record, and it's a bit saturate.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: You know. Obviously they still have the game in hand
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: with Milan's game in hand as well, that that game
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: that got postponed, So we'll see when that, you know,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: comes to comes to be played. But you know, I
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: don't know, and it's it's always a trick. You want
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: to Bologna. I don't think they're going to get to
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: the level of at Talanta. No, could they be on
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: that Fiordentina level that every season they kind of poke
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the bear poke that, you know, the European spots. Maybe,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: but it all depends on you know, from up top.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: You know, Supputo smart. You know, he puts some extra
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: money in there because we all know he has the money, uh,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: you know, to to invest properly. But it has to
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: be smart business. Uh, you know, how much do they
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: really want to care? Because listen, at the end of
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: the day, you know, having the Italian Canadian influence in
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: the city, it's huge for us. Obviously, you know, and
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: you want to compare it to you know, the feud
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: and Tina's of the world. You know, they have that
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Italian American influence with the with Roco Comiso and even
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Atalanta having some you know, American influence as well. So
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: it's uh, it's something that these these these projects have
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: to be you know, it's not an overnight thing. These
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: are these are projects that are gonna take you a while.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: And I saw even plans of you know, Bologna trying
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: to get their their their stadium, uh, you know, renovated
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: and and and upgraded and modernized.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: You know, these are you know, there are small steps
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: and you know that can take this club into you know,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: our right direction to to maybe yes, hey, compete with
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: you know, you know, the Seven Sisters of Setia. So
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: we'll see again. I don't know if it's if it's
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: you know, next year, two years, three years, five years
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: down the line, we'll have to see. But it's it's
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: an interesting project in in a in a in a
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: in a you know, an underrated city in Bologna, you
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: know that doesn't get maybe the spot why the other
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: cities do, But listen, I think they're they're not quite
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: there yet, But I think if they continue to build
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: like you were saying, Nick, I think they can. They
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: can have a bootprint of of trying to find success
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: not only in the league but also in Europe and
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: you know, push push the Italian game, you know, even further.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Do you have anything to add, Jenny.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Oh Andrew said it best.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: I honestly wouldn't like it's It does come down to
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: the North American side of like willing to see if
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: it's it's worth the investment or not.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Which we we we kind of we kind of complained because.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: It feels like he's kind of split in between both.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: He he doesn't he doesn't really fully commit to one
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: or the other, and if we're up to me, I
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: think he should honestly just commit to one. It's nice
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: for him to have that connection between Montreal and and in.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Italy because we benefited so much from it from the past.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: You know, it was an easy doorway for players like
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: uh Dibaio, for for Nesta to come along. Even some
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: European there's not not not even like bigger names, but
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: like even some like like done like.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Like you know, Atoti and stuff.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: It's like, oh, it's kind of cool, you know, and
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: then there's stuff like you know, like he that helps
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: open the door up a bit for like the z
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Drogba and stuff, you know, because players talk and you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: helps build a reputation around it. So it's it's like
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: we benefit from that, but it feels like as if
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: right now, for example, like he's all he's he's focusing
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: more on Bologna, but neglecting the impact, you know, like
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: in your MLS record, I know it's I know we're
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: talking about Sadiyah, but it's it's hard to not talk
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: about Montreal and work from Montreal and Bologna technically relates
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: to Montreal because of the same ownership. So and it's
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: frustrating as a fan because it's like, well, when your
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: owner doesn't seem like to be invested in your team,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: then why should I myself as a fan be invested
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: in that team as well? You know, if my owner
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: is not taking care of it, why should I care?
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: So it's that that's that's what it has to come
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: down to. It's either he you know, like you could
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: still be an owner, but maybe designated to like a subsidiary,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: or like have somebody else run the show in Bologna
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: and then you take care the impact or vice versa.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: At least you know, like like at least you can
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: have that, so at least like both teams are getting
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: to love and if you need to fund, just just
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: have the other guy run the team and just be like, Yep,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: whenever you need a chippaycheck or whatever, just let me know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: all right, the numbers or whatever needs to be paid,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: just let me know.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: But I'll take care of this. You take care of that.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: But it doesn't seem like it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Right, So you have to ask for a smart ownership.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: You know, we're fucks getting that in Montreal over here.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Smart ownership, right.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: But that's the only thing I'll add to it, really
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: is just more of the mL out side of things
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: where it's like sucks as a fan of uh because
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: you just feel like as if you're being neglected now
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: and I think the fans are starting to see that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think we can do a whole
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: podcast on that and just rant about the glory days
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: of CF Montreal and Supputo was actually involved and now
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: he's not and there's no more glory days and it
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: feels like they sell the players every season. But Anyways,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I digress or Selini. He's actually scored in five straight
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: games in city. Yeah, that he's played in, well, that
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the team's played in. The only game he hasn't scored
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: was the game they didn't play against Milan.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: So I think he scored two was it two? He
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: scored two braces in that in that period? I believe No, Uh,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: he scored two one one.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Last game he got in an extra assist. But that's it. Yeah,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: looking at the other games, I know, Adri this game
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: against uh Reality for Melon was just wild three and
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: it's a game that you know, obviously mild win, right,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and they don't, and and it just it just feels
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: like they they almost turned the page right and then
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: it almost it's almost a step back with this game.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And it's funny, where was it funk take us at
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: games against Cality or hardier than names against Real Madrid.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I wonder, you know, I didn't see the full contact
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: context of that quote, but I could guess he meant
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: more like it's tough to go away to Cality and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: play these games, right, yeah, in terms of these type
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of games, is that did you get for me?
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: As we all know? I mean and said Yeah, it's
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: such a defensive tactic league that it's it's it's crazy
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: that the thing. But it's hard to break down some
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: of these some of these bottom feeder teams that play
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: a low block, that don't give you any space, that
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: don't make you breathe, that you can't you can't, you
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: can't you know, pickle your way through. So I think
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: that's kind of how he wanted to phrase it. In
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: always in my in my opinion, you know me and
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: fans can correct me if I'm wrong, but it just
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: it's crazy to me, like I was so, I mean,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: last episode, I told you guys, we give our kind
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: of like our predictions for how you know the Italian
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: teams will do in Europe for the last match day
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: in uh, you know, Champions League Europe. Wag in conference
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: LYA and I and I said it, I didn't think
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: you want how to any hope in winning against Real Madrid,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: especially at the Benobo. Uh, it was going to be
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: always tough, and and you know it was a shocking surprise.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: And then and at the light of one, obviously you
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: know we got we got the victory and a big
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: one at that. You know, three one is nothing to
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: especially at at Madrid, is nothing to you know, just
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: kind of you know, pass off. So that was a huge,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: huge result. But then you know, you turn that page
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: and you go to the weekend on Saturday and it's
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: it's a three three uh, just wild, you know, fiasco
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: of a game against Calli. It's like you can't catch
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: a break with this team. So it's for me, it's
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: unacceptable because you want to be competitive in the league.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: You want to be you know in Champions League. You
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: know you want to aim for a scudet too, and
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: these are the results you're getting. It's it just it's
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: not good enough. It's it's unfortunate, but it's just not
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: good enough. You know, you you have a lead, you
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: can't hold it. You know, you can't for once we
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: can score, you know, I was scoring two goals is
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: a breath of fresh air because we've been dying for
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: him to to get back on the score, you know,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: get on the score the goal scoring sheets. So his
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: brace was obviously exciting. We saw the you know, the
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: debut of Camarada sixteen years young, you know, the youngest
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Mewan player to debut, and saidiyah, and I think I
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: want to say, the youngest Italian. But again don't quote
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: me because I don't remember. But you know, beating Donna Aruma,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: who you know, when he debuted, it was like something
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: that we never seen before. You know, uh, you know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: rest in peace Mihalovich to to give don Aruma that
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: chance once, giving Camarda this chance at sixteen years old,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: which I think he had a pretty decent showing in
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: terms of what he was what cards he was dealt
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: in this game. But it's just this defense that I
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: don't understand, what the hell the problem is. They were
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: a guy like Gabriel's up. You know, this guy eats
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: top Is in fucking said, yeah, top puts up, puts
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: up and and and he scores two wonder goals. Again,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: it's only against me on that this stuff happens. It's
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: it's ridiculous now, it's you know, that's what frustrates me.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: But listen, Uh, there's no way other way to to
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: really describe this game. But it was a it was
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: a wild one and some good performances individually, but as
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: a collective you need to be better. And it's this defense,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: like I said, Emerson Royale, he's not even I don't
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know, Like he's a pyeon on
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: that right flank, he's just he's useless. So you know
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: tomorrowy tailor Nan is even you know, obviously he's you know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I think arguably one of the best in the world
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: at his position, but on his off day it's it's
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: he he's shocking. So it needs to be better. And listen,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: I let's hope after this international break it's it starts
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: on a better path. But who do we have coming
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: out of the break? Is is Juventus, So it's it's
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: not going to get any easier, you know, there is
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: This is a this is a team that needs to
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: needs to you know, get together collect collectively and really
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: uh you know, put up these good results because it's
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: really tight at the top. From one, I think it's
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: what is it from one to six it's two point
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: different if I'm not mistaken, or one to seven it's
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: two point different. Is that? Is that what it is? Yeah?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. I mean notminally twenty six out the line
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of twenty five. You're in team to twenty five into
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: twenty five lasts, so twenty five event is twenty four.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So this is the tightest it's been, you know, as
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: all season.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: All season and in a while, I think, I know,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: we haven't seen something like this. This is this is
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: you know, we always want a competitive you know, scudetto
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: race and top four and you know Europa whatever you
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: battle for Europe. But this is crazy in terms of
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: all the major leagues. You know, the city, Yeah, is
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: the is the tightest. Is people are going to say
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: the best in that case, but it is, though, yeah,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: but it is. Yeah.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: There you go, like, I don't know what the primes
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: talking about, Like it's it's crazy, like it's it's gonna
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: get down to the wire. It's I think at the
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: end of the season, it's it's definitely gonna be down
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: to the wire. I think it stays like this for
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: the whole year. I don't think there's anything any one
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: of these teams just like blowing it out of the
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: water proportionally, because it just seems like every time there's
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: a team Sorry for interrupting ag, but it just seems
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: like every time there's a team that's about to have
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: a chance to like give themselves a big, substantial lead,
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: they they have a biscotto of a game, like they
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: just you know, like they just they just draw. It's
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: just like nobody's gaining any ground. And then the two
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: teams that drew, the team that's behind them won the
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: game to catch up the makeup for that gap. You know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: like like when intern you've drew, Napoli won that game,
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: but then afterwards, like when Napoli played at Atlanta, Atlanta
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: won that crucial game to get them back up there,
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: and then Napole interplature that they drawn, then Uve wins.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: You know, like it's it's, uh, no team is really
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: like taking a true advantage of of like developing any
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: type of lead that they get.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: I think that you know, we saw, we saw, we
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: saw not we obviously have that bit of the lead.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: And it's a great point that you make, Johnny, because
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: I was going to get to that as well. But
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: it's they had that lead, and everybody, I don't know
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: about everybody, but a lot of people thought, you know,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: this is going to be you know, wow, not he
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: was gaining steam there. They're really going to have one
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: game a week. You know, Colente Scalia is playing out
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: of his mind. You know, they're gonna go on this
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: this this crazy run and you know, one slip up
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: or maybe two if you want to count the game
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: over the weekend in terms of the drug and inter
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: even though you know, I guess you'll take the point.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: But you know, I think the bigger one was that
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: on the loss, like you like you mentioned, but uh,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: it's it takes these one to two slip ups to
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: to have this this this race even tighter than it is.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: So as a mean, un fan looking kind of outside,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: and I know we have that game in hand against
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Blonia that we don't know when the hell it's going
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: to be fucking replayed. They shouldn't have even been postponed.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: But you know, I'm not going to get heated over that.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's going to take a lot because
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: you have six teams ahead of you that you need
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: to get. You need to have at least at least
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: half of them to slip up somewhere for you to
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: kind of gain you know, gain your your position into
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: that top four, uh top four race. So it's it's
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: these results against these small teams that you should be
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: picking up to win. And again no disrespect, but you
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: need to win, and you don't. You get a draw,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: you know, one point out of out of three. For me,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: it's basically a loss. You know, you're you you lose
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: yes on the points, Okay, yeah you got a point
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: plus one, bubblah blah. But it's a loss at the
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: end of the day because you need to gain as
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: maximum maximum amount of points to get back into you know,
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: this this race of of you know, you want to
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: say the school that to top four, whatever you want
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: to call it.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: But.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: It's it's it's those ones that that you know, that
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: cause that cause cause these these rants and whatnot. For
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: for me on fans, So but I don't think it's
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: all lost. I think it's going to be hard for
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: for all these teams to fall kind of like we
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: set up for Roma, like yeah, okay the knee string,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: you know, three four or five games, you know, uh,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: three four or five wins in quick succession for them
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: to gain you know, position, but they have to hope
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: also if that teams ahead of them, you know, kind
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: of fall as well. So it's it's it's it's a
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: numbers game, it's a it's it's a real you know,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: crazy crazy city. We always say, and I'm here for it.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: We're here for it for sure. But for me, one's sake.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I'm just hoping out of this international break, you know,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: we start kind of gaining some ground, because there was
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: a bit of stretch that you know, they were kind
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: of gaining some ground, they kind of lost it for
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: a bit. I thought this that was the result against
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Madrid was gonna was gonna be a you know, we
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: frog too, you know to end uh, you know this
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: this month and and uh with the month of October
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: off on on the right, on the right foot, and
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: before getting to this international break, be on a on
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: good winning streak. But it's just it's these kalities, it's
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: these parts, it's these you know, these these lectures of
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: the world, these generals that that you know, kind of
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: ruin those plans. So I'm hopeful for me on coming
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: out of the international break. It's obviously going to be
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: a big one for uh, not only the team is playing,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: but for us he at the culture guys, you know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: myself and Nick. It's always a good battle. But we'll see, well,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I don't have to wait and see, and uh yeah,
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: hopefully that hopefully they all I thinks back. Hopefully all
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: is back. I think, you know, in terms of his
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: you know, mental and his performance. I think those two
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: goals he needed desperately because he he wiked good against Madrid.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Obviously didn't get the goal, but you know it was
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: was very influential in terms of getting uh you know,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: uh help create in that final third, you know, be
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: present and and have a big game. So if our
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: top players can be at their best and their defense
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: you know, shows up a bit, I think you can
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: can go on a bit of a run and uh,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: you know, compete against you know, the top six.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Crillion said, yeah, other games Actually twelve started off with
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: two to one to one draws general Como Lecha emply,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: but Fiorentina pulled off three to one win against Verna.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: You know, we talked about Fiorentina. It's funny. So they're
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: in third place right now, ty for third. They they're
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: also ty for third in goals four. Only Inter and
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Atalanta have more goals four than them. They're twenty five
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: goals four and they have they're tied for third in
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: uh least goals against. Only Napoli and Juve have allowed
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: less goals. Empley actually is a ten goals Empley's weird.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: They have ten goals against but only nine goals four
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: and Napoli is also strange because compared to the other
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: teams in the top seven, they have the least amount
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: of goals for at nineteen. So it'll be interesting, you know,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: does that that even out over time? But at the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: end the day, all you need to do is win
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: one nothing right, This is Conte. He's no winning games
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: streak for nothing, right.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I grew up being a diehard Bruins fan in
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: the trap system. You know, like, I don't care if
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: you're scoring one goal games or two goal games, if
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: you win a championship with it, I don't care.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Bring it all day every day. Yeah, I agree, special, Yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Just to be just a nose ahead, just a nose
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: the horse needs to be that Bani. No, no, just
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: a bit, just a.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Bit, exactly exactly, guys. But yeah, Monopoly tied into one one.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: That was the game of the week and close out
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the week, but you've a derby win against Trino. I
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: didn't have the opportunity to watch the game, but obviously
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: big result. But obviously I watched the game last week
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: in the Champions League against against lil And and it's funny.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Jonathan David scored and we talked about it last week.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: We said he'd scored a penalty. He scored from open play.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: You know, the huge part of me is was obviously
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: sad seeing that, you know, you beginning scored against. But
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: then a small part of me it's like, man, this
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: is awesome. He's such a good goal scorer and this
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: is you know, right now, I would say he's even
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Canada's best player. He's he's taken over Davies. We'll see
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: they I know they have some games coming up on
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the Nations League against Surinami. I know Davey's actually out
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: for that Canada, but we'll see. What you know, David
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: for Canada, he's a bit like Immobile was right with it.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: He's just about to bring that up. Yeah, Like he's
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: strange with the national team.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know he scores all these goals for Little
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the Ghost. To national team he struggles a bit more.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: But you know, he had a good coupe of America.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: But we'll see. But anyways, Uh, funny team scored against
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: me in the Champions League. He's a player I've been
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: seeing you they should get. I hope he doesn't go
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to enter like Canadon if he does make the move
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: to city, but we'll see and then I think, oh,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: yeah it was Wavic on the Pellty scored again. But again,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: this is one of those games that was frustrating as
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: a u A fan. I know, I know there is
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a tough team, right and they're you know, they're not
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: a pushover, but just the defense, the sloppiness on David's goal,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: like he had so much space. You can't you can't
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: give a star player that much space. And then you
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: look at the standings. I mean, they're a comfortable spot
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: right now in the Champions League standings, they're eleventh place,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: seven points, tied with six six or seven other teams.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know what if you guys made of this
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: format so far.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: We're halfway through officially, yeah.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because me, I find that there's a lot less
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: drama and it's it's not really not as fun to watch.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: And even looking at the standings, there's just so many
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: teams that have the same amount of points. And I hope,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: yes it's four games, but I hope after eight games
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: they're not tied and you don't have a team eliminated
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: because of like goals four or goals against or you know,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: goal differential, what ever? And what's frustrating? You know, I
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: think for me what leads to this, you know, less drama?
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Is that okay right now? Uve is you know Tyris
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: seven points with Arsenal, Evercusen, Litl, Celtic and Edomo if
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I remember correctly. Oh and man City they also have
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: with man City. I know they play man City. I
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: don't think they know they don't play Arsenal, they played Leverkusen,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: they played Little. I don't think they play Celtic or Dinomo.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: So you know, you're in a battle with these teams
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: next to you and you don't get a chance to
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: play them, and you're just relying on your games versus
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: another team and their games versus another team, and you know,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: you might not even play the team that they're playing,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and they might not play the team that you're playing,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and there's just not enough crossover. You know, it just
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: feels like there's just all these different events, like like
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: you look at the city, you look at all you know,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: typical league structure for any of these European leagues, everybody
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: plays each other twice and you it's even out at
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the end. But with this eight games, you only have
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: eight different opponents out of thirty six or rather thirty
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: five other teams. It's, uh, you know, it's gonna be
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: interesting to see what it's like after it, uh you know,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: at the end of it, to see the point totals
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and and how how many points you need to get through.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: But it's I think there will only be drama maybe
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: like actually seven actually eight, So it's it's a bit
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: anti climbactive right now.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, you kind of It's one
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: of these things. It's like these teams I just have
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: to take care of their own business. It's you know,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: they do their own laundry. That's it. Me personally, I
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: like the groups call me old school. I don't know,
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: you can call me that. I like the groups that
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: you know, you play home and away, you know, against again,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: and you know the teams are playing those those three
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: other teams home and away. You know, you you kind
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: of know what to expect. You know, you have you
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: have a goal, you have a name that you want
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: to to achieve, and uh, yeah, I don't know. I
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: think it builds that these little rivalries within the group,
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: you know, like you you know that, Okay, I'm gonna
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: play whoever, I would a real Madrid at home and
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: then I know, I'm going to the Benna Bay or
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: you know, you know, next match day whatever. It's like,
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: it's these, it's these, it's these you know, oral rivalries
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: within the group that kind of gets for me exciting, like,
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: you know, thank god we got rid of the waygo rule,
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: but you know, without that, you know, in these groups,
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: like there was a bit of like a bit of
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: a battle and you get you know, they get these
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: groups of death and you get these these these uh,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: these matchups that you would never thought of, you would
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: expect to be great matchups at the end of the day.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: So I don't know, it's a league format without being
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: a league format. It's it's interesting. Don't get me wrong.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: Obviously we all know what's at the bottom bottom line
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: of all this is is, you know, is the money.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: But it's it's an interesting concept. I'm not gonna say
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: I totally hate it, but at the same time, like
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: I don't totally love it either. So I'm kind of
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: like this, like we're at, you know, the halfway point.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of still on the fence with this, with
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: this new Champions League format. So I don't know. I think, uh,
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: you know, bring back the groups. In my opinion, it
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: would be the would be what I would say, But
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: I guess we'll have to see how how this ends up.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: I think once, I think, you know, the more eyes,
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: the more you know, intensity, and the more you know
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: uh you know, climax and all these you know, these
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: all these things in terms of in terms of this
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: competition that's kind of going to bring you back to
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: you know, Champions League Knights is is after this, after
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: this this league stage, after we know, you know, the
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: next rounds. I think once it kind of breaks into
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: these later rounds and and you know maybe well starting
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: from the later match days like seven and eighth, like
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: you said, into these next rounds, I think is where
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: more of the action is going to start to happen.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's again a wait and see type
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: of thing, and I'm curiously how it ends up. But
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: if if our, if it was up to me, I'll
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: bring back the groups.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: Well, I can't provide a proper opinion because I don't
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: have a team that's in the race right now.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, Europa League is the same format, so.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't mind it Honestly speaking, I don't
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: mind it.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: I find it interesting.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: The one thing that does suck, though, is that the
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: we like or maybe the better thing, depending on your
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: your context of things, is that the weaker teams get
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: punished in this kind of format. This type of format
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: really rewards, you know, like the teams that are good
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: are gonna win their games, that they're gonna be placed
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: higher up on the on the table, whereas the teams
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: that aren't shouldn't really be in Champions League. They're not
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: gonna be in those top eight spots or even in
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: the top twenty four, you know, because it's like it's
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: it's it's no longer like you're no longer like just
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: playing against a team of your groups and like you
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: can like like like you can't have good teams get
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: screwed over. In this format, good teams will do well
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: and it will win up versus versus like in a
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: group stage where all like they just they get screwed
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: over because of tie breakers or because of you know,
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: like one team decided to park a bus in a game.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: You know, like it's that's what it feels like. It
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: feels like.
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: This type of format rewards the better built teams versus
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: the other versus the group stage. Group stage does offer
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: more drama. It does offer more edge of your seat, like, oh,
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: who's getting get drawn with?
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Who?
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: You know? You look forward to the to the like
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: the draft day and stuff, and you can't wait to
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: see what the group stage story these storylines are going
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: to be created, and then afterwards, from there you kind
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: of like, oh, like the potential for let's say, I
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: don't know, like melan Being going up against either it
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: could be between four teams of like real Bars, I
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: don't know, Arsenal and whatever. I like, you know, like
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: like like, it doesn't give you a preview of that now.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: It's just more like, Okay, well we know what our
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: first initial eight games are going to be, but then
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: from there we don't what's going to happen, right, So.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: I think that's that's where some.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Excitement is because then you might get matchups you've never
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: seen before. Like, like I said, I feel like this
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: type of format rewards the better teams more than what
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: a group stage format would do. That's that's that's what
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: I get from this. Now, obviously it's the first year
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: of them trying it out, Like let's see how it is.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: It's good to have.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: Like, you know, thirty six teams compete for like twenty
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: four spots YEA or essentially for that top eight.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: It's like a super league.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: But but I get why people don't like change. I
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: get it, though, and I don't fault them.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not and I don't think they're wrong. I don't
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: think they're wrong.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: I think they have very valid points where because the
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: group stage was more like, Okay, well it's not broken,
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: why are you trying to fix it? You know that's
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: that's that's the vibe I would get from it. It's
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: not broken, Why are you trying to fix it? But
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: I'm also, you know, one to try out new things
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: and one for innovation.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: So if this format, you know, like, don't forget Champions.
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: League every twenty or so odd years always goes through
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: like a revamp or always goes through a change. You know,
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: It's never it's and has never been stagnant the way
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: it is back in the day, only the winners of
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: the league got invited to Champions League.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Then they opened up the.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: Doors to the because the leagues are so close, and
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: it's like, look, you know, the team didn't win the League.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: It's not like as if they weren't one of the
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: stronger teams in Europe there. You know, it's like it's
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: like imagine like it's like okay, like Okay City a
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: like especially.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: In the nineties, in the eighties and the nineties, you know,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: it's like.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: The winner of the league won, but like second, third,
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: fourth were phenomenal teams, you know, like actually from first
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: to eighth were phenomenal teams.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Like it was.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: It wasn't as if you could say, like eighth place
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: in City, yeah is not is weaker than first place.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: In the Czech League.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: No disrespect of the Czech League, you know what I'm saying,
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: like at that during that era, so.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: So like that's what I mean.
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: Like over the years, Champions League goes through changes, and uh,
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: this is a current change and if it works out,
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: you know they're gonna they're gonna use it, and then
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: who's to say it's gonna stick around. I think maybe
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: maybe then ten years, fifteen years from now, we might
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: have a different conversation, or maybe even next year if
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: the fans aren't too But I don't think like it's
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: it's been negative enough of a reception to have convinced
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: UEFA to really change to go back to the old format.
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: I think this format it would have to take something
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: tremendous drastic for it to go from this format back
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: to the group stages. That's what that's what it would take.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: For now, I think this, I think it stays until
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: their next you know, itch of a revap, which might
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: be fifteen twenty years from now.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: No. I agree, that's a good point you bring up,
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: and something that you know, I didn't really really really
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: think about. But one another thing I just wanted to
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: add there and before we kind of move away from
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: the topic, is also I like that you know, let's say,
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: like back in the day, well back in the day
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: last year, you know, the third point team goes down
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: to Europa League and you have the Champions League teams
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: drop down to Europa League, and then it becomes well,
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: is this really the Europe League or is this you know,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: a Champions League? Uh, failed team if you want to
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: call it that that's gonna win the Europa League. So
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I kind of like that. It's it's it's broken up now.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: That's one thing I do like because it gives a
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: chance to you know, the teams that are you know,
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: actually in Europa League, you know, or actually in conferencely
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: to to actually.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Win the competition that they're participating in.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: So because it always became like you would have some
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: heavy hitters kind of still fall down into Europa League
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: from Champions League that can easily, I don't want to
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: say wipe the four with you know, the europe Leak teams,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: but can really do some damage.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: So I kind of like that.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: It's it's a bit more separate in this in this
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: type of format. Uh, you know, the eight teams that
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: are are in that bottom eight eliminated. You know, thank
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: you you had your eight matches in this new format,
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: and and you can kind of you know, you didn't
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: make a pass and you know that's kind of where
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: the you know, the line end. So I kind of
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: for that kind I kind of like so.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: But like imagine how unfair that is for Europa League teams.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: It's like they're in that type of tournament because they're
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: not as strong as the teams that should be in
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: Champions you know. And that's why for me personally, it's like, well,
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: you know, imagine being a Europe League team. It's like, oh,
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: like you know, like you know, the sick tasks for example,
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: and it's like, you know, like, okay, well this is
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: the type of trophy we can probably try for. And
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: then all of a sudden here comes to Chelsea's the
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Liverpool Parks. Yeah, and it's like, okay, well what can
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: I do now? You know exactly that's my point? Yeah, no,
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: I That's exactly what I was trying to get at.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: So it's that's one thing.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: That I would say, Like I said, I don't hate
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: it the new format, I don't love it either. So
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: again I'm kind of fifty to fifty.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: But if there's one thing I kind of like that,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: there's still that separation and and you know, it also gives.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: You know, these these the teams that you know, people
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: are gonna say, oh, you know, you're playing some Wi
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: Fi password that are on those bottom eight teams. They're true.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, you know, it kind of
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: still gives those those teams an opportunity to to experience
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: Champions League, to gain some you know, extra funds, to
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: kind of hopefully maybe build their clubs, uh, to maybe
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: be a bit more of a competitive European team down
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: the line. So it's good in terms of that but again,
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: don't hate it, but don't have it either. We'll see
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: how how it ends up in the future, because I
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: can see tweaks along the line. Like you said, Johnny,
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's they're gonna go aboard board mission
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: and go back to what they were last season when
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: they already implemented the big change you know this season.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: So I think we will definitely see tweaks, you know,
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: down the line in terms of how the format, you know,
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: the way plays out. But yeah, I guess we'll not
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: to just wait and see. Uh.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Just to be clear, you did on play Laborcus and
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: I said they did see that's how much fact check
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: fact check how anti climactic this tournament is.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: But sticking on the topic with UEFA Nations League, this
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: is the end of it coming up. Italy announced their
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: squad for these two games against Belgium and France in
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: net so I mean no surprise for goalkeepers down Ruma
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: mrit Vicario, defense de Lorenzo Baston, de Marco Cambia, Dattimo Pietro,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: nineteen year old from Fiorentinacoli Savona, and then midfield Brella Locatelli,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: who's coming in for I think it was Ricci, right, Ricci, FTEs,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Tonali uh and Rofela, and then up up top we
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: got Raspiradori, Ken, rete Gi Maldini. So you know with
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: the attack, you know Ken's been good, Retai has been good,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Maldini has been He's been good too. I don't know
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: about Respiratory. Apparently there was a lot of backlash about him.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: But again, where is or slowly, where is the bear man?
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I guess I guess Splety hates him, But like, how
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: can you score five goals in five straight games? You're
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: one of the most talented players Italy has, and again
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: you don't get a call up. You have one of
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: your best seasons ever and you don't get a call
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: up to the Euros last year, Like come on, Spiletti.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: But we'll see. I mean, look, if Italy can score
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: goals in these two games, we could criticize the selections.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: If they win these two games, we say thank you, Spletty.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: So it's as simple as that. So a nation's league
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: soiler in first place in the group right now with
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: ten points, France has nine, Belgium has four, and Israel
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: and zero points. So the top two advance. So Italy
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: is in a good position to advance. I think they
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: only need to need a point. But to win the group,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: they you know, pretty much have to win out or
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: at least win versus Belgium and then tie versus is France.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: But a loss will really you know, obviously, a lost
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: versus France is gonna you know, France is gonna win.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: If they lose versus Belgium. At least they're gonna have
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: a chance to still finish first in the game versus France.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's gonna be interesting. So I think they
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: played Brussels on well tomorrow on Thursday, and then Sunday
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: it's in Meelan against this French team. So I mean,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: it's been a good start for Italy, right as I said,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: ten points they beat was they started with a win
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: in France, and then they beat Israel, and then they
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: tied Belgium the game you or adydri and then again
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: they beat Israel. So three wins in a draw. I
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: don't know, do you guys have any expectations from these games,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: But one thing I'll say is, and you know what
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: I said this when the group was announced, it's competitive games,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: and this is what Italy needs, and especially when you
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: got to this point in the group stage where you know,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: say what you want about the Nations League, but when
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: there's you know, a chance to advance, when there are
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: these when there are these three points online. I know
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: these players care and I know they want to win
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: at the end of the DA it's their instinct instinct
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: to win. So to get this competition against actually good
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: teams in two big games within what four days, I
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: think it's fantastic. Obviously I want them to finish, you know,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: first in the group, but obviously consolation finished second, advance
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: go to the quarterfinals in the Nations League. But I
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: just want to see a good team out there, simple
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: as that.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: I I agree.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: I think my expectations for this round is just for
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: them to play their best like they've They have been
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: playing their best and it's been kind of showing.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: With the results, and.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: It feels like players like Demaco are just like like
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: thriving with the national team and stuff. And we need that,
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: we the pet Brio, I mean, I needed that, we
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: need that, we need we need the national team to
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: make us like as I said a few episodes back
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: when we first discussed this Nation's League thing.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: We need, we need to have a reason to believe
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: in the team.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: Uh, and they've they've been doing it slowly, slowly. We
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: need and they need to keep on building on that,
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: keep on building on this beliefs like that when it
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: comes to World Cup qualifiers, you know, we're not We're
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: not gonna be a bunch of fucking dickheads for like
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: the third time in a row.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: You know, like, just come on. They can't. My mental
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: health relies on this.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: No, I listen, guys, for me, they need to finish first.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: There's no there's no second place. In my eyes. It
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: needs to happen, you know. I think they've come a
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: long way. I think, you know, in a short amount
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: of time. Obviously with the disappointment this summer, it's uh,
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: it was, you know, a wake up call that I
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: think SPOETI kind of understood. Uh you know, he put
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: his glasses on, he he rubbed his bald head and uh,
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: you know, he trying to make things work. So it's
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: it's one of these things like by Jenny said it,
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: it's it's so slowly, uh you know, whereas what's the
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: same piano piano exactly so it's it's it's it's baby steps,
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: it's it's it's a work in progress. It is a
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: project with this national team. Have II liked everything that's
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: what he's done now, but has have there been things
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: that he's that he's done and implemented that have this
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: team in a positive direction? Yes? Absolutely, So you know again,
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: another shout out to three new call ops for the
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: first time.
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: You know, it's to the Italian national men's senior team
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: uh in in Comuso. Like you said, the Savona and
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: the juven Dean and uh and Rovela that I think
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: finally it's it's about time he kind of gets a
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: bit of his flowers lots. So it has been been
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: playing very, you know, really well recently, and I think
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: if I know, some people online were saying, I don't
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: understand the Rovella, but I think he's he's he's deserving
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: of a spot as well. He's gonna he's gonna fill
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: in for for Riccie in terms of I saw that.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know project the lineups, We never know if
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: it's obviously gonna be, but it looks like he's gonna
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: kind of replace Rovela. And I'm sorry I'm gonna replace
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: Ricci in that midfield. Uh, come to come tomorrow's match
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: against Belgium. But it needs to be it needs to
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: be first place. For me, I don't want to see
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: another uh you know, I don't want to see it
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: be uh, you know, grind me kind of, you know, barely,
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: you know. I want to see them just play well,
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: you know, do their job. You know, they know they
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: can compete against these big these big teams. You know,
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: they've already beaten France. You know, they they they had
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: the lead against Belgium, they should have won the game.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: They end up by hey, you know what, you still
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: get a positive result against you know, a top ten
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: quote unquote top ten nation in the league. Somehow, I
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: don't know how. They're always there, but get there there
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: and you know it's you know, they Di Speletti is
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: brought in, you know some some you know, new faces,
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: some old faces, some some some interesting faces. And it
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: seems to be, like Johnny said, working you know, soy
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: soly so you have two two of the best, two
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: of the two of them. I don't know if they're
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: gonna say the best, but currently inform Italian strikers in
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: the Tagi and Keeam that have been pointing out of
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: their minds recently, scoring all kinds of goals in Saidiya.
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: Let's hope that translates. We know Retaggi has has has
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: kind of sowy uh you know, implemented that that form.
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: But he's that goal scoring form in Sadiya into into
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: the national team. Let's hope that team can kind of
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: follow suit and do that as well. You know. And
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: I'm curious. I'm curious to see how you know this,
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: this this, these lineups. Uh, you know, I'm curious to
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: see the lineup tomorrow. I'm curious to see the line
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: up against France on Sunday. You know, we don't have
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: a guy like cala Fe already he went down with
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: a bit of an injury and you know, again everybody,
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: but how that how that hell of a game against
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: Inte right over the weekend. So he's gonna start in
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: and I think this is a big chance for him
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: to to to have to have a game, to have
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: a couple of games against big, up, big opponents. So
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: so far, it's so far, so good in this nation's league.
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: We you know, knock on what havn't lost, you know,
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: been playing well and if it continues like this, I
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: think first places is for the taking. So yeah, it
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: starts tomorrow and we go from there. We need to
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: finish first, we need to you know, again, like you said,
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: say what you want about this nation's league, but I think,
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: you know, winning it would would would really boost a
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: lot and kind of take Italy to to another to
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: another level. Not only not only in terms of Okay,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: you got another trophy in the cabinet, doesn't really mean
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: too much whatever, but just in terms of confidence. I
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: think I think this team is young and needs confidence.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: Uh you know, I think they have it at times,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: but they need to continue to build on it.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: They know they're good, they know they can compete, they
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: know they can go out and win big games. Let's
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: continue to see that. It's these next two games to
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: close out this nation's league group stage that are that
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: are going to start that. And then you know when
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: when World Up qualifying starts and and and and start
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: to get rolling, you know they need to do that
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: there as well, because I'm we're all sick and tired
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: of not seeing it in a World Cup, right, So
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: it starts here. I think with the nation's league and
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: hopefully that breeds into uh, you know, work up qualifying
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: and we don't want to see no more playoffs, so
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: no more playoffs. Get the chop done and uh and
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: and let's go forward. But yeah, I'm I'm excited. I
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: know everybody hates, you know, when these international bas up,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, when you turn
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: on the channel, when it you know, and and it
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: is plain and the national the national anthem starts. Everybody said,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: everybody bought, you know, stops thinking about all this fucking
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: international break, and and and the passion comes. So again,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: I don't like when it comes up during the season
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: as well, don't get me wrong, but like I said,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: when all that starts to click, the passion comes out
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: and and and you love to see the national team. Well,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: so I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: I'm saying two from two, I'm gonna go out there.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: I'm saying two from two, two wins, two wins. That's
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: I don't want to settle for for nothing less, and
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: I think they shouldn't either. So I don't know about
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: what you guys think, but for me, I'm going to
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: out of two.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not. I really don't know what to expect. Yeah,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: I think I think that's a safe, safe bet because
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: if they lose, You're like, you know, it wasn't that
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: far off that they went, and you're like, you know,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: I wasn't that far.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Off about that. I'm saying from.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: You, who better than you? Better than nobody?
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: Nobody? Yeah?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if they so, if they advanced, they played March.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: So the next international break is only in March. So
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: this is the first time there's actually quarterfinals for the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: Nations League. So again, adding more games, guys, adding more games.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: Classic, It's what it is. It's money at the end
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: of the day.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Remember.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: Here we go, cups money, money, money, money, money, money, money.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll stop talking.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Remember what was it during the pandemic when a bunch
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: of teenagers protested for football traditional football, can't change anything,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: and then uf IT is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: can't change anything. Let's changed the Champions League format was
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: at all these competitions throwing a new club old cup.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's FIFA. But that was one of
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. People protesting against
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: the Super League, Like, imagine, we just protested against like
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: Well, I still I still think it was.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: It was a good idea to do because the.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: Super League itself was just looking like a massive circle joke.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: It's circle jerk, to be fair, it was I.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: Think it was gonna be the same format of the like,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: because the difference was, like the one issue I had
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 5: with it is like these there's like a selection of
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 5: like eight to ten teams that are always getting guaranteed
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: to be in the Super League.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: That's that's that's not the point of Champions League, you know,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: it's like you have to qualify to get there. If
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: you're gonna say, these eight ten teams can be the
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: shittiest fucking teams in the world, but they're always are
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: going to have the same thing, like are always gonna
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: be in this league, Then what's the I'm not watching that.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: That's not that's not like why why why do they
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: get to be there? You know, Like it's it's it's
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: more about merit versus guaranteed. That's the thing. Oh yeah,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: but historical merit. Who cares like you like it's historical merit.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: The general should always be one of you know what
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: I mean? Like that that was one of my main
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: qualms about it, you know, like it was just more
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: like like Arsenal is one of the teams. Just merit, merit,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: Like what what does Arsenal have over Patma for example?
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: You know, like you know what does what does Arsenal
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: have over Napoli at that point, you know, Arsenals don't
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: have a European trophy? Napoli does, bottom of does. That
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: was my one qualm with super League, Like if if
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: we're gonna discuss that, Nick, let's.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: We need another hour. We need another hour. No, but listen,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: I think if we work, I think this, I don't
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: want to. I mean, we call it Champions League, but
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: it's kind of almost the same. But anyways, I think
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: that's another topic for another day with the uh but
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: that was back also you mentioned that, but that was back.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: I saw all kinds of you know, sky, where's he
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: gonna where's he gonna play? Is it gonna play that?
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: You know behind the strike, don't go back in his
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: normal role. I think this this midfield is strong, though
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys agree. I think this
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: midfield is strong. But I back to now he's back,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: I would like to see Riccie there because he's been
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: putting some good performances. But Novela is there. I think
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: is a solid replacement. But you know, one guy if
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: there was going to be merit. In terms of uh
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: call ups, I think I know the goalies me, you
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: know me, I hate this fucking three four goalies but
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: we only need two. But uh madet there instead of
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: instead of the audio I think was a bit of
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: a bit of a weird one. But again I agree
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: who who doesn't really matter because they're not going to
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: get the field anyways, so it doesn't really matter. But
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: he's leading the he's in the league in Queen sheets,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: and he's not called up.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know, as you a fan, do.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: You agree or you disagree? Okay, if you please.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen enough of Marett to actually play, but
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: I understand not being there. He makes He makes a
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: lot of mistakes, actually.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Really he Yeah, I don't watch you every week.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not you know. I'm not saying like it's like
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: you know, like I know Chesney in the last couple
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: of years made a lot of mistakes to actually led
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: to goals. I'm not saying what degre Roy was doing.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Is you know, like the goals he's letting is his fault.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: A lot of bad defense as well, but like he
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: hasn't stolen you game or anything, you know what I mean.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: Like he does his job and it's fine, but is
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: it at the level that we need him to be at.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: Not yet, So I'm not you know, I'm not surprised.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: And at the end of day, like I don't mind
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: if there's less of a players with you know, with
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: the you know, risk of injury and everything. It look
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: at look at a cabal with Colombia apparently towards a
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: cl you know, so it's just yeah, there, I think
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: it's what three or four D players, Gatty look Aatelly,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: oh no in cambiaso before I think besides got again
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: even Gatti. I don't think he deserves to be there, Savona, Yes,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: can be absolutely yes, you know you guys know I
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: love I love him and Locatelli he should have been
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: on the originalist coups. He's really he's having a good season.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: Honestly, he cried. He cried enough to get onto the place.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: He whined. He cried, what do you do with this
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: fucking baby? I understand, man, Look listen, like a good player, okay,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: but like, come on, man, like anyways, like he's gotten better,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: he's gotten better, Sure, he's got more bad.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: Honestly, he's better than coup miners this season. Like if
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: if you look at coup miners and Lookatelli and ask
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: me which one you've paid seventy million for or sixty
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: million four, I'd say Locatelly.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah that's me. Like this conversation. Yeah, we might have
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: a different conversation. But anyways, I don't know about even
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: like listen again, I don't want you every week. I
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: know he's been having some good moments, but I guess,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: you know, like I said Spiletti, I liked the Spiletti like,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know if Savona is merit bass call up
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: like SPELETTI was honing in on only merit based call
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: call ups. You know what he brings in and I
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: don't know fucking for l Arun show to to to
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: the Euros. It's like, uh, you know, so I don't
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: know about some I don't know Savona. I got young
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: first time bus really too young. First time I had
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: a good moment, brought him up, had a good moment,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: brought him up. It's you know, so it's it's something
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: new we have we don't. We haven't seen that in
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: the past, where these young Italians are getting arguing calls.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: I would like to see Bowing over there because I
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: like what he's been doing. Atlanta, I know, even get
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: called up. I don't know if he's if he has
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: a knock or anything. I didn't see, but I would
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: have liked to see him back there, even I got
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: gu Jetty. I know he got called up for you
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: twenty ones, but Jetty also for ft Talanta another wing back,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: which I think would have would go perfectly with the
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: set up that Speletti has right now. I think, you
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: know it's just with Cambiaso and and the other guy
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: it's for me would be it would be perfect. But
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: I think I think we're strongest in the midfield, which
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: is which is good. Again. I think that there was
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: a point in time where we were kind of falling
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: a bit behind in the midfield, and I think we're
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: kind of so way back at that at that top
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: level of a midfield. Because I listen, I don't know
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: if you guys agree or disagree, but uh, you know,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: when he if he's there, Lok, I tell you rovel
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: like stat like that. It's there.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 4: Games are won and lost in the midfield, and we
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: have a midfield games.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: Come over. Sorry, I forgot I forgot about.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the guy. The guy turns into a
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: ball in door player when he plays under spilt for
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: the national team.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: He has the most goals. If I'm a mistaken under spelecte.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean said correctly already.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think uh, you know, I think
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: we're the Taggi's. I think a bit behind them, but
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: uh in terms of Italian player fronders, but I think
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: he has the most goals as a midfielder. So uh, listen,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: I know there was there was a projected lineups where
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: you know where it's gonna play, where is gonna play,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: who's going to kind of play that three cortist role.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: Listen or Sunta whatever however you want to label with us.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: You know, seems to find himself in the right place
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: at the right time in the attacking third for the
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: Italian national team. I don't know what it is, but
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: he seems to be there. I saw it live as well,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: kind of getting himself in the right up right spaces.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: It's something to think with again, I don't know how
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: I solid my mind about. But another midfielder that that's
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: playing well for the national team. So I think, you know,
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: we're strongest there the defense without color Fiordi. I'm interested
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: to see how that's gonna how that's gonna be. But
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: I still think Bastoni boro and if it's gonna be
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: de Lorenzo on the on on the right side of
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: the defense there, I think it's still strong obviously, Jujo
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: between the sticks and listen, like I said earlier, we
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: have two of the hardest Italian strikers or forwards currently
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: called up in that Tagian king Johnny your mute, So
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know what you said.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: I said, And they're good too.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: And they're good too. You know. They take their shirt
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: off and the sad post both of them with their
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: shirt off celebrating whatever. Are we're going to see the gritty?
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Are we going to see it? I
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: don't know, Uh, come come tomorrow and Sunday we'll see.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know. I think there's obviously, I
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: think I know a lot of watch of friends saying
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: zach Khani is not there, you know, obviously, Nicko Orsellini
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: not not called up. And you probably can make cases
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: for other players as well, but I think a decent list.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: It's it's it's not a perfect line up, but I
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: still think in my eyes, we get the job done.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: And hopefully next week we talk about two Italy wins
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: and and and we win the group and and as
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: long as we win the group, I could be wrong
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: about the two wins. As long as we're coming first,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: I don't care how happens.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: Let's that well, nothing wins. I'll take it on penalties.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: I'll take it just a bit, just a bit, just
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: a bit, Guys, I think that'll do it for us.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: Enjoy the Italy game tomorrow and on Sunday. I don't
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: know if you guys are going to watch them, but
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: I'll probably watch. What are we doing?
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: What are we doing? Some we do anything? Someday I
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: have to see.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: I have to what my schedule is like.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: Med too, But if it's, if it's free, we should
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: should get together.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: Sounds like a plan possibility, guys.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: Wherever you guys are listening, gus get together for the games,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: get to get to get together for the games. It's
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: we need, we need all the support, so, but yeah,
• 1:13:03
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• 1:13:07
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• 1:13:10
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• 1:13:11
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