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Serie A Is Back! Malen scores 3, Cisse Shines for Milan - Ep. 313 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: It's the, uh, Daniel Malin show in the city and
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  Speaker 2: It's been rough.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we, we took the summer off, uh, season nine,
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  Speaker 1: the culture guys, uh, Johnny Drano, Nicholas guys, how's it going?
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  Speaker 3: What's going on? It's going okay. It's going okay. Season nine.
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  Speaker 4: It's, uh, Season nine, Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds a bit crazy to me. If you
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  Speaker 3: would have spoke to us nine years ago and say, listen,
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  Speaker 3: you guys would still be shooting this shit, talking cultural.
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  Speaker 3: I think we would probably be probably be joking to
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  Speaker 3: ourselves and lying to you. But here we are in
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  Speaker 3: season nine. Just incredible. Soon we're at the big 1-0 here, right?
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  Speaker 3: That might cap right at 10. So, yeah, man, it's
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  Speaker 3: just been a hell of a ride. Excited for the
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  Speaker 3: new season, obviously. Has already kicked off this season, 26-27,
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  Speaker 3: and We're looking forward to have a lot more fun
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  Speaker 3: here on the couch with us.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, it was a good start, especially for
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  Speaker 1: all of our teams. Four to four here on the
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  Speaker 1: couch with guys between Roma, Napoli, Juve and Milan. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, let's let's start with this Roma because
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Malin comes in, scores three goals. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: call it some people call it a natural hat trick.
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  Speaker 1: First three goals for his team. Three assists from Dybala
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  Speaker 1: turning back the clock.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is a game. It was the Monday game.
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  Speaker 2: It was the Monday afternoon game. So, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: was watching it during work and, you know, I see
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  Speaker 2: Malin score.
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  Speaker 1: And I know, guys, we didn't have a preview episode,
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  Speaker 1: an official preview episode. But for those who don't know,
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  Speaker 1: we shared in our group chat our predictions. And so
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  Speaker 1: I did put my Capocannoniere prediction as Malin. He had
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  Speaker 1: a hot six months after joining Roma last year.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm off to a good start. We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was 14 goals. He almost won the Capocannoniere
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  Speaker 1: playing for six months last year. for half a season
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  Speaker 1: yeah exactly it's it's crazy and so uh sometimes sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when that happens the it's hard to to maintain it
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  Speaker 1: you kind of saw like someone like john tech right
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  Speaker 1: uh is a good example but clearly is malin has
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  Speaker 1: a goal scoring touch but it helps when you're playing
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  Speaker 1: uh with a guy like dibala uh but johnny this
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  Speaker 1: this roma team ever you know not only malin but
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  Speaker 1: for the past year it's it's momentum right and back
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  Speaker 1: in the champions league and you know look i I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't think they'll compete for the Scudetto
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  Speaker 1: per se. You know, if they do, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: at a certain point of the season they might tell
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  Speaker 1: off because of the amount of games they have to play.
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  Speaker 1: But this is not the same Roma team from five
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  Speaker 1: years ago. This is, for me, this is probably the
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  Speaker 1: best Roma team since 10 years ago when they were
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  Speaker 1: contending for a Scudetto.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's just a little bit too
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  Speaker 5: early to tell, but they're definitely on the up and up.
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  Speaker 5: I think, honestly, Gasparini, like, started something last year that's
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  Speaker 5: picking up momentum this year and it's continuing. And it
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  Speaker 5: seems like, you know, he's keeping when, when he, when he,
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  Speaker 5: when he instills his project into what he wants for,
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  Speaker 5: for a team, it pays off.
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  Speaker 4: And so far it has been for Roma.
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  Speaker 5: I think he found the target man that he needed
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  Speaker 5: in the Malin and Dybala just playing phenomenally well with him.
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  Speaker 4: You know what it reminded me of, which I understand why.
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  Speaker 5: People fell in love with that duo is, the Higuain-DiBalo combination.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, it's against Fiorentina.
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  Speaker 5: Fiorentina last year did not have a good season at all,
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  Speaker 5: and it seems like the woes are still sticking around.
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  Speaker 4: They announced their new ownership today. Camiso's wife, I think,
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  Speaker 4: is the new....
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  Speaker 5: I guess she's the one who took charge, I guess,
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  Speaker 5: because it's next in succession, I guess. Anyways, Fiorentina right
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  Speaker 5: now is going to be a bit of a A
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  Speaker 5: team that's going to be, needs a bit of help.
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  Speaker 5: So obviously it's a 4-1 scoreline. Let's not look at
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  Speaker 5: it too much, but still nice to win at the Olimpico. Nice,
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  Speaker 5: Malin getting a hat-trick off the get-go. He's already three
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  Speaker 5: in of the 14 that he hit last year. It
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  Speaker 5: seems like he's spinning organically like a glove and Dybala's
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  Speaker 5: finding him. So let's hope this continues. It's a good trend.
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  Speaker 5: But you know how it is with Serie A. It's
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  Speaker 5: always like, There's always going to be that hot start
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  Speaker 5: to a season for a team and all of a
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  Speaker 5: sudden something happens. But like I said, this is something
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  Speaker 5: that people can take seriously. This is a continuation of
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  Speaker 5: last season. Malin in this calendar year so far has
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  Speaker 5: probably been the top scorer of Serie A right now,
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  Speaker 5: especially with the hat-trick this weekend. For the calendar year.
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  Speaker 4: Which would be sick.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think– I don't remember the last– actually, who
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  Speaker 5: was the last Capocannoniere for Roma?
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  Speaker 3: Was it Batistuta? It might have been Totti, no?
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  Speaker 4: Was it Totti way back when?
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  Speaker 3: Hold on.
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  Speaker 2: Let me look this up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look it up.
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  Speaker 4: Who was the last Capocannoniere for Roma? I don't think
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  Speaker 4: even Batigol.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it was Batigol.
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  Speaker 2: I think it might have been Totti. You guys– it's
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  Speaker 2: more recent. It's Edin Dzeko.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, before that.
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  Speaker 1: Was– Totti in, look, 06-07 Totti, 16-17 Dzeko, 26-27 Malin.
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  Speaker 2: I won't complain.
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  Speaker 3: I won't complain.
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  Speaker 1: Adrian, I did see you put Malin as your Capocannoniere
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 3: We'll give you a shout out. Yeah, no, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And like, you know, I think with the Roma, with
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  Speaker 3: the whole Roma thing and like, obviously match day one,
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  Speaker 3: like we say this every year, it's nine years we've
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  Speaker 3: been doing this, right? And we've been saying the same
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  Speaker 3: thing every, every match day, after every match day one,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like, you know, let's pump the brakes. Let's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, let's, let's, let's cool it down. Like all
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  Speaker 3: the hype on, on certain teams. But I think with
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  Speaker 3: the Roma, with the Roma, the Roma result, the Roma project,
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  Speaker 3: the Roma, you know, situation right now, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it's as much as maybe they've had some down years
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  Speaker 3: and we've spoken about it at length in the past.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's a flash in the pan either, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like this is something that has been building, you know,
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  Speaker 3: especially under the freekins, you know, silently they've, they've been
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  Speaker 3: working granted. They haven't had, all the successes that they
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  Speaker 3: might have liked. But listen, they had a point in
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  Speaker 3: their history, in recent history, appointing a guy like Jose
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  Speaker 3: Mourinho and winning a conference league. And finally, I think
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  Speaker 3: getting a manager like Gasperini, who we've seen turn Atalanta
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  Speaker 3: around for all those years, and now he comes to
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  Speaker 3: Rome and he's, I think, slowly building that. This isn't
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  Speaker 3: going to be now. It's the start of year two,
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  Speaker 3: a fresh start. Uh, and you know what, what happens
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  Speaker 3: when a manager gets his players, I think is, is
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  Speaker 3: another thing. And I think the freekins have, you know,
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  Speaker 3: quietly done that for him. He's, they brought in, you know,
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  Speaker 3: quite a few, uh, additions on this, on this squad. So,
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  Speaker 3: and I think there's, you know, there's obviously reports with, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Mercato, you know, closing up soon here, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that there's other reports of other, uh, you know, future
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  Speaker 3: additions as well for Rome. You know, I saw the
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  Speaker 3: center back, uh, Morato or whatever his name was, um,
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  Speaker 3: But just like, listen, the Malin signing from last season,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they bring in a guy like Santiago Castro
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  Speaker 3: from Bologna, who, in my opinion, had a pretty decent
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  Speaker 3: campaign over these last few years. It's a good addition piece.
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  Speaker 3: They bring the young Rodrigo Moura, right, to Rome. And
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  Speaker 3: it's another exciting profile for them. You know, listen, it's
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  Speaker 3: just other pieces like that in this system, in the
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  Speaker 3: formation that they're playing. with the ideology of Gasparini, I
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  Speaker 3: think they can go far. Listen, I know we didn't
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  Speaker 3: have our preview show and we'll probably maybe get into,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we'll go put it out there, even just to
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  Speaker 3: put out there later on, you know, our predictions for
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  Speaker 3: the year. But, you know, as much as people are
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  Speaker 3: going to say, ah, Roma, you know, it's okay, it's
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  Speaker 3: one week, let's go, let's move on and let's see
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  Speaker 3: where they're at, you know, come the end of the season.
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  Speaker 3: I think they can have a shot, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. I don't think Scudetto, no, I won't say that,
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  Speaker 3: but I think they have a shot to compete for
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  Speaker 3: this top four. I'd put them second, just as a
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  Speaker 3: spoiler alert, if we do put that out later. Just
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  Speaker 3: because I think they have a shot at really taking
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  Speaker 3: this Serie A season by storm and by the horns,
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  Speaker 3: because honestly, I don't think they'll do much in Champions,
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  Speaker 3: and that's fine. I think if they kind of coast
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  Speaker 3: through their Champions League campaign as champions, best they can
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  Speaker 3: and whatever kind of get there you know i don't
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  Speaker 3: i don't know where they're going to finish there but
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  Speaker 3: even if they get out of the uh you know
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  Speaker 3: you know the first round there and they move on
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  Speaker 3: to the next and then they get eliminated i think
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  Speaker 3: they can put their their real focus on city and
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  Speaker 3: really compete uh in city uh just for even another
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  Speaker 3: top four finish and like you said nick everything happens
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  Speaker 3: i guess for roman every 10 years right they say
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  Speaker 3: like every good good things happen every you know superstars
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  Speaker 3: come every 20 25 years right the the Michael Jordans
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  Speaker 3: of the world come every, whatever, you know, 20 odd,
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  Speaker 3: 30 years, you know, I guess for Roma, it's every 10. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: they have, they have some sort of, uh, you know, good,
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  Speaker 3: good fortune. So we'll see. Uh, I think they have, uh,
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  Speaker 3: they have a good shot at, uh, being competitive this season,
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  Speaker 3: more competitive than they have in last, in the last
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  Speaker 3: handful of years. I think just the, the vibe of
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  Speaker 3: getting back into champions league for them is, was, was,
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  Speaker 3: it was a big plus. It helps with a bit
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  Speaker 3: of more money that they were able to spend. Um,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, I, I, I don't want to overhype Roma,
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  Speaker 3: but I think they're at a stage where, listen, they've
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  Speaker 3: gone through the pains and the trials and tribulations of
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  Speaker 3: trying to get into top four. They got there last season.
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  Speaker 3: Now is the next step to staying in top four
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  Speaker 3: and being somewhat competitive in those you know, four spots
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  Speaker 3: at the top. So we'll see what happens. But I
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  Speaker 3: think under Gasparini, if things, you know, obviously pan out
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  Speaker 3: well and, you know, players, you know, stay healthy, I
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  Speaker 3: think that's another big thing for Roma, especially for Dybala.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they'll be in good hands.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Roma started 19-year-old Emmanuel Lully, you know, go to
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  Speaker 1: Milan last, 19-year-old Alfredo Cisse scores, starts, and scores for Milan.
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  Speaker 1: So two young Italian players starting and making an impact. Look,
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  Speaker 1: it's what we needed, right? It's what we talked about
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  Speaker 1: the past six months. So, you know, good for them. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I saw a post, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: from Calciatore Bruti today, just showing the amount of young
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  Speaker 1: players that Gasp has started over the years.
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  Speaker 2: Even, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I can't think of off the top of my head. Bastoni, Scalvini.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll have to look at the names, but it
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  Speaker 1: goes back even to Kluzevski, I believe, when he was
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  Speaker 1: with Atalanta.
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  Speaker 3: Was he there with Cristante, Andrea Conti at the time?
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: It's possible, yeah. It was, you know, a long list
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  Speaker 1: of players. Hopefully, Luli is part of them. And then
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  Speaker 1: it's Ruben Amorim who comes in for Milan, starts... this youngster, Cisse,
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  Speaker 1: he scores against Torino and it's a win for Milan,
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  Speaker 1: you know, strong start to the season. You know, especially
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  Speaker 1: with a new coach, right, Adrie?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't have asked for a better game. Maybe you want
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  Speaker 2: a clean sheet, but three points, three points, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, it's been a rollercoaster of emotions for Milan fans,
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  Speaker 3: I would say. It's just been non-stop and it continues
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to go down to the wire, especially
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  Speaker 3: with this Mercato and this Leal news and transfer and
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  Speaker 3: this and that, but yeah just a hell of a
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  Speaker 3: roller coaster like I said and we just want some
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  Speaker 3: you know continuity some positivity with this club last season
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  Speaker 3: was I think one to forget you know there were
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  Speaker 3: some you know some moments but I think overall with
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  Speaker 3: the no top four you know the kind of you
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  Speaker 3: know change again of manager you know the Allegri signing
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  Speaker 3: didn't you know obviously pan out the way you know
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  Speaker 3: most would have thought or would have hoped at least
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  Speaker 3: but and just players not, you know, playing up to their,
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  Speaker 3: especially our top players not, you know, performing well and
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  Speaker 3: injuries and stuff like that, but I think now, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you turn the page, it's a new, it's a new,
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  Speaker 3: new project, new start, new Milan, and, listen, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think the name Ruben Aberim is one that really turns
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  Speaker 3: heads in terms of, you know, wow, we have him
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  Speaker 3: as our manager and he's going to take us to
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  Speaker 3: the promised land, but especially after, you know, the United,
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  Speaker 3: Manchester United stint there, but, listen, you have to trust,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what management was doing. You know, they kind
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  Speaker 3: of cleared house up top and, you know, Cardinale was
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  Speaker 3: really stepping up and, you know, putting on his big
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  Speaker 3: boy pants and making some, you know, business decisions that
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  Speaker 3: needed to be made. So, you know, we bring in
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  Speaker 3: Amarim and, listen, it wasn't the name I would have
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  Speaker 3: wanted for sure, like looking back. But again, I put
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  Speaker 3: myself aside and I want him to, to prove myself
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  Speaker 3: and other Milan fans wrong that he can be the
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  Speaker 3: man for this Milan and with this squad and with
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  Speaker 3: his ideology. Again, so far, so good. Obviously, after match
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  Speaker 3: day one, it's a win. I think we should have
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  Speaker 3: gotten the clean sheet. Of course, the goal of the
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  Speaker 3: season happens against Milan on match day one. It seems
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  Speaker 3: like every season, you know, from last season with Bonazzoli
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  Speaker 3: or with Cremonesi and this week at the end there
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  Speaker 3: by Shea Adams there with a hell of a... I
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  Speaker 3: don't even know what you want to call that. Bike?
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  Speaker 3: Side bike? Kind of... spin kid i had a shot
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  Speaker 3: it was just incredible but um yeah i think like
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  Speaker 3: on on sisa you know alpha sisa is is a
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  Speaker 3: name that i don't think many people would have uh
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  Speaker 3: would have recognized you know going into this match um
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  Speaker 3: if you listen to uh amrim's uh you know pre-game
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  Speaker 3: uh presser you know he he he really has quoted
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  Speaker 3: in saying you know i love sisa i love sisa
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  Speaker 3: and uh he said he was going to start him
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  Speaker 3: and you know he had the balls to do so
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  Speaker 3: you know obviously layout situation him not being fit and
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  Speaker 3: being you know a bit of an injury who hadn't
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  Speaker 3: been practicing uh just the whole is he in is
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  Speaker 3: he out of the project um you know kind of
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  Speaker 3: you know clouding over this Milan I think you know
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  Speaker 3: Amrim said you know fuck it I'm going to go
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  Speaker 3: with the guy who I want to go with he's
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  Speaker 3: he's impressed in preseason he's a young Italian uh gem
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  Speaker 3: and uh let's see what he can do and Is
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  Speaker 3: he perfect? No. Is he a finished product? No. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he has some talent and it's about time
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  Speaker 3: we get to showcase that in Serie A, right? To
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  Speaker 3: Nick's point earlier, we've been preaching about this for so long,
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  Speaker 3: especially when we talk about the Italian national team and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that. But, you know, he comes on and
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  Speaker 3: he starts. I think he has some good moments. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: the goal caps it off for him, you know, debut
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  Speaker 3: for Milan in the Serie A and debut goal as
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  Speaker 3: well um but again i don't think it's it's a
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  Speaker 3: it comes as a surprise like the goal whatever okay
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  Speaker 3: like that can maybe cause a surprise but i think
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  Speaker 3: just his play and his his talent and and him
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  Speaker 3: showing that i don't think comes as a surprise you
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  Speaker 3: know last season at catanzaro he definitely turned some heads
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  Speaker 3: and you know listen milan wanted to uh to keep
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  Speaker 3: hold uh keep hold of him and not send him
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  Speaker 3: out on loan and um this is uh you know
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  Speaker 3: these are the the fruits of of that you know
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  Speaker 3: so um that's exciting. I think the, the overall formation and, and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, players that we brought in and, you know, what,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Amaran wants to do, I think is, is
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  Speaker 3: going to take some time. I don't think it's an
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  Speaker 3: overnight thing and he wants to press, you know, quite
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  Speaker 3: early and often. So we saw that and near the
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  Speaker 3: end of the game, I think we saw Milan kind of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, tailing off a bit. I think they could
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  Speaker 3: have put it away. uh, maybe a bit sooner with
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  Speaker 3: a third goal. They didn't, you know, they, you know,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: they're lucky they didn't get caught, um, you know, with
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: only having one goal scored and, um, they, they ended
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: up having the two, but it was two in quick succession,
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: you know, and I think a guy like Rabiot coming
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: on made another impact. Um, many people had a lot
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: to say about him and Mania, you know, taking extended
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: vacation after the world cup and, Amarim kind of created
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: that up and said that was his decision to let
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: them have the time that they needed or whatever. I
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: think Rabiot kind of shut those doubters up real quick
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: after coming on and scoring and providing the assist for
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Cissé' s goal as well. It's a good start. We have,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I think, a lot more to prove and to show.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: But like you said, Nick, to start off the season
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: with a win Whereas in past seasons, we've started off
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: a bit slower. It's positive. But again, it's one game
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: at a time, one match at a time. We turned
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: the page to Friday against Venezia, who, again, last season
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: we had trouble beating the smaller teams with Allegri. Is
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: that going to be the same type of thing under Amarim?
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I want to hope and say no, but Friday is
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: the first test of that and we'll see what happens.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: You bring up Allegri. I have to go to Napoli because,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you know, the game, they scored two goals in the
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: 80 plus minute against Genoa. A game, you know, I'm
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: sure you guys saw on social media heading in. A
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: lot of love between Napoli and Genoa, you know, two
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: port cities. You know, Adrian, when we were there, we
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: met people from Napoli.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of, you know, commonality between
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: the two cities.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: But, you know, regardless, Napoli goes and and gets the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: win at Liguri's first game with them.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: And what was it, De Bruyne and?
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Vergara. Vergara. There you go.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: And you want to talk about the Italians.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Vergara right there gets a goal in the system.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Another one.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there you go.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: 23, but still young.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but Napoli, look, that's a team that we know
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: they're going to compete for the Scudetto. I think, John,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: you had them to win. Both me and Adrian put,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I think, Inter and then Napoli in. But honestly, like
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: even when I was thinking about it before the season,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: it's a toss up because even look, the past three
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: seasons or four seasons, what did they Napoli enter after? Yeah,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: because after Milan won, it was Napoli, then Inter, then
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Napoli and then Inter.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: So if you go by that pattern, it's going to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: be Napoli. But I think Inter got so strong. We'll
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: talk about Inter later. But I think they got so
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: strong this summer that I think that's where maybe there's
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: a You know, Napoli's a bit behind, but look, with
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: a coach like Allegri, anything could happen.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: But good start.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: But that was my point as to why I put
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: them in first place. They kept De Bruyne. KDB, I
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: figured once Conte left, I'm like, KDB's probably out the door.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Because he didn't get much of him last year because
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: of his injury, right?
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: So in my head, I'm like, we're going to lose
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: De Bruyne, which is not going to.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Be a good thing.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: But.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Keeping him, the addition of Allegri. Oh, did my thing
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: just mess up?
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Hello, Test12?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: You're good to go.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: All right, I guess it was just a brief second.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: My computer spiked or something. But yeah, keeping KDB.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Allegri being there, it's more or less the same roster
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: as last year, which obviously being decimated by injuries could
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: have been another repeat contender.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Injuries didn't help so just having them back again.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Really put me into the mindset of they can actually
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: probably win the Scudetto this year um Inter is obviously
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: going to be pushing for all three competitions.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Maybe there's gonna be a point where they wane a
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: bit and then.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Napoli just kind of straight uh strikes in but I
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: feel like the the roster like especially the midfield that
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Napoli has is kind of like very suited for you
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: know a guy like Allegri so um.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Let's just hope it continues. You know, let's just hope
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: that Zambo and.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Giza stays, you know, just stuff like that. It's like
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: they stay healthy. La Baca stays great. De Bruyne stays great.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: McFratima still has another phenomenal season. He's had two in
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: a row now.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: So, you know what I mean?
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Like, if the trend continues, I really do have a
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: strong faith in this team competing for Scudetto easily. They're
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: in top four for sure. I feel like all the
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: pieces are there. You know, it remains to be seen.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: But it was great to see that kind of unity.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Begara getting, like, he was a player that the fans
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: have been, you know, crying to have him play.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Not like sad crying, but like, hey, play him, play him,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: play him.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: And now they're finally utilizing him. And it's, you know,
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: it is against Derossi's Genoa. It kind of hurt that
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: Derossi had to take an L here because between Derossi
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: and Allegri, who do I love more?
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Let's, but in all seriousness, it's, it's, it's, it was
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: a nice, it was a nice link up and I
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: just hope it kind of continues.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: And, you know, I was like, okay, it's probably gonna
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: be a one zero game because it's a legacy system.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Hey, we scored two, we scored two, we scored two.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: So that's, don't get used to it, Johnny.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I know. I was going to say like, I don't
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: want to be like the, the, the negative on this,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: but I don't know, like, they didn't really impress me
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: too much, if I'm honest, for Napoli, if I'm honest.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: And I wanted them to impress me more, and for me,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: they didn't. I don't know. Again, only match day one.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I personally don't see the Scudetto, but Giannis Arnaud Chodames,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: so he's probably right and I'm probably wrong. But I
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: think I'm still going to have to see more. The
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: lack of the market for them, too, is another one
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: for me, because I think, you know, the start in 11, great,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: you know. If you want to, you know, put, you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: from player to player, I think they're quite up there.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: But I think it's after that, like, you know, an
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: injury or two, again, like last season, what happens to
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: this Napoli? So that's the only, like, devil's advocate point
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: I would throw in there for Napoli. And again, Allegri,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: you know, all the success that he had, had this,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: you know, crap season at Milan, if you will. Now,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: is this the spot that, you know, he kind of
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: revives that legacy and kind of really cements it for
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: one final time? Who knows? I would want to see more.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: I think their attack looked a bit, you know, I
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: don't know, suspect. You know, I don't know. I think
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: they need to service Hoyland a lot more for him
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: to be more involved in getting, you know, on the
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: score sheet. But again, I think they will be competitive.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I think, to Gianni's point, they will be a tough
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: forward team. Me personally, I haven't been third. I don't
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: know if.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Like, Badia Shale, Badia Shile, Badia Shale,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: whoever they sign, like, that's kind of like they've been
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: their only move. It worries me a bit. So, we'll see.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: But I think, you know, like, the first goal, knowing
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Serie A, like, if that would have been called back,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: who knows if they would have scored, you know, again.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: So, like, it's these... It's a lot of these what-ifs
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I know, but I think they have to be a
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: bit more convincing for the quality that they do have,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: you know, to a man. So we'll see what happens,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: but they'll be competitive. I just don't know how much,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: in my opinion.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And I think you could almost say the same about
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Juventus in that, you know, the game itself wasn't that impressive.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying, you know, Juve's going to compete for
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the Scudetto.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: I know they're not.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: But it was a weird game because they actually played
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: well in the first half and I liked the way
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: they played. I felt like they had a lot of chances. Look,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be negative after a win, especially
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: for the first win of the season.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: But guys, Kulamwani, what are we doing here?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Like, this is not, you know, for him to get
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the number nine, to be the striker. And I know
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: we criticize Vlaovic a lot. And look, I think Vlaovic
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and Kulamwani, they're different types of players. They're different types
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: of situations. You know, Vlaovic was getting paid a lot
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: of money. And you had that expectation there. but for
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: some of the hype that Columani was getting, you know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: after the transfer, yeah, he had a good couple of
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: months with us, but he wasn't, he wasn't Daniel Mallon.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: What was it?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Almost two years ago. And even, like I said, for
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: him to get the nine with Jonathan David already there.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: And then now there's a whole situation between David, not
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: wanting to leave the club for a smaller club and,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: you know, wanting to prove himself. And look, if we're
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: going to go into the season with, with relying on Columani,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to score a lot of goals. And,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: That chance that he missed right in front of the net, like,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: it just brought back Vovic memories, right? And it's almost
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: like Milan with the number nine. Maybe Juve is cursed
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: now with the number nine.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: No, nobody's as bad as Milan for the number nine.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I think Giroud kind of woke it up a bit.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: On his run, he kind of saved it a bit,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: but nobody out curses the nine for a club than Milan.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: But I get your point because, you know, he has
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: to finish that in front of the net. Absolutely. Yeah.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Especially, you know, after all the summer talk, this and that,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: you got to score. I'm obviously happy, you know, with Bremer.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Great game.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And, you know, I'm going to give a shout out
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: also Douglas Luiz. I think he was great in the midfield.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: He was a player I was surprised started because he's
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: a player who comes in under Mata, struggles, goes out
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: on loan last season, comes back. I thought, you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: they just sent him out on loan, kind of like
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: what they did for so many years with Artur. And,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you know, he's involved in the preseason. He gets a
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: number 12 shirt and he starts. And I was a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: bit surprised, but he looked good. And this is the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: type of player that, you know, even when he came
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to Juve, that's what we were expecting. You know, the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: way that they set up, they kind of let Locatelli
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: play a bit deep, deeper than both McKinney and Douglas
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Ruiz played.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: A bit more free. There was a lot of fluidity.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Even Schellig, great game. I know Gianni, you know, when
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: he first came to Juve, I asked you, like, is
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: this guy any good? You're like, not really. He's like,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: you know, he had a really solid game, honestly.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: And I think that's what Juve kind of needs on
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the right side, just to, you know, just someone who's solid.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: No superstar, no, you know, super attacking, you know, wingback,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: just someone who's going to get the job done. I
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: think that's what Celik brings. But look, they play Parma
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: this weekend, and I think it's already Milan weekend after,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I believe. So, you know, hopefully for another three points
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: coming against Parma, but I think the real test is
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: going to be uh, Milan and, and, you know, unfortunately
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: it does feel like it's going to be more of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the same for Juve. You know, I do think they're
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: going to battle for the top four. Are they going
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to make champions league?
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Obviously we don't know. Um, but I think top four
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: is realistic.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Goal and it's just what we've been seeing for the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: past five, six years. Uh, you know, eventually I do
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: want to see them make that jump, but that's not, uh,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: not going to come right now.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: I think, uh, yeah, just to echo on your points, Nick,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I think, um, you know, Columwani, you know, again, I
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: think I've seen some love by the fans on social media.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: I think he had some good moments in the past
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: with Juve and, you know, but again, now you're back
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: and now you have more responsibility and now you seem
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: to be pegged as the guy up top. And again,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: you can defend all you want, but at the end
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: of the day, you have to put, you know, balls
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: in the back of the net for you to win, right?
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: So again, match day one, and this is going to
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: be like, We're drilling this into this episode every second
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: we get. But it is only match day one, and
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: we get that. But you need to put those away
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: in front of the net. And I think this is
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: a 1-0 scoreline, and they didn't have Allegri on the bench, right?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: That seemed like a bit of a weird one for me.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I think they could have even been up 2-3-0, right?
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: They had chances, right? And I think just another shout-out,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: if you will, because I did have the game on
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: because it was before the Milan game. Calls you a
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: football fan. Chico Conte... No, no, no. You're the... You're
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: the Kwasi Miwan fan because you have the scarf of
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: when we went all those years ago. No, joking aside,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I think Chico Conte saw, I think, had a good one,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: had a good game. Looked apart, obviously. He's very dynamic.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: As a player, he kind of goes under the radar,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: not just because he's short, but he just kind of
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: goes under the radar of quality players I find in
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: the league. Not saying he's the next coming of Christ,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: but He had a good performance. I'll put it there.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: And I think now with this injury for Yildiz already,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: three months out that they're reporting and that they've said,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: that's going to hurt. I think that's going to hurt
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: a lot, especially in the beginning of the season. You
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: have to start off on the right foot. You cannot
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: already be behind the eight ball in the first set
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: of months of the season. So I think that's going
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: to hurt. Who's going to step up? Nick, I don't know. Like, honestly,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know who's going to step up in that role.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: You can probably correct me. Yeah, but it needed to
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: be Conte Sal with Yildiz and Danay. Now I don't know.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Now I feel like things are going to kind of
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: get a bit, you know, sideways. But again, we'll see
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: what Spalletti has up his sleeves. I think Conte Sal
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: is going to maybe have to take on maybe a
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: bigger role. I don't know who comes off the bench
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: for a guy like Yildiz. In my opinion, he's your
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: best player, if not one of, right?
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: But he struggled.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: He didn't look himself against Frosinone, and I saw that
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: right away. He didn't look himself.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: There was a play.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: He could have taken a shot almost one-timer, but one
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: touch kind of held off.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: So I wasn't surprised when they said he was injured
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: because he didn't look good.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but an injury and being out maybe, you know,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: one week, maybe two is one thing. But the three
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: months kind of, for me as an outsider, if I'm
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: just taking off, like, you know, just, you know, our
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: fandom caps and we're just kind of looking at the
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: league and just being fans of the league, you know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: that's a tough pill to swallow after match day one. So, granted,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: he didn't have a good, really, well, his nation didn't
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: have a good World Cup with Turkey, right? They had
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: an atrocious World Cup and, he didn't really, you know,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: perform to a level that maybe some would have thought
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: comes to open the season, already getting hurt, I think
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: that hurts, you know, Juve, so, but again, who, like,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: behind Colomwani, and now with Jonathan, like, are we going
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: to see David? I don't know, like, that's another, maybe
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: he goes to Villarreal, like everybody else for Team Canada
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: goes to, right, so we'll see there, but I don't know,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: it's going to be tough, I think it's going to
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: be an interesting season, and If Spoletti's already complaining, even
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: after a win, we'll see what happens. But it should be,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: remains to be seen, I think, to your point, Nick.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: But I think the dominant winner of the season, of
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the match week, match week one, besides the Roma game,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: you know, let's go Inter. This is a team that,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: you know, comes in against Monza. Okay, yes, Monza, you know,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: newly promoted team, but Haikon, Zielinski, Pio Esposito, and Bisek,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you know, four goals within 63 minutes. Just continuing domination
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: and showing why they're the defending Coppa Italia champions and
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Scudetto champions, right? And, you know, they had an interesting
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: summer because they brought in all these English guys.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: John, was it John Stones? Jed Spence?
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Curtis Jones. Is it Curtis Jones?
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a hard-to-get name, but it's not his name.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: I think that's his name.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he played on the World Junior team
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: in 2014.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: For Liverpool. Yeah, yeah. But I don't know. Their English
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: scout has high power, apparently.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: But look, this is a team for us to be
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: reckoned with, I think, Inter. It's just that continuity, too.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, Napoli might have some growing pains
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: with Allegri, you know, even if you.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Want to throw in.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Milan, new coach.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Juve still going through growing pains. I think if you're
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: going to look at continuity, the only real challenger right
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: now is Noroma. But for Inter, it's as if they
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: didn't miss a beat, right?
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Score four goals.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Again, it's Monza.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I think Monza is going to end up back in
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Serie B at the end of the season. But, you know,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: even looking forward to next week, Inter plays Caledi. Caledi,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: they won their first game. But I think they you know,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: they could go two out of two before they play
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Napoli in match week three.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: So already we have the Scudetto.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Game, right?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: In week three. So it's going to be interesting that week.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: But I think the fact that Inter got stronger, I
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: think that's why for me they're Scudetto's favorites.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Well, it's theirs to lose. Johnny, I think you probably
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: agree with this. You know, I think it's theirs to
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: lose if we're honest with ourselves. As much as it
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: probably pains us as rival fans to say, but again,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: we take that bias, it's Those biases aside, they're the
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: strongest team. They've been the strongest team. The slip-ups in
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: the past years from the Milan Scudetto and then throwing
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: the Napoli Scudetto in there, those little slip-ups can happen.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: But other than that, they've been up there. If they
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: haven't won, they've been really close. It's an interesting one
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: for me. I think they did. They've added pieces. I
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: think they've lost, obviously, some pieces as well. I think
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: losing Dumfries but replacing him with Spence, I think, was
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: one that was another brilliant move, unfortunately, for Marotta and
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: the company. Younger player, I believe, at least, had a
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: pretty good World Cup, had some good moments, and just
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: a quality piece, I think, on that right flank is
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: is something that's going to, you know, be able to
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: thrive under Kivu once again. And, you know, the midfield,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I think, is strong. I don't know if it rivals...
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I think it probably rivals, you know, the other top
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: ones in the league for sure. Again, for me, I'm
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: not a fan of Hakan, but, you know, again, he
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: scores the first goal of the new Serie A season,
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: and it was a hell of a goal. And, you know,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I think Pio Esposito getting... getting the start. And again,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Inter fans can probably correct me cause I, I didn't
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: keep up to date with it, but you know, no two-time, uh,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Bonnie came on, I believe. I think he was, if
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, he replaced, uh, Lautaro, uh, throughout the match,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken, Inter fans can, can, can correct that. But, um, I, I,
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: I think this is a season that I think we
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: can see Pio do take that next step. And again, it's,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: he's been doing it, um, As an Italian fan, I
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: think we would want to see that happen. Again, still
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: super young, but if he can kind of take hold
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: of that second striker, and I know Turam is obviously
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: the quality and he has it all, and I think
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Boniza is an interesting profile as well, but on the
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Italian frame of mind, I think if Pio can take
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: hold of that and be the vice... Lautaro, I think
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: it's going to be another one-two punch that's going to
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: be pretty dangerous, you know, in the league and can probably,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: you know, fight for, you know, the Capo Cagnoniere, you know,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: title again. Listen, Lautaro won it last season with only
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: 17 goals. In a season, in seasons past, you know,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: he worked way, way more and he had a down season,
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: he won it. I think if Malin would have been
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: there for the whole calendar year, he might have won it.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: But then again, they had a guy like Como and Duvicas,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: who also had 14 goals, right? So it's, we'll see
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: what happens this season with the Capocannoni race, and we
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: might get into that later, but I think hopefully for Pio,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: I think he hopefully steps up, you know, they have
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: the young Stankovic, you know, Dejan Stankovic's son in the
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: midfield as a young prospect, that's been turning a lot
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: of heads, and I think Inter fans are keen on
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: him being, you know, part of the movement, part of
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: the project over there, so, you know, that's another positive thing,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: and you know, some of the additions, some of the subtractions,
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: but again, it's, it's been, you know, what they've lost,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: they've kind of gained and if not better. So I, it's,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: they're going to be a tough, tough team to beat, unfortunately.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: And at the end of it, in my opinion, Johnny,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: and again, I think you can agree it's, it's theirs
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: to lose. And if they lose, it's because they're going
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: to shoot themselves in the foot. Maybe they take one
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: of the other competitions more seriously. They kind of ease
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: off the gas in Serie A. I don't know. But
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: that's kind of how I would, how I would see it, Johnny.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know if, if you agree or disagree there,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: but that's what I see.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: I mean, the, what I'm arguing is the fact that
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: they might be spreading themselves too thin.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Um, they do have a roster. They do have the
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: best roster.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: I mean, like they did it last year, but like
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: I said, I argued for Napoli this year because Napoli
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: last year just had those injuries.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Now, obviously Napoli's roster is not as deep as Inter.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: So if the injuries do happen again, we're getting another
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: Inter Scudetto. However, um, You know how I used to
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: always say, like, okay, like, for them, like, Juve would
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: win the Scudetti for, like, nine years in a row.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: They won the Scudetti nine years in a row. They're like,
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: for them, it's not the Scudetto anymore. It's about winning
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: the Champions League.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: I feel like Inter's trying to shift that mentality.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: If they do it or not, it's up to them.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: But I think that you said it perfectly. It's Inter's
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: Scudetto to lose. I picked Lautaro Martinez as the– as
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: the Capocannoni pick for my predictions because I just feel
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: like as if they're going to continue. Even though they
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: didn't win the World Cup, he's fresh from a good
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: run with Argentina coming on as a late sub. Definitely
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: getting more confident. Definitely giving inter-ideas about what to do
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: with him.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: It's still a good roster. Is it Champions League worthy?
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: I don't think so at all.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: I don't think they actually make that Champions League push,
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: but they are focusing on it. But I feel like
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: this is one of those years for them where they're
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: going to be strong contenders in all three, but because
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: they're trying to go for all three, it all crumbles apart.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: Maybe they might win the Coppa Italia.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Who knows? We saw that two years ago, right? Was
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: it two years ago when Napoli won? Yeah. They were
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: in the final of all three? where they were close
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: to the... They had gone so far in all three competitions.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: We were talking... Well, we weren't talking, but the talk was,
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: you know, triplete, triplete, triplete, and then they lost them all.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: It was last... Not this year, the year before. The
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: year before, two years, yeah.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Two seasons ago.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: When they lost Champions League final, that was the one
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: where they lost.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: That was the PSG one, right? The 5-0?
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the 5-0.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: And then last match day, they lost.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Well, that's what they lost to Napoli.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: It wasn't the last match day, though.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: No, but I think Napoli.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: No, it was the last match day because I remember watching...
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: the game I don't know it was the last match
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: day that they lost to Napoli.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: And then but that one was they bounced out too
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: they no I think they did they win the Coppa Italia.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: That year no no no okay did they no no
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: two years ago No, two years ago was Bologna, right?
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: Fact check, please.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I think it was Bologna.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Bologna beat Milan, right?
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Two years ago.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: In 2025. 24, no? Because last season was... Inter won
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: in last season.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Didn't Juve win in 24?
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: No. Well, 24-25. Because 25-26, it was Inter. 24-25, it
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: was Bologna. They beat Milan in the final, no? Let
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: me look this up. You would think we would remember
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: only two seasons.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, Milan enter on this past year in 25
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: was Bologna.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Exactly. That's what I mean. Two seasons ago. I say 24,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: but like I'm saying in years, but two seasons ago, 24,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: 25 season. Bologna be Milan, last season Inter be Lazio, right? Exactly.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: So that 24-25 campaign is what I'm referring to as.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: everybody was saying, you know, the treble, the treble, we
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: had Peter, I from my FTV. If you guys remember, Oh,
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: maybe the treble can, can, can be a possibility. We
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but it's, it's a,
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: it's a possibility. And they shot the better in all
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: three competitions. So to Johnny's point, I think that's, I could,
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I could echo to that point as well, you know,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: two years, two seasons, you know, down the line. So yeah,
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: if that's your point, Johnny, that's where I'm understanding.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: No, but like, that's what I'm saying.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: Like, and they might be spreading themselves too thin again,
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: and then it just all falls apart. Um, But don't forget,
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: when Napoli won that Scudetto, I think that was a– no,
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: they were still playing.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: In Champions League that year.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: It was just a bout out early.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: It was the year before that where it was just
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: like a once-a-week Napoli.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the 23. Yeah. Yeah.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: One last team I want to talk about.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Probably a team that, you know, we kind of bashed
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: all summer, you know, more in our group chats, Lazio.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: there's a team that has so many problems between Lotito
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: and fans and season tickets going down and, you know,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Gattuso coming in and, you know, them having a fairly
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: quiet transfer summer. And then they bring in Fratezzi and
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: he's the one who scores the goal this week against Bologna.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: I know it's one game.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: I know it's one game.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: But, you know, you couldn't have asked for a better
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: start for Lazio, even if they, you know, have the
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: season that maybe everyone's expecting them. Guys, when we were
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: doing the predictions, I almost put them to go to relegation,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: but I don't think they're that bad, right? But, you know,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: just to kind of shut up the critics and get
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: that win is huge. Look, I think they're going to
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: be a mid-table team. I don't think they're going to
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: play in Europe next season. But regardless, I'm going to
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: say it was an upset against a team like Bologna,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: and it was an important win. Were you guys surprised
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: at all by the win for Lazio?
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Surprised? I don't know, because Bologna doesn't look too good either,
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: if I'm honest.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: New coach, too?
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: New coach, Tedesco. They went from Italiano to Tedesco.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: They're going to take Chinesi.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Fuck, that would be a movie. That would
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: be a movie. If they go to Chinesi, fuck, that
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: would be a movie. But, you know, joking aside with
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: the race cards here, but.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: They don't look too good either, if I'm honest. Losing Kaslo,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: like I said earlier, to Roma. Bringing in Dovbik, who, again,
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: for me, doesn't move the needle too much. Some additions,
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: some distractions on that team. I think still a decent squad,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: but they didn't look good, in my opinion. Surprised, I
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: would say... I don't know about surprised, but just like...
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: I thought it would just be like a draw, if
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: I'm honest. I thought it would be like either a
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: 0-0 or a 1-1 draw. They end up getting the win.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Was I surprised it was Fratezzi? No. It seemed like
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: he's a man on a mission. He has something to prove.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: The jump when he jumped from Sassuolo to Inter, I
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: don't think panned out. With the whole body of work
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: at Inter, I don't think it panned out the way
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: he would have wanted to, especially at the later stages
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: of his stint there. At the beginning, it looked like
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: there were some signs, but then it kind of tailed off,
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: just him down the pecking order and him just not
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: being utilized maybe correctly. I think Fretes, I can see
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: him getting double-digit goals from midfield. I'll say 10. If not,
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: I would say at the worst, I think maybe 8.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Between 8 to 10, I think he can get. They're
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: going to need it because this team looks a bit suspect.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: They did bring in Pinamonti. Is it Pinamonti? Yeah, Pinamonti today.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: I think I had seen. We got the here we
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: go from Fabrizio Romano. So it seems like it's all
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: good to go. I think that's an interesting one. I
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: think they need a forward for sure, like a true striker.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: I know they have Dia and they have Zaccani up there,
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: and he's accent and stuff of that nature.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: But.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: I think Pinamonte is a good maybe reference point up top.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: I think they brought another defender, Soutolo, I think if
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, to shore up that defense. But again,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: for me, I'm a sucker for Gattuso. I know he's
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: had all the hate. I love Gattuso. He's a Milan legend.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: For me, it's hard to really root against him. He
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: reps the South hard, which we all love. Is he
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: a good manager? Is he a good coach? That could
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: be discussed. That could be argued. most would say probably not.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: And I would maybe agree that he's probably not the
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: top tier manager that he could be. But, you know,
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: to bring some sort of stability to this upside down Lazio,
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: I think maybe he's the guy. I don't know. It's
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: going to be hard to tell. And again, with the
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: fan situation, we speak to our boy Biagio a lot and,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: it seems like it's the only way to kind of
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: get at, get at Lotito, right? Is to, to punish him,
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: you know, by not, you know, renewing the season tickets,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: not being at the stadium, not, you know, showing the
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: support for the club, which is, which is hard because
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: as a fan, I could just imagine, you know, you
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: want to be at the stadium, you want to be
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: behind the team and you're, you're kind of, your, your
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: owner is stubborn and doesn't want to do this, doesn't
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: want to do that. And it's, it's, it's kind of
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: a mess, but listen, if, if they can fight, I don't,
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: The relegation talks, like, maybe, like, two weeks ago or
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: maybe even a week or two ago, I think were
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: kind of really heavy, like, really high. I don't know.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: They'll probably finish mid-table, if I'm honest. Again, I don't
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: know where you guys really visualize them, but I would
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: probably say, I don't know, 10th, maybe, between. I think maybe, like,
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: as high as, like, maybe, like, between, like, 9 and 12, 13,
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: I probably can see them. you know, like around there,
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: that would probably be their gauge, in my opinion. I
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: don't know about you guys, but that's kind of where
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: I would see them.
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: For Lazio?
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: For Lazio. For me, like, it's a mess of a situation.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: So for me, 10th, it kind of meets in the middle.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: You know, we'll call it even and they finish 10th.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: That's kind of, Because everybody's saying, oh, relegation. No. Like,
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: if they go down to relegation, they're going to pull, like,
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: a potential Fiorentina for last season. It's possible. We saw it.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: But I don't know, man. Like, I think now with,
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: you know, the first win for Atesi, you know, the
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: vibes are high. And I don't know. I would say
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: maybe about 10th, maybe.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: I would say eight to nine.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: They finished ninth last year.
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: The roster screams eight to ninth place.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Like, it's not.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: It's not– but, like, I'm not insulting.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: Lots of– No, but they're in that mix. They're in
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: that mix with who? Udinese, Torino, Sassuolo, those typical mid-table teams.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: They're not a terrible team, but, like, they're not a
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: team that's going to, you know, squeeze into the top seven.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: They can fight for.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: It, but I don't see how– you know, like, let's
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: look at our top seven predictions, right?
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: Like, I don't think– Perfect segue.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like– I'm just saying they don't beat Napoli.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: They don't beat Inter. They don't beat Juve. They don't
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: beat Roma. They don't beat Milan. That's five already.
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: And then the two suspects that they can probably compete
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: against at best is Como and Atalanta. But I would
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: still say Como and Atalanta have a better structure than
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: what Lazio currently has.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: That's why I say tenth. I say tenth.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Even if you look at last year's standings and, you know,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: they finished ninth, you know, you had Bologna right above,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: you had Udinese right below, Sassuolo right below. It's like,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: are Udinese and Sassuolo really good enough to pass them?
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: You know, I do think Bologna is maybe just a
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: step ahead of Lazio, but not significantly different.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: They're not the Bologna that made Champions League.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Even, you know, even if you look at a team
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: like Torino, it finished nine points behind Lazio last season.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're there. Look, I think all this.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Relegation talk against Lazio is just because where they are. Look,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: this is a team that six, seven years ago was
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: in Champions League, right? They competed for the Scudetto. If
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: there's no COVID, they might win the Scudetto straight up.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Coppa Italia finals. Coppa Italia winners in the past.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Just last year. Just last year.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, they got embarrassed, but still, yeah, they made it.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: They're still a good team. It's just there's not a
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: European-level team.
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: That's all it is. Nothing more to it.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: And mid-table, they're going to get a good amount of wins.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: They're going to beat some bigger teams.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: But that's it.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Nothing spectacular.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: If teams are looking at them and say it's a
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: walk in the park, I think that's where you're going
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: to go wrong as an opposition team. But again, for me,
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: they don't move the needle. That's clear. Again, it pains
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: us to say it because some of our Watsiawi friends,
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: but we have to be real with this, guys. They're
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: going to have to prove every Serie A fan, besides
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: their own, wrong for them to really be at a
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: point where there would be like, wow, you know, we
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: predicted them, you know, eight, nine, 10, 11 spot. And
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: they finish, you know, in a, in a European position
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: and European position in the top seven. That would be,
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: you know, shocking the world. Again, to Johnny's point in, in,
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: in our top, in our top predictions there. Again, I,
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: I totally agree. I don't see them surpassing any of
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: the teams that we, that we mentioned. And again, I,
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: Maybe we can probably get into it now if that's
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: what we're kind of just to put it out there.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we could do it quickly before wrapping it up. Here,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: let me just pull it up. Look, I'll just say mine.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: What would you say, Aaron?
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, yeah, Inter, Napoli, Roma, Juve.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I guess, look, maybe a bit of bias throwing in Juve,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: but three other teams, the three teams that finished top
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: four last year, I'm only swapping Juve with, with Como
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: and then Milan, Como and Atalanta. But I do feel
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: like a lot of this is interchangeable. Like Juve could
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: finish seventh. Atalanta could finish fourth. Even Roma, we praise them,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: but maybe the added pressure with champions, like maybe they're
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: going to finish fifth or sixth. So I, you know,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: for me, Inter Napoli, I wouldn't say it's a lock
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: as a top two, anything could happen.
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: But, for me, they're above everyone else. Whereas, you know,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: between Roma, Juve, Milan, Como and Atalanta, it's a bit
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: more open. You know, maybe Roma is just kind of
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: in between, you know, Inter, Napoli and the other four teams.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: But even Como, we've seen this before, kind of saw
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: it with Bologna.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I know Como is a bit different story because they
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: have the money, they have the players, they have Nico Paz.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: But we'll see if they could continue their momentum. I
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: know they just squeaked into the top four last year.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: So we'll see if they could, you know, play in
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: the Champions League, play that twice a week and continue
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: their success in the city.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: If not, you know, Juve and Milan are right there
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: to kind of pounce. Look, even Atalanta.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I know Sadie's a coach that's kind of
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: bounced all over the place recently. But, you know, if
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: he goes in and has his players that play his style,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I think what he's got there in Atalanta, I think
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: they could succeed with him. So they might be a
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: bit underrated. I know I have them seventh, but I
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the season
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: they make Champions League. You know, relegation, Venezia, Lecce, Monza.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: So we usually see one or two teams that just
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: came up, go back down. You know, I'm saying both
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Venezia and Monza are the ones that are going to
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: go back down. So Frosinone is going to stay up
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: and Lecce is just a team that, you know, they
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: stayed up last season, but I don't know if they
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: have enough to stay up again. Capocannoniere, I did say
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Malin and you know, you know, guys, We do have
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: fun with first coach fired.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: I did put Guattuso. So we had a good start.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: I did put Guattuso.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: I think it still stands because of everything that's happening
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: in Lazio.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: But look, last year it was.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: Mata, right?
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: First coach fired.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: And so anything could happen at any time with these coaches.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: Johnny, I'll let you go first.
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: I had no idea this year. I'm like, you know what?
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Fucking Aquilani.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: Johnny went fucking left this season.
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: I really don't know because it's kind of hard because
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: all the teams that have their coaches are basically ones
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: that could meet their expectations. There's a team where it's like,
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know which team I can pick. I don't
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: think Genoa is going to let go of I don't
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: think Gattuso leaves early at Lazio. I think because of
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: financial reasons, Gattuso stays right until the end because they
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: can't afford to fire him, pay him off for this year,
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: and then pay for another coach. That's the only reason why.
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: I was like, fuck it. Throw a fucking dart. Let's
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: hope it sticks. I say Aquilani.
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: I wish I could tell the listeners a very logical
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: and sound reason as to why I went Aquilani, but
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: I don't have any. He's quote-unquote young, so as a
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: young manager, they always are the ones that are easier
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: to let go because they're not going to really fight
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: back or punch back.
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: Alberto Aquilani.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: So your top seven is?
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: I brought it in the chat. Let me just pull
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: that up.
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: Napoli, Inter, Juve, Roma, Milano, Como, Atalanta. fair enough and
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: my relegation are we talking about the relegation teams.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah relegation you put i forget who was it and
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: capo canaria you put uh yeah right yeah um yeah
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: so for me i had and again people are gonna
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: listen to this they'll be like oh these guys they
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: waited after match day one you know fuck that we're
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: still putting it out there um For me, I put, again,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Inter first. Again, like I said earlier, theirs to lose,
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: strongest team, best team in Serie A until they hopefully fall.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: But no, joking aside, I think it's theirs to lose
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: and they finish first. Again, I had said earlier on
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: in the episode, I put it down in the chat,
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: in our chat, I put Roma second. Again, I think
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: they'll be the surprise team, you know, hopefully this season.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, I would love for it to be Milan,
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: but I think Roma will be competitive for those top
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: four spots. I put them second. I have Napoli third,
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: just because I think they're, again, like I kind of
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: mentioned earlier, just, you know, is it going to be enough?
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: We'll see. Because, again, one or two, maybe even three
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: injuries like we saw last season with the injury plague.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: they're down in the dumps again because I don't think
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: they have the bench to do it. But it remains
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: to be seen for me, so I have them in third.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: I have Milan in fourth. I think the vibes have changed.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: I think they spent money, which, again, I didn't realize
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: that they were going to do it this way. They
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: spent some big money. There's no looking other ways to
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: say it. And it seems like they're going to be
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: still active, you know, until the Mercato, you know, wraps
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: up here in this, like, final week or so. So,
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: you know, the big money move of Gonzalo Ramos, I think,
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: has to pay off. I think if he can't muster
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: up more than what Santi Jimenez and Nicolas Foucault did
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: last season with one combined goal, I think we have
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: a major fucking problem. So, you know, prayers and hopes
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: up for, uh, Gonzalo Ramos to, to, to provide some,
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: some goals from you on. And I think he will, uh, it's,
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: it's a guy who I'm room wanted. He got him
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: big money move breaks. He wants transfer record, uh, which
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: is crazy to me, but, um, he's going to have
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: to provide. And I think he provides enough goals and
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: that offense does enough, uh, to, to be able to, uh, to,
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: to finish forth there. Uh, also bringing in, you know,
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: a guy like Mario Hila, Diego Marrera, other, other names. So, um,
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: They finish fourth. I have Juve finishing fifth. And again,
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: for me, the fifth, sixth is interchangeable. Maybe you could
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: even probably throw in the fourth spot. It's probably interchangeable.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: We've been seeing this as a trend these last few seasons, guys.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: You know, those four, five, six teams, all interchangeable, all what, one, two,
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: maybe three points difference come the end of the season.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: I have Juve in fifth, Como in sixth. I was
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: almost thinking about even flipping that, if I'm honest. it's
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: a tough one for me because again, Juve is going
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: to have to, have to really, you know, show that they're,
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: that they're capable of, of being a top four team. Uh, Como,
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: I think drops out of the top four after last
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: season successes, not in a real negative way. I just
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: think the, the competition around will probably wake up, um,
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: and see them finishing in again, either fifth or sixth.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: I put them in sixth in, in the chat. Um,
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: But I do think if they are able to pull
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: off this Moise Keane transfer close to the closing moments
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: of the Mercato, I think that will be a big
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: upgrade for them. And I think he can score a
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: lot of goals for Como if he does make the move.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: It seems like it's almost a matter of time, especially
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: with how things are going down with Fiorentina. He didn't play,
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: he didn't miss practice, they've been fining him, he wants out, so...
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: It's been an ugly exit at Fiorentina for him. So
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: hopefully he goes to Colen and succeeds there. So I
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: have them in sixth. And I have Fiorentina. I know
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: the first match day is going to look bad on this.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: I put Fiorentina in seventh. I think, again, that's interchangeable
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: with a team like Atalanta. The moves that they've made,
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: I would hope that they can put those pieces together.
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: They made a lot of moves. It's Ulay, Mastantuono, Atta,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: Pellegrino from Padma as another forward. I'm missing names for
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: sure in there, but I think if they can, you know,
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: new coach, I know Grosso, you know, new coach, right.
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: You know, had some, had some decent success at Sassuolo
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: last season. If he can translate a bit of that
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: and continuity with this team after a disgusting first four
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: nil loss to Roma, I think they can maybe get
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: back to their coveted, coveted conference league position. They love
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: that competition. It seems like, so I would say they
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: have maybe just enough at the end to, to, to,
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: to get there again, again, to Nick's point, like he
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: said earlier, interchangeable. A lot of these positions, uh, I
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: think Atalanta would be the next team up there, uh, to,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: to kind of finish that off the top seven. But
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: I put Fiorentina, uh, we'll see what happens for relegation. Honestly, guys,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: the three teams that came up are the three teams
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: going down. None of them kind of, I don't know,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: maybe I'm, I'm probably missing something there, but none of
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: them kind of scream. I was thinking about keeping Venezia
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: up and maybe bringing down, you know, another one of the, uh,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: Serie A teams, uh, from last season. But again, I
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: don't know, like all of them coming up, don't really,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: you know, move the needle for me. I don't know,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: like nothing like screams out to me that, you know,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: they're going to have enough to survive. I think Venezia
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: probably has maybe the best chance, um, to do so.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: They have, you know, some obviously recent experience in Serie A,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: Frosinone as well, they all do, but I don't know. Um, I,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: I would think that they, um, you know, has, has
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: made a name of, you know, kind of doing some, some,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: some wonders, you know, here and there. So we'll see.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: But those, the three teams that came up with the
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: three teams going down for me, a couple of kind
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: of area. I mentioned Malin as well. I think Nick
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: hit it on the head, you know, and if he
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: can replicate anything that he did last season in six
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: months time, we're in for a treat. This is a
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: 20 goal score at least for, for Roma. And if
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: my prediction of them finishing second and fighting for, uh,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: for top fours is anywhere near correct, I think they're
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: going to have to have a top goal scorer. It's
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: going to have to be Malin. That's their guy. Um,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: I threw in, I threw in, uh, you know, uh,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: Keane with, if he goes to Como, cause I think
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: if he goes to Como under Fabregas, he can do
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: a lot of work. And I would like to see
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: Pio supposed to go up there on the charts as well.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: That would be another name that I would like to
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: see up there. Um, just as an Italian national team fan, um,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: And then first manager sacked. I think I said it
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: last season. I'm sticking with it again. Again, this guy,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know, man. Like, he has a job. How?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know. The guy sucks. For me, Ivan Juric. Like,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: it's like, I think, what was it? When he was
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: at Torino? What was it? Where he had, like, those
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: moments and, you know, positivity. Oh, my God. Ever since then,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Like, it's like pulling teeth with this guy. Like,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: he just sucks. Like, he has, like, he's so, like, antiga. Like, there's, like, no...
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: positivity with this guy. I don't know. He brings up Monza.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: He comes to newly promoted Monza. Again, mistake, in my opinion.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: I think they go right back down. He's the first
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: manager fired. Ivan Juric, for me, again, it's how he
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: has a job in Serie A these days is beyond me.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: So I'll say that, but we'll see. Hopefully, I would
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: like to see Monza do well, but if they have
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: Juric at the helm, for me, it's straight back down
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: to Serie B.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, I feel like you could put, uh, you
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: at itch as a, that coach prediction every year, but, uh, yeah,
• 1:03:01
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• 1:03:03
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• 1:03:13
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• 1:03:16
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• 1:03:19
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• 1:03:24
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• 1:03:29
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• 1:03:33
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