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Inter-Barcelona Historic UCL Semi-Final - Reaction - Ep. 264 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: An Instant Classic in the Champions League semifinal between BARSA
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  Speaker 1: and Inter Uh. Instant Classic episode this week on the
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  Speaker 1: couch of guys Adriano and Johnny Nicholas. Uh took a
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  Speaker 1: pause last week, so we're back on the three of
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  Speaker 1: us this week. Guys, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Doing pretty good? Good? Uh? Doing very good?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Nick, tell tell the world more better than good,
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  Speaker 3: more bad, more better.
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  Speaker 1: I got engaged over the weekend, so that's uh, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's no more couchro for me, no more podcast. No
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  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I'll still be here, guys, don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: I'll still be here.
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  Speaker 1: I got engaged to the podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I know, very exciting, very exciting moments
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  Speaker 1: for me personally. But uh, I had to watch maybe
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  Speaker 1: a bit less couch on Sunday. Didn't get to watch
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  Speaker 1: You A game. I was on my parents, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having launched, you know, with all that happening. But I
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  Speaker 1: didn't miss much with You A game. Honestly, another one one.
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  Speaker 1: It's a story of the season. Let's get that out
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  Speaker 1: of the way. We're gonna talk, you know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk nap, We're gonna talk about we're gonna talk to
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  Speaker 1: me lat and we're gonna talk into you eight. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's uh, it's it's how she goes this season?
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  Speaker 1: Another one one? But uh yeah, what three weeks left
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  Speaker 1: in the season, guys. But I think the story is
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  Speaker 1: the Champions League. As we just said before, we move
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  Speaker 1: on for us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook YouTube about
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  Speaker 1: the count of guys who could listen to us on
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  Speaker 1: all your favorite podcasting platforms. But big week for inter fans.
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  Speaker 1: The already first leg was three through. We didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that because we didn't do we didn't
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  Speaker 1: do the of the podcast last week three three crazy
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  Speaker 1: first leg. I already forgot you know what happened. And
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  Speaker 1: then come into this one, inter intertakes takes a lead
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  Speaker 1: early on. Oh sorry, I pulled up the wrong game.
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  Speaker 1: Uh they take the take the lead early on, going
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  Speaker 1: to half up to nothing, and then Barca storms back
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  Speaker 1: three straight goals and then at Cherby his first ever
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  Speaker 1: European goal in a ninety third minute, followed by Fortasi.
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  Speaker 1: Fortasi seems like he only scores big goals. Can you
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  Speaker 1: name just a non important goal that Fertasia scored? Like
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  Speaker 1: just that, you know, two nothing goal against Letch. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this guy only scores big goals apparently, but imagine, imagine
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  Speaker 1: being an inter fan. The stress level going through this game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely absurd.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we spoke to Peter what wasn't on Nick
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  Speaker 4: two weeks ago, I believe, Yeah, you know, and unfortunately
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  Speaker 4: at that point in time we were still talking about treble.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately for inter fans, that's not going to be the
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  Speaker 4: case this year. But you know, you're now in a
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  Speaker 4: Champions League final with with a chance to to get
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  Speaker 4: your hands on a trophy. There the school out, the
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  Speaker 4: race is is going to go down to the little
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  Speaker 4: wire like we predicted, and you know there are three
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  Speaker 4: point gap with Napoli. They have a chance to get
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  Speaker 4: their hands on silverware in the city as well.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, just crazy, I mean, unfortunate. None of us
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  Speaker 2: are Eter fans, so for us it doesn't really really matter.
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  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 4: it's been a crazy season, Like you said, Nick, instant classic,
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  Speaker 4: you know, two point oher with Barsa, right all the
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  Speaker 4: way back to twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Ten the rematch.
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  Speaker 4: There though a little bit of nostalgic vibes but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just overall on the two leggs crazy. You know what
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  Speaker 4: was it thirteen goals scored you said, combined with the
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  Speaker 4: two eggs. It's just you couldn't keep your eyes off
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  Speaker 4: this matchup. It was just as simple as that. And Fret,
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  Speaker 4: like you said, Nick, just this guy always comes and
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  Speaker 4: scores the last minute.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know he did it with in the Bayern matchup.
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  Speaker 4: If you guys remember at the end, he's doing it
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  Speaker 4: again now in this matchup with against Barsa and he
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  Speaker 4: sends along with the charity, sends.
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  Speaker 2: His his team to uh you know, to the Champions
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  Speaker 2: League final, like it or not.
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  Speaker 4: So uh that's you know, I guess that speaks credit
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  Speaker 4: to we said at Time West Times on the podcast
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  Speaker 4: we spoke about it with a bit with with Peter
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  Speaker 4: from i F t V two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: You know the depth we I mean personally we think
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  Speaker 2: it's there.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe not in terms of pure quality you know, across
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  Speaker 4: the board, but you know, best team in Saidiya. It's
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  Speaker 4: it's clear even though they are shailing up were currently
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  Speaker 4: still I would say that the best team in Sadiyah
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  Speaker 4: and you know they're they're able to do it. They're
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  Speaker 4: big they're big players, showed up when it mattered. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, their defense is has has walked down U.
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  Speaker 4: You know, multiple opponents throughout this Champions League campaign. Since
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  Speaker 4: we're on the topic of Champions League, and again a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the credit goes to, uh to Semonian Zagi
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  Speaker 4: or Lemoni and Zagie, whatever you want to call him.
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  Speaker 4: I know I've been a critic of his and I
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  Speaker 4: know a lot of you know, other other fans have
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  Speaker 4: been critics of of Izagie. But you're kind of have
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  Speaker 4: to put your hands up and say, you know what
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  Speaker 4: he's He's definitely turned the page of of of the
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  Speaker 4: type of manager that he's that he is currently and uh,
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  Speaker 4: he's he's proven into the world.
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know, it's it's there's you know.
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  Speaker 4: Speaks volumes being able to get to the Champions League,
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  Speaker 4: you know twice in the in the.
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  Speaker 2: Last three seasons.
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  Speaker 4: You know that that that speaks credit to from top
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  Speaker 4: to bottom, upper management all the way down to you know,
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  Speaker 4: the water boy and the kick guy. So unfortunately interns
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  Speaker 4: a well oiled machine. But at the same time, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's good for them and uh,
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  Speaker 4: another thing talking point that you mentioned before, what Johnny
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  Speaker 4: go here is at chat Toby.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just incredible. Thirty seven years old.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody, if probably by now knows the knows his journey,
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  Speaker 4: the story, his ups and downs, his obstacles that he
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  Speaker 4: had to face in his not only in his career,
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  Speaker 4: but in his personal life as well.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the depression, the alcohol at the beginning of
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  Speaker 4: his of his of his career, foarding through teams, getting
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  Speaker 4: to winterre batally cancer twice and beating it and now
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  Speaker 4: finally getting you know, a rewarding moment in the champions
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  Speaker 4: again in his first several goal in the European competition.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's just that's that's all that hard work
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  Speaker 4: that finally pays off. You know, he's also a European,
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  Speaker 4: a euro champion as well with Italy Scudetto champion, right,
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  Speaker 4: all the all those accolades. But you know, just a
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  Speaker 4: true warrior, uh, you know, last of a dying breed.
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  Speaker 2: Right we walk back at the days.
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  Speaker 4: Of you know, the killis of the world and and
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  Speaker 4: and those those hard nose uh you know Italian defenders.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Charity kind of is the last of that
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  Speaker 4: dying breed. So again just a shop to him. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I love him or hate him, it's you
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  Speaker 4: can you can't hate you know, the the journey and
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  Speaker 4: the grind and the warrior that he is, so uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, hots off to him and obviously to Winter
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  Speaker 4: to get to the Champions League final.
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  Speaker 1: Uh before Jenny goes for Tess's seven goals season for
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  Speaker 1: Inter five our game winners.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some some aren't like, you know, not like
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  Speaker 1: yesterday it was a tie game and and it was
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  Speaker 1: the last goal of the game. Obviously not like that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, there's one goal that he scored against
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  Speaker 1: leg He scored in six minute, so he did score
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  Speaker 1: against Lea and they won four nothing but technically a
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  Speaker 1: game winner still regardless five outus having that's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, uh yeah, I think, honestly speaking, it's just more
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  Speaker 3: about like emphasis and the fact that he's getting a
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  Speaker 3: lot of this out of his own squad by playing
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  Speaker 3: in three intense or three two out of the three
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  Speaker 3: are super intense competitions, and he's not really rotating the men.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people need to realize that the majority
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  Speaker 3: of those games are played by more or less the
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  Speaker 3: same eleven players. So the fact that they're still performing
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  Speaker 3: at these levels and they're still getting it done, you know,
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  Speaker 3: is a big credit to not only Zaggy but to
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  Speaker 3: the players themselves that they're buying in and they really
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  Speaker 3: want to find the successful Inter. I think that that
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  Speaker 3: we need to underline that fact. Playing against this Barcelona
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  Speaker 3: squad is not an easy time and it's an exhausting one,
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  Speaker 3: and these guys are you know, they're battle worn right now.
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  Speaker 3: So I wouldn't be surprised for them if they're if
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  Speaker 3: they're really like digging deep into their well of like
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  Speaker 3: you know, like energy that they have left in order
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  Speaker 3: to get across the finishing line. And if interfines whatever
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  Speaker 3: form of success they do find this season, because the
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  Speaker 3: squdetto race is only a three point different so nothing's
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  Speaker 3: over till it's over. And you know, they're one game
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  Speaker 3: will win, one game away from winning the fourth Champions
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  Speaker 3: League title, you know, like it's you know, like it's
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  Speaker 3: they're still like we have to wait till it's all
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  Speaker 3: said and done. But if they do find it that
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  Speaker 3: that kind of success, we need to talk about these
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  Speaker 3: guys really like getting there. I don't think anybody really
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  Speaker 3: should be like oh, you know they had a free
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  Speaker 3: ride to the championship. Nah, I don't think so. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's uh you could tell by the squad from how
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  Speaker 3: they play that, uh, they're all getting involved, they're all
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  Speaker 3: for that success. Now, do you still call the season
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  Speaker 3: of success without any champions league title or without a
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  Speaker 3: squideto you know what I mean? It's it's tough because yes,
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  Speaker 3: you always want to win a champion but the fact
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  Speaker 3: that not only are you in the finals of the
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  Speaker 3: biggest European competition, but you're also competing for your league
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  Speaker 3: title at the same time. You know, that definitely needs
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  Speaker 3: to be like emphasized. That really does need to be emphasized.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not being to scoff at and it shows
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  Speaker 3: the strength of the squad. I think I saw like
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  Speaker 3: some kind of weird stat not even like top thirty
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  Speaker 3: into or top twenty five in terms of wage bills
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  Speaker 3: in Europe. Right now, I can't remember what the numbers
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  Speaker 3: were in the graphic. I saw it early this morning
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  Speaker 3: because everyone's talking about like how much they cut to
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  Speaker 3: get to get what their roster is right now, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, sure that at the end, at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, do you do have to mention like
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  Speaker 3: you have you have to try to find success with
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  Speaker 3: what you have. So it's always a matter of circumstance.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, sometimes it goes to show that doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 3: like just you can't buy your way to the championship.
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  Speaker 3: But it's funny though, because number one on that list
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  Speaker 3: in terms of wage bills was PSG. I look what
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  Speaker 3: they are too. Now they're in the finals as well,
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know, it's hard to tell. It's like
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  Speaker 3: for it's like, can you win buy your pay your
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  Speaker 3: way to the championship or can you get used the
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  Speaker 3: power of friendship to the championship?
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  Speaker 1: You know, like that or the power in zagi uh
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  Speaker 1: perfect transition, Jenny, because you know, obviously today PSG beat
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  Speaker 1: Arsenal two to one. They advanced three to one on
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  Speaker 1: i aggregate. You know, it's not a high scoring game,
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  Speaker 1: like obviously this inter Varsa game might not be the
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  Speaker 1: game that everyone remembers, but it was a good game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at least this game. I didn't watch the
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  Speaker 1: first league. I had the opportunity to watch the second
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  Speaker 1: league today. It was still a good game and great
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  Speaker 1: fantastic goalkeeping by Donna Uma. He was the star of
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  Speaker 1: the two leagues. You know, I know, I know Sakas
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  Speaker 1: scored late in this one. But other than that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one goal to allow one goal versus Inter, they advanced
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  Speaker 1: after allowing six, you know, and so uh donor um
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, what's interesting. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of storylines, right, But what's interesting is Hakimi
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  Speaker 1: versus his old club Cavaira and Fabrian Luiz two former
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  Speaker 1: Napoly players versus Inter. There's there's a lot of Italian
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  Speaker 1: connections Louis Enrique en Rique, former Roma coach, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Italian connections on this PSG team. So it's it's
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  Speaker 1: almost like it feels like Napoli fans might even be
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  Speaker 1: cheering for a PSG because of Ruiz, because of Cavarra.
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  Speaker 1: You know, even Dona Ruma is from is from Campagna.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know, Gianya, how do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 3: First of all, I'll tell you this, Actually I would
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  Speaker 3: rather see PSG lose because I'm tired of them coming
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  Speaker 3: along to poach the Napoli players and find success with
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: them or try to find like it goes back to Lovetz,
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  Speaker 3: it goes back to Cavai. Now it goes to Cavatatskalia,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Fabian ruiz Uh, It's it's it's I'm tired.
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  Speaker 3: I'm tired.
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  Speaker 1: Boss.
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  Speaker 3: We're not We're not PSG's farm team, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: we're not meant to develop players just for PSG to pay. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if they're willing to pay the money for
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  Speaker 3: the players, sure pay the money for the players. That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: But I still have a bitterness for back in the
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  Speaker 3: day where you know, it's like because because I honestly believe,
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  Speaker 3: and it goes back to way back to this I
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  Speaker 3: was thinking about at the end of day. It came
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  Speaker 3: back in my memories. I honestly believe Cavaney would have
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  Speaker 3: been the player to break all of Maddonna's records at Napoli,
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  Speaker 3: and he was doing it at a bet mind obviously,
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  Speaker 3: Cavaney's a nine and Maddonna was a ten, but but
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  Speaker 3: he was doing it at a way quicker pace than
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  Speaker 3: what mad Adonna did for Napoli, you know, And Cavaney
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  Speaker 3: was just working wonders for the club and it was
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  Speaker 3: like he didn't get a chance to reach that summit
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  Speaker 3: because the PSG swooping in and offering a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: salary and offering monopoly like a lot of money and
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  Speaker 3: basically forcing both the Lorentos and Cavani to be like,
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  Speaker 3: we're not gonna say no because you know, this deal
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  Speaker 3: is too good to be true, so to speak. So
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  Speaker 3: to speak, you know, like like the Lentis doesn't want
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  Speaker 3: to screw Cavani out of earning a higher salary than
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  Speaker 3: than what the Lentis could have afforded at the time,
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  Speaker 3: and it Cavanie doesn't want to screw Napoli out of
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  Speaker 3: money to help the squad get towards the next level.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's that transaction is what caused Napoli to invest
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  Speaker 3: in he Guayne mertants who and then which which he
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  Speaker 3: Gwayan eventually turned to Kuli Bali and so on and
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: so forth, and it just basically snowballed into what Napoli
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  Speaker 3: is today. So but it's still love the bitterness inside
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  Speaker 3: me because they did to Lovetsi first and they got
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  Speaker 3: Cavani and then you know, so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: So Martin goes back in the day for Roma.
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  Speaker 2: That was another one that was like yeah, the team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like they came in and swam swept, the swooped
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  Speaker 3: him up before Roma even had a chance to even
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  Speaker 3: like get more than two seasons out of the guy,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So anyways, so I actually have a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a bitterness to PSG. You know, hey, if covenants
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  Speaker 3: Keeley wins Champions League, sure, good congrats and Dona Uma
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  Speaker 3: you know, like, hey, good for you, buddy, Like you know,
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  Speaker 3: like it's that you're gonna get that, You're gonna get
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  Speaker 3: the non Italians talking about it. That's that's the way
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  Speaker 3: I would see it. You get the non Italians talking
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  Speaker 3: about it towards the Italians. Dona Ruma's already a phenomenal
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  Speaker 3: goalie because he won the Euros and we know that
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  Speaker 3: he's a good goalie. Doesn't have to play for a PSG,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have to play for Milan, doesn't have to play
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  Speaker 3: for whatever squad he's gonna end up in the next
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  Speaker 3: couple of years, because his contract's up in like two seasons.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it's in like two or three seasons.
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  Speaker 3: His contract is up. Doesn't matter where he ends up,
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  Speaker 3: but he still everyone knows he's still gonna be a
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  Speaker 3: great goalie. So he doesn't need a Champions League title
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  Speaker 3: to do that, like like Bouffon, Like do you think
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  Speaker 3: people talk shit about Buffon? Even though I never won
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  Speaker 3: a Champions League title? He won a Europa League, you
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  Speaker 3: know if with Parma.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, he was the belief for the department. Yeah they were,
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  Speaker 3: but like you want Europa League, but you know, people
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  Speaker 3: still credit Buffon has being the greatest goalie of all time.
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  Speaker 3: You know, without a Champions League idol, he has his
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  Speaker 3: a World Cup title besides the Europa League. So say,
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  Speaker 3: I think the same thing. We don't want to say
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna be great of all time, But what I'm
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  Speaker 3: saying is that people know he's great without it. That's
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  Speaker 3: what I'm trying to say. So me, it's like cool
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  Speaker 3: you win it, fantastic you don't win it. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: gonna cry about it. I personally don't want to see PSG.
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  Speaker 3: It's more about the association of PSG. I don't want
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: them to have any success. That's why I was super
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: happy went back in the day. Were you there AG
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  Speaker 3: when we're watching the Buyern ps Buyern PSG final at
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Nick's house? Yeah yeah in the back yard, yeah, in
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: the backyard, yeah, yeah, like early early pandemic.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, And obviously we're hoping for Davies to
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  Speaker 5: win the buyer, but I was also hoping to be
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  Speaker 5: away because I don't want PSG to win it because I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't because I don't like when teams trying to buy
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: their way to the top end. This is another example.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: But to be fair, to be fair, just a no.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: All I was gonna say is I think it's safe
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: to say how me and Indury feel as Milan and Vick.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think we want to see inter yeah the champions,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah no, I I I Nick almost pretty much took
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the words out of my mouth.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: You know, I could give them them the credit, We
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: can say what the facts are, but at the end,
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: I don't want to see them raise the raise the trophy. Right,
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: It's just it's it's the rival fan in in us.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: I think it's only normal any any any fan like us,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: what would understand, Like, I don't think our interdec friends
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: will want you there, Milan to to to raise another trophy, right,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: So it's it's only normal.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: But again, but that's that's perfectly normal though absolutely I
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: don't have any rivalry here, yeah, so to speak, So
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: you know, that's that's it is where it is.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, the respect is always going to be there
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: for sure, no matter what the banter is. The banter
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: it's it's it's friendly fire, it's it's it's why we
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: have these these friendships and these rivalries, you.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Know, amongst amongst the rival fans. So but again, do
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: they do they deserve to be there? Do they do? They?
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Did?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: They play amazing? Absolutely?
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I mean it's the best team in said. Yeah, we've
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: you know, said it timeless times on the show. Uh
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: you know, you know, yes to all those questions, right,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: So it's uh, I think it's gonna be an interesting final.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: The difference with this PHG team compared to teams in
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: the past, like it's it's it's not the same, Like
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: they couldn't get it done with the best player in
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: the world, uh in messy right, and and that group
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: of players the name marks of the world. They when
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: now when you want to say they're really buying their way,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: they were really, you know, obviously weighing down some crazy
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: come some crazy funds for for for their team. I
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: don't want to say that they're there. They haven't poured
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: money into this squad currently, but it's almost like night
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: and day.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Uh compared to what they what they had. Uh, they
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: have a lot of great young players, you know.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Uh, Vitima is incredible. Man Is is incredible as well.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Duet again, crazy Varscalia. We we saw him and said, yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: It's just these players are are young. They're good. You know,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: their emory in the in.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: The midfield too, right, they have they have and I'm
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: probably missing many more, but.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: They have a good they have a good young core
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: as well. And you know what.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: I want A meon fans that I don't know, still
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: fucking salty with this done Uma stuff.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Again, I don't get it. It's over.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: We were able to lose don A Ruma and get
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Mike Mania as a quick replacement, and I don't think
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: we've looked back since. I know fans are gonna always
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: remain salty, but I think it's enough. I think we've
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: got to give it up. Meon fans like it's it's
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: it's over. Uh, the same meon fans that that that
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: boy him and that cursed him out and that you know,
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: I hate don Aaruma cheer for him after the national team.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: So what what are we doing here? Do I wish
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: he couldn't raise a was it do?
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: I wish he could have raised a champions Hig trophy
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: with Milan. Absolutely, Unfortunately that's not the case. I don't
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: know if that will ever be the case. We'll have
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: to see. Only time will tell maybe, But you know,
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I think he, if if anybody else deserves it on
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: that squad that we kind of have a bit of
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: more of an attachment to.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: It's don Auma.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Uh, it's He's he's had an incredible campaign, not only
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: the penalty saved, just the time we saves.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I think it was one of the first shots on
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: goal today, got down low the real fast off of
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: a crazy shot just outside the box or just inside
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: the inside the box. But I forget who the player was,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: but a rocket of a shot going down low, he
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: got there real quick.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: It's it's these incredible saves that he's able to make
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: and you know, win or lose again. I agree with Johnny,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I don't think, uh, you know, some of the best
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: players haven't.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Having raised some of the best trophies in the sport,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: right Uh.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Obviously Maldinia was able to win all kinds at the
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: club level, but never won a World Cup, right, but
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: he's still, you know, the best defender of all time.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of Ibrahimovich.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Has won everywhere he's gone, but he's was never able
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: to get his hands on the Champions League. It's it's
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: it's you know, it's not it's I don't think it's
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: the end of the world, but it's gonna be an
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: interesting final, I think obviously, I like Nix said, we
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: we we know where we're going.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Uh running O PHG.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: But uh, you know again, credit to Winter uh and
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: going back to the Frates talk earlier, this guy comes
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: on as a not only does he score late because
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: he doesn't even have much time to work with eh.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: He only comes on later on in games anyways, So
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: the start of the game winners, it makes a lot
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: of sense.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: But uh, with what.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: He's been able to work what what he's had to
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: work with in terms of game time and play time
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: and and and you know, quality minutes. You know again,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Chapo to to Flates. I think dumb Freeze, as much
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: as I can't stand him in the derby, you have
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: to you have to give credit to to dumb Freeze
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: and sohmer today uh or sorry yesterday, incredible right of
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: the match, some incredible saves.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: It just it just there's not much more to say.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: But Tony, we all we already know how good he is.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: And Taro to a stepping up as a as a captain.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Not not in the best shape, I don't think in
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: terms of I think he was having a bit of
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: a knock or he he was had some sort of
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: alien injury and you know, scores a goal and uh
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: and is able to contribute and help his team win.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be an interesting final.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Uh, the where me and Nick.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Are saying fuck good for the week, We're gonna stick
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: with PSG. But it should be it should be good,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: and we're excited to watch one that unfolds.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna close myself quickly before sorry. It was a
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: graph I found the graphic. It was from last year
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: in terms of in terms of which team has the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: highest wage bills in Europe, PSG was first with six
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty eight million euros last season, and I
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I INTERM was actually a fifteen down the list with
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: two hundred and thirty two million. But yeah, if we
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: go up, but if I look up the numbers for
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: this year, every club in Europe ranked by their wage
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: bill twenty four twenty five. PSG actually sits sixth with
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: two hundred and five million euros and enters at ten
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: with one hundred and forty four million euros.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: So it's not it's it's that's what kind of I
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: was getting to my point, I didn't know the numbers.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: I'm glad you brought them up, Johnny, but it's like
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: they were really pouring in money as you can see
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: from those numbers in the in the past. Again not
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: saying that they didn't spend money for this current squad,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: but that's a that's a big line slide six hundred
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: and fifty to what to forty?
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: You say, yeah, this is this is being reported from
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Planet Football.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know if they're reliable, but still it's Pizza Planet,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: the Pizza Planet hit.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: There's they're saying. They're saying that the wage bill according
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: comes from f FB ref, the football ref. The akapology.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Uh so PSG sits at six with two hundred and
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: five and five million euros and Inter sits at tenth
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: with one and four million.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you gotta check a cultural finance.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: So there, that's it's that's that's a good one too.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Actually, that's a good one, uh before we continue out,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: So it was actually just can't PSG season and so
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: they could actually win the treble while they still they're
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: gonna play the France the Coupe de France final the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: weekend before actually, so the Champions leagu final May thirty first.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: They played their cup final May twenty fourth, and I
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: was actually just looking at the the Coup de France.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It's insane. It it includes teams up to Division eight
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: of semi pro football. There's over five thousand teams that
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: start in the Coupe de France at the preliminary stages,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: including overseas teams with France's overseas territories. And so the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: teams that that PSG played, So in their round of
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: thirty two, they played let me just pull it up,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: they played Lens, so they actually played a first division
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: team and then sorry, that was the round of sixty four,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Round of thirty two, Spali fifth division team, Round of sixteen,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: le Mans Division team quarterfinals, Stad Brioshian fourth Division in
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the semifinals against Dunkirk Second Division. This is this is insane.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Suddenly I need to know the whole history of the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Coup de France, because imagine, imagine, uh with like all
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: your regional teams, all your like small town teams. Oh man,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: that would be insane.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Let's go, Let's go.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Versus Napoli.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, imagine the.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: One stand at Stadio over there is going to be
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: filled with the five hundred people Fanopoly because they're obviously versus,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: They're gonna go.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: For kidding, but I just wanted to get my thoughts
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: about the final. I think it's gonna be a great final.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I think it's so unpredictable. And you know there are
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: these are two teams that each lost the Champions League
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: final recently. Obviously Intered two years ago, five years ago,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: so you know they're they're gonna have something to improved. Hey,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: but if inter loses, you know, you know your defense
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: are gonna come after come after them, the same way
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: in Defense came after us in twenty fifteen, twenty seventeen
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: for losing two Champions League finals in three years. But regardless,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I think it's it's gonna be a good final. But
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: seeing the way interplayed, the way they can generate goals
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: out and nothing, I think you know, if if I'm
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: using logic here, I think Inter will win it. But
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: you know, PSG's key his success is done a room
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and their and their defense. If they could shut out Inter.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: You know, I think Inter's defense is a bit if
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: he I know, Bars is a good team, but to
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: put six past them, there's question marks. Right, So it
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: PSG they can't go into a shootout with Inter there
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: they need to score maybe two three goals, you know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: play good defense. But once they get into shootout, that's
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: probably where Inter wins. But I know that's about it. Uh,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: interesting behind in the school that Royce though, Jenny, your
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Nanapoli right there at Crazy season, you know that you
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: know what this reminds me of a Napoly You've ased
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen Schudeto season where they started off really slow.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I think at one point they were in like tenth
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: place or something at the at the beginning of the season,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and they really just shot it up. They went on
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I think twenty five game win streaks something like that.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: That's kind of what a Napoli reminds me of the season.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: And so.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Obviously it's got to be good, right. I know we
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: talked to Rafa a couple weeks ago, he said, it's
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: not the same as the schood that through year two
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: years ago. Obviously different feeling. But Jenny and just I mean,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: how impressed are you with with the way Napolis pulling
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: out these wins.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll be honest with you, it's it's basically, you know,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: like a one once a week Napoli squad.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I'm impressed.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Obviously they're still challenge they're still challenging for the title,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: and they are you know, finding wins when they need to.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: But in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't seem
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: like a dominant season for them, Like it's not. It's
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: more like they're getting there because inter is being pulled
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: in three different directions. If we're we're gonna compare like
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: a once let's say, for some you know, weird reason,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: it was once a week in versus once a weknopoly
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: this race was long gone. I think obviously, you know,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: credit to the players and Conte and stuff for basically
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: putting the squad there. And I do believe that they
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: deserve credit. And you know, like I'm not saying it
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: should it should all be negative. It's obviously positive as well,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: but it's gonna be another one of those Scudetti that
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: they've won where it's like, okay, there's I don't say
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: there's an asterix to it, but there's a bit of
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: an asterix.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: It's like cool, like you want a squdetto It's still
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: a very tough thing to do because the league's a
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: very competitive league. But you know, you were only playing
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: once a week, you know, you weren't. You weren't really
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: have like besides besides the colpidali, like you didn't really
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: have much else to worry about. So I I still
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: think there's some holes on this team. Maybe maybe I'm
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: being too I don't want to say harsh, but you know,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: like maybe I'm too high critical on the team because
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at the roster and I'm like, you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: like you're gonna like like guys like Mada is gonna
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: be a two times school at the winner. You know, like, uh,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: you look at the roster. You have guys like I
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: mean Meda is one of them. I'm like, I'm kind
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: of scrambling right now to find other examples. But it
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: doesn't like like like we've had performance like it's just
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: stand out performances that can really help out a lots,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: but Dodi it's been consistent, so it's gift for him
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: and stuff. But then you know, I'm like, I'm like
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: the back line is like Hakamani is going to be
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: at two times school at the winner. It's like, you know,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: like a CB pairing of that and Olivia. Like it's
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: just it's weird, you know, like it's it doesn't like
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: like you look at the roster, it's gonna be a
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: team that you're gonn look at the roster for like
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: ten years from now, and you're like, this team won
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: a league title and it's like, yeah, you know, they
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: had some outstanding performances in the team performed well and
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: he had Conte as their manager. You're like, this team
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: had a league title, like because compared to Napoli squads
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: in the past that should have won and they didn't.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: You know, it's like, you know, it just doesn't. It
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: doesn't stand out to me. Like obviously at the end
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: of at the end of this season, what people are
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: gonna be talking about the most from years to come
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: is with mcfratama, how he's been playing basically for the squad.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: He's the he's been basically the standout player for and
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Gisa has been like above and beyond one, like like
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: one of the better midfielders for the team and has
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: really stepped up his game like he was obviously a
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: pivotal part for their the squode though two years ago
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: and this year's schood that though like he's still he's
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: still have been a very strong part of it. Getting
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Lukaku was actually a smart idea to replace to replace
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: outine man. You know, you lost Kabatascalia, which you know sucks,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: but and this season, but but Jackomeno has been stepping
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: up as for usual. It's like that goal versus Juve
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: this weekend versus Leche, you know, kind of feels a
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: bit of a parallel where he comes up big what
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: he needs. But overall the roster of the team, it's
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: like he doesn't scream, you know, school that the winner.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: But if they win it, I'm obviously gonna be super
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: happy and I'm gonna be laughing to the bank with it.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Devilentis will be definitely laughing to the bank with it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: But this kind of roster in Champions League next year,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: right now that you're getting back into DOWG you qualified
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: back for Champions League. This type of roster isn't gonna
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: cut it.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: He told he told the content that he has, he's
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: willing to give him like a not an unlimited budget,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: but a very big budget into going into the summer
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: to just keep him around. And Content is like, sure,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: no problem, will stick around to kind of build a
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: build a roster, but like you really need to start
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: getting to work, like like you should have been scouting
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: right before the winter break about players that you're probably
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: gonna add to this roster, because I'm still not convinced
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: to Mena. I think he's just basically just been lucky.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: At times. He's like he's good, but he's not, you know,
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: like a tendie that's going to steal you a game
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: or two. I feel up front with the Lukaku situation,
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: do you retain him or do you let him go?
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: You know, do you need to find another like a
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: strong replacement for Kavet at Scalia unless you want to
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: keep on using Hospadoiti And it's like in a weird
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: position for him. Your mid's fine, you just got to
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: retain it together and you got to really like reinforce
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: that back line. That back line needs help at least
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: the benefit of it is that Conte is basically having
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: the Lorenzo playing a four man back line, which is
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: actually no hold on, I want to saying it's the inverse,
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: not hold on.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: He was playing format.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Now he's going like, yeah, so sorry, which never mind,
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of mixing myself up between contents and split
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: these managements. Now we'll scratch that last part. I'll stop
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: it there. Uh yeah, so still three points there can
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: easily just like catch up because knowing not believe they're
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: like like, I'm happy, Nick, I'm not happy because obviously
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: it's bad memories. But that was a good reminder of
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: the fifteen sixteen season, or it was it was also
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: the sixteen seventeen season where Napoli it was just like
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: so close and then they really just you know, like
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: both times it was just like they could have wanted that,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: like they were competing for it, they almost had it,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: and they just shot themselves on the foot towards the end.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: And I really hope that doesn't happen again because that's
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: just you know, it's it's it's it's the East study
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: of the napoo he at this point.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: You know that, Yeah, that was the seventeen eighteen the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: second season when I was.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Seventeen eighteen, the second one s Movie.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Beat inter and then napotly lost to Fiarentina the day after.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: If you had anything to add, Adri, but I mean, sorry, yeah,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: one thing I want to I'd forgotten Aple. He was
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: actually in the first place or seven weeks at meining
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: this season, we all forgot about that.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: After that SHERLOCKI they took to Hell as a match
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: j one, Yeah it did.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: And then and then what ended sorry it wasn't uh
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: match fifteen. What ended their first place run was actually
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: lost to Latio in in December, so they were they
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: went back and in middle season. It's been back and
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: forth off season. It's been an exciting stories.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's for sure, I mean, and that's kind
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: of what we want right as fans. I mean, it's
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: it's it's enough of this runaway, runaway, steady last season
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: and no, no fight till the end. It keeps you
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: engaged until match day thirty eight. It's two years in
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: a row we have a champion. Uh, you know, with
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: how many games left to play at least close to five, seven, ten, whatever,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I personally, it's it's it's it's way more exciting when
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: it comes down to the wire.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna slightly disagree with the asterisks scudetto uh for
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: what Johnny said.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: But again, this is these are the cards that were dealt.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're playing one once a week, but at the
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: same time, you still have to go out and play.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: They went out to play. They've had an up and
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: down season and they've and they've kept the course. They
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: haven't gone too hot, they haven't gone too cold, they've
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: kind of been even keel, and you know.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: It's uh, it's it's it's it's where it's been.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: Is it The one thing that you can say if
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: and again it's still a big if, because you know
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: there's still time with these.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Last few games to to to cuinch a scudetto.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: But the one thing you can say is that, yeah,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: maybe the it's not the most talented roster that we've seen.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: People were saying that with the mean uh meon team
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: that won.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Uh you know, uh the so but again, at the
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: end of the day, what does that say for the
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: other teams around them? You know, they weren't able to
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: dethrone or they weren't able to to knock off. Uh
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: you want to say this not so talented, not with squad.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: So that's the only thing I'm gonna disagree with, is it.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Do they need help?
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Absolutely?
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: I mean most teams do, and especially the way Kante
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: wants to play, and especially the type of magic Conte is.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: You know he's going to demand a lot, and you
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: know he's been able to work some sort of magic
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: with what he's had. So there's been some stand up players,
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Like you said, m mcdonmeny has been incredible. It's just
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: him and Reindeers for me, on has been two of
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: the top midfielders this season besides maybe the the inter.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: You know midfielders, you know, but hot gun if you
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: want to say whatever, but.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: I would put I would put Reindeers and mcdonmany up
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: there without a shutover doubt and with one of the
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: top midfielders in this city as season. So Lukaku I
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: said it from the get go was going to be
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: huge with him and Quante, that bread and butter.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: It's it's slowly but surely paying off. How long will
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: that last is a different story.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: Again, I don't know, if I don't remember what the
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: fee is, but I think it's still pretty steep for
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: for for Lukaku. So we'll see what what the orients does.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: But again, he's been able to contribute.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: I think again something's gonna have to pull it up
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: to fact check me. But I think he has at
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: least double digit goals and.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: Assists currently, uh Lukaku, he has the most assists I
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: think in the city with.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Ten or I get that. I think he's uh Tiger
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: most goals but has but he's leading with this city scoring.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: He has double digit.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: I think he has ten and ten or at least
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: ten and ten in both in both goals.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: In the sists twelve and ten, twelve and ten right there,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: according to according to the transfer market.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: So, I mean, obviously that's not scoring wise, obviously that's
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: not the biggest number.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: That we've seen or that maybe you would want. But
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: you know, twenty two goal contributions, uh.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: You know, for for for for Lucacu would not be
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: I mean you can't kind of brush that to the
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: side either, I don't think. So do they have do
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: they have good pieces?
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Do they need help obviously, like I said, every team does,
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: But I don't know I wouldn't dis like. I know
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Johnny didn't say he discredits it, even though if if
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: they win, But I don't think people should should really
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: you want to say it was not the most talented team.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, sure we can maybe have an argument there and
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: have a conversation there and probably agree on that.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: But if you go out for thirty eight weeks and
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: you come out with the champion, there's not without cheating, right,
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: well put.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Out there without types of cheating.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: You deserve it, right so you you I don't think
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: it's it's it's much more than that. And you know
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: it's it's where they go from here. We we saw
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: them last season down in the what they've been able
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: to do regardless one game a week, two games a week,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: three games a week, It doesn't matter for me personally,
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. They were able to turn around the season,
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: turn around the team in a season as it looked
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: pretty along the way. No, they went from what nine
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: tenth to currently sitting in first with a chance of
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: getting another school that too in again two and two,
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: two and what three years when they hadn't won in
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: over thirty.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: I think there has.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: To be some some some some positive on this on
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: this nopoy team. But at the end of the day,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: there is another point to look on the on the
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: other side of you know, the team that is battling
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: against them is is pulled in three different directions, and
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: there there is truth to that. You can't escape that fact.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: So but at the end of the day, if you're
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: able to if you're able to win, because inter could
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: have could have easily, not easily, but inther could have
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: or whoever it would have been this case, it is
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: into but they could have.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: They could have had like more dath crazier players, and
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: they could have ran away with the city.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah and kind of maybe not focused maybe on all
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: three baskets and they would have run away.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: But they played three games a week for majority of
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: the season and they ended up winning. So for me,
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: it's all relative. I think whoever wins obviously is gonna
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: deserve it and deserve.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: The credit like it or not. So I'm excited to see.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: But again, even the top four race, you know, three
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: teams that's at sixty three, the next team after that
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: sixty two and goes down to fifty nine with fident
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: teena fifty seven on milon it's it's it's not over,
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: it's the top four and then just the European spots,
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: so that all should be exciting in my opinion as well.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: And yeah, that was second with goal contributions with twenty two.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: First is that I take you with with thirty thirty
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: thirty one.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I want to talk about the the top
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: four race because roma just really out of you know,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: out of nowhere, Johnny, like you're you're you're being a
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: bit spoiled this season. You got, you know, one team
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: who has a chance to so another team who you know,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: fires their coach and then suddenly they they go on
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: this crazy run of eighteen games, nineteen games unbeaten, uh
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: in in Citi a uh and they've you know, out
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: of the blue there you know, right there with you've
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: obviously the Lato is there too, but why nothing win
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: over Furan Tina, but even Lacho. You know, they're they've
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: been consistently good this season, not great, but you know,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: enough to put them right there because you know, you
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: look at the recent games. Uh, win draw, win draw,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: win draw. You know, that's that's what I'm saying. They're good,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: but it seems like they're consistent with win, win and draw,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: win and draw. So they're dropping some points. And then
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: obviously you've a they've been fine since uh you know,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: the two door hiring, and yeah, the change obviously be
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Le two weeks ago and then uh they tied Bologna.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: But uh, it's it's it's tight, and I think you've
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: plays lots of this weekend. Uh and Roma plays at Atalanta,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: So big games for for you know, even all four
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: teams if you want to throw in Atalanta in there,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: because they're you know, they're at sixty eight if they
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: lose this game, and even if Juve wins or or
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: lots of wins, because both at sixty three, if there's
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: a winner in that game, they're they're right there.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: They're two point difference.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: It's two point difference. So this is this is a
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: big weekend for the Champions League. But Johnny, do you
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: think Roma has enough to you know, push it in
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: these remaining three games. I forget who they I forget
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: who they play. Uh yeah, Atalanta, Milan and Torino. So
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: I you know, Roma's happy this amazing run, trying to
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: make it tough for him, having amazing run trying to
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: make it to the top of my the couch show.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I was in the last place by the winter break,
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: by the way, uh, and now I'm seven points away
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: from first. Uh. It's mind, there's only like, you know,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: three games left out of the possible nine, so I've
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: almost out of it type of thing. But considered I
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: was lost because I was I was missing a quarter
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: of my roster. It's always nice to see. But anyways, Uh, yes,
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: this is awesome. You're tied for fourth with Juventus for
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: for the last Champions League spot and this is something
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: that they had almost been chasing for the past what
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: eight years now?
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: When was last nineteen I think nineteen when they lost
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: the portal?
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Dean was a coach? Who was the coach?
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: I think so was?
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: It was deferent Jesus Christ.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: It's been a long time.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: When when they lost the portal and then there was
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: that that no call I think on chic if I remember.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Correctly, Yeah, and then it's just been like a whole
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: When was the when was the match against Liverpool in
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: the Champion Liverpool?
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: That was eighteen, That was a.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Year before those those were listen, those are times.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: So it's been something I've been trying to like find
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: again and trying to re establish and you know, given
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: the wage bill that they have, it's something that you
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: know it should have been. It should have been a
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: long time coming. Like is if money equates wins, then
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: it's not happening for Noma. But clearly Raanetti has cracked
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: the code for the team. But where do you go
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: from here? Is what my question is. As much as
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: I said Annapoli has a project doing the summer, it
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: almost got an even bigger one because now you don't
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: have to find a manager. Besides, you know, retooling the roster.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Uh you know, Ragnetti is just there to get them
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: to to the end across the line. But then what
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: else you know, like it's what happens next year if
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: you have the same roster and they have the same
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: issues again, what happens if you don't if you lose players?
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: You know, like you need to you need to have
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: a plan ahead. And I hope they've been using this
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: time with Claudio to to kind of kind of figure
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: it out, because that's that's what's worrying me. Cool, Like
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: if you make Champions League, I say, like that the
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: squad of the napolet is gonna have is gonna get
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: laughed at the Champions League. I think Roma is going
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: to be in the same boat too, because it's more
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: of a sensible like of like a lack of direction.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: You know. It's not a spot where it's like okay, well,
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: you know, like because there's still good players on the team.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: But like steel Ars has been phenomenal, like the opposite
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: where I think Meda has been average for a Napolies,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: but steel Ar has been basically helping them get these wins.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: He's been stealing the w's for them.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: He seems to be like the magic almost every week.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like this matchup against Valentina, it was that was
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: a big That was a big Yeah, that was like
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: that was a that was a keeping match. That was
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: that was a match between two really good keepers. And
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: the only reason why Roma one is because how can
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: you stop a point blank strong header, no matter what,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: you could be the best keeper in the world unless
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: you're literally in front of the header that's coming your way,
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: like point blank, like you're not You're not gonna be
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: able to stop that. Like I don't blame Dehy on
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: that goal, Like there's not much you can do so,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: you know, like it just throw them out the better
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: squad because Valentina was firing on all cylinders in that game.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: It was like the one zeros four line. Yeah he
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: had a shot, it wasn't and like that. The back
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: line phenomena is also another line where I think like
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: they need also they also need work too, but yeah,
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: he's been making it work and Gelino has been a
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: great like little discovery for the team. I think there's more.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: There's obviously a lot of bright spots on the team too,
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: Like that's not all negative. But I'm always looking more.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: I'm looking ahead, you know, like I'm looking I'm looking
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: a little little ahead, and it's like cool, it's nice
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: now and this is great and like knowledge not like
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: it's more like the present is fine. The presence is
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: the present is good, So you don't have to worry
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: too much about it. What do we have to worry about? Okay,
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: what's to come? How do we keep this consistent? How
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: do you keep these results, like, you know, consistent? How
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: do you keep it coming in? How do you keep
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: these wins coming in? How do you keep these you know,
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: points coming in? Well, we have to look ahead and
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: then you gotta go from there. So that's what I
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: want the squad to do right now. It's more like,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: think about what are you gonna do the fall?
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: Uh, Johnny because this has been something that we've known
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: for for a while with any right that he's not
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: gonna he's not gonna be on the touch Onye come
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: next season, even though probably fans would would love to
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: still see him there, but he came out of retirement
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: for this, for for his club at heart.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, who do you?
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: I know, it's I know it's very early, but with
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: looking ahead, who do you think they should bring in?
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: And who do you have any idea or do you
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: have any any thoughts on who you would like a
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: roam up next season?
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: I honestly don't even have an answer for you. I
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: I I really don't. It just doesn't seem like it
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: doesn't seem like like there's like a very clear image
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: of what you're gonna go from here, because you go
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: from you know, uh, like what three or four different
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: managers in the past like two three years. It's it's tough, Yeah,
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: it's it's it's really tough. I know there was rumors
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: about Puoli.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that, But there was also reports about
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: somebody else, the two other candidates I thought I saw,
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: and I don't remember who.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: I can't recall right now. I don't know. I just
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: want a coach that's gonna, you know, just find consistency
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: with this roster. Was it Annetti? So far? Like you
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: just managed to help them dig in? But we always
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: see that he's never a two year coach. He's always
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: on one season coach that he always like brings the
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: team up. And then you know, I can't keep it
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: from there. He's too much of a nice guy, which
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: I love him for that. But what would you take?
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't I know, I've said this in the past,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't hate it.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: Uh with Assistan just where the players buy into Poli,
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: that's definitetion.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Is he still with Alna sar.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Uh? I don't I think he? I don't, I don't remember.
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: I had seen multiple reports like surrounding I thought he
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: was I thought he was set to take There was
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: a point where you looked like he was set to
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: take the Roman job.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Obviously that didn't transpire, but.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: He's still there. He's still in the Saudi Ama.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, But anyways, Anyways, I don't know, uh, I honestly
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: a coach that uh you know, besides like the you know,
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: the the fancy names of Italiano and stuff like that.
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: Like now that he's at Bring and he's doing well,
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: like I saw earlier just before jumping on that, you know,
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: Palladino inked a contract extension with your Teama for the
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: next couple of years. So he's another coach that I
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: I think flies under the radar, which I've liked what
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: he's done. Maybe eventually jump to maybe a bigger you
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: no disrespect to the feud and Tina, you know, Piazza,
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: but maybe you know, uh, a bigger a bigger leap
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: for him maybe in the future.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know if if Roma is that that's that,
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: But I don't know. I agree with you, Johnny. Roma
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: has to has to figure it out because this consistency,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: like they're there.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: I think them and I would probably say them and
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: uh and Bologna are probably the best team in twenty
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: twenty five.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: I think we can probably agree. Maybe I'm maybe I'm
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: missing something, but yeah, not Puto.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: But uh, you know, eight almost twenty games unbeaten, Uh
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: you know, that's that's that's you know, it's not something
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: that you could just you know, just turn that page
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: over and just not look at that, like that's something
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: you have to acknowledge. So and Boonia too, right, Bonia
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: has been incredible. Uh you know this this twenty twenty
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: five year so far.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know.
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: Maybe Peoi uh sorry at Roma, maybe it'll be the pope.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Maybe he's the next pope.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: We have a new pope.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Maybe the smoke is going to be white instead of black.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Hopefully, hopefully by this time next week, will we will
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: actually have a new pope and it won't go on
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: for it won't go on for a week. We got
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: black smoke today, but uh, this time next week we'll
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: actually have a copy Italian winner. But I'll bring that
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: up in a second injury. But one thing I didn't
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: want to say with the Champions League race, I think
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: you know, for Roma, you know they got full momentum
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: and if they're gonna finish top fours, because they're gonna
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: use that momentum. I know they have the top tough
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: games ahead, but they'd use that momentum to advantage. But
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I think you know, you've a you've a lasso. They
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: have the I guess you could say not the easier
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: schedules because Lato actually plays inter So in Alatso probably
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: has the hardest schedule. Uh, you A, I think it's
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: I have it right here. I think they played Cali
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: any one weekend. No, sorry, Venezia and you as sorry.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: So I think you know, if you ays gonna finish
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: in the top four, they have to win this game
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: against Lats. So this is almost, you know, a direct Yeah,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: it's almost a direct playoff to get into the Champions League.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: I know they still they will still have two games
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: after that, but if they beat Lotso, you know, they
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: have the tie breakers right now, so they'd be definitely
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: in the driver's seat another tie. You know, you start
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: crashing marks depending what Roman does. But you do that
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the race, top four race, there's a lot to be
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: played for.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Don't forget about Bologna two way and Bologna.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Is right there. Bologne is right there, and it's and
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: it is easy to forget about them because I think
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: they're a point are they a point behind you? They're
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: a point behind, So it's easy to look at, you know,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: for three teams at sixty three points for one spot,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: and there's another team at sixty two, and there again
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: they're they're right there and their their remaining games are
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I know, obviously Melan twice twice in a week between
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: the City I and Cope Italia and then Fiorentina in general,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: so not the easiest schedule either for Bologna, but again
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: they'd use their momentum.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: But COVID tally final next week, Melon could pretty much
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: salvage their season with another trophy, you know, and I
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: think this is kind of the only way they would
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: get into the top into Europe next season.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: For for me line, unless there's still mathematical possible, there's
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: still is math mathematical possibility for them to finish in
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the top seven. But realistically, if they want to get
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: into the Europa League, they they got they got to
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: win this uh trophy. Adri What are you they've been
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: doing all lately? What are your thoughts heading into this game?
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: I mean the uh, like I said a couple of
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: weeks ago, I think a little bit too eight right
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: with with these string of positive results, it's it's a
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: shame because I've said it timeless times on this podcast.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: You know, I think they.
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: Have quality on this on this team, and they just
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: were not able to you know, string it all together
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: and and have you know, some continuity throughout the season.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: And obviously there have they had a coaching change and
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: just wasn't able to really put all the pieces together.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: They might have had majority of the puzzle pieces, they
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: were missing a few.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: They were missing a few puzzle pieces.
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: And then they just weren't able to kind of put
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: all those pieces together and and and make it more
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: of a positive season.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: But somehow, some way, this team can potentially win two
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: trophies and it's it's incredible. I mean, it's it's it's
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: it's shocking, to be honest with you as a fan.
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: It's we've woked horrible, we've voked good, We've we've held
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: we haven't lost Winter this season, which seems to be
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: like another uh, you know, reward for this season. But
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: imagine the teams that's going to the Champions League final.
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: This this Mealan team hasn't hasn't lost to.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: Them this this this campaign. It's it's it's totally nuts.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: But nevertheless, I think it's, uh, it's just it's just
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: a shame that it comes down to having to try
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: to battle, uh, you know, for for Europa League spot.
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: I believe if they went out, I think the maximum
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: they can get is what's like sixty six points, which
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: is you know.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Terrible uh for for for you know, for me one.
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: But again, at the end of the day, I think
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: it's they have to this upcoming week. You know, they
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: played Bologna, you know, twice in six days.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: And this is a Bologna team.
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: That I said earlier that we just spoke about has
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: been one of the better.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: Teams in twenty twenty five. Uh, you know, have.
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: Have picked up all kinds of points. They know, their
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: magers really getting this this team. Uh you know rolling
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: you know, some of their start players are or most
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: of the star players are are really stepping up.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: They have a rotation of a squad. That's that's that's
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: really you know, buying in and and and you know,
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: trying to put it all together. And you know what
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: this this mean team, even though it's it's been ugly,
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: it's it's they have a chance. There's a there's a chance.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: So that's really all we can ask for.
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: We were able to to win the super Copa, even
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: though it's it's the lesser of of of all trophies
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: to win, we have that under our belt.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: We beat our rivals and doing.
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: So and uh you know, we face you know, a
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: tough a tough Bia team to to try to to
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: try to you know, cap off this season with some
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: sort of positivity.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I'm hopeful, I'm optimistic for sure. But our big players
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: are gonna have to step up.
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: You know, we saw what Layout was able to do
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: off the bench in this in this match against Genoa
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: on Monday. Uh, you know, he comes on, they were
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: able to to turn it around and I don't know
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: what ninety seconds they were able to put two past
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: Genua and and and and pulled off to win the game.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Somebody's screaming in the backgrounds.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: It's by my brother.
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: But but yeah, no, like the big players are gonna
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: have to step up the way also of the world.
• 58:17
  Speaker 7: The the tailor nand this is the manyas who just
• 58:22
  Speaker 7: you know, you know, like I said, was Donna Huma
• 58:25
  Speaker 7: earlier for phg just that the time we save is
• 58:27
  Speaker 7: coming up clutch.
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: You know, Manya has done that for us on many
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: occasions this season.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Ryan there's has been incredible.
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: I would say, like I said earlier, one of, if
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: not the best midfielder and said, yeah, in my opinion, Uh,
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: Poos as well has been playing, you know, pretty well.
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: So you know, our big players are gonna have to
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: step up, and you know we're gonna have to, you know,
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: kind of keep that offense of of of Bologna at
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: Bay you know, uh Indi winning what what are you
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: doing player of the month and said, yeah, I think
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: this this last month for April or Seleni has been incredible.
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: Uh Castro their striker, their young Argentinian strikers is amazing.
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: Uh you know Freuler, But the list goes on. Guys, right,
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: it's it's it's it's not an easy role over Bonia
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: team and they're coached by Italian who a lot of.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: People rate highways, so it's it's it's gonna be tough.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: But again I'm curious to see how how it pans
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: out with playing them twice in six days, Like what
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: one are like, I don't know how to say it is,
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: like which one are they going to really emphasize on it?
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: You know, how are they gonna how are they gonna
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: how they're gonna line up against Boonia Friday in two
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: days in the city, and then how and then what
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: are they gonna take out of that too to to
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: next Wednesday in a week's time in that final. I'm hoping.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: I'm hoping that you know, there's smart about the moves
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: that they make and con is able to to put
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: it together because for trophies, he seems he seems to
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: be doing pretty well. Unfortunately, I don't know if we're
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: going to see him on the touchl on next season,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: even though I I would still like to see him there.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: I know fans are split keeping him and letting him go,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: or the signs already showing that he's probably out the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: door come the summer.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: It's it's a shame. I think he came to this
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: team just a tough time at a bad.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: Time, because I think he could have strung a couple
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: of seasons and and and really had a project going
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: with with Conceal. Nevertheless, there's still ways to salvage this
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: this crazy seasons, as incredible and as nuts as that sounds,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: not salvage it in a way that is going to
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: really hide all the negatives of this season. But still
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: on a ninth place. Milan team currently to come away
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: with potentially two trophies at the end of the season,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: and wherever they end up finishing, you know, come come,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: you know, the after round.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: Thirty eight, it's it's.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: It's something to build on for next season, even though
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: I know us new and fans want and deserve more.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna stay optimistic. I'm gonna stay.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: Positive and yeah, let's uh, let's bring home a copy
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: Talia that we haven't brought. We haven't been won in fuck.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: I couldn't even when it was the last time. Oh three,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: oh five? When was it early two thousands, that's am
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: not mistaken or was it the mid tens? I don't remember.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember Copy Italia or eleven.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: I thought Milan won one more recently, but they've been
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: in finals.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: You have to put it up because my memory escapes
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: from currently Copy Italia. I think it's been a while.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: Actually it's been a while.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Uh fact, oh three, Okay, I realized that long ago. Yeah,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: they lost in the final. I remember, Yeah, they lost
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: in the final in eighteen sixteen. Yeah, that's it.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those are the years, right, I remember.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, Well it feels like they've been more final.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but we haven't brought home the trophy since three
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: so so there, I had that year in mind.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: I just wasn't sure if I just wasn't undercent sure
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: if that was that was completely accurate. But uh, there
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: you go, that's what it is.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: It's been way too long, right, so you know what's Uh,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: let's be positive me on fans and let's let's try
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: to bring uh you know, this copy Italian trophy back
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: to Milano.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: It was a fun game, Cope Italia, lots of history.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: It's you know, they played, they played the national anthem
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: before the game. I always get a singer, you know, celebration
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: of Italian football. It's always a game. You know, even
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: though you've not in it, I'm still gonna watch it.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: It's still gonna put it on next Wednesday. But yeah,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: it's it's a fun time the season. Now, it's a
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: fun time the season. You got the Champions League final
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: and thirty first. Hey, we didn't talk about it. Fiorentina
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: is you know, conference semifinal tomorrow against Betts. I know
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: they lost first League two to one, but that was
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: in Spain, so they have a chance to come back.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow at home in the Conference League final.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: H for another final, right, go.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Back to another final? Yeah, so you know the lots
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: look lots to look forward to in Florence as well.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's fun time, guys, fun time guys for sure. Uh.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: I think that'll do it for us. Uh. It was
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: pleasure to talk to you guys again, because it's been
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: a while. That is just three of us it's been.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: He wasn't there. Yeah, right, so it's one of the month.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: He gets to enjoy his teams too much that he
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: doesn't have the chance to talk to talk about it
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: with us.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: His teams.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: His teams are doing well, and he's still he's still
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: has the negative talk on the team.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, me, honestly, I think.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: It's reverse psychologie, Jenny. We know what you're doing. We
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: know you're the superstition, we know everything. Don't worry, we know.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Me. Me Meanwhile, meanwhile, me, the only reason as I
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: even capable of the city has to do this or
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: else with the way you guys playing the season. It's so,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: you know, okay, another one one draw, all right.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: I always starn the hunt for four.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know what, once the season ends, you
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: know there's the Club World Cup. You know, back to
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: the Champions League next year. It will be interesting the
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Club World Cup. Well, see how seriously teams are going
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: to be I know we've talked about it before, but
• 1:04:48
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• 1:04:49
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  Speaker 2: To there you go.
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  Speaker 1: I think raised three good gentlemen, so I think at
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  Speaker 1: least at least two you got one out, one out.
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  Speaker 2: We've been in the comments, bool.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back next week to talk a lot more
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  Speaker 2: culture