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Scudetto race heats up in Serie A! Ep. 256 · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: At least the scud race is more exciting than that
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  Speaker 1: intro music, the default intro music from stream Yard. We
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  Speaker 1: don't really have a say in that, but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the culture guys, he Johnny and Nicholas, you could follow
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  Speaker 1: us and all your favorite social media platforms and podcasting
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  Speaker 1: platforms at the culture guys. Hi, guys doing you didn't
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep with that music?
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  Speaker 2: No? I did not know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe more on my team plane, but now the music
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  Speaker 3: was okay. It kept me in, It kept me in,
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  Speaker 3: kept me into it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to have to figure out with uh, with
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  Speaker 1: stream Yard, if we could put our own our own music,
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  Speaker 1: we probably can, honestly. But but yeah, uh, race eleven
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  Speaker 1: games laught guys, this is uh, you know, I I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say. I guess you could say one of the
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  Speaker 1: tighter races in recent years. I know we had you
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  Speaker 1: know them in the Meline inter race a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago. I know what two years ago, Appoly blewway
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  Speaker 1: with it. Even even last year was a bit you know,
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  Speaker 1: it really wasn't anything close, So we're kind of spoiled.
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  Speaker 1: This year. We got inter a fifty eight points, not
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  Speaker 1: play a fifty seven points, Atalanta fifty five, and then
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  Speaker 1: you've just just there. I don't think they're personally, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're worthy of scudental conversation just yet. You know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe if they're like three four points within the top
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  Speaker 1: the you know, first place you've you could talk about
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  Speaker 1: them more. Just they just shot themselves in the foot
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  Speaker 1: throughout the season with all these draws and then losing
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  Speaker 1: games to Atalanta, Naopotly and Inter. But yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: But the game of the week Ice, uh was the
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  Speaker 1: the Napoly Inter game, I mean, Johnny to your team, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: intern came out with one thing lead I think it
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  Speaker 1: was DeMarco scored, yeah, right, and then it was a
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  Speaker 1: billing that tied it up late. It was an eighty
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  Speaker 1: eighth minute eighty yeah, eighty seventh minute one to one.
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  Speaker 1: As yu fan, I love that because exactly that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted, a draw, split the points. But what
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  Speaker 1: did you make of the game, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of those games where it's like, you know
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  Speaker 4: before we've discussed many times that does Naply have just
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  Speaker 4: for fun, does not really have the kahonas to to actually,
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  Speaker 4: you know, make that push for the Schoodetto and they
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  Speaker 4: dropped some crucial points, and this game was definitely circled
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  Speaker 4: on the calendar where if they did not actually show
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  Speaker 4: up and get a result here versus Inter, then you
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  Speaker 4: could just kiss it goodbye for the Schooldetto, because it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna like it would be one of those games where
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  Speaker 4: Napoli would trail more and more behind them for this race,
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  Speaker 4: and they managed to dig deep and get the draw results.
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  Speaker 4: You know, so it's it was Conte basically, you know,
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  Speaker 4: showing that his capabilities of a manager and Salvagino point
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  Speaker 4: because when Inter took that lead early on, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it really didn't seem like as if there was much
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  Speaker 4: going on there. And I think one thing that made
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  Speaker 4: the difference was the fact that in Zaggie subbed out
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  Speaker 4: Bastoni for DeVry. I think that was the crucial difference
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  Speaker 4: there in terms of defensively, it just seemed that Interior
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  Speaker 4: seemed a bit more lost in the second half. Not
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  Speaker 4: pally dominated the game, though in the second half not
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  Speaker 4: Poly did dominate the game statistically if you look it up.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have the numbers in front of me for
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  Speaker 4: the listeners, but they it was almost as if they
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  Speaker 4: like from what I the one thing that stood out
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  Speaker 4: was that inter did not have any scoring opportunities in
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  Speaker 4: the second half. That's that's how much Conte decided to
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  Speaker 4: lock up the field and dominate and you know, try
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  Speaker 4: to get salvage a result here. So it's just it's
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  Speaker 4: always crazy. It's always the most unlikely heroes to uh
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  Speaker 4: to get that Philip Billy and I've I'll be honest
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  Speaker 4: with you, like I probably saw this guy's name once
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  Speaker 4: before this game, and the like I was like, okay, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: and then it's just he made like it's just one
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  Speaker 4: of those games where it's like, was it the year
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  Speaker 4: that the like, like, there was a year a while
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  Speaker 4: back where Patania basically scored these like crucial goals that
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  Speaker 4: just like, even though he shot on Patania so much,
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  Speaker 4: he scored these crucial goals to help Napoly. I think
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  Speaker 4: it was finished with second or something that year, like
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  Speaker 4: they were goetting close to it. That wasn't the year
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  Speaker 4: that they wanted to squire that though. It was No,
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  Speaker 4: that was not the year that they want to that though.
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  Speaker 4: But it feels like that it feels like the you
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  Speaker 4: need those like guys to cut like the step up
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  Speaker 4: and score those goals to to to help you like
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  Speaker 4: win a squdetto in a year like like in this season,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, that's that's how it goes. Like you
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  Speaker 4: can't like when your stars are not showing up. You
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  Speaker 4: need everybody, somebody else to take the next step up.
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  Speaker 4: And if nobody's capable of taking that next step up,
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  Speaker 4: that's the difference between a good team and the bad team.
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  Speaker 4: So uh, props to like, you know, like Inters still
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  Speaker 4: trying for that championship and they're they're showcasing that they're
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  Speaker 4: still I would still say that they are the team
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  Speaker 4: of city. A they are the team of city even
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  Speaker 4: though Napoli is still making a good case this year.
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  Speaker 4: Don't forget. We need to put an asterisk to this
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  Speaker 4: is Napoli one game of season. This is Inter. Sorry,
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  Speaker 4: one game a week was what I'm trying to say.
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  Speaker 4: This is Inter with three games a week and you're
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  Speaker 4: still competing for Scudettough like it's it's it's a well
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  Speaker 4: oiled machine in my personal opinion. Also, what I like
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  Speaker 4: about this game, it was a fun moment that you know,
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  Speaker 4: like if you blinked, you missed it, but it uh,
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  Speaker 4: it made the rounds on Appley Twitter. Towards the endh
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  Speaker 4: Napley was trying to make one of their pushes and
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  Speaker 4: there was a play that, uh, I forgot. I think
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  Speaker 4: it was Lebotka fumbled on a shot or something. Both
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  Speaker 4: him and then he sees olens Ski on the intern
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  Speaker 4: just go like, you know, like they couldn't believe that
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  Speaker 4: shot was missed. It's everyone was nicking the rounds. It's
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  Speaker 4: like you can get out of an applet, but you can't
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  Speaker 4: get the napotly out of you type of thing. It
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  Speaker 4: was a cute little moment. I liked it.
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  Speaker 5: I liked it, like it's just like Zelensky putting his
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  Speaker 5: hands on his head, you know, because I realized that
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  Speaker 5: people are listening not gonna see the motion that I did,
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  Speaker 5: but like Lubodka and Zolensky in the background just putting
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  Speaker 5: there like oh my god, putting their arms up and
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  Speaker 5: then put it on their head.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was adorable. So yeah, it's one of those it was.
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  Speaker 4: I want to say, it's like a statement game. It's
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  Speaker 4: more of a okay, well we're gonna showcase that we
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  Speaker 4: do have the capabilities of fighting for the championship. Now
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  Speaker 4: is this gonna translate into the scudetto well, it remains
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  Speaker 4: to be seen. Uh, they keep themselves in the fight
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  Speaker 4: for it with this result because they slipped up a
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  Speaker 4: couple of times and since since the winter break, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: if they can build up from this, this is great.
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  Speaker 4: So this is like it's it isn't the obviously everybody
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  Speaker 4: wants to walk away with a win, but the fact
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  Speaker 4: that you're behind and you managed to change their three
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  Speaker 4: points to one and you savage yourself a point is
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  Speaker 4: always great. It's always great, especially when they're the first
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  Speaker 4: place team. So yes, if you're 'ving Atalanta, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like you're you're you're you're licking your lips and you're
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  Speaker 4: doing the old uh you know, hand putty thing, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because you're like, this is uh, this is an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: for us because it seems drew and now we can
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  Speaker 4: actually have a potential. We're in punching distance. Even the
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  Speaker 4: Manco said it, the Modco said it on the interviews,
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  Speaker 4: like we're not just competing Againstnopoly Nottalanta. You've is a
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  Speaker 4: team too to watch out for it and I don't
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  Speaker 4: think that realistically you've makes that run for Schoodet though,
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  Speaker 4: but they're still technically in the race. You can't count
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  Speaker 4: them out. I think it's a bit too late for
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  Speaker 4: them to be like a scary factor. But it's one
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  Speaker 4: of those teams that's like, well, if if we don't
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  Speaker 4: pay attention and continue like not taking this seriously, Uve
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  Speaker 4: could just come in and steal things. Rubentis can just
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  Speaker 4: come in and just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll you know, I'll talk about you after. But
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe this conversation will be different next week.
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  Speaker 1: I think the game against Atalanta is yeah, like you
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  Speaker 1: know I talked, I said before they lost to games
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  Speaker 1: to the teams above. They only lost Anapoly, but they
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  Speaker 1: tied Atalanta, they tied, they tied in lost Anapoli, which
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  Speaker 1: really hurts. And they tied and beat Inter which again
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  Speaker 1: that's good. But you know the tie against Into is
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  Speaker 1: four to four, so it feels like a game like
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  Speaker 1: you know, both sides would have said always should have
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  Speaker 1: won that one. Anyways, Uh, Age, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna say anything about what No.
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  Speaker 3: Another tidbit there for for billing there. I saw I
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  Speaker 3: saw an interview that he did. Uh, And it's funny
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  Speaker 3: man when these players come to Napoli and uh they
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  Speaker 3: want to warn and he's like, I need to wear
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  Speaker 3: I don't. I could learn the instead of Italian. So uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's another another tidbit for him. It wasn't good for
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  Speaker 3: him first first Sea goal. It came out of a
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  Speaker 3: crucial moment.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's they keep themselves within punching distance. But
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, it's it's as if the round
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  Speaker 3: didn't even happen, right, it's a it's a tie. You
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  Speaker 3: went into the you went into the game down down
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  Speaker 3: a point, understandings, you leave, you leave the weekend in
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  Speaker 3: the same state. It's good you didn't really damage much.
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  Speaker 3: But uh yeah, I think, like you said, Johnny, Napole
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  Speaker 3: needs to continue to to pick up these three.
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  Speaker 2: Points because you know you can take it. Maybe a
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  Speaker 2: Dragons inter.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, the loss to Como, you know these
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  Speaker 3: other these other losses that like you were mentioning, I
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  Speaker 3: think it can hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Them, but no, listen, I think it's it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be close.
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  Speaker 3: We We've been saying it for a while now, and
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  Speaker 3: it's it's another treat to have this Schuudetto race come
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  Speaker 3: down to, I would say probably the end, probably the
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  Speaker 3: end of the season. We'll we'll probably I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it's gonna be like the mean Scudetto season, but
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  Speaker 3: if not, that pretty close. So I think we should
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  Speaker 3: be excited for that. But yeah, and just I guess
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  Speaker 3: I also liked that because I was watching the game.
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  Speaker 3: I was was able to catch the game, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, I liked like Gilmore did a lot. I
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  Speaker 3: think in your midfield, Johnny, like, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you were able to see the whole match, but Gilmore.
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  Speaker 2: Labodka really really stood out in your midfield.
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  Speaker 4: The mid the mid is what when we helped make
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  Speaker 4: a difference in this game, it was it's it's I
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't say it's the youngest. Midden said, yeah, but it's
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  Speaker 4: definitely it's putting itself in the argument for the top three.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, well, and there were they were missing
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  Speaker 3: right and yeah, like it's snity and he really did well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's and that's thing. Zombo has been like
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  Speaker 4: the best player this season for Napoli. He's been like
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  Speaker 4: a bit of the rock on that and you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just it's like that's that like we were talking
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  Speaker 4: before in terms of hockey, where it's like I made
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  Speaker 4: a joke or not a joke. I made like, well
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  Speaker 4: half a joke about like how like the Senators are
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  Speaker 4: a bit on a fraud watch because they have players
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  Speaker 4: that are injured, but they don't have a next man
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  Speaker 4: up mentality. You know. That's the difference between a team
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  Speaker 4: that competes versus a team that's not going to compete.
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  Speaker 1: Genuine muted on stream.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're back, you're back.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I think I touched a wire. I think that's
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  Speaker 4: what happened. Uh but yeah, like like like teams that
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  Speaker 4: make or break or the ones that have players that
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  Speaker 4: step up whenever player gets injured, and that's what you
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  Speaker 4: want to see from a competing team for a championship.
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  Speaker 4: If Napoli didn't have a guy To'm not saying fully
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  Speaker 4: replace a guisa, but really show that they're able to
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  Speaker 4: you know, like, Okay, we have a hole, but we
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  Speaker 4: can feel we can patch it up a bit. You know.
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  Speaker 4: That's what That's all you can ask for from a
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  Speaker 4: player like Gilmore, and he did a great job in
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  Speaker 4: terms of that. Mcdamaney, I think has been arguably one
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  Speaker 4: of the best midfielders this season in City as well.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's just arguably arguably. I'm not saying I'm not
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  Speaker 4: saying he is the best. He's he's in the conversation.
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  Speaker 4: But it helps because you know, back like, like we
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  Speaker 4: discussed it before, back line is even though it has
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  Speaker 4: been getting better because Bun Jordan, Uh, it's not the
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  Speaker 4: absolute greatest, especially when you have Meta letting in some
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  Speaker 4: of the softest goals at times and stuff. So when
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  Speaker 4: you can have like when you can have a midfield
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  Speaker 4: I can dominate possession or dominate the play of the
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  Speaker 4: game and the flow of the game, it compensates for that.
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  Speaker 4: So now all we need is for somehow for Luc
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  Speaker 4: to capitalize on services that he gets, and you know
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna look better, you know. I feel like that's
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  Speaker 4: the one, like bigger issue. It's more like I wanted
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  Speaker 4: a guy like who just step up in this game?
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  Speaker 4: You did? Did you did an okay job? Once say
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  Speaker 4: he didn't do to do a fantastic job, but a
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  Speaker 4: bit up and down. It's oh hold on, wait, let
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  Speaker 4: me see something. But all I wanted to say I
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  Speaker 4: see is going.
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  Speaker 2: To my headset.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah better, all right, But know what I want to
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  Speaker 6: say is that, uh, don't you walk away with a result.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm asking for more. I yearned for more for
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  Speaker 4: from Naples. That's that's what it is right now.
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  Speaker 2: But they're still right there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I know what if people are saying,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's it's.
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  Speaker 2: It's inter scudetto. I really I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sticking with my guns, like from my preseason prediction,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sticking with Napoly. I think it's going to be close,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, and that's fine, but I don't I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't count Napoly out, like for anybody that that is
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  Speaker 3: out there, I wouldn't count them out. I would still,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with getting guys like zamble back, Nerez back,
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  Speaker 3: who have been two influential pieces. Mcconmeny has been an
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  Speaker 3: incredible piece this season. Uh, you know, Lukaku, it takes
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  Speaker 3: one more game, It takes up one game to kind
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  Speaker 3: of get back into the rhythm and and then there
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  Speaker 3: he starts. He's he's back to to Lukaku of scoring
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  Speaker 3: goals like left, right and center. So once that mortar continues,
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  Speaker 3: and I think Conte is a bit of a realist
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  Speaker 3: with his team this year, where they're at and the
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  Speaker 3: depth that they that they have but they don't really have.
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  Speaker 3: At the same time, he seems to be a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a realist. Maybe it's just talking to media.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I think they're there. I think
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  Speaker 2: they're right there.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, the fans, the fans thing to
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  Speaker 3: believe it and uh you know, if the fans are
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  Speaker 3: behind the team and they believe it, it definitely means something.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, just one also shout out rough and
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  Speaker 2: rough they were at. They were at the game.
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  Speaker 4: I saw, yeah, and they did some great stuff with
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  Speaker 4: social media. I was I was really happy with that.
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  Speaker 4: It was some really cool stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Experience.
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  Speaker 4: It was really it was really fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they saw they I guess they got
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  Speaker 3: to see a good game. They're they're fishing, not on
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  Speaker 3: the the mush list of the senior team live and
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  Speaker 3: mushing them.
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  Speaker 2: But they're there, they're there. They were good.
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  Speaker 1: Uh just blow them Internapoli. We got that to Lota.
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  Speaker 1: One of the weirdest teams at least in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, in let me count eight in no, wait, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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  Speaker 1: eight nine. In nine games in Sitiya, they've won three,
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  Speaker 1: lost one and lot tied five. So they're kind of
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  Speaker 1: playing like ve very up and down the past six games,
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  Speaker 1: win draw, win draw, win draw. Uh, But they're there,
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  Speaker 1: and these next two weeks are huge Fratalenta as well,
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  Speaker 1: because they play You've, You've intern and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: throwing Fiorentina and Lazio below in the me line. So
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  Speaker 1: their schedule is crazy, that's crazy. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you could kind of say that, you know, their fate
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  Speaker 1: is still in their own hands at this point, especially
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  Speaker 1: when they play all these teams. Yes, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: could say the games against Ferentina, Latio mean line even blowna.
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  Speaker 1: It's games below them that's not directly going to affect
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  Speaker 1: thistal rakes. But these are big games regardless, right the.
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  Speaker 3: Game what if it does it ruins their homes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly. But like you know, you think about
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  Speaker 1: the game against you thinking about the game against inter
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  Speaker 1: Like if they pick up six points there, they could
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  Speaker 1: they could be within one point of uh, the first
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  Speaker 1: place in two weeks, you know, at the international break.
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  Speaker 1: But guys, you know I want to ask, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of talk now is of Gasparini, you know, his
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  Speaker 1: future of the team. Do you think that's affecting the
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: team at all, because I think I think it, you know,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: for a team that's been so stable the past, what
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: seventy years, now there's a bit like the boat has
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: rocked a bit and and it's kind of affecting them now.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Uh maybe, I don't know.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: They they've they've seen some rocky patches in the past,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: and and I think they've they've they've evolved from a
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: team with no disrespect but not much expectation, to now
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: having some expectations over these last maybe five years or so,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I would say, ever since you know, they've made Champions League,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: made that run, you know, fighting out for Scudett, for Schuodett, Tea.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: It's it's a bit more expectation on them. They've had
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: rocky patches in the past, Gaspardini, with players just certain
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: players just not getting along the off the field stuff.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: So is it affecting them now? Potentially? I can't say no,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: But I think ultimately, like all good things come to
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: an end, and and it seems more likely than not
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: that you know, he he probably won't be behind behind
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: the bench for them.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Uh next season. It's it's unfortunate, but at the.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Same time, you know, it kind of I think maybe
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: this time with Gasperini, Attalanta just ran his course. I
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: don't know if I don't know if the thing with
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Lukman kind of put a sour taste in, you know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: in management's mouth a bit maybe, uh, and the president's
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: mouth a bit. So I don't know if if it
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: ultimately is going to affect how they they're they're playing.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: It's it's a it's it's been a weird twenty twenty five.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Like we saw, we're speaking a bit, you know, off
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: air before we got on here about how Roma was
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: able to make that switch.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Right twenty twenty five. You know, they're they're they picked
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: up the most points.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: In in in in this new year, and Atanta's kind
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: of done maybe a one eight. So I think it's
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: just the highs and lows of the of the city
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: as season. But at the same time, you know, it's
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: probably in the back of their minds. It's it's for sure,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I think they were able to accomplish what they were
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: able to accomplish last season with with the Europea week.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: It's definitely something that uh, you know, the hold on
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: to again.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they're going to be able to
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: get over the school that too hump under Gasperini. It
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: would need quite a bit uh to end off the season.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Uh, and you know they'll need certain things to go
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: there their way and favorably.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: But you know it's uh, it's it's kind of just
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: where they're at currently. So I don't know, Johnny, I
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: don't know if you think is it affecting them? Like
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: for me, it's there, but I don't think it's the
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: ultimate factor that's maybe affecting their player.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't think so. In terms of the whole Loo
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: command situation, I don't think.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I don't think that's playing as much as a factor.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I mean we said it like we were saying it
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: like years before, like maybe gouspending these time is up
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Atalanta and the next thing, you know, they win Europa League.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: You know it's I think he goes when he wants
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: to go. I I yeah, what do you want you?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Sorry?
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: My cat's me aling right next to me, hold on,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: come on the show.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: What does she think?
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Maybe she thinks let's get Nebbia's opinion on this anyways,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: whatever she want to go eat. I think gas leaves
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: when Gasperini wants to leave. That's the way I see it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I think that they're on the cusp of being potentially
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: a school school at the winning team, and like I'm
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: looking at this as an owner's perspective, right, like we
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: just want to like we just want a major trophy
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: with this manager. We're a team that's competing for the
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: league title right now. Like I'm doing everything I can
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: to convince Gasperini to stay, Like as an owner, I
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: want Gasperini to stay because he's been getting these results
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: for the team, and it's only fair. Other than it's
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: only fair visually, I can see him as the only
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: coach to get them there because this is his team,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: this is his system, this is what he's created, right
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: and he developed. Now if I'm Gasparini, like obviously, if
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: you're looking at if you're looking at other offers elsewhere, sure,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: but it doesn't make sense to leave at the end
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: of the season, especially when you've gotten your team to
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: progress so far you brought like you like you've brought
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: them to where they are today. And yes, you've been
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: there for a long long time, but it's been yielding
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: results and you're you're you're getting accolades, You're you're getting
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: like you've want him, You've want a trophy, a major trophy.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: You have players that have become known because of your
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: system and stuff like, I don't know, man, Like, I
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: think it would be foolish for him to leave at
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: the end of the year if he wants to. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: think if I'm Gasparini, like, especially if you're making this
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: caudetto push, like, I think this is an argument to say, like, Okay,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: we're almost there. We're like one or two pieces of
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: way to actually legitimately have a shot at the title.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: And it's it if Atalanta gets there to winning the
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: league championship, it's on pure merit like it's not gonna
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: be one of those championships that it's like, oh, you know,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: they they got lucky with this or that. No, like
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: they built up towards this and removing Gasparini from there
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: just brings.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: That all back.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: So from an ownership perspective, you don't do that because
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: now your team is no longer going to be competitive
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: and you're not like you're not gonna you're not gonna
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: be attracting the most lucrative names that come to be
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Gamo as beautiful as as like you know, like well
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: off bet gamo Is and stuff, and especially that Atalanta
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: owns their own stadium, right, It's like, yeah, they're one
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: of the teams actually owned their own stadiums. If I'm mistaken,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: can you fact check me on.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: That America with the America ownership potential. I don't know
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: if I think.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: I think they're one of the teams that own their
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: own stadiums.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: It was Juve.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: I think it's Juve Atalanta, and I think I think.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I think I think it might be wrong about that one.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: By checking out while I in my little round here,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: if that's okay, okay, hey Nick, fact check for us that, please,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: thank you, please.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: You're searching up stats.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: But still like like you you're doing all these these
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: these right things and like all these little pieces. Yeah
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: it's gas Spardini. Every once in a while he says
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: a controversial thing. Yes, every once in a while, Gaspardini
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: acts like an idiot, and he's not the most beloved guy.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: He's a very hated guy. But if you're a sports
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: team you just want to win. You don't care. You
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: don't care if people like you or not. You don't
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: care if you're the most like well liked team in
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: the world Sportsmanship awards, Who cares. People are only gonna
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: talk about champion like it's it sucks to say, Like
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: the true diehard fans are gonna talk about like this
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: player was phenomenal, that player was great, the Steve a Man.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: We want we won this, we won that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, But like at the end of the day, everyone
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: does only be like, Okay, but which average did you win?
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Like that's a that's what
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: it is. That's what it's.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Nobody's gonna remember the I don't know, the twenties eighteen
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Atalanta or whatever.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know team like like I have the biggest
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: love for for like the mid two thousands Roma teams,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: you know, or like even towards the late two thousands
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: of like the Lamela years and stuff. It's like these
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: guys are just like like these players are just like
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: they look they look good and stuff, and it's just
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: they play okay and they just never get there, you know,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: or like that that the Napolies, the famous Napolete tried
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: it the hamstick, Lavets and Cavani. It's like, cool, what
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: did you get out of it? A Kopley tally or two?
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Like it's nice, don't forget,
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: But that's what I say. Only diehard fans don't forget.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: So for Atalanta's case, you know, like you won a
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: major European title, Uh, you're fighting for the league title
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: just to linden the plane home. I think Gasparini leaving
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: just tears down everything that they have built. The only
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: time where it makes sense for Gasparini to leave is
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: if he starts setting up the team or the system
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: in a way where if a new coach were to
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: come in, it's not like if they're gonna have to
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: take like decades upon decades of work to like implement
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: their way. You know. You know what I'm trying to say,
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Like it's spot hands offter, like his roots are too
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: embedded in the soil of Vedica. That's the best way
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: I can like to pull up that tree. Is gonna
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: be tough anyways, So.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Don't listen to the reports, guys, because I was seen
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: that gas potentially leave by the end of the season,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: So don't listen to the reports.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Listen to Johnny. It could happen.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: It could happen, but I think it's foolish.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: But but I also think, like this is his ninth
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: season and well like eventually you know, the chapterest end, right, Yeah, no,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: last forever. This is probably his best chance to win
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a Scudetto. Yes, it sucks they're out Oficle Italia, they're
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Champions League, but that could be the best blessing of
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the guys. You know, they're four points behind. Guys, they're
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: right there.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: But they need things to go their way and they
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: need to continue winning.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what it is, Yeah, exactly, and you know it's
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: it's obviously gonna be tough. But that game against Inter
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: if that that's to do with that game right there,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: If they win that game, they're giving themselves a massive,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you know chance out of Scudetto. But no, it's I
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: think it'll be interesting with them, you know, what happens
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: in the future, whether whether guess but he stays for
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: that tenh season or not.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, most they have they've had
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: a good Mercato. I think they've had they brought him
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: good players, they've let goal of players. They've like Johnny said,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: they've done it all, so I don't know it'll be tough.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Again, if like I was saying, if
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: you if you read the reports, uh, it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Looks like it's going south, but you never know if
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: they happen to manage magically. Sorry, I pull off the
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: scoode to the season. Does he leave on that high?
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Does he try it for that ten season? If they
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: don't make it, you know, only time will tell. Right now,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: he has that, he has his his his leading striker
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: as the couple of Conning editor of the league, you know,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: the attack.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: He has twenty one goals. So they're doing things right, guys.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I think listen, there's a bit of a lull in
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: every season for every team, and maybe it's it's it's
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: just one of those things. It's not coming at an
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: ideal time when there's only what ten eleven matches left
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: tend the season, so it's, uh, that's not ideal.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, you.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Know, I even know it's other teams can slip up
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: and they can make ground and you know, we're singing
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: a different tune.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: And after the international break, let's say so we'll see.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: And the right below them is by Juve. I mean
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: they they'd make you a bit of ground the past
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: few weeks, five straight wins in Citia, six of the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: last seven. But obviously you know the Black guys totalis
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: champions Toaguloss that we talked about last week. You know,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I did like today's game. Monty Pole
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: is absolutely insane in that for hell Us it should
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: have been four or five nothing, you know. I like
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the fact that they didn't, they didn't let up and
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: they got the two goals. Cavirontura, I've talked about him
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: so much, you know, this season. He's a monster. Honestly,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I love like, I love watching that guy. I think
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: he's been, Yeah, I think he's been. I think you
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: can even say he's been his best player, you know,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: at least best midfielder. Uh. And yeah, it's just fantastic player.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Happy for kup Miners to score a goal. I think
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: it is the only second goal with you at least
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: or least second goal in Citia. But yeah, the game
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: this weekend against anton is huge shot. Look, we're talking
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: about Atlanta. They got to win this game. You two,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: if you've wants a chance they got to win this game.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: But I feel like with you, you know, you look
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: at their schedule. They have an easier schedule than at Talanta.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: They they do play at Talanta Fiorentina, they play Roma,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: they played below Nia and Lazio. But other than that,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of bottom teams that towards the end of
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the season, you know, not a lot, you know, let's
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: say the teams in fifteen, sixteen, seventeen range that probably
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: won't have much to fight for. But at the same time,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: they they don't have those games against inter Anopoly where
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: they can make up points. So you know, for you
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: if they do at least want to stay in the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: school at the race, it's it's a lot relying on
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Internopoly and dropping points.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Obviously they control their own faith, and in the fact
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: that there's eleven games left, they they know they could
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: go out and win eleven games. That doesn't guarantee the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: scudetto though, you know, so I think I said last week,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of inim for the school that though
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: if you you know, inm for the moon, you're you know,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: even if you miss your line among the stars. So
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: they can't be thinking right now aboutlatso Lasto is right
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: there too, right behind them, but I think as at
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: fifty fifty five point fifty two, sorry, and then Lastio's
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: at fifty so Latsio's right there, and they play each
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: other towards the end of the season, and with the coefficient,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you know, we're not too sure. If you've able to
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: get it'llly we'll get the fifth spot next year. So
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you know, staying in the top four is really important.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: So I think you just need to win as many
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: games as possible to stay in that top four and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: continue growing. And you know, I think, yes, they do
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: have to walk through injuries like cabral Uh and Brammer,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: but it feels like they're a bit healthier now than
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: they were like maybe two three weeks ago. They have
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: they got the depth that they got with with the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: winter mercato, so just building through through that, you kind
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: of see it that you know at this point, now
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Cola Morani is the striker and Valovich comes off the
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: bench that what's that thing? And now that they will
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: be playing once a week, I don't expect much cross
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: rotation week to week as long as tour rounds starting
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I'm happy it was interesting to bench uh Ku miners today.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: But we'll see what we'll see if you starts against
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: his former team on Sunday. But no, I think, you know,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think fans and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: youve management will be satisfied for the top four finish.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I know, Adri, I don't know if you have an
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: opinion on this, but there was a tweet from Martino
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: today that I guess a couple of you know, Uve Ultras,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: they had banners of the weekend criticizing the players, criticizing
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the management.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: I was going to bring that up. Actually, that's funny
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: you say that.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Which is fair, honestly, especially you know, especially the fact
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: that the management has been quiet through all this. I
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: think that's the frustrating part. Uh, the fact that you know,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: you got eliminated the Champions League and called Batalia two
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: weeks in a row. I think it just frustration adds up.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: And then Martino tweeted like like, you know, even fans
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: are spoiled in the top four and we're still we'll
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: still you know, protesting about it, which again fair, but
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: you know, look at protest, I guess what they want, uh,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: And it's all about setting a standard, right if. And
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I think it's just been overall frustrat season and you know,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: you can kind of mask these past few weeks, kind
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of masks the rest of the season, right Yeah, it's
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: been nice five wins in a row, In saida yeah,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: but before that, how many draws were there? How many
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: frustrating games were there? So spot where you know, at
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the end of the season, I think you will be
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: happy with the results, but maybe not happy with the journey,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you know in this case, but the destination not the journey.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, listen, and I saw I saw some of
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: those videos like the Ultras, you know, a canting against
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Mata and obviously we spoke a bit about it last
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: week with with Anthony there from a JAC But it's
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: things like that, it becomes, you know, sometimes a bit.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Of an unnecessary noise, like, uh, okay, we get it.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: You don't want to Mota behind the bench.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: But if this guy brings you to the top four, even
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: though with the other disappointments, are you still gonna you know,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: chop his head off? I don't know, Like I again,
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: we said it last week, I don't want to bring
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: that back up and I mean I said I I
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: would still keep them if I were them, but it's
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: just uh yeah, I become like I said, just unnecessary noise.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: But again, listen, these fans are die hard fans. You know,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: they pay top dollar to see uh, you know, a
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: winning franchise. Uh in history, right, they have a history
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: of winning, so they wanna they want to obviously see
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: that on the pitch, you know, weekend and week out,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: which which I get.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: But again, it's just it.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Brings extra turmoil to already, like you said, Nick, a
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: frustrating season.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, as frustrating as it's been,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: to look on the other side, they're still in a
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: good spot, right, so things could be a lot worse,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: I think, uh for for a team like Jove, you know,
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: like we said earlier, how Romos there this season, this
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: this this rut and this this this uh you know,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: just frustration over frustration of a of a of a
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: period for me on right now.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: It's things can be worse.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: So to say, to say what you know, to kind
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: of echo Martino, I guess said or was trying to say,
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: you know, I see where he's coming from.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: But because things can be a lot worse. You know,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: they're we set. I mean I think we set all
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: the points.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: About you it right away last week and just in general.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: But for as things are going, they're still in fourth place.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: We're still talking about you know, maybe not right now,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: but maybe if things go their way school that in
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: their in their in their reach. They're not totally like
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: mathematically out of it. It still says something for for
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: this bad season that they've been having.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Again, I don't know what you felt about, you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: the all that like protesting, Like I don't know if
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: it for me just it doesn't help like I was
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: trying to, it doesn't really help much in terms of
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure the players are aware.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure what the knows.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure management knows that what they need to
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: do is unfortunate when you don't see it on the pitch, Melan,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: we're not seeing it on the pitch.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: But I gotta know, do you do you care? Do
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: you do you do you mind it or not? I mean.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't really say it affects me in any way,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: shape or form, right, I'm not surprised. You see this
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: all the time across Italy. You know, Melan fans have
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: done this, you know they you know remember Adri the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Benter years, Like we're you know, Melon fans, they don't
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: even go to the stadium. They will trus uh. You know,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sure Interfence have done this, not defense have done this.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: You know, like on the surface, it's very weird to
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: do wire a bunch of grown manders taking time other
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: day to make these signs. And like you said, the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: players understand that they they they would be better. But
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: you know, at the same time, like there's the whole
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: tradition of soccer is built on fans, right, and so
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: it's more than just a game. Yeah, you know, so
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: you go look good for both ways. Like I'm not surprised,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: you know, they say they have to say and then
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: that's it, Like that's fine. I don't know. I don't know, Jenny,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: did you have any thoughts about that or no where
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: we could move on?
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, like I'm not in a position to say
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: anything because it's not my manager, but.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: I think it's just like if you weren't there last week, Jenny,
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: would you would you keep Mata?
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: I was there. I was there last week two weeks
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: some two weeks ago, I had my migraine and they
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: couldn't come.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Sorry two weeks Yeah, so we spoke about it.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, You're right, Yeah, I mean I would keep
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Mata if he hit stop four. Like, yeah, I think
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: it was a bit too soon for him to be
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: jumping up to a team like uh, Juventus, but they
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: went after him, and like, you can't blame him for
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: saying yes when they went out, but management asked him
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: to be It's not like because if he asked, they
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: went for him. You management went for him. So to
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: let him go would be uh like accepting of an
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: immediate failures failure. So it's I think you got to
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: give Mata like a couple of like a bit more time.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: We discussed it last week with its Ganga where it's like,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: you know, like he could only do so much. It's
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: also also has to come a bit from the players too,
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: So I think, uh, I think in in this vision,
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: it would be foolish to let go of Mata. I
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: think he I think because of vent this being Juve,
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: they do stay in the top four and if they
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: even if they slip out of the top four, So
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: like I know, like Champions League money. You would like
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: that and stuff, but I wouldn't see it as a
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: reason to let him go. I think I would think
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I would hold on to him. But that's just but
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: I'm not an eventino, so I can't really speak too
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: much on their behalf.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Might as well since we brought it out, might as
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: well switch your to your doomed me line. I think
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: we could put it that way.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: My curse Milan. Yeah, well, what's there to say?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Fuck us this weekend?
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Another one three in a row, guys, three in a row,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: three to one losses in a row. When we thought things, uh,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: you know, couldn't get worse, they have.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it's it's a real shame.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: I know a lot of fans are are really really upset,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: myself included, uh, you know, definitely pissed.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Uh. Just again, do you.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Want to talk about frustrating seasons and frustrating periods in
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: a season, this is exactly it for Milan.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: So to one result against against Lotso loss.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Just again, there's not really much to say on the game.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: I think I think they picked it up in the
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: second half.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: For sure. They had they had.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Some uh you know, they had some momentum there in
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: the in the in the second half, it wasn't uh,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: you know, all too great, but they had some sort
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: of feel and for the game in that second half.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Again, must have said something and got into these players heads.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: But uh that you know, the first half the gobaz
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Cany again it just giveaway. You got a guy like
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Meez Meez, the young right back or playing right back. Uh,
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: you know, he's more of an offensive guy. He's not
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: he's not you know, the solid guy defensively, and and
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: the CANi was able to get to the ball first
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: and put it in.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: The fact that they were able to tie the game
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: was was was interesting to me. I didn't think.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: I didn't know if at one point I was like, okay,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: this game is gonna end on nothing. It just seemed
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: to be like one of those games they matched to,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: you know, to uh to to tie the game. One
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: one off the the rough l cross back post was
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: a nice header bar down found from the found the net.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: There was able to tie the game, and it's like, okay,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: you know what, maybe will salvage a point not to
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: be unfortunately, right before the game ends ninety fourth, ninety
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: fifth minute whatever it was or probably actually probably ninety
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: seven minute by the time you actually kicked it down,
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: ball with it the net after a bar and everything.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: You know, the penalty Pedro slots it in.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Listen, people have all kinds of opinion about about the penalty.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: You know, some people say one thousand percent, some people
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: say it's soft. For me, it's it's it's one of
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: those things where I don't know anymore. It's like, I
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: don't even know what opinion to have. They gave it,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: they went to go check, they gave it. Pedro slots
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: it in. Uh and they win?
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Right? Did they really merit to win? Maybe?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Sure?
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Did they play an ultimate great game?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: I don't think they want to play the best game
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: they they could have.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: I think they're a better team than what they showed
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: on the pitch.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, they they were able to
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: scratch and claw and and and pick up the win,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: and at the end of the day, that's all that counts.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: So you know, credit to them. But yeah, for me
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: on it's just like I said, from bad to worse,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: from top to bottom. It's just it's it's unfortunate. It
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: just for me personally, it looks like this Mewan team
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: currently over this last I would say month or so,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: maybe within the new year, I don't know, but it's
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: they have, you know, twenty two individuals instead of a team.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: You know, they don't have.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: There's no cohesion, there's no sense of belonging, there's no team,
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: there's no effort. There's certain guys who have effort, there's
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: certain guys that don't. It's lackluster. There's individual mistakes. Our
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: top players are not you know, point at the top
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: level that you know they we know they can or
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: the talent shows they can. People are clinging on to
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: what they've done in the past and then currently what
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: they're producing currently. I know a lot of people, one
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: of Mewon fans want to clean slate in the summer.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that solves all the issues, to
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: be honest with you, because if we're really going with
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: a clean slate, that's a lot of bodies to fill
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: in a lot of important positions. I think for one,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: you know, Mian needs a sporting director. That's it's clear
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: they have no direction for management. That circus that's going
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: on up top between Ebra, Moncada, Ferlani and Cardinale, who's
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: barely there. It just it doesn't make sense. Nobody wants
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: to take accountability, or when they try to take accountability,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: it's way late in the season and they'd be like.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Fans are like, well, where were you to when when
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: this was really hitting the fan.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Ibra wants to be the boss, but then when he
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: goes and gets interviewed, he's like, no, well I work
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: for me on, so it's I'm not the boss. So
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: this ego and this persona is what he wants it
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: to be. Again, love Ebra the player, but I don't
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: think he's in a position and qualified enough to be
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: at the position that he's at currently for Wannie, for
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: me is another joke in my opinion, maybe as maybe
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: as assisting somebody that would be in his position currently, sure,
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: but as as the main guy, I don't see I
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: don't see it. Moncada. Over the years, I've I haven't
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: minded He's he's brought some talent into me on, He's
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: brought some players, but again, I think it helps when
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: he has capable guys around him. So for me, I've
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: always I've said it a lot on this show and
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: just other shows that I went on, and it really
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: starts at the top unfortunately for for soccer, for culture,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: you know that foundation instead of being at the at
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: the bottom, it's it's it's at the top, and it
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: trickles down in my eyes, when you don't have a
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: queer direction, when you don't have a clear path.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: These are kind of the things that we were where
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: we experience.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: You know, you you go of a coach, you bring
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: you you're not your preferred option, not your first option,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: and a guy like Fonseca that doesn't work, you pull
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: the eject button. You bring in Contao who I personally,
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: I know things have been haven't been going right and
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: and well, and he hasn't been perfect, But personally I
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: don't I don't know.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I don't want to, I don't wanna.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: I don't want to say like he's been great, but
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: I personally I don't mind conce Sao.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: It's just me and are in such a disarray.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: That no matter what is, no matter who's there and
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: what is being done, it's not good enough.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: So it's it.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Looks bad on everyone and he's the guy leading the
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: team and unfortunately the resultso not coming so down to
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: ninth place forty one points. I think the last time
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: it's been this bad. Was the nineteen twenty season the
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: jump Paulo Pioli switch season, if I'm not mistaken, when
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: they had thirty nine points around this point in the season.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: So sorry to interrupt out he said, any season. I
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: thought he meant like nineteen twenty, one hundred and twenty
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: five years ago, one hundred and five years ago.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: May I mean at this yet? Who knows?
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: But no, the twenty nineteen twenty twenty season, for all
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: the listeners, they were at thirty nine points. If I
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: if I'm if my memory shows me right at that
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: point in time, and that was a bit of a
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: weird period as well. Obviously we saw what transpired after.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: But it's just it's it's it's just again, just.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Not good enough.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: It comes down to that, there's a there's eleven games left,
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: this Super Kopa win, the derby wins, or positive results,
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: the Real Madrid winning the Champions League. This seems like
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: it's like these these results and these moments are so
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: far gone that it seems like it's been a whole
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: different It was a whole different season ago. This seems
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: like it was a couple of seasons ago that this happened.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: For how much has changed over this time, so I
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: know lot of people.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: You know our faulting, uh you know, you know, if
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: it be.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Comes to South, it the upper management, if it be Cardinale,
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: like you saw that, you saw it during this game.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: You know, the fans, the Ultras, made a made a statement,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: made a stand. You know, they weren't gonna again. I
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: really don't get what what it ends up doing. But
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: not showing up for the first fifteen minutes, but coming
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: in a minute fifteen to eventually for the rest of
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: the time of the game to chant for Cardinale to
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: sell the team, go away, go away. I think it
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: was it. It was Cardinale dive even vat like that
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: was song the whole game, from minute from the fifteenth
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: minute to the ninety eighth minute, whenever the game ended.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: That's all they were seemed to be singing.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: So again, what that what that ends up ultimately doing
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: or not, I don't know. But their voices were heard
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: for sure because everybody's talking about it. So will anything change,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know. One positive news from today is a
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: player like Tijianni renders renewing until twenty thirty, which seems
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: to be a bit of a shock because you know,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: this team has been pointing so bad and he wants
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: to stick around and and fight for to bring this
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: team back to, you know, a sensible place in the table.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: I think speaks credit to him because he's been an
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: incredible player for us. So but it's these other players,
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: these other top players, you know, the magnans of the world,
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: the Lales of the world, the Tales of the world.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: I know, you know, Tao is.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: Looking for another contract. His expires in June of twenty
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: twenty six. So you know, if you listen to Ferlani
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: and company, they don't want players to leave for free anymore,
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: which we've had a habit of doing for some of
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: our you know, starting eleven players in the past. So
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: I hope not again. There's been so much negative that
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: people just want it all just to blow up and
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: start over. Unfortunately, in my head, this is not f
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: twenty five, this is not FIFA, this is not you know,
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: career mode where you can just inject all kinds of
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: money into your club and uh and start new and
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: start fresh.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: Do things need a change, for sure.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: But I don't know if blown it up and Queen
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Slade is ultimately the best, the best thing, because again
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: we spoke with it. We spoke about it again with
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Marco about two weeks ago. This team, on paper is
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: too talented to be at the positions right and I'm
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: going to stick by that because there is talent on
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: this roster, as much as fans don't.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Want to see it.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: Right now, you cannot tell me that the players that
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: this team has merits a ninth place finish, a tenth
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: place finish, a non European finishing team. For me, I'm
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: going to stick by that. I know it's my team.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: You're gonna say other day you're biased. I have to
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: stick by that because there's quality on this on on
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: on this on this team. Are they playing to it?
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not. Do they deserve to be reprimanded? Absolutely Uh.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: You know those contract talks. You wanna, you want to
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: earn the bigger bucks, you have to earn it.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: We can't always rely on you know, back in the
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: past when they had great performances the scudetto year, guys
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: were what three years removed from that We went on
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: three years removed from from that year from the scudetto Uh,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: you know, we can't continue looking in the past, we
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: have to go forward. And again, if you listen to
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: the reports, I don't know if it's gonna be with Uh.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: For me again, it's just it would be just a
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: shame to kind of just not have some stability. I
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: would like for him to stay another season or at
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: least give him the summer Mercato give him because listen,
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, he got thrown into
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: a situation that wasn't ideal. He managed to pick up
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: some early results, has been on a bit of a
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: lall as of late. Uh, you know, three losses in
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: a row.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: I think they've picked up what one win in the past.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Again, Nick, maybe you have to fact check me out
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: because I don't remember the numbers, but uh, they have like.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: One win in like the last handful of games. It's
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: it's it's clearly.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: Not good enough. They, like I said, slip down to
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: ninth place. Yeah, man, I know me and Fanzer are pissed.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: They have every right to be myself included. I'm gonna
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: throw myself in there. But again, it's, uh, you have
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: to if they can end the season on just some
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: sort of a positive note and just maybe have to
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: maybe pulling a Knopoli from last season to this season?
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Is that blessing in this guise?
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know, uh you know or sorry, Then
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: we have two years ago to the drop off to
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: this the last season to this season. Again, maybe they
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: need that cycle. Unfortunately it hurts, it's things, it's a
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: sour taste in your mouth. But sometimes maybe these teams,
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: these clubs need a refresh at that. Hopefully it's not
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: as painful for me on I don't want to go back.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: I don't want to take two steps back every time
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: and not go forward.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: I would rather go forward.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: But yeah, just uh, overall, I think uh many mistakes
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: from top to bottom. I saw Ancelotti's quote, uh, Ancelotti's
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: quote about me.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Making a mistake to Mali like Maldini. Goo.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: I know a lot of you know people have been
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: saying that you know, he he got, he got the
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: boot with way way less errors. Uh and and and
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: you know people currently got I've been getting away with
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: a lot more and they're still in their in their seats,
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: whereas many fans are saying that Maldini got didn't get
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: that same wish and it's a shame because he is Milan.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: You know, you cannot spell Maldini without melon. It's just
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: it's one of those things. They go hand in hand,
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: like bread and butter. So I don't know if I
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: don't know if they end up sucking their pride and
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: bringing them back in. I don't know if that's the
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: if that's the answer, but you know, they definitely need
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: a lot of soul searching.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: This uh, this, this, this, this summer, and I just
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: hope that you know, they can they can kind.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Of get on on a better page because this is
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: unfortunately unacceptable for for a team like Melan.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Uh, and we cannot go you know, we cannot go
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: backwards like like this.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: And I know what fans are saying, Yeah, this is
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: meon banter at two point zero. Guys, if you remember
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: the real melon banter, the players that were on these teams, Uh,
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: the cultural guys have see can put up a better
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: fight than those some of those mean teams.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: So let's pump the bricks on.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: That is they going back to bad times maybe, but
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: not at two point zero when you hire guys, you know,
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: And now we're on the pitch that had no business
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: being in the Mewan shirt. So I'll just leave that
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: at that. And again I'm just hopeful. I know we
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: spoke to Mark what I said. We were saying that,
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: you know, it starts against Torino, that Torino match kind
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: of to kind of pick up the pieces from, you know,
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: getting bored out of the Champions League and all that.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately wasn't to be the makeup game against Bologna. Was
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: that makeup game? Guys, it finally happened. We lost to one.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: There's not that in the back of our minds anymore.
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: The Latto game is another one. And now I think
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: this weekend, I don't remember if it's Homo or if
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: it's who it's against. But you know, they can't take
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: these games lightly. There's eleven games, eleven finals left. If
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: they somehow managed to win, I think the last eleven
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: games the max they can finish with the seventy four
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: points if I'm not mistaken, If the math is correct,
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: I think the top four dream is unfortunately gone. But
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: if they can crawl into if they can crawl into
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: some sort of European competition, we'll see. But you know,
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: at the same time, I don't know how beneficial it
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: will be because missing out on that Champions League money,
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: what kind of like Johnny alluded.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: To earlier, it hurts for teams that.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Need to continue to build to kind of get back
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: to a level that they're used to. So ultimately, me
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: and fans were listening, I'm with you. I'm pissed, I'm angry,
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: I'm upset, and just hopeful and optimistic for the future
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: to hopefully be bright for me.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: On, yeah, you're talking about in recent games since well
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: before the uve A game on January eighteenth, they were
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: in seventh place, heading too that since then, eight games,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: four losses, three wins in a draw. Johnny year Room
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: kind of the opposite. They haven't lost since December fifteenth
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: in the city, which is insane. In the past eleven games,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: eight wins, three draws. You know, this includes you know,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: one of the only Italian teams to actually win their
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: knockout round in European competition, or were they? Yeah, because
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: if you're in teena enter had to buy and then
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: you've a that's lost, so they're the only talent team
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: as well, sorry let's go too, I had to buy.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: So they were the only Italian team to actually win
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: the knockout phase in Europe and so they you know,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: they beat Porto and they're gonna be playing Bilbao. But
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: you know, look at looking at them since the start
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: of that streak they had, you know, they they headed
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: into that, you know, the first game of that streak
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: in twelfth place and now they're in eighth. So you know,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: making up four places it's good. But uh, you know,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: it's it's not like a ton of places either. But
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: I think overall, like Romo, you got you guys gotta
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: be happy.
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, it's it's making up for loss ground
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: and it's just making up for the disaster start to
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: the season. This is honestly the best case scenario that
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: you can ask for from Annette. I don't think it's
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: sustainable in a sense where like he is the coach
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: going forward, because you know how you've always seen what
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: Annette like. The first season is always phenomenal, then after
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: that it just dips. He's able to he's there to
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: help patch things up and rally the team. He came
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: out of retirement for it. But obviously I don't see
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: him going further beyond that. So if I'm at Ama
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: at this point, it's like I'm looking towards uh next
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: year right now, I'm trying. I'm trying making plans for
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: next year, using this time to look at the roster
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: and see who stays, who goes. They already tried to
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: make an offer for solid Makers. I think, yeah, I
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: think they want to. Milan wants to renegotiate a bit
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: or was it Romo. I wanted to negotiate a bit more.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: And I think Milan's standing pad on the original deal
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: either or there's no agreement yet.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: He's been playing well.
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like it's it's nice. Like uh, like I said,
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: I'm not complaining with the recent results. If you had
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: a MINISTA, you're super happy because you're you're back in
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: the top ten. Uh. It was a disasters start, you know,
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: even against Como, you know, like you're like I was like,
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: oh great, they're down one zero before the half. The
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: next thing, you know, you know, they they get too
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: uh and they win that game out mind you. I
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: was kind of like, Okay, if they lose to Como,
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: that helps build my Como agenda.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: You know, like helps prove my Okay.
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: But no, it is still possible. Heck, if they finished eleventh,
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: I mean I would have been closed. Yeah, but yeah,
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: like it's it's great, Uh, I just I still think
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: that you need to find like a sustainability plan. You
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: need to find something to build towards for next year. Uh.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: If you make a European stop spot somehow, even if
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: it's for Conference League, it's like, great, but what team
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: do you have and it's gonna make that push for that,
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: you know, whether it would be Conference League, if by
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: divine miracle to make Europa, it's like cool, but what
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: are you gonna do that realistically? So I honestly believe
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: that from here on out, You like, if you're at Homa,
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: you start looking towards what are you gonna be doing
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: in the summer. If you're a fan, you're enjoying this ride,
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: especially in the European competition, you're just like you're gonna go, Yeah,
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: why not, Like, let's see how far we can go.
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: I think everything at this point is just like, compared
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: to the rough start, you're just taking everything that comes
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: your way. I think that's the best way to describe it.
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: With that, with that horrendous first three months of the season,
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: you're just you're just you're taking all the results as
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: they come. So for me, it's everything's a pleasant surprise.
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: I'm happy. I'm enjoying it. It's just it's at the
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: end of the day. The argument or discussion to be
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: had is Roma needs to be back in top four
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: if they really want to be serious again. It's been
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: a lot long time since they haven't been a top
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: four team. They've been discussing it every year. What concrete
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: plan have you established to get you back into the
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: top four? That's what the issue is at Oma. There's
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: no concrete plan. There has been a concrete plan in
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: the past three seasons. There hasn't been any. The only
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: like stability piece that you went to acchoir is Dibala
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: uh and even at that one, Dibala Like, as much
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: as I love the guy, he's not always going to
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: be available because you know, like his body has taken
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: so much toll at a young age, but he's still
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: like I'm not like he's still I must say he's
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: a bad player. I'm saying in terms of like he's
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: not the most viable.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: He wants to stick a run in stage.
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: So yeah, exactly, like like he went to go buy
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: a Dolphin bik last year. You know, like it's built
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: like establish that core, make that concrete plan, plan to
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: build around it and then go from there next year. Uh,
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: that's if I was at Alma, that's what i'd be.
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: That's what I would be doing right now. And Gelino
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: has been has been been a pleasant surprise. Let's see
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: if it's not just a flash in the pan, if
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: it's actually something that's sustainable, that's that's actually the more
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: I say it, the more I think about it, that's
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: the plan for roma sustainability. This is great. Is it sustainable?
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: And if so, what do you what are your plans
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: to make it better? So enjoy the ride while you
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: can in a good way. This is fun, it's fat.
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: It's nice to be back in the top, like in
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: the top ten. If to make it to like a
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: European spot, great, But if you don't, I mean, like
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: my expectations were very low because of the start, so
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: I would I wouldn't be hurt by it. But you know,
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: it's better to be eighth place than to be sixteenth,
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, or seventeenth, that's the way
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: I'm saying it.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: So relegation, Like I mean, before this whole turnaround, they
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: were like like we were saying off air there I
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: mean I don't remember what place they were in, but
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: you know they were the points towards relegation was closer
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: than you know.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Top ten or even our European spots. So now, jounp Wiston,
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: it is what it is. It's only four spots. That's fun.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: But I don't think many people would say that they
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: would have even done it after seeing that start, So
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: I guess you gotta have tip your.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Hat off to for that.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: But no, I agree on you. Sustainability for sure. Maybe
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: uh maybe cas Perini to Roma. Maybe that's the stableizer.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: It could be, we'll see.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Uh. Last, last last team I want to talk about
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: before wrapping up, guys, Bologna. They've been hot last ten games.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: Last ten games one lost three draws and or four
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: draws and I guess five wins, so uh, you know
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: they're still drawing a bit kind of like last season, right,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: but you know they've been make up the wins doing
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: the last four, including the makeup game against Melon last week. Uh,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: and then and then they're right there in the mix
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: now because you know it's a team that very slow,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: they very slow start, you know, understandable, new coach, new
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: new system. They lost a lot of players. Uh they
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: were you know, after week four they were in seventeenth
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: place and now they're up to sixth. You know, even
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: before the you know, the streak.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Started six wow fu fuck they were.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're in six even before before the streak started.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: In the last ten games, they were seventh place with
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: twenty nine points, and now they're at forty seven points.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: So that's uh, eighteen points in the last ten games.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: So it's it's it's good enough. Obviously it's not Bologna
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: last year. But I don't know, what do you guys,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: What do you guys make of it? I because what
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: what what I would say is it seems like, you know,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: the players that are left, let's say like in ORCELINI,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: he's been playing well too. Whatever culture was established last year,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: that was good enough to finish fifth, to get into
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: the Champions League. It seems like it's for me. And
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: I know it's again you you know, new coaching system.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: You know, some of their stars from last season aren't
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: there anymore, but they're that it seems like that mentality
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: is back and and they're having fun while doing it.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're really they're playing for each other,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: like even the game this weekend. They I think it
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: was against Calgary if I'm not mistaken. Obviously not the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: big opposition.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, Kylerie has been a bit
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: of a ballbuster to some teams and they seem to
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: be enjoying it.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: They seem to have like contrary to what I said.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: About me on you know, they there like there eleven
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: eleven individuals rather than a team on the pitch. I
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: think Bonie is the opposite. I think they they are
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: that team. They play for each other. They have some
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: some maybe lower end names that maybe a lot of
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: people who don't know about. But again we have to Bolona,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: we too, to kind of lead that ship. And I
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: think Sten he gets a lot of flak as a manager,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: which is fine, that's that's that's fine.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: But what he was able to do at Fjordentina.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: And in that in his sample size there and now
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: jumping over to Bologna, obviously, the the Champions League experience
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: then I think will always be great. It was always
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: going to be a great experience no matter what the
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: results were going to be. Obviously the results weren't there
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: ultimately for them to do anything more. But I think
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: that it gave him still some confidence to to focus
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: on the season.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: There what in the.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: Semi finals for too, right, they end up moving on.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: So it's it's another thing, right, it's another thing for
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: a team like Bologna to to look on, look onto,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: look forward to their striker that the young Argentinian guy
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: his name escapes me now, but he's been pointing well
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: young Uh he's he's he's all over the place. He's
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: scoring goals or Sony dealing with injury, but still being
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: there when when the team needs him. He's been, uh,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: kind of like Beardi for for sus he's been that
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: rock for for Bologna. He kind of seems to fit
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: that same mold of player that just doesn't seem to
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: want to leave or just doesn't leave.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but uh, he's, he's there, he's he
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: he's with a.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: Smile, he's he's celebrating big time with the Courva. You know,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: the fans obviously like them and love them. So it's positive.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: You know, I saw even even you know, even our
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: guy Joey Saputo, right, he's he seems to be doing
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: the right things. It seems to be from from an
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: outside perspective, with that with that team. Yeah, for sure,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: we're not talking about the impact.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: That's a different.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: Story for a different podcast, for a different day. But
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: it seems that you know, the investment and the.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: Time and and uh and you know, the the just
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: the volume to want to do it, I think is showing.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: And it's uh, it's showing with results where they are
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: on the table, what they've been doing even with all
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: the changes. So it's it's it's huge for for a
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: team Bona. I think, uh, it was always going to
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: be tough. All their big stars left, including their coach
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: who brought them to the level that they're at. But
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: but you know, so and so they were able to
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: kind of fight their way to where they are now.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: And it took their coach maybe some time, their new
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: coach in time, but.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: You know, they're they're they're right there.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: Ultimately, what they'll do to end off this season only
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: time hotel. But I think if they can continue on
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: this path, I know we say this a lot, but
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: if they can continue on and and kind of build
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: that concrete plan kind of what Johnny I want to
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: do with with Roma, I think they can they can
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  Speaker 3: stick around in these you know, five six seven eighth
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: place type of team and fight for the conference league,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: you know, Europa week and be in that mix because
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: it's you know, something different and it's it seems to
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: be working. As of wait, how sustainable it will ultimately
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: be again, I don't know. It all depends on how
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: serious they want to be. But so so I think
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: you know, they're they're in the mix, and it's it's
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: a positive thing for you know, for a good fan
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  Speaker 3: based like Bonnia.
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  Speaker 4: I definitely it's a it's a surprise. They're definitely proving
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: me wrong. I thought they'd lost way too much last year. Uh,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 4: you know, like not just in terms of players, but
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: in terms of management too and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, and they're.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: Still showcasing themselves that they're in the mix. I've discussed
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: this with Nick many times before. I just feel like
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 4: as if should really like focus on one team or
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 4: the other. I just feel like he's kind of splitting
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: himself with c F Montreal Sorry impact, the Montreal impact,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna forever.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: So it's.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: I think that Bologna also feels those effects to even
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: though they were Champions League this year, because of their
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: phenomenal run last year and it's looking like, you know,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: you can make you could make Conference League this year,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: maybe Europa League push if you play your cards right,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: would be cool for them. So like it's and that's
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: a better spot where they might yield better results. I think, uh,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: if Bologna does want to make to that next step
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: into like keep saying, within that rotation of the I
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 4: think it's it's I think what it's for it to happen,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: either sells his half to a new ownership group, or
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: he relinquishes control from c F Montreal to somebody else
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: and he just solely focuses on Bologna. I I I
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: honestly do believe that it's too divided right now. I
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: think that's what's holding them back a bit more from
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: because there is potential if.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: Even if that's the case, they're still doing real.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's potential there. But I'm saying it's because there's
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 4: potential there, like you have the opportunity to do that
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: or designate somebody to handle the Bologna side of things,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, or like like either or
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: it's it's it's the One thing I take away from
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: this is just frustration from the fans from both parts,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: because there was a point in time where Bologna felt
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: neglected and here in Montreal we feel our teams neglected too,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: because it just feels like our team is being is
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: producing players just to sell them. It feels like whenever
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: we develop a good core of players or a good
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: group of players, it just okay, thank you, like it's
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: it's a factory. You're just developing to sell. So I'm
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: just speaking from that perspective. Now. For Bologna this year
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: phenomenal that they're still in a competitive spot despite all
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: their their losses in the offseason. I think this is
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: going to be good for them going forward because they're
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 4: going to be in a realm where the teams around
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: them are not as strong as they were in champions
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: They can actually do have a fighting chance of doing
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: some damage in European competition because of Seleni and the
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 4: European competition excites me because he's also another guy that
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: you know, fan of the show, Nick Deani has always
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 4: been behind and we love our Soolini too and we
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: I think that he's one of those guys that should
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 4: be as a call up for the national team and
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: it'd be nice for him to uh be that surprise.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 4: Uh super sub for for the Italian national team, you
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: And he was at some of these games, so he's
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: been keeping a I think a good eye good.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: I saw him. I saw him at a couple.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: Actually he was at the Melon game, and he was
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: at the Monsa Torino game, I think, and scored a
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: goal there, and uh there was somebody else was a
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: county scored in the Watsoso game. But uh, I think
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: he still has an eye on I think he has
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: an eye on on on Marsogenia as well.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: So again, as we get coaching, maybe to the international break,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: we probably can talk about that further. But I agree
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: It's he needs to he needs to open his eyes
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: and and and hopefully these players that are performing well,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: uh merit a meriton call ups?
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, I think they'll do it for us guys.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: We've got some this week. Inter fane Ord could have
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: been inter Milan, but instead in the Champions League Latsio
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: Victoria Pleasant Roma Athletic called Bilbao in Europa League and
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: then in the Conference League Fiorentina Panticos. Sorry to all
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: my Greek friends, I don't know if you guys had
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: any thoughts before those before wrap it up? But personally,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: I don't you know, start this week, yeah, this week,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: next week, it's fast.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: It's fast, okay yo, So yeah, I know it's and
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: I think, uh are.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: The four teams?
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: Ultimately I think all four can can make and have
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: a result. Or I think, sorry, all four teams should
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: get a result. Well that's what we said last.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: Time too exactly. So maybe maybe you know what, maybe
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: I'll change, I'll go opposite. None of them will should
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: get a result, and then maybe they all will.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: You want to take a guys, inter interval win the
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: other three will lose.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: But again, deep down, if I want to say the truth,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: I think they all have it.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that Romo Billboo game will be
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: probably tough.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: Uh, and maybe the Fiordentina Paneton eCos game.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: Might be a bit difficult. I don't know.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: But ultimately Fjordentina in these in this conference league. Uh,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: in the past couple of seasons.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: They've they've done well. Uh, they've gone to the final,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: they haven't gone over the hump. I would like them
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: to get over.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: The hump, uh for them to to win that trophy.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: I think will be will be a big thing for them.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: They have players that are playing well. They have a manager,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: a young manager.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: That's that's uh, that's.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: A modern modern manager and he's his system seems to
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: be seems to be working when it wants to work, right,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: So I think they're they're right there, and I think
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: there if in the wants to do what I wants
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: to do, they're they're gonna they're gonna win. So so uh,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: you know, uh, it's it's they have a lot of
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: competitions to still fight for in being all three. They're
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: still in all three, right, Champions League, Cope, Italian, the
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: School Detto race, So it's it's where they want to
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: put their eggs and in their baskets, what baskets they
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: want to put it in. I think they should still
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: compete for all three, but we'll see how exactly pois
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: that card. I guess just don't take out Bastoni and
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: you'll be good, because it seems like every time they
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: takes up Bostonia, like Johnny alluded to earlier, they seem
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: to get scored on not too long after he takes
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: them out. So it's been seems to be a bit
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: of a theme. I saw that a bit on Twitter,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: so we'll see, and then I think a.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: Lot so against prison. I'm sorry. Their path two, their
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: path I think.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: To the semi finals on paper looks pretty easy if
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: I'm not if I remember correctly. Uh, they just have
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: to get the job done and if they do that,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: I think they'll be on their way.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: It's it's a fast turnaround for Champions League and drop
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: away conferencing, so.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess hopeful to see what happens.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: It's a team in conferences called the clar Blues, so
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: not clue blues, Blues.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: Time in their circle there, thank you grew up in Quebec,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: got I grew up in the West Island.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 4: Sounds like Joey for friends Blues black.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: Blues because.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: No, but it's it's C E R C.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 4: In French spell circle and it's it's it's like your
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: blue like but exactly.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, French lessons with the culture, guys.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: Guys, if we continue, these people are not gonna learn anything.
• 1:14:11
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• 1:14:15
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• 1:14:15
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• 1:14:19
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• 1:14:22
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• 1:14:27
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• 1:14:29
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• 1:14:30
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• 1:14:32
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• 1:14:35
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• 1:14:39
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• 1:14:41
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