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Arsenal Already Losing the Season? I Ep: 92 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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It's like someone's hands. There's like chicken.
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Pox in a pork Chuck. Nick Ford.
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That's pretty good though. Pig food, that's how.
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It's not. It's not pig food.
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It's not chicken pox, eczema warts bites, mosquito eczema
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rash Rashford. Rashford.
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Rashford. OK, I just got it.
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Hello. Welcome to episode 92 of Draft
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Offsides. I'm with Tico Enzo.
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My name is Keith. And boy, do we have so much
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great content for you today. Oh.
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My God. That was great.
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That was that. That sounds good, yeah.
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That was good. It was a little bit, a little, a
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little bit fake, but yeah. A little, definitely a little
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fake. Yeah, definitely a little bit
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fake, but it's. All right.
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Was it better than me just being like?
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Yeah, it was definitely bad. Oh yeah, It was definitely bit,
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you know, mellow and. Dramatic.
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It was a little melodramatic last last week.
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OK, so we're gonna start with some just random news and go
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into some transfer stuff and then just take some questions
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and play some kind of fantasy adjacent games.
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Does that sound like a good, good episode for you guys?
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All right, first thing, Nations League just wrapped up.
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Ronaldo got a goal, Portugal won.
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Do we do you think anyone cared other than like, you know, like
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it's one of those things are it's a perfect tournament of
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like if your team wins, it's a big deal.
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If your team doesn't win, nobody cares, right?
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Can I be honest? I didn't even realize it was the
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final. Yeah, I wasn't even following
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Nations League this year, didn't realize it was final.
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I actually realized this is the final during the semifinals.
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Yeah, me too. Same.
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I like, I didn't, yeah. But like the semifinals kind of
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went hard, you know? Like the games were good games.
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So that made me a little more interested.
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But it's just, it's too many games, man.
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Keep to answer what the question you asked if like people care if
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like the country was in it or not.
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Thomas Mueller who is a fucking amazing he has this quote that
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about the Nations League. He says only the Netherlands and
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Portugal take the Nations League seriously.
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Kind of, but I think Spain cared.
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Well, I think Spain. Final.
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I think Spain care because they're so young too, like such
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a young team, and they want to win everything they just want.
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They just came off the back of the Euros and don't get wrong,
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from what I saw from the game it it looked like very intense,
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like they were both going. Yeah, it totally was.
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And like Spain was totally in the ascendancy for like Portugal
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started really strong and Spain was really good.
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It just was very back and forth and fun and two different
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styles. Yeah, two different styles.
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It was fun. And I kind of love, I kind of
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love seeing Ronaldo just have a good game.
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And then Yamal, like, not that I'm rooting against Yamal
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because he's amazing. And, you know, if you love
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soccer, you love him. But even if you don't
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necessarily, you know, not respect it, Yeah, I respect it.
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But it was nice to see like the old guy put the young guy in his
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place a little bit. Do you see when they were like,
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doing the guard of honor for Spain to go through, Ronaldo
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extended his hand to like shake Iman's hand and he kind of
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turned away and just gave him like a high 5.
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I didn't see. It you think that motivated
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Ronaldo? That was actually the game.
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So I'm sure that would be, yeah, I'm sure there will be some like
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interview with Pierce, whatever his name is Ronaldo will talk
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about. But no, it it was great to see
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like literally like 5 minutes before the the goal announcers
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were saying, oh, take Ronaldo off.
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He hasn't done anything. But to me he's a player that's
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he's like become the greatest pleasure of all time.
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So yeah. He's just become a goal scorer.
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938 Now is this Is this total? So he's just crazy.
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That much closer to 1000. And he confirmed his going back
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to this year, I. Saw that I was I was talking
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shit and I was totally wrong. And yeah, and he's decided not
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to play in the FIFA Club World Cup, which makes sense because
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the tournament starts in two weeks.
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The players are going to be fucking crazy.
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I'm worried about a lot of these guys that are playing in the
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Club World Cup just like for next year, fantasy, like it's,
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it's like, imagine playing in literally like they're going to
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like a World Cup essentially. Like they're gonna play that
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many games potentially. Like look at Videna, who played
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in the Champions League final, the Nations League final, and
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now he's in the start Club World Cup.
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So this guy has like maybe a week and a half off.
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Cam Mendez. Mendez yeah, I mean.
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Cole Palmer started played in the Europa final, played in the
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friendlies this this week. I mean, there's a lot of guys.
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It's not just. And we're concerned about next
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season, but I'm also concerned about the World Cup in two years
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with the amount of games that they're not gonna have a break
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for two years straight. Like what's the quality gonna be
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like? Yeah, yeah, it's.
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A little. It's a little concerning and I
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think we're gonna see young guys breaking down at a younger age.
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You know, I think like the peak of players careers might be a
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little short, a little bit earlier in their career because
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they can start to break down physically.
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So there was a study done on that a couple of years ago,
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starting with Rafael Varon, who retired at a very young age and
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his body broke down and they're saying Jude Bellingham is at
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risk at the same thing because he's only 21 and has played so
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many professional matches. So it's like you mean about but.
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Kind of Saka feel folded like you see these guys like, you
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know, knock on wood with Saka that these injuries don't, this
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doesn't become an ongoing thing. But like that's like the biggest
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fear is that like, you know, he was so healthy and so good for
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so many years. He's already played so many
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minutes, but maybe at 2324 he already starts to break down as
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you would. It's like a 2829 year.
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Old. I think that the thing we've got
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a history of it too. Michael Owen was a big case
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there. When he came in, he.
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Said how old is he? How old was he?
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Was he when he started? He was 17.
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Yeah, so I mean Wayne Rooney is another one and.
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Wayne Rooney is another one. Yeah, they they ended early.
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He got fat. Yeah.
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Well, I mean, one of the positives of COVID that no one
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talks about is the rule changed for five substitutions.
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Yeah, that's true. That's true.
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That was that's only been positive for the game.
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It's been like slightly a negative for like the lower
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teams because they just don't have the depth bench bench, you
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know, So like the the, the bigger teams can bring on more
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players that can affect the game, but I think in general
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it's probably better. Yeah, I.
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Agree. OK, Luminium all we were talking
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about them briefly. Balandor, do you think that this
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put that conversation to bed that this final?
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I don't think it puts it to bed. I think it's still up there.
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But Dembele. Dembele wasn't in the final.
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You know what? I.
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Mean, I just feel like I have a really hard time thinking about
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giving the Balandora to an attacking winger who's only had
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nine goals and 13 assists in his league campaign.
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And he's not even the best player on his team.
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Yeah, like, I know he had some big moments and I I, I mean, I
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think he's one of the best players in the world.
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I'm not like I'm not hating, but I'm just thinking that like
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this, that seems like that's a little bit of an over hype.
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But let's just say it for what it is.
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It's a vote. It's a vote.
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It is a vote. And it's yeah.
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But it's, it's a French, French thing.
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So don't you think that Dembele might get a little a little more
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weight? You.
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Yeah, maybe raked a little bit that way.
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Maybe, but then it's been a Portugal guy, a Portuguese and
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an Argentinian, and then one Croatian who's won in the last,
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what, 20 years? And a Spanish player, Rodri.
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Rodri, that's right, last year. They asked Mbappe if who he's
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going to vote for and he said I think it's obvious, you know,
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for Dan Belly. And then he asked to, they asked
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him to clarify it. He said no, I think it's very
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obvious. It doesn't even need
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clarification. That's how clear cut it is for
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him, which obviously the French Connection also Marcel.
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But no, I mean, he's had a great campaign started from obviously
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the EUR where they wanted. But even the years when people
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were talking about Nico Williams was the most talked about player
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on that Spanish team. He was pretty.
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Exciting, but they both were. They both were.
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I don't think we can say that one was more than the other
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because they, especially in the final, I know Nico Williams
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scored in the final, but big paw, that was big paw.
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That was Lamini Yamal, Yeah. But I do feel like Lamini Yamal
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has an amazing PR team right now, and he's also right now the
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value the most expensive player in the.
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World and also, I mean he's like some of the goals he scored,
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it's just he's. Pretty.
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Amazing fucking it's OK, Tico's going to downplay him.
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It's. Like a lot of he's kind of like
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a clip. It's not a clip merchant, but
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he's definitely like the goals he scores.
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If you clip them together, you'd be like, this guy's
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unbelievable. But clearly nine goals, 13 this
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in 37 games or whatever. It's just they're not it's not
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at that highest, highest echelon of numbers, especially when you
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have Ruffini on that team. You scored how many goals and
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you know have so many, how many goal contributions?
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So it's a Champions League in assists, goals, goal
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contribution. Yeah.
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Honestly, like when I saw it's nine goals, 13.
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It's just I'm like the way they talk about this kid, it's like
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he's having like a 3030 season, but.
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He's also, I mean, it is amazing to be doing that at. 17 it's.
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Unless it is 17, but I kind of imagine we have Remember when
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Holland scored like broke the record in England and did all
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these things and then they gave the Balandor to Messi and
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they're like the the World Cup technically shouldn't even
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counted for that year and they still gave it to him.
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Yep, that to me since then I've really had the Balandor.
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Doesn't really mean much to me. It's just the vote.
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But but, but I've and that's in the same way, like I just don't
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think that they'll get. I don't think they'll give it to
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Lamini Mall yet. I think it's like, yeah.
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He's going to MVP award doesn't mean anything.
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Yeah, OK. Next thing.
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Do we care about the Club World Cup?
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I feel like we've been, like, dancing around it.
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I tried to get us to get tickets.
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You guys were both very noncommittal and so as a result
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I'm not. Going now, so does.
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That mean we just don't care. Well it's at the you don't want
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to go cuz it's at the rest. Yeah, I don't want to sit under
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the sun for like. Yeah, there's like no cover.
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No, I. Would have brought, I could have
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brought you an umbrella tikka. We could have protected that
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head of yours. It's Ganesh, the sun might have
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shined off of it, and that's with the gameplay.
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You have to reapply a fucking suntan like every 5 minutes over
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there. It's gonna be ridiculous.
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But on suntan lotion. I was looking, I think tickets
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now are starting to get egregiously expensive.
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Yeah. I think we there was our window
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where it was like kind of OK, but now, yeah.
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But. It would have been fun.
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I think it would have been fun to watch Athletico, PSG.
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I think that would have. Been a fun, yeah, that would
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have been a fun game to watch, I think, if it was that so far.
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I think we would have a lot of fun watching that game at a bar.
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That too. I'm up for something like that
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too. It's on Father's Day though.
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That's the one around. You know what kills me here, and
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maybe it might be different because this is like a really a
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scene because of the money is a bigger tournament, but going to
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games out here, there are real fans in the stadiums, but then
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you just get a bunch of people that just just show up to watch
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a game. Yeah, I you know what the
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hardest thing is is when I went to that, I went to the fox and
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hound. I went to like a local Chelsea
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bar for the final, the whatever. I don't even know the
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tournaments, like not you conference conference like final
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and just listening to fans that are obviously like they're like
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die hard hardcore fans. You know, they have like they're
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there every week, but they just the the things they're screaming
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are such like you ass like cheer things on.
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Seattle. Like get that ball, like chase
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it, like kick it. Like it's just like you guys,
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it's just sometimes so hard to listen to some people talk
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about, you know, how that really.
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They've been a die hard fan for a year.
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Or even if. They've been a fan for longer.
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They're just their knowledge of the game.
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They just don't quite understand that.
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Like, you know, how could you miss that shot?
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It's like bro, he's running full speed and the balls come across.
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It's there. It's like literally like the
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physics are impossible. It's funny when.
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You say that because it's like the idea that when you see like
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a a cross, a cross field ball pass and no one seems to
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understand how hard that is. Well, to hit that then
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everything is so different. Yeah, hit it behind the defender
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into his paws. Such assholes.
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You selling assholes? Such assholes really talking
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down on the average person who just wants to follow A.
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Team No, I don't have I don't have any issue that I have an
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issue with them being like like getting upset or like did some
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of the things that were cheering that just feel so like not like.
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Yeah, I get it. You could tell they when they
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watch, they don't understand a lot of it and they've never
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played It's, you know, it's like, yeah.
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OK, maybe you're kind of right. Maybe we're gonna end up with
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your hires, OK? Keep, keep, keep, keep.
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Don't let him get to you. We didn't.
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We didn't sound like assholes. We were just staying in effect.
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One of you sounded a confident league champion asshole.
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Doesn't sound like a Euro player.
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OK, fine. He's just mad because we have
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trophies and he. Yeah, he doesn't.
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Yeah. OK, the last thing about this,
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did you guys hear that the so the opening game is in a Miami
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and they were initially selling tickets for like 300 something
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and they couldn't sell out the stadium.
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So now they're like they've dropped as they've cut slash
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prices like 50. Wow.
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Is that crazy? No, it's not, but it is.
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It's crazy, but it's not. But it's understandable.
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Well, also, it's the team they're playing Ali, yeah.
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It's like one of the Saudi teams.
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Yeah, I mean I. Bet you there's some.
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I bet you there's something we know on that team.
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I'm sure the race, no. It's a, it's an Egyptian team.
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Yeah, probably not then. Nope.
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Yeah. Maybe Salah's cousin or
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something? There is a Mohammed.
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Jesus Christ, what? Okay, should we get into
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transfers at the end of news? Yeah, let's do this.
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All right, first one, first big transfer news Arsenal.
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I'm sorry, I like that. And the news is, where are all
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the transfers? Yeah, well, they've got, they've
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got one rumor that I like for them and it's between two
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players, but I think they're pushing towards 1 and I think I
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put it at the very bottom of this was Cesco and Kyokares.
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I think they're going leaning more towards Cesco.
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I've been saying that too. I, I'm really intrigued by
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Cesco. I know when we did that, when we
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were doing that Euro Fantasy league, you know, last year, I
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was pretty interested in him and he was, he seemed pretty good.
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But it was also very frustrating because he was just on a team
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that he wasn't getting a lot of service.
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So it's really hard to judge, you know, how he is.
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But at club level, that would be good.
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Yeah, at club level for life's sake.
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And there's it'll just be it'll just be interesting to see how
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we can adjust. And he was the other one.
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Yep. So let's go to and he's the.
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One that's in Portugal. Yeah.
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And then the Zuba Meni thing is really weird to me.
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Yeah, that seems like it's been all but confirmed.
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And then Zuba Meni came out and said essentially like, oh, like
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nothing's set in stone yet. And I would, you know, Real
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Madrid's my dream or something. Yeah.
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Which is weird. I that would really piss me off,
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but. Real Madrid already said they
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didn't want him. Right.
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Yeah. I haven't heard much comers
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around them, so yeah, no. It just feels like a weird
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maneuver, but I would be pissed against Arsenal fan for that
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reason. But yeah, are they going to the
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Club World Cup? No, I mean you gotta you.
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Gotta win something. You gotta win Champions League.
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Forget those. There's do better.
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So far we just heard the players left, right.
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They just let a couple of players go, no signings
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whatsoever. For us, looks like what's the
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same as leaving the Ukrainian Zinchenko.
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Zhenko. And then Georginio left kind of
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cutting some of the older guys, which just makes sense.
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Yeah, I think. I mean, I think what's nice for
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them that is that they have the luxury of the like they don't,
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they're not going to the World Club World Cup so they don't
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need to like get players in before.
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Not right now, but you, but you see there's a few teams that are
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getting the job done early. Like man.
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City. Yeah, again, the job done early.
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But they're also going to the Club World Cup, yeah.
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So I think it'll be interesting. I think Arsenal, I think what I
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think for me what it is, is that after a season that you wouldn't
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call disappointing for Arsenal, but after a season like they had
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and with the clear and obvious like gaps in their team that
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they need, it would have been a really good, like emotional
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thing for them to sign someone pretty quickly.
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Yeah, you. Know and this is like tiny
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transfer window. Yeah, and the fact that they
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haven't, it just, I feel like there's probably anxiety
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building and I see it on, like, Twitter and acts from like the
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big, like Arsenal influencers. It feels like they're just like,
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getting slightly anxious about, like, the window and like kind
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of cracking jokes on their own behalf, but kind of interesting.
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OK, more transfer news. Jamie Gittins rumored to
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Chelsea. I was not like, I think his goal
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of return is not huge. I think he's young, but I think
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he had like eight goals, 3 assists in the Buddhist league
15:11
last year. Not like spectacular numbers.
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I think in general, like from a fantasy perspective, like I
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think like Chelsea wingers are like a little touch and go.
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Yeah, well, we just got real Sancho.
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Yeah, well, yeah, Sancho's not going to.
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Be so that's that's a sport he could take.
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Yeah, Madrid's not there, so we definitely need left wingers.
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Yeah, by the way, I can't complain in that position.
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Clearly he played there for England and looked pretty good.
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He's played there for us and looked good.
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And then, you know, obviously we have Pedro Netto and then we
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have that new guy Estavio coming in, the Brazilian.
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Yeah, but but yeah, so kittens, I'm just not like, I'm not like.
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From a drop standpoint I. Agree, I'm not jumping at the
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bit there but it's interesting and who knows what even happens.
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Apparently his they're asking they want a lot of money for him
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and Chelsea's being a little doesn't want to do that.
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We're not that Chelsea no more. Yeah, it's, I've changed, you
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know. I've changed.
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I'm not that guy. Yeah, right.
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Yeah, we'll see. They might need to go through a
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window of like, not spending some money just to prove to
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people, you know, because until then people are just going to
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call their bluff. OK, well, me and I can't seem to
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do that. And they've been doing, you
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know. Well, Man United.
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Oh yeah, true. What about Man City?
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How how good is that Ryan Shirky business?
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What? 36 mil with six 6,000,000 out.
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On dude I think they only got rain.
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Was it reindeer with for like 40 million?
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Reinders Reinders for. Like yeah, reindeer, sorry,
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reinders for like 40 million. No, it's super.
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Both deals are super impressive and getting them done, it sounds
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like Shirky's gonna be done today.
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Or, you know, before the Global Cup released.
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Danny where he gets signed. I thought you got, Fabrizio
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said. Here we go.
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I think they here we go but not confirmed like is that is that
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is that good enough is for BBO? Yeah, that's good enough.
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Yeah, that's. Good enough.
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OK, so I was looking at Sharky. I broke it down.
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So eight goals, 11 assists in 30 appearances.
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So which would roughly be in like with all the stats, like
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all the stats, he's roughly at like 13.5 points per game, which
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is solid. And I, I, I was having a hard
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time doing points per start, like the breakdown there from
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the averages from what I had, but it would be like, he'd be
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like like top 15, you know, in 30 game, you know, like really
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solid numbers. And I just, I'm curious.
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I don't know, I'm, I'm very interested.
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I think he's he's pretty interesting to me.
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Well, he saw what what kind of he's a midfielder, right?
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Does he take that sort of is he going to take away from yeah,
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KDB, but is he going to take away from Foden?
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We just mentioned that we think Foden might have a great year
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next year. Yeah.
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I mean, I think it's very possible.
17:31
I, I, it's gonna be. And Pep, you know, Pep is so
17:33
difficult to know what he's gonna do.
17:35
Like, it's not like, like he's not like there's this fixed
17:37
thing that he does and he's so fickle to like, you've seen him,
17:40
like, throw new signings in right away and you've seen him,
17:43
like, wait like weeks or months before he starts playing new
17:46
signings, too. Yeah.
17:47
Even if he throws them in right away like the way Savio started
17:50
from day one, dog who started initially.
17:52
Eventually they got benched. So with KDB leaving and also
17:56
Bernardo Silva, you would think like Foden, Marmoush, Savio Doku
18:00
and now him, it's going to be like a cluster mess and Roger
18:03
coming back. So what we talked about, do you
18:06
want to be on that roller coaster of Man City?
18:08
Just added one more. Yeah, one more piece, but it's
18:11
also like a high risk, high reward, you know what I mean?
18:13
Because the points when, when they start games, you're, you're
18:16
just going to. Say Man C could bounce back.
18:19
I know we said this last year, but I think Man C can bounce
18:21
back this season with the the players they're buying.
18:23
It looks, it looks so amazing. So could they be like that?
18:27
Who was the top team with points per team, like per player?
18:30
Was it Liverpool? It was Liverpool and then and
18:35
then pull them. Yeah, so couldn't Man C take
18:39
over that Liverpool spot and their players be the top scorer?
18:41
No, because it's I think that that was about the consistency
18:44
of lineups. Yeah, if the more players you
18:46
have, the lower the. So it's I bet you city was
18:49
actually pretty low on that list.
18:50
Yeah, like they're comparatively for the fact that how many
18:52
points to score. I think probably for future
18:54
episodes when we do previews, we should have like just a ranking
18:56
system amongst the midfielders because it'd be interesting how.
18:59
Yeah, truly. But it's also interesting.
19:01
So like Reiners comes into the team as well and so he had ten
19:04
goals for assists for ACML and last season with numbers, not
19:07
bad numbers for a guy who plays because he doesn't he doesn't
19:09
play in like the 10 like KDB does.
19:11
He plays in more like A6 double pivot.
19:13
So I think him, I think he's going to be more like the
19:15
Gundolin. To Rodri.
19:18
Yeah, type rule. Well, I think, remember they
19:20
bought Nico Gonzalez last year. Yeah, that's right.
19:23
They. Didn't want to get paid every
19:24
year so it might be like between those two.
19:27
Yeah, I mean, but they're all there now too.
19:28
I think it's just depth and maybe Rogers can play a little
19:31
bit higher up sometimes, I think.
19:32
I mean, with Foden and Sharky and those other guys, I feel
19:37
like that's going to be. Is there a world where reigned
19:43
Rynders and not Rynders? Rynders and who's the other
19:47
center back? Not Rodri.
19:50
The other Nico Gonzalez. Nico Gonzalez plays in the
19:52
double pivot and then Rodri plays a little bit further up
19:55
from him. I don't think, I don't see that.
19:56
Well, I think you, I think Roger, you want him sitting.
19:59
You want him in that space. But maybe I mean perhaps.
20:01
Crazy. Yeah, Perry is crazy.
20:03
That is just absolute wild card. I think Roger might play more
20:07
further back with the center backs because everyone is young
20:09
so it'd be easier for them like to control the ball pace and
20:11
like, yeah, beat the high press. Yeah, I I think it's more likely
20:14
he drops into that and they let like you know, the the other new
20:18
signing they have Mid City right at Nori who's now is officially
20:20
confirmed him get discard bombing down the wings.
20:23
God damn. What do we think about him in
20:25
general? Are we pretty excited?
20:28
He's been solid at Wolves and he's had good numbers.
20:31
You guys have, you guys have said it right.
20:32
I've always loved him, what he looks.
20:33
I thought he's always looked so good.
20:35
So so. I think, I think he'll walk at
20:37
this Man City team. I think he'll be top five to
20:40
seven defender. Yeah.
20:43
I mean, I think, I think that's, I think very likely.
20:45
I think the only thing against would be if he it doesn't start
20:48
games at City. Yeah.
20:51
So I looked at the clean, just the clean sheets, City head,
20:55
five more clean sheets. That's 30 more points throughout
20:57
the year, which will take him up.
20:59
I think like #6 in total points amongst defenders for this just.
21:02
From that, and that's without like being on a better team,
21:04
creating more opportunities, this and all that, you know?
21:06
They had a game where they give up six goals.
21:08
That's -10 in goal points only. So take away all of those.
21:12
I think he that's why I think as long as he starts, he'll be top
21:15
five in total points. And that that's a concern,
21:19
right? Is that as long as he starts?
21:21
Because at Wolves you knew every game he was healthy, he was
21:23
going to play. I mean, Varyal can't play there
21:26
and what's his name? The young kid that played there
21:27
was playing there second-half of the season as well.
21:29
I know he's, I know he's technically more of a
21:31
midfielder, O'Reilly. Yeah, O'Reilly.
21:34
I know he's more of a midfielder but clearly you can do a job
21:36
there, so you know, so I'm just not that like I'm. 100% sold
21:42
until we see but. Yeah.
21:44
So where would you drop him? I still think I take the the
21:48
three guys that we've talked about ahead of him just for that
21:51
concern. So it's what Poro, Munoz and
21:57
Robinson, I think just because you know they're going to be
21:59
playing, like especially Munoz and Robinson, you know they're
22:02
going to be playing. So what round?
22:04
Fifth round. Something like that.
22:07
I think that's, I think that's pretty reasonable.
22:11
Someone, someone's going to take a risk on that for.
22:13
Yeah, I think a lot of these city guys, I think people are
22:15
going to they're high risk, high reward, you know, OK, I think
22:20
this kind of got debunked today, but I just wanted to talk about
22:22
because it was really funny that that there were rumors that
22:25
Tottenham were hijacking the Wimbo deal.
22:28
Did you, did you like that? That when you saw that I.
22:30
Like him Wimbo? I would have liked him Wimbo.
22:31
I don't. Think it's going to happen?
22:33
I don't. Think it's going to happen,
22:34
especially if we don't sell Sun, which I don't think at this
22:37
moment Levy can do any worse than what he's already doing.
22:40
He's already pissed off everybody, you know, half the
22:43
fans. You know, I don't feel bad for
22:48
Levy, like in general, but I will say like there was no
22:51
winning in the and situation. No, there's no winning.
22:54
There's no winning. But there was one thing you
22:55
could have done different, Like just fucking do it.
22:59
Cut the cord. Like he waited a week.
23:01
Yeah, he waited over a week. I think that was he did that
23:04
because I think it would have been even more of an emotional
23:06
response if he did it sooner, closer to when they got the cup.
23:09
He gave everyone like the time to enjoy and celebrate and like,
23:13
calm down. It would have been such Levy
23:16
fashion though, because we fired Marino five days before a final.
23:19
Why not just fire someone one day after two, one or two days
23:22
after a final? Yeah, I don't know, but OK, so
23:25
then one more thing. Yeah, not happening, but that.
23:28
Would have been. That would be nice.
23:29
It was, but I think that mostly came from Thomas Frank those
23:32
those rumors because he he wanted to rival but he wants
23:36
150,000 a week and I don't think why not.
23:39
Yeah, I think he wants 250 a week.
23:40
He wants. 250 a week. Yeah, I think me you guys are
23:43
willing to pay 250 a week. Fuck me man fucking they are the
23:46
Saudi of the premiership. That's what the joke on Twitter
23:50
is like. Oh, instead of going to Saudi,
23:51
you want to retire? You just go to Man United to
23:53
retire me and the big paycheck and just chill out there.
23:57
OK, Somewhat related, Manchester related.
23:59
So Garnacho and Grealish are both going to leave their teams
24:04
it seems like and there's both of them have some suitors in the
24:07
Premier League. If they were to go to another
24:10
team in the Premier League, who would be good for each of them
24:13
do you guys think? Grealish, I can't believe I'm
24:15
going to say this. Man United.
24:16
I think he'd do well there on the left wing, on the left
24:19
forward. I bet they kind of have it
24:21
covered with kunya and stuff. But Kunya can play in the 10.
24:25
No, it's the same position. Essentially.
24:27
There's two 10's and then the striker.
24:29
He can play there. I'm saying he'll do what would
24:31
be able to, I think. Really should play there.
24:32
But I'm saying that like he, I don't think really she wants to
24:34
go somewhere. He's going to be behind someone.
24:36
I don't think, I don't think he's going.
24:37
You think he's going to be behind?
24:38
Who else is going to be this? Or it's going to be Bruno Kunya?
24:42
And bueno. And bueno.
24:43
Oh, because I'm Buenos. Yeah, I'm not, because that's
24:45
not even 100% yet. Yeah, that's yeah.
24:48
Why not take Garnett trying to replace him with the Sun?
24:52
No thank you. I don't, I don't.
24:54
I don't get it wrong. I think Gonacho is a a talent.
24:58
I just don't think I honestly, I don't think the premise is for
25:01
him. I think he should just maybe go.
25:02
Aboard go to Napoli. That's the remain.
25:04
So for Grealish, the rumor is I don't know if you get started on
25:07
Newcastle. I saw that.
25:10
I also saw Everton. Oh, which is interesting from
25:13
the sense of like big fish, small pond and I feel like
25:15
Grealish is like the epitome of like big fish, small pond type
25:18
player. Yeah.
25:19
You know. But to me, when I looked at
25:21
Newcastle, I was like, that's where Gordon plays on the left
25:23
side, so how would that work? Move one of them around, maybe
25:27
Murphy put a little right side. Evan.
25:30
But I think both of them, if they go to Brighton, just
25:33
because I feel like that's an attacking team.
25:36
Brighton, That's an. Interesting, but that's not part
25:38
of their their MO. Their model.
25:40
No, that's not part of their model.
25:41
They just bought another young freaking Argentinian, didn't
25:44
they? Yeah.
25:46
I think Garnacho, the rumors that I've been seeing are
25:50
Arsenal or Chelsea. So I think that those are I
25:53
think the Arsenal thing is that the like it would be interesting
25:57
and then it's a little bit better.
25:58
Like it gives competition about gnarly without being like a
26:00
Rodrigo type signing. That's gonna be so much money
26:03
that it absolutely just smothers in, you know, but Greenish, I
26:08
like that. I like Everton, I like Kevin
26:10
Newcastle because I think Everton, it's like you're going
26:12
to be there. It's going to be a battle, but
26:14
you're going to have this team around you and you can be like
26:16
that. It's like Talisman again,
26:19
because that's kind of what that's kind of what when he was
26:21
his best, it was when he was the, he was the guy and everyone
26:24
looked at him, you know? I think both of them will have
26:28
significant fantasy value if they go to a different team and
26:30
they start. Yes, I agree.
26:32
Yeah, I fully agree fully, fully.
26:34
I think, I mean there's a few teams where I wouldn't really
26:37
that's soaked on, but I think 100% they'll have finished
26:39
value. Like to the point where I think
26:40
like grillish, even if he was like at 70 or 80% of what he was
26:44
at a villa the last year he was there, he could be someone you
26:47
draft like in the later rounds and he could be like someone
26:49
that leads you to like a championship or like fantastic.
26:53
Especially cuz there won't be that much hype.
26:55
Yeah, I think there's I think he's yeah, I think it's a really
26:57
good point. OK, super briefly kind of just
26:59
touched on it. Rodrigo, what's going on there?
27:01
What's what's happening? Was there was there moves that
27:03
Arsenal, Chelsea were spoken about?
27:05
I think it's wages or just wage demands are too high.
27:08
What's the last thing you heard Tikka with from the Real Madrid
27:10
side? So initially they said they're
27:14
trying to work it out, but then the last thing that I saw was
27:17
they want to move him because he's not part of the project,
27:20
because it is very difficult to move three people.
27:22
And he said that he prefers playing on the left side more
27:25
than that. That's his natural position.
27:27
He also posted something on Instagram or Twitter a couple of
27:31
days ago where it says everything should work itself
27:34
out or something along those lines.
27:35
And it was him at the Berna Bale, So who knows what it
27:38
means. Very like Cryptic.
27:40
But I think he's an amazing talent.
27:42
I think if he goes to Arsenal, it'd be very good for him for
27:46
Arsenal and it'd be amazing for me to make fun of Sergey because
27:50
he's been shitting on Rivigo non-stop and I think he'll
27:52
actually be very good for Arsenal.
27:56
He'll be a huge upgrade over Martinelli or trust Art.
28:00
He could create for himself, dribble, score goals and he's a
28:03
three level score as well, right, left and in there as well
28:05
like we saw in the Champions League sunrise.
28:08
I agree. I think he'd be great for any
28:11
team. I mean any Premier League team
28:12
really. But I think Arsenal would
28:13
probably be the best fit just in the the system they have and
28:16
having some other Brazilian, like having a Martinelli there
28:18
and other Brazilians there that can kind of, yeah, you know, so
28:21
I think that could be a good thing.
28:23
And also like having a coach with the Spanish background, I
28:26
think we'll be in the transition as well.
28:27
Similar mentality of how they played.
28:30
Yeah, that'd be really exciting. We'll see.
28:33
I think the impediment is the fee Madrid wants and the wages
28:36
that he wants. Yeah, the saga continues.
28:39
And I just wanted to chat about this briefly while I'm thinking
28:41
about it, that Nico Williams, I read somewhere, what's so
28:43
interesting about him is that he's open to moving this year.
28:46
The issue is that the team that has them associated on, they
28:50
want the full, the payment in full.
28:52
So they're not gonna take like 3 years periodic payments.
28:55
Yeah. So they need the whole amount
28:57
upfront, which are so hard for teams to do now and then.
29:00
He's on ridiculous wages. Is he?
29:03
He's on like 6 or 7 mil a year, which is really high.
29:07
How much for for his age? Because then it's part of what
29:10
they're it's not socialized. It's bill ballot.
29:12
It's part of what bill ballot. What they do is that they don't,
29:14
they just, they just use homegrown players and they
29:18
almost never play transfer fees. And so because of that, they pay
29:21
all their players out a lot more than other places.
29:23
So 146,000 a week. Right now.
29:27
So that's you said 12 million, right.
29:29
So how much you say? He's out so he's on 200,000 a
29:34
year. 20. A week, EUR.
29:37
I'm sorry. A week.
29:38
Yeah, yeah, a week. €200,000 a week, yeah.
29:40
Yeah. God damn.
29:41
He has a three-year, $31 million contract.
29:43
Yeah, so I mean, and he's 19. He's 20 now.
29:46
Maybe. He's a kid.
29:47
Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot of money for a 20
29:49
year old, 22220, he's 22. OK, but yeah, the same thing.
29:53
I think the competition for him will be, I think the competition
29:57
for him will be higher than for San Rodrigo, just because of the
29:59
age difference and Nico Williams has all the hype right now.
30:02
Yeah, true. All right.
30:04
Last thing, we kind of talked Cesco Gorkarez.
30:07
Gorkarez, who would you rather see?
30:11
Arsenal, hypothetically. I know Gorkarez is kind of like
30:13
the United. Look, Gorkarez had 39 goals, 7
30:17
assists and Cesco had 7-17 and five assists if I remember
30:23
correctly. But one of them was in the.
30:25
But one was in the Portuguese league and one was in the German
30:28
league. So it's it's hard.
30:31
Giacrez has done that. What he's done it for Coventry,
30:33
isn't he the guy who played for Coventry and he did it in the
30:36
yeah. So that's, that's the maybe the
30:39
a weigh in on that, that he can actually do it in England maybe.
30:43
Yeah, but he played 46 games, scored 21 goals in the
30:46
championship. That's pretty good too though,
30:48
like 2 and one. A goal every two games is
30:50
Phuket. There's a reason he got on from
30:52
Coventry to go to, yeah, Porto, you know, so.
30:54
In my opinion, I think also probably won't Gilkarez, but I
30:57
think Cesco's a better fit. I think I mean that in a perfect
31:01
world, Cesco goes to Arsenal and Gilkarez goes to United and then
31:04
we have both of them in the league and we can see how they
31:05
do and just get some more smoke up in here.
31:09
I want Matera in there though from.
31:11
You think you're just for the Hakuna Matera?
31:13
That's all I want. That's all I want.
31:15
Hakuna Matera. What a wonderful phrase.
31:19
That's so funny. I think there's no way United
31:22
makes a bid for Matera. Dude there, that'd be such a
31:25
great song when they lose and they can sing that to them and.
31:27
Make something a Win boy A Win boy A.
31:30
Loser way. A loser way.
31:34
So good. OK, I next thing I have a random
31:36
question that's like not tied. It's kind of tied to some
31:38
transfer stuff, but it's it's kind of for Enzo, but it's also
31:42
Beautico, except with Jacob Murphy, who and so you're saying
31:45
you loved last year and obviously had a great
31:47
second-half of the season and really came alive.
31:49
But it's very concerning to me that Newcastle was really in on
31:53
a memo. And then now there's rumors with
31:55
Jack Greilish and it looks like there's been a they're looking
31:58
to get someone else in that attacking line.
32:01
That's like very high profile, which tells me that they don't
32:03
necessarily believe in Jacob Murphy as like, wow, this like
32:06
long term. It's a big assumption.
32:08
They don't think that he's like made it as like like they're
32:10
they're definitely open to buying like a big name player in
32:12
the window. So does that concern you from a
32:15
transfer like a draft value? No, because they they have
32:20
Champions League, so they want more.
32:22
They want more depth. That's all I see as do I see it
32:25
as who whoever's in form plays or do I see it as one player in
32:28
my play in the Premiership more than they play in the Champions
32:30
League? That would be the only thing
32:31
that concerns me. Well they play Jacob Murphy in
32:33
Champions League more and prioritize him and have Greelich
32:38
if he, if he was to go there, play more Premier League.
32:41
That'll be like in the second or third round.
32:43
You you don't want to take that risk, then you don't want to be
32:46
like. Yeah, that's a big risk and it's
32:48
you'd have to do a little more research and it all depends if
32:50
the trade goes through, it'd be definitely something to look
32:53
into. So you're not concerned until
32:56
you see a big name coming? Yeah.
32:58
OK. OK.
33:00
That was my random Question of the Week games.
33:03
Tito, do you have a? You said you have a game for us.
33:05
Yeah, So we'll see how this goes.
33:08
It's gonna. Be like children's pictures.
33:12
No, no. I think it should be fun.
33:14
So I think, should I do presentation or screen?
33:17
All right, let's wait, wait. Don't look at it.
33:20
I'm already looking at it. There we go.
33:22
All right. Hopefully you guys didn't see.
33:25
All right. So essentially, I don't know if
33:26
you guys saw this technology thing.
33:29
It's like word association. So it will be like 2 pictures or
33:32
like emojis pictures, whatever. You have to guess who the player
33:34
is. Whoever keeps I guess the Morris
33:38
points wins, I guess. I don't know.
33:39
Yeah, we just mess around. Yeah, just all right.
33:42
Let me see. All right.
33:43
Go Nacho. The left is an image of a go,
33:47
right is. What's this guy's?
33:49
Name Nacho Libre. Nacho Libre.
33:51
So go Nacho. Yeah, so get Gar Nacho.
33:53
There we go, Gar Nacho. OK, next one.
33:55
It looks like Voldemort in this picture.
33:56
Oh, that's kind of like scary all.
33:58
Right, so 10 ends. No Sala, I don't know 11.
34:04
Yep. How is that the first The first
34:09
one I got, The first one I got? Word association.
34:11
Yeah, it's word association. It's very hard to like make one.
34:13
But then I could have been mamoush.
34:15
High school, Palmer. Cole Palmer, the golfer.
34:19
And that says an ice cube and then Arnold Palmer.
34:21
Yeah, like that picture too. Raccoon.
34:28
Bandit, thief. What's up with that raccoon?
34:31
Think of a popular song that was around.
34:34
Very annoying. Ricky Raccoon jumped over the
34:38
moon. Don't know what that song is.
34:40
What does? That's a Beatles song, isn't it?
34:44
That's the first time I hear this.
34:45
OK, so that's not it. OK, so then another popular song
34:48
with a raccoon. Involved it was now that it was
34:50
more of a like a social media popular thing it.
34:53
Was like, does the squirrel say what does the fox?
34:57
He plays for a London team this. One is we're not getting this
35:03
one. It's a photo like.
35:03
It's a fisheye lens photo of a like a raccoon taking a selfie,
35:06
it looks like. Yes, They haven't heard this
35:09
song. Pedro, Pedro, Pedro No.
35:11
Pedro. I don't know that was that was
35:16
that. Was a reach.
35:17
I know that was horrible. Dude, it's hard to.
35:20
Then don't do it, Pope. Hey, Pope.
35:24
Yep, that's BI. Got that one?
35:26
Yeah. That's all right.
35:27
Let's see. I'm very proud of this one.
35:31
Oh yeah, it's like someone's hands.
35:33
There's like chicken. Pox in a pork Chuck.
35:36
Nick Ford. That's pretty good though.
35:37
Pig food, that's how. It's not.
35:39
It's not pig food. It's not.
35:43
What does he have on his arm? Chicken pox?
35:46
Nope, this X chicken pox. Nope.
35:48
What do you call those nights? Bites.
35:51
Nope. Mosquito.
35:53
When you scratch it a lot. Xbox no what another.
35:57
What is that rash for? Rash for it?
35:59
Yeah, rash for it. OK, you got paid.
36:01
For it real quick but you know that's.
36:03
That's funny. Rash.
36:03
All right, this is. Color Fiori.
36:08
Yep, I would have been so disappointed if you didn't get
36:11
this one. And.
36:13
Ka wait, what's the calla Ricardo?
36:16
Ricardo, Yeah. Yeah, that was good.
36:17
OK. All right.
36:21
I think this is the last one. I don't expect any of you guys
36:23
to get this one. Sonics.
36:25
I don't Seattle Sonics name. No, disregard the jersey and
36:31
like the number, all of that and the team name and the city.
36:35
Disregard all of that. So who's in the picture and what
36:39
is he doing? Who's?
36:40
In the picture, slam dunk. Wow, he's a basketball player.
36:44
Yeah, it's, I don't know this Sonic.
36:46
Lewis Dunk. Yep.
36:48
Richard Lewis is dunking your. Basketball.
36:51
Did Anzo to win it with the last two?
36:54
I don't know. He's 4/5.
36:55
Wait, last one. Oh my God, Kyle.
36:59
Casamiro. Nope.
37:01
Kyle And what's that thing called?
37:03
It's a walking chair. That's our friend Kyle.
37:08
Very proud of this one. Jesus, what is this?
37:12
Kyle Walker. Kyle Walker, Yes.
37:14
Oh my. God that's so obvious, damn it.
37:19
And that's the one. Man I hate this.
37:22
Thank you. Appreciate it.
37:24
That wasn't fun. I don't like that.
37:26
That'll be funny. This is really hard to like come
37:29
up with no that. Was good.
37:30
That'll be very That'll be a very interesting section for
37:33
people that just listen, no video.
37:36
There'll be a What the Hell's going on?
37:38
I. Was really spinning the wheel
37:41
spinning the wheel? Spinning it was the wheel,
37:43
guessing it in the thing, Bruno, That's how it was gonna make me
37:45
really happy. Are we should we do it to spin
37:48
the wheel? Spin the wheel.
37:49
Just spin. Just do once, just one time.
37:51
Spinning wheel. One time, one spin.
37:53
One spin. That way you can see my skin.
37:56
You see my skin? No.
37:57
Nope, technical devotees. You guys see my my ramen?
38:02
No it doesn't. You see the my screen?
38:04
Yes. All right, boys, we're up to 100
38:06
now in my in my list, are you? Serious.
38:09
Yeah, I mean, I'm just fucking around, yeah.
38:12
Sure you are. Sure you are.
38:14
It's kind of easy, this motherfucker.
38:16
Go on. Froze with a funny face.
38:19
Oh, we're. Getting a low number.
38:28
This is almost like underwhelming.
38:30
Yeah, we already know. We spoke about last week,
38:34
Muhammad Salah is there. I mean, I you, you can't blame
38:38
anyone for taking him first though, right?
38:40
I think if he didn't get, he would be like, if it wasn't for
38:44
the African nations, I think that that would push you more.
38:47
The first from a lot of people because of the African nation.
38:49
I think that might tip a few people to soccer.
38:52
Afghan plus 33, Afghan plus age tips, maybe two.
38:57
OK. And.
38:58
If you go, if you go by the last one was on Afghan, he had a
39:00
terrible second-half of the season.
39:02
Yeah, one more spin. Spend, wait, spend.
39:08
Are we going low again? Oh no, it's 100.
39:14
Oh, 99. Geez, what are these numbers I
39:17
have to I like? It barely me the list.
39:21
What is this guy Seda? Oh, tenth round, 9th pick.
39:26
Yeah, I think I don't. I don't think that's that,
39:28
That's that. Who's who's at 98 and who's at
39:31
100? It's a working.
39:35
Place yet? Mark Gahey, 98.
39:38
Uh huh, He had a good season. And then 100 hours put it, I put
39:42
as a meme, as a joke, kind of Estavio, the new Chelsea guy, I
39:45
think he'll probably might go. He might go up.
39:47
Yeah, Chelsea biased, all right. But Moises Casado, that's
39:51
actually like, that's where I want it.
39:52
So Moises Casado 7.4 points per start, but he played in 35
39:59
games, started every game and he was healthy.
40:03
Very little of his points from goal for come from goals,
40:05
assists, so you know, you kind of know what you're getting so.
40:10
Last last year he was drafted in the last round, 16th all.
40:14
Right, let's see. So yeah, so I don't know, I, I,
40:18
I'm not serious about the voices when I was, I'm kind of and
40:21
serious about Gehi. I don't know where Estavio goes.
40:23
I think we'll have to see after the Club World Cup and see how
40:27
what prizes it looks like. But I'm excited.
40:29
I'm excited to see that kid have he's, he's like they say, he's
40:32
like the the next Neymar. Then they said that by Anne
40:35
Cuckoo I. Didn't say that about Anne.
40:37
Cuckoo next Neymar. He's just he's just giving me a
40:41
hard time. OK, we're going to play the
40:45
would you rather game? OK.
40:47
Would you rather have Liam Dulap or Chris Wood?
40:51
Dulap. I feel like this one mean
40:52
Tigachi might agree on a few. Interesting.
40:55
Yeah. So I, so you guys would rather
40:57
have the potential upside of a Chelsea striker who but even
41:00
though he's in a competition with Jackson and maybe one other
41:02
person versus the guarantee of Chris Wood.
41:05
Probably going to shoot myself in the foot, Yeah, I'm probably
41:07
going to shoot myself on the foot with this, but I don't
41:09
think Chris Wood has another season away to this season.
41:11
Even if he doesn't have another season exactly like he did, you
41:13
know he's going to start almost every game that he's healthy,
41:15
right? That would be that would be the
41:17
logic. But you guys OK, so totally.
41:19
If you lose a competition to Nico Jackson, you're not an EPL
41:21
striker. Oh, Jesus.
41:24
You. I think you're gonna literally
41:25
regret that. I think you're literally regret
41:27
that. Maybe not, though.
41:28
Maybe a lot Might be great. We don't know yet.
41:30
OK, next one. Florian Wertz.
41:32
Orion Shakuri. Shakuri.
41:34
How do you say it? Sharky.
41:35
Sharky, what would you rather have?
41:38
Where it's easy, Where? It's where it's just stability
41:40
of that team. Did you see they put a new offer
41:43
like I think like 20 million more?
41:46
It's gonna happen. Yeah, it's gonna happen.
41:48
It's gonna happen. So I think for me, it's I think
41:51
you could it's a toss up. It's from like the talent
41:53
perspective. It's more just about going to a
41:55
Liverpool team where, you know, he's probably gonna start every
41:57
game and Man City is just so you just don't know what's gonna
41:59
happen. Right.
42:00
Mm hmm. Is that the concern?
42:02
Yeah. All right.
42:02
Next one Ryan at Nori or Milos Cricas.
42:09
Don't worry, it all depends on I agree with Tika, but it all
42:13
depends on if Lil will play with wingbacks or are they going to
42:16
play at back four because if they play at back four and they
42:17
play the way he did this season something meals Kirk has gets up
42:20
filled as much as he did this season.
42:22
So I agree I Nori. Man, I think I've been, I'm
42:27
bleeding, Kurt. Maybe Kirk has here.
42:29
I don't know. I think I Nori has the highest
42:31
chance of all these guys. I wouldn't be like no one would
42:34
be shocked if he finished his first defenders overall right?
42:37
No, but of all of the guys I think he could be the most
42:39
disappointing too just depending on how much playing time he gets
42:43
and and what not. He just makes one mistake.
42:46
He steps out. Seriously.
42:48
Or he he kind of gets injured a little bit sometimes too.
42:50
He's not like the most like dependable where like a cricket
42:52
plays like every game. No OK, next one jury and Timber
42:58
or Nathan Collins. I think Collins had a phenomenal
43:02
season. I think he finished like third
43:03
overall in defenders. I don't know what he how did he
43:05
finish I. Don't know, but I'll go with
43:07
timber. Collins finished fourth overall
43:09
with the total points he had 7 assists, two goals, 7 assists,
43:13
which is insane for. Taking Nathan Collins.
43:17
You're taking Collins? Yeah, Timber was underwhelming
43:20
and I think with Ben White coming back, California being
43:23
California being healthy and I think they have another Gabriel
43:26
coming back as well. I think that's to be more of a
43:28
rotation and I don't know if he's going to play that many
43:31
minutes, especially with MLS as well playing left back towards
43:34
then. Yeah, Lewis Kelly as well.
43:36
You're right. Yeah.
43:36
I agree, but I don't think why isn't the picture no more.
43:40
I'm thinking why do you? Think he's out of the picture?
43:42
I don't think he's like second choice, I think Timber's ahead
43:46
of him. And why it was first choice?
43:49
He was, he's one season before the injury, but now he now ends
43:51
up saying he does. He's a.
43:52
Doesn't think he is. Timber doesn't play right back.
43:55
I think he can. He can play right back.
43:58
He played a good amount of right back last and he's healthy.
44:00
His issue too is he hasn't been that healthy.
44:02
Yeah, well, he, he, he just came back from that injury and then
44:05
he was unhealthy again this season.
44:07
Yeah. So that's, that's concerning to
44:08
me. I think I think I'd kind of go
44:10
to Collins too, but I, I see the I see the timber, I'm the upside
44:13
of a better team. And I also think that the thing
44:15
with Nathan Collins is like every single year there's always
44:18
a few defenders that have like these pop off seasons and then
44:21
don't replicate and then go too high, you know, every year.
44:24
So there's a few guys like that, like Ethan Pinnock last year,
44:27
like there's always a few guys that do that.
44:28
So a little concerned, but interesting.
44:30
OK, last one. Morgan Gibbs White or Yuri
44:33
Tillerman's? I got so spot.
44:36
On of course you. Think I'm going to go
44:37
Tillerman's, but I was, yeah. It all depends.
44:39
If Gibbs White stays at Forest, I go Gibbs White.
44:42
If he goes to CI, say no. You think they'll still buy?
44:45
The The rumors are still there. They're still flowing about.
44:47
Yeah, I go give us white. I my heart is telling me give us
44:50
white, but my head and statistics, I think are telling
44:53
me tilness all the way when you really look at the numbers when.
44:57
You really look at the numbers, yeah.
44:58
Yeah, I just. Thought give White had a good
45:00
end of the season. Very good end of the season.
45:02
I think anyone who drafted him is kind of bummed, yeah.
45:05
Like, you know. Because that first half of the
45:06
season, you sucked it. It's the same with Reza.
45:08
It wasn't good until the end of the season.
45:11
Yeah, kinda. 10 points per start.
45:15
That's good. That's really good, Gibbs White.
45:19
Oh, it wasn't that bad. 10.3 points per start.
45:23
I think Tielemans have had more more total points, right?
45:25
But I I also think Tielemans had his like break out urine villa
45:31
because last year he wasn't starting all the all the
45:32
matches. Is it will he be able to
45:34
duplicate it or replicate the the same year?
45:36
Whereas Gibbs White, I think he's done it for like what, 2-3
45:38
years now? That's a good point.
45:40
And this was a low for Gibbs White as opposed to like he had
45:43
a lower point total this year. Yeah.
45:45
Because he wasn't asked to do as much.
45:47
I think this year is the first time where he's had the better
45:49
supporting cast around him with like Elenga and and Kalmutz and
45:52
a toy and Yates and all these other guys would obviously is
45:55
picking up a lot of the load. Yeah.
45:57
So actually, OK, I'm, I'm being, I'm being convinced.
45:59
I think I might go Gibbs White. Just I think there's more more
46:02
there more potential, but Tielemans, I mean, if if
46:06
Tielemans has a if he has the season, if this is the new
46:09
normal for Tielemans, then you'd have to eat.
46:11
It'd be hard not to go Tielemans, you know, but you're
46:14
just betting on Gibbs White having a better season and
46:17
Tielemans kind of regressing a little.
46:19
All right, that's all I have anything that you guys want to
46:22
speak on? Speak to Jam packed,
46:25
action-packed, loaded with information.
46:28
And you sound like an American movie, but thank you.
46:31
I'll use my credit card. So, a movie near you.
46:35
What do? You guys think about USA jersey?
46:37
It's nice. I bought it just I bought it
46:39
just in time to watch us to wear what we lost to Turkey.
46:41
This. Week.
46:42
It happens, man. It happens.
46:45
These are nice shows, you know. Yeah, I I kind of like it.
46:48
My friend. My friend started working at
46:50
Nike so she I got a little little discount.
46:54
How close are you with that? Friend, I was going to say close
46:56
to here. All right, I'll be.
46:59
I want the new Tottenham jersey that comes out.
47:01
New England jersey that comes out.
47:02
Yeah. My next Jersey's probably going
47:06
to be Wrexham. Wrexham.
47:09
What they said. Huh.
47:10
I like. I like the jersey, the red ones
47:11
quite. Nice.
47:12
Yeah, they're cool. I mean, Wrexham's objectively,
47:13
it's like a cool story, you know, you got, you got to say,
47:16
do you see there's been a few more names floating around.
47:20
Well, Ben Davies just signed a freaking extension.
47:22
Extension at Tottenham. That was the name I heard
47:24
though. No, I saw the extension.
47:26
Horrible. If you were him, don't you think
47:29
you'd rather go down and play for Wrexham?
47:31
No, because he's getting paid. That's.
47:32
The pay. It's the pay, man.
47:34
Yeah, and when you're you're Ben Davies age, you're thinking
47:37
about retirement. And he's and now makes you think
47:39
that maybe son might stay because they're best friends.
47:42
Ben Davies and son. Yeah, they're not best friends.
47:45
I think son stays. Just imagine that conversation
47:48
between them, two of those two different accents.
47:52
Where, like, where would Son really go?
47:54
I mean, I feel like Son didn't have that bad of a season last
47:56
year. I also feel like it's really
47:57
hard to judge a lot of those players on last year because it
47:59
was such a weird year with Ange and everything.
48:01
I think he'll be he'll. I think he'll do great with
48:04
Thomas Frank. And the way Thomas Frank plays,
48:05
he plays like the triangle he likes to overload on one side,
48:09
so it could work out for him. If Frank comes in Kulasefsky,
48:14
Madison, I think they all are going to be pretty exciting.
48:17
But he'll be big plays. Will there be top ten?
48:19
I don't know but they they could break into the top 20.
48:22
Yeah, I think like, well, when was Madison was drafted in the
48:24
second round last last year? Take off when?
48:28
Did you when did you take him? Got a question?
48:32
Let me. He was drafted high though.
48:34
I think it was second or third round.
48:35
Yeah, and Kulasya was drafted in the 4th, but he he way over
48:39
performed his draft value at the first half of the season and
48:42
even son, even son didn't finish that bad.
48:44
He finished in the like 18th or something overall.
48:46
Yeah. So which is like, you're fine,
48:48
yeah, even though I know you dropped something late in the
48:50
first round, but like, so you're getting second round value from
48:53
them, Yeah. Take take the world T goes.
48:55
Not going to draft them anyway so of.
48:57
Course not. No Son, son, son.
48:59
Look his face. Look his face, all right?
49:01
Have you have you guys seen this rumor of Jamie Vardy possibly
49:04
going to Manchester United? No.
49:06
No because I googled Jamie Vardy because I was just curious where
49:09
he would go and it everything comes up as man U good.
49:14
Oh fuck, do you think they run body or fucking Yokarez?
49:17
I think they want Yokarez. I mean.
49:19
Well, I think it would be a significantly cheaper.
49:22
Yeah, but Oh my God, that. Will also bring on Vardy last
49:25
minute, like the last 20 minutes, he's not going to be
49:27
starter. Maybe.
49:30
All right, Keith. All right, this has been episode
49:32
92 of Draft Offsides. My name is Keith, I'm with
49:35
Tucanenzo. We'll see you next week for some
49:39
more amazing content. Yeah, all.
49:43
Right. Follow us on draft off sites.
49:45
And all the socials. And all the socials.
49:48
I got I think I got what you guys finger.
49:52
Well, we do three players next next week and it's.
49:56
Wait, I completely forgot about you.
49:58
You were supposed to. You got a homework assignment
50:00
and you didn't do it. Which one the the?
50:02
Money. The money bar.
50:03
We said we weren't going to do that yet because it's too early.
50:06
Oh yeah, we did say. But I say next week we do our
50:09
our top player for the second round that we want to pick that
50:12
we think will be the best value. We do the wild card pick fifth
50:16
round or further and then I'm not done Tiko.
50:20
And then we do the player that we won't touch in the first 3
50:22
rounds. I'm done tiko I.
50:25
I think it's a little too early for that because they're still
50:27
like big names might be on the move.
50:30
Yeah. So I see both sides.
50:31
I I think, I think what's been good about the last two episodes
50:34
is that we're like, we're talking about players, but we're
50:36
not talking about like exactly where they're gonna go.
50:38
And if it is, it's like a second, you know.
50:39
So I think there's I I'm not mad at what I'm just saying is like
50:42
maybe just players are a void or something, but it doesn't, it
50:45
doesn't even be tied to rounds and stuff.
50:46
No, quite yet. What do you think about that
50:49
Tika? Yeah, I think that we could like
50:52
take a deep dive on players, but saying like, oh, especially like
50:55
when there might be some movements, like if you're
50:58
talking about next week where words is going to go, like are
51:01
people in the first and second round, Words is going to go
51:03
probably in the second round to kind of.
51:05
Yeah, but we got to do something.
51:06
He might have moved up in my rankings a little bit, guys.
51:09
We got to do a little bit more, we got to do content, and that's
51:11
still something good to talk about.
51:12
It is good to talk about. I think we take like a we could
51:16
also take like a dive on players that are going to stand, like we
51:20
didn't talk to Bruno, who committed staying to Manchester
51:22
United. We didn't talk about that, that
51:24
that is. So we could we could talk about
51:25
like players that are, could it be on the teams that we know
51:28
they're gonna play from, take a dive on them like doing a metric
51:31
city rankings? What what does the Kunia and
51:34
everything mean for Bruno Fernandez?
51:35
Like stuff like that. I do think we should like make
51:38
it point centric towards like certain teams or certain
51:41
players, yeah. I think, I think what I was kind
51:43
of saying in the text last night is that I think that trying to
51:47
go team by team, we're gonna get so bogged down.
51:49
I think I think it's talking about like key things.
51:51
So like, like that Bruno Fernandez thing is a great
51:53
example of something we can like how is a line item that we
51:55
talked about super briefly and it's really interesting even if,
51:58
you know, for everyone, like fantasy related or not fantasy
52:01
related, Yeah. And then also like talking about
52:03
like team, team by team. Like obviously if that's what
52:05
we're talking about, Chelsea, Man City, Man United requires
52:08
more time, but if we're talking about like Brighton, shouldn't
52:12
be take more than like 5 minutes.
52:13
But I I think we just go, let's just, let's just go.
52:16
We can, I think we go team, my team and we find like an
52:18
interesting like a couple interesting questions.
52:20
Yeah, like a storyline. So you got a question for you
52:23
though, how bullish are you on Odegar?
52:25
Like are you taking him? Would you take him before like
52:27
Daniel Munoz man? You know, after like one of our
52:30
previous podcasts, I think it was like 2 weeks ago where we
52:32
talked about Munoz and then I kind of looked at his.
52:35
Performance. Yeah.
52:37
How good they were. How good it was.
52:39
Yeah, it's like surprisingly amazing.
52:41
It's really good. He finished like 7th overall
52:43
total points. And then do we know if Fan
52:46
Tracks is going to make any points adjustments to like to
52:48
the rule change? Go to run.
52:50
Yeah, we got to talk to talk to the The Boss fan.
52:54
When are we going to get Nate on, do you know?
52:56
He told me he was interested, so let's like he's down.
52:59
So I think we just got to figure out timing with him because he's
53:01
in Portugal, so we got to figure out when.
53:03
But that'll be funny. You guys never met Nate, right?
53:05
No. No, he lives in Portugal, so.
53:07
He's like, he's like a Midwestern boy.
53:09
He's not like a Portuguese. He never played, he never played
53:11
on the full on our football team, did he?
53:13
Did I forget? About it?
53:13
No, he never did. So it's like an 8 hour
53:16
difference. Yeah.
53:18
So we probably either need to do like an early, maybe we might
53:20
need to do like a Monday or Sunday morning episode or
53:22
something like a Sunday morning record.
53:24
Saturday morning, yeah. Saturday morning I'll be.
53:26
What if? What if we make him accommodate
53:28
to our schedule? I'll wake.
53:30
Up at 6:00 AM What? Would be the evening time that
53:32
he could do if it would be early, what would be early for
53:34
him and late for us? I.
53:36
Don't know, I could probably for late for him.
53:38
We like if we did a 12/12 midday and it'll be 8:00 for him.
53:42
Oh. Let's do like an 8:00 Kevin wake
53:44
up at like 6:00 AM. 5:00 AM. That's 4:00 AM, bro.
53:47
You just want to do that? Yeah, whatever.
53:48
You'll be like. So we could do a if we do 8:00
53:51
AM our time, that's 4:00 his time depending on when he gets
53:54
back. From work.
53:55
Oh, that's interesting. So that we could do a morning
53:58
one. I'll follow up because I asked
54:00
him what would be the best time for him and he we just stopped
54:03
chatting so I'll check in with him.
54:05
All right, I go to have dinner. Let's.
54:07
What's for dinner? Soba de pollo.
54:11
Oh yeah, sounds good. Hey, congratulations. 104 views
54:15
on our last last episode. Wow.
54:18
Thank you. Yeah, big kudos to Serge.
54:22
Thanks. Thanks, Sergey.
54:23
I thought you answered just congratulating me.
54:26
No, the better, brother. Let's put up a sporting Lizman
54:30
scarf for Portugal. God.
54:33
You just tried me. All right, I'll catch your point
54:35
this. Is the first scarf I got.
54:36
This is what started the collection.
54:38
Love it. No one cares.
54:40
I like your haircut, Enzo. You.
54:42
Still stupid. All right, how to get on all?
54:44
Right. See it?