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We Predict the 2026/27 Premier League! | Outside the Box · Outside the Box with Leon Osman and Tony Bellew

• 0:00
  Let's talk about the transfer deal that sort of did it shock everyone.
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  The one that came out of nowhere.
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  Shook the world.
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  The straight swap.
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  Yeah, well, shook our world.
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  The straight swap, Brennan Johnson, for Dwight McNeil.
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  What did you think when you heard that tone?
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  Do you know what?
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  I was made up because your first thoughts and reaction to Brennan Johnson, he's a player who can make a difference.
• 0:21
  And so was Dwight McNeil, to be fair, but for some reason he just didn't feature as much as he probably would have liked to under the gaffer, so...
• 0:28
  I get the move, I understand the move.
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  And Berenon Johnson hasn't really played much football.
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  Speaking to Spurs fans, a couple that I've got, a couple I work with at Matchroom, they were like, they just don't see him doing anything for us.
• 0:42
  And I was like, well, I disagree.
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  And they were like, well, you're going to, because he's a new player for you.
• 0:46
  I just feel in two years he will have left you and he won't have done a single thing.
• 0:51
  But they also did say we hope we're wrong.
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  But that was their opinion and their verigrass.
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  Was that just because you were a bit different weight from them and they were like middleweights and lightweights and didn't want to anger you too much?
• 1:04
  No, no, no.
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  These weren't actual fighters, Leon.
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  Come on, behave now.
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  Well, no wonder they said they hope you get what you want out of him.
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  No wonder they bottled it as you were probably looking all aggressive, probably spitting on them a little bit by accident.
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  They were so dismissive.
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  I don't know.
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  It just gives me a little bit of a weird feeling, but I just think he's a top player.
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  Top talent and here's the bit that I like the most.
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  He bit back at Gabby Agbono and the Little Lakes Jamie O'Hara.
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  He bit back at them.
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  He just beat me to it.
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  I was going to ask.
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  I like that.
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  I like that because when a player bites back, that means he's got his back up.
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  He takes offence on him because they all just go shy and quiet and don't say nothing back and never retaliate.
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  And I love the fact that he just put one more than both of these put together.
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  Brilliant.
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  Well done, lad.
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  absolutely spot on, on the money, brilliant, now go and show us what you've won and show us how you've won it because that's what I want to see at the end of this.
• 1:59
  I liked it as well.
• 2:00
  I found it strange that they had another, I think they had another bite back at him as if like, he didn't have the right to have a swing back after they publicly tried to sort of embarrass him.
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  Gabby apologised.
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  Did he?
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  But Chops tried to double down again, didn't he?
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  Well, he was crap last season.
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  Well, I mean, I don't remember Jamie Warrer having a good season.
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  Never mind, like, crap.
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  I don't remember him having a good one.
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  I mean, does anyone else remember him having a good one?
• 2:24
  I mean, when he pulled Dominic, he put Dominic Albert-Lewin on something once with me on air.
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  And I just went and got the stats and he was like, Dominic Ingle, he's made out of paper mache.
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  He's never fit, he's always injured.
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  And I was like, what was the most amount of minutes you played in a season?
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  Jamie, and he couldn't answer it.
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  And I'd done a bit of research and a bit of digging and it seemed that Dominic Cavaluna played like four times as many minutes in one season than he played in the whole, in any season before.
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  So it just goes to show you, I mean, you should not throw stones in glass houses, little legs, you just leave it alone and then take your small backside back home.
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  I wanted you to finish that thing before I turned and reminded you of last week and called you a perv because you went and done research and you went and looked stuff up and you went and did the research on somebody's career and did the details.
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  This was an argument and I had to do the research to back up the clothes.
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  Pervy behaviour.
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  No, no, pervy behaviour.
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  It takes one to know one.
• 3:23
  Yeah, it does.
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  But pervert behaviour is knowing how many goals or assists Ian Rush had had.
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  Because believe you me, they were in black and white TVs and no one was talking about assist.
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  The word assist didn't even...
• 3:38
  It wasn't a thing back then.
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  The word assist was only invented literally, I'm not joking, in the last five, six years.
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  It's only become prevalent in the last five or six years.
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  It's only become big as people double down, treble down on the data.
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  That's for sure.
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  People from the early Premier League days, probably if someone did what Tony's asking, went back and did all the stuff, probably everyone's assists will go 50% minimum.
• 4:10
  However, just quick back on Brennan Johnson.
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  You said about Dwight McNeil not getting his place.
• 4:16
  Well, I just think when you look around the Everton squad of last year and you've got, he's never really going to play in the middle.
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  Then you've got Grealish, you had on one side, and Jai on the other.
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  Then you had other people to come in, maybe a Dibbler, maybe all these people.
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  He was struggling for time because I think the players...
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  he's trying to replace a very similar in terms of wanting the ball to feet, wanting to deliver good, good crosses.
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  I mean, when he came in, like performances away with the Emirates, I thought he did okay.
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  I thought he actually tried to deliver, but he's always coming in and sort of,
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  replacing something like for like, and probably, if I'm being completely honest, not as good as the players he's replacing.
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  And when, when, when you're, when you're a manager and when people criticize managers for not making changes at times, I think quite often if a manager's looking to make a change and he's looking to his bench and everything on his bench is similar to what he's got on the pitch, but what he's got on the pitch is actually better than a manager is going to be reluctant to make changes.
• 5:18
  I think with Brennan Johnson, in my opinion, he's,
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  He's different from what we've got.
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  I sort of think about him in terms of like a Raheem Sterling, maybe not as good as Raheem Sterling, or certainly he's got a lot to prove to be talked about in that way.
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  But in terms of, think about his time at City, Raheem Sterling scored loads of goals, one touch at the back post, because things were getting flashed across, and he was in there to get loads of goals.
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  Because he's a guy who arrives...
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  People would be on the halfway and I'd look up still and make a run over the top, blaming.
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  All of those kind of things.
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  Doesn't want the ball to feet.
• 5:53
  Well, that's the good thing about Brennan Johnson for us.
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  Because you think about it.
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  Njai wants the ball to feet.
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  Dibblom wants the ball to feet.
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  Do as we all is a bit of a mixture of both.
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  He'll do a bit of both.
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  But majority wants the ball to feet.
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  So when you're looking to make changes or you're looking to have balance in your team,
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  I think Brennan Johnson could be good for us in terms of he'll run the other way.
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  I talk about it all the time.
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  You need people that do, you need balance in your team, people that run to the other end of the pitch.
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  Time will tell whether he's actually going to be good for us.
• 6:24
  I had a message from a friend straight away saying, Brennan Johnson going to Everton, he is the least Everton player in terms of,
• 6:35
  the fans will get on his back within 10 minutes because his body language is bad.
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  His thing, you know, is the way he goes about it.
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  He's frustrating.
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  He's, as Tony was sort of touching on what people have watched him regularly say, he flatters to deceive, doesn't produce as much.
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  But I think if you get people the right environment, and Everton might be the right environment for him, just run around, show the club that you work really hard, sprint after Everton, chase the ball over the top and get yourself in at the back post for...
• 7:03
  I mean, I think he could get over 10 goals from a wide position this season, arriving or flashing things across and asking for other people to get on the end of the show.
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  He's got enough for a goal.
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  Finding himself in the right place at the right time.
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  Yeah, I don't think he scored for Palace.
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  Did he have two the year before for Spurs?
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  But he did win the European Cup, haven't scored in the final, because he finds himself in their moments.
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  And if we can get a little bit of that out of him...
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  then I'm suddenly looking and thinking, our team could be really balanced.
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  And I'm looking forward to seeing it.
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  Another good signing that we just managed to get in.
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  Yeah, I thought he was really good at Forrest before those two stints at Spurs and Palace.
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  And I think Moyes will be a good manager for him as well to sort of bring in that sort of work ethic and more stability to his game.
• 7:51
  Anyone heard the rumours about Munoz?
• 7:55
  Heard the rumours, but I don't know if they've made any further than that.
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  Would he be a good one for you, Tony?
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  Yes.
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  Oh, yes.
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  Absolutely.
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  That's probably as excited as I've heard you.
• 8:09
  Yep.
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  He's a premiership player, mate.
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  Very good player.
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  I would have thought he'd have been sought after by a number of clubs, to be honest.
• 8:19
  Yeah, the only thing about him is he's played his last three seasons, maybe, and I don't know what his time was before that, as a right wing-back.
• 8:28
  We're never going to play him as a right wing-back, so he'd have to come in and know the difference between playing wing-back and playing full-back, because they are different.
• 8:36
  You're restricted a little bit more, you play a little bit deeper, you need to be connected to your centre-halves, which is...
• 8:42
  He's literally played like a...
• 8:43
  He's basically done the whole right side, hasn't he, for Palace the last few years.
• 8:46
  But there's no doubt that he's the type of player that I think we would like because he shows he can defend.
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  He's decent in 1v1s.
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  I don't remember him really getting embarrassed and done on a regular basis.
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  And he gets forward and delivers good crosses and scores goals as well.
• 9:05
  Yeah.
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  Yeah, he was great last year.
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  Yeah.
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  Right, let's crack on.
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  Premier League weekend is up and coming.
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  It's Premier League predictions week on Outside the Box.
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  So the way it's going to work, going to go through each club very briefly.
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  You guys are going to say where you think they're going to be placed in the league.
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  And then at the end, I'll ask a couple of bigger questions around what we think is going to happen throughout the year.
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  So kicking us off...
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  The current holders, Arsenal.
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  Are they still the favourites of the league?
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  Aussie, well, you want me to go to Tony first, don't you?
• 9:36
  No, no.
• 9:36
  I think so.
• 9:38
  You've either going to... Yeah.
• 9:42
  I think D do it again.
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  I'm going Arsenal top.
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  Aussie, what do you think?
• 9:48
  I agree with that.
• 9:49
  I think Arsenal will win again.
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  I think they might win comfortably this year.
• 9:58
  I think that if I look back to over the time of teams, United early, Chelsea, Arsenal less so, but Chelsea under Mourinho, and I look at these teams, City,
• 10:15
  And I look at when they won their first title and how difficult it seemed and how they stumbled in the season before and never got over the line.
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  But then once they got that first one done, the first one in the bag, it sort of started a run.
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  It started sort of a little bit of time in possession of the trophy.
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  The second one seemed to be easier to win.
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  And I know Liverpool have won titles and not been able to back it up, but I look at this Arsenal team and they've only let Trossard go.
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  They've brought in a fella, Tolis, who's going to play left wing.
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  I think he's a Greek fella.
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  Bruno Gimores has come in as well.
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  So they've proper strengthened in good positions.
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  The centre-halves are good.
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  I'm hearing it this morning that they're trying to get Gerald Kwanza in.
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  who used to play for Liverpool.
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  Yeah, I'm hearing a rumour that they're trying to get him in.
• 11:08
  But the point is, they are champions and strengthened them properly.
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  And I said when Liverpool were champions and they strengthened, I thought that would make them win the league at a canter.
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  But obviously, it shows how hard it is to predict.
• 11:22
  On a slot, second season did to Liverpool what Roberto kind of did to us in his second and third seasons and things fall apart.
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  Brought in wing-backs rather than full-backs in terms of who he brought.
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  And I look around the league and I think City, new manager, Chelsea, new manager, could be good.
• 11:42
  Don't know anything about the United Spurs, Liverpool.
• 11:45
  I think they've all got weaker this season and Arsenal may have got stronger.
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  So, yeah, that's why I've got Arsenal to win.
• 11:54
  Yeah, I think Bruno's a massive signing for them.
• 11:56
  I think there was probably an argument last year that Arsenal don't play the most attractive football in the world, but we're still winning.
• 12:02
  I think Bruno could change that and elevate their game even further.
• 12:07
  Yeah, and they're a squad now.
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  They lost in the Champions League final.
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  They lost in the final of the Carabao Cup.
• 12:15
  I think they're a squad.
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  They are now looking at all the trophies.
• 12:19
  And that's why, you know, you've got Zubimendi, you've got Rice, you've got Bruno Gimres, you've got Odegaard, Eze plays in the middle.
• 12:26
  They've now got a lot of people for a lot of positions.
• 12:30
  And I think they'll all, and I still think they'll all play at times and look good.
• 12:34
  I'll be in Chelsea, she on Sunday.
• 12:38
  Yeah, yeah, that'll be a...
• 12:40
  It's funny, that one, whether you say it's a sign.
• 12:43
  Everyone wants to win that first one of the season.
• 12:47
  But I don't know how much merit it actually has with regards to whether you're going to win the league.
• 12:52
  But it always seems like you want to win it.
• 12:55
  It's a glorified friendly, isn't it?
• 12:58
  It is, but you get there by being successful the previous year, don't you?
• 13:03
  So it's an opportunity to win more silverware.
• 13:07
  When you look at Sir Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola's amount of trophies they win, Charity Shields are always on there.
• 13:16
  Oh yeah, yeah.
• 13:17
  So don't mess around about that.
• 13:19
  When we had that debate around gigs and how many trophies he used, well, nine of them were Charity Shields.
• 13:24
  Nine.
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  So they're all charity shields.
• 13:28
  So you say glorified friendlies, but they're a major trophy.
• 13:31
  count or don't have our major trophy house come on but i know what you're saying but okay you've got the but it's like the super cup we just had the super cup haven't we psg just just beat just yeah but it's so pierce just beat asta villa and yes it is a major trophy but it's the winner of the champions league plays the winner of the europa league well our charity shield is the winner of the league plays the winner of the fa cup to see who's so if you think about it in them terms
• 14:00
  Yeah, it's a fair point, but yeah, I mean, it's not a patch on the Super Cup.
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  What a game that was, by the way, as well.
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  It was a good game.
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  How good's that kid up top, Macho?
• 14:10
  You watched that, but didn't watch Everton's Friendly against Newcastle?
• 14:13
  I just happened to come across it, mate.
• 14:15
  That's an incredible thing.
• 14:16
  I just happened to come across it and see that Macho kid.
• 14:19
  I didn't see it.
• 14:20
  I couldn't tell you.
• 14:21
  You want to see him, mate?
• 14:22
  He's a machine.
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  This kid.
• 14:24
  Oh, wow.
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  Proper machine.
• 14:28
  Right, okay, so I'm going Arsenal.
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  So, Arsenal top of the league, both of you.
• 14:31
  Next up, Aston Villa.
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  I'm...
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  I'm...
• 14:39
  I just...
• 14:40
  I keep thinking, how's Maresca going to do at City?
• 14:45
  It's a lot he's got on his plate, mate.
• 14:47
  Is it the Poison Chalice, similar to the Fergie job?
• 14:51
  Man United, you know, you're filling someone's boots that are unfillable, really.
• 14:57
  Is he talking after Villa or is he talking about City?
• 15:00
  I'm talking about City finishing second, you don't.
• 15:02
  He's picked Villa.
• 15:03
  I haven't picked Villa.
• 15:04
  No, he hasn't.
• 15:06
  No, no.
• 15:07
  So it's not here.
• 15:08
  So I'm saying, so I'm going off Betts Galore there of where you think.
• 15:11
  Oh, for fuck's sake.
• 15:14
  Yeah.
• 15:15
  You don't.
• 15:16
  So, so you guys, where do I think Villa finish?
• 15:18
  That's a good way to do it, isn't it?
• 15:20
  Okay, I think Villa finish.
• 15:22
  I'd rate him as a top, top manager.
• 15:25
  Yeah.
• 15:27
  Lost some players though.
• 15:29
  It's mad that he didn't work at Arsenal.
• 15:31
  I just find it baffling that how it didn't work out with Arsenal and United.
• 15:37
  I'm going to go Villa finishing... sixth.
• 15:44
  Okey-doke.
• 15:45
  Ozzy?
• 15:47
  I've got them seventh.
• 15:49
  Yeah, I just think that obviously losing Morgan Rodgers is huge.
• 15:58
  And I know they spent money to try and replace him.
• 16:02
  But they've also lost Tielemans in the middle of the pitch.
• 16:06
  Those were two huge players for them over the last few seasons.
• 16:09
  You go back the season before and they lost another couple of players over the summer.
• 16:13
  I thought they struggled last year.
• 16:16
  I was weighing up in my mind which way they'd go, because as Tony's just pointed out, Unai Emery is a ridiculously good manager.
• 16:23
  Always seems to find a way, no matter who he's got.
• 16:26
  And they brought in that man, Zambi, from Freiburg, who was very good for Switzerland in the summer.
• 16:32
  Giao Gomez coming from Wolves.
• 16:34
  So I think they have strengthened well, but I just don't know if you get the same as what Rodgers has just been giving you and what Telemans has been giving you.
• 16:41
  Not right away, anyway.
• 16:42
  Plus, they're in the Champions League, which always makes it a bit more difficult to marriage, although he's a European specialist, isn't he?
• 16:51
  when it comes to it, but I just think putting those things together, I was debating whether they were going to finish 6th or 7th, and I've gone for 7th.
• 17:02
  I think it's just going to be a little bit too much with that changeover, but that still wouldn't be a bad season, I don't think, for Villa.
• 17:09
  I still think it'd be classed as a good season, and I'd expect them to then kick on again the following year.
• 17:14
  It's one of those, isn't it, where...
• 17:18
  start to get used to Champions League football and on the precipice of winning all, like they did actually winning trophies and on being there.
• 17:26
  And then you're never able to sustain that constantly.
• 17:30
  Everybody, even champions, miss out on the title every now and again.
• 17:33
  And I just think Villa, I think Villa's, this is going to be their season where they just can't quite achieve what they're going to.
• 17:40
  And they might step on next season, but I just think this is that season now.
• 17:42
  So I've got them seventh.
• 17:44
  I see a huge injury to Onana as well, which is a big part of their midfield from the World Cup.
• 17:50
  Could see a place for Ross Barkley though, which would be quite nice.
• 17:53
  Yeah, he's still there, able to do it, whether he can hit the heights that he did.
• 17:57
  Because Onana, I've never really been cemented on him.
• 18:02
  I thought we did great business getting rid of him.
• 18:05
  Okey doke, I've put that one down.
• 18:09
  Bournemouth.
• 18:10
  I think they're going to struggle this year.
• 18:12
  And I don't hear Eola going, obviously, to the shite.
• 18:19
  I think they're going to struggle, mate.
• 18:21
  I'm going to go, I think Bournemouth are going to be about 14th.
• 18:27
  I've got them lower.
• 18:29
  I've got them even lower.
• 18:31
  I've got them, I mean, obviously, I've got them 16th out of, you know, 17th plate stays in the Premier League.
• 18:38
  I've got them 16th now.
• 18:40
  They've obviously got decent players, but they're
• 18:44
  They've got rid of Sinistero, they've got rid of Sinesi.
• 18:50
  Big centre-half for them, important.
• 18:52
  I don't know if this replacement will manage it.
• 18:55
  They've brought in a new fella, Marco Rose.
• 19:02
  Good at RB Leipzig, finished third in the league.
• 19:05
  But coming to the Premier League is new.
• 19:08
  People don't always hit the ground running.
• 19:10
  So they've got a new manager.
• 19:12
  And they've got European football.
• 19:14
  And there's a big transition.
• 19:15
  So, I don't think they've played in European football before.
• 19:18
  So, that brings its challenges.
• 19:21
  I don't think their squad is huge.
• 19:23
  So, suddenly now, them players are playing the same week in, week out.
• 19:27
  New manager, all of that.
• 19:29
  Yeah, I think this is the big one.
• 19:30
  I think they're going to have a huge dip this season.
• 19:33
  A bit like Forrest did last season in terms of the European football really hit them.
• 19:39
  How much harder is it for you as a player playing in Europe?
• 19:42
  Like, them extra games, how hard is that as a player to adapt to?
• 19:47
  Do you know what?
• 19:48
  Physically...
• 19:50
  Depends on the demands of each game, but physically you can manage playing Saturday, Wednesday or Thursday, Sunday or whatever it is.
• 19:57
  One of the issues is lack of sort of preparation for games.
• 20:01
  So in the world now where, you know, managers and tactics are huge and how you look at games and how you set up against the opponents and where you get your advantage,
• 20:12
  This all happens on the trainer pitch, looking at the opposition, watching videos.
• 20:15
  Well, when you're playing Saturday, Thursday, Sunday, Thursday, Wednesday, wherever it might be, you're not really getting a look.
• 20:22
  You're not getting to prepare or anything.
• 20:23
  So you're basically just going and playing the way you want to.
• 20:25
  And the opposition can prepare against you.
• 20:27
  You don't always get to prepare against them.
• 20:30
  It's definitely easy on the young legs.
• 20:32
  When you get to 30-plus, it gets a little bit...
• 20:36
  a little bit harder to play all those games a week, but it's more about preparation than anything and freshness, that mental freshness.
• 20:45
  I've been waiting all week for this game.
• 20:48
  When you're doing the other game, games just come so thick and fast.
• 20:50
  They're upon you before you even know about it.
• 20:53
  And I think Bourbon will fall foul of that this year.
• 20:57
  You want Nos to be...
• 20:58
  I mean, obviously every player wants to play, but when you're in Europe and you're in the cup competition, you're in the league...
• 21:06
  Are you kind of going, oh, I could do it a week off here, or maybe I don't want to play all these games, or I want to be fresh for that game.
• 21:13
  I'm looking at that game, and that's the game I really want to shine in.
• 21:16
  I know I've got to be, not rested, but you know what I mean?
• 21:19
  I'll do 60 minutes here.
• 21:20
  Yeah, I never, in terms of looking three or four games ahead, I just wanted to stay in the team, wanted to play the next game.
• 21:27
  Didn't want to miss a minute, didn't want to come off.
• 21:29
  Wanted to play every minute.
• 21:31
  Now, I had a knee injury early, which I needed to manage.
• 21:35
  So that was more my thing game to game.
• 21:38
  How did my knee feel?
• 21:39
  Was my knee okay?
• 21:40
  Was it swelled up too much?
• 21:42
  Could I still be as close to the best physically as I possibly could?
• 21:48
  Not my muscles, my actual knee would swell.
• 21:50
  So I'd have to manage that between games.
• 21:52
  And early to, well, probably until I was about 30, that was...
• 21:57
  really not easy to do, but it was part and parcel.
• 21:59
  I managed it into your, into my thirties.
• 22:02
  We need did take that extra day or two before it felt at its best.
• 22:07
  Um, and those are the moments where you're thinking, this game's come a bit quick.
• 22:11
  This game's probably a day or two, too early for me, but I still don't want to miss it.
• 22:15
  But you knew these games were coming a little bit,
• 22:18
  A little bit quicker than your body was probably ready for at that point.
• 22:21
  But that's what squads are for, isn't it?
• 22:22
  And the manager's supposed to see that.
• 22:25
  And again, it's not a game you want to miss.
• 22:29
  You've worked hard to play in Europe.
• 22:31
  You want to play as many games as you can, but it can take its toll, definitely.
• 22:39
  Next up, Brentford.
• 22:42
  Oh, decent, a difficult one to place.
• 22:44
  Keith Andrews, his second year in charge.
• 22:50
  They performed above expectations last year.
• 22:53
  They did and that forward got them through an awful lot, Thiago.
• 23:01
  I don't know.
• 23:02
  I don't know.
• 23:05
  Part of me thinks he's here one season wonder.
• 23:11
  I just don't know.
• 23:12
  I'm gonna go, I think we should be finishing above Brenton and I think we can.
• 23:23
  I'm going to go Brentford to finish 11th.
• 23:31
  For anyone listening, I'm sorry that the amount of dead space there is while Tony's thinking.
• 23:36
  11th.
• 23:37
  Piss off you.
• 23:38
  There's not much pain in there.
• 23:40
  That gif of all the maths equations going around.
• 23:43
  You guys, the pop-ups are going to put round his head here.
• 23:46
  Yeah.
• 23:47
  There you go.
• 23:49
  It's what happens if you don't prepare properly.
• 23:51
  Well, don't start me off you.
• 23:53
  Come on, Brentford, where do you finish in the smarts' ass?
• 23:55
  I've got Brentford 11th.
• 23:58
  Oh, fuck.
• 23:59
  All the preparation and I just put out an idea as me.
• 24:01
  Yeah, yeah, there you go.
• 24:02
  Well done.
• 24:03
  Who needs prep, sorry?
• 24:05
  I've got them finishing 11th.
• 24:08
  Pretty much what you just said, though, in terms of that they had a really good season last season.
• 24:12
  Caught a few people off guard, I think.
• 24:15
  I think teams will be ready for long throw-ins and set pieces.
• 24:19
  They've brought some decent players.
• 24:22
  Jadon Anthony from Burnley.
• 24:24
  Yeah, Jadon Anthony from Burnley is their best player.
• 24:26
  Callum Wilson, we know, scores goals when he's fit.
• 24:30
  I swear to God, he's got a fantasy show when he's attacking.
• 24:36
  Say that again.
• 24:37
  If he comes on the pitch this year, I'm going to attack him.
• 24:42
  I'm not joking.
• 24:43
  If he turns up a little Dickinson and gets on that pitch, I'm running out.
• 24:47
  I can't take him anymore.
• 24:48
  He just scores against Everton.
• 24:49
  Every single time that man gets on a pitch against Everton, he just wants to score.
• 24:53
  And he does score.
• 24:55
  And I've had another one now.
• 24:56
  The striker?
• 24:57
  Callum Wilson.
• 24:57
  Callum Wilson.
• 24:59
  I thought you were talking about, what's their big centre-forward called?
• 25:02
  No, he's got it.
• 25:02
  I'd love to see that duel.
• 25:04
  Thiago.
• 25:04
  If he scores, get on against him.
• 25:08
  go running on against Igor Tiago I'm not planning any comeback soon but I swear to God Callum Wilson comes off that bench don't be running on against the little fellas run on against the big fellas Igor Tiago I can handle but no no that Callum Wilson it's just it's every time against Devin every single time
• 25:28
  I just can't take any more of it.
• 25:30
  Yeah, I know what you mean.
• 25:32
  I've got them 11th.
• 25:34
  As I said, I just think that...
• 25:36
  I don't think they'll be anywhere near the relegation, but I don't think they'll be qualifying for Europe.
• 25:40
  I've got them in that...
• 25:42
  I could have picked three or four positions for them, but I settled on 11th.
• 25:45
  Yeah.
• 25:46
  Brighton.
• 25:48
  They never cease to amaze me, Brighton.
• 25:51
  Every year, they just...
• 25:53
  They're always up there, aren't they?
• 25:53
  What a academy, what a youth system.
• 25:55
  The way they bring players through, they just buy them, sell them as if it's not, and then they just find more.
• 26:00
  It's great, isn't it?
• 26:02
  And there's absolutely...
• 26:04
  The reason why them players flourish at Brentford so much is because there's zero expectation on them.
• 26:09
  They all play really well.
• 26:11
  The crowd loves them.
• 26:13
  It's just because it's Brighton.
• 26:15
  But it's funny, isn't it?
• 26:16
  The minute they get...
• 26:18
  The minute that other people, you know, they go to other clubs, they just fail to really do much.
• 26:26
  I don't really see players that go from Brighton and really shine, if that makes sense.
• 26:30
  I don't really see them tear things up when they leave Brighton.
• 26:33
  I've seen very few do it, if any, if I'm being totally honest.
• 26:38
  So, I'm going to have Brighton at 12th.
• 26:45
  Ooh, it's a bit powerful then.
• 26:47
  Brighton have had a dip.
• 26:49
  Yeah.
• 26:51
  Brighton are in Europe this year as well, aren't they?
• 26:53
  Yes, they are.
• 26:54
  They're in the conference league.
• 26:56
  Yeah, so Brighton are in Europe, and you can seem to manage in the conference league better.
• 27:00
  So I've got Brighton 9th.
• 27:04
  and I think they will dip a little bit because of the extra European games.
• 27:11
  And I think Danny Welbeck leaving might hurt.
• 27:14
  Van Hecker leaving might hurt.
• 27:16
  And I'll just look at...
• 27:18
  I don't know whether the people they've brought in will replace them as well.
• 27:22
  They brought in Pascal Straug from Leeds.
• 27:26
  And they have brought a couple of other attacking, exciting players, but...
• 27:31
  I don't know, with the extra games and all that, I've got them at ninth.
• 27:36
  I think, again, they'll have a nice season in Europe.
• 27:40
  I think they'll enjoy themselves.
• 27:41
  I don't think they'll be able to win as many Premier League games because of that.
• 27:46
  For sure.
• 27:48
  Big one, Chelsea.
• 27:49
  First season under Xabi Alonso.
• 27:51
  Where are we popping them?
• 27:54
  Fourth.
• 27:58
  I've gone third.
• 27:58
  Third.
• 28:00
  Oh, big season for Chelsea.
• 28:02
  He's not allowed.
• 28:03
  Yeah, but for me, this is subject to what I'm going to tell you about Man City in a bit.
• 28:11
  I think Chelsea will be okay this year.
• 28:13
  I think they're signing good players.
• 28:15
  I think they're getting good characters in the squad.
• 28:18
  I think if you look at, I mean, they put Morgan Rodgers.
• 28:21
  They've got...
• 28:23
  Caicedo, they've got some top players, they've got strikers and Joe Pedro, Cole Palmer is surely going to have a return to form.
• 28:30
  How does he fit them all in?
• 28:32
  Yeah, and the sign of defenders, that's the manager's job.
• 28:35
  And the thing, as you say, how do you fit them all in?
• 28:37
  That's going to be huge because they've got no European football this season.
• 28:41
  And that's the reason why I think they're going to be... And they've got egos in that dressing room.
• 28:44
  That's what they've got, they've got egos.
• 28:45
  And then when them egos aren't playing, mate, them egos turn...
• 28:48
  And people are underestimating that.
• 28:50
  How much of an effect that can have in a dressing room, I think, and that's going to be the downfall of them.
• 28:54
  Yeah, well, I think it's been the downfall for a while, and that's why they've brought in Jordan Henderson, who's pretty much won everything in the game, as an outfield player in the dressing room.
• 29:03
  You're Bessie.
• 29:05
  Just someone to be...
• 29:07
  But when you're coming in, and even Danny Welbeck, when you're coming in as a player with the experience and you're hoping everyone's listening to him, you're coming in as a player that's won everything.
• 29:16
  And these young kids are now trying to be cheeky or whatever you'd call it.
• 29:21
  And he goes, and you're someone who's actually been there, done it all, got the T-shirt.
• 29:25
  Whether you like him or not, he has.
• 29:28
  So suddenly you basically tell them to shut up because you know what you're talking about.
• 29:32
  And that should be a huge influence on the squad.
• 29:36
  the places he's going now, I get last season where he was and he didn't really play that much, but, he might not play much here either.
• 29:43
  He might not play much at Chelsea.
• 29:44
  Is he a coach or is he a player?
• 29:47
  Is he signed as a coach for Chelsea?
• 29:48
  Here we go.
• 29:50
  Is he a coach?
• 29:51
  I don't knock him at all.
• 29:52
  He's been a fantastic player.
• 29:54
  What he's won, it's fantastic and anyone a dream of having the career he's had.
• 29:57
  But I feel like you're at a stage in your Kadiwe, you're holding on by the skin of your teeth and you're not actually playing.
• 30:04
  You're going places because you've got influence over people, not because of your playing ability, because you're actually not going to play.
• 30:10
  I'll tell you this, though.
• 30:11
  You're a long time retired.
• 30:12
  That was what you'd always say.
• 30:13
  So if you can go and get paid for playing football, because you'll never get that kind of wage again.
• 30:18
  If you can go and get paid for playing football, even if you're playing 10 times a season, 15 times a season, it's better than not.
• 30:26
  And if you can have an influence... Shows your loyalty doesn't mean absolutely nothing, doesn't it mate?
• 30:30
  Because he will sink Liverpool happily.
• 30:33
  I hope he does.
• 30:35
  Shows you done it though.
• 30:36
  Shows you done it.
• 30:37
  Same with the other fella, Benitez and all them likes.
• 30:41
  You know when these cop-outs go on, oh he loves the club, he loves it.
• 30:44
  No he doesn't.
• 30:45
  No he doesn't.
• 30:46
  Don't say loy... No he doesn't.
• 30:48
  He doesn't care.
• 30:49
  He's laughing at you.
• 30:50
  And he's going to laugh at you when he finishes above you if he does.
• 30:52
  He heaches.
• 30:54
  So don't give me a lie, he loves the club, he was the captain or he was the manager.
• 30:58
  He don't care.
• 30:59
  The mercenaries, to understand that, he's a mercenary.
• 31:04
  He does not care about that football club.
• 31:06
  Same as Benitez didn't care about Liverpool going on.
• 31:08
  He's done this and he loves the club.
• 31:10
  No, he doesn't.
• 31:11
  No, he doesn't.
• 31:11
  He managed your rivals.
• 31:13
  Managed your worst, your bitter rivals.
• 31:15
  And then he manages other clubs like Chelsea.
• 31:17
  And now the other fella's gone to play for Chelsea.
• 31:20
  Chelsea are rivals at Liverpool.
• 31:21
  What's he doing there?
• 31:23
  Would Jürgen Klopp go and manage Chelsea?
• 31:25
  I believe that's someone who loves Liverpool Football Club.
• 31:29
  I believe he's someone that's someone who's got a bit about them and goes, you know what, no, I'm not doing that because my affection I've got for Liverpool and my relationship I've got with Liverpool fans, he wouldn't manage Chelsea.
• 31:40
  But Jordan Henderson, a bit different, isn't it?
• 31:44
  Yeah.
• 31:45
  You feel better now?
• 31:47
  Yeah.
• 31:49
  Yeah, get it off your chest.
• 31:51
  I think the wire silence.
• 31:54
  The other thing, yeah, I think it's a sign, but moving on to the other fella that loves Liverpool, Xavi Alonso.
• 31:59
  Oh yeah, he's just knocked him back three, four times.
• 32:01
  You know what he does?
• 32:02
  There, don't panic this time, maybe you can come back again.
• 32:04
  Yeah, go Madrid.
• 32:05
  And you know what, you know what I'll do this time?
• 32:07
  I think I'll go Chelsea over going to you because you do need a manager, but I think I'll just choose Chelsea over you because I like London better.
• 32:13
  That's what he's basically saying.
• 32:14
  I prefer London.
• 32:17
  And it's the craziest part.
• 32:19
  He'd have had a lot more control at Liverpool than he will have at Chelsea.
• 32:22
  Because if he thinks for one minute he's going to go in there and be the manager of Chelsea Football Club, you must be absolutely nuts.
• 32:29
  Because that club is being run like a fancy football team.
• 32:34
  You've got player after player coming in and just... Whoever built that squad, that's a squad of about four or five managers and about three directors of football.
• 32:46
  You've got a proper problem knitting that squad together.
• 32:50
  You've got a proper headache on your arm, on your shoulders.
• 32:53
  And if you lose two or three of them boys in that dressing room, you see her, you're just another casualty.
• 33:01
  You're going because let me tell you, mate, they can't get rid of the 28 players, but they can get rid of the manager.
• 33:06
  So you better make sure you're getting on with all them boys.
• 33:09
  That's true.
• 33:09
  But with Alonso as well.
• 33:11
  So you have to start looking to younger managers.
• 33:15
  You can't keep going back to your Ancelotti's and your Mourinho's because they're respected.
• 33:22
  You have to find these up-and-young coming managers, like Vincent Kompany going to Bayern Munich.
• 33:28
  Yes, Alonso failed at Real Madrid, and maybe he wasn't big enough for their characters, but he should be big enough for the Chelsea characters.
• 33:35
  He should, you know, when they're looking at the manager who's, again, been there, done that, won all sorts at Madrid, they'll be looking up to him, respecting him a lot more than they may respect someone who's...
• 33:47
  never played at the highest level.
• 33:49
  That's what young players are like.
• 33:52
  As you say, with their egos, they're not ready to listen to people that they don't respect.
• 33:56
  Surely they're listening to Jordan Henderson.
• 33:58
  Surely, even more, they're listening to Jabby Alonso.
• 34:01
  And then...
• 34:02
  It's all about whether he can actually produce results and get them to do what they want.
• 34:07
  But he should have the dressing room in the palm of his hands, which previous Chelsea managers haven't managed.
• 34:13
  So I've got them anyway, swinging us all back after Tony's rant.
• 34:16
  I've got them third with the potential to even be second.
• 34:21
  Yeah, I think times are changing there.
• 34:22
  I think signing Henderson and Welbeck shows that they're not usual Chelsea signings.
• 34:27
  So I think they're good decisions by Xabi Alonso.
• 34:30
  Anyway, Coventry City, first season in the Prem in 25 years.
• 34:35
  Frank Lampard back in there.
• 34:37
  Is it too much for them?
• 34:38
  Where are we putting them?
• 34:40
  feel for this but yeah it's too much too much of a jump the golf's too big I don't want to put an actual number on it but I don't think they're going to see the yeah sorry Go on what position?
• 34:55
  Frank's done a great job but yeah I just don't see it being enough Where are you putting them?
• 35:07
  Do you know what I'm just going to be kind and say 18th
• 35:11
  Oh yeah, I've got them 18th.
• 35:13
  All my prep's been great, hasn't it?
• 35:17
  To outdo you on the same numbers.
• 35:19
  I think they're the best of the three that are coming up.
• 35:23
  When I look at the players that they've signed, you think about making that jump and you think about...
• 35:31
  who Sunderland signed I thought Sunderland would be good last year you look they made 9 or 10 signers they brought in either proven top flight players or players that you knew were going to get there to make their squad nearly completely different from what they had last year whereas Coventry have signed Amenda from Frankfurt and then Chowna from Burnley on Yekker
• 35:50
  they made his loan permanent and he was from Brentford anyway and Rushworth you know you look at players I'm thinking that's that's not that's not enough to make the jump at best you're buying players that are bottom of the Premier League were probably going to get relegated or did in in Chowna and I don't know if that's enough to make that step maybe they're looking at
• 36:13
  a three or four year project in terms of let's buy the best that we're around.
• 36:18
  We might come down.
• 36:19
  Ipswich may well be on that, that train and Burnley did it a few times.
• 36:22
  Norwich went through a few seasons of doing it where they let's make this progression slowly.
• 36:28
  We're not, we're not trying to bankrupt ourselves from the position they are, but looking at what they've got available at the minute, I've got them 18th.
• 36:35
  Moving on to Crystal Palace, new manager, who was quite successful at Lenz in League One.
• 36:42
  Where are you putting Palace?
• 36:46
  I think Palace... Have I said 13?
• 36:56
  No.
• 36:57
  I'll have 13 for Palace.
• 37:00
  Us?
• 37:01
  I've got Palace 17th.
• 37:05
  Ooh.
• 37:06
  I think they'll struggle.
• 37:07
  Like, Glasner-Gowen's massive.
• 37:09
  Glasner-Gowen, European football again.
• 37:13
  And I know this Saga fella, Pierre Saga, I think he finished second, didn't he, in the French League and he won a cup.
• 37:21
  So he's coming with a bit of substance to him.
• 37:25
  But again, the Premier League is different.
• 37:29
  They have European football.
• 37:31
  as well.
• 37:32
  And this year with their European football, they won the cup, but they really sort of struggled, certainly the back end of the, of, of the running and limped over the line to quite safety, but you know, they were, they weren't far away from it.
• 37:51
  I just think that if,
• 37:55
  I've just seen a pop-up on my phone there.
• 38:00
  If the three teams were coming up weren't as bad as they were, I think I'd be worried for Palace, but then they'll just stay up because of it.
• 38:09
  interesting that FA Cup winners Conference League winners and then right down the bottom I know but once that manager goes mate that's a big factor big factor and then the Tess is wanting out as well isn't he yeah could be completely wrong and as I said all of this is subject to who leaves or who comes in before the transfer window is done all of it my table is going to be bang on that's the finish I think it will be the stars will learn because Tony said it yeah it's brilliant
• 38:38
  Right, the big one, Everton.
• 38:39
  The mighty lose.
• 38:40
  I think Everton, I can't make mind if it's 8th or 9th.
• 38:43
  I'm going to go 8th.
• 38:48
  I've got us as 8th.
• 38:50
  Good prep.
• 38:53
  I've got us as 8th, right?
• 38:56
  And I don't know if, as Tony just said, I don't know if I'm being optimistic.
• 39:01
  I don't know if that's my heart talking or my head.
• 39:03
  Yeah.
• 39:04
  I don't know if I'm saying that's good progression from couple of 13th to 8th.
• 39:09
  I think it would be.
• 39:09
  Because I do think we made some good signings.
• 39:13
  I do think we've strengthened.
• 39:17
  But again, that would be solidified in my mind if we were to get,
• 39:20
  a good right back that we know we can sort of hang our hat on and trust.
• 39:26
  And then depending whether we got another striker in, we were talking about Richarlison, weren't we, last week.
• 39:34
  Yeah, if we got those two pieces in, then we might even got even higher.
• 39:38
  But for the minute, I'm going to say eight.
• 39:43
  Fair.
• 39:44
  Fulham, Arbelauer in charge now.
• 39:48
  Where are they coming?
• 39:50
  Oh, he's going to get a shock.
• 39:53
  He might have played in the Premier League, but it might be a different ball game for him, he'll find.
• 39:58
  Oh, this is a tough one because, okay, so I've got us eight.
• 40:04
  Lost some attacking players as well going into this season.
• 40:06
  Harry Wilson was a big player for them.
• 40:10
  I'm going to put Fulham 14th.
• 40:14
  Well, you can't because you've got Bournemouth there, but you've got 15th available.
• 40:17
  I don't think they'll be that low.
• 40:21
  Well, if you're going in between that, you've got 10 or 15 left because you've placed the left.
• 40:27
  11, 12, 13, 14 already.
• 40:29
  I kind of know who's going to finish close to Everton.
• 40:32
  10th.
• 40:36
  10th?
• 40:39
  Yeah.
• 40:40
  Oaky-doke.
• 40:41
  Big season for our belower.
• 40:43
  Oz?
• 40:45
  I'm going 12th.
• 40:47
  I was thinking 10, 11, 12.
• 40:50
  I've settled on 12th.
• 40:52
  Wilson going is big, I think.
• 40:57
  Raul Jimenez leaving, he's been good.
• 41:00
  He has brought in a couple of people from Real Madrid who he knows.
• 41:04
  He's brought in a guy, Asari, from Bayern Munich.
• 41:08
  So he's actually, because of his Real Madrid connections, he's able to bring in...
• 41:12
  players from top clubs.
• 41:14
  I just don't know if...
• 41:16
  I mean, as well, the fact he's been and played in the Premier League before makes me think, will he be able to do...
• 41:23
  But I've settled on 12th, his first year managing in the Premier League.
• 41:29
  Yeah.
• 41:30
  Not much more.
• 41:30
  Sorry, I'm on 15th.
• 41:32
  You're taking them, putting them 15th?
• 41:34
  Yeah.
• 41:35
  A swap?
• 41:36
  I'm looking, yeah.
• 41:36
  I'm putting them 15th.
• 41:37
  Okay, though.
• 41:39
  Hull City.
• 41:44
  See you later.
• 41:45
  Bye-bye.
• 41:47
  Are you putting them rock bottom?
• 41:48
  Yeah.
• 41:49
  Actually, no, I'll go.
• 41:52
  I'll go with 19.
• 41:53
  Okay.
• 41:54
  Aussie?
• 41:57
  rock bottom 20th.
• 42:00
  I don't want to be disrespectful to them, but again, I think I didn't have jumps too high.
• 42:06
  I think, I mean, good luck to them.
• 42:08
  Hope they enjoy the season.
• 42:10
  That's the kind of feeling about them that it's such a huge leap that they're in.
• 42:14
  for your Coventry's and your Ipswich's to stay in, who have been pretty flying the last couple of years.
• 42:19
  So for them to make that leap, I think it's too much.
• 42:21
  How are they supposed to make up that gap?
• 42:23
  Do you know what I mean?
• 42:24
  They're coming off from the Championship.
• 42:25
  How can they do it?
• 42:26
  Because 100 million, I know they get to spend, but it's just not enough, is it?
• 42:31
  No.
• 42:31
  You've either got... Well, it's one of them things like... For...
• 42:35
  Forrest did it a few years back and just accepted the points sort of thing.
• 42:40
  Forrest knew they were breaking the rules and did it anyway because we'll break the rules.
• 42:46
  You'll give us a points thing, but we'll be in the Premier League and we'll ride it.
• 42:48
  And we don't care.
• 42:49
  We've, should we say, bent the rules, stretched them, known what was going to come on the other end, fell foul of them.
• 42:57
  Sunderland spent a fortune to stay in the Premier League last year.
• 43:02
  You think of the ones that haven't?
• 43:04
  They just seem to go back down.
• 43:06
  You have to seem to invest money to stay in, otherwise you're gone.
• 43:12
  So yeah, I don't see Hull being able to do that.
• 43:16
  Another one could be down there, Ipswich.
• 43:19
  Rock bottom for me.
• 43:21
  Sorry Ipswich fans, but... Ed Sheeran won't be happy with you, Tony.
• 43:26
  19th for me.
• 43:28
  Gary O'Neill's in charge, isn't he?
• 43:31
  To make up for these teams, mate, and it's so hard, it's so difficult.
• 43:35
  They literally need to throw everything at it like Sunderland done last season.
• 43:39
  That's the strategy that works.
• 43:41
  Yeah.
• 43:42
  I mean, Gary O'Neill, he's obviously, he's experienced it with Wolves.
• 43:45
  He got them, he kept them up the year.
• 43:47
  He kept Bournemouth up the year.
• 43:49
  He's done okay and he's stepped into this role after Kieran McKenna's
• 43:54
  surprise probably, resignation after getting them promoted again but yeah I think his first season and with the league as it is, unless in my opinion one of the teams have a huge slip, one of the regular teams, then those three are going down, I've got Ipswich 19th.
• 44:13
  Leeds United.
• 44:16
  18th for me, just survive.
• 44:20
  That's 17th then.
• 44:23
  Again.
• 44:24
  That's 17th survivor.
• 44:25
  18th is down.
• 44:27
  17th, sorry.
• 44:28
  Stick your fingers up in front of you and I'll stick mine up.
• 44:30
  Punches have had an effect.
• 44:33
  You haven't been punched in there a million times.
• 44:35
  You might have headed the ball half a million times, but you haven't fucking been punched in the head a million times.
• 44:39
  He didn't head the ball much either.
• 44:41
  No, he didn't.
• 44:41
  It was good when he did edit it.
• 44:42
  When he chose to edit it, he wasn't.
• 44:43
  You can see where I added the ball because I've gone bald.
• 44:46
  Flick-ons and right and left, do you?
• 44:49
  That's where I added it.
• 44:50
  That's your old fella's fault.
• 44:51
  That's nothing to do with footballs, mate.
• 44:52
  That's Deggsy's fault.
• 44:56
  I've got Leeds 17th.
• 44:58
  Yeah, Ozzy?
• 44:59
  14th.
• 45:01
  Ooh.
• 45:02
  That's a good season for them.
• 45:03
  Yeah, I think...
• 45:06
  Yeah, I think Wilson will be a good signing.
• 45:08
  I think Albert Lewin's found his feet.
• 45:11
  I think other teams, as I mentioned, have got some European football that they'll be dealing with and whether they can or not.
• 45:18
  I think with the teams below, I think Leeds will be okay.
• 45:21
  14th.
• 45:22
  The dark side, Liverpool.
• 45:26
  I'm not sure about this fella.
• 45:27
  And when you read the report, coming out, my players can't run for more than 30 minutes.
• 45:31
  I just thought, you're having a life, mate.
• 45:32
  You're taking the piss.
• 45:34
  Like, you can't be serious.
• 45:36
  30 minutes, really?
• 45:37
  I mean, these are professional athletes.
• 45:39
  They can't run for 30 minutes.
• 45:41
  I couldn't believe it.
• 45:42
  The lads put it in the group, in our group, the establishments, and I just couldn't believe it.
• 45:46
  I just thought, wow, they can't run for more than 30 minutes.
• 45:49
  And one of the boys was very knowledgeable.
• 45:51
  Bad statement, that, isn't it?
• 45:53
  Yeah, it's bad, isn't it?
• 45:54
  I mean, it's just, who's getting the blame for that, us?
• 45:57
  It's your job to get them to, it's pre-season, it's your job to get them to run, to get them up there to make sure that they're mentally, physically, whatever it is, you have to do it.
• 46:06
  Is he blaming the previous, is he blaming Slott?
• 46:11
  Is that a shock to Slott?
• 46:12
  Yeah, potentially, because Klopp had them running.
• 46:15
  Slott downed the demands of them.
• 46:19
  They were outrun by 37 of 38 or something like that.
• 46:22
  They were outrun by a lot of teams in a lot of games.
• 46:26
  which if you listen to them will say well that doesn't matter that means you had the ball more or some people have got different opinions on outrunning the opponent and not run the opponent but you've got to be capable of doing it on any given day because some days you might need to outrun the opponent but it doesn't sound like they're capable they had a season where they didn't run as much maybe they didn't look after themselves in the summer I don't know some of these players but yeah the noises aren't great are they?
• 46:52
  I think they're going to finish fourth yeah
• 46:55
  You've got Chelsea there.
• 46:55
  All right, you're still saying fourth.
• 46:57
  Fifth, then.
• 46:59
  Have you not got 17th left?
• 47:02
  I thought I said Chelsea fifth.
• 47:03
  You can put them fifth if you want.
• 47:05
  I'll swap them round.
• 47:06
  I thought I said Chelsea fifth.
• 47:08
  I've got them in as... You've got them as fourth.
• 47:11
  We can go back on VAR when the podcast episode's out.
• 47:14
  But yeah, no, you can swap them round if you want.
• 47:17
  No.
• 47:17
  You know what, then?
• 47:20
  They're going to have to go fifth.
• 47:22
  Sixth.
• 47:23
  I've got them.
• 47:27
  and didn't even want to put them that eye.
• 47:31
  In Slott's first season, I said they'd finish seventh.
• 47:37
  And I meant it because I thought they'd have the dip, but the dip came last season, didn't it?
• 47:42
  Yeah.
• 47:42
  So I don't think they're going to...
• 47:46
  I think you're still riding the caretales of Klopp also.
• 47:48
  Yeah, so I think Areola's a good manager and I think he'll get them to where he needs to be.
• 47:54
  And it might actually be this season, they might bounce back, but they've lost Salah, Robinson's voice has gone, already lost Trent, they've canated, they're building a whole new back four, really.
• 48:10
  And I'm just looking at them and I know you've got two, it's Eketike and Isak Eketike still out, but you've got some quality players splashed around a bit, but...
• 48:18
  Don't quite know how all that settles in yet, so I'm thinking sixth.
• 48:23
  Yeah, bit of a transition, yeah.
• 48:25
  Man City.
• 48:25
  I'm going to go second.
• 48:27
  Man City second.
• 48:29
  Yeah, second.
• 48:32
  Oz?
• 48:33
  I've got City second, but this is completely subject to Rodri staying at the club.
• 48:39
  If Rodri leaves...
• 48:43
  Fourth or fifth.
• 48:45
  Really?
• 48:46
  Two places, us?
• 48:47
  They've lost Pep.
• 48:48
  They've lost Bernardo Silva and Stones is left and influencing the squad.
• 48:54
  Brought in Anderson, yeah.
• 48:57
  good player but if new manager new ideas new maybe different voice different demands you've still got a monster off the off the front of course but I just think Rodri's that key with regards to getting at them that if he goes on top of the manager going on top of Bernardo Silva going
• 49:14
  I think they might have a big dip.
• 49:16
  But while Rodri's there, I'm saying second.
• 49:18
  I think they're going to push Arsenal really close.
• 49:20
  I think it's proper 50-50 with them too, with Arsenal and City.
• 49:23
  I just think they've got so much quality out on the wings.
• 49:26
  The likes of that Cherky, the likes of that Docky, the game-changing players.
• 49:29
  They're so explosive, they're so fast.
• 49:31
  And then you've got that monster up front.
• 49:33
  I mean, the Viking is just a killer.
• 49:36
  He's a kilometre.
• 49:37
  I don't doubt that.
• 49:37
  And I do think that they'll...
• 49:40
  If Rodri's there, I think they challenge for the title and just about fall short.
• 49:43
  But if he's not there, I think you'd look at what they were like without him under Pep for a season and they dipped.
• 49:50
  Do you know why I think we'll see someone go into the middle of the park for them this season?
• 49:54
  The Lefbach?
• 49:57
  Maybe, I don't know.
• 49:58
  He's going to go into the middle, mate, and he's going to have an effect this year.
• 50:02
  I think this is going to be his breakout year in the midfield area.
• 50:06
  I just think that kid is so talented and he's got so much ability.
• 50:12
  Yeah, it'd be interesting.
• 50:13
  I feel like with Guardiola going, that might be a big success for Man City.
• 50:20
  When Sir Alex Ferguson went, some of these dominants are there.
• 50:25
  I'm expecting something like that.
• 50:26
  So I could see them dropping it maybe a little bit lower than second.
• 50:29
  Yeah, but you then balance that to what I thought on Jurgen Klopp going and Slott coming in and
• 50:36
  Actually, the very next season, I thought they'd have their dip straight away, but it actually took a year, didn't it, before they did have their dip.
• 50:42
  So you never know.
• 50:44
  That's why I think I've still got them second.
• 50:47
  Just wait there a sec.
• 50:49
  Just wait there for a sec.
• 50:50
  I need a toilet.
• 50:53
  Oh, in the age of you and you can't control your bladder.
• 50:56
  Toilet break, sponsored by Parade.
• 50:59
  Oh, my God.
• 51:01
  We are now going to the hydration break, sponsored by Leon's Toilet.
• 51:10
  Do some quick research, Tony.
• 51:12
  Get ahead of him here.
• 51:14
  I'm just worried.
• 51:15
  Do you know what?
• 51:16
  I'm thinking, is it United for third?
• 51:20
  Do you know what?
• 51:22
  Tottenham are going to get in there.
• 51:24
  You've got third left.
• 51:25
  Your two highest ones left are third and seventh.
• 51:30
  And I think...
• 51:34
  I think Newcastle are going to have a bad season.
• 51:37
  Yeah, I'd agree with that.
• 51:38
  And I think Oliver Glasland is going to do great to Forrest.
• 51:42
  Yeah, I could also see that as well.
• 51:43
  I could see Forrest bouncing back a bit this year.
• 51:46
  I reckon Forrest will do really well.
• 51:48
  Tottenham have got to finish in the big books.
• 51:50
  Newcastle are going to have a nightmare.
• 51:52
  Newcastle are going to have a nightmare.
• 51:55
  They're going to struggle.
• 51:57
  I just can't decide where they're going to finish.
• 51:58
  I think Newcastle will finish below us.
• 52:00
  10th could be Forrest, 10th could be Newcastle.
• 52:04
  Sunderland done well last season.
• 52:06
  I can't see that.
• 52:07
  It's a one-off.
• 52:10
  Yeah, and they've got European footy this year.
• 52:12
  Yeah, that would have had them.
• 52:15
  It is.
• 52:15
  Nice listening to you, isn't there?
• 52:16
  I was listening to everything that you said.
• 52:18
  We said there was a hydration break sponsored by Aussie's Toilet.
• 52:22
  Ferb's still got me headphones in.
• 52:23
  Oh, okay.
• 52:24
  He wasn't stupid.
• 52:25
  I was on them a mile off, mate.
• 52:27
  Don't worry.
• 52:30
  Right, so we're on United.
• 52:32
  Yeah, I'm going to go United third.
• 52:37
  I think he had done a fantastic job last season.
• 52:40
  I think now that he gets a bit of power to his elbow and they're not going to mess around with him, that squad, I think he brings in Marcus Rashford and Marcus Rashford sets it up and lights Man United really puts them up there.
• 52:53
  I think Marcus Rashford does play some parts in the season.
• 52:56
  I hope so for Rashford's case.
• 52:58
  I hope so as well.
• 52:59
  I'd love to see him have a good season.
• 53:01
  I think he plays.
• 53:02
  But he just constantly frustrates, if anything, for me.
• 53:08
  And I just think he probably needs to be out of the environment.
• 53:11
  If you're a player with him and you're one of the older lads, what are you saying to him?
• 53:15
  Are you pulling him?
• 53:16
  By now, I'm probably giving up because you've probably been saying these things to him for five years.
• 53:21
  Yes.
• 53:22
  Do you know what I mean?
• 53:23
  And if he's not catching on Vane after this time.
• 53:26
  He's shown he's still got it.
• 53:27
  Gone to Barcelona, it was shown moments of brilliance at times.
• 53:30
  He's shown he's got it.
• 53:32
  First of all, I'm asking the manager what he wants from him.
• 53:35
  in terms of, you know, if I'm telling Marcus, he needs to be running, run behind, which he first thought, blah, blah, but the manager's actually wanting him to feed, then I'm not helping.
• 53:45
  Doesn't matter if I'm senior, but you can, you can talk about attitude, you can talk about getting in the gym, you can talk about all this kind of stuff, but you need to make sure he's doing what the manager does, but doing it sharper and better and,
• 53:58
  He's getting the best out of himself.
• 53:59
  You've seen how good he can be.
• 54:02
  You've seen what he can offer you.
• 54:03
  You can see if he's prepared to go left and right and go on the outside and come inside and all that.
• 54:08
  He's got goals in him.
• 54:10
  So he's showed he's a quality player.
• 54:13
  And he's good off the pitch in terms of what he does for the community, isn't he, and all this kind of stuff.
• 54:17
  So we're not sitting here saying he's a bad guy.
• 54:20
  He seems like a brilliant guy.
• 54:21
  But you're just looking at him as one of these players.
• 54:23
  You look at some players and you think, wow,
• 54:25
  he got everything out of himself because his level of quality and skill was certain.
• 54:32
  Got everything he could out of himself.
• 54:33
  And then you look at other players and you think, wow, there's just so much.
• 54:37
  You feel like there's so much more there.
• 54:39
  He's one of them.
• 54:39
  So I understand you're going back to saying that, Tony, that he's going to potentially stand up and deliver and things.
• 54:45
  He's got the...
• 54:46
  He's got the ability to.
• 54:49
  And I don't know whether he will, but I still think Man United are going to have a good season.
• 54:56
  I think they're going to finish.
• 54:57
  I've got them down for fourth with the potential to be even higher.
• 55:00
  You have Tielemans and Santos from Chelsea, who's a good sign-in as well, to replace Casemiro.
• 55:10
  Yeah, I think they'll have a good season.
• 55:13
  Oh no, they have got European football, haven't they?
• 55:15
  But they've got a trust in...
• 55:16
  Champions League, of course.
• 55:17
  They've got a trust in Carrick, I remember saying.
• 55:20
  Carrick's ability now to manage the team in European football and manage a couple of games a week and being able to sit around.
• 55:29
  Pundits were saying it was easy for him last year because he didn't have Europe.
• 55:33
  So he's got that to deal with, but I still think...
• 55:36
  I still think what I saw from them, what he gets out of his players, the attitude when they're on the pitch, the fact that they could go last season to the likes of Arsenal and they're not a soft touch anymore.
• 55:47
  They can go and get results.
• 55:48
  I think they'll finish fourth.
• 55:51
  Newcastle United, a year of change there, where are we putting them?
• 55:56
  I think they're going to struggle.
• 55:59
  I think they're going to struggle.
• 56:00
  How bad?
• 56:03
  interesting didn't for the shock meet a how bad I mean what's the numbers Liam I've got left yeah you only got really one bad position left which is 16th no I don't think they're gonna finish that long well it's only got 9 9 4 16th
• 56:25
  See, it all seemed easy, didn't it?
• 56:27
  Just picking numbers before without looking and without knowing where you were going.
• 56:30
  It all seemed dead easy.
• 56:31
  Now look at God.
• 56:32
  It's going back to bite you in the arse, Tony.
• 56:34
  So what's above me left?
• 56:36
  You've got 7th.
• 56:38
  Yeah, that's for them.
• 56:39
  You've got 9th, 10th and 16th.
• 56:43
  Do you know what?
• 56:44
  I'll go 10th for Newcastle.
• 56:49
  I'll go 10th for Newcastle.
• 56:50
  I think that's fair.
• 56:53
  consider i i i'm pushing i'm i i don't know i'm testing that there because i don't think they're going to do well realistically i think they're going to finish below that i think they're finishing about in the in the second half of the table but i'll just say 10 because i've fucked up realistically i'm thinking more twelt uh go on oz where have you put them
• 57:19
  13th for me.
• 57:23
  Just too many big changes.
• 57:24
  Too many big players out.
• 57:28
  Never mind the manager leaving, which I actually think they've said mutual decision.
• 57:36
  I think that's come to the point where even at the start of pre-season, you've now losing all your best players.
• 57:42
  You've already lost Isak last season.
• 57:45
  You've lost Gordon over the summer.
• 57:47
  You turn up for pre-season, they've took Tonali off you and now you knew Bruno Glimmeres was inevitable.
• 57:56
  And yet they'll expect you to get the same results and they'll expect you to perform.
• 58:00
  You're walking into a sack-in after three months.
• 58:02
  So the fact that they're losing all these players, then you lose the managers, you might say, make the right decision.
• 58:09
  Because actually, if you're going to treat me like this, I'm out.
• 58:12
  But, I mean, they have signed a lot of players, people without any real Premier League experience, so it could go either way.
• 58:20
  But now with a new manager, not sure what's going to happen.
• 58:24
  But losing Gordon, lose Trippier as well.
• 58:26
  Another one, you know, that you're talking about.
• 58:29
  A big name from within the squad.
• 58:31
  So, yeah, I think they're going to struggle.
• 58:35
  I didn't know whether to even go lower than this, but I've gone 13th.
• 58:39
  I would have put them lower, I think.
• 58:40
  Where'd you have them, Lee?
• 58:42
  I'd have had them around 16th, I think they're really going to struggle.
• 58:45
  That's bad.
• 58:46
  But I also hate Newcastle so that's probably bad.
• 58:51
  Forrest, I think he's going to do a great job, I think he's a very good manager, Alder Glasner, and I think Forrest are going to finish...
• 59:01
  If you're going high, you've got seven full ninths.
• 59:06
  No, no, no.
• 59:08
  I'm going to go ninth for Forrest.
• 59:11
  I think Forrest can do really well.
• 59:12
  He knows the league.
• 59:13
  He's got a system that works really well.
• 59:16
  Improves players.
• 59:18
  That's all Oliver Glasner does.
• 59:19
  Players improve under his watch.
• 59:22
  And I think that'll be, you know, that's good news for Forrest fans.
• 59:25
  Big club, Forrest.
• 59:28
  Ozzy?
• 59:29
  Tenth.
• 59:30
  I agree.
• 59:31
  I think they'll bounce back.
• 59:32
  I think they've got a good...
• 59:33
  I think they've got a decent squad.
• 59:36
  I think Morgan Gibbs-White is outstanding.
• 59:38
  They missed Chris Wood for most of last season, who's the goal scorer.
• 59:42
  When he came back, you saw the massive difference.
• 59:45
  And they had European football last season, which they're not going to have this season.
• 59:48
  I know they've lost Elliot Anderson, which is a huge hole in the middle.
• 59:53
  But...
• 59:54
  I then trust Oliver Glasner, as Tony was just saying, to be able to figure out a way around that.
• 59:58
  So I think they'll have a good season.
• 1:00:00
  And when I say good, I think they'll be finishing the top half.
• 1:00:03
  I think they'll finish 10th.
• 1:00:05
  Just a quick one.
• 1:00:06
  Do you know the likes of Elliot Anderson and them players that sit in the midfield?
• 1:00:10
  And they're not the adventurous and gallobant ones who go running forward and lead players behind.
• 1:00:15
  Are they easier to replace?
• 1:00:18
  I just say that because he's such a basic footballer.
• 1:00:21
  He's a good footballer, very good footballer, but he's not your dribbling winger or your flair kind of player.
• 1:00:27
  He's not the player you look to and go and get your goals, but he does a job in the midfield.
• 1:00:31
  Is he easy to replace?
• 1:00:35
  I think it's hard to...
• 1:00:37
  to find a direct replacement for anyone.
• 1:00:41
  I think you would say that it's easier to run around and get the ball back than it is to play on the half turn and be as creative.
• 1:00:49
  There's not many like Morgan Gibbs-Whites out there and Cole Palmers out there.
• 1:00:53
  They're probably hard to find, especially for the price, because if you find the right one, there's a massive premium on them.
• 1:01:00
  But then you talk about, are they hard to replace?
• 1:01:03
  Because let's say we lost Jimmy Garner, who's very similar to Elliot and Anderson.
• 1:01:07
  I mean, we've seen him pre-season.
• 1:01:08
  We've struggled without him in pre-season.
• 1:01:10
  That'd be huge to replace.
• 1:01:11
  I talked about Rodri before.
• 1:01:13
  Take a holding midfielder out of City.
• 1:01:15
  I think they might struggle a bit.
• 1:01:17
  Even with Elliot Anderson going in.
• 1:01:19
  And look at the dresser going in, how hard the dresser is to replace, because he's legs and he's everywhere.
• 1:01:23
  But...
• 1:01:24
  there is replacements there.
• 1:01:26
  And do you ask the same players to do a bit of a different job?
• 1:01:30
  Players who you can trust and go, I know you can do this job, do you do it?
• 1:01:33
  It's like the problem Liverpool had with the six, and they go, the grabbing bitch kid and stuff.
• 1:01:39
  As a player, will a manager come to you and say, I want you to play there now?
• 1:01:44
  Yeah, possibly.
• 1:01:45
  If the manager sees it...
• 1:01:48
  The thing with Oliver Glasner is he's not been at Forest over the last season and been thinking, if I lose Anderson, what do I do?
• 1:01:54
  I'll get him to play there or move him across.
• 1:01:57
  So he's going in there, looking at the squad he's got and wondering if any of them can now do that.
• 1:02:02
  So, I mean, Forest play, what, four, two, three, one?
• 1:02:05
  So it's just one of the two in the middle.
• 1:02:07
  I think they'll have enough.
• 1:02:09
  I don't think.
• 1:02:10
  I don't think they'll get to the heights that Anderson has been at over this last 18 months, but they'll have someone who can be competitive in the middle of the pitch and win the ball back, just pass it to Gibbs-White.
• 1:02:21
  So I think they'll figure it out.
• 1:02:23
  I think Forrest will be okay because of the lack of European football.
• 1:02:27
  New manager, Morgan Gibbs-White is going to have a great season again.
• 1:02:31
  And Chris Wood's fit.
• 1:02:34
  They had a crazy manager changes as well last year, I think stability will get them right up there.
• 1:02:40
  Sunderland?
• 1:02:42
  They're going to get a shock, European football is going to hurt them, it really is.
• 1:02:47
  I think they've done brilliant last season, overachieved and it'll be back to reality this season.
• 1:02:53
  And yet, despite that, he's only got seventh place available, so they're going to be seventh.
• 1:02:57
  No, he's got 16th.
• 1:02:59
  He's got 16th.
• 1:03:00
  Oh, does he?
• 1:03:01
  Yeah, he's got that one.
• 1:03:02
  He's got that one.
• 1:03:03
  Some of us box clever, Leon.
• 1:03:04
  Some of us box clever.
• 1:03:07
  16th, Sunderland.
• 1:03:09
  Sunderland, 16th.
• 1:03:09
  I just think Europe's going to do so much.
• 1:03:12
  15th for me.
• 1:03:13
  That's the one I've got left for them in the bottom half.
• 1:03:16
  For the same reasons, I think.
• 1:03:17
  You've stepped on your well.
• 1:03:18
  They're a solid club at the minute.
• 1:03:21
  I think they stepped up in the Premier League last season.
• 1:03:24
  European football this season is going to be a shock.
• 1:03:27
  It's going to be tough.
• 1:03:28
  And they'll go all the way then.
• 1:03:30
  They'll do really well in Europe.
• 1:03:32
  Interesting.
• 1:03:33
  Process of elimination.
• 1:03:34
  That means we've got one spot left.
• 1:03:37
  That means Spurs are coming seventh for you, Tony.
• 1:03:40
  I think he'll get a tune out of them this season, him.
• 1:03:45
  Even more so on Ozzy's side.
• 1:03:47
  Ozzy's got to make fifth.
• 1:03:48
  And I think Romero going is a benefit.
• 1:03:52
  Yeah.
• 1:03:53
  It's going to benefit him.
• 1:03:54
  They're getting rid of him.
• 1:03:55
  It's like, really, you want him?
• 1:03:58
  OK, you can have him.
• 1:03:59
  Do you see Sculls and Nicky Butler saying that they think United should go and get Romero?
• 1:04:04
  Oh, it's a bit...
• 1:04:06
  I get it because United probably lacks leaders and they probably see him as a bit of a leader.
• 1:04:12
  So I do get it and understand it, but is he the kind of leader you want?
• 1:04:16
  What I would say about that, now I wouldn't want him in my team or squad because how erratic he is, but...
• 1:04:23
  if you sign him, now you've got Argentina's two centre-backs playing together, which, as much as you call them both erratic and they can both be wherever they want, they're so individual and so erratic that it works for Argentina.
• 1:04:35
  So actually, if you put them both together, I see the potential for that.
• 1:04:39
  It's a horrible defence to come up against, though.
• 1:04:42
  But I don't see that myself.
• 1:04:43
  I do think Spurs are...
• 1:04:44
  I mean, look at the signings that they've made.
• 1:04:46
  Jesus.
• 1:04:48
  You know, look at...
• 1:04:50
  When do you say Andy Robertson's going to play every minute?
• 1:04:53
  You've now got what Spurs seem to lack, a senior voice that has, again, been there and got the T-shirt.
• 1:05:01
  Sanessi and Van Hekid, two new centre-backs who have played excellent at other clubs, and you've still got...
• 1:05:08
  Van de Ven, who's just signed a new deal.
• 1:05:11
  You signed Fernandes from West Ham, who's, I think that's a huge price, but he showed he was a quality player last season.
• 1:05:18
  And Tonali.
• 1:05:19
  Then you've got Kulazewski coming back.
• 1:05:21
  Maddison, who came back right at the end of last season.
• 1:05:25
  Now you're thinking, wow, we've got a squad here, you know?
• 1:05:28
  So, yeah, I think... Fifth, really?
• 1:05:30
  Fifth?
• 1:05:31
  I've got fifth with the potential to be even higher, honestly.
• 1:05:34
  Really?
• 1:05:34
  I agree with us.
• 1:05:36
  And, you know, the Zerbi were pre-season under his belt as well.
• 1:05:40
  Less pressure with that relegation battle.
• 1:05:42
  I think they could be really high.
• 1:05:45
  Especially if they start the season with a win at home because they've really struggled at home.
• 1:05:49
  If they start with a positive result at home in their first home game, I've not looked at their fixtures, whether they're at home at first week or second week.
• 1:05:58
  If they win that game, I think they could have a really strong season.
• 1:06:02
  They've got loads of energy in the team now.
• 1:06:05
  Oh yeah, loads.
• 1:06:06
  Quick recap then, and then just some quick fire questions to finish off.
• 1:06:09
  So you've both got Arsenal at the top of the league.
• 1:06:13
  Top four for Tony is Arsenal, City, United, Chelsea.
• 1:06:16
  Top four for Oz is Arsenal, City, Chelsea, United.
• 1:06:19
  So pretty similar.
• 1:06:21
  Relegation, Coventry, Ipswich.
• 1:06:24
  After all of that, our top four's the same and our relegation's the same.
• 1:06:28
  Exactly.
• 1:06:30
  Well done with your preparation.
• 1:06:32
  couple of switches here and there and then Tony's got Ipswich Rock Bottom with Coventry and Hull in 18th and 19th so quick fire questions who's been the best signing so far in the transfer window that you're expecting to have a good season moving forward Brian Johnson you're going to say that no I can't say that I think Guimara oof
• 1:07:02
  Yeah, I was going to say him, but I'll change now because you've said that.
• 1:07:06
  And I'll say Tonali for Spurs.
• 1:07:10
  Gamalas takes so much off Declan Rice and frees him up a bit more.
• 1:07:16
  Declan Rice is such an important player, mate.
• 1:07:19
  But I think Bruno is probably going to take the weight off Declan Rice's shoulders a little bit.
• 1:07:26
  Because Gremorash gets forward like Rice does.
• 1:07:29
  He's not an Odegaard, but he gets forward.
• 1:07:31
  Rice was playing so many minutes last year.
• 1:07:33
  So anyway, carry on.
• 1:07:34
  I don't think Odegaard plays much this season.
• 1:07:39
  I was going to say Tillemans for United as well might be a decent one.
• 1:07:44
  I think Tillemans is... Or Morgan Rodgers.
• 1:07:47
  Jesus, I'm picking a few here.
• 1:07:49
  That's a player, yeah, that's a player.
• 1:07:51
  A lot of money though, but Tillemans are 30 mil.
• 1:07:54
  Seems like an absolute bargain.
• 1:07:56
  he feels like a Carrick player as well I just don't see him just you watch I think he'll have a good year at United and I think so what he does right and he did it for Villa is he gets the ball through the lines to the important players quickly so he will get Bruno Fernandes the ball
• 1:08:17
  three or four seconds earlier than he'd been getting it last season.
• 1:08:20
  He'll get Cunha the ball two or three seconds earlier than he had been doing it.
• 1:08:25
  Honestly, getting those players the ball two or three seconds earlier, difference that'll make.
• 1:08:32
  Golden Boot.
• 1:08:33
  Harland.
• 1:08:34
  Harland.
• 1:08:37
  Unless Tony's mate from Brentford steps it up again.
• 1:08:40
  Don't start.
• 1:08:44
  Player of the Year.
• 1:08:51
  I don't know this one.
• 1:08:53
  Generally of the top two teams.
• 1:08:57
  Declan Rice.
• 1:08:59
  I'm going to say... Gemmaresch.
• 1:09:05
  Bruno.
• 1:09:08
  And it's all predicting Declan Rice because the World Cup is so harsh on them.
• 1:09:13
  They're going to be tired and at Christmas Piazza they're going to feel it.
• 1:09:17
  I think you're going to get a few injuries this year.
• 1:09:20
  Arsenal, all your players are internationals, they've all gone deep in the World Cup.
• 1:09:26
  I think you could get a few injuries this year.
• 1:09:29
  But they've covered, they've covered because they've bought well.
• 1:09:31
  So they've got two in every spot and I think that'll show.
• 1:09:37
  Yeah, young player.
• 1:09:44
  What does Young go up to these days?
• 1:09:47
  It's been struggling here.
• 1:09:49
  I'm going to say the Arsenal kid.
• 1:09:52
  No, do you know what?
• 1:09:53
  I'm going to say no.
• 1:09:53
  I'm going to give it to one of ours.
• 1:09:55
  I'm going to give them a chance.
• 1:09:58
  Because I think he's looked really sharp and I think he's got a massive amount of potential.
• 1:10:01
  I'm going to say Tyreek George.
• 1:10:03
  Ooh.
• 1:10:05
  That's interesting.
• 1:10:06
  Interesting.
• 1:10:08
  Just a baby and I think he's got so much ability and potential.
• 1:10:12
  Not as scared to take a man on.
• 1:10:13
  Here comes Oswebd as fucking... My AI.
• 1:10:19
  I'm looking for the young Chelsea lad.
• 1:10:23
  I'm wondering if he's going to step up this year.
• 1:10:26
  Esteban, Esteban, yeah.
• 1:10:29
  Esteban, top player in me, top, top player in.
• 1:10:32
  If he's not alone or anything, is he?
• 1:10:35
  I'm going to go for him.
• 1:10:36
  He will do it.
• 1:10:38
  Or Mudric, who's suddenly come back and is like a brand new sign up for Chelsea.
• 1:10:41
  Where's he gone?
• 1:10:42
  Where's Mudric gone?
• 1:10:43
  He's been banned from playing for... No, but he's gone to a club, hasn't he?
• 1:10:47
  Because I'm told Chelsea don't want him.
• 1:10:48
  I thought he's gone alone somewhere.
• 1:10:49
  Oh, has he?
• 1:10:50
  He might end up doing it, but...
• 1:10:53
  He's no longer banned.
• 1:10:54
  Yeah, not yet.
• 1:10:54
  He's back playing, isn't he?
• 1:10:56
  It's a mad one, that, isn't it?
• 1:10:59
  Yeah, it is, yeah.
• 1:11:00
  It'll be interesting to see if he can still kick a ball.
• 1:11:03
  Biggest surprise of the year?
• 1:11:07
  A player, a team... Erm...
• 1:11:14
  I'm going to say Spurs will win a cup.
• 1:11:17
  Or I might even say Everton will win a cup.
• 1:11:19
  No, that will be a surprise.
• 1:11:20
  Beat me to it.
• 1:11:23
  I'm going to go all out of you.
• 1:11:25
  I'm going to say Everton will win the League Cup this year.
• 1:11:31
  That is going to make history.
• 1:11:32
  We'd love that.
• 1:11:35
  The biggest disappointment of the season.
• 1:11:41
  So, potentially Newcastle.
• 1:11:46
  Yeah.
• 1:11:47
  Do you know what I think a lot of disappointment could be?
• 1:11:50
  If Tottenham don't get where they need to get to.
• 1:11:54
  Because they've done absolutely everything to back this manager.
• 1:11:57
  He's kept them in the league.
• 1:11:59
  I think Tottenham fans are so...
• 1:12:03
  They would feel it this year.
• 1:12:05
  If Tottenham don't have a good season, I think they will feel it the most.
• 1:12:08
  Because they've got the biggest expectations.
• 1:12:11
  Consider them from where they finished to where they're going now.
• 1:12:14
  They have the biggest expectations on them, them players.
• 1:12:18
  And I just think if they fail, oh, wow, that is like, that is a really big, anything below 10th and they are in trouble.
• 1:12:27
  like because they've backed them they've backed them and they've done what they've never done before they've broke the wage bracket they've spent a fortune so they're really going for it you know daniel levy's not there no more with his demands and whatever have you and i just think yeah i think that they will be they will be the big they'll be the real sufferers if they don't they don't do it
• 1:12:51
  Liverpool for me, I think they'll be disappointing.
• 1:12:54
  I think that... Look, as an Evertonian, obviously, we don't want them to do well, necessarily.
• 1:13:01
  I'm not wishing that on friends of mine who are Liverpool fans, but I just look at them and I'm... As I say, things might change.
• 1:13:08
  Yeah, of course he will.
• 1:13:09
  And he's right to.
• 1:13:09
  He's coming out...
• 1:13:10
  He's got to build them back up.
• 1:13:12
  I know, Oz, but come on, they're world-class players.
• 1:13:14
  They're worth hundreds of millions of pounds.
• 1:13:16
  They're worth hundreds of millions of pounds.
• 1:13:19
  They spent half a billion, wasn't they?
• 1:13:20
  But they won the league and spent half a billion.
• 1:13:23
  I'll tell you, here's a scenario for you.
• 1:13:26
  Arsenal at Liverpool, but in a better position at the start of last season than Arsenal were now.
• 1:13:34
  I know everyone agreed to that.
• 1:13:35
  When Liverpool won the league and then went to the way to the centre...
• 1:13:37
  Similar.
• 1:13:38
  No, no, we all come out and said they've bought the league.
• 1:13:41
  They've got Isak, they've got this face, they've got this one, they've got that.
• 1:13:44
  He won the league last season, had a canter, he's going to absolutely blast everyone now.
• 1:13:48
  Because you've just said you think Arsenal are going to win it comfortably.
• 1:13:50
  Well, you obviously predicted last season Liverpool were going to win it comfortably.
• 1:13:53
  I did, I think I did, yeah.
• 1:13:55
  As you just mentioned, with them winning the league the way they did and then buying two new full-backs, buying two centre-forwards, buying...
• 1:14:02
  Yeah, all that kind of thing.
• 1:14:03
  Bayern Verts as well.
• 1:14:05
  Arsenal have bought less, and then you're saying they're going to cruise it even more.
• 1:14:11
  Because I think this year, I wonder whether the teams below them have made the leap up to challenge them, rather than anything.
• 1:14:19
  And lots of changes with those teams as well.
• 1:14:21
  I think Liverpool will be disappointing this year.
• 1:14:23
  Call it transition year, call it what?
• 1:14:25
  Where do Liverpool have to finish for them to get sacked?
• 1:14:29
  I don't think it might.
• 1:14:30
  I think they could, as long as they're not 16th, 17th, I think he'll be all right this first season.
• 1:14:36
  You really think if he finishes 12th, he's staying in his job?
• 1:14:40
  If they're showing progression.
• 1:14:44
  There is ways of finishing 12th.
• 1:14:45
  Top half of the table, he's smoke, he's gone.
• 1:14:49
  They might win their last seven games, in which case you're going, right, he's got it.
• 1:14:53
  He's found it now.
• 1:14:56
  It's a transition year for them.
• 1:14:58
  Salary are over.
• 1:14:59
  You never know.
• 1:15:00
  Liverpool have done this before.
• 1:15:01
  I've seen poor Liverpool teams go and win stuff.
• 1:15:04
  So you call it transition, Lee.
• 1:15:07
  I mean, they've spent a fortune transition.
• 1:15:10
  He's gone squeaky again.
• 1:15:11
  Transition was last year.
• 1:15:13
  Yeah, but no, Liverpool have, but Areola hasn't yet, has he, in terms of bringing players that he wants in that team in?
• 1:15:20
  That's why he's the coach, mate.
• 1:15:22
  And he needs people who run, press, and I don't think he's got that yet.
• 1:15:26
  So I think he has got the get-out-of-jail-free card of saying, like, this isn't... Oh, he's expressed it by saying that he can only run for 30 minutes.
• 1:15:33
  He's thrown them under the bus.
• 1:15:36
  He's launched them players under the bus that he can only run for 30 minutes.
• 1:15:39
  Imagine...
• 1:15:41
  Jose Mourinho coming out and saying that about the dread.
• 1:15:44
  I've got it, he can only run for half an hour.
• 1:15:48
  Imagine that.
• 1:15:49
  He'd be out of a job.
• 1:15:52
  It's something he would do because he'd be saying, this last fella is rubbish.
• 1:15:56
  So everything that's hard to start with, it's on him.
• 1:15:59
  It's his fault, not mine.
• 1:16:00
  I'm going to try and get him to start running.
• 1:16:02
  That's what he'd do.
• 1:16:03
  So maybe that's what the Reola's doing.
• 1:16:05
  He's basically saying, look, everything that's going to happen to start the season, that's on the previous guy.
• 1:16:10
  That's how bad they are.
• 1:16:11
  And then I'll start getting us better from October.
• 1:16:13
  Maybe he's saying that.
• 1:16:15
  Or to kick up the arse for the players and he's being tactical about it, being like, well, I'm going to tell them you're not running and then prove me wrong.
• 1:16:22
  Hopefully not.
• 1:16:24
  Yeah, I agree with you though, Oz.
• 1:16:25
  I think Liverpool will have a disappointing season.
• 1:16:27
  And as a little bit of a stranger on that, I think Villa are going to have an interesting one.
• 1:16:32
  I just don't think they've replaced the quality that they've got rid of so far.
• 1:16:36
  I don't think he did a lot at all if he didn't see it.
• 1:16:40
  I just don't think that Unai Emery...
• 1:16:42
  I think he's got so much power at that club, and I just believe that he's let go what he's had to say.
• 1:16:50
  They've said to him... Is a good player that they've tried to bring in?
• 1:16:54
  I was not saying he's Morgan Rodgers.
• 1:16:56
  If a manager's got power like Unai Emery has at Villa, he goes, you're not selling him, and I'm keeping him.
• 1:17:03
  Has he got that kind of power?
• 1:17:04
  I think he has.
• 1:17:05
  He's brought success back to Villa.
• 1:17:07
  Probably, but...
• 1:17:10
  what's good for the club is important.
• 1:17:12
  If a player wants to go, you've got to let him go, haven't you?
• 1:17:14
  Morgan Lodges wants to go.
• 1:17:17
  You can't blame him for that.
• 1:17:18
  He's earned the move.
• 1:17:21
  Yeah, last one.
• 1:17:23
  Outside the box wildcard.
• 1:17:24
  So one prediction that you've got this year that you don't think anybody else will have.
• 1:17:30
  Could be anything.
• 1:17:32
  One thing that you think... Tony is going to get a skinhead.
• 1:17:35
  Tottenham's going to win the league.
• 1:17:39
  Yeah, but do you actually think it's going to happen?
• 1:17:41
  Yeah, but do you think that's going to happen?
• 1:17:43
  No, you've got to think it's going to happen.
• 1:17:45
  You're saying this is going to happen and nobody else thinks it's going to happen.
• 1:17:49
  Just you.
• 1:17:55
  I mean, I've got them in 13th, but Newcastle to get relegated.
• 1:18:02
  United to win the title.
• 1:18:04
  I don't think that's a bad of a shot.
• 1:18:06
  I don't think they are going to win the title.
• 1:18:09
  You can see it.
• 1:18:11
  They get a good start, mate.
• 1:18:12
  I think it's all about the start of the season.
• 1:18:14
  Someone can get five, six games under the belt with one loss in six games and five wins.
• 1:18:21
  You're going to be flying.
• 1:18:23
  And Ozzy, you think Newcastle to get relegated?
• 1:18:26
  Potential to be relegated, yeah.
• 1:18:28
  Right, I've had enough reviews anyway.
• 1:18:30
  Sayonara, boys.
• 1:18:31
  Okay.