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Calcio Carousel Matchday 9 - Napoli and Roma back on top! Ep. 285 · The Calcio Guys

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Speaker 1: And now that we're back, just want to give one
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Speaker 1: last final thank you to Martino for uh you know,
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Speaker 1: always being his time.
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 1: He got yeah, he said he was unable to do
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Speaker 1: thirty and he's stuck around for an hour, and we
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Speaker 1: greatly appreciate that because Martino always gives us like the
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Speaker 1: whole like you know, the whole nine yards whenever he's
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Speaker 1: a guest on the pod. So thank you, Thank you, Martino.
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Speaker 1: I really, I really do h Once again, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: emphasize giving them a follow quality MILNISTI content. Uh so
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Speaker 1: moving away from Milan since uh you know, we had
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Speaker 1: a good amount of it, We're gonna shift towards other
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Speaker 1: teams in the league. The biggest news, and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to pass the ball a bit to Adri, but the
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Speaker 1: biggest news is basically the Tudor situation at Juventus. You know,
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Speaker 1: get after getting his extension, getting his extension, get sacked
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Speaker 1: and now was potential news with Spiletti coming in apparently
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Speaker 1: traveling tomorrow to sign the actual contract, we have to
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Speaker 1: we're still waiting for pen to paper. Adrie, what do
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Speaker 1: you think of this whole situation?
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Speaker 3: Crazy Johnny, I think we said it last week we
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Speaker 3: had uh you know, we didn't clip it, but we
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Speaker 3: should have.
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Speaker 2: But we spoke a bit about it last week.
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Speaker 3: I know when Nick was here, we we kind of
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Speaker 3: I kind of brought up and we had our our
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Speaker 3: own opinions on it. And I said, you wouldn't he
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Speaker 3: wouldn't get he wouldn't eat the PLANETNA. I didn't think
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Speaker 3: you'd make it to Christmas. Uh that even expected exceeded
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Speaker 3: my expectations. Uh, you know, sucked. What was it the
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Speaker 3: other day? Officially obviously it's it's it's amazing how they
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Speaker 3: magically get not magically, but they sucked two door. They
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Speaker 3: get a result today against the three to one. They
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Speaker 3: hadn't won in eight games and they hadn't scored in forever,
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Speaker 3: and it just seemed like so doom and woom to
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Speaker 3: get a result today and not to really smooth out
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Speaker 3: all the all the negative.
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Speaker 2: But still they get a good result today against Udines and.
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Speaker 3: You know with without Tudor so you know, was he
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Speaker 3: the first We have to go back and again Nick's
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Speaker 3: not here to bring it up, but I think we
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Speaker 3: have a pinned somewhere. But he wasn't our picks for
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Speaker 3: first manager sacked and said, yeah, I don't think if
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Speaker 3: I remember mine, I think I had said you would
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Speaker 3: reach for at Atlanta because I didn't think that would
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Speaker 3: work out.
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Speaker 2: We can maybe speak about that later, but yeah, I listen.
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Speaker 3: I didn't think just to echo what I had said
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Speaker 3: in past shows, Johnny, I didn't.
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Speaker 2: See two Door as.
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Speaker 3: The long I know they extended him to whatever year was,
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Speaker 3: but next year, two years from now, but I still
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Speaker 3: didn't see him as the long term real solution for Juve. Again,
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Speaker 3: like I said, I didn't think he moved the needle.
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Speaker 3: He pushed the needle all too much as a manager.
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Speaker 3: I know the history with the club. I know he
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Speaker 3: has that relationship, but it seemed like there was something
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Speaker 3: there broken too, because you kind of again, if you
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Speaker 3: want to believe what's in the news and what gets
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Speaker 3: spewed out, you know, there seemed to be a bit
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Speaker 3: of rumblings of some disagreements in the locker room and Johnny,
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Speaker 3: you know you know better than me and and all
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Speaker 3: sports that we that we that we follow. You know,
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Speaker 3: once the coach loses the room, it's it's it's almost
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Speaker 3: game over, right, There's no there's almost seems to be
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Speaker 3: no turning back that ship. So am I surprise No?
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Speaker 3: Uh did I expect it to happen this fast? I
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Speaker 3: can also say no because I thought he would. I
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Speaker 3: didn't think you'd make it to Christmas. You know, the
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Speaker 3: famous Italian scene of if he's gonna eat the puny
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Speaker 3: of tone or not? I said no, it happened earlier
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Speaker 3: than I even expected. But I guess, you know, Chapeau
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Speaker 3: to to to to really stand stand on business like
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Speaker 3: like we like to say, and making that bull move.
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Speaker 3: They're they're turning to Spalletti and we'll speak about that.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 3: Not to move that I think is gonna really again
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Speaker 3: bring you to another level. But yeah, surprise no, but
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Speaker 3: didn't need to be done. I would say probably yes.
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Speaker 1: So like I'm gonna slide disagree with you because he's
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Speaker 1: brought up a good point about how you know, like
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Speaker 1: we've seen it with our teams, right, So I'll use
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Speaker 1: a quick analogy, you know, Yeah, the Don Sweeney era
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Speaker 1: of the Boston Bruins. He fires Julianne because they miss
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Speaker 1: the playoffs for two years in a row by one point.
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Speaker 1: So they hire Bruce Cassidy. Under Bruce Cassidy, right, they
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Speaker 1: have a great period they make the finals in twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 1: lose in the Stanley Cup finals, but you still have
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Speaker 1: phenomenal teams throughout that year those years because you win
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Speaker 1: the President's Trophy twice. But Don it's not it wasn't
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Speaker 1: Bruce Cassidy. It's Don Sweeney not being able to give
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Speaker 1: Bruce the players that he's looking for to help support
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Speaker 1: his star players. Then obviously the team goes on a
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Speaker 1: bit of a slide. You lose the confidence of some
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Speaker 1: players in the room or some some of the youngsters.
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Speaker 1: You fire Don Sweeney, you hire Jim Montgomery. Now during
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Speaker 1: the era of Jim Montgomery, right, the Bruis are still good,
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Speaker 1: but they lose to the first round to the Panthers,
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Speaker 1: which were the better team obviously speaking. But then Jim
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Speaker 1: mcgomery Montgomery just gives up on coaching and he makes
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Speaker 1: a comment such as all basically like Bridge Ron co
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Speaker 1: the team and give his opinions like it's as if
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Speaker 1: Montgomery just gave up because he's tired of, you know,
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Speaker 1: like trying to manage players that he's unable to. But
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Speaker 1: this whole time, Don Sweeney's not doing anything in terms
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Speaker 1: of youth management management. Horrible draft choice, is horrible, always
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Speaker 1: trading away your first round pick. You got no youth
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Speaker 1: in the system. And now look where the Boston Bruins
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Speaker 1: are right now, near the bottom of the NHL and
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Speaker 1: the rebuild face because Don Sweeney basically never took the
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Speaker 1: time to actually properly draft and develop players. He got
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Speaker 1: lucky with some like maybe like like he fumbled in
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. He got lucky with Charlie McAvoy, Swayman and
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Speaker 1: now like James Higgins. But but you can only like
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Speaker 1: you know, a broken clock is right twice in a day.
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Speaker 1: So in my opinion, now with Juventus, it's not the
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Speaker 1: first time they win a game after firing their coach.
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Speaker 1: But there's so many coach firings you can do until
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Speaker 1: you realize, like, management's not giving the team that we need,
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Speaker 1: it's not the team that we want. So you fire manager,
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Speaker 1: you hire a Legacy, he wants to go a direction.
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Speaker 1: He let go of a Legty, You hire Matta, you
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Speaker 1: let go of Mata, you hire Tutor, you let go Tutor,
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Speaker 1: you hire Now you're gonna hire Spiletti. This is more
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Speaker 1: of a revolving door of managers, when in reality it's
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Speaker 1: it's like the team's not built for any manager right now,
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Speaker 1: and the more you move these managers, the more the
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Speaker 1: team's gonna feel mismanaged. Then you have Vlalovic making comments
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Speaker 1: about like, oh, you know, like I'm not worried about
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Speaker 1: my future, I'm just thinking about the president. But this
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Speaker 1: guy is probably halfway out the door mentally, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like he was almost at the door
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Speaker 1: during the summer. So and with Martino perfectly touched upon
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Speaker 1: it a little bit. With Vlaovich, you know, havingny connections
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Speaker 1: with a legacy and alleged you want to go after Blaovich.
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Speaker 1: Now we have to see if you've a if that's
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Speaker 1: gonna happen, if you've is going to try to milk
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Speaker 1: me a lot of more money, you know, being a
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Speaker 1: rival club and everything. Right, So, like I think this
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Speaker 1: is actually not the solution for you Ventus. Uh. I
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Speaker 1: I want to defend I'll defend the supporters of the
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Speaker 1: club when it's like they're they're just getting sucked over
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Speaker 1: by terrible management. I feel like that's what's the issue.
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Speaker 2: It just starts upstairs. It definitely starts upstairs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, with anything in life, you know, Jenny
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Speaker 3: a house you need a strong foundation. That's that you know,
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Speaker 3: you start from the bottom and you work your way
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Speaker 3: up in sports, in you know, in in in the
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Speaker 3: cultural world that we're covering, it starts at the top
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Speaker 3: and and and it trickles down all the way to
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Speaker 3: the guy passing around coffees, right like it's it's it's
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Speaker 3: it really is how things are are done.
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Speaker 2: You know, when when when a fish is rocked in
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Speaker 2: from the head, you know.
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Speaker 3: It's it's it's it's it's obviously not a good fish, right,
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Speaker 3: And if you have a bad management, not putting the
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Speaker 3: team and and and and you know, the club as
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Speaker 3: a whole in in a place to succeed, we're going
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Speaker 3: to have this continuously. Like Nick likes to say, this
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Speaker 3: rinse repeat of of of managers, of players, of you know, uh,
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Speaker 3: you know other.
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Speaker 2: Other other supporting cast people. You know, it's just it's
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Speaker 2: it's a bad look. So again I think it starts
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Speaker 2: upstairs too. I definitely with that.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, gone are the days of obviously
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Speaker 3: the annelle Are era. It seems they're far away from that.
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Speaker 3: And yes they have the money, and but they're they're
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Speaker 3: they properly using it? Are they probably funding, Like there's
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Speaker 3: still holes in this in this squad, but you know,
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Speaker 3: you look at upstairs and it seems like they're not
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Speaker 3: really making the right decisions themselves either, and they're not.
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Speaker 2: Really football people. So yeah, there's there's a foury of problems.
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Speaker 2: I guess you can say Juventus.
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Speaker 3: But and again it's you know, when you come down
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Speaker 3: to the coach and what's another saying that we always
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Speaker 3: say in sports, and you can't you can't get rid
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Speaker 3: of the whole team, and the easiest thing to do
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Speaker 3: is get rid of the coach, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, But it's so it's it's it's cliche.
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Speaker 2: But again, like Nick says, it's rinse.
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Speaker 3: Repeat, and it's you're really not going forward, you know,
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Speaker 3: you're taking one step forward to the three steps back.
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Speaker 2: So but that's kind of what it is.
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Speaker 1: But then you look at teams with consistent ownership and
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Speaker 1: you can see the difference, right like now having Lorentez
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Speaker 1: since Yeah, it's.
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Speaker 2: Gonna watch how long it's been twenty something years now.
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Speaker 1: No, it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna be it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be about it's twenty one years right now that he's
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Speaker 1: owned the club and look at that. He's brought the
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Speaker 1: team from City at Seat, City at cheat to SA
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Speaker 1: one that till twice with them one bunch of one.
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Speaker 1: If you Copatalia's a super Copa. You know, brought them
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Speaker 1: into a Champions League contention every time. Like he's like,
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Speaker 1: that's that's the quality of a team, like, you know,
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Speaker 1: like having good direction ownership Roma for example, you can
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Speaker 1: see it in the standings, Roma being owned by the
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Speaker 1: freaking group. They come in, they like, okay, we have
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Speaker 1: to revamp things. What do they do? They start off
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Speaker 1: with Mourinho, you know, kind of establishing a bit of
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Speaker 1: a new culture within the club. They win the Europa
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Speaker 1: Conference League. I know, it's the third tier European trophy,
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Speaker 1: it's still European trophy. Nonetheless. Uh and now look Gus
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Speaker 1: get They're like, okay, now we've got Gasparini to come in.
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Speaker 1: Let's stablish a system.
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Speaker 2: It's been a study incline.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's it's a study. It's it's it's leanear.
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Speaker 1: It's growing. It might not be the fastest rate, but
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Speaker 1: it grows.
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Speaker 2: Injury.
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Speaker 1: Even though Inter had the ownership change from the Stooing
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Speaker 1: group to the oak Tree group, it's still more or
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Speaker 1: less like it just like the shoitoting group on left
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Speaker 1: because of financial reasons. But besides that, you know, like
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Speaker 1: it seems like everyone still has their you know, hens
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Speaker 1: in a row. Como. Obviously, we can't talk really about
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Speaker 1: Como because it's just a wealthy ownership, so I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: really want to bring a discussion to their project. But
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Speaker 1: at Talanta, you know, we'll get to them in a minute,
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Speaker 1: but that was a different thing. But they they're always
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Speaker 1: in top four because of the direction that they had
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Speaker 1: and stuff. And I just feel like Juventus is like
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Speaker 1: main crutch right now, is themselves their own there? They
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Speaker 1: are their own a hey. I mean, I'll say this
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Speaker 1: as a rival fan, I don't care if you've los
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Speaker 1: this all the all the time.
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Speaker 2: I really don't.
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Speaker 1: But but as as a couchural podcaster and you know,
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Speaker 1: as a person who's got a lot of empathy, I
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Speaker 1: feel for the Juventini where it's like there used to
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Speaker 1: being a very strong, dominant club and now it's like
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Speaker 1: what their fifth management higher in three seasons, like it's
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Speaker 1: something crazy, Mata Allegri, Tudor Spalletti and who was right
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Speaker 1: before was it Pierrelo?
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Speaker 2: Thoughts or no, Sadi, No, I forget.
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Speaker 1: Well, then if you want to go like the past
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Speaker 1: five years, it's like, yeah, Pilo, you have Sadi. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, it's it's ridiculous. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's in my head, it's it's it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: So do you uh being seen that you've had to
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Speaker 3: deal with Spohetti on on multiple occasions with your teams.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and obviously guys been passed a teams. Yeah, we
11:31
Speaker 1: had to get all the monopoly inter we had. We
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Speaker 1: had to endure him with the with the national team obviously.
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Speaker 3: But your thoughts and opinions on uh, once he does
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Speaker 3: put pen to paper, because I think it'll probably happen tomorrow,
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Speaker 3: if not the next day is and I think the
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Speaker 3: contract is until June twenty twenties, like until the next summer,
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Speaker 3: and if they qualified for Champions Champions League, there's a
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Speaker 3: possible extension for another year. Do you think he studies
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Speaker 3: this ship or do you think it just continues to sink.
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Speaker 1: I honestly think it's probably gonna sink a little bit
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Speaker 1: because this formation doesn't seem to fit any of the
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Speaker 1: players that he has available on his roster. Because he
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Speaker 1: likes to favor the four three three, or like he
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Speaker 1: likes the favorite format back line. I mean, you've a
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Speaker 1: kind of has a decent format back line, but the
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Speaker 1: mid to support it is okay, you know, and then
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Speaker 1: it's the issues where they have a plethora of like
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Speaker 1: forwards ready to go. But it's like you got, you got.
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Speaker 1: It's not that it's abundance of riches. It's just like
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Speaker 1: you have too much there. It's like you know, when
12:38
Speaker 1: you put too much toppings on a pizza. Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: just falls apart. Like the crust is good, the cheese
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Speaker 1: is good, but then the toppings come along and it
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Speaker 1: just you know, as you try to take a bite.
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Speaker 1: That's what it feels like. I feel like if you
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Speaker 1: do get Spiletti, you're gonna have to move a couple
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Speaker 1: of players and probably try to get back some money
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Speaker 1: on the salaries and stuff. So maybe we do see
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Speaker 1: Dusan Vlaovich trying scene over to Milan come win through
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Speaker 1: transfer window. It's it wouldn't be the first time that
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Speaker 1: he transfers during the winter transfer window, right like, like
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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be the first time, and you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be it wouldn't be the last.
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Speaker 1: So but moving on from Juve some highlights in the
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Speaker 1: in Citia right now to talk about uh Atalanta sitting
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Speaker 1: in ninth place right now, right but now, and you think,
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Speaker 1: you know, like, oh Atlanta ninth place. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: probably driving a shaky season. They're still undefeated. They have
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Speaker 1: two wins but seven draws. It's uh, they have thirteen
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Speaker 1: goals four, which isn't so bad in the league. It's
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Speaker 1: probably it's in it's tied for like but but I'm
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Speaker 1: just doing a quick check here. It's tied for fourth
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Speaker 1: overall in terms of offense in the league, in terms
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Speaker 1: of goals four. But what really kills them the most
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Speaker 1: is that, you know, there it's just like they can't
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Speaker 1: score more than a goal game sometimes, you know, like
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Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's and then when the games that they
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Speaker 1: do score more than a goal game, the other team
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Speaker 1: just manages to, you know, even it up. So it's
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Speaker 1: it's crazy seeing what well guess Perini, how this team
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Speaker 1: has just completely changed.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean it was it's been a it's
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Speaker 3: been a Gaspardini ran team for however many years it was,
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Speaker 3: and you know, he really put his imprint into that club,
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Speaker 3: into that city, into that fan base, like, uh, it's
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Speaker 3: it's it's clear. And again, like I had mentioned with Tudor,
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Speaker 3: you know, for me, you would each again doesn't move
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Speaker 3: the needle doesn't isn't really a manager that's gonna take
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Speaker 3: you to that to that next level or even stay
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Speaker 3: on par to the level that you were at. Again,
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Speaker 3: I didn't realize that they were still undefeated. You brought
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Speaker 3: it up just before we came back on here after
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Speaker 3: having Martino, and you.
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Speaker 2: Know, it's it's like shaking my head.
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Speaker 3: Two wins and seven draws, like they're pulling the UV
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Speaker 3: of last season, like it's it's incredible.
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Speaker 2: I do think they have pieces that can that can
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Speaker 2: work out and and that can do well.
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Speaker 3: But again, defensively they probably need to they need to
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Speaker 3: obviously do better.
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Speaker 2: And again the.
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Speaker 3: Attack, I mean, it's it's more or less the same
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Speaker 3: attack in I think last season, if not years past,
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Speaker 3: And it's just a different mentality with a guy like
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Speaker 3: Gasperini and a manager like Uage, like it's two a
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Speaker 3: bit of different ideologies. And you know when you're with
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Speaker 3: when you when you're with someone for so long.
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Speaker 2: You kind of and then you change.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's not always going to be you know,
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Speaker 3: the it could be the best outcome, but sometimes it's not.
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Speaker 3: So Again, I think if they can obviously get a
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Speaker 3: couple more wins in that win call, you know, we're
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Speaker 3: we're sitting at different praise with Atalanta.
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Speaker 2: But I don't see them like personally. And again I
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Speaker 2: don't remember where we had them in our in our
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Speaker 2: preseason rankings. I don't think I had them. I want
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Speaker 2: to say I had them just missing out on on your.
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Speaker 1: Somewhere here, but let's hear keep that.
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Speaker 2: If you have them there, put it up.
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Speaker 3: But I think I had them in like eighth or
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Speaker 3: ninth and and right around part where they are now
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Speaker 3: so or even maybe tenth, I don't remember.
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Speaker 2: But but still.
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Speaker 3: I think there's too many teams that are in a
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Speaker 3: that are doing better and that are on better form
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Speaker 3: and that I think are just better of quality than
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Speaker 3: I donant to currently as most disrespect to them, because
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Speaker 3: they are a good club, and they have good players,
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Speaker 3: and and you know they have some quality.
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Speaker 2: But when you have you know.
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Speaker 3: The the likes of you know, not we roll Ma
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Speaker 3: into Milan. You know, even even you if you really
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Speaker 3: want to say Como for that matter, right, like we
16:41
Speaker 3: were saying a bit off airge on the Como that's
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Speaker 3: doing you know, better than them, you know.
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Speaker 2: It's it's I think it'll be close come you know,
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Speaker 2: the end.
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Speaker 3: But you know, they're I don't see them where I
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Speaker 3: saw them in years past pretty much.
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Speaker 1: So I saw our predictions. Nick had them to finish
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Speaker 1: in six the league, I had them out of I
17:02
Speaker 1: had them out of the top seven, and you also
17:04
Speaker 1: had them out of the top seven. So far our
17:07
Speaker 1: predictions are basically coming true.
17:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, still early, but just to say, I mean, I
17:14
Speaker 3: think they'll probably still flutter with the range that they're
17:17
Speaker 3: at now personally.
17:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, but where we're going so where we're going wrong
17:20
Speaker 1: so far as that. We also all picked KREM to
17:23
Speaker 1: be one of the relegated teams, and that's another team
17:25
Speaker 1: that keeps on surprising. Kremonza eighth place big win today
17:30
Speaker 1: versus H versus Genera Genera. It's it's always sad to
17:35
Speaker 1: say because you know, like like General Club Toronto is
17:40
Speaker 1: such like a big like you know, good friend of
17:42
Speaker 1: the show and stuff, and yeah, and we always want
17:46
Speaker 1: them to do well, especially if they have like nine Scudetti.
17:48
Speaker 1: You just want to see them just win that tenth
17:50
Speaker 1: like you're not even who cares if they beat your team,
17:52
Speaker 1: for you just want to see them win that tenth star,
17:54
Speaker 1: just to get that star. It's just so it's irking me.
17:57
Speaker 1: And I'm not even a fan of Genera, you know,
17:59
Speaker 1: the oldest plumping in Yeah, you know, so, you know,
18:04
Speaker 1: so they're sitting in eighth, Cobo is sitting in fifth,
18:08
Speaker 1: you know, but and that's going to show the financials
18:10
Speaker 1: behind Como is basically helping them, you know, stay relevant
18:13
Speaker 1: in Saria. Bologna in sixth, which you know, that's another
18:18
Speaker 1: group of like our team of like solid but consistent ownership,
18:20
Speaker 1: but so mind you consistent as of late, there was
18:23
Speaker 1: a period where he's flip flopping back and forth between
18:26
Speaker 1: Montreal and and Bologna and the fat and Bologna was
18:30
Speaker 1: really laying into him, like the city was really lay
18:31
Speaker 1: alien to him. And now now I feel like as
18:33
Speaker 1: if he's fully committed to Bologna because Champions League is
18:36
Speaker 1: a realistic option for the club now or international European
18:40
Speaker 1: competition rather than you know what, even though North America
18:43
Speaker 1: you technically make more money in terms of like what
18:45
Speaker 1: people have in terms of like revenue generated without putting
18:49
Speaker 1: money in Bologna is kind of you know, producing that
18:55
Speaker 1: other big surprises in Citia Right now, sorry, guys, we
18:57
Speaker 1: don't have too much time, so we're just gonna go
19:00
Speaker 1: through the quickly. Uh. You know, Napoli Roma contending for
19:03
Speaker 1: top spot is something I thought I wouldn't be seeing
19:05
Speaker 1: this season. The stop the count, stop the count, basically
19:11
Speaker 1: what's keeping them apart is basically a two goal differential,
19:15
Speaker 1: but it shows what much of a difference Deballa does
19:18
Speaker 1: for the squad versus uh, not having de Balla for Roma. Uh,
19:22
Speaker 1: Deballa being coming up big in the in the game
19:26
Speaker 1: versus Sasolo scoring that goal and then also being very
19:30
Speaker 1: big for this game versus Bottoma being a big supporter.
19:32
Speaker 1: Whereas Napoly you know, like they're finally starting to find
19:35
Speaker 1: a little bit of like despite the tumbles that they've had,
19:39
Speaker 1: especially with them when the last episode we talked about
19:41
Speaker 1: their three losses out of four. Now they're starting to
19:44
Speaker 1: get okay, well they're starting to get a groove again,
19:46
Speaker 1: so that's good. But I was talking ad right before
19:50
Speaker 1: we continue recording. The biggest surprise I think, right now
19:53
Speaker 1: that we kind of need to see in say, yeah,
19:55
Speaker 1: is that Fidentina is sitting nineteenth in the league? Fidantino,
19:59
Speaker 1: one of the of city is cittying nineteenth in the league.
20:04
Speaker 1: That is it's just bonkers to me, you know, yeah, no,
20:09
Speaker 1: it's zeroble wins, zero wins.
20:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, it's it's a bit sad to be
20:17
Speaker 3: honest with you, you know.
20:18
Speaker 2: Just to to to see the uh see the fall.
20:22
Speaker 3: Happen so fast too, Like this is a team that
20:26
Speaker 3: obviously historic, h historic club, beautiful city. If nobody, if
20:32
Speaker 3: people haven't been to to Flourence, you have to make
20:35
Speaker 3: your way there. If it ends is it's it's it's
20:38
Speaker 3: an amazing city. Uh, you know, it's different from the
20:41
Speaker 3: South obviously from where we're from, but it's it has
20:44
Speaker 3: its beauty and and and it's really a remarkable city.
20:47
Speaker 2: But yeah, the club is.
20:50
Speaker 3: And it's crazy because I feel like Comiso has has put.
20:54
Speaker 2: In his money, has has has.
20:56
Speaker 3: Embarked on this journey, has has done or wants to
21:00
Speaker 3: do more. And you know, in terms of stadium, he
21:03
Speaker 3: obviously did the big Vioa Voa Park project and the
21:07
Speaker 3: training ground and all that, and you know, changing of
21:11
Speaker 3: coaches within the last handfully seasons, you know, the you know,
21:15
Speaker 3: from Gala Italiano to Palladino to to to now step
21:21
Speaker 3: on Poi and it's again we spoke about it probably
21:24
Speaker 3: I think a couple of weeks ago Jenny and like,
21:26
Speaker 3: is it really only on Poli? Is it the player?
21:28
Speaker 3: Like it's crazy. This is a team again, like I said,
21:31
Speaker 3: historic has been to.
21:34
Speaker 2: What was it Jah two three Conference Seaue finals in
21:38
Speaker 2: a row. I think it was like yeah, I know
21:40
Speaker 2: they didn't win, but like they.
21:41
Speaker 3: They and again I know it's like you said, the
21:44
Speaker 3: third level of European competitions, but but still a team
21:48
Speaker 3: of Fiordentina that I was able to compete in those
21:50
Speaker 3: types of competitions and made it to the finals three
21:53
Speaker 3: times or two three times, whatever it was. And you
21:55
Speaker 3: know now they haven't even mustered up a winning said yeah,
21:58
Speaker 3: like something something is up.
22:00
Speaker 2: They had the cop.
22:01
Speaker 3: The tied couple player last season and moist Keen, I
22:06
Speaker 3: think he has what one two?
22:08
Speaker 2: No, no, he has one and one goals. I think
22:10
Speaker 2: he has two goals.
22:11
Speaker 1: Right, It's that's even sad to see.
22:14
Speaker 3: It's absurd because you know, in nine matchdays two goals.
22:17
Speaker 3: This guy was was top of the go the scoring
22:20
Speaker 3: charts last season alongside you know, the techy and you
22:24
Speaker 3: know now he has two goals and the club has
22:26
Speaker 3: zero wins. I think it's more than just a manager thing.
22:32
Speaker 3: It has to be I don't know what's going on
22:34
Speaker 3: behind closed doors. We don't know obviously, but if there's friction,
22:39
Speaker 3: if there's you know, what's going on.
22:41
Speaker 2: But something needs to change and soon, because.
22:48
Speaker 3: Yeah we can, we can end this season with without
22:52
Speaker 3: feud and team and Sea. That's a it could become
22:54
Speaker 3: a real possibility if things don't change.
22:56
Speaker 2: So again, I.
22:57
Speaker 3: Know that's pretty dramatic answer, but and a you know,
23:02
Speaker 3: dramatic like result.
23:04
Speaker 2: But and we're still early, so again, there is time
23:08
Speaker 2: to recoup. But it's it's.
23:12
Speaker 3: Crazy to me to think that a team that has
23:16
Speaker 3: i would say probably consistently the hand the last handful
23:19
Speaker 3: of years been fighting for europe a European competition. You
23:23
Speaker 3: know that that's sixth, seventh, you know, maybe fifth, you know,
23:27
Speaker 3: like let's say five to.
23:28
Speaker 2: Eight, like that range of of of club in Sidi. Yeah,
23:32
Speaker 2: you know that. We always like to say that feudent.
23:34
Speaker 3: Tina, that Bologna of late you know, now this como
23:38
Speaker 3: seems to be like that maybe hopefully that new team
23:41
Speaker 3: Suswollo back in the days, you know, and now they're
23:45
Speaker 3: just fallen dramatically, drastically.
23:47
Speaker 2: It's it's uh, it's it's really has scratching, Johnny. If
23:51
Speaker 2: I'm from honest with you.
23:53
Speaker 1: I think also what really like plays a factor into
23:56
Speaker 1: it is basically like uh, I think I think honestly speaking,
24:01
Speaker 1: I think it's just loss of key players. Like I
24:05
Speaker 1: I remember going to watch the game in Filandiena two
24:08
Speaker 1: years ago in Florence. A'm m Bat, you know, like
24:11
Speaker 1: it was like it was there one of their conference
24:12
Speaker 1: league games, but basically I'm run Bat was just sorry
24:15
Speaker 1: Europa League games.
24:16
Speaker 2: I remember.
24:17
Speaker 1: Bat was basically like the lynchpin of that midfield for them.
24:19
Speaker 1: You know, you lose him, Nico Gonzalez being sold to
24:22
Speaker 1: you A because they like to sell all their fucking
24:24
Speaker 1: prospects to Juventus. It's like, yeah, like over time, like
24:27
Speaker 1: if you keep on moving these key players, like I know,
24:29
Speaker 1: you got moist Keen from them, you know, and you
24:32
Speaker 1: basically we rejuvenated moyst Keine's career. But like you're losing
24:38
Speaker 1: too much in my personal opinion, I could be completely
24:40
Speaker 1: wrong and someone can, you know, disprove me very easily,
24:43
Speaker 1: I feel. But I my from what I've witnessed seen
24:46
Speaker 1: from a third party view is that you're you're losing
24:50
Speaker 1: too many. It's not like I say, if you like
24:51
Speaker 1: you're like you're selling things and you're getting good quality back.
24:55
Speaker 1: It feels like as if you're like you're selling your
24:57
Speaker 1: gems or moving your your linch pins, but you're not
25:00
Speaker 1: replacing them and then over time and it's not like
25:04
Speaker 1: as if like and then this is no disrespect to
25:06
Speaker 1: the city of Florence. City of Florence is a beautiful city,
25:08
Speaker 1: very financially well city and stuff. But it's like Fiorentina
25:11
Speaker 1: is not. Even though it is one of the set,
25:13
Speaker 1: it's not one of the big three of Citia. And
25:16
Speaker 1: I like to argue that now there's a big Now
25:19
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this as a bias, I'm saying this realistically.
25:22
Speaker 1: I like to argue that Napoli is putting themselves in
25:24
Speaker 1: a Big four position just because of how much positive
25:27
Speaker 1: income that they have with their players, but also basically
25:30
Speaker 1: they're their club of the South, so essentially everyone in
25:32
Speaker 1: the South basically kind of supports nopoly because they're the
25:35
Speaker 1: ones that are competing with the North you know, that's
25:37
Speaker 1: that's just it is what it is. It's like it's
25:40
Speaker 1: it's basically all the what's the diaspora of of of
25:43
Speaker 1: Citia like sorry, that Explorer of Italy, like all North
25:46
Speaker 1: American stuff, all the Napolodani or basically all the Capagnoli
25:49
Speaker 1: or like are basically supporting you know, monopoly and stuff.
25:52
Speaker 1: So they have that and you can see their financials.
25:55
Speaker 1: It's been like this for the past five six seasons.
25:57
Speaker 1: They're one of the few clubs, if not probably one
25:59
Speaker 1: of the only ones that are in the positives in
26:01
Speaker 1: the greens for terms of finances. So didn't The reason
26:04
Speaker 1: why I'm saying this is that I veident team is
26:07
Speaker 1: not a team that could survive relegation. They're not a
26:10
Speaker 1: team that can like you know, like they need to
26:13
Speaker 1: stay in Seiya because I feel like if they get relegated,
26:16
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be the Downald Spile for them. It's
26:17
Speaker 1: gonna be something that we're gonna like Palermo esque, you
26:21
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like for Palermo, once they got relegated,
26:23
Speaker 1: they just spiraled down because they sold too many key
26:25
Speaker 1: players because you look at the like Palaeromo's history of
26:28
Speaker 1: like all these young talents that they had and then
26:31
Speaker 1: you move them all.
26:32
Speaker 3: The projected squad of the what ifs like that they
26:36
Speaker 3: didn't sell their players, what it would be today, they.
26:39
Speaker 1: Would definitely be a Champions League competing team, like like
26:43
Speaker 1: obviously now they're like some of their players that they
26:45
Speaker 1: had during that eras but.
26:46
Speaker 3: That era was was was absurd, Like, yeah, it was.
26:50
Speaker 2: It was a bit crazy. I don't know.
26:51
Speaker 3: I think I think Comiso would be able to like
26:55
Speaker 3: the money that he has. I think he's a bit
26:57
Speaker 3: of a more I don't want I say, I guess
27:00
Speaker 3: reliable owner like I would think, but like I don't.
27:03
Speaker 1: Know, but like it's also more of a sense of
27:05
Speaker 1: like as an owner, right, like you like as much
27:09
Speaker 1: as Comiso's you know, trying to you know, he started
27:11
Speaker 1: the project of building a new stadium in Florence and stuff.
27:14
Speaker 2: And Frankie needs work. You saw it first time, Yeah.
27:17
Speaker 1: No work, it does. It does beautiful. I like the
27:21
Speaker 1: vibe of it though, Like, but but you know, I agree,
27:24
Speaker 1: I agree. But also their ultras are probably some of
27:29
Speaker 1: the best ultras I've ever heard. But uh like, but
27:33
Speaker 1: back to the Comiso point, like at the end of
27:36
Speaker 1: the day, you're a business owner and I no disrespect.
27:40
Speaker 1: Like I'm pretty sure Camisa does have a heart in
27:42
Speaker 1: the club. You know, he wants, you know, like he's
27:44
Speaker 1: an he's an Italian American but first gen Italian, you know,
27:48
Speaker 1: like he wants to do something back for you know, motherland,
27:52
Speaker 1: the Motherland. Like at the end of the day, money talks,
27:55
Speaker 1: and he's a business band exactly. And if this, if
27:58
Speaker 1: this type of owner, if this type of ascid is
28:01
Speaker 1: gonna make you bleed money more than make you money,
28:04
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think Camiso sticks around for too
28:06
Speaker 1: too long after that, you know, like I feel like
28:09
Speaker 1: I could be proven wrong, Like I I don't want
28:11
Speaker 1: I'm being a big before anybody takes me out of context.
28:14
Speaker 1: I don't want to see Fenentina on City B. I
28:16
Speaker 1: don't know.
28:18
Speaker 2: I I think.
28:21
Speaker 1: It'd be criminal if there Setia B. But you know,
28:24
Speaker 1: projected wise, so far, it's not looking good. Zero wins,
28:27
Speaker 1: four draws, five losses. Moist King, by the way, that's
28:31
Speaker 1: another thing. If if if they have to relegate moist
28:34
Speaker 1: Key doesn't stay in Indiana, he's definitely gonna get on it.
28:36
Speaker 2: We'll take him a meal and on a discount. Definitely,
28:39
Speaker 2: we'll take him on meal. And but no, I I
28:42
Speaker 2: totally totally agree.
28:43
Speaker 3: I mean, it'd be sided, you know, but there's obviously
28:47
Speaker 3: there's also that devil's advocate, right that we've seen currently.
28:51
Speaker 3: I know it's different levels to it, but you know
28:55
Speaker 3: that setia b wake up call, Uh, come back up
29:01
Speaker 3: and and you know you're you're kind of revived a bit.
29:04
Speaker 3: You know, we saw that with the Genua, We saw
29:07
Speaker 3: that with the Sasolo.
29:09
Speaker 2: Again. Do we see that with the Fidentina. I don't know.
29:13
Speaker 3: I hope not, Like we don't want to see that
29:15
Speaker 3: happen for the league. But listen, it's uh, it's it's
29:20
Speaker 3: it's their selves to blame.
29:22
Speaker 2: I would think, you know, at the end of it.
29:24
Speaker 3: So they need to metch up something positive soon because
29:30
Speaker 3: I think it's ONNY a matter of time that they
29:33
Speaker 3: probably let go of Pioli and he'd probably be the
29:37
Speaker 3: second coach fired.
29:39
Speaker 2: Uh it almost.
29:40
Speaker 3: Seemed like he was gonna be the first after seeing
29:42
Speaker 3: this this crazy slow start. But he's still there and uh,
29:46
Speaker 3: we'll see how long that lasts.
29:48
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, it's uh.
29:51
Speaker 3: Hopefully better days for for for Freudentina, but the.
29:55
Speaker 2: Bright days have have stayed in Naples and in Rome.
29:58
Speaker 3: I would think right like up with Roma, like like
30:01
Speaker 3: I would to earlier.
30:03
Speaker 1: They don't call Derby de la solid for no reason,
30:05
Speaker 1: for no reason.
30:06
Speaker 2: Right there you go. That's a great layout. But one
30:10
Speaker 2: thing I just wanted to add before we probably wrap
30:11
Speaker 2: this up or I guess two things Roma, I don't know.
30:19
Speaker 3: They don't can see goals, it seems like, or they
30:21
Speaker 3: barely can see goals like the I think fear is
30:24
Speaker 3: what top in in clean sheets in the league. If
30:27
Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, they will I don't know. Like for me,
30:31
Speaker 3: Roma looks like a well oiled machine.
30:34
Speaker 2: It must be. It must be. It must be good.
30:38
Speaker 3: For you obviously encouraging for and for you, Johnny your
30:43
Speaker 3: quick thought on on on Roma. And obviously we put
30:47
Speaker 3: each other this weekend like I would to earlier. It's
30:49
Speaker 3: a huge match and I think for me on it's
30:50
Speaker 3: I must win. Your quick thoughts on that, and I
30:54
Speaker 3: just had another quick point for nap after.
30:56
Speaker 1: Uh, it's gonna be a very very excruciating type of game.
31:00
Speaker 1: Because Roma already has trouble with scoring, and if you're
31:03
Speaker 1: gonna go up against allegedly you know that you're barely
31:06
Speaker 1: gonna get a goal in if you're if you're lucky
31:09
Speaker 1: so and and it's like as if you know, like
31:12
Speaker 1: they have a pushover it. But like I said earlier
31:15
Speaker 1: in the show, Manyan is a phenomenal goal Yes, recently
31:18
Speaker 1: he has bibby led in a couple of them, but
31:20
Speaker 1: prior to that, like he has, he's been lights out.
31:22
Speaker 1: So it's and if you so, you're gonna have a
31:25
Speaker 1: hard time even getting to him. And when you even
31:28
Speaker 1: get to the t the keeper. I was about say
31:30
Speaker 1: tending because I'm thinking hockey and you're gonna get to
31:32
Speaker 1: the keeper. You have a really good shots stopper in Manyan.
31:35
Speaker 1: So I'm not feeling too too confident about this match,
31:38
Speaker 1: I feel, but it's gonna lean more towards a draw
31:41
Speaker 1: because of you know, Roma having issues with scoring and
31:44
Speaker 1: because of a legacy style of play. Even with Deballa
31:48
Speaker 1: coming back, and I just said before that develop coming
31:50
Speaker 1: back is very key for the team. It's it's not,
31:52
Speaker 1: it's it's not. I don't think it's gonna be good
31:55
Speaker 1: enough to get them over the line, so.
31:58
Speaker 2: Might just neutralize, like they'll just neutral as themselves.
32:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm actually thinking it's gonna be a very
32:04
Speaker 1: calm nil nil draw. That's what I'm thinking.
32:08
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, if I said must win, and I still stick
32:11
Speaker 3: by that, and in my head, it looks.
32:14
Speaker 2: Like a one nil in my opinion.
32:18
Speaker 3: Ultimately it probably could go either way if I'm honest,
32:20
Speaker 3: But for me Lan's sake, like I said earlier, when
32:24
Speaker 3: we have Martino on, you know.
32:26
Speaker 2: It's a must win.
32:27
Speaker 3: The results that happened prior seeing those results and knowing
32:32
Speaker 3: what that is and how we drop points to teams
32:34
Speaker 3: that again, no disrespect, we shouldn't have draw points to
32:38
Speaker 3: you need to pick up maximum points against against Roma
32:40
Speaker 3: this weekend.
32:41
Speaker 2: There's there's almost no.
32:44
Speaker 3: No looking at any other not looking at it any
32:47
Speaker 3: other way, Like it has to be a win in
32:50
Speaker 3: my opinion. And listen, does it end up being one
32:52
Speaker 3: we'll see on Sunday? But yeah, I don't see it
32:57
Speaker 3: being a goal fest. Uh you saying they'll no, I'll
33:00
Speaker 3: probably say a one nil for for me on Uh,
33:04
Speaker 3: the last of the thing I wanted to will probably
33:06
Speaker 3: wrap up after this. Obviously not we're looking strong. I
33:10
Speaker 3: think the one again downer or or negative is is
33:15
Speaker 3: the uh, the Bruyna injury right after taking out Ok,
33:18
Speaker 3: he scores molds up right away and it seems to
33:21
Speaker 3: be out for a half four months, three four months.
33:24
Speaker 1: We're seeing he's out at least until the till twenty
33:27
Speaker 1: twenty six. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's basically what the reports
33:31
Speaker 1: are coming in.
33:32
Speaker 3: Uh.
33:33
Speaker 1: If he comes in just slightly earlier, it could be
33:35
Speaker 1: basically a miracle. The Brainer injury is something that's like
33:42
Speaker 1: it's gonna hurt the team, especially for the Champions League
33:44
Speaker 1: push quote unquote push. You know, Conte is basically trophy
33:50
Speaker 1: that he's been trying to chase his entire career. It's
33:52
Speaker 1: not just done, it's his entire career. He's trying to
33:56
Speaker 1: chase Champions League title. It's still not able to get it.
33:59
Speaker 1: And then there's the Brunner blow is just you know,
34:02
Speaker 1: it just adds more to it. And I like what
34:05
Speaker 1: Kante has said recently and what a press conference where
34:07
Speaker 1: he's like people are like, He's like, I don't know
34:09
Speaker 1: why people are saying I'm celebrating this because like he's like,
34:11
Speaker 1: you're you go in an Oscar. If you think I'm
34:13
Speaker 1: acting like that, you know what I mean, It's nothing
34:15
Speaker 1: like that. It's something silly like that was pretty funny.
34:18
Speaker 1: But essentially it's like he he got to Brunner for
34:21
Speaker 1: a reason. The Berner came to Anopoly for a reason,
34:23
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like they wanted to work together.
34:25
Speaker 1: The Brenner came on a free It's not like as
34:27
Speaker 1: if we bought him. He came on a freeze. I
34:28
Speaker 1: mean he came on his own volition Tonopoly. You know,
34:31
Speaker 1: these are guys that, yeah, they might butt heads or
34:33
Speaker 1: disagreement's because they're both winners, they're both competitors, they're both
34:37
Speaker 1: guys that wouldn't want to do anything to win. And
34:40
Speaker 1: if it's and if it's a disagreement, it's because it's
34:43
Speaker 1: just a professional disagreement. It's not gonna it's not gonna
34:46
Speaker 1: go anywhere beyond that. You know, it's like it's only
34:48
Speaker 1: because of what's happening on the pitch. So losing player
34:51
Speaker 1: like Kadib very very big, you know, it's it's tough
34:56
Speaker 1: because overall the team, you know, like like Labatka being
35:01
Speaker 1: injured in the mid doesn't help. Now you lost kat
35:03
Speaker 1: b uh at midfield is starting to thin.
35:06
Speaker 2: Off a bit, you know, and it's also still coming.
35:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it's it's it's I'll be real with you. Uh.
35:16
Speaker 1: Like that the first game against Milan, like that worried
35:18
Speaker 1: me in a sense of like playing against a really
35:20
Speaker 1: strong team.
35:20
Speaker 2: Yeah you mentioned that.
35:21
Speaker 1: I remember, Like it's it's more like, okay, like I
35:24
Speaker 1: want to see them, like but yeah, the three one
35:26
Speaker 1: win versus inter was big. That was like and that
35:29
Speaker 1: kind of balances out. So let's hope there's some consistency.
35:32
Speaker 1: But you had to you had a healthy KDB in
35:34
Speaker 1: that lineup, you know, like and now you don't have
35:36
Speaker 1: him anymore. And now it's like, okay, Mick mcflatma is
35:40
Speaker 1: he is he back? Now?
35:41
Speaker 2: Is he back? And form?
35:42
Speaker 1: Is he out of his little comfort age?
35:44
Speaker 2: You know?
35:45
Speaker 1: Like yeah, you know Citi I m VP last year,
35:48
Speaker 1: you know, not many Like it's it's not like as
35:51
Speaker 1: if the word that you can win lightly. You know
35:52
Speaker 1: Citi MVP, it's it's a very they're they're on top
35:55
Speaker 1: of their game when they give MVP awards. So and
35:58
Speaker 1: now you have rumors of mcdomman Barsa is interested in
36:01
Speaker 1: him Tottenham is interested in him. Whatever, I don't think
36:05
Speaker 1: anything's gonna happen there, to be real with you, But
36:08
Speaker 1: all in all, I don't think not Plea's gonna go
36:12
Speaker 1: further into the Champions League competition because de Lorenzol just
36:16
Speaker 1: can't play against international competition. He just I don't know
36:18
Speaker 1: what's going on with this guy. Uh, every Champions League game,
36:22
Speaker 1: he just has a horrendous, horrendous performance. They have either
36:26
Speaker 1: red cards or bad luck happened to them. Conte just
36:29
Speaker 1: now he's now he's losing players because of injuries and stuff,
36:32
Speaker 1: and I think for them at this point, like I'll
36:37
Speaker 1: be real with you, I don't mind sacrificing Champions League,
36:40
Speaker 1: like in terms of like trying to make I don't
36:42
Speaker 1: think we even have the squad to make that push,
36:44
Speaker 1: because even with the additions that you got, you need
36:48
Speaker 1: to have a squad A and a squad B for
36:50
Speaker 1: Champions League.
36:51
Speaker 2: I think they have. I think they have because like
36:55
Speaker 2: I think they have a squad ANGLES squad B. But
36:58
Speaker 2: it's how confident you are, and that's squad be to.
37:00
Speaker 1: And Conte is not. But like even at that, like
37:03
Speaker 1: you give other players a chance, like Lorenzo Luca and
37:05
Speaker 1: Lorenze Luca. Every game has just been horrendous, Like it's terrible,
37:09
Speaker 1: it's it's it's terrible. Hold on my my doorbell, ranging
37:12
Speaker 1: on my dog's marketing, oh like you see my cat
37:14
Speaker 1: in the video over here. But sorry, guys, I'm mean.
37:19
Speaker 1: I guess I'm saying a points. You're gonna have to
37:20
Speaker 1: hear my dog barking in the background of all but
37:24
Speaker 1: deal with it. But it's you know, like you can't Conte.
37:29
Speaker 1: I don't blame him for now rolling the squad be
37:31
Speaker 1: because every time you want to and you try to
37:33
Speaker 1: give a player a chance, the opportunity to prove themselves,
37:35
Speaker 1: and you shoe themselves in the foot. And I'm still
37:37
Speaker 1: gonna say it to this day, the Simione transfer was
37:42
Speaker 1: fucking dumb. I will still argue that to this day
37:46
Speaker 1: and until the day I die. Simone was an app
37:49
Speaker 1: hold on in and out. You know, he's Argentinian but
37:52
Speaker 1: with Italian roots, uh, you know, like he Embracednopoli, very
37:56
Speaker 1: big part of those with that d you know, like
37:58
Speaker 1: scoring key goals, had that nominal Champions League run one year,
38:01
Speaker 1: scoring like uh, it was a goal every group stage
38:04
Speaker 1: game or something it's three in a row, four in
38:06
Speaker 1: a row. I can't recall the exact number. He he
38:10
Speaker 1: really embraced the culture of the club, the city, and
38:15
Speaker 1: he should have been the secondary striker or the one
38:17
Speaker 1: to split them, especially now Lucak who's injured right, like.
38:21
Speaker 3: And you knew that already. It wasn't like it was
38:23
Speaker 3: a shock. It happened right at the beginning of the season.
38:25
Speaker 2: So and they did and they did it twice, right,
38:28
Speaker 2: they did right, So yeah, I don't know if you
38:33
Speaker 2: feel the same on him, but.
38:35
Speaker 1: Still no, Jackomino is Jacomino. Jacomino mio. But uh, it's
38:44
Speaker 1: that's like I liked a lot for what his versatility
38:48
Speaker 1: was on the wings, especially now with the lying being
38:51
Speaker 1: injured and stuff. Uh, it's like it's something you could
38:55
Speaker 1: definitely miss. But realistically speaking, you still have Politano. You
39:00
Speaker 1: still like Hoyland was a good pick up in terms
39:02
Speaker 1: of secondary striker, but it's something that maybe you could
39:05
Speaker 1: have kept. Neddas is just not perform like Nedda's has
39:09
Speaker 1: like what two assists in like seven appearances and stuff, which.
39:12
Speaker 2: Is I think he's a good player, though I think
39:13
Speaker 2: he can work in there.
39:14
Speaker 1: He needs to learn the language. I think that's what
39:17
Speaker 1: kant he has to pick up Italian. But like Lorenzo
39:20
Speaker 1: Luka man like, he's.
39:23
Speaker 3: Been probably one of the bigger disappointments I think in
39:25
Speaker 3: the new acquisitions Fornopoly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if I want, Yeah, like when when you wanted
39:30
Speaker 1: to get him as like like I think Conte wanted
39:33
Speaker 1: to try to mold him into a younger Lucacu. But
39:38
Speaker 1: it's just not working out to be a younger Lukaku.
39:42
Speaker 1: You just rather have you just rather have a more
39:44
Speaker 1: mobile Rasmus Hoylan for that. But that will wrap up
39:49
Speaker 1: my whole little rant rant with Monopoly, unless you have
39:55
Speaker 1: my cat over here. Do you have anything else you
39:56
Speaker 1: want to say anything to add?
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40:04
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