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GW22: January Transfers and AFCON Returns I Ep: 120 · Draft Offsides Podcast

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The last time that England won the World Cup.
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No, no, I was saying that this replica jersey, the one thing
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that's missing is the star. Because if this is the 1966
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jersey, it wouldn't have the star yet, right?
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No, 1966, this is 1998. Oh, it's 98.
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Keith, before we started recording, you jumped down.
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We're talking about which Spice Girl we had a crush on it and
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which one we wanted. To I'm I'm actually.
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Like this? Wait, wait.
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Wait, Keith, Take your, take your.
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Take your headphone now. I want me and Tico to guess and
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we'll say it. I don't want you to hear.
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What we? Oh yeah.
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All right. OK, I think it's baby spice for
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sure. No, I don't used to be.
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No, not yet. Not yet.
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I used to be. It's not going to be.
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Just saying. The black one.
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Yeah. All right, come on.
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OK, so the criteria is what Spice Girl I had a crush on?
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Yeah, which one? What Spice Girl I was like
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sexually attracted to? Like is that is that?
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That's the same thing. Isn't that the same thing?
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I was getting a phone call so my headphone went away.
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What was that? Wait, so it's just it's just
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like which spice curl you liked? Yeah, just.
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Like Candy Crush on you can. You tell me yours first or just
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I'll tell you mine. I'll tell you mine.
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So it's not going to influence it.
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I was, I was a big, I was a big baby spice guy.
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I. Fucking knew it.
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I fucking. Knew it.
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You thought I was posh, huh? No, no, no, I I thought Mel B
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Which ones? That's the one Enzo likes too.
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I like Mel B. Scary.
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Which ones? Mel B, The scary spice.
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Scary. Okay, well you don't give them
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names. Keep them to spices, okay?
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I like ginger spice. Yeah, okay, I like that too, I
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think. I think I was babies.
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Posh scary ginger, is that it? Sporty spice but no one likes.
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Sporty. Yeah, sporty is a little scary,
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you know? Yeah, the way the conversation
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started is Enzo Zorang a Beckham kit, and we started talking
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about the Ology interview with David Beckham and Victoria
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Beckham. I don't know if you've seen it
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or not. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And then we'd like, I don't see what's so like, amazing about
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Posh Spice. Yeah, I'm not.
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I was never. The biggest I think she's she's
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really pretty and she's also just like cool.
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Like her? Her brand is cool.
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I read this recently, but I I knew it before.
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Sorry I lost you guys for a second.
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Yeah, no, her brand is cool. That's her factor.
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Says it's great. You know, she's made millions,
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don't get me wrong. But do I?
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Think well she had millions. Rush family.
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Do you guys know who KFC follows on Twitter?
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Who? KFC, sorry.
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I lost you guys for a second KFC the.
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Yeah, OK, so KFC, the chicken. The chicken.
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Yeah. Kentucky Fried Chicken on
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Twitter. They followed the Spice Girls.
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That's actually 55 herbs and spices, right?
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And five random guys named Herb. Herb.
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OK, that makes spice. OK, that makes that makes
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somebody's sense. All right.
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What just you wear? It's my wife's step.
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Oh. Costa Rica.
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Costa Rica jersey. Yeah, I like it.
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Yeah, Mary, it's. Nice, that looks plastic.
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Yeah, it's, it's like, it's definitely not like a like a
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legit 1, you know, it's junky, but it's cool.
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No wearing legit when I would mate but it's better than
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another shirt. Box 1.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think that jersey quality
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sometimes matters to me. Like I like sometimes a nice
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jersey I could I can sleep in. And I know you guys find that
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weird because you don't sleep in clothes.
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Oh, like a nice jersey I could sleep because it's very
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breathable. But like, really like I wouldn't
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necessarily want to even sweat in this because it's not like
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some jersey just aren't that breathable.
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You know, you know, you know, I'd love to see a poll.
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I'd love to see a poll who sleeps in their sports jerseys.
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Especially like jerseys are still tight.
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I know. Well, no, I.
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Get big ones, I get oversized. You like the big ones?
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How big do you like him? OK, OK, boys, are we?
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So are we just. We're just gonna fuck it.
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We're do it. We'll do it.
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We'll do it live. Yeah.
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You know. What I'm saying?
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Yeah, fuck it, we'll do it live. Do we want to talk some Real
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Madrid? No.
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At no point in the podcast, No. At no Point no.
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Wait, wait, wait. One thing we could, we could put
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something on why? Where is the manager going?
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Is he going to come to the Premiership finally?
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Liz, I saw a lot of joke memes that were like, oh, like Ernie
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Slot looking over his shoulder, you know, because I don't say
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so. Or, Or could he go?
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Wait, who's or could he go to Man United?
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I think there's no way he goes to Man United.
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Open spot. Open spot who?
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I mean, Man United, it'll be character the end of the year.
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And then I I think Luis Enrique might be interesting for them.
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He's like he's like a obviously like a legit world class
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manager. And if if he fails, that's like
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in the prime of his of his coaching career, right?
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You know what I mean? Like he won the championship
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last year. He did, but why would he leave
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PSG right now? He he's not, he's not, he's not.
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He he already said he's not resigning there.
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Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.
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Also, Dan Bailey didn't hasn't signed a contract extension.
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Interesting. And that that's the end all be
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all for Enrique. I mean he did lose his last
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final so like no wait in the. Club World Cup, you mean?
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Yeah. Didn't they beat Tottenham after
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though? Or.
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That was, yeah, they mopped the floor of Tottenham.
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No, actually it was about. They didn't.
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Mop the floor of Tottenham, you're.
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Right. You're right.
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You're right. We were up.
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Should we? Do that.
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Should we do the episode intro? Oh yeah, do that.
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Hello and welcome to episode 100 and something I've dropped off
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sides. I'm with Tico Neza.
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My name is Keith. We're doing a little live and
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loose this week. We don't got a lot to, we don't
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have a lot written down, but we have a lot to say, as usual.
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That's it's so professional 100 and something.
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Chico Chico wants to talk about Real Madrid.
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Me and and are going to do our best to not talk about Real
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Madrid and instead talk about the Premier League.
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I think we're going to talk. First off, Man United manager in
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the running right now. We were talking, we were just
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right before we came on. We're talking Elise, Enrique as
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a potential one that would be interesting in the offseason.
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Who else would be interesting? I think people, I feel
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Gloucester is getting a lot of mixed results.
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So that's another option. I say bring back olegana
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sulfure. I say do it.
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You do wonders with this team. I think you do wonders.
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I. Think I can't tell you're
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trolling? I think I'm.
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Serious. I actually, I I had a, a good
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someone made a good argument for Southgate, which I thought was
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funny and that obviously it's a terrible it's like a meme,
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right? It's a joke.
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But it's the same idea with England where like the mentality
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around the club is so broken. They just need a guy like they
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need like a feel good vibes guy to go in there.
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Just make the vibes good. Southgate is not a feel.
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Oh, you mean with the players? Just in general, like how like I
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felt like England was pretty broken before he he yeah,
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Southgate went in there. He didn't play the best
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football, but he made everyone like feel good.
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He made the he made the organization feel good.
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He made the organization, he made everyone get behind England
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again. Everyone care every like there
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was. It went from a really toxic
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environment to a very positive environment.
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But that which is rare for England, but that toxic.
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Environment was because of the generation before in England.
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But I mean, people, you can say it's like that, but like it's
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there's pretty toxic. Six years ago, like all the
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coaches prior, yeah, it was pretty toxic, dude.
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It wasn't toxic. I I disagree.
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I feel like people are pretty like or just people are really
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down on England for a long time. People are down on England
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because we should have been achieving more but that was
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outside public. I want to say it was the
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players. Yeah, but I mean, I'm saying
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that Southgate would bring just that feel good.
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That's that's the idea. That's the thought.
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Yeah, he got the fans back involved in gold.
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He. Got the fans back involved.
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So get so get the getting the fans back involved.
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But I don't know. I mean, I, I think it's kind of
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a funny. I don't, I don't.
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Think he'd be good at my annoyed.
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No, I think he'd be terrible. It's it's totally a joke, but
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like I think. Derek.
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I get it. No, I don't think anyone
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actually wants. Derek.
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No, Derek threw his name out there.
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I think he was messing with you. Oh.
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Fucking bastard. OK, So I think in the short term
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though, we're looking at the rest of the season where it's
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probably going to be character Fletcher, we're looking at 4231
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most likely. So no more.
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No, we're back 5. Who are the we kind of talked
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about this a little bit in the last episode.
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Tito, you're thinking like Ahmad Diallo is the one that really is
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going to suffer from this, even though we just have the he had
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like an amazing Afghan. He he I think he scored an
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almost all the goals except in All in all the games one yeah.
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And I think when I looked at the formation, I I didn't watch any
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of the games, but they were playing 433.
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I just don't know if he's going to get the starts on the right
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wing because I'm kind of confused how the lineup is going
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to be if they play 433. Like let's say on the left, it
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will be Konya, which naturally he plays on the left.
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If you're putting a score as a striker, are you putting him one
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while on the right? Where does that leave a mod?
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So I'm kind of it'd be interesting how the formation is
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and who, who you know who he plays.
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Obviously he's going to have his own left.
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Fit them all in. Just Konya would have to play
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the 10. And one more on the left and.
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Then where's Bruno Fernandez play?
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Bruno plays what he's been playing this whole season, which
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is playing. I don't think he's going to play
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deeper though. I think, I think, I don't know,
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Yeah. I mean, I think there's some
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question marks for sure. Kobe minor comes back and you
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have him and Bruno in the middle was probably going to be
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Castamero. But I'm just saying in my head
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like that, that works more because if Kobe maynor do all
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the hard work where Bruno can just get the ball in the
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midfield and do what he wants, that's the only way I see Diallo
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being put into that team because he ain't playing right back and
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he ain't playing left back. I I think the best way the best
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option will be if they go 4231. 4231.
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Yeah, put and then you could even put like a Samiro and Bruno
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like deploying the middle obviously customer defensive and
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then Bruno playing whatever next.
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Well. You just don't play.
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Just go up front. I mean, they played yesterday,
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guys, and Bruno played and he didn't play.
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They're missing. Two attacking players.
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Though, I know, I know, but I'm just saying that he didn't play
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in the deeper positions. So I'm just saying it's been
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blaming. That that a role the whole
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season, basically. Yeah.
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But I think that was, I mean, he never played that before Ameren.
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So I don't know why I don't. I don't think it's just a given
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that he's going to automatically go back into the Sixes.
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I think he's probably going to retain his role as a 10, I don't
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think. He's been saying though that
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he's having like the best season this year on the on the Ameren
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like number wise. Yeah, he was having an amazing
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year. It's it's also going to be
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interesting who the like the center backs are obviously like
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they who's going to play right back?
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Who's going to be Lucia? Is he going to get the left
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back? Will Harry McGuire become a
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starter? So a lot of questions.
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So it's like one of those things where like you're not going to
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know until like on the day of. And I think because there's so
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much time off because of the FA Cup, which man you got
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eliminated from, is they have the time to kind of put in the
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best lineup. They don't need to arrest Ahmad
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Ahmad and one more they could just kind of put in the lineup
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they want to play with. That's right, Cesco.
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And like ever since I'm room got fired.
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The guy. The guy scored three goals in
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two. Games, that's true.
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That's true. He's on for him.
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You don't want to like drop him now.
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He could. You can, but you don't want to
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are. You saying that because you own
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Cesco by any chance? I was just close to dropping
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him. So no, yeah, no.
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I bet you that Fernandez plays in the 10 like I bet you I'll
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handshake that one of you guys that he's.
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Playing in the ten, I'm not saying he wouldn't, I'm just
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saying for to get Diallo in, there's no one saying that he
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shouldn't play in the 10. But we're discussing how the how
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do you fit Diallo in? I think it's the only way you
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fit Diallo in is you put him out right and you put in one up top
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and Cesco doesn't play something like.
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And even even before Afghan Diallo, even fantasy wise, he
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was going off. He was having goals, assists,
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like dribbles, he was finding his form.
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So he was having a Goodyear leading up to the Afghan.
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No, the other thing to think about too is Cunha isn't really
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a left winger. Like he's going to always cut
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inside and just inside and just let Bruno Fernandez's space.
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So it's like creates, I don't know, I think there's it's going
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to be a little bit of a headache to fit all these pieces in.
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We'll see. Have you guys thought about how
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happy Liverpool are that Salah like and Egypt are advancing
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because they get more time to play without Salah put?
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To, I mean kinda, well, they well.
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They drew against also the last game which is he isn't that bad
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that's. Fine, Yeah, they they won a day
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against Barnsley. Barnsley.
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Whoopi, do Whoopi. But yeah, I don't know, man.
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I, I feel like that like the United is, I'm like fading like
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I dropped, I had Luke Shaw in a league.
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I dropped him. I think I'm, I'm not really like
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I obviously people have been excited about Dorgie when he's
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had a little like Renaissance because he was playing attack
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like he's not going to do that anymore.
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Nope for sure. Like, who knows if he's going to
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be even the starter in the future?
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So. And then, like, I don't know,
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it's just so weird. It's a weird situation right
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now. And I don't think there's going
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to be a lot of winners, but I think there could be some
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losers. Like, I think the winners are
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already going to be the guys that have been winning, you
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know? Yeah.
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I can't imagine a world where in Bueno doesn't come back and slot
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into the team. And that's that's going to be
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the the positive that Man United has is that all these players
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are coming back and they come back from AFCON fit.
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But we all know that after AFCON.
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Do you call that like how they play like form isn't always the
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best so. That is very true.
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And that's like that's what we've seen with Salah time and
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time again and. Poembot, same thing.
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Yeah. So piggybacking on that a little
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bit, who are some like, so AFCON players are starting to trigger
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back in, We should get a big chunk of them back after for the
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next game week like when will be back?
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Is Ishmael LaSalle back? He's at Senegal, so I don't
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know. I think they're playing Egypt.
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I think they're still alive. So he won't be back yet.
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He. Won't be back.
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Papi Maestal won't be back. But I mean, they're all they're
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all coming, you know, the next few weeks.
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I guess the question is like, are there any players that like
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that were dropped and all of a sudden now is the time to come
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up? I'm thinking like a doof, like a
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Ishmael star has dropped in our league.
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I was looking at him today, I was like he might be interesting
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to pick up. Are there any other players that
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you guys are interested in that are kind of in that zone?
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Wambusaka kind of in there, Would you pick him up?
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There's some players I would say don't pick up like if you.
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Want to? Like, because we just found out
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by Conor Gallagher coming to Tottenham, don't pick up Papersa
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No point, yeah. Oh yeah, that's a good one.
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And we let's let's definitely talk about that too.
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Who who's, who's on the was it? Who's on the the Crystal Palace
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pick up wingers or a striker? Did I see that or I'm making
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that up? Was that West Ham?
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West Ham picked up some strikers.
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W Palace? No, not so much.
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And who's coming back for the West Ham?
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Everyone go was it? I think they had a centre mid
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go. Yeah, right.
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OK. Oh, they had Wamasaka go.
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They got Sangara and Bali for 9 and forest.
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They should be coming back, right?
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They're not on. Yeah, they were they relevant?
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I mean, I don't know how relevant they were.
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I mean, they do Sengal. Yeah, Yeah, I guess you had
15:02
Sigari right before he left, like popped off.
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Yeah. He popped off right before he
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left. Yeah, so.
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Like would you take a flyer on him?
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If you really need it, man, honestly, I think we've seen so
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much rotation from players that and the form's been up and down.
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If you really need a playoff, but I wouldn't be.
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Not excited about you, Wouldn't be excited about it.
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I wouldn't pick. Up any AFCON players right now
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that are coming back? Not until I see what the form
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they're in. I mean, you got to pick him up a
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week early. You can't wait until like they
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play a game. The one team I think is to be
15:34
interesting is Fulham because Iwobi is is he coming back?
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No, they're. They're Nigeria's, Nigeria's
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cooking, apparently. Iwobi's having like a great
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tournament. I've been here and just he's,
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he's like, he's running the show.
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Crazy. So I, I, I, I think if you're
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Harry Wilson owner and I know you're big on that, keep that
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your guy. I would look to sell before the
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they're getting reinforcements. You don't know how that rotation
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he was playing. The whole time when what we was
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there. Was he putting up numbers like
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this? Yes, before, but he he was
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putting up numbers before or what we went to AFCON.
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Here's my take is if you can get the value for Harry Wilson, it
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might be IC Tigo's point, but you'd have to be getting like
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the value of how he's performing now.
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You know, like you don't have to be getting something pretty good
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because I, I think I, I like, I get what you're saying.
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And I, I do think he'll probably like rotate a little more.
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Like he probably won't. You know, he'll probably sub out
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in the 70th minute sometimes for some of these other guys when,
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when it's happening and stuff. But like, at the end of the day,
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he's having a really good season.
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So it would be you. You need to give a, you need to
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get a pretty good piece. No give a Wilson, but this is.
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Why you want to trade him now? Because I think his value is all
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time high and it's like someone doesn't know that they're at
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AFCON. It is going to affect him.
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They have a lot of games, especially as the year goes on.
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So that's 1%. And also, like you guys know,
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I'm not as high on Harry Wilson as you guys are.
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So I think that's 1%. I would moderate, possibly try
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to trade away. And also they're playing Morocco
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on Wednesday the 14th. And I don't know about if you
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guys know Morocco, they've been cooking.
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They're good, I think. I think all four teams left are
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pretty good though. Yeah, it's going to be if you.
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Look at. I'm probably going to watch
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those. I'm not kind of excited for
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those games. Well.
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Egypt, Senegal. It's Monday versus.
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Salah yeah, it's like there's something.
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For this I. Don't know if he has followed
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the Saudi league but ever since Monday left Ronaldo Senos have
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lost three in a row and the one before they tied they went from
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like undefeated to 2nd place. Where?
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Where? Did Monday go oh, to, oh, to
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Afghan? OK, sorry.
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Yeah, I thought he meant like that.
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He left like he left the team. Yeah, yeah.
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You hear about? I love how you started.
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Yeah. Do you follow the Saudi League?
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Tico? You though, you just said that
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so casually, like you're like a Saudi league guy.
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I. Don't think he said it because
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because of that, I think he just said it because you off where he
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went and he wouldn't no. I I've never seen a second of
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it, but sometimes like, like if something comes up.
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Yeah. Because I mean, I don't know if
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you guys know that it's about Fabrizio.
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It's there are certain teams, clubs that he kind of like
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favors and puts out more information on.
18:13
Like the Saudis are one of them. PSG is like a mouthpiece for
18:16
them. So he always posts like
18:18
Christiano Ronaldo stuff when they do good stuff.
18:20
Sounds like. Yeah, always.
18:23
So the got it. So the general consensus is with
18:25
the Afghan guys, you're not super pumped on like the DUF
18:28
swan masakas when? Did when did afcon start?
18:33
In January? In January?
18:35
Before it. Was it December?
18:37
I don't think it was December. Wait, so I think December 21?
18:43
Into December 21. So before before that, Harry
18:47
Wilson had put up 4 double digit games in a row before that.
18:51
And since then? And since then he scored a
18:53
2.2516 point, 753.59.75 and a 20.5.
18:58
Yeah, I, I, I think, and even if even if he's still starting
19:03
games, I think he'll be, he won't be playing full 90s as
19:05
much. And I think that was Chico's
19:07
point a little bit more too. So like just, it's just going to
19:09
be more rotation no matter what, just even if he is still the
19:11
starter. Yeah, to.
19:12
Counter that he put up 4 double digit games in in a row.
19:16
Prior to that, he only had two for the whole year.
19:19
He's on full. That's why yeah, so high.
19:22
That's my point. But.
19:25
Is it? I guess, yeah.
19:26
OK. I think we just you guys agree
19:28
to disagree on this one. Yeah, we're going to.
19:30
Agree to this room. Oh yeah.
19:32
Next thing I want to talk transfers with you guys.
19:34
The biggest things today was that there's this Conor
19:37
Gallagher rumor. It sounded like awesome.
19:38
It was the destination. And then it seemed like at the
19:40
last second, Tottenham swooped it.
19:42
Yeah, I don't understand. I don't understand.
19:44
We tried a game before he went to Athletico Madrid and failed.
19:47
He didn't. He turned us down and now he's
19:50
now he's coming back. I wonder if there was a direct
19:53
Chelsea to Tottenham. Transfers no bueno, but a year
19:57
away and then coming to Tottenham's maybe a little more
19:59
acceptable. Maybe, well I, I, I followed him
20:03
a little bit in his first year at Flacco and he did pretty
20:06
well. He looked like a stand in all
20:08
season and then this season he was just dropped out of favour.
20:13
And I was kind of looking at some of the the lineups and it
20:16
seems like if they play a 433 he tends to play, but if they play
20:22
a 4231 he doesn't play or if he does, he plays like out on the
20:25
left. Like he plays like a weird
20:28
position and I think that kind of caters to what I was saying
20:30
in our group chat earlier where it's like he is like a true eat
20:33
like box to box 8. But he's not a six.
20:36
So he's he's not really good at like getting possession deep and
20:39
like breaking the press and stuff.
20:40
And that's where he that's where they tried to use him at Chelsea
20:43
when you really struggled where he where he did well is when he
20:45
could go box to box and he had like a a true 6 next to him,
20:49
then A10 next to him as well. I think with a Tottenham team.
20:52
I don't know what that looks like exactly.
20:54
I. Don't know how it looks like
20:55
I've I feel like they brought him in so that they can play
20:57
Simmons and more of a tacking role on the left because now
21:00
we've no Kudus out until March and now Rick Charleston out for
21:05
a couple weeks. Like you're going to play
21:07
Columwani Simmons and Solanke's back just came on put some
21:12
minutes the last game in the cup game.
21:15
So and you're not going to rush him back either.
21:17
So you got Tell and Odeber too, who haven't really been that
21:22
impactful. I think they've got like three
21:24
goals between them. So I think the thing to remember
21:28
is Conor Gallagher and the only reason, honestly, the reason I'm
21:31
more interested than anything to do with Chelsea is that he he
21:34
went a season on loan at Crystal Palace and was like a top 20.
21:38
He was like a top 25 asset that year fantasy.
21:41
Like he was really, really good. And then he went back to he went
21:43
back to Chelsea and like was a bit part player and just never
21:46
really kind of got into it. So I feel like if he's in a team
21:51
where he's given a big run like that and he's actually playing
21:53
it in a way that favors him, I think there could be value
21:56
there. Yeah, I think.
21:57
I I don't, I like, I don't, you know, I'm not saying it's not
22:00
like Todd, I'm just a super exciting prospect right now.
22:02
So it's not the most exciting move in that sense.
22:04
And like, you know, you know, it is what it is.
22:06
So how? Much fab you putting down?
22:07
Would you put 56? Probably, honestly, I think I
22:11
think he's the type of player where he's worth putting down
22:13
like 25% or 30% of your remaining fab, like whatever,
22:16
you know what I mean? Like I think it's like, I think
22:20
I think he could be a like a good starter.
22:23
You think because it's so much Jeremy transfer window left, you
22:25
feel like if you really need a fielder though, like you put on
22:28
a nice chunk if you were able to save it and not have zero like
22:31
some of us. Yeah.
22:33
I mean, I mean, yeah. So you're just out of luck.
22:38
You're SLL Yeah. But I think I put down a good
22:41
chunk. I might.
22:41
I might put in a bid for him. I was hoping I'd, you know,
22:45
we'll see. But also I'm I'm running pretty
22:48
light on Fab 2 at this point. What's light?
22:52
Like I think I have like less than 20.
22:54
Really. Yeah, I don't have any.
22:57
Yeah, you have none. I thought it also I wanted to
23:00
comment, did you guys see what Pascal Gross went for in our
23:02
league? So that's another guy.
23:03
Did we talk about him much? We talked about him a little
23:05
bit. What do you go?
23:06
What do you go? See what he went for?
23:08
No, we went for like 33 fab. Wow.
23:11
It makes, I mean, it kind of makes sense if you're gambling
23:13
that he's going to be the guy, you know, like he he's going to
23:16
do would you rather even 80% of what he did in his last season
23:20
and you're absolutely winning so.
23:21
Would you rather Gross or you rather Crystal Palace got Conor
23:24
Gallagher? Which one would you prefer?
23:26
Crystal. I mean, Tottenham, Conor
23:28
Gallagher, I'm. Just saying, you're going off
23:29
Pascal Gross's form from Brian and then you're going to go off
23:32
Conor Gallagher, what he did for Crystal Palace, basically.
23:36
I think I I think Conor Gallagher is actually
23:39
interesting because he's just younger.
23:40
I think the I think what's gonna you're gonna the fear with Gross
23:43
and I have been one of our leagues.
23:44
I got one of our leagues. The fear with gross is rotation
23:48
rotation age, a new team, different coach.
23:52
There's like there's every single factor that you worry
23:54
about in a fantasy players decline are all there even
23:58
though he was so good. So that's that's a little bit
24:01
concerning, you know, there's. 2 Wasn't he?
24:06
What did you say? Is going back to Brighton to
24:10
Bright N everybody He's already. There talking about gross, yeah.
24:15
Yeah, but but he's there. It's not the same, but it's not
24:18
the same team he left. It's.
24:19
Not the same team. He left.
24:20
It's two years later, he's 35. Like, I think there's a lot of
24:23
factors. Same manager though, right?
24:24
Same. Manager No.
24:25
No. No.
24:26
Oh. Manager.
24:27
He's changed twice since he left.
24:29
I think it was Potter when he was there.
24:32
Was it Potter? He did a little better than
24:34
Deserby for sure. Was it the zombie?
24:37
He left. He left under the zombie.
24:38
I'm almost positive but. What about when by Potter was
24:40
before he? Was there with Potter for sure,
24:43
but he left under Deserbie. Oh.
24:44
OK, go to, go to go. To OK, so yeah, so Connor
24:47
Gallagher interesting. Pakistan Gall gross going for
24:49
that much makes you think that Connor Gallagher.
24:51
I don't know. It's tricky.
24:54
I mean, I think it's so league dependent.
24:55
But I think, I think if you're gonna, I think you can put like
24:57
a chunk of fab on Connor Gallagher and say, no, that's
25:00
it's a gamble like, but anything that isn't a gamble is going to
25:03
be all the fab. Yeah.
25:05
You know, So yeah, yeah, yeah. What are we talking?
25:08
Let's talk about You don't think it's a gamble for Gallagher.
25:11
Goals by a lot. I mean, it's gonna, it's
25:13
probably going to be the leading goal scorer on Tottenham by the
25:16
end of the year. Connor Gallagher.
25:18
Connor Gallagher be the leading goal scorer.
25:20
You heard to hear first from Sergei.
25:22
OK. I like it.
25:25
OK, let's talk Lucas Picchetti real quick.
25:27
Oh dude, he's trying to jump ship.
25:29
He's leaving. He's leaving West Ham,
25:31
apparently, right? Uh huh.
25:35
I was trying to. I'm amazed that Flamingos I was
25:37
able to pay 40 million for him. Did you guys see that rumor?
25:40
Yeah. Doesn't it seem like a lot for a
25:41
Brazilian club to pay? Yeah, but they probably made
25:46
that off English clubs like threefold I.
25:50
Mean, I mean, all they have to do, like, hey Lucas, like make
25:54
sure you get a red card and then they'll pay like 5 million on it
25:56
and make their money back. Yeah, basically he's he's just,
25:59
he sees the Ryan in the wall and he's jumping ship.
26:02
I know it's it's pretty gross considering that he was one of
26:07
those guys that would like kiss the badge after he scored.
26:09
It just feels so fake there's. No, but it is.
26:11
It's true. Man, I always felt this way.
26:13
I don't like Piketa. I'm just going to go out, come
26:15
out and say it. It's just.
26:17
A as a. As a player or as a puzzle?
26:19
As a person, I can just, I just don't.
26:21
I just dislike him he. Looks like he's a piece of shit.
26:23
He looks. Like he's a piece of shit and
26:24
like, and this, this is reaffirming that for me because
26:27
he was, he was one of those guys that would score a penalty kick
26:30
and celebrate like it was the biggest goal ever.
26:33
Kissed the badge. Yeah.
26:34
It's so annoying, Yeah. Also mouth beater.
26:38
Mouth beater, how do you know that?
26:40
Just like I like that you can just tell.
26:43
Just like you see when he's like walking around, like a lot of
26:45
times, like he's a mouth breather.
26:46
And I just googled his like images just to confirm that he
26:49
has a stupid face. All of them.
26:51
His mouth was open. Mouth breather.
26:53
OK, So with that Piquetta leaving, I think that opens up a
26:57
little bit for for for West Ham a little bit.
26:59
I think Matthias Fernandez I've liked for a while and he's been
27:03
like very consistent. I think that might createspace
27:07
for him and not tire role, which is interesting.
27:11
I also want to call out that there's there's two the what 2
27:13
SM guys that were that were transferred in already and one
27:16
of them scored midweek and looked pretty good.
27:17
I think his name's Castillas. Yeah.
27:21
What's his name actually? Is it Valentin Castillas?
27:24
And his he has like a name like Tati.
27:25
Yeah, I think his name on the back of the jersey is Tati
27:28
Castellanos. Valentin Castellanos.
27:33
But he scored. He he obviously didn't score in
27:36
his debut, but he scored midweek in the FA Cup.
27:39
And then they had this other guy, Pablo Philippe Ferreira, J
27:41
Jesus, who came on and played and looked fine.
27:45
I mean, I, I don't, I, I neither them, I'm, I'm like, wow,
27:48
they're going to be game changers.
27:49
But I thought that Castilianos actually took his goal really
27:52
well for in the FA Cup. So I'm a little more intrigued
27:56
there than I am with the other guy.
27:57
Honestly, West Ham's done. I'm looking at their squad right
28:01
now. Kilman probably go somewhere
28:05
lower league, lower lower team. Did you?
28:08
I've completely forgot about this motherfucker.
28:10
JWP. He's he's going to go somewhere
28:13
in this window. Yes, you're right.
28:16
Yeah, I. Mean who knows if it's who knows
28:18
if it's a Premier League club, though.
28:19
I think he's been bouncing, he's been bouncing around and like
28:22
Premier League clubs and not even being able to break into
28:25
him. I think it's probably time he
28:26
goes to the Championship you. Think he's 30?
28:28
1. Thomas Suchek stays at West Ham
28:30
and tries to bring him back up. Well, Sujak got a start last
28:34
weekend. So yeah, you know who's also
28:36
looked good at West Ham the last two weeks is Crisencio
28:38
Somerville has actually looked a little bit better.
28:41
He's been looking a little better.
28:42
So I think he's a, he's a shout out too for me that I, I just
28:44
want to call out. Can I?
28:47
Put out a conspiracy theory. Oh, he love it.
28:49
Yes, all. Right, what if?
28:51
Now hear me out. Since West Ham's probably going
28:54
to get relegated as a favorite to the club because he always
28:57
hisses the bag so passionately, he said.
28:59
Hey, I'm going to go to Brazil. You get your 40 million and then
29:03
he's going to go play in Brazil the rest of the year and then
29:05
he'll come back. Make sure when they give him a
29:08
different offer from a different club.
29:09
That's wishful thinking, but. What is that?
29:12
But he's they're selling him, not putting him out on loan.
29:14
Yeah, they're selling. They get the money.
29:16
Yeah, they get the money, but they get money.
29:19
But like, do you think he's going to come back?
29:20
I don't like the comeback part is where you lose me.
29:22
No. You think Bowen stays at West
29:25
Ham? Another conspiracy theory.
29:27
He's making too much money to stay there.
29:28
I don't think he'll be able to afford his contract.
29:31
You'll probably have to leave. Well, Callum.
29:32
Wilson is going to Callum Wilson is going to tear it up in the in
29:35
the championship. Championship.
29:36
He's going. To tear it up.
29:38
What's your other conspiracy theories you got?
29:40
Part of the deal is less time. Was like, hey, go over there for
29:43
40 million, we'll give you like 5 or 10 million afterwards.
29:47
Thus, I just think, I just think we could.
29:49
I think these are lame conspiracies.
29:50
I think we kind of just. Wants to leave, he just.
29:52
Wants to get out of there because he's a he's a fake he's
29:55
a fake mouth and he's a mouth reader any.
29:59
Other. I like that.
30:02
I think there was Pogba. To the Saudi League.
30:04
Secondly, Pogba. OK.
30:07
Paul Pogba No Balotelli. Balotelli.
30:12
Mark, yeah. Is he's going, he's going to the
30:14
Saudi league. Second league OH.
30:16
My God. I mean, he's a legend.
30:19
You know what's my favorite thing about Balotelli?
30:22
It's I think he when he started security he had got like 12 or
30:25
13 penalties in a row without missing like an insane amount.
30:29
And I remember watching him miss the first one.
30:30
He like stood at the after like missing the keeper saved it.
30:34
He stood there just kind of like what the hell just happened?
30:37
Like he couldn't even fathom that that happened to him.
30:39
That's. Your favorite You know, my
30:40
favorite Balotelli story is the. Jose Marino, one.
30:44
No, when he when he. No, when yeah, he burned his own
30:49
house down, then chased Michael Richards around his house with
30:51
the same fireworks he burned his house.
30:53
Fireworks. Yeah.
30:55
Insane. He was an insane person.
30:57
I think when he scored that goal for Italy and he took his shirt
30:59
off, his was one of like the most alternate moments, too,
31:01
Yeah. One of the most iconic, like
31:03
celebrations, Yeah. Or the why.
31:05
Always me. Sure.
31:06
It was great. Yeah.
31:07
He's. He's a legend.
31:08
Yeah. OK.
31:09
The last one I want to chat about is Elliot Anderson.
31:12
There's rumors who might go to city.
31:14
Horrible. I think it's horrible in the
31:16
sense that obviously it's like city hoarding more, which is
31:19
never good. But it's also like for him as a
31:22
fantasy asset, like any value he still had, which I don't even
31:25
know. Like I haven't been keeping as
31:27
much track of him as I as I was earlier in the season.
31:31
But let's look at his scores recently.
31:33
Yeah, respectable, like good. 10th ranked overall, 25th ranked
31:37
play overall, Yeah, I think. But I think that, like falls on
31:40
the Cliff if it goes to City, you know, at least I fear.
31:45
I fear it does. I fear just the He'll play last
31:47
games. He won't be.
31:48
He won't be on Sats. Yeah.
31:52
I don't know. Well they won 10 nil mid
31:54
weekend. Homeboy scored on his debut at
31:56
least. Semenya.
31:58
Semenya. Yeah, we'll see.
32:01
We'll see how that goes. Did he did he start the game?
32:04
I don't think. He did.
32:05
I don't think he did. He came on late.
32:07
Man City scored ten goals, Holland had zero.
32:10
I mean he only played on that, but still.
32:14
You think he like if? Someone told you like city play
32:17
score ten goals and how long they're starting.
32:19
You'll be like all right, he probably has like 6 of them.
32:21
I. Know yeah.
32:21
Do you remember? I remember when when Holland
32:25
broke into my like consciousness, it was it was
32:27
like a game where he was playing for like AU 18 team and he
32:31
scored like 10 goals in the game and it was like they like showed
32:35
clips of it. It was like crazy.
32:37
I I think that's when all all I said hey, he want like let's
32:41
bring him to man U and they. Said no.
32:43
And they said no, Yeah, they're like.
32:45
You know he. Wanted.
32:46
He wanted Jude Bellingham too when he was in lower leagues and
32:48
May and I told him no. I mean how accurate is that?
32:51
He just saying it. No, no, it's look, you scout
32:54
players. He was, he was given a budget.
32:56
He didn't have a budget and you want to get these young players,
32:59
you want to be like, man, I've evolved, bring in young players,
33:01
and instead they went and got players that didn't fuck.
33:04
I I think what I think Tatiko's point though more maybe is like
33:07
hacker like like, did he really fight for it?
33:09
Was he like, hey, I like this guy and they're like, no, and
33:11
he's like, OK, well, it's like it was like he was like, this is
33:13
the guy, you know what I mean? He.
33:15
Studied in interviews I get yeah, but we can't know any kid.
33:17
But he did say. I mean, I kind of mean like
33:18
hindsight 2020 and everyone, everyone saw Jude at one point
33:21
is going to be like, Oh yeah, like I wanted them.
33:23
I like them. Sergei was very early on, Jude,
33:26
I'm sure there's another like 10 players that he's like, hey,
33:28
let's bring him on. And they're like and.
33:30
They never, never did, Yeah. Never.
33:31
Yeah, they're playing it wherever we played now.
33:34
There's a there's a, there's a superstar Common City MLS.
33:39
Timo Verner. Timo Verner, San Jose
33:41
Earthquakes. He actually might be able to
33:44
score a goal. Is he?
33:47
Did he come from Tottenham? No, he went back to live tech.
33:52
He's getting downtown. He lost a little bit of speed
33:54
and then he's just he was, he was, he was barely above average
33:57
with the speed I. Don't even think he lost that
33:59
much speed, he just lost the whole confidence and cannot
34:01
fucking. I don't.
34:02
Know what happened, man? Yeah, it was wild.
34:04
It was. Wild.
34:05
Watching him just sucked. Just watching his decline, yeah.
34:09
Can we talk some Chelsea? See, Keith, I like you.
34:12
I'm not an asshole. Like, oh, let's not talk about
34:14
Real Madrid. I want to talk about your club.
34:16
OK, yeah, I think you're missing the point that your club doesn't
34:20
is in a Premier League club and we're kind of a Premier League
34:22
podcast. And videos Have any link to the
34:24
Premier League? Yeah, although actually, well, I
34:28
forgot there's a rumor floating around till you go and ask you
34:30
about. Have you heard this?
34:33
You. Haven't said it yet.
34:34
Valverde's $120 million Premier League offer.
34:37
No, have you? Heard anything about this?
34:39
No. Who?
34:40
From who? Man C.
34:42
Man. City and Man City Apparently Man
34:43
City and Man United are battling for a. 120 million.
34:47
I mean, I'm on, I'm on the most like the most like rumoury of
34:51
rumour websites right now, but that's what I'm seeing a. 120
34:54
minutes of Val Verde seems a little like a little bit too
34:57
much I. Think it's a little too much
34:58
giving it's age, right? Yeah.
35:00
No, you think. Oh, not enough?
35:01
I mean, he scored that goal that was amazing the other week.
35:05
He's. 27. He's 27, yeah.
35:06
So he's in the, I mean, I think 120 million for a guy that
35:09
you're only going to get a few years out of his, I think.
35:12
He's the best right back in the world.
35:14
He's a right back. What position does what position
35:17
does he fucking? That's what I'm saying.
35:18
But I think he's don't get wrong, I love him as a utility,
35:20
but I think he's really good. I just don't think he's 120
35:22
million. The There's only 1/2 full of
35:24
midfielders that are better than him.
35:27
Only 1/2 full of midfielders in the world that are better than
35:29
him. Take.
35:30
Len Rice It's really our versatile, right?
35:32
All right, sure. All right.
35:34
Declan Rice, Rodri. Rodri, Actually.
35:37
Think about Roddy. 'S not better than him.
35:39
Rodri's better, yeah. Roddy's better than him, dude.
35:42
Can we OK like. Not right.
35:43
Now they're different players. They do different things.
35:46
Let's not, let's not, let's not act like do the same thing.
35:48
It's like, it's like, it's like trying to compare an apple and
35:50
an orange Bruno. Fernandez is better than Velvet,
35:53
but he. He does different things and to
35:55
both of them too. Let's say you can't compare
35:57
these things I. Could compare, he says.
35:59
He's. Better than both of them.
36:03
No, especially. Yeah, he's better than Bruno
36:06
Fernandez. Look at look how serious Chico
36:09
got he's. Easily.
36:11
But wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
36:13
Your brother I love. I love when homers get
36:15
delusional about their team. Wait, wait.
36:17
We're watching right now. OK, what you say?
36:20
Sober, Sly. Show the sly is Ben and Belle
36:24
Verde. You guys are so delicious right
36:27
now and it's you're trying to piss me up.
36:29
It's not going to work. Look, do you hear his voice just
36:31
tremble. Right there, No, I OK, let's go
36:34
this way. I would love him to come to the
36:35
Premier League. I'd love to see if he could do
36:37
it. I would love to sit in the
36:38
Premier League. Do it here, you know.
36:39
I like Belle Verde, don't get me wrong.
36:41
I too, I like him too. I'm not saying it like I don't
36:43
think I don't doubt it, but he's I'd love you.
36:44
Know what team he should be on Newcastle.
36:49
Oh, that'd be fun. Did you still pull that's?
36:53
How Keith just took the conversation away from Chelsea.
37:00
Oh yeah, we can talk about Chelsea.
37:01
What's there to talk about? What's there?
37:02
To talk about Chelsea, go on Chelsea, are we?
37:03
Going to talk about the fact that I picked up Liam Dillap in
37:05
every single league I'm in. No that as well but last time we
37:10
did the pot I I think was the manager sacked or no.
37:14
They were, I think he might have already been sacked but they
37:16
didn't have the replacement manager.
37:19
So yeah, the big thing is the love started.
37:21
He scored a goal so and then Cole Palmer again didn't do
37:24
shit. The most disappointing player
37:25
this year who's not as good of a player as Valverde put that as.
37:32
You can't even compare them. Do we not think it's shady what
37:35
Chelsea's done though? I, I think you got to, you have
37:40
to reassess your framework and see what, what Chelsea's trying
37:44
to do is they're trying to create a farm system in the way
37:46
in the Major League Baseball where there's like, you know,
37:49
like the Lake Elsinore storm and then they, they go to like the,
37:53
the Padres, whatever. Because we know how ethically
37:56
Chelsea makes the decisions like ethics, like business ethics.
38:00
Let's talk about ethics. You talk about farming in like
38:04
leagues that are lower, lower. Lower leagues are in the base in
38:08
MLB and maybe the NBA also has in the G leagues and whatnot.
38:11
These aren't lower leagues that this is another country's
38:16
league. I'm I'm not saying it's right or
38:18
wrong. I'm not saying it's right or
38:20
wrong. I totally understand that
38:21
there's this is a new frontier. I'm saying it's a very great
38:24
area. I'm just telling you what
38:25
they're doing and I'm telling you what I'm telling you what
38:27
the mindset is, is that they're they're treating Strasbourg like
38:30
a farm team, like it's the Lake Elsinore storm.
38:34
You know that that's our equivalent.
38:36
I understand why the Strasbourg fans would be pissed.
38:39
I I totally get it. But like, hey, this, this is
38:42
probably going to be a system that everyone's going to be
38:44
using in a few years. Because if you notice what when
38:47
Chelsea does stuff like this, other teams either try and do it
38:50
or they ban it from happening. Can you, can you, can you make a
38:53
show? Tell us another thing that
38:54
Chelsea's done that everyone else has copied Selling hotels.
38:58
Oh no, apparently Chelsea's this.
39:00
Oh, I know what? Advertising contracts, like, for
39:03
a billion years, yeah. Having crowds of oligarch come
39:07
by a team shitty team and make it relevant That started with
39:10
Chelsea. Who, who, who?
39:12
What other team is offering their players 10 year contracts?
39:16
Nobody because nobody because they made it illegal.
39:19
Nobody. Nobody because they banned it.
39:20
OK, they banned it. So no one else is doing it and
39:24
no one else can do it so. No one can do that.
39:26
So, OK. And then you said selling
39:27
hotels. Who else has been selling
39:29
hotels? Absolutely did it so.
39:31
So no, they did. It didn't.
39:33
They did it. What is the selling hotel?
39:36
Oh. No, I'm sorry, Sell.
39:37
I'm sorry. They sold the women's team to
39:39
themselves. Oh.
39:40
OK. Same thing.
39:41
Yeah, same thing. Yeah.
39:43
Yeah. I was like, Aston Villa had a
39:44
hotel, so they're. Just they're passing assets
39:45
around like they're holding companies.
39:47
Let's just say they're playing a shell game with with money, just
39:50
creative accounting as we call it.
39:52
OK, but he's talking about talking about the Chelsea.
39:56
I think I think the big winners to me are going to be Liam a
39:59
lot. Let's I talked about and I'm so
40:01
happy that I picked him up. He's he's only he's he got
40:03
dropped in a lot of leagues. I think he's owning like he's
40:05
owning above 50%. So he I dropped what?
40:10
I dropped him in both of the leagues.
40:12
Yeah, I picked him up in both the leagues.
40:14
Don't worry, in hindsight he's going to look like a genius.
40:17
Who, me or me? One of you.
40:23
Who else? I think it's going to do well.
40:24
I think that Andre Santos could is going to see a lot more
40:28
playing time because he played OK.
40:29
Two things. Andre Santos played under
40:32
Rosenary at Strasburg and had a great season.
40:35
Lynn Delat played under the sky at Hole and had a good season
40:38
and that's how he got the new dip switch.
40:39
So I'm saying that both those he's familiar with, both those
40:41
guys, I could see him them both getting a decent amount of
40:43
playing time. So I think there's a chance for
40:45
both of them. They have a good chance, but
40:47
yeah, I think. They have a good chance, I
40:48
think. I think they're the ones.
40:49
It's not going to cheat, I think.
40:50
No, I think, I think a big loser could be Joe Pedro.
40:53
Mm. Hmm, because he really likes to
40:57
press high and run in behind and have really a lot of speed up
41:00
top. And that's not Jon Pedro's game
41:02
at all. So I think if Jon Pedro, I could
41:04
see Jon Pedro, not if Jon Pedro is not in the the 10 position
41:09
like I, I can see him not playing striker as much for this
41:13
reason, because they need that. They want like a fast high
41:16
pressed guy up top like a lean blot.
41:18
So that's my, that's my take there.
41:21
Anything else guys we want to talk about?
41:22
I have some, I have some waiver guys if we want to talk through
41:24
them. Go waiver, let's see it.
41:26
Waiver it up wave at me. OK, first one sorry, I don't
41:32
have it on my normal thing. So I'm going to be like looking
41:34
down. OK, we talked about Pascal
41:36
gross. He's still 39% owned.
41:38
If he's available and leaves, you should grab them, especially
41:40
if it's for free. Like I think with with fab and
41:43
stuff did a little bit of a different beast, but even then
41:45
it's worth it's worth the risk. He's just so good.
41:48
Finally, Janelle is still available in he's still
41:51
available in 60% of leagues. And so you picked him up, right?
41:55
What? Janelle.
41:56
Yeah, I picked Janelle. He's been great.
41:57
I mean his like what, 12345? His last five or six games have
42:00
all been super good since he started starting.
42:03
Yep. Have you heard this Matthias
42:04
Monet from Wolves I? Heard he's on the way up and
42:10
he's he played the last two games.
42:12
Play the last two games, scored, scored in the last two games.
42:16
You know, Wolves have now gotten five points from the last three
42:19
games. They had two points prior to
42:23
that. I know what I'm just saying, but
42:24
they beat West Ham who altered. Everything.
42:27
And tie we have in, so you know, it's good.
42:30
But West Ham, I think, yeah, it's good for them, but too
42:36
little. I'm just.
42:36
Saying I think there's something there.
42:37
I mean, if you want if you want to take a gamble on a young
42:40
young rising * all. I like John Duran type vibes.
42:44
I think money this Money Matthias Money Wolves is kind of
42:46
a fun one. Yeah, I hear you.
42:48
I agree. What teams do you play against
42:50
him? Like the matchups?
42:54
Anyone that's not one of the top 6 and you just hope that it's
42:58
better. I mean, the hope is that Wolves
42:59
is like turning a corner and they're not going to.
43:01
They're obviously still going to get relegated.
43:03
The hope is that they're going to be like better because like,
43:05
the new coach has been in there for a while.
43:07
We're getting points. So like what?
43:08
Look, let's see next week, round 22, Wolves plays Newcastle
43:12
United, not the best, but like maybe after that Wolves plays
43:17
City, not the best. OK, so this is this is where
43:20
you're getting at like the game after that Bournemouth round 24,
43:22
I would I would play, I would play players Wolves plays
43:25
against Bournemouth right now. You know, I would.
43:29
So yeah, that's a good, that's a good point, Sergey.
43:31
Like it's, it's definitely a little match up here.
43:34
Did you see how much do you know how much Pascal Gross would
43:36
bought for? Like 2 million. 1.2 million,
43:40
yeah. He's 35, yeah, Yeah.
43:45
OK, Last one, next one. Valentin Castillanos, we talked
43:48
about him. West Ham United forward.
43:50
See, just Sergei's point. I think it's it's a little
43:53
tricky, obviously, because who are you playing against, right?
43:57
But you know, they play Tottenham next week, so this
44:00
coming weekend. So I think that's actually not a
44:02
bad, not a bad one, not a bad one.
44:05
And after that Sunderland, which they've been they they haven't
44:08
been as good as they were in the opening part of the season.
44:12
Sunderland's dropped dropped some points recently.
44:14
So potential there. Nathan Ake.
44:17
What do you guys think about that?
44:19
He cities lost both of their forward.
44:22
I think Ake's probably going to be the starter.
44:25
I think center backs for city don't really do that much.
44:28
You don't think? Dory's back.
44:30
That's another player. I think he's back from Afghan.
44:32
Algeria. He'll be back.
44:34
Nico O'Reilly, Yeah. I mean, Nico Riley's kind of
44:37
been dipped a little bit in fantasy performance.
44:39
He's still getting the starts, though.
44:40
He's still getting the starts, though.
44:42
But yeah, you hope FL out Nori's back that he gets some time.
44:46
Is he available in a lot of leagues?
44:48
I have people who I I have on tomato.
44:51
Do you anyone drop them because like you put up such high like
44:56
high high draft capital? Yeah, I get it.
45:01
OK. Are we?
45:02
Are we Ellie croupy, Ellie croupy groupies?
45:05
Are we in groupies for Kroopy? I know, I know, Sergey, you have
45:08
been one of our league. So I was kind of glancing at
45:10
where he was and you have him he he seems to score but kind of
45:14
highlight goals. I think he's going to get some
45:16
more minutes now. He's going to get some some
45:18
menos gone. I think Christie's injured.
45:22
I think there's, I think there's, I think that's a pretty
45:24
good like shout for like he's the highest.
45:26
Scoring teenager in Europe right now.
45:28
Clivert's injured too. Clivert's injured.
45:31
Yeah. I mean, I think, yeah.
45:33
So I think Croopy is a really good show if if you can get him
45:36
or even try to maybe give Wilson for him.
45:41
So gamble. Wilson's not playing anymore,
45:42
right? With these two new guys that
45:44
came in, the two new Brazilians, Cassianos and the other guy, I
45:46
doubt Wilson's getting a ton of time.
45:48
Oh. Yeah, no, yeah.
45:49
But yeah, I know. So to your point, if you can
45:51
get, if you can get rid of Wilson.
45:53
Did you talk about that the striker for for Wolves already?
45:57
The striker. Money.
45:59
Arrow Arrow Codori. Oh, I didn't talk about him.
46:03
I I was more focused on money on the wolf side.
46:05
I like, tell me, do you know anything about him?
46:07
He's got in the last four, four games, he's got basically 3
46:11
double digits. He got 9.75 the last game with
46:14
no assists. He got 12 points again for that,
46:16
no goal, no assists. He had a 5.5, but then he had a
46:19
4.25. So he's a, he's a, he's a busy
46:22
forward. Yeah, we like a busy forward.
46:25
Yeah, we like a hostile guy. And he is only. 5% owned. 5%
46:33
owned. I'm just made that up.
46:34
I don't know you. Fucking hit Franco.
46:39
I don't know how much he's owned.
46:41
Should we do some game previews boys?
46:44
Yeah, let's talk about it. Round 22 Man United versus Man
46:47
City. It's the only game that matters.
46:52
Does United set a chance? Yeah, they this is, this is, you
46:56
know what's? Funny about Man United is that
46:57
like there his like the last few years they do this thing where
47:01
they kind of suck and then they like win this game.
47:04
Yeah, you know what I mean? That's kind of what they do.
47:06
But also this this might be get right game for Man City who
47:10
haven't won a game in what, four games in a row?
47:12
It's been a while, yeah. Yeah.
47:14
So it'd be interesting. I think city's going to demolish
47:19
him at All Trafford. Yeah, City is a muscle Trafford
47:24
and then I mean, obviously you have Bruno, you playing
47:27
obviously like the the guys that you have, like you have the I'm
47:30
assuming that Bueno star. It's a Cunha you're but you're
47:34
not like excited about it, you know, and then you're not gonna
47:37
be. I wouldn't play any United
47:38
defenders, really. Yeah.
47:40
You're definitely not confident, Yeah.
47:42
Yeah, yeah. And yeah, OK, next one, but.
47:45
Then again, like our city's background, it's kind of messed
47:48
up too, so you never know. Because somebody really doesn't.
47:51
Find their roof. I think, I think you play all
47:55
the City players you can other than their, the centre
47:58
defenders, right? And then you're playing all the,
48:01
you're playing all the United attackers.
48:03
Maybe we're not playing there's we're not playing their back
48:05
line either. Yeah, that's they're like this
48:08
game. We that's like the most
48:09
interesting game. The other one is Villa.
48:12
Everton might be interesting. I mean Chelsea, Chelsea,
48:15
Brentford too, because Brentford's in 5th place right
48:17
now. And they got the second highest
48:20
goal scorer in the league right now.
48:22
Yeah. And yeah, and I think they've
48:23
scored, what, 14 goals in their last like 5-4 games or
48:27
something. Like something crazy.
48:29
Seems like a crazy record. I know.
48:31
Two nil against Sheffield Wednesday, 3 nil against
48:34
Sunderland, 42 against seven and they drew nil nil to Tottenham.
48:38
Brantford. Yeah.
48:40
Yeah, yeah. So some goals, yeah.
48:43
I mean, mostly I don't I don't think you're you're holding
48:46
anyone back in that in the Chelsea of Brantford games, you
48:49
know, Nico Collins has been all of a sudden gotten good again.
48:51
We talked about him. Coyote's been solid recently.
48:56
Fofana should be back for Chelsea.
48:57
You're excited about that child was going to be you know, I
49:00
think Chelsea has a Chelsea has a really good run coming up
49:02
after this. I think if you can, that might
49:04
be a team where you can, if there is like a Fofana on the
49:06
bench or if it's Fofana on waivers or like a defender on
49:10
waivers, it might be worth snagging.
49:12
You know, and then you also have to think about with Chelsea that
49:14
that left wing position is like, I mean, Pedro natto could play
49:17
there if Cole Palmer continues to play out on the right side.
49:19
But there's a chance that, like with a new manager that Garnacha
49:23
or getting is all of a sudden comes in and becomes important.
49:25
But I I'm not, I'm not I trust. I I wanted to believe in both
49:29
those guys and I haven't seen much to make me really want to
49:31
enjoy. So wishy washy.
49:34
Yeah, any other games we're kind of talking about Leeds.
49:37
William's going to be a fucking a point fest I think.
49:41
Just because like they've they're, they're probably the
49:43
two most, they're both very exciting right now, right?
49:45
Like they're, they're like the vibes are high from all those
49:47
scenes. Yeah.
49:49
See a lot of shots, a lot of crosses.
49:53
High intensity, yeah. Defenders are busy.
49:56
It could be a nil nil draw with everyone scoring double digits.
50:00
I think there's going to be, I think there's going to be goals.
50:02
I think I would, I would bet, I'd be curious to see what the
50:04
over is in that game because I would probably bet it because if
50:06
you look at Leeds, the last few games, 311, I think, I think
50:12
Fulham's are pretty affiliates. Fulham's had some pretty nice
50:14
going games too, you know. Yeah.
50:15
Also is going easy game against forest?
50:18
Wessam has an easy game against Tottenham.
50:20
Yeah, if we Tottenham, if Tottenham doesn't get a win out
50:23
of that game, it's I'm telling you.
50:26
Firefighting, I think I think it's fire.
50:28
I think it's fire Frank, if he doesn't win that game, it's a
50:30
fire. I, I think a draw you fire on, I
50:33
think without it has to be, I think at this point you got to
50:35
get rid of him and then you're calling, you're calling, you're
50:39
calling all these managers that just got and.
50:41
Colin Pochettino come back, baby, come back.
50:47
It's such a sad like team that you're yearning for the deal of
50:51
Poch being your manager. Yeah, I don't know, man.
50:54
I mean, like when you're you literally have like who you,
50:58
who's Real Madrid? They have like the right back
51:00
from like 10 years ago and then you're all excited about it.
51:03
I'm. Not excited about you?
51:04
Acting fucking excited about. You acting excited.
51:07
No guys remember I was very high on chubby Laza.
51:10
I really wanted like Laza to work out.
51:12
I honestly I hope this guy sucks too so they could go after
51:14
Jordan club that's. Yeah, OK.
51:18
Fair enough. Yeah.
51:20
OK, so they don't like him as a player.
51:23
Ariola Yeah, OK, question for you guys.
51:26
If you had a piece on the Monday game, the Brighton Bournemouth
51:30
game, and he had a dead leg and still didn't play midweek and we
51:35
don't know if he's going to play, what would you do?
51:38
Had who? If you had Minta, what would you
51:40
do? If you had.
51:43
Minta, he, he had a dead leg, missed, missed the last.
51:46
He's missed the last like two or three games for Brighton with a
51:50
dead leg. Well, you think he'd be back by
51:53
this time though, right? You never know.
51:56
I'm debating, I'm debating just picking up a piece from like
51:59
Bournemouth or something so that I can like make that change.
52:02
You should. That'll be the smart thing to
52:03
do. Yeah, I think that's what.
52:05
League is it in? Well, I have been to, I have
52:08
been to in both of our. The one that you're not sucking
52:11
in the most. I'm.
52:12
Sucking. It's so easy, just play them in
52:15
one and Benjamin the other. Hedge, you're always had Jane.
52:20
Tika, do you got anything else you want to talk about?
52:23
We want to talk about rumour. Do you want to give Tika the
52:25
floor for three minutes at the end of the episode?
52:26
Talk about rumour, Jane. No.
52:29
I have a question for you. Do you, do you blame?
52:32
Do you blame? Alonso's name for losing that do
52:37
you blame? Alonso for losing the job or
52:39
that was or no, because he was. He didn't have a bad record.
52:42
Nope. He 70% winning which is.
52:45
That better? Good.
52:46
That's good. That's good. 70%, it's really
52:49
good. I, I mean in the La Liga that
52:50
might, I don't know. I know the Premier League
52:52
that'll be good in La Liga. He has the exact same record as
52:55
Hans Flake and they're like first thirty matches or
52:57
something like that. The problem the problem is I
52:59
think they already Andre nailed it on the head is he's doing a
53:02
lot of coaching, not enough managing.
53:05
And I also thought it was funny how he treated Rodrigo like shit
53:07
because he benched them in the preseason in the Club World Cup.
53:10
He never La Liga started and then when his job was on the
53:14
line and everyone was injured, Rodrigo played and he was one
53:16
who was scoring in assisting goals when they went on like a
53:18
three-game winning streak. So you know, life's kind of
53:21
funny that way. It's I think you can it winning
53:25
at Real Madrid is not enough. Everyone knows this.
53:27
You need to what do with the different style and the benching
53:31
of Vinny Junior and all the other players.
53:33
I just don't think he kind of had the belief trust some.
53:37
Obviously something went fell through the cracks.
53:39
It's also a team with a lot of egos.
53:42
And there you go. And they don't have like a pony,
53:45
Cruz, Luca Madridge and all of that stuff.
53:47
I'm sorry. That's what you have to.
53:49
Say a leader doesn't feel like they have like a leader in the
53:52
team. Because when you, you said it's
53:54
a. Leader on the field.
53:56
It's Valverde. He's he's like, he's emotionally
54:00
passionate leader. But again, like, like you have
54:03
Cristiano Ronaldo, right? He was never the leader, but he
54:05
was the first one to show up for practice the way he trained.
54:07
Like he said with example. Pepe and Ramos.
54:11
No one got out of line. Now our centre backs, they're
54:14
not like this, enforcers, any of that stuff.
54:15
So look like Karma Hall but. You just like I'm, I'm hearing
54:19
this sob story, but the first thing you said was the first
54:22
thing I understood was egos. You got a A-Team that's has a
54:26
big ego. Yeah, players have a big ego,
54:28
but you got 19 games, fourteen wins, 3 draws, 2 losses.
54:31
You're 4 points behind first, you got one of the best
54:33
defensive records, and you've scored the second amount most
54:36
cops. OK, so let me ask you a
54:38
question. Give me an example of a Real
54:40
Madrid team. The last time we didn't have a
54:42
team full of egos. I don't.
54:45
Think it's the egos. It's the it's the maturity
54:48
levels I. Think it's almost like a locker,
54:50
like it doesn't feel like it's one thing to have ego and then
54:53
how also have respect for like the team and stuff.
54:55
I feel like there's a there's like a lot of respect for the
54:57
team. There's all the ego without the
54:59
respect for the team, you know, like, like the whole thing, like
55:03
the whole thing. Tico were like, they were like
55:05
Alonzo asked him to do an honor guard for Barcelona.
55:07
And they said no and then bapa. Said no and Bapa said no.
55:10
Like that to me is like a lack of respect for you.
55:13
You, you deserve to have an ego. You're one of the best players
55:15
in the world. You should also be like, OK, my
55:17
coach has asked me to do this, you know what I mean?
55:19
I don't think it's that it's fine to.
55:20
Do that. Another thing with this team is
55:22
when Vinnie didn't win the fucking Balandor and they all
55:24
refused to go well I can't just throw all your fucking toys out
55:28
the pram because things don't go your way.
55:31
It it's also to. Me, it's kind of interesting
55:33
because anytime a player becomes a manager of like a big club, I
55:37
look at it as a player, what they accomplish.
55:39
Like Chabi Alonso was elite as a player.
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He's an old timer, all time great midfielder.
55:44
So you would think like the respect should be there because
55:47
of hey, not only is he talking about it, he's done it.
55:49
He won the league in Germany, which honestly, it's like if you
55:53
beat Bayern Munich, it's pretty incredible.
55:55
He's won everything on the club level and still like something
55:58
went off. I think it's just the way he was
56:00
approaching players. And it also kind of you go from
56:03
Ancelotti, who would let Vinicius Redugo players go to
56:05
Ibiza after games, to Chubby, who's kind of more of like a
56:10
dictator kind of thing. Yeah, I think, I think obviously
56:13
the players are at fault. Also the management, managers at
56:16
fault. And I don't know if you guys
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watch the the final. This is the first time I watched
56:22
the game. I was like, what's what going on
56:24
with Jude Bellingham? He was.
56:26
They played a deep 5. The pet defended very deep.
56:29
Jude had no control of the game, which is very rare for him.
56:32
Yeah, there's something I was actually listening to an
56:35
interview with Russ and a the Chelsea coach when he was still
56:38
at Strasbourg and he was talking about like is he was talking
56:41
about a book called Teams Collide.
56:44
And it was it wasn't really about football.
56:45
It was about like management styles when there's cultural
56:48
differences. So like when you're, when you're
56:50
like a manager and you're all of a sudden managing like a team
56:52
from Japan and managing A-Team from the United States or
56:55
something are like different how like how those differences
56:57
affect things And like, you know, how you have to like treat
56:59
people differently based on their cultures and stuff.
57:02
And he was saying he's like, yeah, like my, he's like my team
57:05
at Strasburg is like 75% like African, African descent French
57:11
players. And he goes like, and he's like
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time means something different to them than time means to like
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like a Western, you know, a Western person where it's like
57:20
being here on time is like everything.
57:22
He's like, he's like growing up for these guys, I was like, they
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say they're going to be somewhere too.
57:25
They don't show up till 6, you know, So it's like, it's like,
57:28
kind of like, obviously it's like you don't, you don't give
57:30
them that much of the way, but you, you have to allow for a
57:32
little bit because it's so culturally ingrained in them.
57:34
And if you don't do that, you're going to kind of just antagonize
57:36
people. And I think there's like that.
57:38
That's an example. And I think that's an maybe an
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example where Alonzo maybe wasn't a good manager.
57:43
And I think that's what Tico's getting out with What on reset,
57:45
right? Like he was tactically was on
57:47
point. I'm sure he's phenomenal, but he
57:49
just didn't have the patience to, like, nurture these guys or
57:52
give them a little leeway when it was needed.
57:54
And it was, you know, it sounds like he was maybe a little too
57:56
strict on these guys that also had big egos.
57:58
And is that fair? Yeah, and just to put like the
58:01
last the kibosh on this conversation, the best Real
58:03
Madrid team that I've seen play was not the one that went
58:06
back-to-back to back Champions League.
58:07
It was the year after. They won't let the SEMA but
58:09
Rancho Lotti the following year where they won like 22 games in
58:13
a row and then the whole debacle happened with Cristiano
58:15
Ronaldo's birthday. Something happened, people
58:17
didn't go or whatever and that team self destructed and they
58:20
fired on Cellotic defending La Liga champion, defending
58:22
Champions League. So if the best team that
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aesthetically, the way they played the score goal and they
58:28
had all the records, if that manager can get fired middle of
58:31
the year, no one is safe at Real Madrid and everyone knows this.
58:34
That's why it's like a 2-3 job a year job at Max.
58:37
So it is what it is. Obviously.
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Like, I was a huge fan of Chabi Lanza as a player.
58:42
Obviously you wanted to succeed, but it just didn't work out.
58:46
And I also have to go. But before I go, we have a one
58:48
last very important question. Sir Sag, who's your favorite
58:52
Spice Girl? The baby one.
58:55
I like this. What?
58:57
Yeah. My boy, my boy, the baby.
58:59
I don't know. I don't know.
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It sound right. OK.
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I don't know if I would. I don't know if I would say that
59:04
now. But at the time when I was a
59:05
kid, that's what I liked the most for sure.
59:07
Without a doubt. No, I I knew it.
59:10
Keith, did you see how Tika went off on a tangent there for a
59:13
good like 5 minutes? That's how you sound every time
59:15
you talk about Chelsea. No, Chelsea, they don't bring a
59:19
lot of wingers. They're small wood.
59:20
They just give change your contracts.
59:22
It's called Creative account and.
59:24
This has been episode 120 of Doctor Sides.
59:27
My name is Keith. I'm Tiko Danza.
59:29
What? He said let's remember they're
59:31
still young, like the players. Oh, this remember.
59:34
They're still young, yeah. It's a new manager.
59:37
You have to give him time. It's a new manager every three
59:39
months. Well, my.
59:41
Friend wasn't that bad we'll. See you next week.
59:44
Follow us at Draft off sides and yeah, all right, all right.
59:47
Please, I go. I gotta go see you guys leave.
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Your windows up in.