Latest / The Calcio Guys / Serie A 2025-26 Season Recap - Ep. 308 - Who got predictions right?
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- 0:08Speaker 1: It's been a while.
- 0:09Speaker 2: It's just three of us here on the couch, you guys, Johnny, Jano, Nicholas.
- 0:12Speaker 2: You can follow us on all your favorite podcasting platforms
- 0:14Speaker 2: and social media, and it's been a while since we've
- 0:17Speaker 2: done our We started our season with the top four
- 0:21Speaker 2: top seven predictions.
- 0:22Speaker 1: First of all, guys, how's it away?
- 0:26Speaker 3: It's I'm okay, I'm okay.
- 0:28Speaker 4: It's going a J.
- 0:29Speaker 5: Brown today to the Patriots.
- 0:31Speaker 3: Though.
- 0:32Speaker 5: That's that's that's exciting news for Adrian and I. Bad
- 0:34Speaker 5: news for Nicholas over here.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Oh, I don't care, and one less good wide receiver
- 0:38Speaker 2: in the NFC.
- 0:39Speaker 1: I don't care.
- 0:41Speaker 3: Let's say you can catch us on the Football Guys
- 0:43Speaker 3: on on Tuesday nights.
- 0:46Speaker 4: But no, good to be back.
- 0:48Speaker 3: It's been it seems like it's been forever, even though
- 0:50Speaker 3: it's only a week hiatus for for me and Johnny.
- 0:53Speaker 4: So happy to be back.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Uh yeah, maybe maybe a bit of sadus with the
- 0:57Speaker 2: World Cup coming up, but we won't talk about that today.
- 1:00Speaker 2: We got we got to wrap up the City as season.
- 1:03Speaker 2: You know, Look, the City season is long. We predicted
- 1:05Speaker 2: everything back in August almost ten months ago. Look, I know,
- 1:10Speaker 2: two of us aren't. No sadamis one of us is
- 1:15Speaker 2: but you know we'll look back. Unfortunately, the three of
- 1:20Speaker 2: us didn't predict Enter as top seven champions, sorry, as
- 1:25Speaker 2: the champions of the city. Uh Me and Adri took
- 1:27Speaker 2: Melan obviously, Adri with that homer pick. Johnny took Napoli,
- 1:31Speaker 2: So again, congrats to Inter. You know you'll see at
- 1:34Speaker 2: the bottom of the final standings and our top seven
- 1:37Speaker 2: is coming up. But look, guys, I'll go through it quickly.
- 1:40Speaker 2: Let's start with top four. Let's start with top four. Yeah,
- 1:43Speaker 2: I took I took Melan, Napoli, Inter and Roma. Johnny
- 1:46Speaker 2: took Napoli into Juve and Milan, uh and Adri took Melan, Napoli,
- 1:51Speaker 2: Inter and Uve. So you know what, I'm surprised to
- 1:54Speaker 2: myself that I didn't even take you in the top four,
- 1:57Speaker 2: but I guess I guess it's I saw a coming.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Look how many times that we've spoken about this, at
- 2:01Speaker 2: least for you eights not surprising in the.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Past few seasons.
- 2:04Speaker 2: You know, they stuck into the Champions League on you know,
- 2:07Speaker 2: last match day and all that. So I think the time,
- 2:11Speaker 2: the time just came for them to finish outside the
- 2:13Speaker 2: top four, you know, get into the Europa League. Just
- 2:17Speaker 2: hopefully I have some success there. You know, we've talked
- 2:20Speaker 2: about with youve A even just struggling in Champions League,
- 2:24Speaker 2: not winning a knockout round since twenty nineteen. Maybe this
- 2:27Speaker 2: time Look, last time they were in the Europa League,
- 2:29Speaker 2: they went all the way to the semifinals. Maybe it
- 2:31Speaker 2: is time to just take a step back focus on
- 2:34Speaker 2: the Europa League. I personally want them to go far.
- 2:37Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll win it. It is still
- 2:39Speaker 2: a tough league, to tough competition to win. But you know,
- 2:45Speaker 2: it's not surprising that they finish outside of the top four. Yeah, Milan,
- 2:49Speaker 2: Napoli Inter, We're all three. Those three teams were all
- 2:55Speaker 2: on all on our top four lists. I guess Roman
- 3:01Speaker 2: are the most surprising ones, which kudos to Janny though.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Must be happy as a Roma fan and as a
- 3:06Speaker 2: fan as well.
- 3:08Speaker 3: He's got three, He's got three of his things in
- 3:10Speaker 3: top four this year.
- 3:14Speaker 5: Just because they started predicting him and got on their
- 3:16Speaker 5: train early. You know, I'm a fan apparently, but like,
- 3:19Speaker 5: but that's the thing, right, uh, A team that's good,
- 3:22Speaker 5: like financial solid, eh, fine words Joanny found my words,
- 3:26Speaker 5: a team that's like well backed financially, have a solid
- 3:31Speaker 5: manager and have a young superstar which unfortunately was on loan.
- 3:36Speaker 5: So Nico Paz, you know, thank you for your time,
- 3:38Speaker 5: he said, yeah, but I'm pretty sure this guy is
- 3:40Speaker 5: definitely not gonna stay next season. Well, not that he's
- 3:42Speaker 5: not gonna stay next season, it's he's being returned, so
- 3:45Speaker 5: we'll see where he goes up where he goes. But
- 3:48Speaker 5: that got them there. Now here's the thing. Are they
- 3:50Speaker 5: gonna be the new Bologna where they get there, lose
- 3:54Speaker 5: the pieces that brought them there and then just fall
- 3:57Speaker 5: apart in champions or you know, also a bit in
- 4:01Speaker 5: Seria or is this basically the start of them building
- 4:05Speaker 5: on some kind of like success to become a Atalanta
- 4:10Speaker 5: two point zero. Let's say, you know, like a team
- 4:13Speaker 5: that even though you thought it was just like I
- 4:15Speaker 5: do want to say a flash of the pad because
- 4:17Speaker 5: Apollanta does have some history to it, some merit to it,
- 4:23Speaker 5: essentially prove themselves and want Europa League so well, they
- 4:28Speaker 5: eventually build build up on this and build some kind
- 4:30Speaker 5: of foundation to have some kind of continued success, maybe
- 4:34Speaker 5: even top seven consistently for CITYA not just top four,
- 4:38Speaker 5: but like just something they have to, like, you know,
- 4:40Speaker 5: build up a hype and eventually, you know, find a core,
- 4:44Speaker 5: develop it and try to go for some kind of championship.
- 4:48Speaker 3: Who knows. But it's crazy because we sit in here
- 4:52Speaker 3: and you know the season's over and you know talk
- 4:55Speaker 3: Como's in the top four, and you look back and
- 4:57Speaker 3: you look at all the reports and just all the
- 5:00Speaker 3: stuff that happens online and guys, seven years ago, these
- 5:04Speaker 3: this team was in City A D like and now
- 5:07Speaker 3: they're going to be in Champions League coming next season.
- 5:09Speaker 3: Like four years ago. Their their mager Sech Fabrigays was
- 5:13Speaker 3: was a player on on on their squad, and now.
- 5:16Speaker 4: He's bringing them to Champions League.
- 5:17Speaker 3: So just to bounce off to and echo off to
- 5:19Speaker 3: your point, Jenny before you wrap it up there, like
- 5:22Speaker 3: whatever happens, I think again, I set it up for
- 5:24Speaker 3: Como in the past, like whatever happens good or bad.
- 5:27Speaker 3: You know, they've they've they've accomplished something that they've never done,
- 5:30Speaker 3: make it to Champions League, and just a story on
- 5:33Speaker 3: its own. Listen, like you know some you know, you
- 5:36Speaker 3: always have a saft spot for the Cinderella story. Like
- 5:38Speaker 3: obviously you know, you you you want to be consistent
- 5:41Speaker 3: and not just be uh, you know, the the Westers
- 5:43Speaker 3: of twenty sixteen. But listen, it's it's a feed on
- 5:47Speaker 3: its own seven years ago in City A D. Now
- 5:50Speaker 3: they're you know, in top four in Setia and and
- 5:52Speaker 3: you know, really doing some great things. So again it
- 5:55Speaker 3: helps with the financial backing, like you said, Jenny, So
- 5:58Speaker 3: if there's anything like that is helping them compared to
- 6:03Speaker 3: you know, the Bolognas or the you know, the the
- 6:05Speaker 3: Susswols from back in the day or you know the
- 6:07Speaker 3: Atalantas of maybe more current day. You know, the financial
- 6:11Speaker 3: power that they have I think is what's been able
- 6:14Speaker 3: to separate them from those other stories or those other storylines,
- 6:18Speaker 3: if I will so. But again, good or bad, whatever
- 6:21Speaker 3: happens going forward, losing pieces, adding pieces, I think it's
- 6:25Speaker 3: just it's a great story and it's it's a great
- 6:29Speaker 3: foundation that they can build off of, I think, if
- 6:31Speaker 3: they choose to and if they have you know, the
- 6:34Speaker 3: smart investments going forward. So as long as like Fabrigays
- 6:37Speaker 3: is in charge, it seems to be working. So we'll see.
- 6:41Speaker 4: But trying to throw that I just want to throw
- 6:43Speaker 4: that in there.
- 6:44Speaker 3: Seven years ago SETI a d you know, going into
- 6:47Speaker 3: next season going to be in Champions League, So you know,
- 6:50Speaker 3: kudos to Tocomo.
- 6:52Speaker 2: Meanwhile, seven years ago was the last time Roma played
- 6:55Speaker 2: in the Champions League. You know, last time they qualified
- 6:57Speaker 2: for the Champions League was actually eight years ago, back
- 6:59Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen for the eighteen nineteen season. And I think,
- 7:04Speaker 2: you know, look, it's a different type of story than
- 7:06Speaker 2: Como obviously, Yeah, but it's a team that needed it
- 7:11Speaker 2: in different ways. Look, they they've struggled in these past
- 7:16Speaker 2: seven years to keep players. I know there might be
- 7:20Speaker 2: some still some turnover the summer, Johnny, especially with Debala leaving.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Look at a guy like Donia Malin comes in January.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Scores what fourteen goals, one of the top goal scorers
- 7:29Speaker 2: in the city, even though he played since January, and
- 7:31Speaker 2: he's already resigned at least for next season. And so
- 7:35Speaker 2: that's that's an exciting time for a ROMA fan. It
- 7:37Speaker 2: feels like it could be kind of the opposite direction
- 7:40Speaker 2: of you've right where youve might need to kind of
- 7:43Speaker 2: reset some things. This is at least time for Roma
- 7:45Speaker 2: to maybe build some foundation now.
- 7:48Speaker 5: Well, yeah, so one thing that I've been talking about
- 7:51Speaker 5: for a while. By the way, just to just circle
- 7:53Speaker 5: back to the Como thing, I was the only guy
- 7:55Speaker 5: who probably could predict a Como on top eight from
- 7:57Speaker 5: the prediction last year. Yeah, exactly, So, Uh, I just
- 8:00Speaker 5: wanted to I just wanted to add that in there
- 8:02Speaker 5: once again. Jenny on theype chain early Yeah, Nostra Jannis
- 8:07Speaker 5: strikes again.
- 8:08Speaker 3: Uh.
- 8:08Speaker 5: But one thing I've been handing Roma for constantly is
- 8:12Speaker 5: to find some kind of consistency, speaking of which I
- 8:16Speaker 5: was talking about Como, to find a foundation. Roma needs
- 8:19Speaker 5: to find one, And I said, it all starts with
- 8:20Speaker 5: a manager, and Gasparini essentially has done something that Mourinho
- 8:25Speaker 5: couldn't even do, you know, like, uh, you know which
- 8:28Speaker 5: and and this is no respects to Mourinho. I love
- 8:29Speaker 5: the guy and honestly enjoyed Mourinho's time at Roma. I
- 8:32Speaker 5: think he actually did a solid job with the team
- 8:34Speaker 5: given what he was handed. But essentially, yeah, on a
- 8:40Speaker 5: European title. I know it's the third tier, but it's
- 8:42Speaker 5: a European title, which is funny because I could say,
- 8:46Speaker 5: see my team win a European championship. You know, it's
- 8:49Speaker 5: a conference league, but anyways, they all count, they all count.
- 8:53Speaker 5: They all play for a trophy, but it's to get
- 8:55Speaker 5: back to the one main goal was to get back
- 8:58Speaker 5: to top four, you know, and Gaspardini has achieved just that.
- 9:02Speaker 5: And it's something that the Roma fans have been clamoring
- 9:07Speaker 5: for for like the longest time, since the days of
- 9:10Speaker 5: Timmy Abraham. You know, we wanted somebody who was gonna
- 9:13Speaker 5: be consistent upfront for them, who wasn't gonna be injured,
- 9:17Speaker 5: you know, somebody who like and this and this is
- 9:19Speaker 5: not a knock on Dibala. Dibala was a wonderful get,
- 9:21Speaker 5: especially with that it was on a free but unfortunately,
- 9:25Speaker 5: like say it, it would be nice, It would be
- 9:30Speaker 5: nice from what it seems like, from what I've been seeing,
- 9:33Speaker 5: it's been a lot of good byes. Now if it's
- 9:35Speaker 5: more like, okay, well he's actually gonna you know that
- 9:38Speaker 5: now that they're in the Champions League, Yeah, you know
- 9:42Speaker 5: that they have a chance to actually stay like this,
- 9:44Speaker 5: like maybe he wants to actually stay who maybe that'd
- 9:47Speaker 5: be nice. But Donielle Mallin is what basically got them there.
- 9:50Speaker 5: That searge, ever since they got from the winter transfer window,
- 9:55Speaker 5: has really caused Roma to be in a situation that
- 9:58Speaker 5: they're in today. They finally they like they activated that
- 10:01Speaker 5: obligation to buy clause. So he's permanently transferred, which is
- 10:04Speaker 5: beautiful because as we said, Gasparini always takes these random
- 10:08Speaker 5: target man and just makes them like dominant forces. So
- 10:12Speaker 5: let's hope that this is what like, he's the new
- 10:16Speaker 5: Duba Sabata, He's the new you know, oh my god,
- 10:20Speaker 5: who was.
- 10:24Speaker 3: No?
- 10:24Speaker 5: But I'm talking about strikers specifically, who was it after.
- 10:31Speaker 3: No No?
- 10:32Speaker 1: I called them?
- 10:33Speaker 5: I said he had a touch, not Patania was a
- 10:37Speaker 5: bully on the on the field I talk about like
- 10:39Speaker 5: I mean Skamaka. Yeah, you know, like like a like
- 10:44Speaker 5: a like a pure striker. So it's nice to develop
- 10:50Speaker 5: from here. Now your team is in Champions League US
- 10:53Speaker 5: this to motivate some purchases, use this to motivate some
- 10:55Speaker 5: players to sign for the club or stick around. In
- 10:58Speaker 5: the case of the Bala, because I wouldn't mind you
- 11:02Speaker 5: Baba state as much obviously, just you know, lower wages
- 11:05Speaker 5: because the guy's consistencies have been non consistent. What hurts
- 11:11Speaker 5: the most though, was al Shoati. That's the one that's
- 11:15Speaker 5: the one that actually like gets me a bit because
- 11:18Speaker 5: He's been one of my favorites ever since he started
- 11:20Speaker 5: when he was younger, and I used to be envious
- 11:22Speaker 5: of Milan having a player like him because there was
- 11:23Speaker 5: a time where Milan's academy was just you know, Babo
- 11:26Speaker 5: Telli al Shaati. We knew about Donna Ruma at the time,
- 11:29Speaker 5: like it was this phenom kid, you know, like, uh,
- 11:33Speaker 5: they were just a club that were producing young Italian
- 11:35Speaker 5: talent and al Shoati, you know, like it was just
- 11:37Speaker 5: one of those guys that like it was easy to like,
- 11:42Speaker 5: I don't want to say like fall in love, but
- 11:43Speaker 5: easy to like, you know, like go for He was
- 11:46Speaker 5: he was really he really was a player that actually
- 11:48Speaker 5: gave a ship. So anyways, uh, Tolando Plane, he's the
- 11:53Speaker 5: one that I sucks the seego. I don't know what
- 11:59Speaker 5: he he's gonna do from here on out. I haven't
- 12:01Speaker 5: I haven't seen any updated news about him. But but yeah,
- 12:07Speaker 5: it's finally a Champions League spot. That's gonna be exciting.
- 12:10Speaker 5: I don't think they're gonna do any damage in Champions
- 12:12Speaker 5: League next year regardless of who they get, because it's
- 12:18Speaker 5: there's nothing established yet. Now they establish the top four,
- 12:20Speaker 5: which is great, but now time to build some consistency
- 12:23Speaker 5: of being a threatening team, you know, because you know,
- 12:26Speaker 5: as we saw with Bologna. You know, like just because
- 12:28Speaker 5: making top four doesn't mean you're gonna be automatically good
- 12:30Speaker 5: in Champions, especially with the new format. You know, like
- 12:32Speaker 5: it's you might get a really strong top eight strong
- 12:36Speaker 5: eight games to play, and you might get a really
- 12:38Speaker 5: weak eight games to play, you know, like it just
- 12:41Speaker 5: so I always assume the worst. And if I'm assuming
- 12:43Speaker 5: the worst, Roma, I don't think they have the squad
- 12:45Speaker 5: right now to even like even make it out of
- 12:48Speaker 5: the qualifying stages. So it's it's it remains to be seen.
- 12:53Speaker 5: I know we said we wanted to talk about like
- 12:55Speaker 5: potential targets FROMA since I'm on the since I'm on
- 12:58Speaker 5: the discussion right now about it, uh, you know, strengthen
- 13:02Speaker 5: that midfield. I think honestly the next step for ROMA
- 13:04Speaker 5: is to streighten that midfield. I think defense is okay,
- 13:07Speaker 5: go to if you can keep speel Ers, like like
- 13:10Speaker 5: just just please please don't lose him, please please that
- 13:15Speaker 5: Like he's he's the only reason why we're even competitive
- 13:18Speaker 5: to this extent. So that's the one player I don't
- 13:23Speaker 5: want to see go build build up that midfield and
- 13:26Speaker 5: then we'll see where we go from there. But uh yeah,
- 13:28Speaker 5: that's that's basically what I want for for all the
- 13:31Speaker 5: next year.
- 13:32Speaker 4: Yeah, it helps.
- 13:33Speaker 3: It helps with the Champions League funds obviously, like they
- 13:36Speaker 3: haven't sniffed at and like Nick said, seventy eight years,
- 13:38Speaker 3: so it's good to be able to reinvest, you know,
- 13:42Speaker 3: with upper management.
- 13:43Speaker 4: For Roma, I think is it.
- 13:44Speaker 3: Is huge if they're able to if they're able to hit,
- 13:48Speaker 3: not on every one, because it's impossible to hit on
- 13:51Speaker 3: every purchase you make, but you know, if they can
- 13:54Speaker 3: splash some of the cash and hit on other players,
- 13:58Speaker 3: similar to a Malin because listen, Johnny, I don't know
- 14:02Speaker 3: if you probably agree or disagree, I don't know, but
- 14:04Speaker 3: you know, Malin doesn't get purchased in January. Where are
- 14:07Speaker 3: we talking? Roma is?
- 14:09Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:09Speaker 3: I mean like it's just one of those exactly right.
- 14:12Speaker 3: So it's it's one of those. It's one of those stories.
- 14:15Speaker 3: So great buy, great purchase, great find for for your
- 14:20Speaker 3: upper man. And that's what happens when you have you know,
- 14:22Speaker 3: you know capable, you know, if it be owners, if
- 14:26Speaker 3: it be you know, scouts, if it be uh you know,
- 14:28Speaker 3: sporting directors. It helps so like tremendously and again Malin's
- 14:34Speaker 3: not there. That's like fourteen goals less for Roma or
- 14:38Speaker 3: whatever it was and potentially not a top four spot.
- 14:41Speaker 3: So it's crazy how you know one hit on a
- 14:44Speaker 3: purchase can can really do you wonders? And I think
- 14:46Speaker 3: with the Champions League money for Roma coming, listen, it's
- 14:50Speaker 3: not gonna They're not gonna break the bank on these
- 14:52Speaker 3: on these worlds, you know, these world class players. But
- 14:55Speaker 3: I think if they do it smart, you know, hold
- 14:57Speaker 3: on to listen, I would hold on to the I've heard.
- 15:00Speaker 3: I was seeing that. You know they probably will you
- 15:03Speaker 3: know if if, if they can agree on something or
- 15:06Speaker 3: you know, we'll see there. But I think you have
- 15:10Speaker 3: to build around your pieces, right like you said us
- 15:12Speaker 3: feel are like I personally like, you know, your back line. Again,
- 15:15Speaker 3: not a huge fan of Mancini, but an Indica, he's
- 15:20Speaker 3: he's a rock in the back Indica. So you know,
- 15:22Speaker 3: you build off of these players, you know, Pizilli in
- 15:24Speaker 3: the midfield, another young Italians, so listen, it's you know
- 15:29Speaker 3: Chapeau to Romo. Because we didn't think they were going
- 15:31Speaker 3: to be able to do it. I don't think any
- 15:32Speaker 3: of us had them if I already missed, uh what
- 15:36Speaker 3: the top fours were, but I don't think any of
- 15:37Speaker 3: us had them in the top four. So if it
- 15:41Speaker 3: is that correct, neck we have exactly none of us
- 15:44Speaker 3: had them in the top four. So listen for like
- 15:47Speaker 3: we spoke about the Como thing, and that's obviously a
- 15:49Speaker 3: great achievement.
- 15:50Speaker 4: But you know, chapa for Roma because down the stretch is.
- 15:53Speaker 3: Where they is where they they made up their ground,
- 15:56Speaker 3: where where teams like Milan and and you've shot the bed.
- 15:59Speaker 3: You know, Romo was able to pick up points even
- 16:03Speaker 3: though you know some of the tie breakers, if it
- 16:05Speaker 3: would have ended up on in in in tied points
- 16:08Speaker 3: was against their their favor.
- 16:10Speaker 4: You know, they were able to pick up the points.
- 16:12Speaker 3: And and you know Melan, the Melons, the Uves you
- 16:16Speaker 3: know of the world, uh.
- 16:17Speaker 4: You know slipped up.
- 16:18Speaker 3: So again, shop out to Roma for forgetting into top four.
- 16:21Speaker 4: It's it's long overdue.
- 16:23Speaker 3: Hopefully they don't have these repeat matchups in Champions League
- 16:26Speaker 3: like back in the days where you know they almost
- 16:28Speaker 3: got robbed or they they get rob storry against you know,
- 16:31Speaker 3: the Liverpools of the world or such or things like that.
- 16:33Speaker 3: But it's it's it's it's cool to see, you know,
- 16:37Speaker 3: Champions League nights at the Olympico. For for Roma, it's
- 16:40Speaker 3: it's it's another good story.
- 16:42Speaker 2: Uh And yeah, Adri, look, Melan, we all predicted or yeah,
- 16:47Speaker 2: we all predicted in the top four obviously. Yeah, last
- 16:52Speaker 2: match day they failed lost against Cality.
- 16:54Speaker 3: I lay, you're already out.
- 16:56Speaker 1: How much time do you need?
- 16:59Speaker 4: How much time we have?
- 17:00Speaker 3: Fuck? It's one of those it's one of those those
- 17:02Speaker 3: those stories here. But listen, it's not only the last
- 17:06Speaker 3: match day. It's an accumulation of things for Melan, right
- 17:09Speaker 3: like you know, the last ten games was was you know,
- 17:16Speaker 3: a sample size of the atrocious play of Milan, right
- 17:20Speaker 3: like some will even say even after the the Kopi
- 17:24Speaker 3: tally exit against against lat Show and that that double
- 17:27Speaker 3: header with Latscho, you know that that that that they
- 17:29Speaker 3: had at that time. So it's not just the last
- 17:32Speaker 3: match day. It's it's a shame that it had to
- 17:34Speaker 3: come to that because again, like Juve me one the same,
- 17:39Speaker 3: and I guess even Roma you had your faith in
- 17:43Speaker 3: your own hands and Mewan and Juve pissed it away
- 17:48Speaker 3: because other results happen. You know, things, things could be
- 17:53Speaker 3: things could be different, you know on this episode and
- 17:55Speaker 3: just how the season ended, you know, Melon.
- 17:58Speaker 4: Finishing in fifth for me is a failure.
- 18:01Speaker 3: It's a disappointing season for sure, because one one competition
- 18:05Speaker 3: a week after you botched you know, Cope Italia, like
- 18:08Speaker 3: I said against Latso, one competition a week it should
- 18:12Speaker 3: have been. I don't want to say that, Breeze because
- 18:14Speaker 3: obviously you know the inters of the world and you
- 18:16Speaker 3: know not we had their their good form as well,
- 18:18Speaker 3: and you know, even Juve for that matter, right, they
- 18:21Speaker 3: had they had a good stretch of time. When when
- 18:23Speaker 3: Spowetti came in there, you know, they pissed it. They
- 18:27Speaker 3: pissed it away. So you know, it's it's shame on them.
- 18:30Speaker 3: It's and again there's so many you know, factors in
- 18:34Speaker 3: all this. Obviously after the fact, you know, Hindsight's twenty twenty.
- 18:38Speaker 3: You see what happens after the season ends. You know,
- 18:40Speaker 3: Allegory gone for Lani gone, Moncada gone, Toady gone, right,
- 18:45Speaker 3: like they really cleaned house after after this season. And
- 18:48Speaker 3: why is that?
- 18:49Speaker 4: Because it was a failure of a seasons.
- 18:51Speaker 3: And there's not really much more to say, but that, right, like,
- 18:56Speaker 3: it's a shame I think we you know I I
- 19:00Speaker 3: I expected more out of allegory, even if you're not
- 19:02Speaker 3: gonna win the scudetto which I thought they should have
- 19:06Speaker 3: or they could have at least, you know, so like,
- 19:09Speaker 3: don't go out like that like the last ten games.
- 19:12Speaker 3: Wasn't that the allegory that we know from the past
- 19:15Speaker 3: of of eking out wins one nothing the court to
- 19:18Speaker 3: mouse or the whole the whole fantasy of allegory. Uh,
- 19:22Speaker 3: it was nowhere near that. They were struggling against you know,
- 19:24Speaker 3: bottom table teams. They couldn't score. They had a striker
- 19:29Speaker 3: on their on their team in Santiago, Humanez with no
- 19:31Speaker 3: goals in a whole calendar, in a whole city as
- 19:34Speaker 3: season like that just can't be. You're forcing.
- 19:39Speaker 4: Who is each You're forcing.
- 19:40Speaker 3: Layu in in in in roles that are just not
- 19:44Speaker 3: their role, right Like Johnny likes to say it a
- 19:46Speaker 3: lot you know, square square pieces or in in in
- 19:50Speaker 3: round holes, right like it's it's it's one of those things,
- 19:53Speaker 3: and it's it's a shame for how stubborn I think
- 19:56Speaker 3: Allegory was, uh, you know, really emphasizing playing the three,
- 20:00Speaker 3: five to two, as if we couldn't do anything else.
- 20:04Speaker 3: For me, it's a shame because you know, again hindsight's
- 20:09Speaker 3: twenty twenty, like I said earlier, but you know, you
- 20:11Speaker 3: finished outside the top four, which he had said, and
- 20:14Speaker 3: they had the club had said, that's the goal, that's
- 20:16Speaker 3: the goal. US fans want to do, schul deeto because
- 20:19Speaker 3: we saw it being a realistic target. But they had
- 20:22Speaker 3: put at the beginning of the season top four is
- 20:25Speaker 3: a must for this for this club.
- 20:27Speaker 4: That's why they hired Allegory and ultimately they failed.
- 20:31Speaker 3: So you know, and it's a shame on Allegory because
- 20:34Speaker 3: again I think things could have been different. I know
- 20:37Speaker 3: he's not all to blame. Upper management is just is
- 20:40Speaker 3: just is just terrible. And you know, me and fans
- 20:45Speaker 3: I think are just you know at a point where
- 20:46Speaker 3: it's like, you know, if cardinalis still you know, stays
- 20:50Speaker 3: on as owner and he doesn't sell, you know, we
- 20:53Speaker 3: might not get out of.
- 20:54Speaker 4: This for for for some time.
- 20:56Speaker 3: And you know, a guy like Ebra, which again love
- 20:58Speaker 3: him as a player, but as a as a as
- 21:00Speaker 3: a figure in upper management just not cutting it in
- 21:03Speaker 3: my opinion. Uh, you know, stick to stick to the
- 21:06Speaker 3: karate kicks, stick to the you know, the the stuff
- 21:09Speaker 3: on the pitch, stick to maybe the interviews. But you're
- 21:13Speaker 3: not you're not you're not suitable for for for the
- 21:16Speaker 3: role as as an advisor, as as as anything that
- 21:19Speaker 3: they that they label you as with the club. Unfortunately,
- 21:22Speaker 3: he's a he's a legend of the game, sure, but
- 21:25Speaker 3: in my opinion, has no business being where he is at. Uh,
- 21:28Speaker 3: it's him and Cardinale kind of trying to you know,
- 21:31Speaker 3: work things out and bring this Melan team back. But uh,
- 21:37Speaker 3: clearly the you know, it hasn't it hasn't worked. So
- 21:40Speaker 3: I'm surprised he still stayed on. But you know, he
- 21:44Speaker 3: apparently he works. I always forget this and sometimes young
- 21:47Speaker 3: fans forget this.
- 21:48Speaker 4: He works for red Bird.
- 21:49Speaker 3: He's not employed by Milan and Redbird is is Cardinal
- 21:52Speaker 3: is you know company, so he's basically employed by Cardinale
- 21:55Speaker 3: to have him there. So it's kind of a weird one.
- 21:58Speaker 3: But again, as as as an investor, you know, you
- 22:02Speaker 3: kind of have to see, you know, the mistakes and
- 22:06Speaker 3: you know, see the rotten apples in the room and
- 22:09Speaker 3: again love him as a player and everything that he
- 22:12Speaker 3: did for Meal and especially in the melon shirty. He
- 22:14Speaker 3: was always he was always you know, reliable. But I
- 22:17Speaker 3: think Ebers should go as well. And it's a shame
- 22:19Speaker 3: because now this season that's such a failure blows everything up,
- 22:24Speaker 3: you know, it blows up. You know this these reports
- 22:27Speaker 3: of now Okay Leao looks like he's on his way out.
- 22:30Speaker 3: You know, you drove a forty year old Luka Moldovich,
- 22:34Speaker 3: world class bottle door legend of the game into the
- 22:37Speaker 3: ground by playing them week in and week out, and
- 22:41Speaker 3: that disgusting gaining against Kay that he might be his last,
- 22:46Speaker 3: his last you know, hurrah in a melon shirt. And
- 22:49Speaker 3: he came back from injury to even be ready to
- 22:52Speaker 3: suit up for that game. So it just shows like
- 22:54Speaker 3: the class of a guy, Mdich and that's the way
- 22:57Speaker 3: we kind of sent him out for me, is is
- 22:59Speaker 3: is disgusting, to be honest with you.
- 23:02Speaker 4: So it's a shame, honestly, it's.
- 23:07Speaker 3: Just there's not much more to say, like, you know,
- 23:09Speaker 3: from top to bottom, like we hear that, you know
- 23:12Speaker 3: instide the locker room. It wasn't it wasn't positive. So
- 23:15Speaker 3: once once these things break, and we've seen it with
- 23:17Speaker 3: the clubs before.
- 23:18Speaker 4: It's not only me one. We've seen it at other clubs.
- 23:20Speaker 3: You know, if it was inter back in the day,
- 23:22Speaker 3: you know some of the some of the you know
- 23:25Speaker 3: other me wan times, you know, you of it. Whatever
- 23:27Speaker 3: it is, these things happen, and again is alleg we
- 23:31Speaker 3: ought to blame. I don't think so, but I think
- 23:33Speaker 3: he has a big piece of it. Like you can't
- 23:35Speaker 3: how how could you still be that stubborn? It's not
- 23:38Speaker 3: working for thirty eight match days, thirty seven match days,
- 23:42Speaker 3: match day thirty eight, Like you have to win, that's
- 23:45Speaker 3: the only thing. And they were winning, they were winning
- 23:47Speaker 3: to uh one nothing sorry two minutes in and you know,
- 23:51Speaker 3: you you you you often get.
- 23:52Speaker 4: Back into it. So you know, it's just.
- 23:58Speaker 3: Ever since they won the uh the Scudetto in twenty two,
- 24:03Speaker 3: they've they've been like further and further away from the top.
- 24:07Speaker 3: Like the minimum points off the top spot that they've
- 24:10Speaker 3: been at is seventeen points. I think the most was
- 24:13Speaker 3: nineteen points off of first place. I forget if it
- 24:17Speaker 3: was this season after or or two seasons after the Scudetto,
- 24:20Speaker 3: I don't remember, but you know, this season we're seventeen
- 24:24Speaker 3: points off of off of top top places, which was
- 24:28Speaker 3: into this year with eighty seven. We finished with seventy,
- 24:31Speaker 3: and that's kind of been where we've been out between
- 24:34Speaker 3: seventeen and nineteen points off the top since winning the Scudetto.
- 24:38Speaker 3: So that tells you something, right, like, you know, we
- 24:41Speaker 3: weren't scoring, we had, we weren't defending. Then he shorts
- 24:45Speaker 3: up the defense. We were allowing West goals. But we're
- 24:48Speaker 3: not scoring anything. So again, unfortunately Socker and culture, you
- 24:52Speaker 3: have to score to win, right. You can defend all
- 24:54Speaker 3: you want, but you still off the score. So the
- 24:57Speaker 3: biggest thing for me is just it's a shame that
- 25:00Speaker 3: a season like this has to blow everything up. Like
- 25:03Speaker 3: I said earlier, you know, if it be Layout, if
- 25:07Speaker 3: it be you know Policicch, if it be you know
- 25:11Speaker 3: Madrich's last you know, minutes with with the Milan shirt.
- 25:15Speaker 3: You know Rabiol now because you know him and Allegria
- 25:18Speaker 3: are like bread and butter, right, and Allegrity is now
- 25:20Speaker 3: with not and he wants to bring him over. And
- 25:23Speaker 3: I staid, like these things are going to happen.
- 25:24Speaker 4: Now like where you have as me and fans, we
- 25:26Speaker 4: have to accept it.
- 25:27Speaker 3: What I what I didn't which I expected, but I
- 25:32Speaker 3: didn't know how fast they were going to.
- 25:33Speaker 4: Do it is to blow up the whole.
- 25:35Speaker 3: The whole is to clean house. Sorry, uh they did
- 25:39Speaker 3: it quite early. But again you know the days are
- 25:44Speaker 3: going and we still don't have any position like filled,
- 25:48Speaker 3: no coach, no sporting director, no scout, no ceo.
- 25:54Speaker 5: Uh.
- 25:55Speaker 3: You know we have to we have to register for
- 25:57Speaker 3: the leak by June sixteenth. The league had to remind
- 26:01Speaker 3: us to do so, but there's nobody to to officially
- 26:05Speaker 3: sign those papers to to to do so. So like
- 26:08Speaker 3: it's one of these things where it's it's just a
- 26:10Speaker 3: mess from top to bottom. I always try to remain
- 26:13Speaker 3: optimistic as I can for Milan because again, it shouldn't
- 26:17Speaker 3: be this way they. I still feel the players that
- 26:21Speaker 3: we have aren't what we what we see them as
- 26:26Speaker 3: on on on the table, uh for me? On like,
- 26:29Speaker 3: I don't think the one is a fifth place team
- 26:31Speaker 3: in my opinion. Again, we don't think Juventus is a
- 26:33Speaker 3: sixth place team if we really look at it. You know,
- 26:36Speaker 3: at face value, the teams around them were better this year,
- 26:39Speaker 3: that's that's for sure. Did they piss away through their
- 26:42Speaker 3: hands as well? I would say so. So we have
- 26:47Speaker 3: to wait and see because there's a lot. There's a
- 26:49Speaker 3: lot to be desired because there's roles to be you
- 26:54Speaker 3: know filled. Uh, there's a mercato to to happen. Again,
- 27:00Speaker 3: I don't know if you want to break up the
- 27:02Speaker 3: what every team needs, nick, but because for me it's
- 27:05Speaker 3: another another half hour of of roundbling.
- 27:08Speaker 1: But uh, if that's where you guys want to go,
- 27:10Speaker 1: we could do that. I don't mind.
- 27:12Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we can circle back to whatever we Yeah,
- 27:16Speaker 2: because I know, I know Johnny Johnny has to go.
- 27:19Speaker 2: But yeah, uh yeah, summer, I expect the big summer
- 27:24Speaker 2: for you.
- 27:25Speaker 1: It just feels like it's the same thing every year.
- 27:27Speaker 2: You know, we need legit striker, we need a midfield.
- 27:33Speaker 1: I think maybe I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say it
- 27:36Speaker 1: feels like the whole team just needs.
- 27:38Speaker 2: To improve, right, Yeah, straight up. Look, they finished sixth place.
- 27:41Speaker 2: If you want to challenge for scudetto, then you get better.
- 27:45Speaker 2: How much are we actually going to see? That's a
- 27:48Speaker 2: good question. It's tough because how many times have I
- 27:52Speaker 2: said they need continuation?
- 27:54Speaker 3: Right?
- 27:55Speaker 4: Continuity?
- 27:56Speaker 2: Yeah, they need continuity. I'm not Look, I'm not too
- 28:00Speaker 2: familiar with contracts.
- 28:01Speaker 3: It's in that.
- 28:03Speaker 2: You know who's on their way out for the summer.
- 28:07Speaker 2: You know, I what else say I if there's one
- 28:11Speaker 2: position above all else, all else's winger.
- 28:14Speaker 1: I know I was a good player.
- 28:16Speaker 2: I don't know if he's like an every week starter,
- 28:17Speaker 2: especially on a scooter at the winning team. And it
- 28:20Speaker 2: feels like, uh, you know, playing yielda sometimes is a
- 28:24Speaker 2: peer left you know, left winger. He sometimes he struggles
- 28:29Speaker 2: a bit physically, like week in and week out to
- 28:32Speaker 2: maintain the same form. You know, he's a player that
- 28:36Speaker 2: can maybe play a bit all over the place. So
- 28:40Speaker 2: I think they'll go after a winger. There already are
- 28:42Speaker 2: some rumors about that wingers, about those wingers, you know,
- 28:46Speaker 2: in terms of strikers. Look, I hope Jonathan David stays
- 28:49Speaker 2: for another season. I don't At this point, my hopes
- 28:52Speaker 2: are low. I could see some sort of some sort
- 28:55Speaker 2: of loan going on, especially with the season he's had.
- 28:59Speaker 4: I don't think.
- 28:59Speaker 2: I don't think splet he's a fan of him less
- 29:01Speaker 2: real And I'm I'm gonna say, you know, my my
- 29:05Speaker 2: bold prediction of the summer is they resigned Valvg. I
- 29:08Speaker 2: think he had a fairly decent into the season. You know,
- 29:13Speaker 2: nothing to Valvic standards, but he was unfortunately the best
- 29:19Speaker 2: striker you've had, and I I you know, he might
- 29:23Speaker 2: have been playing for a contract in these last few weeks,
- 29:26Speaker 2: especially in the last last game two goals, right, Uh,
- 29:30Speaker 2: so I could see maybe him staying and then maybe
- 29:34Speaker 2: Jonathan David going out on a loan.
- 29:36Speaker 1: That's my prediction.
- 29:37Speaker 2: And honestly, you know, center backs there, I think there
- 29:41Speaker 2: needs to be another top, top center back alongside Bremer.
- 29:45Speaker 2: He's he's doing too much and whenever he does miss
- 29:47Speaker 2: time with an injury, it's it's.
- 29:49Speaker 1: A big hold.
- 29:49Speaker 2: It's a big hole of Phil and so yeah, I
- 29:53Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised if they slashed them cash on a defender.
- 29:57Speaker 2: You know, goalkeeping, I wasn't big fan of the Gregory
- 30:00Speaker 2: of the season, made a lot of mistakes, but you know,
- 30:02Speaker 2: it's a position that feels like a bit lower priority.
- 30:05Speaker 2: The same with midfield, they're they're fine right now. You know,
- 30:10Speaker 2: between between turam and and Locatelli, they you know, they
- 30:14Speaker 2: could hold their own. And look, they spend so much
- 30:16Speaker 2: money on coop miners. At a certain point you need
- 30:19Speaker 2: more from him. So there's one way of like, you know,
- 30:22Speaker 2: spending a lot of money on these good players, but
- 30:24Speaker 2: another on another sense, even with dropator David, you just
- 30:27Speaker 2: need more from them.
- 30:28Speaker 1: So uh, you know, it could either.
- 30:31Speaker 2: Be another season in which offseason in which they change
- 30:35Speaker 2: ten players or they just stand pad and hope that
- 30:37Speaker 2: these players get better. So it's gonna be an interesting
- 30:40Speaker 2: summer to say the least for you.
- 30:42Speaker 4: Yeah, just to bounce off of that.
- 30:44Speaker 3: For me and I, like it's almost like carbon copy
- 30:47Speaker 3: mean and Yuva right now, just how the how the
- 30:49Speaker 3: season ended, where they finished in the table, and the
- 30:52Speaker 3: needs of the team. You know, obviously, you know, you've
- 30:55Speaker 3: obviously still has their coach and and all the back
- 30:58Speaker 3: room staff is all in place. But for me on it,
- 31:01Speaker 3: it's again a lot remains to be seen. But and
- 31:05Speaker 3: who's going to be the coach and who's going to
- 31:06Speaker 3: be you know, calling the shots of of of transfers.
- 31:10Speaker 3: So that's the biggest thing. What I would what we
- 31:12Speaker 3: need just by seeing you know, the squad as is
- 31:17Speaker 3: current day, definitely need a striker. That's that's that's that's
- 31:22Speaker 3: one hundred percent. Uh, you know, a must you know
- 31:25Speaker 3: you had, like I said, Santiago, he Meantez although although
- 31:29Speaker 3: he did have an injury and didn't play most of
- 31:31Speaker 3: the season. Is still a striker on your roster with
- 31:35Speaker 3: zero goals in a ceity as season like that just
- 31:39Speaker 3: beyond unacceptable. Uh, you're bringing a in a loan of
- 31:42Speaker 3: fool Krug from west Ham or whatever it was, and
- 31:45Speaker 3: he was an ultimate bust, an ultimate flop.
- 31:48Speaker 4: You know one goal I think it was.
- 31:50Speaker 3: If I'm a mistaken you spend a lot of money
- 31:52Speaker 3: thirty five to forty million on in Kunku to be
- 31:55Speaker 3: a striker and he's not really a striker like he's is.
- 32:00Speaker 3: You know, he's an attacking player for sure, maybe a
- 32:02Speaker 3: s if you want to, if you will or or
- 32:05Speaker 3: what have you. But and he can play all on
- 32:07Speaker 3: the front line. But when you put a three five
- 32:09Speaker 3: two week in week out and have two strike strikers,
- 32:13Speaker 3: I'll put that in quotations up top. You know, the
- 32:16Speaker 3: likes having kun Ku Leo Poosage, those shouldn't be your
- 32:20Speaker 3: options for that position. They might be great players and
- 32:23Speaker 3: some of them are, but not in those positions. So
- 32:26Speaker 3: definitely a striker, I would change the whole formation.
- 32:29Speaker 4: For for for for one, the three five two, I mean.
- 32:35Speaker 3: I would want to go back to a four back,
- 32:37Speaker 3: especially with who we have I think we need wing,
- 32:43Speaker 3: uh well, full back help. Sorry Bartis Agis is not
- 32:49Speaker 3: is not going to be the only one to carry
- 32:50Speaker 3: the load on the left hand side. You know, besides
- 32:53Speaker 3: the excuse me, besides the derby goal, who was a
- 32:59Speaker 3: non factor. He was supposed to be the replacement for
- 33:01Speaker 3: Taylornandez an absolute disaster of a season, you know, besides
- 33:05Speaker 3: that moment in the debby. So definitely, you know, additions
- 33:09Speaker 3: on on the flanks, on the right side as well,
- 33:11Speaker 3: because solid makers is not a true right back. At
- 33:17Speaker 3: the comment, it was good. I liked what I saw
- 33:19Speaker 3: from a young the young, the young Swiss defender. But
- 33:23Speaker 3: again just it's it's not enough. If we want to
- 33:26Speaker 3: play forth the back, we can't have, you know, at
- 33:27Speaker 3: the comments starting weekend and week out and being our
- 33:29Speaker 3: starting right back. So right back, you know, full back
- 33:32Speaker 3: help a striker, and now I think the defense is good,
- 33:38Speaker 3: like good enough. I think we can use another center
- 33:40Speaker 3: back to kind of you know, uh, you know, either
- 33:43Speaker 3: start or you know, be a rotation piece.
- 33:47Speaker 4: I know, a couple of months ago, a couple of
- 33:49Speaker 4: weeks ago, a couple of months.
- 33:50Speaker 3: Ago, whatever it was, you know, Mario Heela that was
- 33:52Speaker 3: like the name, but now with everything getting blown up,
- 33:54Speaker 3: who knows if these things are still accurate. But I
- 33:56Speaker 3: would like to get a guy like him at Melan.
- 33:59Speaker 3: It would be nice to steal them from Latzo. But
- 34:03Speaker 3: but yeah, again we need maybe another center back and
- 34:07Speaker 3: you know, the midfield, it remains to be seen. Is
- 34:10Speaker 3: well just sticking.
- 34:11Speaker 4: Around after the World Cup?
- 34:13Speaker 3: Who knows. We hear some reports say yes, some reports
- 34:16Speaker 3: say no, some reports say he's retiring, So again we
- 34:21Speaker 3: have to wait and see for that. Does a Rabio leave?
- 34:24Speaker 3: Like I said earlier, Topi, especially with Anguisa. You know,
- 34:28Speaker 3: I've been on the fence at Napui. I had seen
- 34:31Speaker 3: you know, KDB is another is another could be another
- 34:33Speaker 3: mystery for them. So if a Wantsbio, we've seen it
- 34:38Speaker 3: time and time again when he wants a Rabijo or
- 34:40Speaker 3: Rabbio comes at his becking call. So we might lose
- 34:44Speaker 3: one of our better midfielders this season in Rabio. So
- 34:47Speaker 3: we're left with, you know, the Rici's of the world,
- 34:50Speaker 3: the Fulfundos of the world, the Sharis of the world.
- 34:53Speaker 4: But we would definitely need some help in the midfield.
- 34:56Speaker 3: So I think it's it's I don't want to say
- 34:59Speaker 3: a complete uh you know, get you know, buy eleven
- 35:02Speaker 3: players like we've done in the past. But it's almost
- 35:06Speaker 3: at that point where we need to kind of purchase
- 35:08Speaker 3: in multiple areas or bring guys in on loan in
- 35:12Speaker 3: multiple positions to uh to to be able to fulfill
- 35:15Speaker 3: uh you know, competitive squad for next season. Albeit if
- 35:18Speaker 3: it's Europa week City whatever you want to put your
- 35:22Speaker 3: whatever eggs you want to put in what basket.
- 35:24Speaker 4: We have to be somewhat competitive next year.
- 35:26Speaker 3: So and there's a lot of pieces to be to
- 35:28Speaker 3: be needed, so our priorities prioritize, sorry the ones i've
- 35:34Speaker 3: I've said, and uh and go from there because afterwards,
- 35:38Speaker 3: depth and all that, that's.
- 35:39Speaker 4: A whole other, oh other ball game.
- 35:40Speaker 3: But we need to get back into four asap, and
- 35:43Speaker 3: we need to have a competitive squad. And I think
- 35:45Speaker 3: from as like I said, striker, uh, you know, midfield
- 35:49Speaker 3: uh and and and full box are the are the
- 35:52Speaker 3: main ones. And then I would probably throw in uh,
- 35:54Speaker 3: you know, another center back help as well for for
- 35:57Speaker 3: a fourth you know, target.
- 36:00Speaker 4: But because between the sticks, I think man has been.
- 36:02Speaker 3: A rock and and you know, depending what formation we play,
- 36:06Speaker 3: the wingers situation could potentially work even if they all
- 36:10Speaker 3: does end up leaving.
- 36:12Speaker 4: So we'll we'll have to wait and see.
- 36:14Speaker 3: But I want to be desired for for me on fans, So, uh,
- 36:17Speaker 3: you know, sit tight this this.
- 36:19Speaker 2: Mercato, Jenny. I know you did quickly speak about Roman.
- 36:25Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to talk about Anapoli
- 36:27Speaker 2: and uh.
- 36:30Speaker 1: I mean it's some rumors at this point.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Right with the leg nothing's well, I mean tweeted.
- 36:38Speaker 1: It, but there was no there was no press conference
- 36:40Speaker 1: yet yet.
- 36:41Speaker 3: No.
- 36:42Speaker 5: I'm still hoping for like the last minutes to were
- 36:44Speaker 5: for but.
- 36:47Speaker 3: I'm surprised how fast that happened. It's just anyways, that's
- 36:50Speaker 3: a whole other conversation.
- 36:51Speaker 6: But yeah, do you think we anyways besides who it's mean,
- 36:59Speaker 6: it's pretty much I say nine to nine pointe percent
- 37:01Speaker 6: pretty much.
- 37:02Speaker 3: Yeah, confirmed it. But besides that, like what positions of
- 37:08Speaker 3: need do you think? Not what we do ultimately need
- 37:10Speaker 3: in the Makato.
- 37:11Speaker 5: Uh, well, if you're losing KDB, another midfielder, another striker too,
- 37:17Speaker 5: to go along with Hoyland. You know they signed Hoyland.
- 37:20Speaker 4: That's I saw today. I was I saw today. The
- 37:25Speaker 4: Idea acquired him as well.
- 37:26Speaker 5: So some more support on the back end as well. Yeah,
- 37:33Speaker 5: I agree, I I I think it's it's just a
- 37:35Speaker 5: couple of pieces. It's not too much. But that's the
- 37:39Speaker 5: thing is, I'm not excited about Allegrity.
- 37:41Speaker 1: I'll be real with you.
- 37:44Speaker 5: I don't like the way he manages. I don't like
- 37:46Speaker 5: what this team is not really built for a legracy
- 37:48Speaker 5: type system. Next thing, you know, this guy could probably
- 37:51Speaker 5: be the second coming to Christ. Who knows the guy, dude, I.
- 37:56Speaker 4: Swear to God.
- 37:58Speaker 5: But like, like with three different matters on the way
- 38:00Speaker 5: to it, it's just crazy at that point. It's like,
- 38:04Speaker 5: it's is it the feel is? It is delarentis, it's delarentis.
- 38:08Speaker 5: It's the cause of the school.
- 38:09Speaker 3: Dy right now.
- 38:09Speaker 5: But I guess well, I mean, hey, he brought them
- 38:12Speaker 5: to where they are today. I mean I trust this
- 38:14Speaker 5: man with my life in order when it comes to Calcho.
- 38:17Speaker 5: So No, But in all seriousness, I'm not really huge
- 38:22Speaker 5: on the Allegri appointment. That's what allegedly looks like. Yeah,
- 38:29Speaker 5: I would have rather Retaliano, but it is what it is.
- 38:32Speaker 5: I'd rather something more progressive, something more modern than Cortomuso.
- 38:36Speaker 5: But hey, Corto Muso has worked in the past, it
- 38:40Speaker 5: hasn't worked. Didn't work out for me line, but I
- 38:41Speaker 5: wouldn't say that's completely on allegree and it was it
- 38:43Speaker 5: completely on me line.
- 38:45Speaker 3: It was more like, Okay, we're in the situation.
- 38:48Speaker 5: He's a good manager, let's give it a shot, and
- 38:50Speaker 5: it just didn't work out. You know, this team, though,
- 38:54Speaker 5: doesn't have a roster that' said three times a week
- 38:56Speaker 5: type of roster. If you have the Copitalita going on
- 38:58Speaker 5: your Champions League in your city, you need to reinforce
- 39:03Speaker 5: all the positions, but also like the ones that really
- 39:05Speaker 5: need attention to, you know, one big midfield, especially if
- 39:08Speaker 5: Katie b is leaving because he was injured last season,
- 39:11Speaker 5: So it was like, Hi, how are you there?
- 39:12Speaker 3: He goes. It fizzled out pretty quick. Yeah, And then
- 39:18Speaker 3: on Gisa, I was seeing as it looks like a out.
- 39:21Speaker 3: I don't all his contracts and stuff like that.
- 39:24Speaker 5: So Gisa being out the door it hurts. So you know,
- 39:28Speaker 5: that's a very big need. Lorenzo Luca is not who
- 39:32Speaker 5: you wanted him to be, So maybe a backup striker
- 39:34Speaker 5: for Hoyland if you're gonna have like especially rotation going
- 39:36Speaker 5: for Champions League and maybe be another left back, right
- 39:42Speaker 5: back or two. I feel like that's that's something that's
- 39:45Speaker 5: like it's good to back up like Spina and Lorenzo.
- 39:48Speaker 5: Like somebody younger, a little bit faster. I'd rather I
- 39:51Speaker 5: want some speed on that wing. I don't care if
- 39:53Speaker 5: he's the most technical player or the you do have
- 39:56Speaker 5: to be the most offensively flared. I just want somebody
- 39:58Speaker 5: has a bit of movement to them. So that's my
- 40:02Speaker 5: wishless for for Napoli this year. I think I think
- 40:05Speaker 5: also Made is on his way out, so you're gonna
- 40:08Speaker 5: have to start looking for a backup Tendy, I believe.
- 40:12Speaker 3: So would you keep him because I know like kind
- 40:15Speaker 3: of like took the took the position.
- 40:19Speaker 5: I would only go for him or keep him if
- 40:22Speaker 5: there's nothing better available in the market and you have
- 40:24Speaker 5: no choice, if you have something available in the market
- 40:29Speaker 5: that you can get or if you got maybe somebody.
- 40:32Speaker 3: Well you come up.
- 40:33Speaker 5: Sorry evercausted stand in the school year, guys, I'm almost
- 40:37Speaker 5: there most at the end and I can eventually sleep
- 40:39Speaker 5: in again. But uh, honestly, yeah, like, if you're able
- 40:44Speaker 5: to find somebody younger for especially for your keeper situation,
- 40:47Speaker 5: go for that. That's that's what I would aim for.
- 40:50Speaker 5: If not uh, then yeah, keep him around if you
- 40:53Speaker 5: can five if you don't have any other options. But
- 40:56Speaker 5: I don't think that door is open anymore, not in
- 40:58Speaker 5: a bad sense. I think it's just both teams are like,
- 41:00Speaker 5: all right, we're both sides are gonna be like, yeah,
- 41:02Speaker 5: let's just move on from here. So no, he was
- 41:06Speaker 5: he was good for the first school. That though uh
- 41:09Speaker 5: was a was a good backup for the second school.
- 41:11Speaker 3: That though it's.
- 41:13Speaker 1: It's it's something.
- 41:16Speaker 5: That like, yeah, you know, thank you for the time.
- 41:18Speaker 3: And there's no bad blood.
- 41:19Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no there's no bad blood. So it's interesting.
- 41:23Speaker 5: It feels like both Roma Andnopoly are going for like
- 41:28Speaker 5: new changes this coming summer, and it's like we're basically
- 41:32Speaker 5: seeing like a new generation of both teams.
- 41:36Speaker 3: So that's exciting.
- 41:39Speaker 5: That's something that like I haven't seen it in a while,
- 41:42Speaker 5: so be cool. It'd be cool. I actually go, I'm
- 41:47Speaker 5: actually going into next season with like no expectations, no
- 41:49Speaker 5: idea of how the fuck is going to turn out
- 41:51Speaker 5: to be, because it's definitely gonna be, like I said,
- 41:55Speaker 5: new coach, new rosters, new management. Besides, with almost case
- 41:58Speaker 5: they have gas betting for a second in a row.
- 41:59Speaker 5: But like it's just one thing I annoy is he's like,
- 42:02Speaker 5: can you guys fucking keep a manager for more than
- 42:04Speaker 5: two seasons, especially after winning the scudetto Jesuses.
- 42:09Speaker 3: Yeah, well the conte one. I mean it seems that
- 42:11Speaker 3: he that's truck, that's his track record, right, Like I
- 42:14Speaker 3: think the he he.
- 42:16Speaker 4: Stayed with three years.
- 42:19Speaker 3: I saw, I saw, I saw a post on I
- 42:21Speaker 3: think Twitter or x whatever you're gonna call it, like
- 42:23Speaker 3: not too long ago, like he stayed at like two.
- 42:26Speaker 3: It was two year gaps, like every every stop he
- 42:29Speaker 3: was at, like for the last handful of appointments that
- 42:32Speaker 3: he had. So that was expected. I didn't even though
- 42:36Speaker 3: it's expected, I still didn't think it would happen. I
- 42:39Speaker 3: don't know if that makes sense, but it was they
- 42:42Speaker 3: parted ways. They had that weird uh exit in not
- 42:46Speaker 3: exit interview but exit press conference and where they didn't
- 42:50Speaker 3: where him and deal Orentas didn't really agree on on
- 42:53Speaker 3: certain things, and you know it was just you know,
- 42:55Speaker 3: typical city, you know.
- 42:58Speaker 4: Laughter. But yeah, listen, I think it's it's next year's
- 43:04Speaker 4: gonna be.
- 43:05Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't even know what to expect on us
- 43:06Speaker 3: for next season, Like it's one of these things where
- 43:08Speaker 3: I don't know. Hopefully our Champions League teams do you know,
- 43:12Speaker 3: prove us raw, you know, right, or and do us
- 43:15Speaker 3: do us some good. But it's it's gonna be interesting
- 43:18Speaker 3: because the teams that are in there, but you know,
- 43:20Speaker 3: borrowing inter are going to need some help to to
- 43:23Speaker 3: be a competitive in that competition.
- 43:25Speaker 2: In my opinion, exactly, I think there's still a lot
- 43:29Speaker 2: to be seen with the summer, especially with the World Cup,
- 43:31Speaker 2: you know, World Cup.
- 43:32Speaker 1: Yeah, there's always there's always.
- 43:33Speaker 2: That one guy who will score like two goals and
- 43:36Speaker 2: and suddenly everybody's on by like thirty million dollars. Yeah,
- 43:40Speaker 2: you know, so it's gonna be interesting. You know, we'll
- 43:41Speaker 2: talk about the World Cup next week, guys. But before
- 43:45Speaker 2: wrapping up, because I know Jenny has to go, we
- 43:49Speaker 2: predicted who would be the first coaches fired. I said,
- 43:53Speaker 2: Pelos Aetti from Verona. You said, Evan Yurich from Talanta,
- 43:58Speaker 2: and Jenny you actually said, if I have your growth
- 43:59Speaker 2: so from Soolo, and which is interesting because obviously it's
- 44:04Speaker 2: an ET ten your did get fired.
- 44:06Speaker 1: The first coach fired was actually Tudor.
- 44:08Speaker 2: And Grosco kept his job all the way through and
- 44:11Speaker 2: led Solo to a very surprising eleventh place.
- 44:14Speaker 1: So Johnny, I think you're losing it a bit.
- 44:15Speaker 3: I don't know. And aw he's and always going to Fiordentina.
- 44:19Speaker 3: I think I saw a grocer. So it's uh, it's
- 44:22Speaker 3: an interesting one. But the uh do we have? And
- 44:27Speaker 3: I don't know, Johnny, what you have to you have
- 44:28Speaker 3: to bounce.
- 44:29Speaker 5: I have to leave sooner sooner than later.
- 44:32Speaker 1: Yeah, did you want to just point?
- 44:35Speaker 3: What did you No? I was gonna say. I know,
- 44:38Speaker 3: you know, Nick, you want to say about the city
- 44:40Speaker 3: awards and and and just kind of whatever that that
- 44:44Speaker 3: that charade was. I don't know if you guys agree
- 44:46Speaker 3: or disagree on it.
- 44:47Speaker 1: Yeah, look I say this every year. Look they say
- 44:51Speaker 1: what is it? Best player?
- 44:53Speaker 2: Uh, best player or m VP, the markover and then
- 44:56Speaker 2: best Defender palastra. But come on, guys, best defenders Marco.
- 45:00Speaker 2: I know they need to come up with a different award.
- 45:02Speaker 2: I know that's their whole goal. But even you know,
- 45:05Speaker 2: some of the some of the other some of the choices,
- 45:10Speaker 2: Uh interesting, Okay, I guess I could say I agree
- 45:13Speaker 2: with Yodi's Rising Star, but in reality, it's a Nico
- 45:15Speaker 2: pass who won Best Midfielder.
- 45:18Speaker 1: You know, I think.
- 45:20Speaker 2: Janue agree with Best Goalkeepers, feel are, but but then
- 45:24Speaker 2: EA comes out with their team the season and it's Mano,
- 45:27Speaker 2: you know, so that was my pick. Yeah, so it's
- 45:30Speaker 2: it's kind of all over the place. I don't know
- 45:31Speaker 2: if you guys had any last thoughts on that before
- 45:34Speaker 2: we wrap it up.
- 45:36Speaker 3: It's just it's one of these things.
- 45:37Speaker 4: I think we say it every year.
- 45:38Speaker 3: It's like it feels like they can't give it, like
- 45:41Speaker 3: repeat awards to the to the same player, so they'll
- 45:44Speaker 3: they'll take potentially the next best guy and just give
- 45:48Speaker 3: it to just give it to him again. At the
- 45:50Speaker 3: end of the day, these awards, in my eyes, like
- 45:52Speaker 3: they don't like, yes, they mean something, but like at
- 45:55Speaker 3: the same time, they don't like you have a full
- 45:59Speaker 3: you have you have a full about like I think
- 46:01Speaker 3: DiMarco and I know you Nick, I think you had
- 46:04Speaker 3: said it. If I'm not mistaken, I think he definitely
- 46:05Speaker 3: deserved m VP because he the season he had like
- 46:08Speaker 3: very influential, you know, you know, broke the assist record
- 46:12Speaker 3: in Sadiya, like you know, score some goals as well. Uh,
- 46:16Speaker 3: you know it was always was always reliable for for
- 46:18Speaker 3: for inter, so I think that makes sense. But then
- 46:22Speaker 3: again he's also a defender, so does that mean he
- 46:24Speaker 3: gets the best defender. Okay, let's give it to the
- 46:27Speaker 3: young Poleesta, which again Polasta just a hell of a
- 46:30Speaker 3: a hell of a player, and he's gonna make that
- 46:31Speaker 3: big move probably this summer, if not very soon. But yeah,
- 46:37Speaker 3: it's a weird one for me, Like you know, best
- 46:39Speaker 3: was the best striker was Litaro, if I'm not mistaken,
- 46:42Speaker 3: which was.
- 46:44Speaker 4: For me?
- 46:44Speaker 3: That makes that make that that makes sense. The best
- 46:48Speaker 3: midfielder being Nico Paz. For me it's a weird one
- 46:53Speaker 3: because I again like I don't view him as a
- 46:55Speaker 3: mid like a true midfielder in my eyes. But again,
- 46:59Speaker 3: if you're I guess if your play you know cam
- 47:01Speaker 3: or you know, center attacking major point as at ten,
- 47:04Speaker 3: you know you're you are a midfielder. But he's just
- 47:06Speaker 3: so offensive that like you kind of lose track of
- 47:09Speaker 3: him being a natural midfielder. But again I think somewhat
- 47:12Speaker 3: definitely deserving of an award. If it be best midfielder,
- 47:15Speaker 3: I guess, so be it. And for me, the only
- 47:17Speaker 3: one for goalie, you know, I know as few are
- 47:20Speaker 3: a hell of the season. I think he was one
- 47:23Speaker 3: of the top in terms of Queen sheets. But the
- 47:26Speaker 3: Komo goalkeeper Jane I Will, actually had the most I
- 47:30Speaker 3: think with eighteen nineteen if I'm not mistaken. So it's
- 47:33Speaker 3: like that's one thing that kind of you can say, Oh,
- 47:36Speaker 3: you can argue meet. I would probably argue Manion just
- 47:39Speaker 3: for you know how uh you know, even though the
- 47:44Speaker 3: season Meon had, I think he was the bright spot
- 47:46Speaker 3: and definitely you know, kept him in games, made those
- 47:48Speaker 3: timely saves, came up clutch many many times for me
- 47:52Speaker 3: On in the season. So I would throw his name
- 47:54Speaker 3: in there if if I would say, but but yeah.
- 47:58Speaker 4: Again the awards or they are what they are, and you.
- 48:03Speaker 3: Know it's you know, I guess should shutovs to those
- 48:06Speaker 3: players for for actually for actually winning them. Because even
- 48:09Speaker 3: if we don't agree, all those players that were named
- 48:11Speaker 3: had good seasons. At the end of the day, like
- 48:13Speaker 3: we we can't really say too much. You know, what
- 48:16Speaker 3: are you gonna say? Uh, I don't know, uh, Like
- 48:22Speaker 3: Lataro's what are you gonna say, like he doesn't deserve
- 48:25Speaker 3: you know, best striker. I would throw villains they may
- 48:28Speaker 3: be in there just for for just for for to
- 48:30Speaker 3: throw a curveball or even doov cas for for for
- 48:34Speaker 3: como there. But again it's merited, so you know those
- 48:37Speaker 3: are those are you know those are what they are.
- 48:40Speaker 3: So I guess you have to be uh wait for
- 48:44Speaker 3: next season. I think that, like you said, next the
- 48:46Speaker 3: World Cup coming up is a big one. We'll have
- 48:49Speaker 3: to see also with uh for the transfers and stuff
- 48:52Speaker 3: like that. There's been a lot of coaching changes though
- 48:54Speaker 3: that that's that's for sure, you know. Obviously, like we said,
- 48:58Speaker 3: Allege to to not so I think to to Fierentina,
- 49:02Speaker 3: Genarotuzzo to Lazzio, right, Uh, you know, Saudi to Tutalanta
- 49:07Speaker 3: like Palladino and and any Taliano on the market. I
- 49:10Speaker 3: would love for one of them to want a melon.
- 49:12Speaker 3: I don't think it will happen, but that will be
- 49:14Speaker 3: my my choice. So yeah, there's just a lot of
- 49:17Speaker 3: movement and more to calm, I guess in the in
- 49:21Speaker 3: the coming months.
- 49:23Speaker 1: Uh, Johnny, any last thoughts before we wrap it up.
- 49:26Speaker 5: No, honestly speaking, I think the the awards this year
- 49:28Speaker 5: were probably the first time where it's like I can
- 49:30Speaker 5: disagree with any of them. I honestly think they we're
- 49:32Speaker 5: all you agree with all them. I agree with all
- 49:34Speaker 5: of them, Like God, honestly speaking, I'm happy that pest
- 49:36Speaker 5: I got a shout. He's a player that wasn't talking
- 49:38Speaker 5: about much and he I technically I think he deserves more,
- 49:42Speaker 5: be involved more in the conversation, you know, yeah, I
- 49:44Speaker 5: think here, Yeah, especially the fact that he plays at Gadyati,
- 49:47Speaker 5: you know, like, I think that's why a lot of
- 49:48Speaker 5: people tend to overlook him because he's not playing on
- 49:51Speaker 5: this episode. Itally so like it's it's it's it's calmon
- 49:55Speaker 5: for that to happen. But I think, uh, this is
- 49:57Speaker 5: probably one of the first times where I'm looking at
- 50:00Speaker 5: each one and I'm like, yeah, I don't think there's
- 50:03Speaker 5: a convo to say, well you can.
- 50:05Speaker 3: I think you can have a discussion. But like like
- 50:07Speaker 3: I said earlier, I think all them like they made
- 50:10Speaker 3: their case like it's merited, Like it's not like, yeah,
- 50:12Speaker 3: I don't think any of them like really like robbed
- 50:14Speaker 3: the award if you will, like.
- 50:16Speaker 5: No, exactly so exactly, I think you know, each award
- 50:21Speaker 5: was like yeah, nope, I can disagree with that.
- 50:24Speaker 4: Joy it checks out. Yeah, I agree, So.
- 50:29Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll that'll do it for us, guys. You know
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