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Fri 14th Feb: Where is the Love for Ange and Amorim? Spurs vs Man Utd Premier League Preview
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In this episode, we preview Tottenham Hotspur's upcoming Premier League match against Manchester United. We discuss the latest team news, including injury updates on key players like Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero, and James Maddison, and whether they’ll be fit for the game. We also look at Manchester United’s struggles, particularly with Lisandro Martínez’s ACL injury, and how both teams will aim to recover after recent setbacks. We break down the tactical approach for both sides, focusing on key matchups, including Spurs' midfield battle with Bruno Fernandes and Casemiro. Plus, we touch on the fan protests against Daniel Levy and how it might affect the atmosphere. Tune in for an in-depth preview of this important fixture at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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Sadness Derby: Tottenham vs. Manchester United
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello, and welcome to the Daily Tottenham Podcast from the Global Sports Podcast Network, and happy Valentine's Day. And this weekend, two managers who are in need of a kiss and a cuddle and a bit of love are going head to head at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Yep, that's right. Andrew Postocoglou takes on Ruben Amarin in what we're calling the Sadness Derby. um
Managerial Challenges: Postecoglou and Amarin
00:00:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Spurs hosting Manchester United, two teams having incredibly difficult seasons. The managers coming in for a huge amount of heat. ah Me, Joe Forrester here with Chris Mervyn, and Chris, it's it's a battle of who's season is going worse on Sunday, isn't it?
00:00:47
Chris Mervyn
100% really strange parallels with these two and it's a bit weird because obviously they've been through the process of getting rid of their manager and we're just, oh it's not manager, oh yeah in fact manager is right, oh no in fact there's loads more parallels than I thought, good lord um and um yeah it'd be good to um
00:01:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:01:07
Chris Mervyn
It's strange because we should be both shouldn't be in these these positions, really. um And Amarin is struggling to find his best lineup. He's still finding his feet in there. And we don't have a change from our best lineup.
00:01:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
This is it, it's a it's a funny, there's two managers, you're right, there's so many parallels because you've got two managers who are under fire. Both
Injuries and Lineup Speculations
00:01:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
of their systems have been criticized, but they're very, very clear on how they wanna play. United's problem is I don't think the players get it. Spurs' problem is the players who get it aren't fit and keep getting injured. Both sets of fans,
00:01:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
unhappy with the ownership. um There's, yeah, so many parallels here and obviously kind of all the jokes going around about this game will be in the championship next season, but both teams do need to save their season. Now, Andrew Posteko Glue has just finished his press conference, or about an hour ago, as we record this. And he's been talking about, ah obviously, as he has been for the last few months, the injury crisis. He said that Mickey van der Venn has been talking to external specialists to aid his recovery.
00:02:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
and has said that Van de Ven's body needs to adapt to the demands of top-level football, but he doesn't want to throw him back in too quickly. Christian Romero still looks uncertain. No definitive updates on his availability, but several players, Udoghi, Vaccario, Werner, Johnson, Madison, are getting closer to fitness. Pastor Cogloo said, and I quote, three or four of these players will probably be available for selection. It's unclear
Tactical Analysis and Predictions
00:02:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
if any of them will start,
00:02:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
that doesn't really tell us much Chris, someone will come back.
00:02:48
Chris Mervyn
Wow, how vague can you be?
00:02:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, exactly, yeah.
00:02:52
Chris Mervyn
It's like, are you going out on Saturday? Um, yeah, I should be. i'm I'm not sure, mate. Well, yeah, possibly. I'm not sure.
00:02:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
If I see you there, I'll see, I might see you there, I might not.
00:02:59
Chris Mervyn
Yeah. Yeah, it's it's it's crazy. And, well, I mean, Vicki Vander Venn. External specialists. Is that because they haven't got anybody anybody left in the medical department to give them advice?
00:03:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I guess it also, I guess he keeps getting injured and it's the same injury, isn't it? It's it's a variation on the hamstring injury. but it's ah obviously a lot of criticism of Foster Cogley because he's required to do an awful lot of sprinting to cover from the incredibly attacking way and how far forward Spurs are um when they press high up the pitch. So it appears to be an issue with the system. um That basically says to me probably a makeshift defense of some sort again. So maybe Davis and Kevin Danzo.
00:03:44
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, if a doggy's fit, I would put him in um and then put put Spence on the other side.
00:03:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
So play a doggy. So get a, get a doggy in at center half.
00:03:55
Chris Mervyn
No, no, no, I'll win back.
00:03:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
You fall back.
00:03:57
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, well, yep, definite. And then I'd play Danzo and
00:04:04
Chris Mervyn
People need rest, don't they? And Grey's probably one of those. I know he's a standout, but mentally, he must be massively exhausted.
00:04:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:04:12
Chris Mervyn
And so, yeah, going through the amount of games he's done. um you know you And Manu, I mean, they're going to catch us on the
Midfield Dilemmas and Player Performance
00:04:21
Chris Mervyn
counter attack, perhaps, you know, Diallo's decent player.
00:04:24
Chris Mervyn
So you need that kind of speed, Spence against him, maybe. ah Yeah, its it's going to be interesting with the lineup. Well, interested in the sense of you almost know what it's going to be.
00:04:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, this is it as well. And and in terms of the players who aren't injured, Pedro Porro, alongside, um I believe it's Bruno Fernandez and Dalo, have played the most minutes of any outfield player, those three have played the most minutes of any outfield players in the entire Premier League this season.
00:04:47
Chris Mervyn
Yep.
00:04:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
So the three most tired players in the Premier League
00:04:58
Chris Mervyn
Yeah.
00:04:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
all going to feature. um And Spurs have just been lucky that Porro's managed to stay fit, but he must be absolutely exhausted as well. No draggers in, of course. We know um he's out for the season with an ACL injury, no Solanke, no Richarlison.
00:05:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, i don't I don't know what the starting 11 will be when we get to Sunday.
00:05:18
Chris Mervyn
Mate, I'll just ah just stop you there, mate. ah Breaking news, a sudden email through. um We are in bids for Hendrik at, oh, no, no't no, no, sorry. Kendrick Lamar, that's Kendrick Lamar.
00:05:30
Chris Mervyn
Lamar is doing a show at Tottenham Hotspur. Sorry, my mistake. I was getting excited there.
00:05:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
we thought We thought it was the Ramadrin youngster.
00:05:36
Chris Mervyn
There's still emails.
00:05:41
Chris Mervyn
I was trying to find out on YouTube, who is this? um But Yonsei is some kind of a Brazilian superstar player. I couldn't find him at all.
00:05:53
Chris Mervyn
christ
00:05:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
So how do Spurs beat Manchester United? I mean, that doesn't sound like a very big ask at the moment, does it? But but what does Tottenham need to do to to beat United?
00:06:05
Chris Mervyn
I think they've got to be a bit more structured than they have been. I mean our midfield has been totally not great um in the last two games in particular and there's been a lot of spaces there as well so it'd be interesting to see what he does. if If Madison is able to play then he will certainly find some gaps there. Manu have been playing um Fernandez deeper.
00:06:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:06:26
Chris Mervyn
um almost like we tried with Madison and it doesn't work for him but I think he might try and still do that um armmerin because he's trying to tinker around a little bit so we've just got to make The problem we've got is that we do mafo make the opportunities, but they're not put away.
00:06:42
Chris Mervyn
And Sonny, give him a bloody rest.
00:06:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:06:44
Chris Mervyn
Take him off and just don't start him. As an impact player, I'd rather somebody else started him instead of him currently, because it's definitely in his head. That that mistake he, well, the open goal he didn't put his foot out onto.
00:06:57
Chris Mervyn
um Yeah, it's, and simple finishes straight at the keeper. This is not the Sonny of old. And no matter if you lose pace, it's tiredness. It must be.
00:07:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah Yeah, tiredness, it feels like lack of confidence with him as well. Would that then mean, that would mean, I guess, probably Mikey Moore on the left, assuming Brennan Johnson's not back to fitness, Kula Sevsky on the right, and then tell through the middle, I guess.
00:07:08
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, yeah, now it is.
00:07:19
Chris Mervyn
It's going to have to be, isn't it? I actually don't even think Tell is the answer for the middle anyway. I think that he is definitely should be on the wing of some sorts because I'm not sure he's physically strong enough to hold the ball up as as well.
00:07:32
Chris Mervyn
He's got some good nice touches and he definitely gets in the right position and his speed is ah is excellent, isn't it?
00:07:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:36
Chris Mervyn
um But we haven't been playing with the Apart from Burger Valley drives forward, but he's not going to be on the turn counter attack, putting a ball through like Madison. So he'd probably miss him if he doesn't play um with Tal because I think Tal could do some damage ah to be honest.
00:07:51
Chris Mervyn
And even Sonny as well, at at least Sonny would get in the right position still.
00:07:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:55
Chris Mervyn
And I was really disappointed because a couple of games ago, I think it was the first half of one of the matches where Sonny looked like he was back um for one and a half.
00:08:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:05
Chris Mervyn
And then he was taken off and then was like, yes. whether or not it was in his head that he was told that he was going to go and play 45 minutes. So he put it all out there. Amazing. and Maybe that's something to do with it perhaps, but he was sharp and that's the kind of something we need back.
00:08:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
you mentioned You mentioned the midfield earlier as well.
00:08:20
Chris Mervyn
So off the bench, great.
00:08:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's been the glaring thing watching in the last few games. There's no control in the midfield. Not winning the ball, but also completely failing to keep the ball.
00:08:27
Chris Mervyn
Yeah.
00:08:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And you can defend as well as you like. And actually, I don't think we've defended badly for the past few games. And I think it's been different set about partnerships. I think Dan says look good when he's coming. I think Davis has been great.
00:08:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like fair play to Ben Davis.
00:08:42
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, especially in the air, yeah, definitely.
00:08:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. Archie Gray, obviously look good. We all know that. But the simple thing is a defense can't transition into attack if the midfield can't keep the ball. And Basuma and Saar, Ben Tenkor, whoever it may be need to be better at that.
00:08:57
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, I think when, yeah, when they're playing a free defensive like that, I think, um who was at the front there?
00:08:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
And they need to control the game.
00:09:05
Chris Mervyn
I think Sar was at the front of a sort of triangle with two behind. If one of them was off, then, you can kind of get over it a little bit but if Turin were off you know you're you're stuffed and I don't know who was off to be fair I didn't they were all missing um which wasn't great but it may well be that
00:09:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:24
Chris Mervyn
I've slight, I've slighted Bentacore for his last two performances, to be honest, and I'm a big fan of his, but um maybe it's because the other two didn't do very well. He was running around and missing stuff because he had too much to cover and you can, you can overwork yourself like that, I guess, as well. But, um, certainly Sal's
Ownership Critique and Fan Reactions
00:09:43
Chris Mervyn
still young. you You give him the benefit of doubt, but he has played enough games now to make, to, to be playing at a different level. Uh, Biss,
00:09:53
Chris Mervyn
I don't know. I think me, like a lot of other Spurs fans, are towards the end of our...
00:10:00
Chris Mervyn
what's the word, patience with him a little bit.
00:10:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:02
Chris Mervyn
um you know hes He still gets silly fouls, gives silly fouls away. um He looked great when he actually went and played um against Tamworth, and he was bossing and bashing people off, but that's Tamworth.
00:10:14
Chris Mervyn
He doesn't do the same anywhere anywhere else, and Bergvile, when he's come on, has made most of the midfielders look silly, to be honest, because he has been excellent.
00:10:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:10:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yep
00:10:23
Chris Mervyn
Still gives the ball away, still a lack of concentration sometimes, but that's a young player thing.
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yep he's 19 yeah yeah and i agree with you on persume and i find him very frustrating because he's that he's the kind of player
00:10:28
Chris Mervyn
Yeah and the same as grey, you know last match he wouldn't play as well as he has done, he gave you a few balls away but mentally you're tired because you have to be switched on from from the get go don't you. say
00:10:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
that I love, like technically such a good player, like that's not in doubt.
00:10:45
Chris Mervyn
Yeah me too. yeah
00:10:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
And and he had moments, particularly the start of last season, where he receives the ball on the turn, moves with the ball and there are shades. I'm not comparing him. I know it was, I'm not comparing him to Moussa Dembele, but like you kind of think, oh, hello.
00:10:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
I haven't seen that since Dembele, just ah like a lovely dribbler and a really classy player when he wants to be.
00:11:02
Chris Mervyn
Yeah.
00:11:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
And as you say, he can get stuck in, but his forms means, this is,
00:11:06
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, and a cheeky foul. Cheeky foul as well. I like a cheeky foul. In the right place. But yeah, he gets caught out too much.
00:11:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
he's been He's been so frustrating since that start of last season. And I think we're in a place now where myself and I think some Spurs fans would like to see Graeme Bergval in that midfield from the off, plus somebody else.
00:11:26
Chris Mervyn
Yep.
00:11:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I think they've definitely earned that place. I'm not going to talk about Manchester United's issues in ah in a second, but first up this podcast is part of the Global Sports Podcast Network, the only network bringing you exclusive daily news and views on your Premier League team, the Premier League, women's football and fantasy football. It's a unique listening experience that puts fans first, bringing you the very latest breaking news from your team. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and make us your first listen every day. The Global Sports Podcast Network, every club, every day. um Lissandra Martinez out with an ACL injury. He won't play again this season. Probably the only defender there or the only center half, certainly, that um Amarin likes and could work in that system that he wants to play with the the three at the back. um That's a big advantage for Spurs. ah Do you think, I mean, on Sunday, I kind of go into this game, Chris, I think even though our home form is absolutely rotten and I kind of think we're bad, but we're not Manchester United bad.
00:12:24
Chris Mervyn
they've They've got their own excuses, haven't they? I guess. um And, you know, Amarin is on the crossover this week with Man U.
00:12:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:12:34
Chris Mervyn
I was asking, are you like three or four players away? And he said they were like, yes, of course we are. He's trying to find and build. And on the flip side of that, Andrew was like that last year. He's got the players, but then they're all injured.
00:12:45
Chris Mervyn
So he can't play the way he wants to play either. So um have we been as bad as Man U?
00:12:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:12:53
Chris Mervyn
No, or yes, arguably, because they've got a ah richer history of winning things and and um and being up there than we have.
00:13:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:13:03
Chris Mervyn
um We just know that we should be up there and then we're frustrated that we're not, because man, you have always kind of got away with it. Even in their transition years, recent in the last couple of years, they've still gone on one stuff, which is really frustrating.
00:13:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:13:14
Chris Mervyn
um and arguably if they kept the team as they did last season with Tenhag they might have gone and won another cup because actually they had some reasonable players but obviously something's gone wrong there they trans they've transitioned into what they're doing now they've got a new owner um and that should filter down by the looks of it to have an people who want to play for the badge again and a bit of more far about it and that's kind of what we need as well in some respect. um I don't think there's they're certainly playing for the manager, they have done up to this point ah most of them, um but have they played for the owner? No, so from the top it's not a football man, but again that's and another chat about Levy isn't it? Just looking at the press conference as well, um
00:13:58
Chris Mervyn
It's classic, all about ah players who who could come back, not come back from manage. And then Spurs have submitted plans to enhance Hotspur Way.
00:14:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:14:08
Chris Mervyn
um
00:14:11
Chris Mervyn
um
00:14:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, great, but yeah.
00:14:12
Chris Mervyn
and And enhance new medical facilities, ironically, and an improvement improven treatment room at Hotspur Way. Well, that's all right then.
00:14:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
00:14:21
Chris Mervyn
So these are the players who are out injured, but by the way, we're going to get more medical so that it doesn't happen the in in the future. strange yeah and during yeah yeah there's the stuff and going and in the stadium as well I believe so that will be interesting
00:14:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that is that is the one thing that does need improvement at Hotspur Way. um look You mentioned that the ownership obviously there are protests planned before and after the game by Tottenham fans on Sunday.
00:14:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is it going to be during the game as well?
00:14:46
Chris Mervyn
um
00:14:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
What do you make of all this? Is it is it time for Levi to move on? There's lots of talks that he is actively trying to sell the club and he's talking to different people.
00:14:54
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, the Qataris, isn't it? I think something like...
00:14:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:14:57
Chris Mervyn
I think the the figure of three billion, I think, came from Simon Jordan on the on a radio station, I think, um yeah the ex-Palace owner.
00:15:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:15:09
Chris Mervyn
And it's probably correct, isn't it, really? if If you look, that sounds like hell of a lot of money, but realistically, you're buying a really good business, um and the football's a sideshow for it, unfortunately, currently, um where it should be the other way around, of course.
00:15:21
Chris Mervyn
But I think that where we are now, The soul is not. in the stadium. It's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, fantastic, but it won't be very much longer when he sells it off, ah the naming rights.
00:15:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:15:34
Chris Mervyn
Our badge is the same size as the NFL and the go-karting and all these other F1 things that are on the outside. And yes, we've got a club shop there, but you know you don't have to be in there for very much very long to find other sections now.
00:15:47
Chris Mervyn
So it's almost like a ah brand superstore for all that's involved in Tottenham Hotspur.
00:15:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:15:51
Chris Mervyn
So um yeah, it's not dissimilar to other I guess any other club really, um you want to be able to play for the people, who the and the owners, you want football owners who understand things as well and I think Ange was rightly or wrongly brought in and he's somebody who's not going to say anything which is going to get himself sacked.
00:16:16
Chris Mervyn
He's not going to go against Levy and that's why he's put up in that position now.
00:16:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:20
Chris Mervyn
Any other top level manager would have said something and he would be ditched. That's what's happened to the last few managers as well. But the message is the same, isn't it? All they're saying is exactly the same all the time.
00:16:31
Chris Mervyn
It's just that Aaron doesn't say it yet because he believes in the project. whatever that may be. um It's a really difficult time because I want to back the team, I want to back Ange and I would love, to I've said it before on here, I would love them to come out and say, look, this is where we're at, we believe in the project, we're going to back Ange at the end of the season. and And that would draw a line a little bit under that side of it. um And then some of the players, there might be of one or two players who are like un questioning just a few tactics, et cetera.
00:17:00
Chris Mervyn
um I can think of one or two in my head already. You maybe could have played, um but they were a little bit sore maybe. um this is it In the midfield maybe. earlet I don't know. um But yeah, it'd be interesting.
00:17:12
Chris Mervyn
But with news of Vicario coming back as well, we've lacked leaders as well on the The business itself is fantastic, but yeah.
00:17:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:23
Chris Mervyn
um there's the side point of that is that when since we moved to Tottenham Park Stadium, the football has been pretty atrocious, apart from that little period of of initially revenge when he had his players, most of his players, and we head off we had our Tottenham back.
00:17:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm.
00:17:38
Chris Mervyn
But again, that was a soundbite from Evie, wasn't it?
00:17:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I do. Yeah, I do. There's a part of me that feels a bit sorry for Daniel Levy, because he is a Tottenham fan. He is a Tottenham fan, but he's, he's lost his, he's lost his way. and And I get it. It's because he doesn't have the ridiculous funds at his disposal, the city and Chelsea, and even like the big economic machines like Manchester United have. He doesn't have that money. I suppose he has to find other ways to monetize. But he's gone too commercial and lost sight of what makes a football club a football club. but
00:18:10
Chris Mervyn
Why hasn't he got those funds though? He has got those funds, doesn't he? Because we are profit operating profit. And these are the year before though, we've got the funds with the lowest um ah wage paying club compared to what we bring in.
00:18:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:23
Chris Mervyn
So he has got those and and we we could have got players if we had just paid them. more i understand breaking the rate structure but i'm looking at the the um the actual wages uh for spurs and you know you most of them are i'm not looking at thinking christ they are cheap danzo i think is a crazy amount of money per week i think he's like 40 grand it's it's nothing compared to where players are yeah so there is scope there to do things yes you'd have to level limp them out but if they believe in a project and they're
00:18:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:46
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In these days. Yeah.
00:18:55
Chris Mervyn
ah rewarded with that and then on their next contract, then fine. But we had players linked with us who, no matter what the team is and no matter if Leiby's there or not, the players would have come for the money, I'm pretty sure.
00:19:09
Chris Mervyn
And yes, Anders doesn't want that, but that's what they play.
00:19:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:19:13
Chris Mervyn
They play for the money as well. And yeah, they are their own commodity, aren't they? So they want to go there, play well because it helps their own brand and keeps their value up against. So difficult.
00:19:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
so at So at some point, the club needs to take a chance to spend that money on big players.
00:19:28
Chris Mervyn
Um, they're trying not to, they're trying to do something on on the cheap, aren't they?
00:19:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:32
Chris Mervyn
And they're trying to buy players who are young and exciting. Oh, we've got this player off Barcelona where we Madrid or Man United, who they were going to go there, which is great, but there's a risk there.
00:19:43
Chris Mervyn
Not all of them work out. Of course they don't. Um, but all that does make us a feeder club, in my opinion, if we don't win things while we're doing
Player Development and Team Dynamics
00:19:52
Chris Mervyn
it. And that mixture of mature.
00:19:55
Chris Mervyn
season pros with the youngsters needs to be in there and it isn't in there certainly not the winning mentality of season pros we've got pros who were brought from other clubs and they might have had a cup or maybe a Premier League it was in Madison's case but that was a one-off team thing and he played really well of course he did but he is into the throne
00:20:14
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00:20:55
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um A bit unfair, I think. And Roy Keane is a bit of a renter quote sometimes. And um I love Madison. um I love ah love the way he plays football. He's a great footballer to watch when he's on song. He is patchy, but I also think he struggles with his fitness. um What did you make of Roy Keane's criticisms?
00:21:12
Chris Mervyn
um I think you've summed it up I think that you know pundits have to say something ah you know oh it's very spursy etc etc and and then it sticks and Madison is
00:21:21
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Mm.
00:21:23
Chris Mervyn
probably open to an easy target for for things just because he's had a few injuries. And and then when he isn't picked for to play against his O teams because he saw that kind of thing.
00:21:34
Chris Mervyn
Well, you know, for me, saw is like, oh, cracking, I've done the 20 mile run.
00:21:35
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Yep.
00:21:39
Chris Mervyn
I feel sore the next day, but I'll still go out and do the gym the day after whatever, because it's
00:21:43
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Yeah.
00:21:45
Chris Mervyn
So it probably doesn't help the narrative around him, really. um But I kind of say you know he opens himself up to it a little bit as well. He is very, very good when he um backs, you know says the right things, James Madison. And he has glimmers on the pitch, doesn't he? But also, you do feel you do see him go out of games when and almost in the strop sometimes, in my opinion. With his head goes, that's it. He disappears.
00:22:11
Chris Mervyn
so
00:22:13
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Yeah.
00:22:13
Chris Mervyn
ah um I guess ah the old adage, there's no smoke without fire.
00:22:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he's never he's never I get that he's never become the player that people wanted him to. um But I do still think there's there's an exceptional footballer in there. Look, we're coming towards the end of
Combined XI Speculations
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the pod now. So let's, let's do a combined 11. And this is this is a very, very weird one. So I suppose the easiest way to approach this is to say as Tottenham fans, who would we have from Manchester United, I guess if if everybody's fit, who would we who would you take from the Manchester United team?
00:22:47
Chris Mervyn
All right, everybody.
00:22:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I can think of maybe two players off the top of my head, um and that's that's Kobe Manu and Bruno Fernandez.
00:22:58
Chris Mervyn
Go on. Okay.
00:23:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
that I think might work quite nicely, I suppose. It feels very odd to say it's about Manchester United. Unless I'm glaringly missing anyone, I think that might be it.
00:23:14
Chris Mervyn
um I would take Diallo because I think he's a decent player and he can play that wing back role as well um and I think he's already scored against us twice and then I think he's got a few hatchets as well so he's decent.
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yeah Yep. Yep.
00:23:28
Chris Mervyn
um They do have some reasonable players coming through, Toby Collier's a decent player I think um but you're right of the ones which are going to make it ah um an impact straight away
00:23:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:23:42
Chris Mervyn
would you put in koby manley definitely I think he would fit into our midfield straight away and see you later, Biz.
00:23:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Exactly, exactly, yeah.
00:23:51
Chris Mervyn
Because he's got that upon him and suddenly you've got him, Grey and Bergvile in midfield. who Hello.
00:23:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, fun young midfield.
00:23:59
Chris Mervyn
that Yeah, yeah, definitely. um ah matt Martinez, defender, I guess it could be better than what we've got on our backups maybe, I don't know.
00:24:08
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He's probably a better player than Dragos in.
00:24:09
Chris Mervyn
um Yeah, I think so, yeah, unfortunately.
00:24:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:13
Chris Mervyn
um But other than that, Fernandez, i in that, he has he has played quite quite a bit of time, he is very decent.
00:24:24
Chris Mervyn
I probably would I can't believe I'm saying this because it's obviously not going to happen, but yeah, probably take him as well. um all All the rest of the players, well, you know, I think if you're doing a combined one currently, then you probably wouldn't.
00:24:36
Chris Mervyn
Mason Mount was muted, you know, he was a good player. And if he ever gets to back to full fitness, he's a decent player. but
00:24:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
I had completely forgotten, not only that he was at Manchester United, but that he existed. so You just said that.
00:24:48
Chris Mervyn
Well, I think he will be a big factor in that team when he's fit. Hopefully, if Embering win as well, hopefully he's fit, because he is a good utility player as well, but all the other players, they dislike, but it's it's like where we were after, perhaps.
00:24:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:04
Chris Mervyn
out of our road guard, when Posh was there, love Posh, when he was there going and um and saying, look, we need to rebuild, the Champions League, et cetera, et cetera.
00:25:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:25:15
Chris Mervyn
That was the point where we needed to do the same period and bringing those young players in. It's too late then, isn't it afterwards? They could have bet it in really, well ah really well. but They've got players like Xerxes and stuff like that.
00:25:25
Chris Mervyn
I don't know how, where he would fit in the team. I really don't go on that show. I like him, um, going forward, but he's massively erratic.
00:25:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:33
Chris Mervyn
Um, and they haven't got, um, and doggy might be quite a good player actually from what I've seen.
00:25:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:25:38
Chris Mervyn
Um, but they haven't got that superstar, you know, there was a day where you can, you put a combined 11 with any, any team in the Premier league with man United and most of those man United players are getting in.
00:25:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep. Yeah.
Match Predictions and Valentine's Day Theme
00:25:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I mean, um I mean, there's
00:25:51
Chris Mervyn
ah That's scary.
00:25:53
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lots of different incarnations of that team, but Ronaldo, Tevez, Rooney up front with skulls in behind. And I mean, like wow. Okay.
00:26:01
Chris Mervyn
Yeah.
00:26:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, let's, let's get a prediction, Chris. What do you think?
00:26:04
Chris Mervyn
Um, I am going for two nil because, yeah, because I think we've, we've, we need to push on.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Spares.
00:26:12
Chris Mervyn
We need to, we need to, we need a performance. I think we might be. you've got about the team of course you have and the fans in the stadium will do this of course they will but at the same point there will be demonstrations and hopefully it won't turn we need soon need to be there back in the team because we need we need a result don't we and today um but the last few matches with against man united in the league in particular i think we've won the last four um if i remember rightly i think it's quite a few seasons where they haven't haven't done, you know, beaten us.
00:26:44
Chris Mervyn
So yeah, I think, I think we're in a good place. ah Usually there's goals. Will we keep a clean sheet?
00:26:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:48
Chris Mervyn
Well, I don't know. Will we have our keeper back um instead of Kingski? I don't know. Who knows?
00:26:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Do you know what? I'm going to go for a two-goal margin as well. Three run spares, I think. I can't, like exactly.
00:27:00
Chris Mervyn
3-1. Classic Spurs school line that.
00:27:04
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i can't I can't foresee a world in which we don't concede a goal.
00:27:07
Chris Mervyn
1-0 down.
00:27:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I just, yeah, of course. Of course, one and a half times, second half, we're absolutely fantastic. But it's just, do you know what? i I just look at that game and I think, As poor as we've been, I can't see how they beat us, but I hope they're not they they're not words that I come to regret.
00:27:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look, you can have your say. um It's ah at GSP in Tottenham on all social media. ah Thank you very much, Chris. Pleasure as always, mate.
00:27:34
Chris Mervyn
And you mate, good to good to see you again.
00:27:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, glad to have you as my Valentine. um it This weekend, um look, thank you very much for listening.
00:27:42
Chris Mervyn
ah Thanks for the card. The flowers were a bit much, but you know.
00:27:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, sorry. Yeah, so it's standing outside.
00:27:48
Chris Mervyn
but the
00:27:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was like love actually standing outside your house holding up the signs like that was that was probably too much.
00:27:52
Chris Mervyn
Yeah, this is a podcast.
00:27:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:27:55
Chris Mervyn
Shh, don't talk.
00:27:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look, everybody, I'm happy Valentine's Day. I hope it's it's full of love for you as well. And hopefully, we're all feeling ah nicely loved up Sunday evening, I suppose thrash Manchester United.
00:28:09
Chris Mervyn
What a link. Unbelievable.
00:28:11
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He will see you next time.
00:28:12
Chris Mervyn
Out of the park.
00:28:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bye.