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Episode 270: Leo Scienza Profile!
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Southampton – He was the talk of deadline day, and we scooped him up. Zak has done one of his amazing research episodes, and Greg watched some football to bring you everything you need to know about Leo Scienza!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Scienza
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/leo-scienza/erfolge/spieler/804219
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25436396.can-southampton-fc-fans-expect-exciting-winger-scienza/
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25434385.scienza-explains-joining-southampton-fc-no-brainer/
https://www.transferfeed.com/transfers/leo-scienza-heidenheim-como/12348855
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Transcript
Introduction to the Podcast
00:00:14
Zak
Hello and welcome to the Daily Southampton part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. I am your host, Sack and Go Finch, as always joined by the usual host of this podcast and just all-round great human being, Gregory Elliott. How are you doing, mate?
00:00:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I'm all right, mate.
00:00:33
Zak
Yeah?
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I'm starting to feel the hype building. I'm feeling like it. know we're heading into a weekend of international football, if you can call it that, but I'm feeling the hype of the important game that's coming up slowly
00:00:44
Zak
yeah
00:00:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm getting there.
00:00:50
Zak
the The most important game, mate. I'm sure it's got nothing to do with the energy that you're feeling with the kids going back to school. LAUGHTER
00:00:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, I'm so excited for that. Maybe more than the Derby, let's be honest.
00:01:01
Zak
LAUGHTER
00:01:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
in It's been a long six weeks.
Spotlight on Leo Sienta
00:01:06
Zak
Right, so anyone that's familiar the channel to this to this time knows that we're now at the international break period, as Greg just pointed out, which means that it's time for another player profile. So today, we're going to do our new sign-in, deadline day sign-in.
00:01:21
Zak
Leo Sienta, how does that sound, Greg? Sound good?
00:01:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
but Sounds amazing. I am very excited. I have seen from like his welcome media and just from some of the stuff that I've looked at that you're going to have a lot to talk about today.
00:01:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I'm ready for it.
00:01:35
Zak
Yeah, like, spoiled. There's a lot. There's a lot. there's there's a There's not a lot, but there is a lot, if that makes sense. This was another one that was just really hard to, like, a couple of the sources I've used are ending up being, like, German translations, which I'm going to say off the bat, like, I will basically point out if I think the source is dodgy from the start, because I...
00:01:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:57
Zak
and And a lot of his youth career is not really covered because he's had a bit of a ah ah a bit of a whirlwind sort of career for where he's now at, right?
00:01:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:02:10
Zak
So he is 26 years old. He was born in Valenciano Aires in Brazil. Probably pronounced that bad. I'm bad at my Portuguese. My apologies. He is of Luxembourgian descent.
00:02:21
Zak
But he is unable to play for them because he needs to live in Luxembourg for five years for him to be able to do that. But he is also Brazilian. He's five at nine and can play as both a winger or attacking midfielder.
00:02:33
Zak
And quite frankly, he was the dramatic deadline day signing that we all needed, right? So...
00:02:46
Zak
There rumours that he was going to join Paris FC, but he chose us on deadline day. And I believe that is probably down to a lot of the things he talks about and a lot of the reasons why that I'll get to when we get to that part of the story. But we we we are not there.
00:03:04
Zak
He is most known for his heroics at the end of the season, which I'll also talk a little bit about later for Heidenheim. But... We'll start with his youth career. And Greg, the information on his youth career is quite hard to come by. Whereas some people are documented down to ridiculous levels of like when they were eight years old and people like that, like Korshi and Matsuki. It's a little bit harder for Leo, right?
00:03:29
Zak
We're going drop from here. As you can see from Greg laughing, it's me once again struggling how to pronounce stuff, even with my own pronunciation guides I've written out. So reportedly started his career at Evendia in 2014 before moving to Chapin Connice in the under-20s team in 2015.
00:03:48
Zak
He then moved from there to the Lager Dents. under 20s in the 2016 to 2017 season. And then he made a bit of a surprise jump over to Uruguay.
00:03:59
Zak
And he played for a team there called Defensor Sporting s SC, and he played in their under-19s before rejoining Lajadence in the Brazilian top flight in 2018.
00:04:10
Zak
And he played for them twice, uh... And that was it. And he played for the state league. Now, if remember rightly, we've talked about this before, Greg, the way that the Brazilian leagues and that lot work is slightly different, right? They seem to play million one games. That's what we covered we were looking over what Wellington.
00:04:27
Zak
And again, similar to South of Wellington, there's a lot of that information from that kind of time. It's really hard to come And that's when he decided to make the move to Sweden and played for a team called FANABK, which currently don't have an actual Wikipedia page, which...
00:04:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:04:43
Zak
Shows you a lot, right? like they're quite I think they were like the fifth tier or the fourth tier, but in that was 2019. He looked, though, from joining in that team to make an instant impact because in just 18 league appearances, he scored 10 goals.
00:04:59
Zak
And by the looks of it, considering they were in Division 3 and then moved up to Division 2, again, I think there might be like conferences and bits and pieces as well, he also helped them get promoted, which would be not the only promotion of his career. and So, i yeah, his total career, Fana, appearances total of goals. And this then hope secure his move shockley hopeful for two
00:05:31
Zak
Because of course, we yeah which was essentially which was the German 40.
00:05:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Perfect.
00:05:36
Zak
So this was, ah ah as as i'd say, as recent as but as recent as I'd like to think it is now right? And then he spent bit of time there.
00:05:46
Zak
So he was with them from about 2020 to 2022. And during that time, he made 59 appearances and scored 15 goals and 17 assists. So again, like it's difficult without a lot of the match information to see.
00:06:00
Zak
And obviously I don't like to solely go off of stats, but he's making an impression, right? You can see this already.
00:06:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's some pretty good pretty good numbers.
00:06:09
Zak
But you can see, though, sort of in his youth career, very much like you moved around club to club to club to club, went over to Uruguay, came back to Brazil, and then got this chance in Swedish team. got helped them get promoted, scored some good goals, and then he got his chance in the fourth tier of German football.
00:06:26
Zak
And it was this that got him the jump up to Bundesliga 2 in 2022. So he moved to FC Madberg in July 2022, where he managed about 12 appearances, but then managed to get goal.
00:06:41
Zak
don't know whether it was that or another reason, but he dropped down into their second team who were in their sixth tier. ah ah earth German football. I'm not really sure what went on. like Sometimes you can not have a great season, sometimes you can.
00:06:54
Zak
We've all kind of seen that happen across the board, right? Sometimes its things just don't work out, depends on the where that team is. But he he proved that that was wrong because he went on to make 10 appearances for that for them and scored a total of 13 times.
00:07:07
Zak
Obviously, the drop probably helped, but it shows there's like a player in there, right?
00:07:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:07:12
Zak
You don't get to score goals and and be good unless you have that natural level of talent. And then he and he moved on to another club. But we'll talk about that after a break and a word from our partners at Bionique.
00:08:00
Zak
We are
Leo's Performance and Achievements
00:08:02
Zak
back. So, as I said, his drop down helped him quite a bit, and he managed to get a move to SSV All in 23-24 season, where he had a much better time.
00:08:14
Zak
So he appeared a total of 34 times to them. scoring 12 goals and making 15 assists. So again, like part of these stats is he can do both, and that's one of the things we've always liked in a Wingo, right?
00:08:24
Zak
you know So it's very kind of exciting to to see.
00:08:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very much so.
00:08:28
Zak
And again, like so far, all levels. They managed to win promotion the league that season, from the third and up to the second. And he won...
00:08:40
Zak
the player of the year for the third league. So it's very, for me, it kind of almost reminds me of like the the journey of Ronnie Edwards, right? Like goes out on loan whilst at a big club. That's really, really, really well.
00:08:51
Zak
Gets picked up by a Premier League team or which is, you know, us at the time. Yeah, okay. He's had a bit of ah ah a stint down in sort of QPR, but now he's kind of back into our team and looking probably to break into the first team. And again, like not similar profile.
00:09:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:03
Zak
I'm just thinking of like journeys because like, again, so to to recap where we've gone from, we've gone from, dotted around Brazil, all the way over to like the Swedish like quite low-low league, helped them get promotion, moved over to the Bundesliga 4 or whatever, spent a bit of time there, goes up to Bundesliga 2, struggles a little bit, goes down to 6th here, does really, really well, goes to 3rd, wins player of the year.
00:09:31
Zak
So that is, like, that is, you've managed to see all tears.
00:09:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:09:34
Zak
And I think he talks about it in his interview, like, first sort of interview. And he does it in a really good piece by George Ruse-Julian as well, but where it's, like, talking about how he's, like, gone from playing essentially in, like, cages with, like, three or four people watching the teams play to, you know, being on these on these big sort of centre stages.
00:09:54
Zak
And we're going to get to why he's so, like, important, ah ah what we've sought Probably one of the clinching things that resulted in us siding him in a second. But his total so total appearances for SSV ot was 34 times, 12 goals, 15 assists.
00:10:10
Zak
And that is what won him his mood to Heidenheim in July 2024. And his remarkable rise the ranks resulted him repaying them early with his first goal in a 2-1 away win over BK Hacken in conference qualifying.
00:10:25
Zak
Right? So, you know, played a lot of European football as well.
00:10:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nice.
00:10:29
Zak
And on September 1st, he managed to get his first Bundesliga goal in a 4-0 win over Augsburg.
00:10:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:10:36
Zak
However, his most iconic moment for the club probably came in a match that was made this year, where he scored a stoppage-type winner in a 2-1 away victory against Elliversberg in the second leg of the relegation playoffs ensuring less available.
00:10:51
Zak
So it's like, I don't know, it's like the Adam Armstrong goal at Wembley, right, for us. It's very key...
00:10:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
important goals, not just goals, goals at important times.
00:11:02
Zak
Yeah, and basically, like, he he pretty much assisted all of the other goals didn notice in in those relegation playoffs. So he he was instrumental. And, like, some people basically described him as single-handedly keeping the team up from being relegated.
00:11:18
Zak
Very sort of... reminds me of like the almost the star quality in what might have been a rough season. like like ah I don't want to say our new Matias Fernandes, but like that is where I think some of the comparisons and the links are in there.
00:11:33
Zak
right like Despite being in a team where they might have struggled, he he was like a bright spark, and it's been a bright spark.
00:11:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've done i've done a bit of research myself and I watched the video that Heidenheim put up of his goals and assists from last season and
00:11:52
Zak
Perfect.
00:11:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's such an incredible talent. Like, he's got crazy fast feet. He's not scared to take a player on. He's got a bit of flair about him. It just reminds me of, like, ah ah a peak Adam Lallana is the the way I would describe him.
00:12:12
Zak
Yeah.
00:12:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, it's just, and, you know, he's wearing gloves, which is going to upset some people in some of the videos. But just, it looks like a proper baller, mate. It's going to be good.
00:12:22
Zak
Such a such a weird weird thing that people can get so mad about that always makes me laugh.
00:12:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
You got paid £10,000 a week to play football.
00:12:29
Zak
but
00:12:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
How can you be cold?
00:12:33
Zak
Human bodies react the same way, whatever. so So, yeah, this has kind of led him to the start of his Southampton chapter, right? And i think what I've put, you know, mainly down to it is it it shows you an incredible rise from somebody when they put a hard graft in.
00:12:52
Zak
Like, that's such a such weird way of getting to where he is now. But shows you, like, you know, hard work. pays off a lot of the time, depending, you know, it doesn't matter what career.
00:13:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:04
Zak
and it And it's such a different trajectory to what I've seen in the past. I don't know about you. Like, it's it's giving sort of like the... It's not even like the sort of stories you hear, like a Jamie Vardy or a Ricky Lambert of like, oh, they were playing the Conference League and then they shot up and then got this move or whatever. It's very much sort of like...
00:13:23
Zak
you can almost see him working his way up. Like, literally, bit by bit by bit to by bit to get where he is today.
00:13:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:13:30
Zak
And, you know, there's there's definitely a player in there that's someone to be excited about. So he finished his Heidenheim career with 40 appearances, nine goals and eight assists.
00:13:42
Zak
And it's total career numbers to today that I can see. haven't got his assist number because again, like I've tried compile this information a lot of places and some places, as we all know, can be a bit conflicting. And again, I'll put all of the sources in the show notes, ah even if it means that I have to do what I've done a couple of times, which is cut out some stuff that usually sure is in our show notes.
00:14:03
Zak
If you've only just found out about that, Greg, I apologize.
00:14:07
Zak
ah Definitely only just has.
00:14:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's...
00:14:08
Zak
of But yeah, so Tone career numbers to date has 178 appearances and 61 goals. But that's discounting that he had quite a large youth career. But you don't we don't know how well that went and other bits and pieces.
00:14:20
Zak
But most of this time he was deployed as a left winger. And that's where most of his goals have come from. But he's also been deployed like centrally, almost as a centre forward, on the right a couple of times, even in midfield. So he's been able, he's been about all the time.
00:14:36
Zak
It's not the kind of stuff, but yeah.
00:14:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
a nice versatile, skillful player. Looks like he loves to take a player on. he From the package I was watching, he loves finding the gap for that perfect through ball.
00:14:51
Zak
I think it's, I think,
00:14:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
like That seems to be his bread and butter, just like that that beautiful pass. Almost like you know the the passes that you see in highlight packages of Messi, right? Like the ones that when you're playing with your mates, it's how it goes in your head every single time.
00:15:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like it's not how it comes off like nine times out of ten.
00:15:09
Zak
Yeah, now get you.
00:15:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
but But yeah, he loves seems to love that like just a little bit of flair pass that's a lovely three ball. It's just a bit of a creative enigma. It looks really promising. I'm very excited.
00:15:23
Zak
Same. And we'll go into some of the other bits and some of the peripheral information ah that we've we've got about him and kind of, i guess, my summary of where I'm feeling.
00:15:35
Zak
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00:16:03
Zak
And we are back. So he's now Southampton player. What else is there to know about him? Well, I did the other standard stuff I have a look at. So Adler, his management agency, he's always a favourite part of my my profiles for this.
00:16:16
Zak
I don't really know why. i just find it fascinating. He is part of a company called CM Football Management.
00:16:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank
00:16:22
Zak
It looks like he must have joined when he was in Germany. They have a real mix of players that all seem to be based in Germany. They are owned by, i think, a dual national German, I think he's over Serbia or Croatian, think he's Croatian, and their scout is Swedish.
00:16:41
Zak
Leo is by far their highest profile players.
Leo's Move to Southampton
00:16:43
Zak
They've got kind of players dotted around the German league. So my guess is that he probably joined up quite early on. I'm quite happy to be proven wrong with that. And as i said, take it for a pinch of salt because I don't know much about this talent agency.
00:16:56
Zak
health sources if you want to and do your own research. But either way, yeah it was just it's always interesting to have a look at that. So it wasn't that like it doesn't look like he's been tapped up by that agency that 50% of our players are in, right?
00:17:08
Zak
Like...
00:17:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep. and That's always good news. I mean, look, i make Agent does not equal Jorge Mendez is really all I'm looking for at this point. so
00:17:17
Zak
yeah Yeah, I think that's kind of where I'm at So he is also outfitted by Puma already, so I don't know if that was after you came into Saints or as an existing thing. I just find it fascinating, like the idea you know, you had a sports having a chat with one of their shout sports, be like, oh mate, you heard about that Leo guy?
00:17:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:35
Zak
He's one of us. And then that being the way, and I don't think that anything like that ever happens, but also like the real world is very different to this world we have in our head, right? Where a lot of the time it's a connection to who you know, not what you know.
00:17:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:17:47
Zak
But that made me laugh. um um I think that one of the biggest things that taken away was just his great enthusiasm for signing off for us. Like it wasn't even just sort of, Like, oh, i'm so happy to play in England.
00:17:59
Zak
Like, obviously, that's always a thing. And the Premier League thing is always a thing. But it's the fact that he seems really enthusiastic to kind of get going, and really enthusiastic to sort of play in front of the fans and understanding and watching compilations and all that bits and pieces, which I know a lot of them do when they join clubs, especially if they don't know them too much.
00:18:20
Zak
and like knew of who we were, which is always fun. It's always like a nice thing.
00:18:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:18:24
Zak
But I think it's kind of like the the desire to want to come to our club, which is a thing that sometimes it does very much feel like we're not the destination. We're a stop on the way.
00:18:35
Zak
Right. And like, you know, it looked very much like he's just very passionate to play. And they said in his first interview, I think like is if you've not if you not watched it, it's on on the Saints app, I think.
00:18:47
Zak
But it's it's very good. And he was talking about, and for me, I see him quite similar to our manager in the sense of, I'm still was just like, yeah, I just like football. And he's just like, I like to play football.
00:18:58
Zak
I don't really think about it too much. I kind of work off instinct. And I just like playing football. And like, I think that that's always nice. As you said, that's where you get into baller territory, right, Greg? Because it's like, I'm going to try that part.
00:19:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:09
Zak
I'm going to try that like through ball that goes off in my head. And oh my God, it it worked out well, right?
00:19:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, mate.
00:19:14
Zak
And that's always nice to see.
00:19:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's unbelievable. i'd Like, honestly, I watched the video package earlier before we recorded. Just... Just... Just some of the goals and some of the positions he gets himself into or some of the passes, just like...
00:19:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Man, that's but some really good stuff. This is exciting. He is a ah ah proper exciting talent. And, I mean, look, he wants to be excited about the atmosphere and the fans.
00:19:37
Zak
Yeah, I think...
00:19:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, I mean, what better way to sort of ingrain yourself on the fan base than coming on the pitch in the South Coast Derby, skidding three of them and curling one top bins.
00:19:48
Zak
You think we're going to chuck him in at the South Coast Derby? No way.
00:19:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, that's it.
00:19:55
Zak
I mean, yeah, but...
00:19:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
In the history book stamp, done. Like...
00:19:59
Zak
that You're right. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, but that would be an incredible way to introduce yourself to a fan base.
00:20:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:07
Zak
George Rees-Junion also did good a great article, and I've tried not to plagiarise any of it, I do have a great quote from which was talking about how Ciencia is the only player to score three direct free kicks in Europe's top division during 2025, a beat he achieved by scoring against Wolfsburg on the opening day.
00:20:22
Zak
so So that was from George Rees-Junion, and that's like, what a crazy stat that is. So...
00:20:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
That is mental. But I mean, he's got to take the boots away from Manning and...
00:20:30
Zak
Well, that is also what George pointed out.
00:20:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And from what we've seen on Instagram this week, maybe Will Steeler will be subbing himself on for some free kicks, right? like
00:20:36
Zak
What George also pointed out is, like, despite the fact that Manning has scored, like, two of the best Worldies in, like, recent memory, maybe maybe give it to the guy that is proven to score Worldies
00:20:47
Zak
Who knows?
00:20:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, like actually, it's even more promising than that because Manning has a wand of a left foot and Sienza has a wand of a right foot. So that really means that around the box either side is danger territory, you know?
00:21:00
Zak
Perfect. Well, we're already starting to score more from set pieces, which is insane to think about when we were joking about how we're like the only teams that not scored from a corner in like 100 games or whatever it was.
00:21:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:11
Zak
Now it seems to be pretty much where we're primarily scoring from. But I just wanted to talk about some of the other peripheral stuff around it. So he had some transfer rumours around him before us, right? So I found, and again, take this with a pinch salt because some of these are websites where I'm I'm not sure how reputable these sources are.
00:21:27
Zak
Some of them are converted from German, so who knows? But he was rumoured to be joining Kono in Serie A, according to the Sun Transfer website. And obviously were the links to the Paris FC. it was like like us that got the man in the end. And by the sounds of it, wasn't ever really much of a competition.
00:21:41
Zak
They might have put an offer in. They might have accepted it. By the sounds of it, he was like, yeah, I want come and play in... the UK and play for like a big team, that ah you you know, very excited to come and play for Southampton. So it wasn't even much of a decision.
00:21:53
Zak
are other sources linking him to a move to Borussia Mönchengladbach as well. But obviously that never panned out because he's come to us and that was when he was doing, you know, because of how sort of prolific his last campaign was.
00:22:08
Zak
So my summary of this, Greg, and the notes that I have say really excited prospect and I'm ready to be hurt again.
00:22:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I...
00:22:17
Zak
That's where I'm at. I'm ready for us to have an incredible season with a player and then somebody bid a ridiculous amount of money and then we don't get to keep him and then he sets the world alive, right?
00:22:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:22:26
Zak
And then become a footnote in the story.
00:22:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
i
00:22:28
Zak
But, like, let's really let's let enjoy that footnote. And I'm sorry if going behind you, Greg, but, like, i'm excited for it.
00:22:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
right. come Couple of great seasons though, hopefully, right? Because face it, if he gets promoted with us, he's probably going to stay in the prem with us.
00:22:37
Zak
That's what you got.
00:22:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, you know, there's the prospect of two good seasons, right? Let's hope. Oh, I mean, i mean, look, reading about that and seeing the video package today, got me really excited about just our attacking prospects in general.
00:22:46
Zak
and That's what you got hope and yeah.
00:22:57
Zak
Yeah, 100%.
00:22:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like, We've still got concerns at the other end of the pitch, I think. But, I mean, long as we score more goals than anyone else, it doesn't really matter, does it? but just have a 450-goal season, mate.
00:23:05
Zak
as long as we deal with it,
00:23:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's just going to be class.
00:23:10
Zak
As long as we deal with it before promotion, right? That's the main thing. If we get to that point, like, again, I don't jump through too much hoops, but you can tell that he's got the ambition to get promoted with us.
00:23:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:21
Zak
He knows what the plan is. He knows that that's part of it. He's done it before. doesn't matter at what level. It still requires the same level of, like, you know, you need to be consistent and score and can keep things up.
00:23:33
Zak
So, yeah, I'm really excited for it. He's already making an impression with the fans. I've seen him interacting with a couple of people on X, and he's, you know, it's Again, as I said, I'm ready to be hurt again, mate.
00:23:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh
00:23:44
Zak
How exciting.
00:23:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I'm not convinced that i want him exposed to our fanbase on X or any fanbase on X, to be honest. It's...
00:23:53
Zak
Yeah, that's...
00:23:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
the
00:23:54
Zak
the well that that's yeah but Again, it depends. Some people can void it altogether. Some people would take it all in Some people... you know <unk> It's up to a person on how to deal with their individual, i guess, fame, if you'd like to call it that.
00:24:06
Zak
But... I feel like it's just hope it all works out. And I think that there's a good chance that it will. and And I think it's exciting.
00:24:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's exciting.
00:24:15
Zak
Yeah, that's that's the main thing about it, right?
00:24:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Genuinely exciting.
00:24:17
Zak
Like, we're all excited. We're all hyped. We've got all these new players in. We don't know a huge amount about them. When we dig into it, you know, it's like the amount of the amount of like X Factor-style stories you've got in our squad this year alone.
00:24:28
Zak
its It's incredible. And a lot of it, you know, this this is one of them where I'm like, man, so to graft through the leagues the way that he has and like essentially single-handedly save his team from relegation and then come and pick us.
00:24:42
Zak
Yeah, I'm happy with it. I'm really, really happy. I think it's going to be great.
00:24:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Awesome. Oh yeah, I'm so excited. I'm so ready.
00:24:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
the The hype is only building for me for the for the next weekend. It's so only growing already, mate.
00:24:49
Zak
Wonderful.
00:24:54
Zak
it's
00:24:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going to be bursting by Friday, honestly.
00:25:00
Zak
So that's pretty much all we've got time for today. We'll be back next week with someone, I'm sure. We haven't entirely planned out our content calendar for the rest of the international break, but there's a lot of stuff to talk about as always.
00:25:11
Zak
you for listening. Thank you to you, Greg, for for for absorbing all the information. Thank you to all of the sources.
00:25:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
thank you for Thank you for collating the information, mate. It's been brilliant.
00:25:20
Zak
Sorry.
00:25:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
I love your profiles. I learn so much every time.
00:25:23
Zak
Thanks, man. appreciate that. Thank you to the wonderful listeners for listening. As I said, never we never claim to be experts, but you know I try my best to to put this information together in a listenable format so you can learn a little bit about the players that we have.
00:25:39
Zak
And
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
00:25:39
Zak
if you want to do your own um um research, there's plenty of even have ways to to have a look. Although with with this guy, it was significantly harder than I wanted it to be. yeah, ah ah check us out on the social media. We're on Facebook.
00:25:52
Zak
We're on X, we are on Blue Sky, we are on YouTube, we are on Instagram, we are on TikTok. Most importantly, we are on a podcast platform that you are listening to.
00:26:03
Zak
So stay tuned for the more and more content. And thank you very much for listening and we will see you in the next one.
00:26:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Have a good weekend, weekend everyone. Bye.
00:26:24
Zak
Amen.