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S1-E76 : Wildcard Wednesday! Unpopular Opinions!
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On todays episode of the Daily Arsenal podcast we welcome our newest member, Craig Matthews, and discuss our unpopular opinions which include thoughts on Mbappe, Ronaldo, Emi Martinez and David Raya! Make sure not to miss it!
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Introduction of Craig Matthews
00:00:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello one and all and welcome to the Daily Arsenal Podcast brought to you as part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. It is Wild Card Wednesday and it is so wild in fact that there has been an unannounced transfer that has occurred within the ranks of the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:00:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
I am your host, Josh Finns. I'm joined by the classic Jamie Patton, but we are delighted to announce that the Daily Arsenal Podcast have signed on a free transfer from the Daily Chelsea Podcast.
00:00:31
Craig matthews
and
00:00:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is Craig Matthews. Craig, welcome
Craig's Transition to Arsenal Podcast
00:00:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
to the family.
00:00:44
Craig matthews
Thank you Finally, finally, I mean
00:00:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah First of all, for those who haven't listened to the Daily Chelsea Podcast, Craig was put on there when he joined Global Sports Podcast Network. However, you're an Arsenal fan. Does it feel good to be home at last?
00:01:00
Craig matthews
ah so This was great. I'm here now, so I can't wait to get started.
00:01:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are you tired of talking about kalpama? Let's put it that way. like like What has the topic of conversation been like, particularly over at Chelsea recently?
00:01:09
Craig matthews
good
00:01:14
Craig matthews
I think before, it was about Cole Palmer, it was about Nicholas Jackson, it was and we were just talking about the hard-hitting choice of the decision, like in the league. and um I kind of predicted that they would do well this season.
00:01:28
Craig matthews
I said that when I was on the podcast that they would do well. I thought that they had a good squad and once he got rid of the player he didn't want, then I thought they would do okay. They're doing all right right now, I guess.
00:01:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we have you to blame for Mareska turning their fortunes around, predicting that they'll do all right on the Chelsea part.
00:01:41
Jamie
uh
00:01:41
Craig matthews
I think so. I think so. I think so.
00:01:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Jamie, great to see you as always. How
Game of Unpopular Opinions
00:01:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
are you doing, my man? Have you calmed down after the Celtic incident from a previous podcast we recorded? No, no, you haven't.
00:01:49
Jamie
yeah um dearie may may
00:01:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
The biggest mistake.
00:02:01
Jamie
ah
00:02:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
That says it all. That says it all. Well, today, as I said, as Wild Card Wednesday, not only is it time to announce our amazing new signing, it is, we're gonna play a kind of fun little game. We're just gonna bring some unpopular opinions. So the idea is each podcaster will announce one or two unpopular opinions and have to defend it against what the other two may, whether they disagree or not with that opinion. So to get us rolling, I will start.
Is Mbappe Overrated?
00:02:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now this one actually she sprung to mind watching sort of Liverpool, Real Madrid, thinking about things like that. I think Keon Bappe is massively overrated and is a bang average player.
00:02:41
Jamie
Do you know what?
00:02:45
Jamie
I don't know.
00:02:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bang average.
00:02:45
Jamie
The thing is right.
00:02:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Bang average. He's not a world class player.
00:02:47
Jamie
For me, for me, right.
00:02:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nowhere near it.
00:02:51
Jamie
He done a lot. He really done a lot at PSG, but you got to remember that at Real Madrid, he's, he's there with a lot of big name players.
00:03:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he should be flying and he's still struggling.
00:03:01
Jamie
You know, true.
00:03:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's useless. And he he did brilliantly in Lee Gun.
00:03:08
Jamie
Hmm.
00:03:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And let's be honest, Lee Gun, when you look at the comparison, even to the Lee Gun, Lee Gun is, that is the true farmer's league of Europe. Like the Bundesliga is a solid league.
00:03:17
Jamie
Yeah.
00:03:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Serie Aries is sane at the moment. La Liga's quality, Lee Gun is a farmer's league.
00:03:22
Craig matthews
Hmm.
00:03:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, he smashed it because it was Lee Gun. He's bang average.
00:03:27
Craig matthews
Hmm.
00:03:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
That is my genuine opinion.
00:03:29
Jamie
To build this review, I would love to have seen him just come to the Premier League and just see how he copes in the Premier League.
00:03:30
Craig matthews
Hmm.
00:03:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I reckon if he came to the Premier League, you're probably looking at maybe a kudos level
Mbappe's Champions League Struggles
00:03:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
player. Good, you know, quality player, but not the world class player that, you know, they're paying millions and millions of pounds to a week.
00:03:40
Jamie
Yeah.
00:03:41
Craig matthews
and
00:03:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
I honestly, I don't see him as much more than just, you know, a relatively decent squad player. Does that, ah does that sit comfortably with Ukraine or?
00:03:56
Craig matthews
I think, I think he's still got a lot to prove. I know he's scored an awful lot of goals but he's scored in World Cup finals but when he was at PSG he had Neymar Messi around him and never wanted to have to leave with them two quality players around him so he goes to show that
00:04:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:11
Craig matthews
Was he really a good leader for his team? Because he never really won the Champions League. When they had that great team, when they got to the final, there's Bayern Munich in the lockdown. No, not Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich in the final.
00:04:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:21
Craig matthews
And they didn't win it. and that that That goes to tell that goes it hold he should have been that leader to win that final for them when their first Champions League didn't do it. so And they had the opportunity to play with world-class players as well.
00:04:33
Craig matthews
so You can't blame Neymar. You can't blame Messi. You have to look at yourself.
00:04:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:04:39
Craig matthews
in the mirror and say, well, I had the players, I didn't do it. So am I really this top class player that everyone thinks I am? Yes, he does in against, yes, he has done in the World Cup, walk in the World Cup final for France against Argentina, scored a hat through, still didn't win the final.
00:04:54
Craig matthews
It's hard, it's a very interesting debate about him because he's holding out 25-0, 25-26.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:02
Jamie
Yeah.
00:05:02
Craig matthews
He should be reaching his peak, peak, and he's not really, I noticed he's just come through Madrid,
00:05:05
Jamie
Definitely.
00:05:09
Craig matthews
But Madrid play a certain way, and I don't think he fits the system of how Madrid play. I feel that, like, with English, he wants to play on the left, he wants to play on the left, he doesn't play through the middle. And, like, Jude Bellum is a good player as well, and he has to be, has been struggling to see it a little bit because of the way how the system's being made up around Madrid.
00:05:25
Craig matthews
So, a little bit better, but I don't think they really needed him to be on the TV. I think that was the role of the one that happened to get far in last season, so, yeah.
00:05:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he seems to just unbalance the team ah with that ego with the expectation.
00:05:35
Craig matthews
Hmm.
00:05:37
Jamie
Yeah.
00:05:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I'll throw my second one out. And then when we come back from a break, we'll hear one from you. In my opinion, Christiana Ronaldo isn't even near the greatest of all time conversation.
Ronaldo vs. The Greats
00:05:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's not anywhere near it. Not he doesn't get a single look in.
00:05:53
Craig matthews
o
00:05:56
Jamie
ah The thing is right, for me...
00:05:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, nowhere near it. When you've got the likes of Messi Maradona, he doesn't touch them.
00:06:03
Jamie
Really, Maradona?
00:06:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah! When you're talking about the great Pelé as well, you've got to throw in there for a good measure.
00:06:09
Jamie
I was going to say, yeah, you've got yeah if you're going to throw Maradona in, you've got to throw Pele in then.
00:06:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
But...
00:06:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
But a lot of people discussed Cristiano Ronaldo in those same levels. He doesn't touch him.
00:06:20
Jamie
To be honest, Messi, for me, Messi is just up there. ah In my opinion, I think here is my ease ah don't know about you, Craig, but he is my goat.
00:06:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:30
Craig matthews
It's my favorite player.
00:06:32
Craig matthews
I love watching Messi play with Messi.
00:06:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:06:32
Jamie
Yeah, same.
00:06:34
Craig matthews
When he gets the ball, I feel like there's no ego with Messi. In the World Cup, he led the team to the World Cup. One, two, Cop America's. So he's already clocked football now.
00:06:45
Craig matthews
He's won everything in football. He can recall tomorrow a very happy man. He's won everything in football.
00:06:51
Craig matthews
Ronaldo had a good spell at my night around Madrid. He didn't win the Champions League at Juventus.
00:06:57
Jamie
Hmm.
00:06:57
Craig matthews
He came back to United. He had that interview that kind of ruined...
00:07:03
Jamie
Yeah, that pays Morgan interview.
00:07:03
Craig matthews
I think he kind of punished... Yeah, that kind of punished his legacy at my night a little bit, I would say.
00:07:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:08
Craig matthews
Because the only thing he did say was right was the way how he said at the time he said it as well.
00:07:12
Jamie
Yeah.
00:07:13
Craig matthews
It could have been... Maybe when he retired from football he could have said that, but I feel like a lot of people do look up to Ronaldo, but Messi, Messi was the guy for me, is the guy for me.
00:07:25
Craig matthews
And I think Messi's gone ways on in football from a young age, still wants to win trophies, still hungry. You know, I feel like he's a top, top player. And it goes to show all the Ballon d'Ors is one as well as one more than Ronaldo.
00:07:39
Craig matthews
So yeah.
00:07:39
Jamie
Mm.
00:07:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
clearly my opinions aren't actually that controversial. They're kind of unanimous, which is, I feel a little bit better about that now. Right, we're gonna take a little break. ah We're gonna hear from our partners at Zencast. So when we come back, I'd like to hear first from Jamie and then from Craig, their unpopular opinions. And then in the third section, we'll knock out another couple, because I've got one about an Arsenal player, which I think might upset somebody. So we'll be back just after this message from Zencast.
00:08:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
And welcome back to the Daily Arsenal Podcast.
Debate on Kai Havertz
00:08:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's Wild Card Wednesday and we're talking unpopular opinions. So Jamie, I've given two, which didn't seem to upset anybody, which was quite a nice surprise. Have you got anything genuinely controversial in your opinions on the footballing world?
00:08:55
Jamie
One came to mind and I'd like to get both your opinions and I know this is going to wind up a certain somebody out there. yeah But, Kai Havert, for me, is just an amazing footballer.
00:09:03
Craig matthews
Uh.
00:09:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:09:12
Jamie
What, what, what, okay, he's a good footballer, put it that way.
00:09:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Amazing is a strong word.
00:09:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, no, stick to your guns, Jamie. Stick to your guns.
00:09:21
Jamie
Amazing.
00:09:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's your controversial opinion.
00:09:23
Jamie
Yeah. Amazing.
00:09:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Me and Craig will just whittle you down.
00:09:24
Jamie
I do think, I do think he's good. He's amazing. And I just think, yes, he can really make Arsenal tick. And I know JD sits there and says, Oh, but he can't kick a football and he doesn't know how to connect with the ball.
00:09:37
Jamie
But look, look at the other night scored, scored in the Champions League. You know, I just think he's, I think he plays well with good players around him, but what's your opinion?
00:09:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
When it comes to Kai, I like the guy. I think he's i think he's a solid holder of the bull. I think he's good at linking play. um His attacking positioning has a lot to improve. In terms of being amazing, I don't think he's amazing. I think he's in a team of phenomenal players who bring out the best qualities in him.
00:10:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he's very good. i He had a very high ceiling when he was younger. I don't think he's gonna hit that ceiling, but he's still a solid player, but amazing is a very strong word, Jamie.
00:10:23
Jamie
Mmm.
00:10:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very, very strong.
00:10:29
Craig matthews
shit
00:10:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I backed him up with you against JD, and I will continue to do so, because I think he can kick a football. But amazing is very strong. What about you, Craig? Do you think that Kai Herbert is, quote unquote, amazing?
00:10:44
Craig matthews
I wouldn't say amazing. I'll say that he does a job for the team. I feel like he there's a lot of things in this game he can he can very he can improve on. He can hold the ball up. He's very unselfish. I'll give him that. He's very unselfish. He works hard for the team.
00:10:57
Craig matthews
I feel like he can score more goals. That's how I judge my strikers, scoring goals. I feel like the sometimes in matches when he's not in the right place in the right time, he you would have a lot of goals if he was in the box in the right place and he would score tap A lot of tap-ins in some games, he the ball goes inside the box and he doesn't tap, but he doesn't get get there and misses the ball.
00:11:16
Craig matthews
Even the whole Arsenal team when it comes to attacking, sometimes they put the ball in the box and there's no one poached, like a poacher, we haven't got a poacher on our team. That's one of his, if you can improve that and get more goals. So this season it's got 20 or 25 plus goals and it's on the verge of getting there but I thought it's still got a lot of room for improvement I would say.
00:11:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
The thing is as well, what player is he? What is he? Is he a forward? Is he a midfielder? Is he a centre forward? Is is he attacking a midfielder?
00:11:46
Jamie
I think he's a forward.
00:11:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
You think he's a forward?
00:11:49
Jamie
I think he's a forward because we've we've seen it time and time again with Havertz where he cannot play in that midfield role. We've seen it and it just doesn't work.
00:12:00
Jamie
For me, I see him as a striker.
00:12:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, fair enough. ah Craig, have you got an unpopular opinion
Bellingham vs. Foden for England
00:12:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
to share with us?
00:12:08
Craig matthews
Yeah, I do. um I've watched in the Euros in the summer and I've fought in England. orset And I think, I think, dude, Belgium's a better player than for furthering the number 10 role for England. That's smart opinion. I've fought that. He does more. And I watched the game he played, the two games he played over the international BRIT recently.
00:12:25
Craig matthews
He got two, I think he got a goal and he got two assists and I thought that he should be the team, the England builders team around him. I'm not full-folded, that's just my honest opinion. I thought that Jude Benham has got great potential and I thought that he scores more goals, he gets more assists and he can run with the ball and he's a team player as well. I think he does more for England than full-folded, that's just my honest opinion.
00:12:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
i I think your opponent your opinion has some merit. I think he's definitely better in the sense of technically than Phil Foden, but i I don't think he's an attacking midfielder.
00:13:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he's suited better to that deeper lying playmaker role. I'll tell you who I do think is and a better attacking midfielder than Phil Foden, who I would put in that number 10 with Jude behind him.
00:13:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
I would put Jack Grealish there.
00:13:14
Jamie
Oh, I don't know.
00:13:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I would put Jack Grealish there over Phil Foden. Now that's upset Jamie.
00:13:20
Jamie
No, no.
00:13:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Go on then, Jamie. ah Let's hit your yeah two-pence on this.
00:13:24
Jamie
Jack, Jack Green. No, I'm sorry. I just think for me, yeah he's not had a run of games. He has not had to run a run of games. I don't think he deserves to be even sniffing into that England squad.
00:13:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
What?
00:13:38
Jamie
He hasn't, has he had a run of games?
00:13:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Grealish, you don't think you deserve to sniff in?
00:13:43
Jamie
Has he had a run at games? Has but...
00:13:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not recently, but he's one of but he's one of the most he's one of the more different and interesting England players.
00:13:47
Craig matthews
Not recently, think that
00:13:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
It gives you something new. I think he's vital. i
00:14:00
Craig matthews
a
00:14:01
Jamie
Go on Craig.
00:14:02
Craig matthews
ah I feel like Jack Grewless is a very good player. ah ah When I was at Aston Villa, at Aston Villa, Jack Grewless, he was a problem. Like, excuse me, he can't, he can't, he can't come to the city.
00:14:09
Jamie
Yes.
00:14:12
Craig matthews
He's not been the same player. He's won a lot of trophies, don't get me wrong, but his goal input, his assist input has dropped dramatically since he's come to see the city. I don't know if the manager's coached him out of him to do his special stuff, but he's more like into a system, not like at Villa, where he had the free roll, the roam, like setting a middle roll over the pitch.
00:14:30
Jamie
yeah
00:14:30
Craig matthews
the ceiling, different parts of the face doing it. You can check his stats in Aston Villa compared to Man City. I think his game has changed a lot. I think he's more, but on his day, there's no one better than him on his day.
00:14:41
Craig matthews
And that position in a number 10 was no one better than him on his day.
00:14:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he's phenomenal, yeah.
00:14:44
Craig matthews
You have to give credit. You gotta give credit where credit is due.
00:14:46
Jamie
yeah yeah but right now but right now i'm sorry i just don't see him i just don't
00:14:47
Craig matthews
On his day, he's unplayable. When he's on it, you can't stop him. I think...
00:14:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
of
00:14:55
Craig matthews
Right, yeah. I agree with right now. If England cannot knock on, I feel like when, I don't know, the way our Man City player, when he plays for England, Man City, I think it's two different things. For England, he seems to thrive when he plays for England. I think he's very confident playing for England, and he's happy playing there, but when he plays for Man City, he knows that if he has one bad game, he's on the bench or three.
00:15:20
Jamie
I also think, though, with his England form, it's the fact that he's given the opportunity to be free.
00:15:23
Craig matthews
and
00:15:28
Jamie
he He'll have the opportunity to maybe roam a little bit, but like you say, when it comes to City, he's very he's not given the potential to really show his class.
00:15:28
Craig matthews
Mm.
00:15:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
the
00:15:38
Jamie
But I just think right now, currently, I just don't ah don't think Jack Greeley should really be sniffing into the England squad, in my opinion.
00:15:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
look Okay and once you make a Craig's initial unpopular opinion that ah Bellingham should be the 10 instead of Foden,
00:15:54
Jamie
Uh, I'll be honest, if we had this discussion before the Euros, I would probably say, well, I'd probably edge Foden, but as it stands now, yeah, I'd have Bellingham in that 10 role.
00:16:05
Craig matthews
but
00:16:06
Jamie
Foden, unfortunately, again, former's kind of, You know, he he thrives under that pep role last season, but it just, I don't know what's not clicked for him this season under pep. So I just, yeah, I'll be honest. I do agree. I think um Bellingham should really fit that 10 role nicely over Foden.
00:16:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right then, well, we're going to take another little break. And when we come back, i've got I've got one, I've possibly got two, but I'd love to hear if you guys have any more. So we'll be back just after this message from the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:16:35
Craig matthews
Yeah.
00:17:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
And welcome back to the Daily Arsenal Podcast. It is the last section of our Wild Card Wednesday and on Popular Opinions. Now before I, do you know what, I'm going to jump in with one and then I'd love to hear if you guys have any more.
Guardiola's Impact on Player Potential
00:17:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Pep Guardiola is a player killer. In the sense that he brings in phenomenal players with great potential and smothers them to a point where he kills their potential.
00:17:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
not all the time, but he does it to very high profile, very good players. I'm talking, yeah I was actually triggered by Jack Greenish, Nunez, and there's a number of other midfielders and defenders that he's brought in as well.
00:17:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think sometimes he breaks the best players. What do you reckon?
00:17:58
Craig matthews
I agree.
00:17:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes! Ah, no it's...
00:18:02
Craig matthews
I agree because that there's there's one example I gave you and I think I hope both of you would agree with me as well. Calvin Phillips. ah carvin went When Calvin Phillips was at Leeds here, he could have moved to any club in the Premier League, in the top four club or top eight or seven in the Premier League.
00:18:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh my word, yes.
00:18:08
Jamie
Oh...
00:18:18
Craig matthews
He was also a great player. I lead a lot. I just love watching him play and I thought he actually moved to City or a little kick on. It's gone backwards for him. Now he's like, if he can hardly get him in, it's like, if he that he is a player that God would have brought in and he hasn't, he hasn't done well with him at all.
00:18:37
Craig matthews
That's a shame as well, because he's a good player as well.
00:18:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
And like you say, when when things go wrong for a player under pep, they don't just go wrong in that club, he kills their careers.
00:18:39
Jamie
Yeah.
00:18:47
Craig matthews
and
00:18:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
He destroys like, like you say, Calvin Phillips, his stock has gone from the top to hardly getting a look in in a relegation side, which can't happen by accident.
00:18:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's got to be something deeper there.
00:18:58
Jamie
No.
00:18:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
What do you do you agree with that Jamie as well?
00:18:59
Craig matthews
yeah
00:19:01
Jamie
Yeah, and i and I also think as well his comments, ah Pep's comments during the, I think Pep's comments during the World Cup when he started talking about his weight and stuff like that, you know, I kind of thought, well, you know, it's not really
00:19:14
Craig matthews
Yeah.
00:19:18
Jamie
not great in my opinion and that that in itself can really ruin ah it can really wreck a player's confidence and you know it is honestly so sad to see but i think another reason also so another player i'd also bring on is jack greenish you know we we discussed on it in not too long ago you know great great player at villa and now at city it's all of a sudden now it just doesn't seem to
00:19:22
Craig matthews
Hmm.
00:19:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it can do.
00:19:27
Craig matthews
Hmm.
00:19:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Yeah.
00:19:47
Jamie
doesn't really it's not really seem to click for him unfortunately absolutely
00:19:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Now, go.
00:19:50
Craig matthews
And as an other player as well, Yaya Tore, when God really came in, when it was at Barcelona, He just got rid of him when he came to my city manager, got rid of him, and it was their best prayer for two.
00:20:01
Craig matthews
I think that time that period throughout my city, he scored, I think it was a good prayer for them.
00:20:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was phenomenal in here.
00:20:07
Craig matthews
And then God just benched him, benched him, benched him. Hardly played him. I think he lost his confidence and self-belief as well. And it was a good prayer for Yayatore for the city as well.
00:20:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm very sorry to interject, but and while Jamie was talking, I made a lot of weird faces. I wasn't actually going to mention the day that we're recording, but we're actually recording right after me and Jamie recorded the preview of the West Ham game. it's half past nine on Wednesday 27th.
00:20:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I just mentioned that I think that Mbappe is a bang average player. While Jamie was talking, Kieran Keller saved a penalty from Mbappe at Anfield.
00:20:44
Jamie
wow wow um
00:20:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was one of the worst penalties I've ever seen. ah So just to, just to cement my opinion, Mbappe is bang average. ah Does anybody else have any other big unpopular opinions that they want to share?
00:20:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
If they don't, I have one that we can end on.
00:21:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Craig, anything?
00:21:03
Craig matthews
Yeah, um I personally feel that I think that because like we'll win more troops in hurricane at his age when
00:21:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Go on.
00:21:14
Jamie
We signed him for a reason. We signed him for a reason.
00:21:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, the thing is as well, I'm pretty sure Saka was in the FA Cup squad, wasn't he, when we won it a couple of years ago.
00:21:18
Jamie
Comments like that, we signed him for a reason.
00:21:27
Craig matthews
yeah he's got one he's got one over him already yeah
00:21:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
In which case, he's not cursed.
00:21:30
Jamie
Yeah.
00:21:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that curse is not lingering on Bekaya, which is a beautiful thing to see. I think you you're bang right, Craig. Yeah, he's definitely going to win more than Harry Kane.
00:21:42
Jamie
Absolutely.
00:21:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Will he score more than Harry Kane? I don't think so.
00:21:46
Craig matthews
No, but he would win more.
00:21:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
believe He definitely, definitely win more.
00:21:47
Craig matthews
He would definitely win more.
00:21:49
Jamie
Yeah. But it's mad to think, right, that with Kane, he's in, he's in a, he's in a side, a by Munich side with Elise and all these, all these massive and big names, but it's, yeah, unfortunately Kane can score the goals and so on.
00:22:10
Jamie
Um, but yeah, I totally agree with you. Josh, you've pulled another face.
00:22:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, and ah i no nothing's happening in the game.
00:22:17
Jamie
what What's happened?
00:22:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just think it's typical, isn't it, for Harry Kane to finally go to a side where he should win a trophy. And it's the year that Bayern Leverkusen go unbeaten. It's just for anyone who but anyone who's an Arsenal fan and you know hopes that Harry Kane does well for England but wants his club career to be a mess, it was just perfection itself.
00:22:28
Jamie
yeah
00:22:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
The last thing that I'm going to leave us on is an opinion that I have come to in the last couple of days, which might be, it might seem a little bit contradictory to some things that I've said in the podcast, but I'm a little bit worried about it.
00:22:54
Jamie
Ha ha ha!
00:22:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
David Vrier is not good enough to lead Arsenal to greatness.
Is David Raya Arsenal's Future?
00:23:05
Jamie
Now, I'll be honest with you, I said this in a previous pod, but I think the reason why Arteza brought in Raya was he thought, because I just think, he thinks that Raya is that level to take Arsenal to go and win, whether it's the prem or just a trophy in general, but
00:23:28
Jamie
That's, that's wow. What, what, what, what a statement.
00:23:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, Emmanuel Ebuwes, I think, I think it was Emmanuel Ebuwes who came out and said he thinks we're going to win the Champions League this year. We are not going to do it with David Ryerego, I don't think. I think he's a good stopper. I don't, when you look at the goalkeepers who have won the Champions League in the last few years and the Premier League in the last few years, you are looking at Courtois, Alison and Edison.
00:23:46
Jamie
Hmm.
00:23:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're the big three and the biggest, best goalkeepers in the world.
00:23:51
Craig matthews
and
00:23:51
Jamie
Big note, basically big name players.
00:23:57
Craig matthews
and
00:23:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ryan is not in that conversation, I don't think. I think it's good he's good, but he's not in that conversation and.
00:24:01
Jamie
you've got to remember you've got to remember this isn't right like rya hasn't had a full season at arsenal because ah rich originally it was a yeah so i still i know like obviously august there was only what maybe three four
00:24:08
Craig matthews
and and it came
00:24:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:13
Craig matthews
in september then it came in end of august september and another transfer on the right and it
00:24:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. He came towards the end. Yeah.
00:24:23
Jamie
four games roughly played in that season but he hasn't had a full season yet Arsenal he's had a full year at Arsenal you know but you know
00:24:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:34
Craig matthews
a
00:24:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
I worry. I just worry that he's not enough. ah do What do you make of that, Craig?
00:24:39
Craig matthews
I thought about it last season when he made a lot of mistakes. I was very on the, I was really like, why did we bring him in? Like we had Ramsdale at the time, but then he kind of, this season, the sport of the season really changed my opinion on him.
00:24:51
Craig matthews
He made some crucial save, firstly the Atlanta game in the Champions League, that penalty save.
00:24:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, yeah, that was pretty good.
00:24:58
Craig matthews
And the, and the, and the Tottenham game made some crucial saves as well.
00:25:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:25:02
Craig matthews
um My only thing is I thought we'd let go of a really world-class goalkeeper. I think you guys were both good with me.
00:25:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And Aaron Ramsey.
00:25:09
Craig matthews
He's fair for Arsenal.
00:25:10
Jamie
Absolutely.
00:25:10
Craig matthews
No, not Ramsdale.
00:25:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, oh my I know who you're talking about.
00:25:12
Craig matthews
Before Ramsdale.
00:25:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Emmy Martinez.
00:25:15
Craig matthews
Martinez.
00:25:15
Jamie
I mean, Martinez.
00:25:16
Craig matthews
Look at what he's done at Aston Villa since he left Arsenal.
00:25:20
Jamie
Yeah.
00:25:21
Craig matthews
He'd be a world-class goalkeeper for us right now if he was still there. What he's done. I think it's a top-class goalkeeper, honestly. I think he's up there with the Alistairns and the Alistairns of the Premier League.
00:25:32
Craig matthews
I honestly feel he's that good.
00:25:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
I do agree with you, actually Craig, yeah.
00:25:33
Craig matthews
i and I think he's that good. I think, I know he does a lot of like stuff that really winds up fans and whatever, but as a goalkeeper, if you judge him as a goalkeeper, not as a person outside off the field, as a goalkeeper, he's up there one of one.
00:25:49
Craig matthews
And we had him in the academy for a long time, hardly played him.
00:25:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:52
Craig matthews
And then when we did play, me he won us the FA Cup against Chelsea, who remembers but the the COVID, I call it the COVID Cup, but So the COVID, I call that the COVID Cup.
00:25:56
Jamie
Basically.
00:26:03
Craig matthews
he He won us that trophy and in the next season he wanted to be number one. And I think it was, and then Arteta said he wants to make Leno.
00:26:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Him and Leno, wouldn't he?
00:26:12
Craig matthews
Yeah, then Leno was number one and Leno didn't do all that season.
00:26:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:26:15
Craig matthews
And then I think in the summer we brought in Ramsdale and then Ramsdale took over from Leno and then Leno left. So I would have kept, honestly, we should have kept on Martinez. We should have kept him and said, so you are number one now.
00:26:24
Jamie
absolutely
00:26:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
he He had a really weird arsenal career, didn't he, Martinez?
00:26:27
Craig matthews
So, yeah.
00:26:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
We put him on so many loans. He never really got that looking apart from that f FA Cup game. And then when Leno was injured briefly and he really showed himself off, i That is definitely a misjudgment from Arteta.
Emi Martinez's Rise to Top-Class Goalkeeper
00:26:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'd be very, very willing to agree.
00:26:42
Jamie
Yeah.
00:26:42
Craig matthews
and
00:26:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
And yeah, he's definitely up there in terms of the best goalkeepers in the world. And also, I don't know somebody who has the cajones to bang a statue in the middle of Abu Dhabi in front of that sort of crowd when it's the glove and he's just won the Golden Globe of the World Cup.
00:27:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was that was a moment.
00:27:01
Jamie
Hmm.
00:27:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
A moment that will lift me from...
00:27:02
Craig matthews
Definitely, for the moment, yeah.
00:27:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. and will live I think you'll live with us forever, whether we want it to or not.
00:27:04
Jamie
Yeah, definitely.
00:27:05
Craig matthews
are
00:27:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
That is that is it for today's episode of the Daily Arsenal Podcast. Thank you very, very much for listening. um I have been your host, Josh Vince. Today with Jamie Patterson and Craig Matthews, the brand new member of the Daily Arsenal team.
00:27:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
We will be back tomorrow. um it's Is it going to be a crossover? I believe it is a crossover tomorrow. It's all getting very confusing in December, but we'll let you know as soon as possible. Anyway, until then, have a great day and goodbye.