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Gspn Everton 1
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Pre season chat new signings and were will we end up?
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Introduction to the Podcast
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officialgspn
Good afternoon, good evening. I am Johnny Wilson, and welcome to GSPN Podcast Network. This is our first Ebertson podcast with Gus and Matt.
00:00:20
officialgspn
Welcome, guys.
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Gus
Thanks for having us.
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Matt
How we doing?
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officialgspn
Excellent, excellent.
00:00:27
Matt
Have any of you guys done this kind of thing before? Is this the first time we're doing this kind of, I'm using the whole experience today.
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officialgspn
ah First time, yeah, first time. Everything's all new, all new.
Everton's Season Prospects
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officialgspn
And hopefully at the end of the season, we're we're still talking to each other when we're celebrating our 10th position.
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Matt
Have you heard the there's news today about another deduction?
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officialgspn
Oh yeah, we we mentioned that before me and Gus, we wasn't going to bring it up on the podcast.
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Gus
yes Say I didn't didn't want this ah didn't want this podcast to be just weeks on weeks of us just bemoaning our points deductions, but could be another year of that.
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officialgspn
ah
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officialgspn
point
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Matt
It started already.
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officialgspn
Take it all off us. we We'll still be up there.
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Matt
yeah I don't know if I can do another season of it, but hopefully not.
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officialgspn
We're blue boys.
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Matt
Hopefully it's a new start.
Player Spotlight: Tim from Villa
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officialgspn
Yeah. after Well, after looking at the pre-season, I think we had some some fantastic games and we've got some great, great new players that have joined us at Everton.
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Matt
ah but I was watching highlights of the Roman one at the weekend and that Tim looks a player.
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officialgspn
Yes.
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officialgspn
tim ara Bionim from Villa.
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Matt
He looked great.
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Matt
Yeah. Yeah.
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officialgspn
Yeah, yeah, he looks really good.
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Gus
and
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Matt
It was a sort of PSR swap deal with Dobbin at the time, I think.
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Matt
But I think we might have got the better end of the ah end of the deal with it.
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Gus
one of my one of my close base is a Preston fan and um I got a message 10 15 minutes into our game over there from him being like whoever that 42 is your new sign and he's a player.
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officialgspn
We've got Jaco Bryan.
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Matt
I think we might have actually got the better deal with Villa. I think it'll be better than what Anana was for us, I hope.
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officialgspn
um Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm good and i'm glad he's gone. He wasn't the player that I expected him to be. I thought he was going to be the new Fellaini, but he wasn't quite that.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Matt
He had an odd 10 minutes every odd six games or so, didn't he?
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Gus
I think, I still think he'll be a special player.
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officialgspn
Yeah.
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Matt
I think.
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Gus
i I really do. I think he wouldn't, we wouldn't have got the best of him here, but I think he'll go on and thrive elsewhere.
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officialgspn
Yeah.
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Gus
I will be thinking how we early got 50 in a few years.
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officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
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Matt
Well, now he's left off.
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Gus
um
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Matt
He'll definitely become a, it will be to any.
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officialgspn
Yeah.
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officialgspn
We say, oh, remember him.
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officialgspn
We made him go.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Gus
right Remember that?
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Matt
Yeah.
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officialgspn
That's what we can normally do. We make get a couple of great players and get rid of them.
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Gus
panelt regulator
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Gus
Hahaha.
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Matt
Yeah. It's quite positive you start it as well. It's good. Um, but the preseason was okay.
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officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
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Matt
We had a beat Preston. Um, I thought we were better then, but the foot that we had Salford loss, we had a Coventry four nil, didn't we?
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officialgspn
Yeah, that was good.
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officialgspn
That was a good game.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Matt
My brother went to that one actually. He said it was, it was horrible. Yeah.
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officialgspn
Yeah.
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Matt
Not good. But have you what did you think of the new signings then?
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officialgspn
Brilliant, brilliant. We've got Jack O'Brien from ah Olympic Leon for 19 and a half billion.
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Matt
Yeah.
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officialgspn
He's a really, really good.
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Matt
Potential brunt weight replacement.
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officialgspn
Pardon?
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Matt
weight replacement or do you think it covered?
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officialgspn
Yes, yeah, could be, could be. If he goes to United, I mean, it's looking like they're still going to take him.
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Gus
Yeah.
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Matt
They say he's injured, but maybe it's a,
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Gus
That's the
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officialgspn
It's a ploy.
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Matt
knowing everything will be another cover-up, won't it?
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officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
Transfer Speculations and Team Needs
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Matt
right
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Gus
thing with with money so stretched, I think spending 20 mil on a pretty unproven centre back is a bit of an odd one.
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Gus
If it's not looking like a brand for it's leaving, I think it is.
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Matt
You're right, yeah.
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Gus
I think it it must be implying that I reckon because otherwise we've got a lot more positions that need filling more than what we have one of the best defense in the league last year, didn't we?
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officialgspn
Yeah, yeah, we did, yeah.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Gus
Um, I'm Tarkovsky. ah coffee and brownways and unreal partnership I know the quality level drops off a bit when you get to Michael Keene and Mason Holgate, but that being said, it's it's not the first place I'd have looked for a signing.
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officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
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Matt
No, I haven't heard of him, to be fair.
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officialgspn
I what i watched him play and he looked really good.
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Gus
I scored
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officialgspn
He's solid and stuck in, which is what we need.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Gus
a couple of goals as well already.
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Matt
Yeah.
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officialgspn
Yeah, he has. Yeah, yeah. Some crackers.
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Matt
If Brantaway does go, I think I'd be okay with him coming in, I think.
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officialgspn
Yeah, yeah, I will. Yeah, I will. He looks positive.
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Matt
Yeah, I think it'll be okay. He's massive as well, isn't he?
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officialgspn
And I think...
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officialgspn
Pardon?
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Gus
two
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Matt
He's massive as well, isn't he?
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officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
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Matt
six, seven or something.
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Gus
He's a, he's a big lad.
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officialgspn
He used to be a basketball player.
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Gus
sure
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Matt
He'll do.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Gus
that
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officialgspn
He was born in a greenhouse.
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Gus
right
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Matt
Yeah. We've got him. We've got, is it Jesper Lindstrom on loan 2 million loan feeling page.
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officialgspn
Did you see that free kick that he scored?
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Matt
Did, did finally free pick taker.
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officialgspn
My God! That was the goal of the pre-season, that for me.
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officialgspn
That was phenomenal.
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Matt
Yeah.
Potential and Future Planning
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officialgspn
Nobody expected that one, did they?
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Matt
No, we haven't had a freak take this into Morales.
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Gus
Have we got an option to
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officialgspn
He put the ball down.
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Matt
The people were saying he was like, yeah,
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officialgspn
He just sailed it in.
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Gus
buy on him?
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Matt
and we got sorry.
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Gus
Have we got an option to buy on him?
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Matt
Yeah, I think so.
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officialgspn
He's a lone thief, two million from Napoli, isn't he?
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Matt
Yeah. And I think there isn't that there, there's an option. I think.
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officialgspn
Tacky midfielder, what a player.
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Matt
Cause I don't think he had the best run at Napoli.
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officialgspn
yeah
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Matt
I think it was, he did all right in Germany a and struggled in Napoli.
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Gus
Yeah. Yeah. but Last year, right.
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officialgspn
Yeah.
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Gus
Broke for it.
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Matt
So I think they thought it's trying.
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Gus
Frank for struggled apparently a lot last year, but it's it to be pretty promising.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Gus
So it'd be nice. It's nice that we're looking to what we're doing.
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officialgspn
Yeah.
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Matt
We've got a few of them that we've come in that are actually looking to something to prove that Tim.
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Gus
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. ero but And, I don't know if you know, there's a YouTuber called James Lawrence.
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officialgspn
Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Gus
oldart He's a, he's a QPR.
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Matt
oh he's great yeah
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Gus
And he, when Irrigbunum was on loan at QPR, was singing his praises constantly. He said he was raw and that he would quite often drift in and out of games as any, what is he, 21 year old would, but as a promising young player.
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officialgspn
Yeah.
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Matt
yeah
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Gus
And to be fair, I think that's a, that's a position that with gay, probably Well, not actually declining as quickly as I thought he would, but with him eventually going to be on the way out, it'd be nice to blood someone in.
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Gus
I don't want too much responsibility on him too early, but being able to pass that will be nice.
00:06:38
officialgspn
No, no.
00:06:41
Matt
But from what I've seen from him, he was more of a driver on the ball compared to Iannana. He was actually kind of creating that space. And I think set up, set up, he was in Dye actually, set up in Dye. I won't spoke about in Dye, but I think he's one of those players that could really do well for us.
00:07:01
Gus
yeah who in in die or in yeah no that's a worry kore
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Matt
Yeah, both of a Tim and Dye. I think in Dye could be, Dye just doesn't seem to be starting him, but I think he's another one that could really do something.
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officialgspn
Well, I think he's going to be our super child, I think, Lilliman and Di from USA.
00:07:15
Matt
Yeah.
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officialgspn
He's going to be our star this season. I watched him in a couple of pre-season games and he is phenomenal. Not the last game, the one before, was it with the Preston?
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Matt
Yeah.
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officialgspn
He brought him on not far from the end, about 10 minutes, 15 minutes from the end. And though the speed of him, it was like like a leopard.
00:07:35
Matt
Yeah.
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Gus
okay
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officialgspn
You just shot down the wing. ah you If you blinked, you'd have missed him.
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Gus
Yeah, I think it'll be, it'll be perfect as a 10.
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Matt
Finally, some pace.
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officialgspn
that Yeah.
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Gus
I hope is where Diesh is going to use him. That's where Sheffield United playing off McBurney.
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officialgspn
Yeah.
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Gus
I think it was that. their championships, maybe 22, 23 or something like that.
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officialgspn
Yeah.
00:07:54
Gus
He was so excited and goals and assist numbers through the roof.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Gus
And I was saying before having to Johnny, before the podcast started picking players up like that, who've had like not
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officialgspn
yeah
00:08:05
Gus
Well, like you say, not a brilliant season, but also have had their football education outside of academies is really important. I think he sort of grew with rising ball, which like a Sunday league team turned semi-pro team.
00:08:12
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:08:17
Gus
Got went through that played a couple of years, the lower end semi-pro and like sort of found his feet when you get players of that level. playing that lower level of football, it's like dell their feet are usually crazy.
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Gus
They're playing off a whim half the time. It's not like they had the intense coaching growing up. And it's the really, really exciting players, I think.
00:08:36
Matt
Yeah, that's true.
00:08:40
Matt
Yeah, I think we've done it right in this window, I think, I hope.
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Gus
you
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officialgspn
Definitely. Yeah, I do. These these players ah these are looking really good.
Player Reliability Concerns
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Gus
How would you feel about the latter?
00:08:49
Matt
So the question just this that is, then, is Brent to be leaving?
00:08:52
Gus
Yeah. Yeah. Cause that is, that is huge and Calvert Lewin as well, which I'm interested to hear you, you too, what your thoughts are on Calvert Lewin and and um where, where you, uh, how happy.
00:09:02
officialgspn
Well, I'd have probably got rid of him four seasons ago.
00:09:02
Matt
I'll let you take a picture.
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Matt
Yeah.
00:09:05
Gus
really
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officialgspn
Great, great player, but he's ah he's made a glass.
00:09:10
Gus
Yeah.
00:09:13
Gus
Yeah.
00:09:13
Matt
Yeah.
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Gus
Yeah.
00:09:13
Matt
The issue is, is that when he, when he is playing like that, Darby at Goodison last season, he was, he was unstoppable and better doesn't give you that.
00:09:20
Gus
Yeah.
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officialgspn
Yeah.
00:09:22
Gus
Beto doesn't touch him for me.
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Matt
Or at least he hasn't from what he, from what I've seen from him.
00:09:24
Gus
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I like him. He's ah he's a workhorse. He puts himself about and he's he's a unit. He's physical and he's he's quick, but he is rusty in a way that I think Calvert-Lewin could be the perfect dyke striker if if he was kept fit, but it's a massive if, obviously, and that's the main issue with him, I guess.
00:09:35
Matt
Yeah.
00:09:45
Matt
It seems that every press conference last season, is DCL fit yet? Is he fit yet?
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Gus
Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:51
Matt
And Dias just going, we're not bringing him back just yet.
00:09:53
Gus
Yeah, I thought he handled it well before last year.
00:09:54
Matt
He needs more time on the grass.
00:09:56
Gus
I thought he played him when he needed to, rested him when he couldn't.
00:09:56
Matt
Yeah. But that shows him being that careful with him.
00:09:58
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah, he did, yeah.
00:10:00
Matt
And he still, when he played, what? He can't have played more than 15, I don't think.
00:10:04
Gus
No, no.
00:10:06
Matt
I wouldn't have thought.
00:10:06
Gus
Um, but yeah, I just got hope he stays a little bit fitter this year, I guess.
00:10:10
officialgspn
That's it, because he will he will be great with with those new signings.
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Matt
But then obviously he does stay.
00:10:13
officialgspn
He will be fantastic, Albert Lewin.
00:10:13
Gus
Hmm.
00:10:16
Matt
The issue is, though, if he if he doesn't if he doesn't leave this window, he'll go on a free next year, won't he?
00:10:20
Gus
Yeah.
00:10:21
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
00:10:21
Matt
I think he's on his last year of his deal.
00:10:25
officialgspn
Yeah, he's going to have to do something to improve himself this year.
00:10:28
officialgspn
Otherwise, I'm signing him a new modelling contract for H&M.
00:10:28
Matt
Yeah.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Gus
she
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Gus
yes
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Matt
That's where it will be.
00:10:39
Matt
So what would you say you're starting 11s then for the Brighton game of the weekend?
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officialgspn
Ooh, it's 9-11.
00:10:46
Gus
I haven't seen the the any fitness concerns either.
00:10:49
Gus
Or is it? Is everyone fit more or less?
00:10:51
officialgspn
Well, we lost Colman, don't we? We lost Colman at the week yesterday.
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Matt
Yeah, we did.
00:10:55
Gus
Lost you, sorry.
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officialgspn
That's not a good sign.
00:10:58
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:10:59
Matt
And then don't think Brantway is going to be fit.
00:10:59
Gus
Who was it we lost, sorry.
00:11:05
officialgspn
Gus, yeah, we lost all of them.
00:11:05
Gus
Brandtwy's not fit.
00:11:07
Gus
Oh, did we? i said har How about Patterson?
00:11:08
Matt
Yeah.
00:11:09
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah, yesterday, yeah.
00:11:12
Gus
Is he fit or?
00:11:13
Matt
Yeah. I think he's out as well.
00:11:16
Gus
yeah I've seen he's booked up over the summer.
00:11:17
Matt
I think he's out.
00:11:18
Gus
He's seen photos of that.
00:11:20
Matt
Yeah.
00:11:21
Gus
That's that's hilarious.
00:11:22
Matt
Got a bit bigger, isn't he?
00:11:23
Gus
but Yeah, looks like he's grown overnight. when
00:11:26
officialgspn
that's it
00:11:26
Matt
It was after that, was it was at the Portugal trip where Dijs slaps him on the head and he's gone, right, I need to bowl cut from now on.
00:11:30
Gus
yeah ignore that often again
00:11:35
Matt
guy But it probably will be younger right back then, I think.
00:11:38
Gus
i Yeah, of which is a concern. And that's where I think I'd have invested. It depends what the opinion of Dij is on Patterson, but I think that's pretty clear already that he's not a fan.
00:11:49
officialgspn
That's
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Gus
um And I don't
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Matt
If you're playing a 38-year-old ahead of him, yeah.
00:11:53
officialgspn
it.
00:11:54
Gus
Exactly. I don't think you can go into a season with, with young and Coleman as, as the options at full back right now, as, as great and a servant as Coleman's been.
00:12:03
Gus
He's not the same player he used to be. And actually young is obviously not the same player he used to be. Um, I'd have liked
00:12:09
officialgspn
No, no. and Yeah, he's I mean, he's good, Ashley, but I think he's ah he's on his way out and he's getting a little bit tired now.
00:12:09
Matt
no
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Matt
over there
00:12:20
Matt
I'm surprised they gave him another
Aging Players and Strategic Roles
00:12:22
Matt
year.
00:12:22
officialgspn
Yeah, I am. Yeah, I've been, I probably would have brought, kept him as a sub maybe, but lots of not to start with.
00:12:29
Gus
No, I think that's probably indicative of where we are at a club as a club at the moment, really. Um, just trying to get through to this new stadium and then hopefully we'll be able to build it more positive.
00:12:33
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:39
Gus
I mean, the the early signs are good. Like this summer, if you're keeping on all the players like that and you have to sign young.
00:12:40
officialgspn
Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:44
Gus
And I think that's the thing we've done well this summer is everyone is proven to an extent, but also has a lot of his potential. It's not just a case of a short-term fix.
00:12:55
Matt
Yeah.
00:12:55
officialgspn
Yeah. yeah
00:12:58
Matt
I think we might be, hopefully it'll be okay. I think we'll be okay.
00:13:03
Matt
I was doing saying before about doing the end of edit protections for end of season. So we've probably got players, player, fans. have How would you do it?
00:13:14
Matt
How do they do it? It's a player's player, isn't it?
00:13:17
Gus
yeah
00:13:20
Matt
And one that goes through that you maybe didn't expect. I think that'll be Tim for me. I think he'll be one that,
00:13:20
Gus
but
00:13:26
Gus
i hope so I'm trying to think, I do really like James Garner.
00:13:26
Matt
the ghost series as a cracker.
00:13:32
Gus
I will always maintain that I'm a fan of James Garner. I think he gets a tougher up. um I think we progress the ball better when he's in the team. And and I also thought that about Onana, but I think Onana just didn't fit Daishe's system.
00:13:45
Matt
Nah.
00:13:45
Gus
um And I think Ghana has a little bit more, he's a bit more combative and I guess aggressive and in in the middle third. I'd like to see him get more game time in his best position rather than out on the right, like he was playing fair bit last year, or at least towards the start he was anyway.
00:14:03
Gus
um He's my one to watch, I think.
00:14:05
Matt
I quite liked it when he was playing it right back.
00:14:07
Gus
Did you? Yeah.
00:14:08
Matt
Because he played for the under 21's I think.
00:14:08
Gus
We did that for England, didn't we? Yeah, yeah.
00:14:11
Matt
Yeah.
00:14:12
Gus
And I'd like to see us start the season with that, I guess, as a fix for Noel Coleman.
00:14:17
Matt
Yeah.
00:14:17
Gus
If Patterson's injured, if Patterson's fit, I'd like to at least try and trust him, give him a run of games and see how he does. I remember a game against Brighton. I was at a 4-1 game where he pocketed Metoma.
00:14:31
Gus
And I thought, OK, now he can push on.
00:14:31
Matt
yeah
00:14:33
Gus
um now Deitch might trust him a little bit more but it's just not happened for him really has it? um but yeah yeah mikche laka yeah
00:14:39
Matt
No. And then I don't know if Micolinko's fit.
00:14:43
officialgspn
I was just going to say, yeah, he's my star man, Michael Anco.
00:14:47
Matt
he's like yeah he He's one that surprised me last season I think.
00:14:48
officialgspn
Yeah, he'd be played fantastic.
00:14:50
Matt
he he I wasn't too fond of him when he first came in, but I think he's actually done really well.
00:14:51
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:14:55
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah. Oh, he has, yeah. he's He's grown and grown and he's doing really well. He's a great player for Everton and he will progress this season.
00:15:03
Gus
hes old He's really old school, isn't he? He's not someone who's going to get beyond the halfway line, but he's a very good one on one defender.
00:15:08
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:15:13
officialgspn
Yes, yeah.
00:15:13
Gus
And that's, if I'm being brutally honest, that I would have loved us to see, I'd loved us to sign Aaron Wambasaka.
00:15:19
Gus
He's obviously gone to West Elm.
00:15:21
Matt
yeah
00:15:21
Gus
15 million doesn't sound like crazy money either.
00:15:22
officialgspn
master Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:15:22
Matt
that it
00:15:25
Gus
Like whether he'd have come to us is another ah like another question, but like in terms of defensive fullbacks, which obviously Dyches is keen on playing. I think he's, he'd have fit that perfectly. Um, ah yeah, I guess West Ham at the moment are probably a more, more attractive proposition than OCR.
00:15:36
Matt
yeah
00:15:41
Matt
Yeah. Slightly more attractive, I think, here.
00:15:46
Matt
And then I think that I should probably give Gay and Tim the midfield CDMs I think.
00:15:52
officialgspn
Yeah, he will, yeah. And the Corey over the other side.
00:15:57
Gus
I would like to see him take more of a backseat this season, I think. I love the comrade.
00:16:02
Matt
Yeah.
00:16:02
officialgspn
was yeah
00:16:03
officialgspn
ah
00:16:03
Gus
I think he's...
00:16:05
Gus
he to a when When I watch him play football, he gives me hope in terms of his technical ability. But in terms of... Well, you can offer the team. I think he's great in terms of picking up the ball as a 10.
00:16:18
Gus
I think he's so much better higher end sort of box crashing than he is deeper.
00:16:21
Matt
yeah
00:16:22
Gus
And when we're trying to pull it off, but I think, I think we, if we want to progress as a team, we might need to look towards a player like and die in that 10 role rather than him, um, just to give us that slightly different option.
00:16:22
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
00:16:33
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something with a bit more speed. He can be a bit clumsy at times, can he?
00:16:38
Gus
Hmm.
00:16:39
officialgspn
And he can make a few big mistakes. ah yeah yeah
00:16:39
Matt
I think clumsy is quite cold in there.
00:16:46
Matt
Yeah.
00:16:47
Gus
I, uh, yeah, I don't want to come across too harsh with him because I do think he, there's a place for him to score and I think he's great. And was one of the main reasons we've stayed up for the past couple of years.
00:16:53
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
00:16:58
Gus
The only one grabbing goals.
00:16:58
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah. It's not clear. He will get stuck in and so throw his feet at you, won't he?
00:17:03
Matt
Yeah.
00:17:05
Gus
Yeah, he will. He's not someone you'd want to play against, he's put it that way. um and
00:17:07
officialgspn
No, no, no. He'll stab you in two.
00:17:10
officialgspn
ah
00:17:11
Matt
Yeah.
00:17:11
Gus
He's also someone I'm not necessarily sure I'd like to play with.
00:17:16
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
00:17:16
Matt
He's an enigma, I think, at the core, eh?
00:17:19
Matt
But I think you're right.
00:17:19
Gus
Yeah.
00:17:19
Matt
Now that we're looking, maybe, to play more progressively, hopefully, you probably want to die in the middle.
00:17:24
Gus
Hmm.
00:17:24
Matt
Or at least see what so you see what you can do.
00:17:26
Gus
See what you can do. Yeah. Um, bring like with young players like him and like Lindstrom and like Arabun and like you can, you can bring them in and out the side. You might not want to play them all together.
00:17:37
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
00:17:38
Gus
Might not want to rely on them, but it's nice to have the option of having those ways and being more
00:17:44
Gus
Yeah, more progressive, both in terms of the style and in terms of the age group, because we want to grow as a team and grow into the stadium rather than be sort of aging out as we get there with,
Strategic Playstyles and Team Tactics
00:17:55
Gus
with the likes of Colman, the Corey and gay players like that, who will be great and have been great servants.
00:17:55
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:17:55
Matt
Yeah.
00:18:01
Gus
It's just, I do you want to stick with that. Or do you want to twist and try and try and progress?
00:18:07
officialgspn
Oh, you've got to go for it. You've got to go all out, haven't you? I think Endai is our man this season. I think he's going to be the one to watch. He's going to be getting all them through balls. He's going to be the one with the magic this season.
00:18:19
officialgspn
He's going to be our star player. And I'm putting my money on him to give us the most assists this season.
00:18:25
Matt
Yeah, happily take that, I think.
00:18:27
Gus
I hope so. Yeah.
00:18:31
Gus
Yeah.
00:18:32
Matt
um And then it's just the wingers, I wasn't too fussed on Harrison.
00:18:32
Gus
um ah What we think. Yeah. Did you don't want to see him back?
00:18:37
officialgspn
How are us at a McNeil?
00:18:40
Matt
I wouldn't, from what I saw, I know Harrison came and injured when he, last season, but I don't, I'd probably give Lindstrom a go on the right, give McNeil the the left hand side.
00:18:50
Gus
Hmm.
00:18:51
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
00:18:53
officialgspn
That's who we played with yesterday, with Calvert Lewin in the middle.
00:18:54
Gus
Yeah.
00:18:56
Matt
Yeah.
00:19:01
Gus
ah i think yeah i think I think with with Harrison, he's he's a good Sean Dyche winger in terms of he he will work both ways.
00:19:01
Matt
That is just the issue now, isn't it? Just the upfront with the DCL will go on up.
00:19:13
Matt
Yeah.
00:19:15
Gus
um he's pretty He's not the most positive on the ball. You'll see a lot of backwards passing and early crosses and stuff like that. but I think he will, he will always, it's a cliche, but always give you a hundred percent, always work back and tracking fullbacks is such a huge part of Deicher's system, them I guess, where those two banks are for.
00:19:23
officialgspn
yeah f yeah
00:19:37
Gus
So I ah massively got the sign and when we made it, I thought he could have been better on the ball, but gave us structure. And I think he'll do the same again next year, but yeah, Lindstrom's more exciting for sure.
00:19:47
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah. Do you want to say it's going backwards?
00:19:48
Gus
And if he can get it, if he can
00:19:51
Gus
No, ideally not, but I think with but the manager, we yeah but with the yeah with manager,
00:19:53
officialgspn
oh we want it It's frustrating. It can be like watching England sometimes. I want to see him going forward, attack, forward, forward. And when he passes that ball backwards, I'm going, where's that going? We're playing that.
00:20:08
Matt
I think that was the whole team, though, wasn't it, last year? I think it was the way Dij set us up.
00:20:11
officialgspn
yeah Yeah.
00:20:13
Matt
He was...
00:20:13
officialgspn
Yeah.
00:20:15
Matt
Don't concede and nick a goal for most of the games.
00:20:17
officialgspn
That's yeah. Yeah.
00:20:17
Gus
Yeah, well but the manager we've got, it's going to be pretty direct or safe.
00:20:22
Gus
It's one of the two, it's not going to be billed through the thirds and you're not going to see the Harrison that was at lead with Bielsa because we're just not going to play that style of football, but you're going to see the aggression of him and and the the use of him, even if he's probably not as flashy and exciting as Lindstrom will be.
00:20:26
officialgspn
No Yeah.
00:20:38
Matt
and yeah that's what I was going to say in the in the in the leads team he he probably suited it more the more direct like quick quick progressive football whereas with us it is especially on those wings it's always looking back looking to play through the middle again and then trying to whip balls in so no
00:20:55
Gus
Yeah, it's not a great cross, where is he?
00:20:59
Matt
no but I think actually to be fair the wing position in the the further forward we go up the pitch, I think that's probably our strongest. we'll do for Even our defence history, I think we actually, like we said, have done well in picking up what we need. I actually am, for once in a while, looking forward to starting it.
League Position and Comparisons
00:21:19
Gus
Yeah.
00:21:19
officialgspn
So where are we expecting to be at the end of the season, regardless of league league table?
00:21:28
Matt
um I've been looking at it, are there three worst teams in us? I think this year, I think there are. I think we'll be comfortable within this year, I hope.
00:21:36
Gus
I'm with you. I think, I think we, I think the newly promoted sides, there's a bigger gap every year between the newly promoted teams already in in the league.
00:21:44
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
00:21:45
Matt
Yeah.
00:21:47
Gus
And I think with those coming up, I think Southampton look weak. I think Leicester look really, really weak. I'd worry for them. um No, it doesn't matter.
00:21:54
Matt
Their defense doesn't look brilliant.
00:21:58
Gus
My squad is bare thin. But I think Yeah, I think there's worse teams than us. And I'd like to think we can start looking up the table rather than down at some point.
00:22:08
Gus
That's my goal for the season. That's the the main hope for me is, can we not be checking over our shoulders?
00:22:10
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
00:22:14
Gus
And can we have as much freedom as you can play with, with Sean Dyche's manager, can we play with sort of a sense of, freedom um, I'm hoping between a sort of 10th to 14th, which isn't <unk> exciting, him but it's, it's, it's great for what we're the situation now.
00:22:19
officialgspn
Yeah, well, yeah, yeah.
00:22:28
officialgspn
Well, I was going to say 10th.
00:22:32
officialgspn
I'd be happy with 10th. And it's a shame we can't get a trophy for 10th because um I think we could aim for that.
00:22:33
Gus
um
00:22:38
Gus
Yeah, yeah.
00:22:39
Matt
You don't know, cup run.
00:22:40
Gus
what be Cup run would be nice.
00:22:42
Matt
Should get one.
00:22:43
Gus
Cup run would be really nice.
00:22:43
officialgspn
Because it is like there's two leagues sometimes.
00:22:46
Matt
There.
00:22:46
Gus
It is, it really is. um I think a few teams will be weaker as well. I think Brighton will be catchable. Kind of who else finished around that ah area last season, but I think, yeah, the likes of Brentford.
00:22:57
Matt
I think West Ham will push on this season.
00:22:59
officialgspn
Yeah, West Ham were there, yeah, yeah.
00:23:00
Gus
West Ham from the push on.
00:23:02
Gus
had a good summer. But yeah, there's there's a few teams I'm confident will at least be competing with that we haven't been in the past few years, I think. Yeah, um um I'm looking forward to this season more than the past few put it that way.
00:23:10
Matt
Yeah.
00:23:15
Matt
Yeah, me too. the The last two just haven't haven've been brilliant, have they?
00:23:20
officialgspn
No, no.
00:23:20
Gus
They've had them.
00:23:22
Matt
But like I said, the findings have changed now.
00:23:23
officialgspn
It's the last season at Goodison as well.
00:23:26
Gus
Hmm.
00:23:26
Matt
Yeah.
00:23:27
officialgspn
ah I'm hoping it's all going to be magical.
00:23:29
Matt
I hope so. I hope so.
00:23:33
Gus
that You don't sound too sure government is earn the exact exactly Yeah.
00:23:33
Matt
I just don't want it.
00:23:33
officialgspn
him Confidence only, new boys.
00:23:40
officialgspn
so
00:23:42
Matt
Yeah, 10th would do me in a cup run and I'll and i'll go I'm happy, I think.
00:23:47
Gus
I don't want to be saying all this and then look back on the season, we finished 19th and think, Oh, another, another season of delusion.
00:23:53
Matt
Yeah.
00:23:54
Gus
Um, but yeah, but I think 10 to 14 is, is that's, that's a bold, exciting
00:23:55
officialgspn
come
Fan Morale and Managerial Reflections
00:24:00
Gus
prediction for me.
00:24:00
Gus
As, as much as it doesn't sound it, I think if we finish 15th and above, I'd be happy with how we've done this season.
00:24:01
Matt
Yeah.
00:24:06
Gus
Put it that way.
00:24:06
Matt
yeah
00:24:07
officialgspn
Definitely, definitely. if if you take a like If you take a screenshot of us now and and then ah towards the end of the season, you'll you'll see the difference.
00:24:08
Gus
Get us to the.
00:24:12
Gus
Hmm.
00:24:16
officialgspn
like We'll probably all have grey hair or gone a bit bolder.
00:24:21
Matt
Yeah, the head on will be receding very quickly.
00:24:21
Gus
Yeah, this is a little completely done.
00:24:22
officialgspn
That's the They're the stresses of being blue, mate.
00:24:24
Matt
Yeah.
00:24:27
Gus
yeah
00:24:29
Matt
Even Carlo Ancelotti was looking worse after he finished with us.
00:24:29
Gus
it's serious Yeah, you're right.
00:24:32
officialgspn
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:24:35
officialgspn
for
00:24:35
Gus
And that man's horrible.
00:24:35
Matt
And that's it.
00:24:36
Gus
Did you see him? He was, um, he was on a podcast, I think.
00:24:39
Matt
I saw, yeah.
00:24:41
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah.
00:24:41
Gus
And he was saying, we just, it was like the defense, not so good.
00:24:46
Gus
Doesn't it feel not so good, but we had a keeper who could launch the ball and a striker who could catch it. He's like, so I adapted and that's how we played.
00:24:52
officialgspn
i yeah
00:24:54
Gus
It was like, Oh, it's the Italian Sean Dyche we had for a bit there.
00:24:54
Matt
Yeah.
00:24:58
Matt
Yeah.
00:24:58
officialgspn
Yeah, yeah, he was.
00:25:00
Matt
To think Michael Keens played under Carlo Ancelotti.
00:25:05
Gus
It looks nice, isn't it? Kaggler.
00:25:08
Matt
Yeah. Let's see.
00:25:14
officialgspn
Right, so that's ah exciting stuff.
00:25:18
Matt
um I'm hoping as the season go, I think we've just been traumatized over the last two seasons, but as the season goes on, as we get some wins, we'll be brightening at the weekend.
00:25:25
officialgspn
Yeah, someone to look forward to.
00:25:27
Matt
Yeah, I think, I think, I think we'll be fine. I'm looking forward to it.
00:25:30
officialgspn
Yeah, bring it on.
00:25:31
Gus
Me too.
00:25:33
Matt
Bring it on indeed.
00:25:33
Gus
I love it. All the blue boys, all the toffees.
00:25:36
officialgspn
Yeah, it's office and there that's today's podcast done and dusted.
00:25:41
Matt
See you tomorrow.
00:25:42
officialgspn
Yes, it's tomorrow of the blues.
00:25:43
Gus
yeah
00:25:44
Matt
Have a blues.
00:25:45
Gus
and i