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Free Monthly Episode - AC Milan In Control Of Scudetto Destiny, Inter's Radu Howler, Remembering Raiola, Etc (Ep. 215)
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From AC Milan in control of their own destiny in the Scudetto race to Radu gate at Inter, Napoli smashing Sassuolo to Juventus securing top 4 and Mourinho vs Lazio, John, Carlo and Nima unpack another crazy week in the world of Calcio.
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00:00:01
Speaker
Welcome to the Italian football podcast with John Solano, Carlo Garganese and Nima Tuvali.
00:00:24
Speaker
Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Italian Football Podcast. We hope you are doing well as per usual, since it's the first episode of the month. This one is free if you would like to gain access to all of our episodes, all of our post-match reactions.
Milan's Success and Challenges
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00:01:36
Speaker
Okay guys, so we will obviously begin at the top of the table. Milan, once again, it seems to be a theme of theirs this season. They pull one out from their backsides. Late, Raphael, Lael, Carlo, your man, seals it in the 82nd minute, past Fiorentina, who are
00:01:58
Speaker
mind-numbingly confusing this season, up and down, up and down, up and down. They actually played well in this match, in my opinion. But Milan, they march forward. They are in the driver's seat for the Scudetto for reasons that we will discuss later when Nima
00:02:16
Speaker
I had to introduce to him the term portagino, which he was unaware of and he fully put upon himself. I don't speak Roman dialect. I love it. But that's why I asked you. You basically put the curse upon yourself when you tweeted out that thing about Rado. But we'll get to that later. What did you guys make of Milan in this one? I thought Milan played well.
00:02:39
Speaker
I thought this was one of Milan's better home performances, certainly in 2022, because they've really struggled at home. But they created a lot of clear chances. They've struggled to create clear-cut chances. And that's been one of my biggest doubts over whether they can see it often win the Scudetto this season. But, you know, Teo Hernandez, Giroud, Rafa Liao, they all missed sitters before
00:03:09
Speaker
before Rafael finally got the winner. And now won over the net. Even the winner, to be honest, yeah. And even the winner, to be honest with you, he wasn't a very good finish. He scuffed it into the ground and the keeper basically dived out of the way a
Fiorentina's Defensive Woes
00:03:25
Speaker
bit. The keeper assisted him for the goal. I mean, he dived out of the way from it. No, I mean, he gave him, he passed him the ball. Like literally Taraciano passed him the ball.
00:03:36
Speaker
Do we not see any irony in his surname with Cenucciano? I mean, come on, man. Yeah, that was... It wasn't a great finish, but I have to tell you, I thought Fiorentina, they actually held up pretty well. I thought they were going to struggle because of Castro Vili being out for the remainder of the season. I thought they were just going to be decimated in the middle of the park. They weren't.
00:04:02
Speaker
Alfred Duncan was fantastic in this game. He was so good. Especially in the first half. I thought your man, Amrabbat, too. Yeah, yeah, no, that they do have a, their midfield can be really, you know, know how to hold the ball really well. They know how to pass it. I love the diagonal passes from from Alfred Duncan time and time again. And he's really, really coming into his own there at Fiorentino. But I mean, look, Vincenzo Italiano, everyone praises this guy for his fantastic attacking ability.
00:04:30
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But it's I
Inter's Goalkeeping Blunder
00:04:31
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mean, what is this defending? It's cartoonish. I you know, it's it's you don't need to be you don't need to play a ball, but it would be nice if you defend it every once in a while. I mean, it was lucky like like he like Carlos said, I mean, they you could drive, you could drive through, you could drive a fleet of interstate buses sideways through their defense and not warmy language, man.
00:04:58
Speaker
He was like it was like one, one, one on seven in that final action. That poor guy got left hanging out the dry. I just it was confusing. And then then we see a few days ago, there's reports about him potentially leaving at the end of the season, which would be again for Uncle Rocco. It would be just so quintessential of his of this time if you had seen if that were to happen.
00:05:25
Speaker
But we have to talk about the goalkeepers as well, because to me, this game is incredible. This game changes, and he's done this time and time and time again. When Milan fail to score and create chances, which they do, and
00:05:43
Speaker
the other the opposition gets a chance and this guy pulls out save world-class save after save after save and he did the same thing again and that's why Milan won and that's why Milan are where they are because statistically
00:05:59
Speaker
They don't exactly set the world alight with their attacking free-flowing football and the chances they create. But they have a very solid defense and they have the best goalkeeper in the city by a mile. And that's why they're so high up the league table.
00:06:15
Speaker
Yeah. Well, that's, if you want to talk about segways though. He's been an upgrade on Donnaruma, which is crazy. Yeah. Yeah. He's actually been, and I love Donnaruma, apart from his, with his feet, but he's, he's, he's a monster, Donnaruma. But, but Manon as an all round goalkeeper has been, I can't believe I'm saying this. He has actually, can you, I don't think you'll find anyone that will say Donnaruma was better
00:06:43
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Certainly last season when, you know, it was the first season where Milan were really back towards the top. He's been even better than Don Arena. I mean, he's just been important. Well, hold on. We have to keep this in place because that's a perfect segue. You want to talk about monsters. Before we get to Inter's win yesterday against Udinese, if we want to talk about monsters, but in this case, the negative sense, woof.
00:07:09
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Well, I mean, what Andrei Radu did was the worst, the worst goalkeeping howler in Inter's history. I've looked into it. And in modern times, there is no bigger howler. You've done the digging. Yeah, I've done the digging. I don't know. There's nothing there. There's nothing there. There is nothing there that is bigger than this, especially in the last 30, 40 years. There's nothing that comes close. And what he also does, which is absolutely fantastic, is
00:07:37
Speaker
that he's managed to face against Argentina. Yeah, but I'm talking intersistery. And that's just a mistake. This is not a mistake. This is a howler. And look, for
00:07:54
Speaker
The funny thing with this thing is that he's managed to erase Greco as being the biggest idiot in Inter's history in terms of individual mistakes. But I also blame you because that was the portagino of a lifetime.
00:08:11
Speaker
You know why I called it? Because I'm sober and I'm not drunk when I watch games and I've watched Radu. And even though Handanovic has been finished for a couple of seasons, I've consistently said I'd rather have Handanovic than Radu because Radu is awful, is dreadful.
00:08:29
Speaker
He's nowhere near as good. What he did at Genoa for half a season where he did all these fancy TV saves, the guy does not understand the game. The irony of course being that when he was at Inter, he did on social media this video of him doing incredible trick shots with his feet. He is actually rather technical with the ball. That's supposedly his strength.
00:08:52
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There's a great video on that, by the way, because he did. I remember this video distinctly. He does a corner. He goes from the corner and he bet the bend he has on the ball is insane. It's insane. So, I mean, he has, you know, that, you know, but but still he shouldn't, you know, this is his fault.
00:09:09
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They they have you know from Padeli to this guy It's their their fault for not having a better set of goalkeepers But and and then of course you have Oscar Damiani the boomer of the century together with cappella No, sorry with saigo sake of the
Napoli's Missed Opportunities
00:09:24
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last few years
00:09:24
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Is is is been rambling on for for seasons now about rado should be you know why doesn't he get more chances if if blaming him for for not playing him enough and that's the reason he did that which is profoundly absurd i saw another goalkeeper who's name eludes me now say that it was paris its fault for throwing the throw into him i mean
00:09:47
Speaker
go away just be quiet just stop talking it was it's ridiculous it is not Paris its fault it's not Hamdanovich's fault it's not Inter's fault it's not or it is it's Inter director's fault it's this is Radu's fault he should be able to take a pass and and to control the pass and not do what he did come on like stop
00:10:05
Speaker
It was as if his brain just malfunctioned and you could see the steam coming off of the top of his head. No, it was soon taxed at all. The funny thing is, did you guys see that John Luigi Buffon made the exactly the same era, like the couple of days before? Didn't the Man City goalkeeper as well? I mean, there's been quite a lot of these similar and Merec the week after. I mean, it's like, I don't know what's going on with goalkeepers right now. It's pretty crazy. Yeah.
00:10:31
Speaker
But I mean, that is the reason Milan are winning. That is the reason Milan are winning the Serie A. I think that's it, because Milan... What it does show is it does show how important a goalkeeper is. Well, at any level, at any level of football, but certainly at the top level, because Milan, you know, again, if you look at the tables, all the underlying stats and metrics and, you know, Inter should be winning this title. I think everybody agrees that.
00:11:00
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that they're the best squad but you know certainly when it comes to Milan, Manon has
00:11:06
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has turned a lot of games that they wouldn't have won into victories. In that save, to be fair, I thought it was Fiorentina was the only real chance they created. I thought Milan were definitely the better team and deserved their win, but that save was miraculous. It was a miraculous save. No, it's a game-changing save, and he keeps doing that, but I think it's both that. Just before we finish from Milan, we have to give praise.
00:11:34
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to two other players in particular, roughly obviously for scoring the winner. I mean this guy, I've been saying it for weeks now, if he can just improve his finishing and his final ball, which is a big if, but he will be one of the best players in the world.
00:11:49
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at the moment. That drop of shoulder, that shift of weight is just astounding. Yeah, he's unstoppable. He breezes and glides past players just like Thierry Henry used to. And that's where the comparisons come in. The difference with Thierry Henry is when Thierry Henry was in a golf scoring position, he would bury his finished low bottom corner across the goalie.
00:12:09
Speaker
Raphael always tries to go near post when he's cutting in for the left or as he did with his first chance he just completely panics, loses his balance, disguises it and and his final pass as well is not is not at the level needed so you know that is what he needs to improve but the other player I have to single out is Tonani, he was he was magnificent he really
00:12:30
Speaker
he really ran the show again and he and what i love about him is he he wants responsibility he
Juventus's Season Under Allegri
00:12:36
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wants the ball and he rises the big occasion he doesn't he doesn't feel the pressure which is what i love he might make some mistakes he might make some mistakes but he want that he makes mistakes because he wants the ball and he doesn't scare away
00:12:50
Speaker
I'm so glad you said that, because that's especially in the first half he struggled. He made lots of individual technical simple errors. But then, but he rises to the occasion, he picks himself up and he is Milan's metronome. And this is why, you know, I mean, again, this is why I was so fuming when Antonio Conte decided to bring
00:13:10
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Arturo Vidal instead of Sandro Tonali, because this is a generation of midfield talent that they gift-wrapped to Milan, and now they're gift-wrapping the Scudetto to Milan. The reason why I think Milan are going to win is because I don't see Milan losing a game, and I don't see them drawing two out of three. I see them drawing one.
00:13:30
Speaker
And if they do, it's uneven, even, you know, even points in the head to head decide and not anything else. Yeah. For me, this is all it's all done to Milan now. It's all done to me. I don't see any chance of not winning all their free games and Milan. Yeah. The fact that they can have the draw that was that was the big thing. I tweeted it straight out. You know, for me, this is still it's going to go all the way. It's it's it's still, you know, interest still in there. But the fact that they lost to
00:13:59
Speaker
Gosh, who did they lose to? Bologna. Bologna. The fact that they lost to Bologna, rather than Drew, is massive. Because, yeah, if they'd have drawn that game, I would still be sitting here saying I'd still think interval win the title, but the fact they've lost it, yeah, now it's... The Bologna with nothing to play for, by the way. That's the even more frustrating part. No, for sure. They're not qualified for Europe. They're already safe from relegation.
00:14:25
Speaker
Yeah, no, but I mean, it's, it's, it's, you know, the only reason that this thing is going to the last day now is because Inter won against Oden Eze, and I think that, you know, won the, look, I look at it like this, I think mathematically this thing is going to match the 38, but the way I see it is,
00:14:44
Speaker
Next week, this coming week is key. Interplay Empoli on the Friday. If they win that, and they should win that at a packed San Siro at home, they go plus one on Milan. Milan then 48 hours later, they travel to a very hostile ground in Verona against a Verona who has a history of costing Milan the league title.
00:15:07
Speaker
If they win or draw that, I think that's it because Atalanta, even if they draw against Atalanta,
00:15:16
Speaker
you know, they will beat Sasolo. I mean, it's just, I don't see how a Sasolo who are mentally checked out and are on holiday, essentially, are going to stop Milan from winning this game. Maybe, but at the end of the day, the way I always look at it is, you know, Atalanta and Sasolo have the players, they have the talent, and they proved it. And certainly Sasolo proved it against the big teams, although not against Napoli, we'll come to that. You know, they've got the ability and they've got the players to get results. Whereas I look at Inters,
00:15:45
Speaker
Put it this way, if Milan would play had the fixture list that Inter had, I just wouldn't give them, you know, I would just be like, well, let's just, let's just forget about it. But even though Milan have slipped up more against the smaller teams than the bigger teams. But you know what I mean? They've got the ability, they've got the players to get results from Milan. So I think there is hope. I don't think that you can say there's no hope. Plus, also what we've got to remember is the pressure as well. You know, Milan have a very young team. They haven't won the Scudetto for 11 years.
00:16:11
Speaker
and you know they're going to feel the pressure. The pressure is going to be on them and into play two days before Milan this weekend. So they're going to have two days and I think it's an absolute buy.
00:16:23
Speaker
You know, so the pressure, we have to see how they, how they cope with it mentally as well. Um, uh, it's, it's, it's a fascinating end to the season anyway. Um, for the neutral is, is, is, you know, this is what we wanted. We want to see. And you're, and you're, and you're near. When was the last time we had a title race? When was the last time we actually had a title race? Inter are going to win the point. Scudetto by five points, potions and eye of rat and I don't know, new eye of Newt is working. It's the rat.
00:16:52
Speaker
Yeah, but I don't know, tail of rat and eye of newt and all the potions you've been brewing about Inter winning the Scurrato by five points. The same potions that you're putting towards Milan now and claiming. No, I'm not. I'm really not because I've said it's been, I've said it's going to the last day. I said Inter were the favorites and they were, but then you had Radugate and now they're no longer the favorites. But again, as I said, this week is going to be really important because
Serie A Relegation Battle
00:17:19
Speaker
If they beat Empoli, there'll be a point clear of Milan for 48 hours until Sunday night when they go to Verona. And Verona have a history of costing Milan the league title. It was a famous one in 1990 when Napoli lost one. And Paolo Maldini said that that is actually the biggest scandal of his entire career, even bigger than the one that we saw against South Korea with Italy in 2002, which takes some beating. And I think Milan had
00:17:49
Speaker
two players sent off on that day, if I'm not mistaken, and some other really huge controversies, and I remember Galliani going absolutely ballistic, and yeah, that cost them, they would have won this, that cost them the Scudetto and gave it to Napoli. Well, speaking of Napoli, if we want to talk about up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down,
00:18:13
Speaker
They hammer Sasuolo, who Nima, I couldn't agree more. I don't know what to talk about. Checked out. It's just they're on holiday already. They're on holiday. Yeah. That was that the score line speaks for itself. What do you make of Napoli? Because I thought if there was one team
00:18:39
Speaker
I thought if you were to ask me that would challenge ink dad to this point. I thought it was going to be not me too. This seems to be a recurring thing with them where it's not even like a result here or a result there. They seem to go through a stretch that just it sinks the ship.
00:19:02
Speaker
And we see them come out of it. We have the whole Ritido gate, which if there was ever going to be a manager. That didn't happen, did it? I mean, let's be honest. No, I know. But if there was ever going to be a manager that you just don't do that with, it's with the crazy guy with the surname of Baletti. He's going to feed his Bianca Neve. Yeah, Bianca Neve, poor boy. I think Bianca Neve gets to come along.
00:19:25
Speaker
Fall for everything. I think but Bianca name is like she's a she's a part of the crew.
Roma and Lazio's Controversies
00:19:31
Speaker
She's part of his staff What do we make of this team because I April for them was It was just a disaster. It was a meltdown of
00:19:42
Speaker
Epic proportions. I look at it like this, and I know a lot of Napoli fans are upset, and they have right to because this was a golden chance for them. But I don't think the chance was that big to begin with. They found themselves in a fantastic position because they had a fantastic start. I don't think you can demand Escoretto from this Napoli. I don't think you can demand Escoretto from this coach in his first season, given the level of investment, unless you think that Anguissa and Juan Jesus is enough to demand Escoretto, which then I would just have an honest disagreement.
00:20:11
Speaker
And enough with the talk of him trying to send Spalletti away. I mean, you think someone could do better than this. This is on par with what they can do. And what you have to remember is this. He's gotten them to the Champions League. They've not done that for a couple of seasons now. And that is incredibly important. That's the most important thing. He got Napoli back into the Champions League. That was the stated MO. That was the mission objective. He did that. He got it. Now you have to build and build more.
00:20:40
Speaker
I hope that that Osteeman stays. I don't think it seems like lots of teams in the Premier League have noticed him. And as Carlos said about a year ago, you know, he's going to be a hundred million pound player because he is that good. And Aurelio del Arentes is that good at selling.
00:20:56
Speaker
Um, but they, they clinch champions league football and they, they, um, they, they, they managed to get it done. And I think that's what you can expect from this team. I think they need to re they need to rebuild some things. Fabian Ruiz is not going to extend his contract. He's going to go. They need, they need to sell him. They need to replace him. You know, it's, it's stuff like that. Any false swimming goes who replaces him.
00:21:19
Speaker
You know, whatever they do, they need to, you know, there's going to be quite a few changes at Napoli and then we can talk. But I think what Napoli did this season is pretty much on par what you can expect from them. And I'm not ready to, you know, kill Spalletti for that. No, I mean, you've got to look at the bigger picture. The bigger picture is they've done well this season if we look at it as a whole. You know, they're back in the Champions League. And like Nimr said, look at the players, look at their transfer market last summer.
00:21:48
Speaker
you know, Juan Jesus and Guisard who, you know, was poor at Fulham Championship team and he's come in and like nobody expected him to be this good, nobody at all. And, you know, I think that what happened is that Napoli won 10 of their first 11 games, which raised expectations and it got all the Napoli fans dreaming. And we know, you know, what happens, you know, with the Napoli fans,
00:22:16
Speaker
like john latin he came onto our podcast the author of once upon a time in april's last thursday and he said once the neobolitans get sniff of of the skedetto there that they just go ballistic they go absolutely bonkers and and it's and it's and it's different you know it's difficult it's difficult and i think they feel the pressure and you know at the end of the day this is a club that
00:22:37
Speaker
despite the Maradona years, is not accustomed
Mino Raiola's Legacy in Football
00:22:40
Speaker
to living. They're more provincial, really, in that sense. They're not provincial club, but they are in terms of mentality, really. They've still historically had that inferiority conflict.
00:22:51
Speaker
you know, which which Maradona managed to lift them out of. But because it's the greatest player of all time, like it took the greatest player of all time to lift them out of that. Yeah. And you can't you can't be in a row now. Yeah, you can't in a row there in Europe. Absolutely. You can't build you can't create that out of nothing.
00:23:08
Speaker
You know, like what Juventus into Milan and the big major super clubs have, you know, just the history of, you know, just, just everything that's inside those walls, you know, of the clubs, you know, you, you can't create that. And that counts when, when it comes to the push comes to shove. The only thing I would say against Napoli is if, and I said it last week is if you actually look at their records since that, the end of those, those first 11 games.
00:23:34
Speaker
It's actually they pretty much won as many get almost won as many games as they've lost and drawn Yeah, and since that time they've they played 29 1 12 drawn 7 lost 10 Which is not a great record if you remove those first that that incredible starts the season So but next season Spelletti needs to improve that because if he doesn't begin to be finding themselves in eighth or ninth position Next season. So yeah, we'll see how it goes next season But there are there are going to be changes and I just hope the ossie man stays. I
00:24:02
Speaker
Yeah, me too. I really want Osman to stay. He's so good. I feel like he's not fulfilled his potential yet, Annapoli. Well, if you think about it too, remove these last two seasons when he's been out, he's missed, I believe it's at least one month in both seasons. So he's missing at least four to six league matches. I mean, he's already got a good goal scoring record. You guys know what I think. I think he's the best number nine in the Serie A bar none. I think no one comes close.
00:24:29
Speaker
And I say that even though he's been injured like you say, John. I mean, I think the guy has everything. He has no weaknesses. He has no weaknesses on the pitch. And he's just a pain in the butt to stop in every... like you just... everything from strength to speed to technique to decision making to finishing, his timing, his read of the game. For me, I honestly think this is the most... this is the best number nine in the city.
00:24:54
Speaker
As for Saswala, just to make one quick point on them, three defeats in a row, yeah, they probably have, you know, they probably are on their holidays. I would say the fact that a few of their players are going to, big players are going to leave probably doesn't help. The fact that they're going to get decimated this summer. But the fact that they're going to leave, they know they've got moves coming up.
00:25:13
Speaker
that they don't want to get injured. Subconsciously, at the very least, it plays a role. But I would say, again, bigger picture. Saswalla have underperformed this season for me by quite a bit. For all their lovely football, delightful football, their incredible results against the big teams, again.
00:25:30
Speaker
Napoli result aside, they've got an amazing record. They've got their record against the big teams is as good as almost anyone in the league. To be 10th or 11th is a massive underachievement based on the players that they have. I say it all again, the front six, the midfielders and the attackers, the front four.
00:25:49
Speaker
they would all get into top four teams, all of them, every single one, they would get into at least one of the top four teams, you know, in one of the various top teams, they got incredible players, but they performed, but they can't defend. Because again, just like Italiano, and, you know, their coach is the same. This this is this is then exam on syndrome, and it's airborne, and it needs to stop. Like no one's asking you to park the bus and play catanacho from the 60s.
00:26:15
Speaker
But for God's sakes, learn how to defend. It's absurd, some of the goals they concede. And this is what this is exactly like with Fiorentina. And and I think it's, you know, I I'm not this is why I'm so reserved in terms of Italiano and this guy, because I am unique to know how to defend.
00:26:35
Speaker
I mean, it's, it's, it's ridiculous. I'm not asking for, again, I'm not asking to park the bus here. I'm asking for simple things, you know, to be organized in defense, to have some sort of, to have a plan. They're all over the place. And you saw that and against Napoli when they're not switched on. Well, then this is what happens.
00:26:53
Speaker
Sometimes those kind of managers work better in the bigger teams where they don't need to defend but you're managing a team like Sasualo and maybe you do need to sometimes have a little bit more realism and know that against the bigger teams who have got generally better players, you can't really
00:27:07
Speaker
go up against them toe for toe, because generally the better players will win out. And maybe that's where Italian or deser to be as well. That's where those kind of managers have sometimes fallen short a little bit. But at the same time, maybe he can have a chat with your man, Max. We know he's staying. You can at least come on here. Hold on. Hold on. You've come on. Okay.
00:27:36
Speaker
It was ugly. Nobody's ever going to mistake a legity ball for, I don't know, champagne football ever. But come on, they were in serious doubt of qualification for Champions League. They do it. Now, aesthetically, yes, I would understand why you would find yourself immediately swiping left. However,
00:27:57
Speaker
Come on, I mean, for all the chaos they've, and this is the thing I love too when I see you, you ventini complaining on social media. I want to smack them across the chin. Like this was considered a nightmare season. And this is it, qualification for Champions League. You're going to offload Apollo de Bala.
00:28:21
Speaker
You're going to have a lot of room with his wages coming off of the books. I think you're going to have a huge opportunity to overhaul and reload. This should be like, I mean, I thought I was a pessimistic downtrodden sad sack. I mean, some of it is uventini. You guys put me to shame.
00:28:46
Speaker
Well, count me in as one of them. I mean, I've got a love, and it's a very, very small number now, but those that are still defending Allegri that try and spin the fact that he's qualified to the Champions League is some kind of achievement, which I just find hilarious. By the way, it's not, but relative to where they were this season, it is. Yeah, exactly.
00:29:11
Speaker
Well, yeah, but I mean, I think that- When you earn that much more than the next year. If you're failing to qualify for the Champions League with your vendors, then that's just embarrassing for starters, but even more so when you've spent however much, 80 million they spent on the best striker in the league or the top scorer of the league.
00:29:27
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back in January and then you still play just as badly afterwards. But anyway, positives. I'll go for the positives first. You've entered to qualify for the Champions League. As you said, John, it means they can now try and improve this squad. They will improve this squad. They'll get better players in next season. And if you get better players in, you are going to improve.
00:29:48
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regardless of the manager. I mean, that's just common sense and logic. The other positive is, Allegri actually started Meretti. He actually started a youngster. I mean, what the hell is going on? He must have shit the bed or something. I don't know. But he started W Meretti. I thought he had a decent game, actually. I thought he had a few nice moments, free kick for the first goal, some nice passes, nice moments, a couple of shots.
00:30:13
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Both footed, you know, he wants the ball, good passer, good vision, good football in IQ, quite a multifunctional play. I've seen him a little bit for the Primavera team in the Youth League. It wasn't a great performance by him, but it was a good performance. And, you know, I hope he plays now for the remaining three games. You know, you've entered the qualifier of the champion today and, you know, you might as well play him now for the rest of those last three matches and just, just.
00:30:37
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give him a chance, see how he does. Those are the only positives. The negatives are that, once again, it was just dreadful performance by Juventus. I mean, Venezia matched Juventus for most of the game. They had more possession, which is, again, embarrassing. Their bottom of the league
00:30:53
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um only slightly really fewer chances only very slightly less xg for the game and you know and this is a team as i said bottom of the league they've lost nine games in a row and uvenza struggled against them badly at least because both of their goals offset pieces they barely created anything can open play um it's just not good enough they're in the champion's league yes but again i'm not seeing any improvements in uvenza's at all in the way they play there's no attacking structure
00:31:21
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And I'm seeing a lot of people complaining about Dusan Vlovich. For me, I can kind of see why, although I don't agree. I can see why, because his overall game, I would say he's probably declined since he joined Juventus. And OK, he's still too early. He's only four months since he arrived. But he's not part of any attacking structure. He's not part of an actual attacking dynamic, any kind of dynamic there. And he's just there.
00:31:50
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battling holding the ball up winning it knocking on you know there's there's just no attacking structure there and this is you know so
00:31:58
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Yeah, Juventus are free, the Champions League. Stefano Pioli is corto musuing himself to Escudetto via Rafael Liao and Inshallah, and that's pretty much the same approach that Juve have had. The only difference is that Juve, this is the first season that Max Allegri is at Juve, and so I don't understand this histrionic reaction. I don't agree with that.
00:32:26
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No, he's taking over a dreadful Juve midfield. He's trying to build it in his image and he's trying to slowly go from there. And from there on, they won the Champions League group. Villarreal are not as shit as everyone seems to think they are.
00:32:42
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And that was an upset, yes, but Villarreal are good. Respect them, as Bayern Munich also found out. And they're in the Copa Italia final. So I don't understand this. Oh, everything is like I don't get how this is. Fire and brimstone. Well, it is. It's fire and brimstone. It's the skies. Well, let's move on on a manager we can all agree about, because we could go on about Allegri for days. But my man Katsari. Yeah.
00:33:14
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I have to give a shout out to Aramu. He's got a lovely goal and Benetzer going down. He has to stay in Serie A next season. Lovely. I think he won six goals this season, scored against Juventus home in a way. He had a free kick too in that game that was stunning. That was a great save by Chesney as well. Well, we know much of it isn't going to be in Serie A next season. Hopefully, you know,
00:33:35
Speaker
never say never. But I would like to think that this was the final shoveling of the third upon the risk that was the managerial career of Matsari never having to
00:33:50
Speaker
watch his football ever again. We got an extension, an eight contract extension. Well, that's exactly a number. He basically knew that this is his final chance. What's that meme of DJ Khaled where he goes, congratulations, you played yourself.
00:34:10
Speaker
That's basically what Walter did. Walter is playing 4D chess even though on the pitch he's still stuck in 1922. He's playing 4D chess so he gets sacked but if he hadn't written into his contract where if he were sacked with Kajiri not in a relegation zone he still gets paid for an additional 24 months which is
00:34:40
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I called his lawyer. This is Julini. No, this is Julini. He did the same thing with Francesco. I was about to say, yeah, he was paying. Tomasso Julini has got to be like one of the worst presidents when it comes to contracts with coaches. Like it's contracts in general. What was he paying, Godin? Yeah.
00:35:01
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Yeah, he's not a good... They need to improve there. They need a Marotta. They need someone who can count, and they need to get Julini out of that situation, because he's clearly not good enough. But yeah, he's been sacked now, and I wonder if they go down. I don't know. It's going to be...
00:35:22
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What I mean, let's talk about let's talk about that relegation race because I think everybody has some pretty strong Opinions one way or the other on this as to who they want to go down. I think I will not I mean, I will never hide my disdain for any Veneto Club So the fact that an Etsy is on its way down I'm I'm metaphorically tap dancing upon their grave right now and
00:35:46
Speaker
I just want people to know that you're from Veneto. I don't get this. This self-hatred is hilarious. Because if Vincenzo has to go through 25 variations of the club going bankrupt, I'm going to drag everybody down with me. I would also like to point out that if Celernitana hadn't had their heads up their backside and if they would have just done the right thing and brought somebody like Sabatini from the onset,
00:36:14
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They would have without a shadow of a doubt. They would have handled it. Finished above Sampdoria. They would have finished above Empoli. I mean Spets, yeah, they would have finished above. The fact that they waited that long to pull the trigger to me is a damning indictment. Well, to be fair, it was Lotito. Lotito didn't help with the whole ownership situation. Well, no, what do you mean? He had something to do with Salerni Natana. I was told there was a different entity. But look, when we're looking at that,
00:36:44
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Looking at that, I mean, Venezia are going to finish at the bottom. I think Giano are going down as well, because they've got Juventus, Napoli and Bologna. Sampdoria, I think, are safe as well, even though they've got an absolutely horrible, you know, they've got Lazio Fiorentina in there. But, and here's where it gets interesting. Sala and Nitana first play Venezia at home, and then they play Caliari away.
00:37:04
Speaker
that is going to be so spicy. Because if Calieri beat Salernitana, then that's it. I mean, that's pretty much it. Because they face Venezia on the last day of the season, and I'm pretty sure they're going to win that. So this is... Just to correct you, Salernitana have Calieri at home. Yeah, they have Venezia at home. Oh, sorry. Yeah, they're both at home. Yeah, which is a massive thing. But I mean, that is going to be so
00:37:32
Speaker
That's going to be so spicy, that game. I mean, this week is so, so decisive. Salah Nithana, Caliari, Salah Nithana, Venizia. But then Salah Nithana have Empoli and Urineza, and Caliari have Venizia, Salah Nithana. So they don't have it at Atlanta away this evening as well. And so they do have games in hand. I mean, if they win their two games in hand, I mean, it's a big ask, you know, they will actually go
00:37:57
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they will go on to 31, which will be two points behind Sampdori and Spezia, who we haven't even considered. So, you know, that would drag them back into the race, although I would say it's, yeah, it's unlikely. For me, it's three from four. It's three from, sorry, Venezia are down, and then we're talking about two from Cali Regeno and Selena.
00:38:24
Speaker
Yeah, general are going down, I think. General are going down. You, you, Venapoli Bologna, I know. Sure. Well, the new free listeners can clearly tell why we are in football and not the data analysis or statistical statistics.
00:38:39
Speaker
The point is this, the Salah Nithana and Kalyari have it both in their own hands, because they play each other and Salah Nithana, and they both play Venezia, who are destined to go down. So they kind of both have it in their own hands, and that game between the two, that's going to be the decisive
00:38:55
Speaker
General have lost form. They haven't been playing well for last season. Although they did, I thought they did deserve something out of the Derby, out of the general Derby. And obviously, what a drama. Missed that missed that penalty, five minutes into injury time. He had 100% record this season, and so did Sirigu in terms of 100% record Sirigu had of not saving penalties. And you know, so you would never have bet on that. And
00:39:20
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I thought it was harsh, the penalty, so probably justice was done. I thought it was a bit harsh to give the penalty against Ferrari. It was unnatural. Was it in a natural position in his hand? But at the end of the day, it's a hugely costly mess.
00:39:36
Speaker
Yeah, I think. And he's going to Toronto now, isn't he, as well? I mean, that's the thing. I mean, we're talking Chris Chito, Captain Genoa, Mr. Genoa. He wanted to stay to save Genoa, and then his penalty miss becoming the symbol of that. It's pretty heartbreaking, to be honest. Well, it is. But I think if this relegation race highlights anything, it's
00:39:59
Speaker
just look at what mismanagement can do to a team. I harken back, and there's guys that I like to pick on on this podcast. For anybody that's new, we all have characters that we pick on. Carl hates Allegri. Nima hates everybody. I hate Francesco. I love Allegri. Katsari, I don't like. Katsari, everybody hates. But I think this relegation race, it's perfectly embodied by the fact that
00:40:29
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kagiri, they appoint matzari, sampdoria, who do they appoint? It's just these maddening decisions that even when they happen, you know?
00:40:40
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They're stupid decisions and these clubs just wait and they wait and then they wait to know. That's the thing. The way Sabatini, what he did to Salernitana in January, I thought was perfect because in my opinion, that's the way you survive. You get a bunch of veteran players who are
00:41:01
Speaker
Washed up and I say that in air quotes at the bigger clubs and and that's how you Set out to get your team to at least fight for survival, but Let's be honest. I mean these a lot of these teams they deserve what they what they get simply by way of terrible management moving on the Roma The last remaining team in Europe. Yeah, I you know, I
00:41:26
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It's the conference league, so I don't care. This was a competition I was making fun of endlessly. But now I've already got my ticket to Albania. I've never been there. I've been to 22 countries. Albania is not one of them. So I am looking forward to that. If it plays out like the movie Taken, I will be sure to leave everybody in my coordinates so they can find my corpse if something does happen there. But they earn a draw in Leicester.
00:41:56
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Now they have the second light coming up Thursday, one-to-one on aggregate, much like when they drew, or I'm sorry, when they lost Norway to Bordeaux,
00:42:09
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I like Vroma's chances in this second. I really, really do. I think they will progress. We want to talk about Borgino. I'm doing it right now. But I think, if we're talking about mentally checked out, I think they have their eyes squarely fixated on this competition, and that's it. I think they've packed it in for the league. I think they were content with fifth or... They keep saying they want to finish fifth, personally.
00:42:36
Speaker
Europa League Conference League doesn't really matter much to me.
00:42:41
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but I don't know what you guys think, but I think they're going to the final. I do. I think they are, and I think they win, and I think it's important for Roma to finally win a tournament in Europe. I don't think it matters that it's the most, that it's the least important one. I think it's an important thing for the club. I think it's important for Italian football to finally start winning again in Europe. Again, I don't care about how important the competition is. This is important. This is really important. The city's behind Mourinho, the city's behind Roma,
00:43:10
Speaker
or at least the yellow and red part of the city is behind that. We're going to have to talk about the Lazio Lottito bombshell that he sent out today, which I can say for everything you do in the next coming week, do not miss.
00:43:28
Speaker
for anything in the world, Mourinho's next press conference, when he's going to address the attacks from Lazio today. But no, I think he will go through. I think Roma will go through. I think it's going to be a beautiful day. It's going to be one of those magical nights at the Olimpico, and I think Roma will go through. But we have to just read on what Lazio said. Hold on. We're going to get to that in a minute. I'll get to that in the Baggio in Ventura.
00:43:58
Speaker
I'm going to include it there. Carlo, do Roma advance, yes or no? I don't know. I think they should. Oh my gosh. They should. I put this way. I don't think Leicester are a good team at all. I don't. I've seen them quite a bit in the Premier League. I thought they were a good team last year, the year before, when they bottled it, when they should have finished in the top four.
00:44:22
Speaker
But I don't think they're a good team at all. And I think that Roma didn't even really play very well in Leicester, yet they didn't really concede that many chances against them. No, they should have won. But yeah, I think Roma will need to do a bit more. They should do more than they did away.
00:44:45
Speaker
Yeah. I think that the experience, Roma's added experience will probably help them in this game. Yeah. Having been to two semi-finals already in recent years, that will probably help. Yeah. And can we talk about too, UEFA, they're potentially talking of adding a place in the Champions League that is based on the UEFA coefficient and Roma. Oof.
00:45:08
Speaker
Never thought I'd see the day where they have been like the club of the last few seasons to, I mean, you want to talk about UEFA coefficient points. They are surging. I mean, semi-final of the Champions League, semi-final of Europa League and now semi-final. I'll say this one thing.
00:45:28
Speaker
Mourinho, you already know, he's got it all in his mind that he's going to come out, he wants to win this competition, he wants to say, I'll be the first and only person in history to win all the major, to win all the European competitions. You already know, he's got it already written down. Somebody asked me if this would be bigger than Porto winning the Champions League in 2006, and the naive part of me wants to say yes, but
00:45:52
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. No one will break that record if Mourinho does it because I can't see Pep Guardiola or one of the other managers ever managing in the competency. I mean, the big swinging dick of Mourinho that he would have if he were to win this competition, I mean, he would have
00:46:11
Speaker
to quote our good friend Tancredi Palmeri. What does he say? Every single step to reach the arch of victory for Juventus. Remember, this is his right. Yes, okay. Well, before we move on to Baggio and Ventura of the week, very quickly, just each of you, a quick thought on that. We have to acknowledge the passing of Raul. I mean, Raul is, for me,
00:46:39
Speaker
I know it somewhat bothered me, and I talked about this on a Roma press podcast, but it bothered me to see so many people not happy that he passed away, but it just seemed to be the overarching sentiment of, you know, that Iowa was negative. Oh, he negatively affected football. But I don't think people appreciate and maybe understand A, because I did interact with his
00:47:08
Speaker
contact that I would have with his agency. It was always with his cousin Vincenzo. I mean, how much this guy cared about his clients from top to bottom. He cared as much about Zlatan as he did about, you know, Riccardo Calafiori, you know, some no-name guy. He cared about all of them. And then, I mean, what he's done to the transfer market, I mean, we're going to sound like boomers here. We're all in our 30s and 40s.
00:47:35
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I mean, this guy helped get the transfer market to this place where it is a 365 days topic just because it is not the summer or January. We talk about the market all the time. And he was one of the primary characters who helped do that and elevate it to the popular subject it is now.
00:47:57
Speaker
Yeah, he revolutionized. I mean, he was and is the most revolutionary agent there's ever been. Together with George Mendes, together with George Mendes, I'd say. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, I think Reola predates Mendes a little bit. And, you know, you look at, I mean, Mendes and Barnet, Jonathan Barnet as well, but I think Reola trumps them all. I mean, he, Reola really, I mean, he, what John mentioned, plus
00:48:25
Speaker
Reoda took the power away from the clubs and more towards the agent and the player themselves and that had some good and bad. It had good because now you always hear people crying about how agents are ruining the game and player power is ruining the game and everything. But what happened before Reoda was actually clubs used to
00:48:48
Speaker
be the ones that were guilty of doing exactly what they're blaming Rayola of doing. They were the ones taking advantage of players. And so Rayola helped swing it a little bit more.
00:49:00
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towards the player having more power over themselves. Yes, of course, some agents, you know, and Ray Odo did some stuff, they can be greedy and everything, but you know, so that's one thing he changed. He was obviously a master at making money for himself and for his clients. You can see by the love that he's got from his clients just how much they loved him. And you know, he was
00:49:20
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you know, end of the day, you want your agent to make you money. And you know, he was the best at doing that for his players. And you look at the Paul Pogba deal. And I mean, that was just that's probably in terms of money making 100 million pound transfer, he took a quarter of it. I mean, that's just insane. As I've seen from everybody got played from Pogba got paid from you've got paid from United. Yeah. And that's what he was. Yeah. And that's what he was good at. Because him along with Mendez, they virtually became third party owners of the players. I mean, Ray Ola is still well,
00:49:50
Speaker
We'll be interested to see what happens to Pogba now and his clients. But, you know, Reola was basically a third-party owner of Pogba. And, you know, he brought this situation where players and clubs work together. He started creating these close relationships with certain clubs where they would do each other favors. John will know this better than anyone. You know how, you know, Juventus would say, you know, Delict got brought to Juventus really as a, partly as a favor, really, to Juventus from,
00:50:19
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from from Reola and then they had to... Yeah, they were chanting his name. Yeah, they had to kind of exactly and they had to kind of repay the favor by bringing in a player that was one of Reola's clients or some of his clients also to Juventus that maybe they didn't want. Moisakine might be an example of that, you know, do me a favor, can you take Moisakine from me, you know, and I'll do you a favor
00:50:41
Speaker
in the future and bring a big name class. Well, Pastoralo is like the master. I mean, all of them do that, but Berizo, Pastoralo, it's just that Raiola took it to a different level. Yeah. And he really did do that. And he was a character. And he didn't leave anyone unaffected. He either hated him, loved him, but he weren't neutral towards him. And he left no one. But actually, quite a lot of journalists, transfer journalists who dealt with him actually liked him in the sense that
00:51:10
Speaker
he was quite straightforward in that, you know, he there was no bullshit with him, he could be blunt. But but at least you kind of knew where you stood with him, when you spoke to him. Whereas some, some agents will, you know, manipulate transfer journalists quite a lot in order to, you know, get their stories out. But the other thing I would say about Capone, he actually brought Al Capone to mention,
00:51:36
Speaker
by the way. That's why I mentioned his name. Yeah, he actually bought Al Capone's mansion in America. The other thing I would say about Reola is that he, I mean, he launched, you look at some of the players that he has as clients and had as clients, and he launched the careers of some really legendary players and world class players at a time when they were unknowns. It wasn't just him taking
00:52:02
Speaker
you know, ready-made stars. I mean, you look at players like obviously Zlatan, Pogba, Harland, you know, he was their agent at times when, you know, these guys were just youngsters and pretty much virtual unknowns in a global sense. And so he obviously had a knife for a talent as well. Oh, he absolutely did. He, I mean, you know, Holland, he took when he went to before he went to Dortmund, even when he was in, was it Salzburg he played?
00:52:32
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not even sure if they predated it mold, I'm not even sure, but yeah. No, they were Salzburg. He did it with Zlatan as well when he was in Ajax, and he was good, but he wasn't a superstar like he became. No, he's being really missed by lots of... I mean, he also masterminded the move of Brian Roy from Ajax to Fodja back when.
00:52:58
Speaker
One of the first deals he did. Look, no, it's he's quite the character. And and yeah, he left no one. He left no one unaffected and he's going to be missed because, you know, characters are missed. Love him or hate him. I personally think that given how Zlatan is so loyal and they are family and that's not, you know, that's not an exaggeration. They are family.
00:53:21
Speaker
It wouldn't surprise me if Zlatan, as a favor to the Raiola family, tried to become an agent and help them out, which I think is prime time. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the agent, is something the world needs to see. That is entertainment when Zlatan retires, and I think it's pretty much sure that he will retire at the end of this season. Yeah. Okay. Let's get to our Baggio and Prem face of the week.
00:53:53
Speaker
Okay, so for those of you new here, our Bajo of the Week is essentially our top of the week. Prim Face of the Week speaks for itself. Who are we taking for Bajo of the Week?
00:54:09
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The Badger of the Week, for me, is the drama in the Serie B. Yes. This is insane. Our good friend Joe Taco Pina. Yeah. Spal securing Serie B football for next season after a very dramatic season. Ascoli, Matt Rizzetta of North6 Group, they're securing a playoff spot. Galiani and Berlusconi taking Monza to the Serie I, if I'm not mistaken for the first time. Vicenza, who are battling relegation. Shut up.
00:54:37
Speaker
Letcher, who are fighting to win the Serie B in the hundred and six minute or something crazy, because like that game was insane. They beat that game from 1-0 down to 2-1. That for me, like that is the badger of the week. And also this this this drama, which which Lazio created in Lazio Morino doing a classic Morino referencing
00:55:06
Speaker
how after Roma they drew against Bologna, he said that it's incredible that in the year 2022, it can still win a match off of a clearly offsides goal, which it was, by the way, I don't know how that was missed, even in a world of VAR. Yeah, we've got a question on that. So we'll discuss that. But yeah, the referees will be I mean, you know, that's unforgivable. If you use the offside rule, it's like the easiest, like you should know that if you're a referee at the highest level.
00:55:36
Speaker
Yeah, and then last year, just this morning. Can I read this? I've got the statement here that are good from Patrick Kendrick translated because immediately as he saw this, he pounced on it. The fact that in 2022, a coach of another team makes repeated references during his press conference to alleged favorable decisions from referees to rival teams and elsewhere, a number of journalists from the national press who openly support a team found the flames of the matter and neglecting their neglecting their professionalism and their duty bound objectivity proves the following.
00:56:05
Speaker
that they spend more time obsessing over Lazio than they do trying to secure prized professional targets. That, as is often the case, they look towards other clubs to try and deflect attention away from their underwhelming results and a number of shocking incidents that have gone their way that were clear for all to see.
00:56:23
Speaker
that despite the need to improve football's image in Italy, a number of industry leaders still resort to constantly making accusations about match officials and the VAR, that too often people gloss over these aggressive attacks on match officials and the lack of journalistic integrity. Lazio fully rejects all criticism and insinuations and the club continues to believe in the values displayed on the pitch and not in TV studios.
00:56:47
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Lazio will never stand by and be made into a scapegoat for other teams, and the club is willing to defend its stance in the appropriate forum. The club's stance will remain one where on-field decisions are not disputed, even when there are blatant incidents which go against the Bianco Celeste, such as Tonali's fall on Acherbi from Milan's goal, or Ibanez's elbow on Milinkovic's savage in the second derby of the season, to name but two, even though we can call to mind several others, including in the game at Spezia.
00:57:17
Speaker
These are crucial incidents that we have opted not to address, whilst also addressing them, out of respect for the officials on the pitch and the VAR, respect that others have not shown nor continue to do so. This is absolutely brilliant, because yesterday, of course, in Sky's Club Calcio, Fabio Carresto said the game should be replayed, obviously discarding that the VAR protocol literally says that games cannot be replayed even if you make a mistake with the VAR.
00:57:45
Speaker
Look, this is brilliant. I'm not missing Mourinho's press conference ahead of the Leicester game where he's going to be asked about this for anything in the world. This is Mourinho, Giro Titoli, this is Romore de Nemeche, he's going to come with something
00:58:04
Speaker
This is football heritage, like what he's going to make an immortal millennial statement. You know what this reminded me of? Their statement, Lazio, I had to laugh. It reminded me, and by the way, for anybody new here, we never talk politics, but we do make funny references. It reminded me of when Donald Trump was referring to Kim Jong Un,
00:58:28
Speaker
And he goes, you know, I could be disrespectful. I could call him fat. I could call him morbidly obese, but I would never do that. Yeah, exactly. That's what it is. It's mean girls. There is nothing I love more than when Italian football presidents go mean girls on each other and bitch and like come with these like passive aggressive bitchiness. And my favorite part in all of that is saying we're not going to complain about the referees and then proceeds to complain about the referees. It's just it's hilarious. I absolutely love it. And the response is going to be delicious.
00:58:57
Speaker
And what we know in Mourinho, he's going to go nuclear and Lutito, knowing his same skin, he's going to retort. And we've got another week of entertainment to look forward to in the most entertaining league in the world.
00:59:09
Speaker
It never ends, it's always good. Are we on Prem Face of the Week? We are. I'm to paying attention here. My Prem Face of the Week is Neil Parrish, the MP in England, saying that he was searching for tractors when he got caught watching porn. In Parliament. In Parliament.
00:59:33
Speaker
I think you'll see of this, so I understand. I was doing the same thing, tractors. Explain, John, how do tractors get to porn? How do you get to porn? Is it maybe the word plowing? Well, he was going to... You simply Google plowing and you need to search for tractors and that's right. I've solved this case. He was going on Lawn Hub and then instead ended up on the other one.
01:00:11
Speaker
Yeah, no, this is brilliant. But the thing is that what he doesn't say is that he did this twice. The first time he said was accidental. And then instead of going away, he continued watching it. I mean, in terms of bad excuses, it's just that that has got to be one of the best ones ever. I was searching for tractors. Get out of here.
01:00:27
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It can happen to anyone, right?
01:00:35
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Get out of here. It happens to all of us. All right. Let's get to the questions from our users.
01:00:46
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OK, first one, Ivan Barone, is Ancelotti the coolest man in football after the picture of him smoking a cigar? This will be the quickest one we've ever done. Yes. Yes. There's no debate. Yes. All right. Next question from John Russo. Was it Chatterby's winning goal for Lazio offside? This should be the second quickest one. Yeah. Yes. No, it is offside. It is offside. Yes. OK. Yeah, this is the quickest one we've ever done. Yeah. Majin Tenchi. He says, Hi, guys.
01:01:18
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How do you think his passing will affect his players in the upcoming transfer market?
01:01:24
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It's a curious thing because I honestly, I know that obviously Mino was the face of the operation, but he has a lot of guys behind him. He has a huge network of intermediaries that he works with too. So I mean, in the short term at least, which I guess we were classified this summer, the short term, I think they'll just remain. His cousin, as I said, Vincenzo was his partner in the operation.
01:01:51
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continue as is. So I really don't think we'll see a few obviously change hands, but for the most part, I think most of them will remain. And again, I still think that this thing where Zlatan becoming kind of some sort of having some role in that is something that I find intriguing and I think it could happen.
01:02:12
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Yeah, definitely. Okay, the next one is from Misak Ulikian. He says, how was your impression or what was your impression of Miretti? For me, technically, he's superior to almost everyone in our midfield except Locatelli, but physically, he's lacking some muscles and tenacity. What's the best route for his career in your opinion?
01:02:34
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starter in Serie B next year perhaps or a sub-player for a lower Serie A team or stay in the U23 and try to break into the Juve lineup next year. I can answer that. I can answer that. I can answer that. I can answer that. The best thing for him next season is to go to Serie A and
01:02:55
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I knew you were going to say that. If successful, then in the season 23, 24, you can move up to a study of B-team. And then in the season 24, 25, he can join maybe Spezia. And then if he does well there, maybe a mid-table team, maybe a nudinero or somebody. And then maybe in 2030, he could maybe
01:03:24
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Yeah, get a chance of your dentist. I love Max, I agree. No, seriously though, I think, like I said before, I thought he did quite well. I thought he was good, not great. I think he definitely, you can see he's a multifunctional modern player. I do agree though that yeah, he does lack some physicality. You can see he got pushed off the ball when he was making one of those runs forward. But you know, I thought he did well. I thought he did well, albeit against really poor opposition.
01:03:50
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My concern with him is, again, the concerns that I always have is that, you know, one, he's a young player and Allegri is not very good with young players and not just, you know, developing them, but also, you know, giving them chances, but also the fact that very difficult for a young player coming into a system or coming into a team with no system, with no dynamic, with no attacking dynamic or attacking structure. And so it's very hard to come into a team like that and blend in when you're young.
01:04:20
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And so that's my concern for him. And I think Juventus will go out and sign a top percent in the field that we know it's one of their main targets. Someone like a Milankovic savage or even maybe a Pogba, although I hope it isn't Pogba. So yeah, I think that we'll have to see. Let's see how he does in these next few games first. Let's hope that he plays the next few games and then ask me again.
01:04:42
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Yeah, I would like to see him be loaned out, because I don't think he's going to get playing time at Juva. And I'd like to see him loaned out to a Serie A site, maybe an Udinese or something like that. That's good at developing talented players, I think.
01:04:53
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