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Kick-off: Early Saturday Energy
00:00:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Welcome everybody, wherever you may be, to the Daily Premier League podcast.
00:00:14
Nick Britten
Thank you.
00:00:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is Saturday 30th of August, it is 8.45 in the morning, and believe me, it feels like it. My name's Ken Davis, I'm joined by, well, I'm good egg, so much so that he's off to ref a football tournament after this, and esteemed journalist, Mr Nick Britton. How you doing, Nick?
00:00:34
Nick Britten
I'm very well, Ken. I'm very well. I should say it's 8.45 UK time, ah not 8.45 everywhere in the entire world. So if you are, and I know this because I've got this on my phone ah for family reasons, that in New York right now, it is 03.52.
00:00:47
Nick Britten
It's eight minutes to four in the morning. So I hope you're all to asleep. Or if you're not, if you're awake, please listen to us. ah It's a great, I love Saturday mornings.
00:00:55
Nick Britten
I love Saturday mornings when football is on Saturday afternoons and your team's playing Saturday night or Sunday or whatever.
00:00:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
shadow ah
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Can't beat it. Can't beat it.
00:01:01
Nick Britten
It's just great...
00:01:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
That little frisson of excitement. Have you got frisson of excitement, Nick? Or are you me?
00:01:05
Nick Britten
I've got a fresh... um
00:01:09
Nick Britten
Well, both of us, I'd say.
00:01:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Early mate. Yeah, I'm still at our age.
00:01:14
Nick Britten
the son Yeah, it does. Well, no, mate, not much happens to us at it's ah The sun is shining. It's a lovely day. It's great. You know, let's do it. Let's do it. it's do Lots going on in the world of football as well. Lots going on in the world of...
00:01:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh yeah, a big Saturday morning. Welcome to all of you who make listening to daily Premier League podcast part of your everyday routine. It's great to have you along again this Saturday morning.
Amerim's Controversial Press Conference
00:01:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, news.
00:01:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Three things just want to touch on before we get on to today's and tomorrow's fixtures. First one, Amerim. This is like a slow motion car crash, Amerim, at the moment.
00:01:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sometimes, Nick, I hate my players. Now, is that the language barrier not doing its thing or is there something more going on here?
00:01:54
Nick Britten
No, it's it's just him. And he was at pains to point out during his rather bizarre, as they all are these days, press conference, that he's sick of trying to be somebody else or pretending to be this or pretending He's just going to be him and he's going to say what he says and say what he feels and all of this kind of stuff. So he was making no apology for digging the players out after their wretched performance on Tuesday. And to be honest with you, I had no issue with him digging the players out.
00:02:21
Nick Britten
Because they were dreadful. I mean, they were really, really poor against Burnley.
00:02:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:24
Nick Britten
ah But it's just this constant, oh, I don't know whether I'm going to be in a job tomorrow and out of my control and, you know, what happens happens. And it just feels... i don't know whether he wants to leave or whether he's trying he's doing that kind of job that managers do sometimes when they're fed up and they've had enough, where they don't want to leave, but they they kind of try to get themselves sacked.
00:02:42
Nick Britten
and just It's so bizarre. What he says is so weird. You know, sometimes i like the players, sometimes I hate the players, sometimes... You know, I don't want to see him sometimes. It's just like, what are you saying? Stop talking.
00:02:55
Nick Britten
Please just stop talking and think about what you're saying and think about the effect it has. think i mean, you're under an enormous pressure. And I kind of understand what he's trying to do here, which is, oh, look, I'm just going to be me and i'm going to up front and I'm not going to change and like it or lump it. But, you know, lump it seems to be the preferred option for most people these days.
00:02:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:03:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, the weird thing about this is it's like he's talking to his best mate rather than the world media. You know, if you if you're in a job that you hate, you might, you know, if I'm talking to you about it, say, oh, you know, I'm just going to be myself. I can't yeah i can't be bothered with it anymore. They're driving me crazy.
00:03:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'd say that to you, but I wouldn't necessarily say that to the sports correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. You know what i mean?
00:03:36
Nick Britten
I know. And, yeah you know, it's a big press conference. Well, they're broadcast all around the world, aren't they? It's Manchester United. But, yeah, it's just his... I just wonder if it was a kind of over-deliberate attempt to get his point across that he's not going to change, he's going to be himself.
00:03:53
Nick Britten
And it was it was just a kind of expression
Marinakis, Nuno, and Edu: Tensions and Talks
00:03:56
Nick Britten
of that. But if he wants to talk himself out of a job, he's doing a good job about it Because nothing that he says would instill me if I was either a supporter, a player or an owner at Manchester United, that he's up to the job.
00:04:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I think you're right about that. The other, talking about other managers that seem to be either talking them into or out of a job, Marinakis and Nuno... Espiritu Santo, are going to be holding clear the air talks in the next couple of days. Now, that sounds conciliatory, but it on the other side of that coin, it sounds ominous. I mean, things could go well, may not go well.
00:04:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nuno said, let's remember there's no smoke without fire. There's clearly an issue. There's clearly been a breakdown there of that relationship. ah What do you think is going to come out of this, Nick?
00:04:47
Nick Britten
Well, it's either clear the air talks or clear your desk talks, one or the other.
00:04:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nice one.
00:04:53
Nick Britten
and We now know a lot more than we knew when Nuno made those rather cryptic comments. so So just think back a week or so ago when reports started to emerge that Nuno, out of nowhere this was, absolutely out of nowhere, that Nuno was going to sacked. And everybody went, what on earth is that all about?
00:05:08
Nick Britten
Well, we kind of know what it's about now, and it's about Edu coming in as ah sporting director or director of football, whatever the titles are. and that and and And that has kind of broken the link and the chain of communication between the manager and the owner.
00:05:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:05:23
Nick Britten
So Nuno and Maranakis, because Edu now sits in the middle. So Nuno now has to speak to Edu, and it's Edu who speaks to Maranakis. And Nuno ah clearly doesn't like that, and I can understand why.
00:05:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
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Nick Britten
ah clearly doesn't appreciate that. And that's what's led to this of breakdown in communication. Plus, of course, all of the stuff that went on at the back end of last season, which will still be sitting in the background and, you know, and will never quite go away.
00:05:45
Nick Britten
So, yep, you're right. I mean, there's this beat, if say the PR machine's been rolled out ah heavy this week. Maranakis has been talking about, no, no problem. It's all fine. We're all good. We all want the best interest in Nottingham Forest at heart.
00:05:56
Nick Britten
Nuno's been kind of saying the same ah yesterday.
00:05:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:06:00
Nick Britten
So the the inference from everybody is it's all all right and Nuno will carry on. But Maranakis is an incredibly unpredictable individual. And if he wakes up in a bad mood on the day that he's having talks with Nuno, then that could be the end of it.
00:06:14
Nick Britten
You just
Isaac's Transfer Rumors and Howe's Class
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Nick Britten
don't know.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
you
00:06:15
Nick Britten
you don't know how how these things are going to pan out because, as I say, there's just so so much unpredictability in there.
00:06:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
and think you're I think you're right. Too much of this is being played out in public for me. I've i've got a feeling things are breaking down. You talked about the sporting director. You're absolutely right about that. That isn't going to change. ah So Nuno's going to have to like it or lump it. I've got a feeling, ah we as we said, i think a few days ago, i think we're watching the slow disintegration of that relationship.
00:06:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I still don't think he's going to be there in new year. The third point, just to talk about, something close to your heart, is that I get a sense that the mood music on Tyneside is changing regarding Isaac's departure.
00:06:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
They were they were pretty ah pretty bullish about it. No, you know, he's staying here, he's contracted here, not interested in the Liverpool deal. ah Now, obviously, things are changing because they it looks like they're bringing in a replacement, inverted commas.
00:07:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Is that going to just be the thing that pushes that Isaac domino over to them?
00:07:16
Nick Britten
I think it's certainly going to help. i mean, we talked about hammering, looking like he's a rabbit caught in the headlights, and and and just bit but his behaviour is a bit odd. I mean, right at the other end of the scale is Eddie Howe, who's an absolute... Everything he does in the public domain is a class act.
00:07:34
Nick Britten
Everything he does. I think he's handled the Isak situation absolutely brilliantly. I really, really do. As I say, he's a real class act. And yesterday in his press conference, he denied these kind of constant questions that he had told Alexander Isak that if we bring a striker in, we will free you to go.
00:07:54
Nick Britten
However, a report in the Telegraph, on the back page Daily Telegraph today, saying that Liverpool are going to come in with £130 million. Remember, they've already came in with £110 million, which got rejected. Sorry, Newcastle are after £150 to £160 £130 million is in the middle, so that might do the job.
00:08:11
Nick Britten
ah Key to this is, of course, the fact that they're bringing in, Newcastle are bringing Stuttgart's Nick ah Voltamada.
00:08:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:08:19
Nick Britten
He's believed to have had his medical at Newcastle yesterday. We don't think he's going to be registered in time. to play at Leeds today, but he will be, well, he won't be training with his teammates because he's in the Germany squad for their Euros. So he'll come, he'll sign and then he'll disappear.
00:08:33
Nick Britten
But he'll be available as soon as the international break
Saturday Match Predictions: Upsets Ahead?
00:08:37
Nick Britten
has finished. And that's a big in. But heat but the the noise coming out in Newcastle, the PR coming out in Newcastle, is that he isn't a replacement for Isaac.
00:08:44
Nick Britten
He's actually a replacement for Callum Wilson. And Newcastle still need more strikers. And they do. Let's face it. They need at least one more striker. They're still after Strand Larsson. The Whistler deal is a bit weird because it looked like it was done a month ago and there's just not much has moved.
00:08:59
Nick Britten
Yet he's not been in the... butt He wasn't in the Brentford squad last week. Be very interested to see if he's in there for this weekend, game week three.
00:09:09
Nick Britten
we We spoke in the week, didn't we, you and I, on the podcast about Stran Larsson not being available for Wolves, but the comments around, well, every every player is available. Sorry, not being available for transfer from Wolves. Sorry, I meant.
00:09:22
Nick Britten
Yet, every player being has a price. was Was the noise coming out of Wolves?
00:09:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:09:28
Nick Britten
So... They might have to pay well over the odds. I mean, £70 million pounds for Volta Mada for a 23-year-old who's quite inexperienced and, of course, has never played at Premier League level is a lot.
00:09:39
Nick Britten
But the striker market is inflated anyway.
00:09:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
um
00:09:43
Nick Britten
There's ah there's a kind of lack of strikers around and everybody knows Newcastle are desperate, so they will add money on that. to that Although, to be fair, i think i think when you look at this when you look at this transfer, it's a very good transfer, by the way, I think.
00:09:55
Nick Britten
ah He's a player who who drops deep. He's not a kind of Isaac replacement at all. He'll drop deep.
00:10:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm. Mm.
00:10:01
Nick Britten
If you look at his stats and his his pie chart stats, actually, his biggest strength is linking play. and I mean, he scores goals and all that, and his his goal record is very good, but he's actually his biggest strength is Lincoln Place. He'll drop, a bit like Harry Kane will, he'll drop, he'll receive the ball, he'll he'll move it on.
00:10:17
Nick Britten
and He's 6'6", so he's a big lad. He'll add good weight to those set pieces. so But he was Newcastle have been tracking him for a couple of years, two three years. They thought he was going to go to Bayern.
00:10:28
Nick Britten
Bayern have had three bids rejected this summer. And actually, the the last bid was higher than what Newcastle had paid for him. So I wonder whether he just decided he wanted to come to England and come to Newcastle.
00:10:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fancy the Premier League. and and
00:10:40
Nick Britten
Which is great. Yeah, good him.
00:10:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it wouldn't.
00:10:41
Nick Britten
He's good
00:10:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that it's an interesting deal. £69 million I've got for Volta Marda. If they add on, say, £64 million, which I think they're going to have to get to to get Strand-Larsen from Wolves, because it'll just top the Cunha deal, which I think is what Wolves want to get to.
00:10:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Essentially, it's a like-for-like replacement with Isak. You're going to be selling Isak for £130. You're going to pull these two people in. I mean, does that make Newcastle actually a better team if you've got Volta Marda and Strand-Larsen than they had with Isak?
00:11:08
Nick Britten
Yes, I think it probably does. Well, it's not just that, it? It's two players out, two players in. so you've got Izak out and Wilson out.
00:11:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:16
Nick Britten
And you've got, if they if they they get Volta Marder in and A and other, whether it's Wissow, whether it's Sran Larsson, we don't know. Then yes, it does make them a better team. Because Izak, you're never going to get more money for Izak than you're going to get now.
00:11:29
Nick Britten
Last season, he was brilliant, but brilliant in patches. And he had also had patches where he he couldn't hit Bond door um And I just think for this amount of money, it's a great deal.
00:11:42
Nick Britten
And two replacements in who will benefit the team. And Newcastle are so strong in so many areas other than that final bit, which is the hardest bit of the jigsaw, putting the ball in the back of the net. So find a couple of players who can do that.
00:11:54
Nick Britten
They will absolutely be confident they can have another top four finish.
00:11:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very good. They're going to have to start
Fantasy League Woes and West Ham's Struggles
00:12:01
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00:12:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, second half the show, Nick, that word that was a very interesting little news segment. A lot of moving parts at the moment. But let's get to today's games. I'm going to run through them. What I want from you, Nick, don't need a score, just need a general prediction.
00:13:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Home win, away win or draw. We're going to start at Chelsea. Chelsea against Fulham. Chelsea looked amazing last week. Fulham are just decent without being overexciting against Man United. What's your prediction for the Chelsea-Fulham game?
00:13:20
Nick Britten
Well, a bit of breaking news actually on Chelsea as we as we bring them in this morning. News coming out of Stamford Bridge that Nicholas Jackson is on his way to Bayern Munich on loan.
00:13:30
Nick Britten
And I wonder if he's going there because they're not getting Volta Marder, who's now going to Newcastle.
00:13:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Make sense?
00:13:35
Nick Britten
ah So a good move for Jackson. It is ah he iss actually a very good move for Jackson because I don't think he's proven himself at Premier League level at all. And I thought if he was going <unk> a team that's not quite as good as Bayern Munich.
00:13:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not at all.
00:13:47
Nick Britten
So well done to him for getting that move. And anyway, Chelsea Fulham. Yeah, Fulham... It's really difficult to judge where Fulham are at because they are they haven't spent any money.
00:13:59
Nick Britten
Well, they spent £1,000 on a backup keeper. They spent no money in the transfer window. And they they've got a very good side, but you can't do this in the Premier League. You can't spend no money and expect to progress because if you stand still, you go backwards.
00:14:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:14:13
Nick Britten
So it's difficult to judge. And yet when I watched them in the second half against Manchester United last week, I thought they were very good.
00:14:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but is that because Man United just aren't very good?
00:14:19
Nick Britten
They played well.
00:14:23
Nick Britten
Well, I don't know. Good question. and And I thought they were okay when they played Brighton, but they came away with a a very, very late, but slightly lucky point. Yeah, going to Stamford Bridge is going to be difficult.
00:14:33
Nick Britten
i think i think really i don't I think you're probably looking at quite a close game because I don't think Chelsea are firing yet. I know they beat West Ham, put five past them last week, but you know you and I can turn it up against West Ham and probably score five goals.
00:14:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
But West Ham aren't very good.
00:14:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:14:48
Nick Britten
ah So... It'll probably be tight, but I think I'll go for a home win.
00:14:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I agree. And I don't think it'll be quite as tight. João Pedro seems to be on strong. I love Caicedo. He's a great player. I think i think there's a i think Chelsea are shaping up.
00:15:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know they had a hiccup in the first, kind of a hiccup on the first match, but they looked great last time. I'm really interested to see how they go against Fulham. If they go and knock through a small pass, Fulham.
00:15:13
Nick Britten
like because but Yeah, because Fulham a much better team than West Ham.
00:15:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes.
00:15:18
Nick Britten
and And Chelsea struggled against Palace on the opening game of a season. I think Fulham will give them a good game. I like Fulham. a good side.
00:15:25
Nick Britten
And feel it's a hard time.
00:15:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah they follow out I think Fulham are better better in Craven Cottage than they are away.
00:15:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's there's a lot going on. But but yeah i think i think Chelsea have the upper hand. hope so. Because I think it be interesting to see a good Chelsea team in in the Premier League this year.
00:15:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, next one. This is a big game. I think one of the big two games of the of the weekend. Magnet against Burnley. I would not have thought I would be saying that at the start of the season. That this is ah this is an absolute cliffhanger.
00:15:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Manionet against Burnley. But it feels like it is because something, know, if this ends up 1-1, this ends up 2-1 for Burnley, ah that could be it for Amorim. What do you think?
00:16:02
Nick Britten
Yeah, I think you're right. Nowhere did ever anybody say Manchester United versus Burnley is the game of the weekend. But I actually, in many respects, it is. Just because of the politics going on around it, just because of the consequences what might happen, depending on the result.
00:16:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:16:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:16:17
Nick Britten
I know Liverpool are playing Arsenal, but Man United-Burnley in some ways is a bigger game.
00:16:23
Nick Britten
I think Burnley will score, because I don't think Man United can defend. And I think Burnley very good at set pieces and all of that. I think they'll score. I just think it's inconceivable.
00:16:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
They've got a pretty good defence Burnley you know I know it certainly did last year
00:16:35
Nick Britten
Yeah. I know. I know. It's just kind of inconceivable that they'll win. I don't think they'll win. But I just wonder. Look, Man United's front three. of Embermo, of Cunha and Sesko,
Liverpool vs. Arsenal: Vulnerabilities and Predictions
00:16:51
Nick Britten
who looked wretched ah goess but against Grimsby on Tuesday in his in his sort of first full game.
00:16:57
Nick Britten
And by the way, why did he take like the 11th penalty?
00:17:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know.
00:17:01
Nick Britten
He's their star striker.
00:17:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I talked about this on on the podcast a couple of days ago.
00:17:05
Nick Britten
Yeah.
00:17:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
he he took the ninth. That isn't exactly, you know, let me at it, is it? that's That's, you know, put me at the back of the queue.
00:17:10
Nick Britten
Moe.
00:17:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, that's a terrible, terrible, heys judy just horrible.
00:17:16
Nick Britten
Well, the optics. Yeah, the optics around that are dreadful because, sorry, I know we're digressing, but let's just go on this.
00:17:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:22
Nick Britten
The optics are right because what it tells you is you've got ah you got a striker there who is not confident and doesn't want to do it.
00:17:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Zero confidence, yeah.
00:17:28
Nick Britten
He's terrified of taking a penalty and missing it. and if But if I'm his teammates, I'm going, mate, we've just paid £70 million pounds for you. Here's the ball.
00:17:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:17:35
Nick Britten
You take the first penalty if that's what it was.
00:17:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. I'm the right back. I'm the right back. You're the centre forward. You're going ahead of me.
00:17:42
Nick Britten
Yeah, if it was £70 million. I can't remember what his transfer fee is off the top my head, but it was a lot.
00:17:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who's that number?
00:17:46
Nick Britten
and And he didn't look any good during a game, if I'm brutally honest with you. Look, he's a young lad. he's fine I'm not criticising him particularly. It'll it'll take time. but he But he is a goal scorer.
00:17:57
Nick Britten
So that front three should be scoring goals against Burnley at Old Trafford. They should, because Burnley aren't great travellers. They've never been great travellers.
00:18:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, in a way, the other side of this argument of this game is this is the greatest get-right game Man United could have asked for.
00:18:06
Nick Britten
So...
00:18:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
If Amerim wanted a match, wanted a game, wanted a fixture that he said, OK, we're now going to set our stall out. We're going to go and beat someone 4-1. Everybody's going to feel much better afterwards.
00:18:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Everyone's going to love everybody else. This is the game. So, you know, in a way, it could work out that way. This could transform their season in a way.
00:18:34
Nick Britten
It could. It could. I actually, yeah, I think he'd probably be preferring to play West Ham, but I get your point.
00:18:38
Nick Britten
ah the the Yeah, so I... Look, it's so difficult to predict this game because and anything can happen. ah can see I can see Burnley winning 1-0 or something like that because that's what happened to Manchester United last season.
00:18:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:52
Nick Britten
It's all teams who are you go who went there and just won quite comfortably.
00:18:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I know.
00:18:56
Nick Britten
And, you know, as the second half progresses, everybody just gets more and more and more fractious and it's all horrible.
00:19:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
So what we've got to go for, I've got a gun to your head.
00:19:02
Nick Britten
Equally, I can see...
00:19:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
I need a result.
00:19:05
Nick Britten
well
00:19:09
Nick Britten
I just don't know. ah just know. Look, the common sense says Man United are going to win. Common sense says Man United have to win. Common sense also says it's going to be ugly. So 2-1 Man United, just a narrow home win, something like that.
00:19:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, right. I'm going 1-1. Draw.
00:19:25
Nick Britten
Yeah, I know. and yeah i did um'm yeah yeah I know.
00:19:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know. i thought
00:19:31
Nick Britten
do going to do it.
00:19:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
I got you there.
00:19:32
Nick Britten
youre go to
00:19:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. Sunderland-Brentford. Brentford look dreadful. Sunderland, to think, home form. Nick's still got PTSD about his prediction about you on your name.
00:19:41
Nick Britten
I have because I knew you were going to do that because that's what I was going to do. I was going to go 1-1. I just didn't quite have it.
00:19:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
I know. We've worked with we worked with each other too long. So, Sunderland's home form is going to be key. do you think they're going to keep things going, the stadium alike today?
00:19:52
Nick Britten
I do. I think you've been harsh at Brentford. I thought they were quite good when they played Villa. They beat Villa last week and played well. um And Sunderland, though, yeah, no, going to go for a draw. going for draw on this.
00:20:04
Nick Britten
And like Brentford, it's one of those games where if you're Sunderland and you look at this, you go, this should be a home win. It's also one of those games where you do kind of realise that the Premier League is a massive step up from the championship.
00:20:18
Nick Britten
And teams that are quite ordinary, and let's face it, Brentford are quite ordinary, all are still good in terms of where you've come from as a championship team. So I think probably a point for Sunderland, a point for Brentford, and everybody's happy.
00:20:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, I'm going home win. I think Brentford are dreadful. I think Villa were just pretty dreadful last week. And I like Sunderland at home. i think I don't think they're going to concede. I'm going 2-0 for Sunderland, though I don't need a score.
00:20:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, here's an interesting one. ah Spurs, two wins out of two against Bournemouth. Bournemouth tough to beat. Spurs seems to have been transformed under Thomas Frank. So how we see this one playing out?
00:21:00
Nick Britten
Well, i was looking at the head-to-heads on this, and there's but there's a little point. There's no point. There's no point looking at Bournemouth going to Tottenham and running them running them off the park last season because Ange was in charge and were a very different beast this season.
00:21:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. So we're born with, by the way, a different piece last year.
00:21:14
Nick Britten
and Bournemouth have started very well. I think Tottenham, though, are are a different beast this season. I think they are. So, home win.
00:21:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:21:22
Nick Britten
I think they'll win.
00:21:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think
00:21:23
Nick Britten
I think defensively, they've got what's really too fair. Poster Cogli should have had last season. They've just got much more stability. Thomas Frank is a very, very good coach. They've looked really... i mean, when they beat Man City...
00:21:37
Nick Britten
they They put in performance you don't really you've not come to expect from Spurs in recent times, which is they were just really defensively organised, really solid in midfield, hard to break down, but then also lethal on the attack.
00:21:48
Nick Britten
They've got all the right pieces in the right places at the moment. And yeah, I think they're a good side. They look a good side. So yeah, home win for me.
00:21:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, i would I would agree with that. Bournemouth lost a lot of defenders over summer. And i just think Spurs are going to score score too many for them. 3-1, something like that for Spurs. Right, Wolves-Everton.
00:22:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Story of two poor defences for me. I'm not being convinced by either of those defences. Tarkovsky looked very dodgy in the week on last weekend. What do you think?
00:22:25
Nick Britten
Tough one to call, isn't it? mean, Wolves have started poorly. They had flashes in the game against... I mean, they were they were tanked easily against Man City on the opening day. They had flashes against Bournemouth, but limited to being down to 10 men, but looked bit better.
00:22:40
Nick Britten
They don't... I don't know. They just don't look in source. I kind of fancy Everton for this, if I'm honest. I kind of fancy Everton.
00:22:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ooh.
00:22:48
Nick Britten
I think under David Moore...
00:22:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Fresh off their victory at the Hill Dickinson. Do you think they're going to make two wins out of two?
00:22:53
Nick Britten
I just think under David Moyes, they're a much better side. And he's got them playing.
00:22:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Here they are.
00:22:56
Nick Britten
He's got them better playing and dies
Sunday Match Predictions and Podcast Wrap-up
00:22:58
Nick Britten
on fire. and They've got...
00:22:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Grealish, of course, the Grealish effect.
00:23:01
Nick Britten
Yeah, he had a good game, you know, last week. ah ah Yeah, I kind of fancy Everton. I think... Look, it's about time Everton had a decent season. It's about time they just stopped being perennial tops or bottom five, bottom six.
00:23:14
Nick Britten
Boring side. Yeah. This might be it. This might be it. And I just don't think Wolves are at the races yet. So I'm i'm going to go for an away win. and think it's probably the first time I've ever predicted an Everton away win.
00:23:26
Nick Britten
Ever.
00:23:27
Nick Britten
Anywhere.
00:23:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Certainly in all the time I've known you and I've known you for nearly 15 years.
00:23:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
So um I'm going to go for a draw. I think both teams are going to cancel each other out. I think there will be goals. I think it's going to end up probably a 2-2. ah Leeds v Newcastle. Right. or We just talked about all this. ah Leeds need to bounce back after five Viltrowns Arsenal.
00:23:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's kind of forgivable. Yeah. Newcastle, okay, we're doing they're doing some business, but they still look at incomplete. They don't look a complete team to me. Obviously, up front is the issue.
00:24:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah That's a choice tough place to go to for Newcastle. What do reckon?
00:24:04
Nick Britten
It is. And they're missing some key players. Obviously, Joe Linton was injured in the game against Liverpool on Monday.
00:24:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:10
Nick Britten
Anthony Gordon was sent off, so he misses three games. So they're out of those two. Suggestion that Tonali might be fit, which is a surprise because he went off holding his shoulder like his arm was coming off on Monday night.
00:24:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:24
Nick Britten
um And like likewise, Shah, who went off with ah concussion with a head injury, but... um Yeah, a suggestion that he they they followed the rules, in which case he might be fit to play. Although, to be fair, he was replaced in that game by their new defender, Chow, who looked good. So I don't think Scha will be as big a miss as Tunali will be if he doesn't make it. I'm not quite sure what the situation is with him.
00:24:54
Nick Britten
If he does play, it's a big boost. It's a big boost for ah for Newcastle. think... i think Look, I say this every week. Their midfield is really, really good.
00:25:07
Nick Britten
Going to Leeds is a difficult job. And Leeds will...
00:25:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Really?
00:25:10
Nick Britten
I wonder if it depends on the on the on the last... Sorry, the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes. Because that's when Leeds generally, at Allen Road, really strong. They'll come at you.
00:25:20
Nick Britten
They'll fly out of traps at you. and But Newcastle... are always a hard to beat. They're been like Palace. You look at them and go, we've got a chance. But they're a very, very well-organised, well-drilled, well-set-up team.
00:25:37
Nick Britten
And I think they'll win today. I think they'll... It'll be one those games where Leeds will go into it, they'll chuck everything out Newcastle stand firm, they'll get a goal, and I think I'm going for an away winner.
00:25:48
Nick Britten
I think I'm for it.
00:25:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
okay I've got a home win. I think the narrative that's playing out in Newcastle is that the international break can't come soon enough. They need the players in. It's going to be another ah performance where they dominate, don't score, Leeds get warm one, 1-0 Leeds.
00:26:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
and everyone will say, thank God for the international break. Let's get this team looking like some kind of team again. And I think that's where we're going on that one. So that's Saturday's Games.
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00:27:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, that just leaves us with four games on Sunday to quickly run through. We're 27 minutes into this on our Saturday morning roundup of the weekend. Hope you're enjoying it with my myself, Ken Davis and Nick Britton.
00:27:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, bright Brighton v Man City, Nick. James Trafford had a bit of a dodgy game the other day. might not even play in goal for Man City. what ah yeah How are you reviewing this one?
00:27:30
Nick Britten
Yeah, lots of rumours, obviously, about Donnarumma still coming into Manchester City. Edison was on the bench last week. Lots of rumours about him leaving. It'll be an enormous show of faith if Pep keeps James Trafford in goal. I mean, he he looked nervous. He looked shaky.
00:27:46
Nick Britten
he I hesitate to say he cost them a goal. last when when when when he played that really, really short ball from a goal kick into a player who's been heavily marked.
00:27:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Huh.
00:28:00
Nick Britten
I mean, lunacy, kick the ball long. But I also feel sympathy for goalkeepers in this situation because they're just told to do it. And um i get the sense with some managers, and Pep might well be one of them, whereby he'd rather lose a goal.
00:28:14
Nick Britten
We were watching Russell Martin up at Rangers this.
00:28:17
Nick Britten
You'd rather lose a goal doing what I want to do than not lose a goal by kicking it long and not doing what I want to do. Do you see what
00:28:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
her
00:28:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I do see what you mean. I struggle with the logic, but I see what you
00:28:28
Nick Britten
I mean? Oh, there's no logic to it whatsoever. But equally, there's no logic when you've got, when you watched them last week against Tottenham, where you've got a goalkeeper and two centre-halves stood are in and around the corner of the six-yard area and Tottenham players swarming all over you.
00:28:44
Nick Britten
Where's the logic in trying to pass it around your penalty area?
00:28:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
mean.
00:28:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
None whatsoever. Hmm.
00:28:48
Nick Britten
No, there's no logic in that. Just get rid, reset, go again and yeah start again when the ball's in the top of half. It just doesn't make any kind of sense to me. So I feel for Trafford.
00:28:59
Nick Britten
i'd like I'd like to think, it's it's difficult because Newcastle were in for him lot for a long time, yeah? And he would have been first choice at Newcastle, I think.
00:29:11
Nick Britten
But he's going to find himself now, if Donnarama comes in, he's going to find himself just back on the bench and not playing.
00:29:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, he hasn't done himself any favours.
00:29:17
Nick Britten
like only
00:29:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we were talking up Trafford.
00:29:18
Nick Britten
He's such a good keeper.
00:29:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
We like Trafford as a keeper. but
00:29:22
Nick Britten
He's such good keeper.
00:29:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
and England keeper of the future, I think. But he's just found himself in a difficult political position there.
00:29:27
Nick Britten
Yeah, so, don't know.
00:29:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
so what what So what do you reckon on this one, then?
00:29:31
Nick Britten
It's a very difficult one. um i Brighton are good side. always like watching play. They're strong at home. Man City, well, which Man City is going to turn up? Is going Man City that trounced Wolves is to the Man City that lost rather aimlessly to Tottenham?
00:29:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:47
Nick Britten
No idea until they start playing, so I'm going to hedge my bets here and go for a draw.
00:29:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, I'm going for a way win. I think this is the bounce-back game for City. I think we may be underestimating just how good Spurs may be. I thought they were excellent against City last week. ah So, yeah, I think City have got to win this.
00:30:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Or, you know, if you're losing two of your first three... ah you can virtually give the title up. So think I think City are going to really go for this. and i think And I'm expecting the kind of City performance that we saw on the first Saturday. So I'm going for a City win.
00:30:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Forrest v West Ham. Well, if Marinakis and Nuno wanted a get-right game, here we go. West Ham have been abysmal. Forrest have been good still.
00:30:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah ah Do we expect that to continue?
00:30:36
Nick Britten
Well, I've only got one thing to say about this. At 6am today, Ken, I made Chris Wood captain of my fantasy league team.
00:30:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Yeah, we should say, dear viewers, Nick's Fantasy Football League team is not exactly running away with it. It's running away.
00:30:53
Nick Britten
No, other
00:30:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
you can get relegated from a Fantasy League team, Nick's in a lot of danger.
00:30:55
Nick Britten
and
00:30:59
Nick Britten
I'm already down with three two games together. There's still about 6am.
00:31:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
We pretty much are, yeah. Yeah, I think we need to have clear-the-air talks with your chairman of your Fantasy Football League team.
00:31:04
Nick Britten
I'm not...
00:31:08
Nick Britten
Not so bad. Well, in my defence, in my defence, I don't normally play fantasy Premier League. haven't done it for years and years and years. And then I was in America a couple of weeks ago, and one of my colleagues at work said, oh you've got to do it We've got to work for you. And I'm like, I don't want to. come you've got it. got to do it.
00:31:27
Nick Britten
I'm like, I don't want to. I'm like, yeah, you must. So I did. But I did it kind of when I was on the move. And I just kind of picked a load of random players. and it And it was only, no, i don't show your head because it's true. And it was only it's only after the first kind of fixtures, which were the weekend that I was coming back from America, that I realized that six out of my starting ah players were all injured and didn't play.
00:31:51
Nick Britten
and And then, so I got like no points. And then last week, I totally...
00:31:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, no, you didn't. You got 23.
00:31:58
Nick Britten
Okay, last week, I completely forgot... I completely forgot about it. So I didn't change my team. So the same six players or whatever that weren't playing still weren't playing. And I was saved by Jordan Pickford being in goal who saved a penalty against Brighton and kept a clean sheet.
00:32:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
13 points.
00:32:11
Nick Britten
um otherwise Otherwise, that's it. However, the good news is this morning, I've changed my team. And I've actually got 11 players in my team who might...
00:32:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right.
00:32:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who are actually playing today.
00:32:23
Nick Britten
Well, they might play. We don't know, we? But they should they should be playing.
00:32:26
Nick Britten
All my bench are in.
00:32:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, that's that gives you at least a chance.
00:32:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's embarrassing.
00:32:29
Nick Britten
All my bench are in.
00:32:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
but I'm very glad you're in the Football Legends fantasy football team because it just means I can't come bottom. So, OK, here's a big...
00:32:36
Nick Britten
and' There's only three of us as well.
00:32:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
so So I'm presuming here we're both going for home wins on Forest v. West Ham.
00:32:41
Nick Britten
Oh, comfortable forest. Yeah, comfortable forest home. We're in three now.
00:32:44
Nick Britten
It'll be easy.
00:32:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:32:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
next Next one, one of the classics, another classic, right after the Liverpool-Newcastle classic, Liverpool-Arsenal. This already feels a bit title decidery, or am I over-egging this?
00:32:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah What's your recommendation?
00:32:58
Nick Britten
No, you're over-egging it. You're over-egging it. um you know in But, you well, you are in a way, because it's not titled the side-dream, but it is a game which can fire out lots and lots of signals.
00:33:12
Nick Britten
So, Arsenal can fire out signal to Liverpool to say we're serious about it by going to get a result there. Liverpool, if they turn Arsenal over 4-0, will just go, yeah, thanks very much. We'll have the title this year.
00:33:24
Nick Britten
Cheers. Especially when Izzak comes in as well. So, there are there are subplots to all of this, aside from who gets the three points or the one point or zero points on the day.
00:33:35
Nick Britten
I think that Arsenal will have looked at Liverpool's first two games and be rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of getting them Really bad news about Bakayi Saka, obviously, that he'll be a big miss, but mitigated in some way in that Eze will, I'm sure, make his debut.
00:33:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
They've been shaky.
00:33:53
Nick Britten
ah They've got players to come They've Madweke to come in. you can play they've got They've got players who can play up top ah in Saka's absence. And... likewise But Liverpool, they haven't convinced yet, but they've won their opening two games. So that tells you something as well.
00:34:11
Nick Britten
And ah their defence can't be as bad as it was against Newcastle, surely. Slott must have looked at that and thought, right i've got to change this round, get Slobbertsle back in midfield. Gravenberts played really, really well. He's such a good player.
00:34:23
Nick Britten
ah And Saka had a quiet game, but scores goals. they've got They've got attacking you know firepower all over the pitch still. And I think it should be a really entertaining game. It should be entertaining game. But i fancy Arsenal to get something out of it. i really do.
00:34:38
Nick Britten
So I'm going to go for a draw.
00:34:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
OK. up Yeah, it's an interesting one. Liverpool have been very, very vulnerable against lesser teams than Arsenal. So there's going to be goals. I think this really yeah we are really heading for a classic here. In my head, it's this is it a 2-2 or is it a sneaky 3-2 for Liverpool?
00:35:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Because Liverpool have got... They are vulnerable. They've got this resilience. They've got this belief. They've got what champions do, the ability go down the other end and make something happen. And I've got a feeling we're looking at another game like that.
00:35:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going for a Liverpool victory. it's going to be It's going to be exactly the way it's played out in the first two games. It's going to be tutu going going into the last 10 minutes and Liverpool get a sneaky one. Or 1-1 and they end up 2-1.
00:35:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going for a very, very close Liverpool victory. ah Wherever more we say, Liverpool are still vulnerable, but they still keep doing it.
00:35:28
Nick Britten
Yeah, yeah and and keep doing it and doing it against Arsenal, though, is is something else, isn't it I mean, you're doing it against, with the greatest respect to Bournemouth even Newcastle, doing it against Arsenal would be...
00:35:53
Nick Britten
ah real a real signal. A real signal. we've got to We've got to see more, I think, from Liverpool. We've got to see more from Virts, their new signing, if he plays at 10.
00:36:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, Virch has been disappointing, hasn't he, so far?
00:36:04
Nick Britten
I think Eketike started well. You know, Salah's been quiet, but I don't doubt his quality.
00:36:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. He has been quiet.
00:36:10
Nick Britten
ah like I like, you know, Graven Burch and Jones in the middle of the park. um I'd like to see a bit more Harvey Elliott, I'm honest with you. I i like Harvey Elliott in that position. ah But yeah, that back four. I mean, a back four that played against Newcastle, obviously, Sobberts Light isn't the right back.
00:36:23
Nick Britten
Canate's had a shocking start to the season. Kerkhez has not impressed left-back yet.
00:36:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Treadful. No, dreadful.
00:36:27
Nick Britten
Van Dijk is always very reliable and dependable. and they've It's just got to get better at some stage, hasn't it, for Liverpool? You can't look at it and go, that's a massive problem. you've just got you You look at it i think, and just go, that's a bit of a problem at the moment.
00:36:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, it's going to get better when they get Mark Gayheath in Palace. I think that's what's going to happen.
00:36:46
Nick Britten
if they are ah If they are, I'm not sure that's going to happen, you know. I'm not sure it's going to happen.
00:36:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well...
00:36:52
Nick Britten
I don't know. There's something about that. There's something about Palace that I feel they'll not want to sell him because they've already got they've already sold Eze and it was either one or the other.
00:36:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
and They've sold so many, yeah
00:37:00
Nick Britten
I just don't think they're going sell
00:37:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Interesting. But yeah, Liverpool at the back look dreadful, very susceptible to safety.
00:37:04
Nick Britten
But Arsenal's already... Yeah, there's there's talk about Gaye and Arsenal swilling around.
00:37:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it might be interesting. Arsenal, kings of the set pieces. Liverpool, very vulnerable at set pieces. That's going to be an interesting little subplot on its own night.
00:37:16
Nick Britten
Yeah. Yeah, corners are going to be...
00:37:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's an interesting segue with Gehi to the last game, which is Villa-Palace. Villa have been really disappointed so far this season. Palace, there's just a lot of uncertainty around Palace.
00:37:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah Is that going to catch up with them in this game? Are Villa going to eventually find their form of last year and and they're putting some kind of performance.
00:37:41
Nick Britten
Palace don't lose away from home.
00:37:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
No?
00:37:45
Nick Britten
So, and Villa have looked very shaky. I think Palace in their first couple of games have looked good, ah but they draw a lot of games. mean, they've drawn, what, is it five out of the last eight games?
00:37:55
Nick Britten
They are the draw specialists.
00:37:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:37:58
Nick Britten
The draw against Forest, I watched draw against Forest earlier in the week, and it was a very, very even game. It was a very even game, but I think both Forest and Palace are better than Villa. And yes, they're missing Eze.
00:38:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes.
00:38:12
Nick Britten
They're dipping into the market, Palace. Devaney's come in. He's not Eze, simple as that. But Saar's start the season, how he ended last season, or I played for most season, to be honest, on fire.
00:38:23
Nick Britten
um and and And you've got Mateta there. I think Palace will be too strong for Villa. I think they'll win the game.
00:38:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Very good. I've got it as a home win. I know Palace have just brought in Pinho, who they're really talking up on the wing. So that'll be an interesting, see if he starts.
00:38:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I just don't think Villa can carry on being this season's Villa. Eventually they've gone to revert battle last season, Villa. I've got Villa as a home win. We've disagreed on many of those things today.
00:38:54
Nick Britten
Yeah, be interesting to see how this pans out. It will. I mean, the problem with Villa is they are not... Yeah, sorry, excuse me. The problem with Villa is that they are just not... They haven't bought enough players. They've let quite a few players go they haven't bought enough players.
00:38:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's going to be a very interesting weekend.
00:39:07
Nick Britten
There's a lot of criticism swirling around the Villa fans around Unai Emery playing John McGinn out wide when he's...
00:39:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, doesn't make sense that.
00:39:13
Nick Britten
He's not a right midfielder, straight right winger. He's somebody plays through the middle. He's a centre midfielder. And it just doesn't feel like... all is well at Villa at all at the moment.
00:39:25
Nick Britten
It doesn't feel like there's a lot of uncertainty at the moment. So it'll be up to Oliver Glasner, who, in my opinion, is one of the Premier League's best coaches.
00:39:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yep.
00:39:33
Nick Britten
He's got the capability to send a team out there to win.
00:39:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Interesting to see. It certainly doesn't look like the balance is right at Villa. But, you know, we're only but three games in. This is the third weekend. anything Everything is still up in the air a little bit. So thanks for listening to the Daily Premier League podcast. Hope you tune in every day.
00:39:54
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00:40:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
And let us know your thoughts. You can reach us at dailypremierleagepodcast at gmail.com. And lots of people do. And it's a very interesting read. And we're going to be featuring some of those postbag things during the course of the week ah the week ahead.
00:40:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nick, thank you. That's been elucidating. Is that the word? That's been fascinating. You've got a football game to ref. It's about to kick off because I know you told me, I've got to be out the door at 9.30. It's already 9.31.
00:40:37
Nick Britten
house I have, I have.
00:40:38
Nick Britten
Yeah. I've got plenty of time. i've No, no, well, not like like are you getting up this morning at me. We were meant to do this a little bit earlier until I got that message going, what? I've just woken up.
00:40:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah So they've got to be waiting for you, thinking the referee's the referees a late sleeper, if that's the new chant.
00:40:55
Nick Britten
ah So, yeah, I better go get go and referee this game. ah But so let let's see how we get it.
00:41:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thanks, Nick.
00:41:01
Nick Britten
You and I will catch up at the start of next week. Well, actually, tomorrow night, aren't We're going do a...
00:41:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we're doing tomorrow night tomorrow night's roundup of the weekend.
00:41:06
Nick Britten
yeah um We will know who is a football-predicting genius and who needs to go the way of Ruben Ameren and down the drain.
00:41:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Until next time, until tomorrow night, we'll see you soon. Thanks for listening.