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Episode 8 | Back from the Dead
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In this episode, we take a direct look at the most recent Premier League games for Chelsea and Manchester United—and neither side escapes criticism.
Chelsea’s latest form has been worrying. A 3–1 home defeat to Leeds exposed a lack of intensity and authority, with Chelsea repeatedly caught out by energy and direct play. The follow-up fixture against Aston Villa offered little improvement, as Chelsea again struggled to control key moments. Most recently, a 0–0 draw away at Bournemouth delivered a clean sheet but very little attacking threat. Chelsea look safe, predictable, and short of confidence in front of goal.
Manchester United’s recent run has been erratic. A 1–1 draw with West Ham highlighted familiar flaws—possession without purpose and vulnerability to counters. The match against Newcastle was competitive but reactive, with United failing to fully impose themselves. Then came the contrast: a 4–1 away win at Wolves, where United were sharp, aggressive, and ruthless going forward. The problem is consistency—those performances don’t come often enough.
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Transcript
Podcast Return and Rants
00:00:34
Speaker
Yo, don't cry, don't beg. Welcome to another episode of the Don't Blame the Ref podcast. It's been a while. We missed a couple couple episodes, but we're back now.
00:00:46
Speaker
Back from the dead. um Yeah, Eamon had just had his birthday. just turned 47.
00:00:59
Speaker
Happy birthday, bro. To be fair, my birthday's coming up as well in a couple of days. I'll be 25. Oh, sick, sick. Your birthday's not New Year's Day, is it?
00:01:12
Speaker
No, no, day after, day after. Okay, that's a madness too. So, yeah, we're back now anyway. Took a little break for the holidays anyway, so... Back to give you our pain and suffering.
00:01:25
Speaker
Just so a little bit of enjoyment. this one's this one's This one's tough because like this is pent up rage. So yeah this is pent up rage. So in advance, I just want to apologise my behaviour.
00:01:40
Speaker
like Usually I'm trying to be technical and like this is just going to be... a mad rant and it's going to be, I'm not going to be looking at the positives.
00:01:53
Speaker
I'm not going to be able to, you know, have a balanced view of things because I've got a whole picture over the last three weeks or two to three weeks and I just don't like what I see.
Manchester United's AFCON Challenges
00:02:08
Speaker
Well, it's the same, man. It's the same. Well, the funny thing is, aren't we tied on points as well? Bro, it's...
00:02:18
Speaker
I know offence to United, the fact that we're tied on points with United is what's vexing me even more. because Yeah, yeah, it's just a madness. Because how can you be spending the money that we have spent and you're telling me the United are are are the level that we've reached, the pinnacle?
00:02:38
Speaker
this is what This is what we can muster up. Aston Villa are 10 points ahead of us. What's going on? ah so let's let's let's start Let's start with the great Manchester United. um AFCON has started one of the greatest, in my opinion, one of the greatest competitions um ever. I think My connection with AFCON this year has not been great because I just haven't had the time to actually watch some games.
00:03:07
Speaker
um I've only been watching Nigeria, to be honest. um But I say that to say that United have three players called up to AFCON. um So Mbwemo, Masuari, and who's the third?
00:03:23
Speaker
Ahmad. Ahmad. And they literally just played against each other as well, Ahmad and Mbwemo. Oh, sick. So... so three key players um and how have you seen a distinct difference to your performances? Has that affected you?
00:03:42
Speaker
Has that made things harder for your manager? i think it this was always common. You can't act as... um though this is a surprise for us because we knew African was coming since the summer so us bringing in Mbwemo who's an African player having Ahmad already and having Maswari already we knew that African was going to have an effect on us but at the same time our manager's been here for a substantial amount of time he's had backing he's got enough pieces to work around and try and find a solution but
00:04:18
Speaker
Obviously, it's going to be hard because i consider Mbwemo and Ahmed in our top five best players in the team. So just losing them full stop is going to hurt any team. faster so yeah so so So without Ahmed and Diallo, you seem to be playing Dogu against them you know United versus...
00:04:39
Speaker
My mind's gone blank.
Tactical Confusion at United
00:04:41
Speaker
Newcastle. Newcastle. You've played Doku on the right wing. You've gone... Yeah, bro. Who's on the left wing?
00:04:51
Speaker
Mount. Cunha, I think. Cunha on the left wing. Chesh go up top and then a midfield three of Mount. Ugarte and Casemiro.
00:05:02
Speaker
Ew. And then a back four of Luke Shaw, Dalo. um Who's right back? Euro.
00:05:14
Speaker
Wow. Euro and... It was Martinez, Heaven in the second. Ah, I see. And then, um, and then you're right back. And then, um, Luke Shaw left back.
00:05:26
Speaker
But the thing was, the way our lineup obviously comes out, you can't tell what formation the manager is going to play. no Initially, it looked like the same typical thing, but as the game started, what it looked like was in possession, we were Out of possession, we were, um,
00:05:45
Speaker
five at the back or three at the back, however you want to describe it. And the funny thing was, i felt that first half, it worked. I think Newcastle couldn't do anything against us in the first half, more or less. I think we were just able to connect the dots a bit better as a team. I'm not going to say like we were or we we were cooking them and all blah, blah, blah. It was just it just felt a bit more like...
00:06:15
Speaker
There was a bit more continuity throughout the team playing that formation because it made a lot more sense, even though the players who we had in certain positions didn't make any sense. That's the issue. I think... i think ah lot Like a lot of your games, I think you've matched or exceeded job you exceeded your opponent's um intensity, um which with a Newcastle team you've got to do. i know you've got the home advantage and it's not quite the same as St James' Park, but um I think you've matched their intensity, which was good. I think you dealt with their rotations well. Mount had a big...
00:06:51
Speaker
big responsibility in managing those rotations and you guys did well to hand off runners and making sure you were always goal side and never caught um with players in behind which is good which shows good tactical acumen from the players and the manager why is there such a drastic change between that and the second half like it was ridiculous 75 possession He has a sickness. There's a thing here where things are going right and when he decides to make adjustments, they go wrong.
00:07:29
Speaker
That's the thing. I feel like, I don't know if it's just me. Every time I see this guy make tactical adjustments, whether it's making subs or changing our approach, we just get worse.
00:07:40
Speaker
is If the initial setup doesn't work, it's downhill from there. That's that's where it is. So we start high and then go low, which doesn't make any sense. So in terms of the intensity, which you mentioned, um talking about the Newcastle game, we should match teams for intensity because we're only playing once a week and we're not in the League Cup.
00:07:58
Speaker
The FA Cup hasn't started yet. So we should be matching people's intensity. If anything, we should be matching it through the full night. But that doesn't seem to happen. It seems like we we went up. Obviously, Dogu scored. I think that's a wonder shot. i don't even I didn't expect to when it. When they dropped to him,
00:08:15
Speaker
I was just like, fair enough, fair enough. like You know, not just not to get sidetracked, but that's the technique that I was expecting Dogu to have. Because I watched him a couple of times in um in the Italian League.
00:08:28
Speaker
I know it's only a couple of times, but he seemed teched out to me. So I've been i've been quite disappointed and shocked about his technical level. um But focusing more focusing back on your...
00:08:38
Speaker
your point about the manager and his lack of of his sickness, it's it's mental isn't a joke, um but them play he's he's in his inability to make um to make a positive effect on the team and and to you know and to make them play Like, I know you won 1-0, but man, that was... That was... that was I think the biggest the biggest indicator and highlight from that match of what I'm talking about is when Casemiro was subbed off and he's pointing at himself. with What, me? I'm getting subbed off. Like, he was so... He was so confused. Like, like what? Why are you subbing me off? um He doesn't... He didn't have a yellow. He was actually playing all right. And you subbed him on to... Subbed him off for... um
00:09:31
Speaker
Who did he bring on at that time? I feel like he brought on and another defender. I can't remember who. yeah I'll check in a second. but um that was i That happens regularly, you know. Whenever he takes off Casemiro, even when he's having a great game, Casemiro's just like dumbfounded. He's just like, wow.
00:09:49
Speaker
Why are you taking him Yeah, and it's just like, you just let it happen. Because it's like, bro, like what's Casemiro going to do? Just stand and argue with them? He can't do anything. It's just... Bro, like, man just subbed man off. Like, what can I do? He subbed him off for Euro.
00:10:06
Speaker
He brought on Euro. Wait, so Euro didn't start. Sorry, I've got i've got this line up completely wrong then. He started off with Dalo right back. Yeah, Dalo started. So the back four of Luke Shaw, Martinez, Heaven, and Dalo.
00:10:19
Speaker
And then the midfield three of Ugarte, Casemiro, Mount, left wing, Konya, right wing, Dogu, and up front, Cesco. But yeah, Dalos side.
00:10:30
Speaker
So yeah, he subbed off Casemiro and brought on Lenny Uro. Okay, cool. And earlier, halftime, Mount got subbed off for Fletcher.
00:10:43
Speaker
So it's just like, he's just he's making changes, yeah? to And it takes away all the momentum from us. That whole second half was us basically just fighting for one a 1-0 win.
00:10:55
Speaker
And if Newcastle would have ended up scoring, everyone would have oh, the players made a mistake. Oh, du the do bro, listen, we've only got seven clean sheets in like 45 games under this manager.
00:11:09
Speaker
And we play with five defenders. How does that make sense?
Managerial Critiques at United
00:11:12
Speaker
What? What's the logic in that? At one point, again, he does this thing where he goes into a back five and then somehow Dallot and Luke Shaw will be... Dallot will be left wing. Luke Shaw will be left back or like left wing back. And they're overlapping, underlapping with each other. And the like, bro, there's no attacking intent from the team. So, of course, naturally, everyone's just going to sit back.
00:11:32
Speaker
When you have on defensive um wing backs, all they're going to do is make it a back five. They're not going to make it a back three. They're not going to be going up and down. And especially when... they're looking around and the ball's getting to certain players and players are losing it straight away. It's like, bro, what's the point of me passing in the ball to like a player, like a guard to, and then running forward, knowing that I'm not going to get the ball and I'm going to have to run back the other way anyway. So what's the point? There was even one point in the game, having...
00:11:59
Speaker
I know with all the power within him, he did not want to make that pass, but there was nothing else on. He passed it to Garte, who lost it straight away. And from that moment onwards, he did not pass it back to him again. And that's that's the level of trust. That's the level of like...
00:12:15
Speaker
player quality that we actually have that the manager has to work with, which I give him a blindfold because I look at his team and I say, bro, it's screaming out for Kobe Menuh or players like that who just want to receive the ball. They don't care about how tight it is or how um how many how many people are pressing them. They just want to have a touch, get the ball out, keep it moving. But when you've got players like Ugarte, it's just like,
00:12:37
Speaker
you're expecting to lose the ball. You're expecting like, when he does something good, you're like, wow, okay, he actually did something well. When he does something bad, your like, what what else did you expect? that's That's what the level that we're we're working with. And for me, obviously, without um ah could we can't really go back on too many games, even though we missed quite a few. It's like, it's just more,
00:13:00
Speaker
um it's compounded throughou throughout the our last couple of games where i look at our, um performances, especially against Aston Villa and Bournemouth. Aston Villa first half was decent. Yeah, it's the same thing. Good in the first half, second half when it's time when the manager adjusts to us, can our manager readjust our team to put us on the front foot again? It never happens.
00:13:27
Speaker
It never happens. So, yeah. So, how so how did you guys get how did you go how did you guys go from to to then only conceding two, and obviously it's through coaching, I'd assume, only conceding two to Villa and then none to Newcastle.
00:13:50
Speaker
Is that a distinct change the manager's made to to make you a bit more compact? i don't I don't think so. i think it's just circumstance. I feel like the type of players that Bournemouth have, our team struggles with ball carriers.
00:14:05
Speaker
With Bournemouth, they've got Semenyo, they've got ah of that other guy. Tabernier. Yeah, they've got Tabernier and they've got that other guy, the striker that they've got from the French League, think.
00:14:18
Speaker
Yeah, and on yeah. When they get the ball, they just drive our team. And when that happens, our whole team just backs up and then... Next you it's one pass, a goal. Like, they scored the same goal twice because all all they had to do was run past on midfield, carry the ball, find ball, shot, that's it, goal.
00:14:36
Speaker
And there's nothing there's nothing we can really do about When teams are less, like, I would say, Aston Villa also have ball carriers, but I think... Because we knew that going into that Aston Villa game, they were kept in good form.
00:14:50
Speaker
I think we took a more defensive approach in general. So there just wasn't as many spaces for them yeah to exploit. it But obviously Morgan Rodgers scores a worldie. So I was like, what can you do?
00:15:03
Speaker
What can you do with that? So it is is a little bit of a tactical adjustment, but it's not like something that could say, okay, he's learned his lesson from that game.
00:15:15
Speaker
The next game, I'm going to see it implemented again. It's like he's just like, all right, cool, that game's done. Let me go back to doing what I was doing before. That's what it feels like going into every game. So the sort of hot topic over the last few weeks have been, you know, with United and Amorim, it's always about formation.
00:15:31
Speaker
Mm-hmm. um From what we've seen, is it seems to be a hybrid of his original principles of a three-hit-back, but he seems to be shifting into a more um to a to a 4-3-3, in-possession,
00:15:48
Speaker
and sometimes out of position, i think from when I think when it starts from the goalkeeper, he's definitely in a 4-3-3. When it starts from the opposition's defence and you guys are pressing, it's definitely in a 4-3-3 because he's got the right winger, whether it's Samad or, you know, Doigu, he's got them up and high. And again, I think that's why you had so much success in the first half against Newcastle, where he was pushed up and high. And I think, why did Doigu have to move to the left wing?
00:16:17
Speaker
Was it that Mount got injured?
00:16:22
Speaker
Yeah, Mount got injured at half. I think he got injured and subbed off at half-time for Fletcher. Okay, so... he had to rejig what he was doing. We were already light in the middle, so I think he was just like, yeah. and then he put... um I think he moved Konya to the middle and then put Doge out on the left.
00:16:39
Speaker
Yeah, so... good night It's a blur, but yeah. I think a mixture of Mount, who is you know doing a decent, good job in midfield and plugging those gaps against Newcastle's midfield three. I think a mixture of that and then you know having to put Doogu, who is doing OK, who is doing a job really well, back at left wing back, I think i think that really messed you up.
00:17:06
Speaker
um So, yes, there are some uncontrollables that the manager can't control. But I still am confused as to why you're so passive in the second half.
00:17:19
Speaker
And it's though those those sort of performances are not going to adhere anyone to to to Amorim, even if he's playing a 4-3-3. He does this thing where it's just like within his soul, something tells him, have to bring on the another defender.
00:17:37
Speaker
I'm going to throw in a defender who's cold. who hasn't had like any touches on the ball, probably who hasn't even really played too many minutes, and just throw them in and hope that ah don't i don't I don't even know what their intent is. Like, is it just to hold a lead? like rick Because you're... Sorry, like, newsflash here. You're the manager of Manchester United.
00:17:59
Speaker
I've seen Fergie... Obviously, I hate i hate doing the all-back-in-my-day sort of thing. I've seen Fergie go up to teams playing, like, basically six defenders.
00:18:10
Speaker
But we don't play as if we're defending. We're very... um on the front foot trying to score as many goals as possible like I've seen us play Raphael right wing O'Shea centre mid Wes Brown all of these kind of things and they're still attacking intent is' a lot of it is to do with the intent and the instructions of what we're being told to do it's not an easy league it's a tough league so if you're going to sit back and give the opposition the ball the whole time that like there's always going to be a high chance that they're going to end up scoring bro they um
00:18:43
Speaker
Bournemouth had a chance to win it in the end, um in the 4-4 game.
00:18:50
Speaker
The Newcastle game, Newcastle had a few chances because you're inviting that pressure and you're inviting and we're already not confident in our defence it stands. So why you going to do something that puts them under way more pressure? That doesn't make any sense.
00:19:05
Speaker
Yeah, i think i think ah I think United really got away with it against Newcastle because they had so much territory. They had so much, you know, look at Gordon, how many times he had three, four people in the box that he could hit and he's overheating it. How many times did, you know, Barnes get through on the right, you know, having a clear with nobody in front, clear opportunity to just, you know, play a quality baller. And I,
00:19:31
Speaker
I think Newcastle's attackers were so poor. They were so poor on the day. And it really... it United us were so lucky. How can they have 66% Old Trafford?
00:19:49
Speaker
but
Bruno Fernandes and Transfer Dynamics
00:19:50
Speaker
that's what That's what I'm saying. It's like he... I feel like he's in survival mode a little bit. I'm starting to get that feeling of, obviously, recent news that's come out is that we tried to go for Semenyo, but looks like Semenyo's chosen man city.
00:20:06
Speaker
And I think that was probably his last trump card to like really push his formation. like If we had Semenyo on one side, Ahmed on the other, it starts looking a bit more threatening, but...
00:20:17
Speaker
he he has to come to terms with the idea you're not getting Semenyo now. And you might not get anyone. If anything, the only person he looks like we're still trying to get is Ruben Neves.
00:20:28
Speaker
who I haven't watched him in Saudi. He's like, what, in his late 20s. I don't know if he's still as good as as he was at Wolves or he's off the pace now, but they're quoting something like about £15 million. pounds I would do the deal just on the sense of like, he's the type of profile that the manager would want and he's not costing us arm and a leg.
00:20:48
Speaker
Get him in. It's another midfield body. The less I have to say of Rigahti, the better. unlucky... obviously unlucky that Kobe mainly got injured as well. We don't know long that injury is.
00:21:03
Speaker
I think that's a recipe for disaster to be honest if you go for... What, the Ruben Neves one? The Ruben Neves one. Because, like, number one, you're you're you're playing in a double pivot with two players. If it was a midfield three, I'd go, yeah, go ahead.
00:21:17
Speaker
um You don't necessarily... Within a midfield three, you can get away with people who aren't necessarily quick off the first 10, 20 yards. Mm-hmm. um With a midfield two, I think if you're not if you don't have at least one mobile centre mid in there, I think it's really tough.
00:21:35
Speaker
So getting a Ruben Neves probably doesn't fix that. um And I find it strange that Semenyo is the... Maybe because of the release scores, Semenyo is the focus.
00:21:49
Speaker
Not a sentiment. Surely. I think that's a market opportunity thing. i think I don't think we had plans of getting him now. But obviously, because the roommor the information has come out of his release clause now and then everyone's kind of interested in him. Liverpool, Man City. It's kind of like, if we did want him in the summer, we kind of have to have to grab him now because he's going to be gone. That's essentially all it But at the same time as well,
00:22:17
Speaker
I just don't, for some reason, this club, a list came out here, yeah, like a couple of weeks ago on Twitter, and it showed all the midfield signings that we've made post Sir Alex Ferguson. And that list is disgusting. I'm talking about like Schneiderlin, Fellaini, Paul Pogba is like the only like actual midfielder who we've actually signed since then.
00:22:40
Speaker
um Casemiro, Ericsson, like the list is like, you look it you're saying, how is one of the biggest clubs in England so bad at recruiting for midfield. Or they don't have the intent of rebuilding the midfield. Obviously, the talks are now that we want to grab, who is it? Adam Wharton and Belaber.
00:23:06
Speaker
Or Adam Wharton, Belaber and Elliot Anderson. o But then I'm looking at that and I'm saying, it' that going to be enough considering there's talks of Bruno going, there's talks of Casemiro going, there's talks of us potentially selling Kobe Mania. So is it free, is it two free out and free in?
00:23:28
Speaker
Like what is, I don't, I don't know. i don't know. Is it Ugarte, are they going to just cut ties and say, oh yeah, he's he's rubbish. Just get rid of him and sell him. Like, it's going to have to be a whole other rebuild of the midfielder. And then it switches the issue of like, okay, cool. Right now we're playing with two. If we go into three midfielders and then we let all those guys go, we have to bring in like four midfielders. Are they going to do that?
00:23:52
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know if they will. And it just is, it's a whole problem. And then like, there's so many things that that's happened outside of the football pitch as well. The Bruno Fernandes, um,
00:24:05
Speaker
interview that came out where he started saying stuff like, oh, I could have gone to Saudi, but um the club wanted me to leave. That's what, yeah, he said the club wanted him to leave, but that's not what was being said in the summer. What was being said in the summer is that the club were leaving it to you. So so why are you trying to change the narrative about this whole thing that's irrelevant now? You're here.
00:24:27
Speaker
It's halfway through the season. Why are you why are you talking about this now? If this is another player and he leaks it, an interview comes out about him saying, oh, could have left, could have left, there would be pitchforks and knives. And then I'm seeing our fan base saying stuff like, oh,
00:24:41
Speaker
yeah, Bruno's been done so dirty, you know, like, oh, we deserve, we should try to get him a Premier League title and blah, blah, blah. that He's too good for, I think, like, what's actually going on? And even to compound that, I don't even, I wasn't even planning on going on the run, but to compound that, yeah, he dropped another interview with Rio Ferdinand that I refuse to watch because I'm just not watching that rubbish, bro. I'm not, like, I'm just looking at this and I'm saying, like, bro, this is just pure, like,
00:25:08
Speaker
nonsense, bro. You're at the club now. play if Unless the only reason why I'm thinking these interviews are dropping at this time in particular is because he wants to cut in Jan.
00:25:20
Speaker
That's the only thing that I'm thinking in my head. He's regretted staying and I i was looking at like, bro, yeah but let me just Let me just leave it. jeff we let's Let's look at it from his point of view. yeah So it's a similar, not the same thing, but um similar sort of personality to Salah and they've dropped these bombshell interviews.
00:25:40
Speaker
If you look at it from their point of view, you know, Bruno Fernandes has put this team on his back multiple times. What he said was their club didn't seem enthusiastic about keeping me in the summer and it seemed like they wanted the the the money.
00:25:59
Speaker
yeah He's decided to stay and get you know you could you could you are right in the sense that, okay, what's the point of dropping this? Could it be less so that he wants to leave or could it be that he's now having man wings where the club are trying to push push for it? Because he's he's he's ah he's what older than 30 now know as well.
00:26:20
Speaker
Yeah, he's like 30, 31, I think. more I think he's 31. Yeah. But either way, if that's the circumstance here, you've looked at the team, you've looked at the you've All the players that are here, all the players that were leaving, you knew who was leaving. And I'm assuming that because Bruno is a senior, he's he's the leader of the team, without saying anything more than that. He's the leader of the team. So I'm assuming he walked into the board, a meeting with the board.
00:26:51
Speaker
He asked, who we going to get? What's the plan? Blah, blah, blah. And they probably broke down, look, we're going to rebuild the attack. Then we're going to look to rebuild other parts of the team next season.
00:27:02
Speaker
Bruno obviously looked at that, looked at the offer he got, which they potentially were giving him a blank check. That's what it sounded like. put it Give us a number and we'll match it. That's what it seemed like. that It was reported it got to be between 800k to a million a week. That's how far they were willing to push it so to get Bruno.
00:27:22
Speaker
You said no to that. Now that you said no to that, you're here, bro. Don't try and shift the blame on... to um the power was actually in your hands. You you stayed because you fought Amarin, maybe we might do better as a team. And it's not planning out like that because one, your performances have been bad in themselves.
00:27:41
Speaker
it In itself, okay, cool. You're not a center mid. A hundred percent understand that. That's not your fault. The manager's asking you to play somewhere where you're not supposed to be playing. Cool. But then also within that, your actions on the pitch don't reflect the decisions of this world-class player that everyone keeps putting them into. They keep putting them into this top, top-tier talent. He has world-class ability in certain positions. In the final third, would happily have Bruno.
00:28:10
Speaker
Bruno would be the person I'd defer to all the time. In the final third, give it to Bruno. Hopefully he does that. Maybe it's a clipboard to the um over the defence. It's a long shot. Suck but Everything outside of that regarding his play is too reckless for me.
00:28:24
Speaker
I don't like I've never liked it. And now, at the time when the offer was being made for the ah Saudi were coming to get him, our fans were like, we can't get rid of him.
00:28:35
Speaker
We can't get rid of him. It's impossible to get rid of him. Now, six months into the season, or however many months it's been, everyone's like, oh, we should have sold him. We should have sold him. Well, no. Duh, duh. Of course we should have sold him. He's an aging player and we were going to get 100 million.
00:28:50
Speaker
And look at our midfield now. at our team. Look at our team. everyone's like, maybe we should have done this, we have done that. His performances this season are not needle moving. They're not needle moving to get us results.
00:29:02
Speaker
They're not. He's not. I get the whole concept of, r he's been putting us on his back and all of that kind of stuff because he's he's been our best player in our worst period. Cool. Him being our best player hasn't led to any sense of glory. We won a FA Cup and we won a League Cup. Both games in which he played well in.
00:29:22
Speaker
I heard that. Both games he played well in. But then let's not discount the Europa League game against Seville, which he was terrible in. Let's not discount the Europa League final against Tottenham, which he was terrible in.
00:29:37
Speaker
All of these other things, the opportunity we had to stop Man City from getting the treble. Was it an FA Cup?
00:29:46
Speaker
Something terrible in that as well. like yeah but yeah um It's self-indulgent stats, isn't it? I don't care about that, bro. My team's rubbish. I don't care. I think this is one of the subjects where I'm going to have to disagree.
00:30:00
Speaker
i just think... Look, the top i don't think it's ever no I don't think it's ever a good idea to go out and do an interview. um I think it's... Nope. the context The context is always going to be twisted. you you know Your you're reasoning behind it is always going to be... People are always going to speculate um and then they're going to think that speculation is fact when in actual when your you know intention could have been completely something completely different or yeah words could have been twisted. So...
00:30:30
Speaker
Regarding the interview, I think we can agree, wrong idea, definitely wrong timing, shouldn't have done it, cool. but Regarding his feelings towards the club, I think those are all justified.
00:30:44
Speaker
um I think, yes, he may have... and Look, you're doing better this season. on most occasions. Yes, he may have agreed to stay, but he's clearly, something is clearly still bugging him, whether it's the planning or lack of planning or, um, you know, maybe, uh, uh, maybe his position, the position he's having to play, you know?
00:31:08
Speaker
I think, I think it's a combination of all of that. I think he hates being the centre midfielder. He's, He wants to be an attacker. He wants to be one of the tens. He wants to be as far up the pitch as possible. Cool. i'm not he He's probably looking at it and is like, all right, cool. I'm not the ten. But that's on the manager. Fair enough.
00:31:27
Speaker
That's on the manager, though. it's on the manager. And I think i think he's he's checked out on the on the manager sort of thing. I think this interview these interviews are showing me that he's like looking at the situation within the club. He's looking at what the manager is asking him to do. He's looking at how the team is performing as a whole. And he's saying, nah, this ain't what...
00:31:44
Speaker
I was promised or what I thought it was going to lead to. He probably thought that, okay, cool, I can play centre mid, but I've got Konya and I've got Mbremont in front of me. As long as them lot are hitting, I'll get my assists, I'll get my goals, I'll get my thing, and the team will just be playing better. But because i would say Konya has been underperforming this season for what we thought we were going to get, and not just on the goals and the assists sort of thing,
00:32:11
Speaker
it's everything that I've been complaining about for the last couple of months, bro. Like, takes too many touches, too reckless on his shooting. And Bremel was good for a short bit.
00:32:21
Speaker
And then i feel like he, the last couple of games before he went to Africa, and I think his performances dipped. And then Cesco, like, come on. Like, he's he's not pulling up any trees. So Bruno's looking at all them, man, and saying, you, man, are not doing anything.
00:32:39
Speaker
Why is the manager not putting me in the 10? me in the 10! He should be in the 10. What is this? He should be in the 10. And funny thing is... Mayno shouldn't have to compete with Bruno. Bruno should be in the 10. Bruno's probably looking at Manu.
00:32:54
Speaker
Bruno's probably looking at Manu and wanting him to play too. He's like, Mayno should be playing what I'm playing. Put me in the 10! Put one of these guys on the bench. They're not doing anything, bro. And then he's just getting frustrated about the whole situation. That's what I think is. So focusing on the manager, yeah. Focusing on that point.
Amorim's Tactical Stubbornness
00:33:14
Speaker
the yeah yeah Correct me if I'm wrong, but these quotes that saw from Fabrizio said, if I could look back, this is Amorim speaking to the press. Oh my gosh. i could Wait, wait, Dom, wait.
00:33:25
Speaker
Let me myself. Let me meet myself.
00:33:32
Speaker
He's crashing So, Abwin said, according to WebEach Show, if I look back at the last year, i would have done 75% of things differently.
00:33:47
Speaker
What do you think he meant by that? ah It's difficult. if you Did you watch the whole interview? Did you listen to the whole quote? I don't watch this manager's press conference post-match anything. I don't watch it. I don't trigger myself. So so what do you think he meant that? Um,
00:34:07
Speaker
watch shit this program so so what did wish so what do you think keep meant by that um
00:34:15
Speaker
and he see he think that he he Is he he he Is he choking? Is this banter? Is this an experiment to see how much United fans can endure? Is he taking a bit bro the The whole world's been telling him this team needs to play in the midfield three and wa wingers. yeah Even when you had Rashford, Garnaccio, Tony, now, a year later, when he's lost all his out-on-out wingers,
00:34:43
Speaker
Now he's saying, I should have done it differently. What?
00:34:49
Speaker
What?
00:34:51
Speaker
Bro, let me, listen, listen, listen, listen. This, this, that quote there, yeah, is like, it takes away months, but basically a year's worth of arguments with these men that have just been defending the manager on, no, he's just back at, his system, his system, his system, he knows what he's doing, you don't know more than the manager. The manager just came out and said, yeah, can't lie, got it wrong, guys. So you've been backing something that didn't work.
00:35:20
Speaker
The manager knows it didn't work. When I'm going to my boys who are backing him, and I'm saying, what do you think of it now? The manager's admitting that he made a mistake. What, you still agree that what he was doing was right? Yeah? Now it's like, oh... Well, he's learning. He's learning. Brother, brother, I will punch a hole in every wall in this house right now. What do you mean he's learning? No, he's just stubborn. People act like managers don't have simple human qualities. He's a stubborn person, bro.
00:35:47
Speaker
That's all it is. He pushed it to the nth degree. He pushed it to as far as he possibly could and and said to himself, like, look, you know what, yeah?
00:35:59
Speaker
I'm going to act... i'm going to at What did Bouncer say? did he say it? Bouncer said, I'm nonchalant. Bouncer said, I'm nonchalant. He was acting nonchalant about his formations. that like up was that when is' the system when When we win, not the system. When we lose, it's the system. over Blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, now you realise, you idiot, that it's always been the system.
00:36:23
Speaker
That's basically what he just said. It's always been the system. Dom, that comment there as well, yeah, when you've won like 30% of your games, you could all have come to a press conference talking like that. Saying, oh, when we win, you barely win, my bro.
00:36:38
Speaker
You barely win. brother. I was saying this at the time. i' was saying this at the time. And now all ah all of the fanboys that have just been backing my man and saying like, oh, he knows what he's doing, trust him. Man's coming out and saying, oh, we're going to have to suffer to get good. The man saying the good times are coming. Bro, this I haven't but haven't smiled in months. I haven't smiled in months, bro. We're still suffering.
00:37:02
Speaker
And now the manager is basically telling me he has to go back to the drawing board. well So basically what you said, he's wasted a year. is they i think And also, I think that 25% is him saying that the decisions that he's made on certain players is right. So all that stuff about Garnaccio, Rashford, all of that, I think that's the 25% that he's holding on to and saying, no, I was right about that.
00:37:26
Speaker
The 75% is everything he's done managerially. na's the That's what the... 75% is a big percent. The big percent of a manager's job, you know? You know what don't get about Amundi?
00:37:40
Speaker
Why would you say that in the press conference? Because he's... Why would you do that? He's emotional, bro. Why would you do that? Because you know Donny's don't like you.
00:37:54
Speaker
So why would you now give him extra ammo like that, though? like if i If I came to that realisation one day, I'd be like, fam, everything I've done in the last year has been wrong. he's ah He's an emotional wreck, bro. Because what he's going to do, he's going come out and he's going to say,
00:38:10
Speaker
So they're to ask him about that. And he's going to say, oh what I meant by 75%, I meant maybe my emotions, my feelings have been wrong. Because that's all he ever talks about, his emotions, his feelings. He never talks about tactics. When that one guy pressed him about the tactics, he he almost had no emotions, bro.
00:38:27
Speaker
He almost malfunctioned. He was like, bro, recently, my amas started talking about the youth players. Oh, I gave Amas his debut. I gave Chido his debut. I gave this and that. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And now look Amas. He's struggling in Preston or whatever. Blah, blah, blah. Sheffield Wednesday, wherever the hell he is. Collier doesn't play well. Collier's injured, you idiot. Chido Obi doesn't really play for the under-20 ones. He can't get... Brother, stop talking. Stop talking, bruv. you know why I think that's so slimy?
00:39:02
Speaker
Yeah? Their man don't need to catch that stray, yeah, at all, number one. Number two, he then proceeds... Yeah, I know you've got three players that went off to AFCON and a few injuries, yeah?
00:39:14
Speaker
He then proceeds to play the academy players versus Newcastle. And it's so slimy because... ah Martinez wasn't injured.
00:39:25
Speaker
He takes off Martinez for Fredrickson, I think. And then he takes off on yu Luke Shaw for another for another player. ah In the game, you're winning 1-0 with like 5 minutes, 10 minutes to go.
00:39:39
Speaker
You're putting on players that have barely played at this level. ah That must have been a sabotage, bro. That must have been a sabotage because who does that? he's just not Who does that? head Who does that? Because if they... If they messed it up, yeah, I swear he would have went into his press conference and said, see, I told you, I told you, I told you.
00:40:00
Speaker
These youth players are not winning. The thing is for me, yeah, this is probably one of the, like, one of the main points that want to make on this whole Ameren thing. People, with Manchester United, people can't chew chew gum and walk at the same time. It's one thing or the other.
00:40:18
Speaker
Right now, the fans are on, the players aren't good enough. I'm sorry, he's had multitudes of combinations of defences, yeah? And to only have seven clean sheets in over 40 games is disgusting. I'm not blaming that on the players because it doesn't matter who's at the back. We can't keep clean sheets. It doesn't matter who's in the midfield. We can't keep clean sheets. Teams run through us all the time. That's a system issue. So when people are saying, ah get him a whole new squad, why? Why would you do that? Mbemo had how many goals before he came in? He had 18 league goals before he came here. And now he looks like he he can't he can't do anything. Kunja, he had like, what, 12 to 14 goals. But he looked like the best player on the pitch every single time I watched him.
00:41:01
Speaker
He's struggling here. Mason Mount can't get it going. Obviously, he's had his injury problems. He's somehow taken out one of the key factors that's been keeping the fan base alive. And Bruno Fernandes, in his goals and assists, managed to make him regress as player.
00:41:15
Speaker
Everyone is worse. You can't tell me this is a player quality issue. There's not one player on this team who's gotten better under this manager. There's not one. So this is this isn't a player quality issue. This is strictly a manager and system issue. Of course, the board, how they have their own accountability that they need to take. For me, the board's biggest issue is persisting with this guy.
00:41:39
Speaker
That's the issue. That's the biggest issue. Constantly making this guy, trying to make him. I don't know if that whole thing is true about them having a meeting with him and saying, oh, you need to switch to a four at the back thing. Those ru rumors came out ages ago.
00:41:53
Speaker
Why the hell are you going to ask a stubborn manager to change his systems when you can just bring in a manager who's going to do what you want him to do anyway? It's just ridiculous. The whole thing's dumb. So at this point where am right now, the fan base, Bear Man are stupid, isn't it? That's what I'm going to say. Bear Man don't know anything about football. They just support the club for the sake of supporting the club. And that's what I'm open enough to say. It is what it is. I'm not saying that's that. Yeah.
00:42:21
Speaker
I think if Amorim... If I was a... Even as non... rival fan. If Amorim said those words to me face-to-face, would have slapped him.
00:42:35
Speaker
I would have slapped him. About redoing everything. 75% of everything. Because you're just taking the mick, my bro. You are taking the mick. You ain't listened.
00:42:47
Speaker
You ain't heard anybody. you have just... To even say that in the press conference, honestly, mate, I am dumbfounded. i think I think the final straw, yeah, for Manchester United will be this one record that we've had for years, yeah, winning that halftime, then losing the game.
00:43:06
Speaker
If that record gets broken, he's almost done it twice in recent weeks. He's almost done it twice. And Bournemouth, he almost did it. And um another game that we played, that we drew, he almost did it.
00:43:19
Speaker
If he breaks that record... He has to go that day. He has to go that day. I don't care. I don't care about nothing else. That record right there, it cannot go.
00:43:29
Speaker
Especially on the basis of the decisions that this guy's making. yeah Cool. I think i think i've I've gotten my point across about Manchester United, isn't it? like Bro, i could you know you know it is. I can keep going, can keep going, I can keep going. But I think, in long and short,
00:43:48
Speaker
I don't think he has much time left. I think i don't think he will get sacked mid-season. I think that ship has sailed ages ago. We're in a good enough position. Like I said at the start, we're tied with points for Chelsea somehow.
00:44:01
Speaker
We're picking up enough results to where we're going to be at the right end of the table this time this season. But I think him still being the manager next season is predicated on the idea of... um um him getting Europa League or Champions League football. If he doesn't do that, he's out. He's out. Man said Europa League.
00:44:23
Speaker
Man said Europa League. Yeah, I think the bar's low. The bar's in hell. Man finished 14th and he's still here. The bar's in hell. the but family He is rubbish and he's still here.
00:44:35
Speaker
There's no other excuse for it, but that. But yeah, anyway. Moving from one...
Chelsea's Managerial Struggles
00:44:42
Speaker
who let's move on to yeah do you want to do it go ahead go yeah moving from one struggling manager to another um we've got the big boss Mureska I think there there must be satin in the air must be the flu because it's got these managers talking crazy it's got their man talking madness I don't know who they think they are ain't never seen you act like this
00:45:11
Speaker
great you aint got the clo You ain't got the club, my bro, to be... Okay, Mureska won the Club World Cup. Cool. But, bro, you ain't really had the career behind you to be talking like this.
00:45:23
Speaker
And what Mureska basically said in recent weeks was, um you know, he didn't feel backed by... He was referred to the owners. He didn't feel backed by i one to a few... Well, he didn't specify how many, but he didn't feel backed by those he worked with.
00:45:42
Speaker
um He said the last 48 hours was before a game was was one of the worst. um And then proceeds to win barely, luckily, win versus Everton, draw against Newcastle and lose to Villa.
00:46:03
Speaker
Now, I've seen a shift in the way we press. It seems to be more of a 4-4-2. We've done this before, but it's not...
00:46:17
Speaker
It's weird now. It's weird. It's in the sense that he's pinning, he's tucking in one winger to try and press the other centre-back. um So, for example, if the ball starts on the left-hand side of Chelsea um and the opposition have the ball at their right-back, our left winger will will will step up.
00:46:37
Speaker
The striker will then press one of the centre-backs. The other winger will then tuck in and press the second centre-back, so the left centre-back. And then, But then what that does is obviously leave there the opposition's left back on the other side, on Chelsea's right, leave that person free.
00:46:55
Speaker
So what he's doing is he's now asking the right back or the full back to now push up high on on that other full back, which is working at times or most of the times.
00:47:09
Speaker
But Everton... did well in the second half to nullify and and to get through our press quite often. And it left us very open because we we don't track the, I don't know, when you have so many rotations going on or they or the timing is right, once they know what you're going to do, they're finding ways around it. So for one of the ways that they're they're finding around it is they'll just stick two players on on the opposite side.
00:47:36
Speaker
So for example, if it starts on their opposition's right back, right hand side, what by the time they switch it to the left-hand side, they'll just stick the two players on on our fullback, so that fullback can't step up and press their other fullback, if you get what I mean.
00:47:51
Speaker
So he's pinned because he's got two players on his side. So it leaves their fullback that's deep, it leaves him free, and they've got an outboy every time. So I say this to say, like, okay, yes, it's good that I'm seeing some sort of variation, but I think he's been persisting with it a bit too long because it it it hasn't,
00:48:11
Speaker
really worked a lot. And what's ended up happening, which was what happened a lot against Aston Villa in the second half, was they once they switched it to the opposite fullback, he would just pump it straight into the the winger.
00:48:27
Speaker
The winger would get it. The winger would cut in on the inside, which was Rodgers. Whoever would receive it with their back to goal would be Rodgers or McGinn or whatever. They would just come in. They would take a touch, come in on the inside, bang down our back line.
00:48:40
Speaker
And it was happening again and and again. So now, if you're tactically astute, and you are setting us up in a way that doesn't make us too open, limits the chances we're conceding, and then you know i can clearly see that it's a player quality issue, I'd be okay with it.
00:49:02
Speaker
But when I'm seeing you in the second half a lot as well, it seems to be in the second half, or first half, whichever, because Newcastle was first half, you're getting tactically outdone, and it's not just a player issue.
00:49:20
Speaker
then i've then then i'm then i'm going to get I'm going to get really annoyed. Then I'm going to start getting annoyed. So I'm going to start getting angry. Because I am. I am. Because i already hate the directors.
00:49:32
Speaker
I already hate the players. Don't make me hate you. Don't make me hate you as a manager.
00:49:41
Speaker
Don't make me hate you. No. And just do things like do like, it's okay to try things and then it'll work, but don't keep trying the same things. So for example- But the thing is, how if if the manager is going to try something new, how long do you think you should persist at it before changing it?
00:49:59
Speaker
So like, if you do it one time and it doesn't work, well you think, just scrap it? Or do you think, try a couple more times? it deaf Because what what I think happens with, Managers like Maresco, the same thing as Ruminam, bro, same type of brand.
00:50:15
Speaker
What it is, is they have an idea. They will try their idea. it might fail initially, but even the little glimmer of it working successfully is enough for them to persist with it. And then essentially what they're hoping for is that da these things that they're trying to implement become habits within the players. And then the players are able to do it confidently a lot more often. Because if you, as a manager, you do so you do something, which is obviously a difficult thing you're asking them to do in general.
00:50:43
Speaker
And then as soon as you realise it's not working, you just revert back to something that's comfortable for the players. It's hard for your team to progress in the way that you want it to progress. So i think what do you think i think? I think it's a case of, okay, you've implemented this tactic.
00:50:59
Speaker
You've seen it hasn't been executed. From a manager's point of view, in a manager's head, they've seen it work. So maybe from his point of view, he thinks if the players just did this better or had the timing better here and the timing better there, if we just keep working on it in training, this could work.
00:51:18
Speaker
And I've seen it work sometimes. OK, it might not be working. My problem with that is, my bro, when I can see it in game not working properly,
00:51:29
Speaker
three to four times in a row. And at that time, you've in my opinion, you've gotta be a little bit flexible.
00:51:40
Speaker
Okay, if we don't have the time invite, or we haven't figured out how to so how to make it work, okay, let's be flexible and go, o we're just going to stand off their press um a little bit, and then not allow them to play through us so easily because we kind of need to win this game.
00:52:00
Speaker
just Like, like this game, this game just can't be thrown away. we We can't just keep dropping these points. So,
00:52:11
Speaker
I think it's a fine balance. I think it's difficult. I get what you mean. I think a manager has to try things, a manager has to practice it, and he's got to practice it in-game and adjust accordingly. My issue comes when I see it across multiple games um and it's still the same mistakes.
00:52:25
Speaker
And other managers are finding the same, are doing the same things to to nullify you. So another thing we've talked about a lot Inverted full-backs.
00:52:37
Speaker
I'm tired of talking about it. I'm tired of talking about it. I don't want to keep talking about the same things to you, bro. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want to. You've implemented a tactic that gives wingers loads of the ball.
00:52:58
Speaker
But you have two of the worst wingers with the worst crossing success rate in the whole league. Their dribbling success rate is the worst in the league. Both of them. They're both first and third. I was waiting for you to get to this part. I was waiting for you to get to this part. Let me get my drink. Wait, hold on.
00:53:19
Speaker
So you have wingers that can't cross, that can't shoot um consistently well. They can't dribble. Why are you employing a tactic that exacerbates their qualities, their their lack of quality?
00:53:36
Speaker
Why? And I feel like, i'm um'm almost a part of me feels like it's all of a higher plan to show the directors that their squad is shit. you You know what, yeah?
00:53:48
Speaker
Bro, it feels like, if ah some managers, yeah, I always get an air of an agenda. An agenda behind everything. An agenda behind him. Yeah, yeah. I'm starting to get that sort of sense because... But the thing is, as well, actually, you know what? I slightly don't agree only because of the fact of you have no other options. Who else is he going to play wide? Other than... Other than Esteval. Esteval's the only one who probably could get more game time.
00:54:22
Speaker
but Bro, it's about the selection of tactics that makes these players look worse.
00:54:29
Speaker
If their weakness is dribbling and crossing, so why would you now have them isolated? Yeah, bro, don't even get me started. Don't even get me started. The thing is, yeah, this is what I'm saying. This what I'm saying.
00:54:42
Speaker
A basic fundamental being a wing-guard. Bro, those two things you just named, you cannot be a wing-guard without at least one of those. You can't cross and you can't juggle. So what are you then? So what what can you do? Well, can just run in behind. Is that all you can do as a wing-guard? I'll tell you i'll tell you exactly that i will tell you exactly what needs to be done to get the both the most out of Garnaccio and Neto.
00:55:04
Speaker
And bro, it's so simple. <unk>p Swap them. Yeah? Swap their wings. Just swap them.
00:55:16
Speaker
s So what? Neto on the left and Garnaccio on the right. That's what you'll You see when I thought Dogu was good, yeah? yeah He was a good player amongst... And he's good. du I'm not saying he's he's not he's not good, but like I thought he was tactile.
00:55:34
Speaker
He was a player you the best player amongst others that weren't as good as him. He comes to United, you start to see, oh, he's crossing ain't that good. He's dribbling ain't that good. He's passing ain't that good.
00:55:47
Speaker
And now you're like, the level's changed. So what i yeah i mean is, there are players that... you get to a certain level, you man just don't cut it.
00:56:00
Speaker
You just don't cut it. You don't have enough. don't have enough. You don't have enough. You don't have enough. And that's Ganacho Neto. So what I mean is... So you're already off the Ganacho train because you've only just started the Ganacho experience, bro. You haven't even had the premium package where the brother starts tweeting.
00:56:18
Speaker
You haven't even got that package yet. you know what they are? Yeah, yeah. I was saying at Manchester United, yeah, Listen, this is exactly who Garnaccio is. He hasn't progressed. He hasn't regressed.
00:56:30
Speaker
This is what he is. For some reason, yeah, can't lie. He gets so many touches on the ball. He gets so many opportunities to do something. He probably has like, at least 12 1v1s a game.
00:56:42
Speaker
like But there's a talent there's ah there's a talent in that, though. That is a skill. yeah To have a player that's so heavily involved, it's a skill because he's always in a position to be passed to. Always, always, wait always. And that's his skill. He always shows for it. He always wants it. And his mentality, no matter how cow crap I'm playing, no matter how bad I've been today, I will get on the ball again. And I will go again, and I'll go again, and I'll go again. It's that relentlessness and...
00:57:07
Speaker
And it almost makes you it almost makes you wait him. It almost makes you go, wow, this guy is so relentless. But then I see him swing a cross in and it doesn't it doesn't get past the first man.
00:57:19
Speaker
Or I see him swing his cross in and it's going sky high, going off the pitch. So i almost um I almost get sucked in and then ah I'm off the chain again.
00:57:33
Speaker
I'm off. I'm off it. Yeah. He's, Ganacho. Yeah. It's, it's actually insane because for him, obviously I've got a very, um,
00:57:46
Speaker
in-depth analysis of what I think of Garnaccio as a player because I saw him at my club for years. The only points in where I looked at Garnaccio and said, there's something there, during his breakout season where he was still number 49 for us and all he was doing was running in behind. And for some reason, he was always getting 1v1 opportunities where he all he had to do was either shoot or or pass. That's it. he was He was in the position to do one final action.
00:58:14
Speaker
That's it. When you're isolating him on the wide areas and asking him to beat someone, he's not going to do it. He can't do it. He can't buy a yard because he's not quick. He's not inventive enough to get himself um half a yard. And even when he does get the opportunity to do something, nine times out of ten, he's going to try to whip the ball into the far corner and it's going to end up in role Z.
00:58:36
Speaker
That's what he's on. he can't He can't do anything other than that. With Pedro Neto, that one is a mystery to me. Because when he was at Wolves, I remember he was being quoted 50 million from... um How much did you lot even buy him for? You lot paid quite a bit, didn't you? Like 60.
00:58:52
Speaker
six Yeah, 60. Yeah, he was being quoted up them Tottenham were interested. United were interested. Chelsea were interested. The big teams wanted him. And now, actually having to watch him week in, week out, you look at him and you go...
00:59:06
Speaker
Oh my goodness, he's not good. He's just actually not good. But this is back to my point. but this is back to our point When you get to a certain level, you start to see the weaknesses. you start The weaknesses get exacerbated a lot more.
00:59:22
Speaker
And you know what I've realised, bro? Neto is a star winger for a team that's lower in the table. Garnaccio is a star winger for a team that is lower in the table.
00:59:33
Speaker
For Chelsea and United, they're wing-backs. They're wingbacks. Yeah. Yeah. they win back Yeah. They're wingbacks. They're wingbacks. need like, um I'm trying to think of an equivalent. Who's a, who's a lower down team. Who's like, not really, I can't even, can't think off my head, but just like, just like, a um what's that guy's name? Dwight McNeil, like those sort of guys at Burnley.
01:00:00
Speaker
Man's calm. He's cool. you can do you can get as many reps as he wants, put in a few crosses here and there. Cool. If you put Dwight McNeil in Chelsea, brother. No, no, no, no. the left like if this is mark This is my point. well And so to get back to initial point, yeah?
01:00:22
Speaker
this This is my thing about your tactics are making these players' weaknesses strong you know more obvious and you're exacerbating the issue. So why not employ the tactics that will get the best out of them?
01:00:36
Speaker
Swap them. I swear to you, bro. Forget the the forget the inverted fullbacks. Swap them. ah Put Garnas on the right and Neto on the left. i swear to you, we will create a lot more chances than we do.
01:00:49
Speaker
We will create so many more chances. And I'm watching it and I'm watching it and I'm watching it. And I feel like I'm going crazy. I feel like I'm going crazy because it's the same thing with Amorim.
Philosophy vs Adaptability in Coaching
01:01:01
Speaker
We can all see you're wrong. We can all see you're wrong. But for whatever reason, you've decided, no I'm going to be wrong and strong. You've decided it. You've decided it.
01:01:12
Speaker
And what you remember what I said to you about which when things hit the fan, When things hit the fan, um... I start to see Enzo always reverts, Enzo Mureska, always reverts to the tactics that he knows will work.
01:01:31
Speaker
He always does it, bro. Newcastle, 2-0 down. He's messed up the cut tactics. What does he do? He puts which he tells Rich J, come out of midfield, go back to right-back.
01:01:43
Speaker
puts um He puts Enzo in midfield and then he goes into a it goes into a midfield free... oh ah no was it i think it was I think it was Gusto right back, but he goes into a midfield three with Enzo Caicedo. He'll go back to a 4-3-3. I've been saying it for a while. I've been saying Enzo can't play in a midfield two. Enzo needs to be in a midfield three. It's a bit of like Bruno Fernandes about him.
01:02:09
Speaker
he needs to be a midfield three. For the betterment of this team, for us to play our best football, for us to to to try and be as successful as we can, if you want Enzo Fernandes in the team, it has to be a midfield three. And I'm so... And I know I'm right about this.
01:02:27
Speaker
I know I'm right. Because Enzo will go to another team, whether it's Real Madrid or whoever, and everyone will go, oh, Chelsea wasted him. Oh, Chelsea did this. He didn't look this good at Chelsea. Did it? And that's because we didn't play him the way in the in the in the formation that we we should have.
01:02:43
Speaker
why is the manager doing it? It must be an alternative or to a motive. There must be an alternative motive. It can't be. I think the thing is. It can't be just you sticking to your philosophy.
01:02:55
Speaker
It's not working. This is the thing. Do you know why I think it is a philosophy thing? Because. There's so many managers of the same brand. I always say Amarin. You can see Ange. You can see Maresco. A lot of the new age managers, it's their philosophy over everything. It's not about putting the players in the best positions to win.
01:03:19
Speaker
It's not about that. It's about my idea works. I'm going to show you the outlay of my idea. You need to look at me as the board and say, if we got that player there instead of him, it would work. If we got that player instead that player, it would work. Because even look at someone like Vincent Kompany.
01:03:36
Speaker
He was at Burnley. he was He was through and through sticking to his philosophy, even to the point where it got them relegated. That got him the Bayern Munich job. And Bayern Munich looked good because he's got better players within his system, able to execute what he needs to do on a more consistent basis and is providing better... um but but better results, but that only works if the board is able to facilitate you getting players of a certain quality. And what happens with a lot of these managers that they don't understand is that... don't have the same quality.
01:04:07
Speaker
You don't have the same quality. We are watching the team. The players that you need aren't here. Brother, adapt. Stop it. brother Stop it. And you know what's so funny? You know what's so ironic, yeah? Pep Guardiola said in an interview, he said, oh...
01:04:23
Speaker
I think managers of our generation complicate things. And sometimes it's best to just play players in the best position that they can be. So he was talking about folding.
01:04:33
Speaker
Like, let's not overcomplicate it. Folding should be the one being in the pockets, not Cavadio or Diaz. or did it So basically, he was cussing the inverted full-back stuff.
01:04:44
Speaker
You arsonist. Pepe Viola is an arsonist. Because you're the one that started all this. You started it all.
01:04:57
Speaker
You. You're the one. You're the reason. Everybody's doing It's you me that's it. And now you difference is, bro? None of us had Cancelo.
01:05:09
Speaker
and now everybody's that she sick you know now everybody's and now everybody's like you know coping in it but you know what the biggest difference is for none of us had um casecelo None of us have Nuno Mendes. None of us have Hakimi.
01:05:28
Speaker
You don't have the same players that... You don't have it. Do you see Cancelo? He was a playmaker at fullback. you If you don't have those kind of players with that level of technical ability, why are you telling it why are you trying to get them to play in the pockets, inverted in the fullback?
01:05:47
Speaker
Kukun can't pass 10 yards.
01:05:53
Speaker
Cucurello messes up every counter-attack. He can't receive on a half turn. He can't get ball. He can't run past anybody with speed. So why are you inverting him? Why is he making runs into the box? Non-stop.
01:06:04
Speaker
All game. Get in the way of Palmer. Bro, the thing is... Bro, I've had it up to you. It's literally what we've been... Bro, going back on your Pep Guardiola thing here, is the reason why Pep is able to randomly just say...
01:06:20
Speaker
No, let me try a new thing. It's because he's in a situation where he's going to um be given... He's going to be given like a and ah blank check. He's going to be able to bring in whoever he wants. He he might go, all right, cool, I want him to write a full-back. Yeah, get me Cancelo, get me this person, get me that person, run it.
01:06:40
Speaker
And then the next two seasons, he might go... i just want to play centre-backs, bro. I don't see a need for full-backs. don't we just have, like, four centre-backs, bro? And then now you've got Ake, Akanji, Stones, ah Diaz, Vardio, all these players. And then now it's like, okay, cool.
01:07:00
Speaker
I am a bit done with that now. Let me just go back to getting full-backs, man. Forget this. Or, or you know what, I've got a better idea. Let me play midfielders at wing... um at fullback because they're going to be way more comfortable in the ball, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it's kind of, it's a case where him as a, um,
01:07:22
Speaker
him as a manager, he's at a stage in his managerial career where he's like, I can do whatever I want. And then he looks, then these like younger managers, they idolise him. So they're like, I like what Pep did there.
01:07:35
Speaker
Let me make that my personality. And then Pep did the change. And then look at Arteta. Arteta's still in the centre-backs at full-back arc of Pep.
01:07:46
Speaker
Pep's moved on from that. He's not doing that. Bro, he's gone. He's much filled. And this is... The next thing on... Next thing you know, he's going to go get normal full-backs who are just bombing up and down, up and down, up and down. And he's going to come and punch up the league. well And then everyone's going to switch and be ah, yeah, that's done. Let's go. inside And this is my point.
01:08:04
Speaker
Pep is always a step ahead of all of these managers. And he's a step ahead of all these fans. And these fans, I think, like they're getting sold this idea of a manager having a clear ah style of play.
01:08:17
Speaker
A clear style of play. Guys, I'll tell you now. If a manager is like a a robot manager that um that controls his team like a PlayStation, I am telling you, pay every site every manager that's like that gets found out within the year.
01:08:36
Speaker
They will always get found out. This, I need a style of play. I need to see patterns, ah movement of patterns and the same movements. I need to be able to see one way or a couple ways my team will attack.
01:08:48
Speaker
Hey, if I'm your position manager, watch, watching your footage and you have two ways of attacking and I know exactly what you're goingnna do every time you attack. I know exactly what you're going to do every time you build up. I will find a way to to counteract that.
01:09:02
Speaker
This is a new age. Stop thinking about stuff like that. The best managers are step ahead. Pep changes things non-stop. And not just Pep, other managers, they constantly change, constantly change. You think the way um Tony, what's his name, um David Moyes,
01:09:20
Speaker
The way he played is the ah the attackers versus Chelsea to pin our full-back back so that we couldn't press him with effectiveness so that O'Brien was free on the ball every time and all they had to do was keep switching it to O'Brien and run through. You think that's the same tactic they deployed um against um against Arsenal?
01:09:39
Speaker
No, because um David Moyes is adaptable. He has a style of play, but he's adaptable. And he has he adjusts it to what the opponent is doing. That is what the most successful managers are doing.
01:09:54
Speaker
Get this nonsense idea out of your head. And all these tic-tac-a patterns of play and da-da-da, all of that comes from good players. It doesn't come from a manager building it in a lab ah at the train is um at the training ground, telling players, go here, go there, da-da-da-da-da.
01:10:10
Speaker
It comes from good players linking up. Yes, you he's building those relationships in training, but it's not him instructing them what to do. He's setting principles on of playing. Principles. So my principles are, my team wants to press.
01:10:26
Speaker
We were pressing the three. My principles are, we play we try to play through the thirds from the back. We might play over in this scenario. We might play through in midfield in this scenario. Those are just my principles.
01:10:38
Speaker
But the good players are the ones that bring it out. And I may adjust my principles to fit the opponent so that I can win the game. Stop. Stop getting obsessed with all this nonsense. And that's why you get managers like Amorim, managers like Mureska that are boring.
01:10:54
Speaker
They're boring, boring, boring. know what you're going to do when you turn up to the match. The other manager knows what you're going to do and they stop it almost every single time.
01:11:05
Speaker
The thing is I feel like for managers, you have to have a good skeleton of an idea of what you want to do. Like you said, pressing, how you build up, cool. But you're not supposed to be able to tell a top quality player Oh, every time you get the ball, you have to do X, Y, and Z. If you don't do X, Y, and Z, the whole system collapses and then teams are going to be able to think. That's not how it's supposed to work. It shouldn't be as rigid as that because once that player gets injured, once that player leaves, once that player falls off and you have to bring in someone else in, you have to bring someone else in, your system's not going to work anymore.
01:11:42
Speaker
your your system Your system's just not going to work because what you're asking them to execute is so specific and only a few set players can do that. Now it's out the window. Now you're now with the people who are supporting you are like, His players aren't there. What can you expect him to do? Like, listen, and look, before Amarin, we had Ten Hag. Ten Hag pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed for Frankie De Jong because he knew his system was predicated on that man being in the team because you can't coach what he does. You can't coach a man picking up the ball off the goalkeeper, dropping the shoulder on three guys and playing the pass. You can't coach that. That's just a unicorn.
01:12:25
Speaker
In Barcelona, he's been asked different things. Cool. He needed him in order for his system to work. And you saw the collapse of Ten Hag because his rigid system and what wanted them a team to do um fundamentally doesn't work. It just doesn't work.
01:12:43
Speaker
It doesn't matter how much you try to cushion it, whatever. It doesn't work. For me, the only manager that i have seen that has, you know, he has these automations, yeah? is Conte.
01:12:55
Speaker
Like, he has he has his automations, but Conte is so intelligent. Yeah, facts. He's so intelligent. Like, Conte, it's like NFL. He'll have, like, six, seven plays for just 30 minutes of the match.
01:13:07
Speaker
And the players have to memorize the six, seven plays. It's very complicated. And he's so passionate. And he's so difficult to work with because if you fuck it up, if you mess it up, he's just going to bench you.
01:13:19
Speaker
So, my point is, even Conte, one of the most... You know, PlayStation managers, the ones that want to control everything, even him, he he changes.
01:13:34
Speaker
Chelsea, he started off with a back four. He changed to a back five. Napoli this season, he started off with a back five. He's changed to a back three. He changes.
01:13:45
Speaker
Even him. well like, i ah I'm done with it. I'm done with it. because And you know what the deepest thing is? What have you, Amorim, what have you achieved as a manager for you for you to be so stubborn?
01:14:02
Speaker
Mareska, before Chelsea, what have you achieved in your career to be so stubborn? to be telling tele players um To be telling players i know best.
01:14:14
Speaker
what You know what it is, yeah? I think the part when it comes with um the part with these managers that we not forget, but that we underestimate when it comes to evaluating them, is that those other the guys that you mentioned, Des Moises, Ancelotti, Conte, all of those guys, they're old men. They're actually old men. They've been managing for...
01:14:40
Speaker
basically like 10 to 20 years, they've had the bumps. They've had the, um they've had the bumps, the bruises. They've had all of this, like having to adapt their systems, having being stuck. I'm pretty sure at one point in time, each one of those managers was stuck with an idea that they were trying to do. And then they realized this don't work. They changed. Then they changed again. Then they got fired. Then they got a new job. Then they changed it. These guys,
01:15:06
Speaker
ah Bro, they're not even five years into their managerial careers like that. Amarin's probably only... He's not even 10 years into his career. he's still He's still younger than some... Bro, he's younger than most managers.
01:15:21
Speaker
who's like To get this level of job... yeah you need to have at least 10, 15 years in the game to understand what it takes. deep But these clubs are taking the risk in hoping of finding the next Pep Guardiola. They're finding the next... um I don't even want to say his name because he ain't done that. Arteta. But they want to find...
01:15:44
Speaker
those guys before they become something major and then now you're paying off their teams and paying them big salaries blah blah blah all of that but what's the point but what's the point but what's the point because we paid 10 million that's exactly what I was going to say we paid 10 million for Bresca to buy him out the Leicester contract it's still big peas it's still big peas you still have to pay the manager what's the point why am I waiting why am I waiting five years for this project manager to come good Why?
01:16:15
Speaker
Because when he's chatting to players and telling them what to do, they need to... but they need to but like Some of these players I'm looking at, and they don't believe what they are being asked to do. to to do They don't.
01:16:27
Speaker
They don't. Like I see it in their eyes, they don't enjoy the football. They don't. No, because you're taking away all the freedom and the expression from the players by making them do these rigid, robotic systems and tasks and trying to make them do like...
01:16:43
Speaker
Oh, Ganacho, Ganacho Yeah, receive on the back foot Yeah, take five touches Bring up bring the winger down the line Oh, yeah, yeah Try to beat him on the outside Oh, i can't Cutting Oh, whip the ball Got back post Nobody's there Oh, where are you guys?
01:17:00
Speaker
Neto Get the ball Get the ball on the right Oh, head down Head down Never looks up Never looks at anybody around him Cutting Someone broke my shot all across Oh, man I couldn't do anything that's that That's dead football.
01:17:15
Speaker
Dead. Dead, dead, dead, dead.
01:17:20
Speaker
And, like, I'm just thinking, where is the guy that we played Brighton and he clearly instructed the players, as soon as you get it anywhere in midfield, hit in Bayern first time.
01:17:37
Speaker
Palmer scored four goals in that first half, bro. Hmm.
01:17:44
Speaker
He could have had two free assists in that first half, bro. Where was that guy? Yeah. Enzo created three big chances in that game. Okay, cool. Bournemouth, sorry, Brighton had a ridiculous high line.
01:17:56
Speaker
But that was an example of someone taking away that their principles, seeing a weakness in a position and going for it. Mm-hmm. Looking at um Villa, they were backing off.
01:18:11
Speaker
Villa were backing off in the first half. We had all the possession. They weren't pressing us. But they had no... um Because of you've got Rodgers... No, to be fair, McGinn was doubling up well on the outside. But because McGinn's doubling up well on the outside, Garnaccio and Neto are 1v1 or 1v2. They're getting they're getting um doubled up on.
01:18:33
Speaker
Where's the overlapping full-back to overload them on the on the outside and to get some... byline crosses in? Huh? Where's the underlaps? Why are the players not forcing these underlaps to ensure that a centre-back or a centre-mid has to follow to pull them out the way?
01:18:50
Speaker
We didn't move Aston Villa up. We didn't move them and we had to rely on a goal from the set piece. That is honestly, from that first half in terms of how much territory and possession we've had and how ineffective we were, I've never seen anything like it.
01:19:06
Speaker
I've never seen anything. of we so We were so toothless and we didn't create anything in open play. And then you knew, what from the moment we went into the second half, one no up, I knew exactly what was coming.
01:19:20
Speaker
I knew what was coming. All I was waiting for was our first mistake. And there we go. Badly Aisle, bad passing to the middle. They count up, they score. But we've had 65 minutes of us passing it side to side, crap quality crosses, doing the same thing over and over.
01:19:40
Speaker
And then still nothing changes. And this is why I said six, seven weeks ago, just sack the guy. I don't want to see this anymore, bro. i actually don't want to watch the football. I don't want to hear his voice.
01:19:54
Speaker
I don't want to hear the excuses. I don't want to hear him talk, talk like he's the bee's knees. Go somewhere else and prove you're the bee's knees. And you know what? Maybe in five to 10, maybe in five to 10 years, he will be the bee's knees.
01:20:07
Speaker
That is possible. But bro, I want, I want to win now. i I think that is a lost art of clubs trying to actually go for the juggler.
Highlighting Successful Coaching Practices
01:20:20
Speaker
Like, the look at the league now. The league is is dying now. oh Like, Emery, salute to him, bro. I stand up and applaud him. Like, bro, you didn't get backed in the summer in the way that most managers would have loved to be. You started off the season terribly. But do you know what you did?
01:20:37
Speaker
You coached. You just went in there and you just coached. And you got your team playing amazing football. you get You're getting the best out of some of your players. Oli Watkins, people he was dead.
01:20:48
Speaker
Comes a clutch, scores two goals against Chelsea, even though the first one was a bit of a fluke. But you... you um you you get you have to get luck sometimes in those situations. Why why what why is Emery able to be second or third with Aston Villa?
01:21:04
Speaker
And if you go through the team, man for man... What, they are now 12 wins? Yeah, to this version of Villa, this version... Yeah, they've to be fair, they've got, in my opinion, they've got like they've got like a top six quality midfield.
01:21:17
Speaker
But in terms of the defence... Boy, that's a pretty poor defence to me. In terms of the attack with Oli Watkins, who's barely played this year, that's a pretty poor attack by Rodgers.
01:21:32
Speaker
So with the pieces that he's got available, he's able to coach them into a position where they can get results. Why can't Amorim?
01:21:44
Speaker
Why can't Mureska? And I know the pressure's different because Villa are like up and coming sort of wherever. But if you watch that game against them against Arsenal, they were toe-to-toe with Arsenal.
01:21:59
Speaker
They didn't sit off. They didn't defend for 90 minutes. They pressed. They hurried in moments. Yes, they stuck sat deep when they needed to and they got that late winner. But they brought that luck.
01:22:11
Speaker
there's no that in In fact, there's no such thing as luck in football. Every every action has a reaction. And through their football, through their coaching, they won that game against Arsenal. Yeah. Why aren't our managers doing that?
01:22:26
Speaker
It's a joke. It's a different agenda, man. It's a different agenda. like These guys want to be proven right more than they want to win. That's that's what the issue is. I think Emery's at a point in his managerial career where he understands the value of winning. He understands the value of his players, getting the best out of his players, creating harmony within the squad, la and just building an environment where everyone understands winning is...
01:22:52
Speaker
the number one points on the board is the number one currency in football. All of this other stuff about, oh, system and tactics and blah. No, no, no, no. Listen, guys.
01:23:04
Speaker
Man, like, even even this is... this is um I'm going back to Man United. Victor Lindelof. No one wanted to rate him at Manchester United. He was at Manchester United for eight years. Wasn't even good enough to get us I don't think there's been one season where he was a starter for us.
01:23:19
Speaker
He's always been a rotational player. He leaves, he goes to Villa, that he's able to come to Manchester United and get a win. how How is that possible?
01:23:30
Speaker
how How the hell is that possible? thought he was the worst player in the world. No, because the manager's not asking him to do things that's outside of his capabilities. And he's protecting his weaknesses within the squad. I didn't look at Lindelof in that game and say, oh, look him, he's a liability, blah, blah. blah you just You don't notice that the the players who aren't important, you don't notice them.
01:23:50
Speaker
But the players who are deadly, Rodgers, Watkins, Buendia, Tielemans, the players who need to get the ball, get the ball and they get it cracking. And that's all that's all that matters for Villa.
01:24:03
Speaker
That's all that matters. And they're going to keep doing that. I think in addition to that, i think players sorry I think fans have a very bad understanding of what tactics are or what coaching or what or what coaching is like, or what it's supposed to look like.
01:24:23
Speaker
So, for example, as a coach, like, if I think, I would look at what a defender's doing, or let's say, in possession, what my, or, no, let's talk about it with Neto, yeah?
01:24:38
Speaker
With Neto, I'd watch him, I'd watch him for that game against Villa, and I'd say to Neto, every time Parma doesn't, um passes that ball to you, I want you to pop it back to Parma one touch.
01:24:51
Speaker
Because he's free on the inside every time. He's finding those pockets where you're not getting your head up and you're not finding him. You're not even looking for him. Get your head up and look for him.
01:25:03
Speaker
That's coaching. And the fact Moresca hasn't done that is a joke. That's tactics. That's coaching. And before you know it, when you have that sort of conversation with man, you do that or you come off.
01:25:19
Speaker
see how many times he passes to Palmer. See how many times. But my manager ain't doing that. And then suddenly the football looks champagne because Palmer's just played a two touch two touches pass into Neto. Neto's one-touched it back to Palmer. Neto's now running behind. Palmer's got three. He's done a reverse pass into Neto's one. Oh, now the football looks slick.
01:25:40
Speaker
That's because I've told a player off for something he's doing wrong. And now it now it looks good. That's tactics. That's coaching.
01:25:49
Speaker
fixing the things that need to be fixed to get good football on the pitch.
01:25:55
Speaker
Mueske, I'm not seeing it. I'm not seeing the effects. and neto Neto is still dribbling with his head down every single time he gets it. Neto has to take netto has to take six, seven touches of the ball before he releases it, before he does any sort of action. Neto can never, ever play one to two touches.
01:26:17
Speaker
ever And I've been watching him for a year. And the manager it hasn't fixed that. How have you not fixed that? Because if that was my player in the professional sport, in youth football where I coach, I'd keep giving him chances because that I've got no choice.
01:26:35
Speaker
In first team football, I would have benched him until he'd done it.
01:26:42
Speaker
So why have you not fixed that? Garnacho, whenever you shoot... What's up with Gittins as well? is he Is he just not good? like How have you not been been able to bench Garnacho, bro? What's that about?
01:26:55
Speaker
i I think Gittins is like a mentality thing. I think he's... he's he plays He plays quite shy. i don't think his personality... I'm not too sure. I don't know him personally, but he plays in a shy way in terms of like he doesn't really seem... He seems to avoid contact. He doesn't play with aggression. He doesn't play with intensity or speed. So I think those kind of things... he If he had... If you put Garnaccio's mentality into Gittins, you'll have one he ah hell of a player. Generally.
01:27:24
Speaker
Generally. But here we are. You can't you can't play ah Frankenstein with players. So, Canacho, I'd look at him and I'd say, bro, every time you shoot, you're leaning back.
01:27:39
Speaker
Every time you shoot, you're leaning back. You're rushing your shots and you're leaning back. ah Your planted foot, your your foot next to the ball, it's too far away from the ball, so you ended up stretching and then you're leaning back.
01:27:53
Speaker
That is coaching. That is tech. That is tactics. I am noticing something that is wrong about a player and I'm fixing it. I get him on the football, on the training ground. I get him to practice under pressure with defenders and midfielders around him.
01:28:10
Speaker
I get him to practice those shots. But stop leaning back. And if the moment's not on, do your cutback. your cutback or your playing the overlap or whatever whatever whatever it may be.
01:28:22
Speaker
Why is that not fixed? Why is that not fixed? He leans back every time. That's why the ball goes high in the air. These are things that can be fixed. As much as we look at them and call them crap players, coaches can fix them.
01:28:39
Speaker
And this is what, yeah um um this is what Pep does on the training ground. This is what all the great managers, they do into way more detail than I can. And they know way more things than I can, than I do.
01:28:55
Speaker
But I'm just, Muesca, I'm just, I'm, up for anyway, I'm done. I'm done, man. Let's just end it The funny thing is, we didn't really specifically talk about any game here and there. We just need to catch up on our rants at this point. just There's so much built-up frustration not coming into ro recording in this part. And it's just like, it's coming up to January.
01:29:20
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Obviously, what they make what you need so yeah. Sorry, I'm i'm i chatting again. But they make us seem stupid. they may Like, you're gaslighting me. Because that now I feel stupid. like I'm looking at the football game and I'm like, am i am i am I one that's wrong here?
01:29:34
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And I'm watching a game and i'm and I'm trying to watch it with an open heart. yeah Open your heart, open your mind. Like it's my wife and kids. I think that's from my wife and kids.
01:29:45
Speaker
Open your heart, ready to receive this lesson from a ah coach that is smarter than me, that is way more experienced than me, that is more talented than me. And I'm not seeing it, bro. I don't think I'm learning anything from
Match Predictions and Conclusions
01:29:59
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it.
01:29:59
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And I'm just seeing all the things that you're doing that's wrong. All right. So next game, we've got Chelsea versus Villa. Is it Villa? No, Bournemouth.
01:30:11
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Chelsea versus Bournemouth. Yeah, Chelsea versus Bournemouth. We are cooked, bro. I think Bournemouth just lost 4-1 against someone. Bournemouth, I predict 1-1. Chelsea are not winning that game, bro. Trust me.
01:30:23
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ah Who have United got?
01:30:28
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We've got... Oh my goodness. I don't remember. haven't even... Hold up, hold up. Let me pull it up. Either way, it's probably a loss pending, so Who cares?
01:30:41
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United have Wolves. Wolves at home, man. We should slap them up. We should, we should we should but ah we don't have yeah don't have any players.
01:30:56
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yeah um then I'm assuming what he's going to do is he's going to do back three of Martinez, Heaven, and Euro, Dano, right wing back,
01:31:09
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Actually, no, wait, Luke Shaw plays. lu i don't I don't know. I don't know if he's committing to this back four. If he's committing to the back four, then it'll be um Kevin Martinez, Luke Shaw, Dano, midfield three of Ugarte, Casemiro again, and Mount's now injured.
01:31:28
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So what? Does he do Konya? Does he bring through young player and start them? like i I don't know, him man. Our thing is a mess. Our team is a mess. I don't know how long Kobe Mane is out for.
01:31:40
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We don't know how long Bruno Fernandes is out for, but the manager didn't even want to comment on it. So I'm assuming it's potentially a long time and he just don't want to say anything. But, yeah.
01:31:52
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what do you What do you think about the Clays? Yeah, go ahead. What do you think? Sorry, I'm going on a mad tangent. What do you think about the claims that Belaybo is intentionally playing crap at? It's also funny. watch I just watched the Cameroon game, yeah. But I don't know. he if he If he is, he's a very good actor.
01:32:16
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I don't know. That game I just watched, he seemed perfectly fine. He seemed perfectly fine. i don't I don't know. I don't know.
01:32:28
Speaker
All right, man. Let's cut it there, man. Hey, look, guys. um Hopefully, i need to be a bit more consistent on the social media.
01:32:40
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um That is my New Year's resolution going into 2026.
01:32:47
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Thank you for tuning in. Don't cry. Don't beg. Stop inverting your fullbacks. Thank you very much. Peace. Peace.