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Hammering Away Ep #8 - A New Era
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On today's episode of the podcast, Jack and Joe discuss the many different directions West Ham can go in now that the Declan Rice money has been secured, including Denis Zakaria, Harvey Barnes, and much more!
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Transcript
Declan Rice's Emotional Transfer
00:00:25
Speaker
Welcome back to the Hammering White podcast. This is episode number eight. As always, I'm gonna be your host, Jack Coogan, you know me, Jack Caney on Twitter with the V instead of an A. I'm joined by Joe today. I feel like pushing for the three is always difficult, but a lot has happened since the last podcast. What's it been, a week and a half, two weeks?
00:00:47
Speaker
Yeah. Hello, everyone. Happy Declan Rice Medical Day. Oh yeah. It is officially Declan Rice Medical Day as we're recording this. The calendar is turned. It is July 7th. The beginning of the end. The end of the end. Yeah. The end of the end. It's over. The end. Dude, it's over.
00:01:14
Speaker
That's what's so crazy about him is like, I mean, I've been telling you for what, three or four years, get ready, it's coming. I've been telling you that he was gonna leave before like, like after project restart. I was like, all right. So I thought I was ready. And like, I am ready in the way where like, I'm not really angry or upset with him. But man, it feels fucking weird.
00:01:41
Speaker
I was more angry. I was so angry last week, or the last time we recorded. You were angry today, probably. What? No, yeah, that's what I was going to say, is that I kind of cooled down, and then I saw the here we go, and Ferrizio posting a Rice photoshopped with a big smile on his face with the arsenal kit on. Yeah, he texted me. And I kind of saw it red for a little bit.
00:02:04
Speaker
But I think I'm doing okay now. It's happening. It's happened. We got our fee. We're leaving with something and we move. Yo, how are you going to react when
Impact of Announcement Videos
00:02:16
Speaker
the announcement video drops? The arsenal. Dude, he's a record sign. He's the English transfer record. He's going to be fucking hitting the badge, all the zoom-ins on his face. Dude, it's going to be zoomed out above him. He's going to be sitting there in his chair. He's going to be like,
00:02:34
Speaker
This is the biggest club in London. I'm saying all this shit like that. It's like Spilly's been a dream to play for a couple of this size. Shit is gonna hurt, man. His welcome interview is gonna destroy me. They should have him at the top of the Emirates, like, like, Paquetta. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Didn't they do that with Gabby J. Zeus last summer? They did that with someone. I don't remember, but... No, no, no, no. It's hot and, um...
00:03:00
Speaker
did it with someone. I think they did too, but Tottenham didn't do it last summer. Tottenham did it a while ago. They always have really good announcement videos. That's like the one thing I can give them credit for. Dude, I mean, they got to put more money into other places besides the stadium. Dude, I was talking
Stadium Atmospheres and Comparisons
00:03:20
Speaker
about this. Their stadium sucks.
00:03:23
Speaker
Like, I don't care. It's like state-of-the-art this, state-of-the-art that. You know what? It would be a great NFL stadium. And I'm sure it is when they have the NFL games there. But dude, because I was having that conversation on Twitter, I was just like, man, the London Darby's aren't what they used to be. Because I was talking about how Stanford Bridge is the only place that really feels like it anymore.
00:03:47
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, their Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has got to be more soulless than ours. I mean, they know that that's what I was saying is like, the bowl these days. I mean, once we got the carpet, that now it's ours.
00:04:00
Speaker
Yeah, once we sold Marcus Brown and bought the carpet with the fee that we got from Middlesbrough from him, which is still the funniest fucking thing ever, once we did that, we were back. That was when I knew it was home. And then once Antonio christened the carpet. Christened it. I just use the same word. That game still haunts me. What was that? The 2-2 against Lester? Ugh. When Lucas Perez scored the clincher and they said he was offside and he was onside by like a foot and a half.
00:04:30
Speaker
Fucking Harry Maguire. I don't like to think about those days. That was a good season. Just in general, like any time before
West Ham's Past and Present
00:04:40
Speaker
Moises Second Sin is like... I don't like to think about those days basically refers to every West Ham game that's ever happened besides the Conference League final in one way or another. Like I could paint it out to be negative. It all leads to pain.
00:04:55
Speaker
Speaking of the pain, others have causes. Do you know who scored the equalizer in that first game with the carpet to make it 2-2? Equalizer. No, I do not. Do you know who we played? You said Lester, right? Yeah. He scored his first Lester goal. What are we talking about for them? Was it Harvey Barnes? It was Harvey Barnes. Future. And look at this full circle, man. He scored his first.
00:05:24
Speaker
Lester goal is his first permanently goal at the ball at the carpet. Now he's coming back wearing the first of his like six numbers. He's worn at Lester for God knows what reason the guy can't make a decision. Um, but yeah.
00:05:43
Speaker
What is it? 35 million was the latest number I saw? I saw. Did you do 35? No, no. 50 came out and I read the article where they said 50 million rated and they said that Lester last year would have wanted 50 and then now they might consider 35 because they're relegated. But I don't know. It was a Steinberg article. What a ridiculous clickbait article. Yeah. A 50 million pound rating title.
00:06:11
Speaker
I tweeted that from our account. I felt embarrassed that I unread the article. And I probably got some clicks. No, it didn't. It's like me and you. Thanks for the 500 followers, by the way, everyone. Oh, yeah, we did hit 500. We hit 520 something. Yeah, crazy. Shout out to Alan. Alan is the juice. Anyways, yeah. I mean, I like it's hard to justify a figure beyond 35. I think 35 is like the cap.
00:06:42
Speaker
35 is the fee that if we pay that I'll go on my whole well transfer fees don't really matter rent it's because because they Like they don't but they don't in like one-off situations. Like you have to find value. That's just what you pay like for The caliber of Harvey Harvey Barnes, I forget like the
Transfer Rumors and Possibilities
00:07:08
Speaker
relegation stuff like a primarily proven quality winger and
00:07:12
Speaker
who's relatively young, like that's 35, like you can reason a 35 million pound transfer. I think they were well within their rights if they didn't go down to ask for 50 plus at all. And I'm not like, I don't necessarily think that Barnes is worth 50 plus because, you know, I think there are flaws in his game and flaws that Bowen would have on the other side that they could either be really electric together or it could be kind of like,
00:07:41
Speaker
Ify together. Um, and for the record, like I would love to have Harvey Bryant at West End. Yeah. I mean, you are losing that you pay when a guy he's what he scored 10 primarily goals in the last three seasons. Yeah. I mean, he was their leading goal scorer last season. Um, he was like, I mean, even, even Madison towards the end of the season, kind of let go of the rope and it was just him. That was the sole bright spot of the entire team.
00:08:11
Speaker
And, you know, I do have like, I do have some, some concerns that he's almost too similar to Bowen. Yeah. Whereas with Ben Rama, you know, Paquetta can like come close to him and play the one twos and they progress. Okay. So, I mean,
00:08:34
Speaker
Not to cut you off early, because that is also my concern, is the similarities. But Barnes does have more to him from a creative standpoint than Bowen does, in my opinion. But then again, we might just watch Bowen play every week. Because when Barnes, because the thing is, when Barnes is not good, it's gross. But I guess it goes through all my errors.
00:09:00
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, I think there is a, like, you know, we love to, you know, jump on Ben Rama as soon as, you know, with every flaw that he has. But we are losing some stuff that he brings. He's not going anywhere. That's true. But, you know. I think him and Barnes, well, that's the other thing on the left, is that
00:09:24
Speaker
It's kind of weird because you're like, okay, like I don't want anybody too similar to Bowen, but you also don't want the same players, but Ramos, you have different options. And so like, you're really the pigeonholing yourself into like, like, what could you even sign us over there? Barnes does bring pace, which is like something that we desperately need. He brings goals. Cornet was signed the score goals. So much for that.
00:09:51
Speaker
You scored one. I'm gonna give him one. I'm gonna give him two. I'm gonna count the one at Bournemouth, and I'm gonna count the one at Chelsea. That's fair. Congratulations, Maxwell Cornet. You did good. Imagine we'd be Bournemouth 5-0. That would have been hilarious. But yeah, I mean, the thing is with Barnes, if not him, then who else? You know? Like the market on the left wing,
00:10:16
Speaker
is, is very slim and maybe sudden, you know, it was going to pull a rabbit out of a hat. But as of right now, like who else is moving at that position? Tom, what's another way is the only other player we've been mentioned with. And like, it could work, but I mean, obviously started and rates the player. If he had them on loan and you know, you didn't have the best, um, you'd have the best, uh,
00:10:45
Speaker
you know, spell at Leverkusen, but, you know, he wants him again. So clearly he saw something. I was a huge fan of Tom Wilson, which I think everyone should have been when he was younger, especially pre-Achilles, unless like, you know, you're either a clown or you are supporting their top 16 and it's like a whole insecurity thing. Especially United, the whole Greenwood versus pathway thing. Two real winners there.
00:11:15
Speaker
My god, but we'll be having that debate forever. I Hope that we're not dude. Oh,
Chelsea's Greenwood Controversy
00:11:22
Speaker
so do I do some shit like that? Well, hopefully we never hear from Greenwood again those reports are so weird or it's like oh ten hug isn't against it but like do any of them have like any real
00:11:41
Speaker
they get are they based on anything like what what are the sources on the may never read the source since don't want to look at it it's never so it's just so flimsy I honestly don't believe it for a second I think I can imagine that greenwood has even had like much contact with the club the only thing that runs me the wrong way is that he was on their retained list yeah he's still there that's the one thing they're probably just send them online out it's gross though dude
00:12:10
Speaker
Yeah, I know the whole thing is gross. They should just step in and terminate his contract. Because it's with him, it's like, it's not even that nonsense with party where it's like, Oh, the players privacy because of the legal reasons. Well, well, well, like with with Greenwood, it's like, there are clips of him like, choosing a girl out there. And if that happened, if that happened in Adam Silver's NBA,
00:12:39
Speaker
He'd be getting paraded through the stairs. He'd turn to the moon. Literally. They would make such an example out of him. That's the thing with the Premier League. There's no face of the rules. That's what's weird about the Premier League.
00:12:58
Speaker
Like what happens off the pitch, like literally, I can't remember the last time a player faced punishment from the league for something that they did off the pitch. Like it was and went to jail. Didn't they? I'll happen with cigarettes in, but like, was that the primary league? I honestly think it was Everton. It was Everton. I think that you're right. But that's, that's the thing is like, why, why does the Premier League not have like a,
00:13:29
Speaker
just something that they can do. There's no accountability from like the ruling body. If, I'm not going to use the name for NBA player because that'd be gross, but if an NBA player did what Thomas party did, they would have been suspended indefinitely. For sure. For sure. And there'd be like an ongoing thing with them. You say that, but then Miles Bridge is going to, you know, this is not an NBA. Miles Bridge is just, but yeah, Miles Bridge just missed the year.
00:13:58
Speaker
yeah but he's coming back but he was suspended was he not yes by the league yes yeah the hornets yeah whatever with bridges and hornets i can't think about that shit is he really going to come back our man our listeners don't know that where the hell the charlotte hornet miles bridges like
00:14:18
Speaker
beat the living crap out of his girlfriend, their wife. Remember, which was suspended for an entire NBA season and lost millions of dollars on a new contract is basically what we're talking about. There was some accountability for sure. And there is absolutely no. And like not saying that it's enough because you should never
00:14:39
Speaker
play a professional sport again,
West Ham's Midfield Dilemma
00:14:40
Speaker
but like, the Premier League, these guys, like, why is, like, Mason Greenwood, Mason Greenwood's only punishment is, like, United not picking him? Is he even, he's not even officially, like, suspended from Manchester United, or I think he was, like, put on, like, a leave or something? There's, there has to be something, because, I mean, I don't know. He's hasn't, obviously, has not been with the team. I wonder if he collects wages. I'm sure he does. That'd be so bad. I'm positive that he does.
00:15:08
Speaker
That'd be so, so bad. Um, moving on from the sad, depressing part of the sport. Uh, we're talking about calm. What's in a doi and how he is apparently an alternative.
00:15:27
Speaker
for Harvey Barnes, and I like him, but it's, again, it feels underwhelming, probably high wages. I don't know how I would feel about a Hudson-Rouge deal until, like, I saw it happen and, like, saw the figures. I'd take a loan. I also, I haven't played in a long time. When I watched Leverkusen this year, I don't remember him playing. I watched Leverkusen play one time this year, and he played, I think just, for me, it was one. Demonical time?
00:15:59
Speaker
Oh, I mean, I was watching that in class. It doesn't really count. Like one game where I was like focused. I don't think he's even played in the Monaco side. That's what I'm saying. Those are the two games I watched. Yeah. Yeah. I watched him in the Bundesliga and he was, I mean, he was, he was good. Like, you know, he did what he does, but nothing remarkable. Well, that's the thing is like, I, I would want to watch him just be like, does he still move the same way?
00:16:28
Speaker
No, that's the whole thing of him. He does not move the same way. He's good depth, but I don't think he replaces. Yeah. And that's the other thing is like, as much as I like the way and it could work and I like them. So I'd probably get behind it, but like barns just like output. It's pretty mouthwatering. We need consistent output. We haven't, we haven't really had it in since Lingard, honestly. No, we had Bowen.
00:16:58
Speaker
True. Yeah. Last year. I think, I think that that's the whole issue with last season is that we didn't have somebody giving us consistent output last season. We had guys at spurts barely Skamaka had a spurt. Antonio had good form, but he didn't really score. Um, Ken, I mean, I guess Bowman, I mean, Bowen has spurt at the very, very, very end. He scored against leads.
00:17:26
Speaker
Ben Romwood had a disgusting amount of penalties. Yeah. I mean, that was really all it was, is that we were winning penalties. Thank God. Yeah. It was really hard to know where the next goal was coming from. Unless it was at the spot. And we scored a lot of set pieces too. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's the thing is that if you can get one guy with consistent output, I think if you have Barnes and Bowen, you're kind of giving yourself 15 Premier League goals from the wing alone.
00:17:56
Speaker
no matter what, from either way. And that's low-key on the short side, eight and seven, nine and six. I'm comfortable saying that. Could be 10-10. Well, that's the thing, is that you could easily have two winners with double-digit goals, especially because I think Bellman's going to have a bounce back here. And then you hope a striker is a good year. Which I'm sure, I'm sure, Skamaka will. I think he will. And full year integrated with the team,
00:18:26
Speaker
So I think Barnes really fits with Schmocko well. So a striker who can play with his back to goal, who you can play it into his feet and run off of like technically adept. The issue last year, and it'll be even worse this year without Ben Rama, I think we'll be actually getting it into his feet. Um, and then maybe so good with Paquetta. Yeah. Cause you know, I, at that point of the season, the only person
00:18:54
Speaker
who Paquetta could find was Skamaka. And the only person like Skamaka was able to get in good position for was Paquetta. So it was like, they were just playing with each other the entire game. Yeah. But that's what's huge. And but that's the thing that people forget is that Skamaka has a really good rapport with Paquetta. And then if you add Barnes into that, Barnes is looking to play the ball to the striker's feet. At least on like a lot of occasions, like sometimes he wants to take on his man.
00:19:22
Speaker
Um, the other thing is that if you have center midfielders, we can actually get the ball into your striker's feet. And Sue check was maybe at his worst once Kamako was fit this season. I don't know those like winter months. That was like post-world cup winter months where he was just like a pass literally a passenger in those games.
00:19:45
Speaker
Oh my god, there was a stretch where he would have eight passes, twelve passes, six touches, four touches. I get like players have limitations and like you just have to live with that. But that like is like almost unexcusable for a Saturn midfield there. I mean it is really inexcusable. I think with him though and like you know
00:20:12
Speaker
not advocating for him to be like a long-term piece or anything. But I think like if we sign two quality center midfielders and he's like coming off the bench and like playing a more bit par rule, I think that we'll see him in a more positive light.
00:20:27
Speaker
because he'll just be able to kind of play to his strengths and not be so overrun all the time. Or maybe he'll suck, but I just feel like it'll be easier to appreciate what he can do when he's not a detriment to the team week in, week out. And he did have a decent end to the season over the last two months, so not to shit on him too much.
00:20:50
Speaker
Yeah, I thought he was really good to end the season. We still obviously have to replace him, but I'm not. I wouldn't be opposed to giving him like a contract. I would be heavily opposed to giving him a contract. Even at the same wages and like with an understanding that he's just a rotation piece. I would be fine with that. I would not be fine with that. I don't think that's okay. I don't think a player can be maybe the worst center and fielder I've ever watched play for West Ham.
00:21:19
Speaker
for about 20 months on either side of like pretty decent forum where it's, you know, he's capable. And then like every report is that he's asking for something that is way above our evaluation of him. And then come to the table with that kind of attitude and get a new contract. I just don't like it. Okay. That's, that's fair.
00:21:42
Speaker
But I also think as a club, if you want to progress, I just don't think that he's the piece. I think that players have lifespans at clubs and that's okay. Sucha gave us a lot in his time here, but I think what we signed him in January 2020.
00:21:59
Speaker
He's had lots of ups and downs. He's won a trophy. I hope he stays with us this year. Then if he leaves in summer 2024, I feel like that's a pretty average lifespan for somebody in the modern game to stay at a club for four or five years, do well, and then, you know, teams evolve. We don't even know the boys will be here next summer. That's true. Like next season can go in so many different ways.
00:22:25
Speaker
Well, assuming Moiz is still here at the end of the last, at the end of next season. I think he still might want to move on. You think so? They've been really reluctant to like, every time we've been in contract talks with him, we seem to just like pull out and be like, we'll come back another time after you realize what you're worth. And every single time it goes the same way. That's like three summers. It's just happening when he was like at euros.
00:22:52
Speaker
Yeah, I know. I mean, he was still, you know, he still had that positive light, which, you know, credit to the club for not jumping on that. But that also is like, what, like, what is he asking for? That's true. Well, my point is that, um, you know, he still has a role to play, even though he has his limitations. Like you just said, uh, if he doesn't come back, good riddance, you know? Yeah. But
00:23:22
Speaker
I think that, you know, a player, you know, ideally a player of his like physical and like physical nature and like the fact that he's so aggressive at times, and he would aerial do like he he serves a role like what he does he does well.
00:23:42
Speaker
Sometimes he does serve a role, but I would argue that squads always need freshening up. And that's somebody who's not a real difference maker after four or five years should be moved on for a younger, more capable player. And honestly, someone who's more technically capable, because I'm not even advocating that we have 60% of the ball and we're some incredible team with the ball.
00:24:05
Speaker
But clearly we're trying to move towards a more technically capable team and a team that can break with real quality. And Sucek is not that. Yeah, I think I think in the modern game, you have to be not to use the words press resistant, but like he's the opposite. And no, you're you're absolutely right. Like you see some teams like
00:24:31
Speaker
Some teams, when they come prepared to play against us, the plan is to give to check space on the ball, which isn't what the hell to do with it. And then there, and there's, oh dude, I cannot stand watching that happen. Yeah. It's, it's really brutal. It's really, dude, it's embarrassing. That's one of the good things about rice leaving. You know, obviously it sucks, but the silver lining is that we'll have like a nice technical floor.
00:25:01
Speaker
on in the midfield where like all three of them, ideally, let's see what, so let's see what, you know, happens, but I, all three of them are at least competent and can move the ball quickly, make the right pass, recycle the ball and can drive with the ball when given the space.
Exploring Midfield Signings
00:25:20
Speaker
That's just like really bare minimum stuff. I think that two tracks going to start match week one, but I would bet. I would bet that we get Zachariah in at some point.
00:25:30
Speaker
over these next two weeks, like I would probably say like during or after the Australia trip. Just like with how we move, things don't move that fast. Do you think his replacement will be here match week one? Suchex? Yes. I think it'll be that kind of thing where it's like, it's like leading up to match week one. We're like, man, like we got to get him in. So Suchex can't start. And I'm like, he's not in because like he has a medical or like,
00:26:01
Speaker
Like remember with Tilo, it was like the day before, it was like, oh wait, wages or something like that. It's always something weird at the last second. But yeah, the thing is, it's even weirder, is who do you pair Zachariah with? Yeah, I mean, it does seem like it's gonna be Zachariah, right? Like that's the- He seems like the main guy, Stuyten loves him.
00:26:28
Speaker
Like X even said that he's like really, really loves him. I'm a big fan of this move. This feels like one of the moves where all like the, like the angry West Ham fans on Twitter are like, why are we in for this guy? Like this was like, this was such obvious business. Like what are we doing? Like now we're finally making that move. It's true. It's by definition, it's true. Cause it's, it's a loan to buy too, which is even more perfect in our position.
00:26:57
Speaker
especially given his, his, um, his injury history, it'd be nice to have that, that trial year where we can really, you know, get him in house and we can evaluate his like, you know, if he gets hurt, send him to the moon. Exactly. He does have a lot of qualities. I think we both like, and he, he brings some ball carrying, obviously he's not that gun rights, but he can carry the ball. He can move it. I mean, I just stealing your words from before the podcast.
00:27:25
Speaker
Yeah, I guess I'll repeat it since it was my original idea. I mean, he's like, he's really like, he's really long. He's really long legs like Declan Rice. You know, he likes, he's really good at like in the tackles. You know, he moves well.
00:27:46
Speaker
He can carry the ball. He makes passes forward. And it's not like he's got it all. The only thing is that he's injury prone. And if we can, you know, we can, if we can prevent anything bad happening, he'll be an amazing signing. And the thing with him is really that he, um,
00:28:07
Speaker
I lost my chance because I was checking my computer battery. Oh, well, he wouldn't be at West Ham if he didn't have the loan that he had. Yeah. And he just never played at Chelsea because they went from two to a potter and he's just not a potter player. And, you know, he has his limitations on the ball too. Like he's not. Oh, yeah. He doesn't have the passion. He's also, he's not Thomas Suchak. Like he will, like if you give him space, he's a center midfield player. He'll be all right.
00:28:36
Speaker
If he's the worst passer in the midfield three, we are in business. Which is why, if it were up to me, a Kefran Thurham, I would, I would, dude, I would break the transfer record for Kefran Thurham. I'm slobbering at the thought of Kefran Thurham. Dude, the other thing is, I don't even think that we would need to. Yeah, they said it.
00:29:01
Speaker
that said his valuation is well below 50 million euros. I thought it was 55 million euros. Same shit. It's 50 million pounds. Which is like, yo, 40 million for Kefran Thurman fucking slam the money on the table. Don't even tell Edu to send the money to us. Send it straight. Send the first installment to Nice. Oh, man.
00:29:29
Speaker
The thought of the thought of Taram would be, I mean, that's, and that's, and Paquetta is like, that is, that's, that's like the perfect pivot from like, away from Suchak Rice. That we would build on like FM. Literally. Uh, Lavia, I mean, Lavia, I, I'm super surprised that we're not like trying to shake things up in this, because everyone would do with, they want downs.
00:29:58
Speaker
Yeah, if that is permanently, I don't give a shit. I know what I was saying before, I would like to keep down some suit check around for one more year, because I just don't think that, with all the amount of squad turnover we had last year, and with Rice leaving now, we just don't need any more turnover in the field than we already have. We have to have options that we know, as good as some of the players we signed might be. But if we can get a Labia,
00:30:25
Speaker
like 40 million plus a player because asking praises 50 that's a different level of player that we're talking about give them downs dude and like he's not even like you might disagree he's not ready to play week in week out for top six side he's not i know i do agree yeah but he's doing enough play for us week in week out and he's damn good enough to learn a fucking lot playing for us he's 19
00:30:53
Speaker
He could play Sunday, Thursday, Sunday, Thursday, Sunday, Thursday, Sunday, Wednesday, Sunday. He played every game. And he has the attitude from what I've seen at Southampton that he's going to want to play Sunday, Thursday. He's so fun to watch as a defensive midfielder. But yeah, dude, if we can do 40 in downs, fuck it.
00:31:16
Speaker
Cause every, every single club that's in for him right now has their eye elsewhere. Yeah. That's the thing. Liverpool are out. Arsenal are finishing up timber or I think that's done. But dude, can Arsenal buy him? Can they do that? They, they are, they want Haver, they have Haverts and they have him to play the midfield. 65 million on Haverts.
00:31:45
Speaker
$100 million. $100 million on Declan Rice, $33 million up front, and then $48 million on timber. And they just gave a contract and Reese Nelson as well. Yeah, it's really eating away from the transfer budget. No, no, no. Yeah, they're doing business. And they spent a lot of money in the winter on trial. I mean, they paid a decent amount of trust.
00:32:10
Speaker
That's I mean, that's it. I mean at the same time at the same time like having said that I can't see them not making any more signings for the rest of the summer They probably will end up I think that they have one more like Splash in them. I If they're gonna do it anywhere, it's gonna be in midfield hmm to finish that like
00:32:37
Speaker
Rice, Quesado, Vision, even if it's not with Quesado, it'll be with Labia. Man, imagine they got Quesado in January. Oh my God. The league would be finished. That Rice and Quesado would have been fun to watch together. What could have been, man? Maybe one day. At West Ham, they'll both end their careers. Yeah. Quesado will flop it, Chelsea.
00:33:05
Speaker
And if they spend, I mean, I love Moises Cassado. But dude, if they go up to over 90, it's crazy. It's crazy. I mean, in respect to Brighton for using the rice feed of their advantage, even though a Cassado feed shouldn't be anywhere near a rice feed, he means, like not as much, but he means a lot to their team in the field. And the other thing is McAllister had a release clause, apparently.
00:33:34
Speaker
And then you got 35 million or whatever. So get your money like that you lost out there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's not like it's not going to be like losing the suma for Brighton. Like this is he's this is a big piece that they're letting go. He is the one there. They're they're they seem poised to do some really good business though. I mean, on top of like if they can sell him for 90 million to this clown, Todd Bully.
00:34:03
Speaker
I mean, he decided to just pay up for anything. He's going to give them $100 million-ish. He's going to pay it in 12 installments. They're just going to give free money for the next 10 years. Every year. But why? I mean, back to the original point, while, like I say, it was being dangled around like a carrot for all these big six clubs to stare at, we should just swoop in and get LaVia and get that done. We should do something. Whatever they want.
00:34:32
Speaker
I mean, and the thing is like, yeah, our bid, like we'll probably alert teams between Labia and Therm, like things have gone quiet. Why don't we just try? Exactly. And for fun is another one. I mean, I would prefer Labia and Therm. Yeah. Just cause they're sitters more than for fun is. And I think that I would rather have Zachariah like running around, like being a all around destroyer and have like a sitter who can break shit up and like, has like a passing range.
00:35:02
Speaker
I haven't watched much of, of, of Fofana for Monaco, but for France, when he was playing alongside Tucci Mane, they were kind of both like interchangeably. Yeah. It was like a true pivot, but in the moments where Fofana was the most deep, uh, center midfield there, he was doing the job. Like it's not like, and the other thing is that we are going to play that pivot for sure.
00:35:30
Speaker
And it's not like he's Enzo Fernandez, where he has a crazy passing range. But it's enough for us. For sure, it's enough for us. And he does all of the other stuff really well, where I think that Fofana, Zachariah, and Paqueta is another one of those combinations where it's like, we got it right, in my opinion. No, no, I agree with that.
00:35:56
Speaker
like turn and Labia would be at the top of my list. And while. And leave in two years for like a hundred million. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. 120 didn't the market by then plus the fee that we pay for him. Like relatively speaking, I like, even if like, like the rumored price is 50 million and all these big clubs are in for him, I honestly think he's still like a kept like a, like a secret.
00:36:23
Speaker
Theron, dude, he's better than people give him credit for. He's really, really, really good. Every time I've watched him, I've been really impressed. He's another one of those guys who's like, you know, so big and physical yet, like, it moves like a ballerina. It's like insane. Yeah, he's unbelievable. I mean, the other thing is I say, Theron, return and lobby are my top targets, but they're never going to join us.
00:36:52
Speaker
But I said the same thing about Paquetta for three months last summer. Dude, it was a whole thing. People would bring him up and I'd be like, shut up about Paquetta. We're not going to sign him. And then we did for the same reason that's happening with Taram and Labia, is that all these big clubs are interested.
00:37:14
Speaker
But then nobody made a move. And then it was six days left in the market. And we were like, is this for real? Yeah. I mean, Paquetta last year was everybody's second option. Dude, you can always was in press conferences. He looked stunned that we signed them. He's the only player I've seen. I've like seen him talk about before. Like he's had a medical schedule.
00:37:39
Speaker
You remember that? You talked about all the different positions he could play. He's slobbering, he's slobbering all over the place. Literally. He's a mess. I've never seen him like that. Dude, the possibility of assigning Paquette to ruin the first half of our season because Moise couldn't think straight. He was just watching Lyonne film every night. He's watching the highlights for him against PSG.
00:38:04
Speaker
That video is on YouTube by the way. That is crazy. Dude, he was watching the highlights of him dictating that game. We had 10 men at the bowl. You remember that dude? Just him passing around us. The one play that stands out for me from that game, dude, when he like when him and Bowen were like one on one and he just shouldered Bowen to the floor.
00:38:27
Speaker
Like he wasn't even there. I was like, Oh my God, we actually might lose this tie. We're in trouble. We were in big fucking trouble until Bowen scored the goal to give us one. I was like, all right. They were fine. Cause then they got theirs after that. But I was like, I was like, we'll see him next week. And then Paquetta got like fake COVID. Yeah. He was on the bench for the second leg and he came on. They were, you know, three, no.
00:38:52
Speaker
secret agent, in my opinion. Oh, yeah. You know, he was just dying to come to the ball after he visited. I mean, there is the quote. He said that he loved it. It's true. What's funny about that that first leg tie, though, is that as good as Proketa was, there was one player on the pitch better than him. It was Declan Rice. Do you remember that performance that he had? Oh, yeah. I mean, I mean, I think every home leg
00:39:19
Speaker
that we've played in, in a European knockout round, Rice was like, far and away the best player in the pitch, like no matter what the result was. I mean, Costitch was really good when we played them, when we played Frankfurt, but. Yeah. But still, man, what a big game player that number 41. Besides, besides, uh, besides the, he was bad, dude. Like if we lost that game, I would have had,
00:39:49
Speaker
If we lost the game, I would have had many different things to say. I wouldn't be making TikToks about him. Well, I wouldn't
Declan Rice's Farewell Expectations
00:40:00
Speaker
even think I'd be okay with him leaving. Like, you owe us something. You owe us a final. You just owe me something. I don't even know what it is yet.
00:40:16
Speaker
He owes us his indentured servitude for the rest of his life. Dude, he definitely, in his insane mind, he probably thinks that he's probably like, man, I did such a nice thing for them.
00:40:32
Speaker
Like, I'm such a hero. Yeah. He is. He absolutely is. But you just know he looks in the mirror. You just know he got home after we flew home from Prague and went to bat and take a shower. And looking at himself in the mirror, he's like, man, I did this for them. Now, I'll leave a hero. You just know as soon as we won the relief that he was like, I can leave and it'd be OK.
00:41:02
Speaker
Literally. It didn't seem like he was playing for that. He didn't, he didn't give us much of anything, but. No, but in the weeks leading up, you could tell he, he was playing for it to, to go out on top. For sure. All right. Here's a funny one. Over on there. Final video. Final statement to West Ham fans. Declan Rice over under four minutes. Finally.
00:41:30
Speaker
Like the goodbye. Goodbye. Under, under, under, under four minutes. As for Laqueta, six minutes today. What the hell is he talking about, dude? I didn't watch it. No way he has six and a half minutes of stuff to say. It was really good. You should watch it. He was crying the whole time. I will say one thing.
00:41:54
Speaker
After watching Ruben Neves for Wolves, because that one was really good too, but I was like, what? It was like three minutes, right? I have to check. I feel like it was around four. Dude, if Rice doesn't fucking cry. He better cry. He always better cry. Dude, he's always got tears in his eyes too. That's the other thing. It's like you can tell how emotional this guy is. He's always got tears in his eyes. Imagine he does like, did you watch the Mount one? Did Mount have a goodbye video, Chelsea, too?
00:42:24
Speaker
It was so bad. It was the biggest slap in the face. It was one minute. And he was like, thanks, guys. We had a lot of great memories. I was here since I was six years old. We won the Champions League final. And now I'm going to United. So thanks, everybody. And that was it. That's awesome. Dude, they- They came out eight days before the Asploq what they wanted. It looks so bad now. Dude, they did him so dirty.
00:42:53
Speaker
They did do him dirty. I'm done with this place for anyone who doesn't know. They offered him a contract in November before the world cup. They pulled it in January. And then in February, they offered him a one year contract. And he said that he wanted basically more stability than a one year contract. And Chelsea was just like, no, which is a crazy thing to do to a player.
00:43:23
Speaker
Absolutely. Especially a homegrown player. A homegrown? He's 24. Yeah. Offering one-year contracts? Dude, they've been giving every player they signed eight-year deals. And this has been an issue long before Bole even got there. They just prioritized signings over their academy players who were legitimately better.
00:43:48
Speaker
than the players they're bringing in. And they did it Chelsea also just have always had a problem with the way they treat players managers. It's their DNA. Though I gotta say thinking about it, isn't it crazy that Connor Gallagher has outlasted Mason Mount at Chelsea? Yo, that's fucked up. That is so bad.
00:44:12
Speaker
This guy was at West Brom like three years ago. This guy had palace and everything. This guy had Moyes foaming at the mouth. What is the fascination with him? He was legitimately good for palace. He was. No, no, no. I'm not saying that he wasn't. It's just like, what's the... What does he do? It's like he's cool.
00:44:41
Speaker
But like, Everton bid 45 million pounds on January 31st and the bid got rejected. That, like, it doesn't make any, like, the fact that Chelsea didn't realize that he was not a good fit for them and didn't jump on that price is insane. And I get it. Like, you know, you don't want to sell a guy on deadline day, but 45 million pounds for him.
00:45:10
Speaker
Yeah, he's legitimately like that level like he's just not what Chelsea are looking to do But yeah, like I just I can't wrap my head around And they kick guys like mount to the curb Who assisted the goal? They they they kicked the the goal scorer and the Assister in the Champions League final just three years ago out
00:45:40
Speaker
at the exact same time. That's the other thing. I've seen you say this a lot. Chelsea, they act like they're so close to the mountain top that they were once at. But none of those guys are left. It's literally none of them now. Now that Matt is gone. It's Kante who's never fit. Kante's gone.
00:46:10
Speaker
Oh yeah, it was in Saudi Arabia. It's Kepa, who did not start this season they went to the Champions League final. Never mind. It's Rhys James from Zoey Port. And it is Thiago Silva, who's 30 million. And that's it. Those are the only three players. Pules are just still technically there. We say Thiago Silva's 30 million. You're still... Yes.
00:46:39
Speaker
Pules is technically still there, but he's going to Leone probably. What's going on in Milan? Oh, in Milan too, or in on him. We'll see where he actually ends up, but those are the teams that are in on him. Ziech failed his medical. There's a conspiracy with him. We'll see what happens. Hopefully he gets his move and he's happy. That's my guy. I don't know what's going on with Ziech.
00:47:07
Speaker
There was a whole thing last year where he... No, no, they sent them. They sent the wrong ones three times. It's not a mistake, dude. That's illegal. Just had not play them all year.
00:47:28
Speaker
That's illegal, right? You can't do that. I'm sure it's legal. They're not going to do anything. No, I know. But in theory... It's immoral. No, but if you send the wrong documents to someone on purpose, so some transaction doesn't happen, there's probably
00:47:51
Speaker
something wrong with that and yeah i'm accusing chelsea of doing it on purpose because you don't send the wrong documents to someone three times over 20 million 30 million in pound investment you just don't do that for sure and it's a it's a damn shame because muziec is like legitimately one of those guys who's like one of like he's an exciting player to watch i mean we've been deprived of of him okay we have deprived of the key muziec too
00:48:19
Speaker
Dude him during the World Cup final he's like fun He's fun and like he definitely would fit in at PSG But I would not say we've been deprived of watching Hakeem Ziyech play football You've been you've been brainwashed by Chelsea Football Club. No, I haven't dude He's just like a lower level like didn't you pie it we had more is he's just like it's it's fun But it's just not the same
00:48:47
Speaker
We need more of those players in the world. We do, but I like them when they're on the level when they're good. Yeah. Like Pyatt and Mars, and not Zetch. He would have been good for PSG, maybe. Didn't we want him last summer? I think that's something that I said. No, but that was a wink.
00:49:12
Speaker
And I'm pretty sure you ran with it. And I think I was iffy on it and you were like, you're fucking insane. And I think I probably was a little insane, but like, I don't know. I really hope that we don't keep signing. Like if I see a McTominay bid, I'm going to lose my mind. I don't think we will. We might see a Gallagher bid. Brace yourself. I can't handle a Gallagher bid. There actually has not even, I'm surprised we haven't bid for him yet.
00:49:41
Speaker
Surprised like nothing's going on with him speaking of players. Nothing is going on with You you you won't even guess the name. I'm gonna say right now. No Felix No, I'll give you one guess. No hints. I will demo you a hundred dollars if you guess the name And players nothing going on with what level like is he our level of player? Yeah No, no hints
00:50:10
Speaker
Oh yeah, I just gave you a hint. Fuck you. $50. Um, James Ward Prowse? No. Who? Nicola Vlasic. Oh, that's not fair. Yeah, it is. I didn't say- I know he's one of our players, and there is stuff going on. No, there's not, dude. There's been no rapport about him for weeks. Torino, what's time been negotiating? Have they? Yeah. When was the last time they met?
00:50:41
Speaker
I don't know. I reported fucking three weeks. Dude, this is a sensitive deal. We reported to preseason training today. The season started. There's a voltage there. I don't know. I guess we'll have to find out. Do we have a game on Monday? We need to do our investigative journalism. Dude, we have a game Monday. It's very exciting. He might play.
00:51:11
Speaker
Do you think any of the Academy kids will start? I hope so, dude. There's nobody's back from their international trips. Just like dudes like Bowen and Zuma who aren't allowed to pray for their countries for various reasons. For definitely different reasons. Definitely different reasons. Bowen's is because they just couldn't stand that he was good enough to make it. I really think that's what it is. They did not want to bring him.
00:51:40
Speaker
and uh zoom is is just because you know the cat thing yeah the cat thing how can france care about the cat thing they don't love a lot of other stuff going on dude ben's about place for them that's true ben's about does play for them but people care about cannons
00:52:17
Speaker
So now it's time for some quick hitters, which not to give too much insight into the creative process, but we do not have any cooler names to segment than quick hitters. But if you are older listeners who have listened before the last show, you know that this is the part of the show where ask a few different questions and you have to give a quick answer to it. And the answers usually aren't that quick and they drag on for two or three minutes. So.
00:52:45
Speaker
It's a working title though, so if you think of anything, write in the comments, leave a WordPress review with a name, that'd be cool. Short answer questions. Yeah. Yeah, all right. You first. Me first, okay. What is one non primarily exciting?
00:53:10
Speaker
that you've liked a lot this summer so far. It could be like in progress of happening. And it can also be someone leaving the prep. Greta Jock with the viral Syracuse in. Do you really like that signing? I think it's a really good signing. I think he's gonna be so good there. He probably is. He was great for glad back, back in the day. And he was good this, and he was good last year. He gets good this season. Like, I think, I don't even know, I don't know what the fee is, but it was a nice- 21 and a half million.
00:53:39
Speaker
That's that's beautiful business. But yeah, I guess I can't really hate on that too much. They have some pretty good scouts over there. Leverage and that's also not anymore. Well, actually, I'm sure they do. Should they have the infrastructure and infrastructure site tonight that poor guy is going to walk into our building and be like. Is this the bathroom? Here's your infrastructure, YouTube dot com. Yeah, you're going to put them in a room with a smart board with the scouting.
00:54:09
Speaker
And put him in a room with a smart board and like a window for David Moyes to peer in through. Just look disappointed. Just like thumbs up or thumbs down. Mostly thumbs down because they got to be his boys. All right. For you. For me. Borumwood, you can only start three Academy players.
00:54:35
Speaker
Who are they going to be? I mean, dude, I don't even know who's around. But if I can only play three, because I mean, I guess we won't say start, because I mean, we must have a team to field, do we? Do we? We have Skamaka. We have Bowen. Downs. We have Downs. Do we have a left winger? Saeed is gone. It's Cornell's. Cornell's. We have Cornell. Kornay didn't go. Kornay didn't go.
00:55:07
Speaker
Ings, we have Ings. Well, let's just say, I'm just trying to think. Not taking into account all this stuff. It's not quick hitters. It's long hitters. Do you have another center midfielder? Connor Coventry. Christ, I better not see his name on the teaching. No way he got a contract, bro. Did he really? Was he expiring this summer?
00:55:36
Speaker
He might've gotten the contract extension before they won the mountain in January. No idea. I'll play Josh Cullen tomorrow, or Monday, that's what I'd play. I wish. I would, yeah. See him back at the Bulls. Dude, yo, is he gonna, like, run the game against us? It's gonna be bad, dude. I mean, that's what he does for them. Yo, I don't... I don't wanna play against him. I really don't. I... I never thought we'd have to.
00:56:04
Speaker
right like i knew he was like like we knew that he was good and i think at least we were in a pyramid at the time like should have been a squad option i was upset when he was sold because i was like whatever who cares but he was like it would have been nice to keep him warm that was our and we had three center midfielders besides him i don't actually know why he was sold um
00:56:28
Speaker
But you're supposed to go to Anderlecht, have like a nice fun little career over there. And then you could've played for like, you know, St. Johnstone or parts or something. You know what I mean? In Scotland. Or you could've just not been like a really key piece to a Premier League side. Like even if you came back to the prem or like got promoted from the championship, like he's a key piece.
00:56:55
Speaker
He's like one of the best players. He's like irreplaceable. He's a player this season, dude. Yeah. He's really damn good. Answer the question, man. I don't even remember the question. I was having a meltdown about... Re-academy players. Re-academy players that are playing. Well, is Divine Mubama still counting him? Yes. Yeah, so Mubama, I would play.
00:57:23
Speaker
I'll play Mr. George Earthie. That's my guy. And I would play... Well, now it gets weird, because it's between who is more deserving or who I think is really good. Skarls is probably the best one. I think Calum Marshall deserves minutes of me, just almost scored a goal for Ireland.
00:57:53
Speaker
Northern Ireland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland. Why were they wearing green? They were, I don't think they were wearing green. Maybe I'm bugging. I'm also colorblind. Um, I would, I would play Lewis Orford. Well, especially while we have all like proud for the same reason you're saying earthy. Um, just while we're in this in between period, while like soup check is like away.
00:58:21
Speaker
and we haven't brought in our replacements yet. Let's see if he's in the mid-life. Yeah, and that price is on international duty. So since Rice was on international duty, he won't be back until after that. Right, right, right. We won't be expecting Rice back for a couple of weeks at least, at the right time. I don't know why every week's freaking out. This happens every year. He doesn't return from international duty. People think he's leaving. It's fine. Yeah. OK. Another question for you.
00:58:52
Speaker
Is Mikana Antonio going to be a West End player on September 1st, 2nd, whatever deadline day is? Yes. Yeah. Yes, absolutely. I don't think we sell them, and I don't think it'd be smart to sell them. That's a U-turn. At this point, I feel like you would have said, yes, we should sell them even after the final. Not in a bad way, just like we were talking about before, players' lifespans at clubs.
00:59:24
Speaker
At this point, we don't know. Like, I mean, we both love Skamaka. I wouldn't sell him. He's just an insurance plan. We know what we're getting from him for the most part. He's a good play. He's a good player to have in the squad. I mean, it sucks. We can't get rid of Danny Ings. And my opinion back then was that I want Obama to be the third guy for sure. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:59:51
Speaker
But well, that's the other thing is with Obama is like, they'll see him every day. They will see him in preseason. This is his audition. Really. If he's good enough, I'm selling. I agree. I think, I think.
01:00:09
Speaker
It has to do with Mubama for sure. And you know, he developed so fast. He's developed so fast, even just within this season. He's physically too. He's big, man. He's such a kid. And yeah, even this season, you're right. His last senior appearance versus first one, the differences, you can see it. It's night and day. So yeah, I guess my answer would be, it depends on Mubama, but leaning towards keep. Yeah, I would keep him, too. Not even selling, because he's been bad.
01:00:38
Speaker
if we were to sell him just because that's what the rumors have been. He might want something now. There's, yeah, there's a log jam. I guess he's, he's at the gold cup right now. So we really might not even know. I was thinking that nothing was happening with him, but he could get back from the gold cup and be like, Hey, we're doing this still. Yeah. He's been, he's been good for Jamaica too. He's going to demand.
01:01:09
Speaker
It's a shame, Ings is here. He better show me something this year. I need at least 10 goals in all competitions from him. That's like literally,
Connor Gallagher vs. James Ward-Prowse
01:01:20
Speaker
if he doesn't, like he probably wasn't good. Or get him gone in January. Yeah. Well, because like, and 10 goals sounds like a lot to ask from somebody, but that's what he does. That's his whole thing is that he puts- If he's not scoring, then it's like- He's not doing anything. So put the ball on the net.
01:01:39
Speaker
or leave. I agree. All right. My, my turn. My last, uh, quick hitter. Last one. Just hitter. Um, for doomsday scenario Zacharias here and you've been given 40 million pounds. David Moyes says doomsday scenario. I want one of two players.
01:02:10
Speaker
I will give you the option of Connor Gallagher or James WordPress. You have $40 million to spend who you spend it on. WordPress. Okay. I'm not gonna fight. Who's spending it on? Connor Gallagher. Come on, man. He's a dog, dude. He's a dog. Not in a good way. Sure. In a good way. He's been a dog in a good way for some teams.
01:02:40
Speaker
No, man. No, I would take WordPress. Okay. I was going to score some goals. We need a penalty taker when we get Saeed the fuck out of here. It's LP bro. He's it is. It is. Um, like I think WordPress just gives you more than Gallagher does.
01:03:07
Speaker
That's fair. And the leadership, dude, you keep seeing it like I keep as driving me crazy, by the way, that we're going to look to sign a captain. What the hell does that mean? Is that true? Who said that? I think Claire and him. So I don't think it's that true. But like, I don't know if X is. But it's ridiculous. It's so ridiculous. Put put Mark Noble in a shirt if you want a captain. Just like make him a coach, man. He doesn't have a real role anyways.
01:03:38
Speaker
sign a captain. I think that's the dumbest thing. Like, we have leaders at the club. I yeah, sign a player who's a captain. Don't sign a captain. Don't sign a motivational speaker. Every time I see that we may look to sign a captain. It's always WordPress his name that follows drives me insane. I better not see him wearing the fucking armband next season. Seriously.
01:04:05
Speaker
If he comes, he like, if it ends up in this Tuesday scenario and he comes, he better not be the captain. I resent the idea of a first year captain. Yeah, I agree. He can like wear it in like scenarios where there's like six other guys that aren't out there. Can wear in year two for all I care. It's not year one, man. I agree. Who would you, who would you make club captain? Last question. Okay.
01:04:37
Speaker
Agarid. Agbana. Agarid would be my on pitch, Captain. Yeah, Agarid on pitch and then I actually agree. Agbana would be an excellent... And I think it'll be Creswell and that's fine. I think it's fine.
01:04:52
Speaker
But I just do think that just from everything that we know about the club and where we are, I think that O'Connor just has a bigger voice in there. I mean, Rice said that Cress will help them, but Rice always said O'Connor helped them a lot. The coaching staff looked to O'Connor for things. He just got a new contract as a player just because of his voice in the locker room for no other reason.
01:05:16
Speaker
There's, yeah, exactly. Like they clearly value his, his role as a leader. Um, especially with rice leaving that he got that new contract with, uh, rice leaving. I couldn't afford it. I know. I was hoping at the very least we keep him on as a coach and I still hope we do that. Yeah. We can leave it there. We both love Angelo. We love Angelo. He has the hammering away seal.
01:05:47
Speaker
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01:06:16
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Speaker
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01:07:56
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01:08:09
Speaker
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01:08:21
Speaker
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01:08:48
Speaker
And I flip shit, I'm a western nigga, you switch shit And I will smit the emotion, niggas, I'm a french prince, don't check it, niggas I breathe deep, I'm chasing niggas Go check your mate, it's night time, you were both today I might take your queen, but that was yesterday And I offer you points, I'll be the accolade, cause I'm the realest king to ever play And I'm a black king, word up to my blast And then I run shit, cause I'm African, you gotta tell me I am the man