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Episode 3: Pt. 2 Transfer Deadline Recap + PL Week 1-3 Superlatives
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- Osimehn, Chelsea Transfer Strategy !
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Introduction and Declan Rice Signing
00:00:01
Emeka
Hey, my brosky saying we haven't bought a big name since Declan Rice. Last I checked, Declan Rice was last year, man.
00:00:05
Chuku
five
00:00:07
Emeka
What'd you expect?
00:00:11
Chuku
I expect that every year we're adding, you know, big additions because we know that the challenge at hand is to be a mammoth of a team called Man City and adding additions, which are stopgap additions.
00:00:22
Emeka
Fair.
00:00:26
Chuku
I believe we are beyond stopgap additions, you know? like I just did not say that there's anything wrong with stopgap additions because that's how we got trusted as well. But we're at a stage where, or I should say critical stage where If we're going to be selling guys like ESR, Eddie and Ketia, guys who are young, you know, young boys that, you know, they're entering their primes that have built the team, helped build the team that were now that we currently, or even though they weren't full-time starters, but they were part of a squad that has gone on to challenge for the league.
Strategic Squad Additions
00:01:06
Chuku
I'm okay, again, I'm okay with selling those type of players at this point, because we've got to be, you know,
00:01:10
Chuku
ruthless because we know what who and what we're up against. But I believe we're just at a point where additions like a rice, right? For example, we need to be making those type of additions on a year to year basis because we need to solidify the the score that we have to be not just challenging, but at at some point go over the over the hill and actually win and win titles, not just FA Cups or, you know, Carlin Cups, but win the major trophies.
00:01:43
Chuku
And to do that, you have to be strategic with your incumbents, you know? So, look.
00:01:49
blackjag_3
see I don't necessarily think we need to do a rice signing every year but you know I still think yeah okay
00:01:53
Chuku
Well,
00:01:56
Emeka
I swear.
00:01:57
Chuku
and I'm not saying it's been 100 million, but I'm saying, you know, theyre getting a get get in a piece that comes in and should be of a starter or improvements to the starting 11.
00:02:09
Chuku
is something that I believe is like, it doesn't have to be again, a hundred, when I say rice deal, I'm not referring to the price tag.
Focus on Talent over Price Tags
00:02:15
Chuku
I'm also referring to the talent level. As we all knew when we got rice, you know, is that he's a key piece.
00:02:17
blackjag_3
A key piece. A key piece to the squad.
00:02:21
Chuku
Exactly.
00:02:21
blackjag_3
Yeah.
00:02:22
Chuku
That's what I'm saying.
00:02:22
Emeka
yeah That's a big ass for many for many clubs in the world.
00:02:23
Chuku
That's what I'm saying.
00:02:25
Emeka
It's a big ass to get a guy like rice every year That's all I'm saying. It's a
00:02:29
blackjag_3
It doesn't have to be, it doesn't have to be again, a hundred million times like you said, but it's like you, there's clear needs to the team and we, and we address, we address the needs, hold on, we address the needs, but did we address those needs with the right, with the maximum of the profile that we were looking for?
00:02:34
Chuku
It doesn't have to. Yeah.
00:02:39
Emeka
and we go
00:02:52
blackjag_3
I don't
Improving the Starting 11
00:02:53
blackjag_3
think so. Did, were we able to still, you know, recover and land on our feet? I think that's where that's where we did well. Look, my expectations are are high now, right?
00:03:05
blackjag_3
A window like this a couple of years ago, I would have been, you know, dancing in the rain, but now, you know, it's it's a solid 7 out of 10, ain't bad.
00:03:05
Emeka
they hi
00:03:13
Chuku
It's too solid, yours too solid.
00:03:13
Emeka
so model I guess the fundamental difference I guess I have is that I keep going back to we ended last year, 16, one and one, like my guys saying this fundamental things we need to improve.
00:03:15
blackjag_3
Did we win?
00:03:24
blackjag_3
did we work
00:03:25
Emeka
I'm thinking about the Liverpool win.
00:03:26
blackjag_3
Did we win?
00:03:29
blackjag_3
No, yeah.
00:03:31
Emeka
Who did they buy this summer?
00:03:32
blackjag_3
So for me, a 10 out of 10 signing is is this or out of 10 is a window that gets you higher than where we were before. It's a good window, which I think probably keeps us in second place, which is not easy to do in the prem.
00:03:47
blackjag_3
Don't get me wrong.
00:03:49
Emeka
For me, I guess it's just the level to say we need to buy guys to increase the starting 11, which is a fair thing to say. But we're not on a point, it's one thing for like Chelsea or Man U to be buying guys to increase their starting 11 because they trash.
Comparisons with Chelsea and Man U
00:04:03
Emeka
We not trash. To buy guys to increase your starting 11, that's asking for Nico Williams. I guess I just never believe we're going to get a Nico Williams or something like that because, bro,
00:04:12
blackjag_3
No, I'm for sure it is. It is hard. It is hard. You can't always, I don't think everyone should expect a 10 out of 10 every year. I'm just saying they did good business and the good business was a seven out of 10.
00:04:26
blackjag_3
It is really hard to improve our team and get it to the next level. They tried. I don't think they quite got there. They did some good things, which is a seven out of 10.
00:04:35
Emeka
Hey, I do art teta I'll put you guys y'all That's half the window though, I don't want to start like people acting like extra credit Africa parents is okay.
00:04:36
Chuku
Yeah.
00:04:36
blackjag_3
And they sold well. If they hadn't sold as well as they did, it would have only been a six out of 10 for me.
00:04:43
blackjag_3
sure
00:04:43
Chuku
But that's part of the 7 though.
00:04:44
blackjag_3
That's okay.
00:04:47
Chuku
That's considered in the 7 and 10.
00:04:47
blackjag_3
okay Okay. Okay. Okay.
00:04:51
Emeka
It's okay. I guess I
00:04:51
blackjag_3
We, we, we, we, we, we know where I get, okay. Let me, let me, I guess the, to end this before we move on to other teams is at the start of the season.
Season Expectations Revisited
00:05:02
blackjag_3
And I think I was going to wait to talk about this, you know, in the next segment, you know, you guys both said you had Arsenal coming first after the window.
00:05:10
Emeka
Yes.
00:05:12
blackjag_3
You know, we've seen three weeks of the season. Where do you guys stand on that still?
00:05:16
Emeka
I believe that nothing that happens this first few weeks is that consequential, so I'm still thinking of my first.
00:05:21
blackjag_3
Okay, Chuku.
00:05:23
Chuku
I'm still sticking with my first, mainly because we still made that addition.
00:05:26
blackjag_3
Oh, no, don't worry. We'll get into it later. I just wanted to see if you thought, okay, we've done enough to to to come first.
00:05:30
Chuku
I'm sticking with my first.
00:05:33
blackjag_3
Okay, sound good. let's Let's move on to the other deals, deadline day deals that that occurred.
Victor Osimhen's Career Moves
00:05:40
blackjag_3
You know, to me, one of the the the biggest stories of the window was a signing that didn't actually happen.
00:05:48
blackjag_3
And that is the saga of Victor.
00:05:52
Chuku
Oh, she man.
00:05:53
Emeka
Hey, you gotta sign it, man.
00:05:54
blackjag_3
few man i not that boy I think he's fine. He needed a new agent and yeah I think he sacked the old one because I don't know. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what happened.
00:06:08
Emeka
Don't don't disrespect Al Tasseri. He got his move after all.
00:06:11
blackjag_3
Like he skipped the step where you go to Chelsea, flop, and then go to the Alcatra. He just went there straight.
00:06:18
Chuku
Street. Oh. what What is he doing?
00:06:20
Emeka
Hey, man.
00:06:21
Chuku
Who is handling this guy's career?
00:06:23
Emeka
It was either that or he stays in the reserves.
00:06:23
Chuku
thank But how does a talent like Oshim and State like get to this point?
00:06:26
Emeka
So he got to make something happen.
00:06:27
blackjag_3
Yeah, no, no.
00:06:31
Chuku
like but Something is very off with this situation. i don't i don't I don't quite understand it.
00:06:35
blackjag_3
i I really think it it comes it comes down to two factors.
00:06:37
Chuku
you
00:06:40
blackjag_3
One, Napoli overplayed their hand. you know And i think I think you even need to look back to to the deal they did with Lil for him to come to Napoli.
00:06:51
blackjag_3
That looked fraudulent as hell. right And I think there's been a lot of whispers about how fraudulent that deal was at the time.
Complications of Osimhen's Transfer
00:06:59
blackjag_3
And so to recruit their costs and whatever extra they paid on the side to get that deal to go through, I think that's why they were holding on to that 130 million euros and clearly the market wasn't there. And then Big teams that they thought would be sort of in a bidding war for him weren't looking at him like that and then it came down to Chelsea who were I don't I don't know so Chelsea you're gonna tell me you're gonna Spend all this money You know and all these kids and then because of that you're not able to to to break your your wage structure I'm putting quotation marks here for for OC men when he was really on his knees to come to you and you guys were paying wanted to pay him half of what he's making at Napoli and
00:07:41
Emeka
I mean, I don't know.
00:07:43
blackjag_3
So that was the other, that was the other end of the spectrum.
00:07:44
Emeka
People sleep on wages. People sleep on wages.
00:07:46
blackjag_3
And so I think.
00:07:47
Emeka
like They act like wages are free.
00:07:51
blackjag_3
Yeah. What I'm saying is they didn't want to break their weight structure for semen, but that's because they're spending 30 K 30 times.
00:07:58
Chuku
Well, come on, man. You say sleep or we just, but.
00:07:59
blackjag_3
each other
00:08:02
blackjag_3
Go on Chuku.
00:08:06
blackjag_3
OK, yeah, I don't know. Mecca, do you have any more thoughts on that? You know, I think he's he's he's he's he's saved.
00:08:16
Chuku
But man, I mean, look, I just think like Osman, you can't be telling me that you're you're trying to go all in for Osman and then you're going to offer him like the kind of wages that you offered him, man.
00:08:32
Chuku
Like for when I was here reporting, it was something crazy. It was like hundred and something thousand, man. Like what?
00:08:37
Emeka
160,000. I mean, like, listen, look, all right what I heard you, Osman was asking for like 300, 400,000. I'm sorry, Osman. You ain't getting that money.
00:08:46
Chuku
But that's his current wages, though.
00:08:48
Emeka
Hey, man.
00:08:48
Chuku
I mean, that's what he's making.
00:08:51
Emeka
That's life. First of all, that's the new ass curve.
00:08:55
Emeka
I don't know, man. Listen, I like Osman. I like him, but it's kind of sus to me that it reached this point where he's now going to Turkey because man's pissed off every team around Europe. Like at some point it's gotta to be you.
00:09:07
Emeka
like I know we had this argument before. I stand by it. Like at some point, if it smells like poo everywhere you go to, then you gotta check your shoe. Like every time this man's in transfer talks is public. It's contentious.
00:09:19
Emeka
It's a whole thing. And then, and then now he's ended up in Turkey. Like, bro, it's, I, someone's clearly something going wrong with him.
00:09:24
Chuku
Yeah, something's going on because you I have to agree with that.
00:09:27
Emeka
You know,
00:09:28
Chuku
But for a talent like that to be ending up in Turkey at this stage of his career, like
00:09:28
blackjag_3
I love I love
Osimhen's Career Management Issues
00:09:33
Emeka
You know, like clearly something wrong, like, man, it's demanding the world. And like, I feel for him because, well, Nigerians, we ought to gotta be in the Premier League and balling out.
00:09:34
Chuku
no since something is not something's not adding up, something's not right there.
00:09:43
blackjag_3
Yeah,
00:09:43
blackjag_3
I love the guy, but clearly it mismanagement no other levels
00:09:44
Emeka
Even if it's Chelsea, I don't care. Honestly, it's the Premier League, but it's just some, I mean, for what I've seen though, his deals is made in a way that like in January, he can dip. So, hey, maybe he goes there, he balls out and he moves in January somewhere.
00:09:59
Chuku
Well, I hear that, but still, the fact that this was even a a thing, you know what I'm saying? Even a thing is already like a big, it's crazy, man, it's crazy.
00:10:05
Emeka
It is crazy. Listen, I want to argue that it's crazy. That's why I'm looking at it sideways, man. Like like if you if you the top 10 striker in the world, I think that's the first thing to say. Am I am i crazy for saying that?
00:10:18
Chuku
I would already top five, but you know, sometimes for second argument, yeah, yeah.
00:10:21
Emeka
But if you're that good, and you're less than 26 in your prime, teams should be knocking down the door trying to get you. But the fact that they clearly weren't tells me some.
00:10:33
Emeka
And I guess at the beginning, don't get me wrong, Gina was right. Napoli were asking for the world, asking for $100 million, whatever million. so Everyone just said, cool.
00:10:39
Chuku
Yeah.
00:10:40
Emeka
But clearly by the end, they didn put the price down, especially when they bought Lukaku. They were like, we've got to get rid of this man. And he was in talks of Chelsea, so clearly the price was reasonable. It broke down for wages. And it's like, hey, man, I know you like your money, but at a certain point, you're looking at either I go to Premier League or once we make fun of Chelsea, they're still a big club.
00:10:59
Emeka
So either I go ball off for a big club to Premier League, or I'm still stubborn about my wages, I'm going to be in Turkey. I don't know, man.
Potential Premier League Move for Osimhen
00:11:05
Emeka
I said something about me. I said something about you to me.
00:11:07
blackjag_3
I am the club of his dreams too.
00:11:08
Chuku
No, I have to agree, man. I think it's good points because like at some point, yeah he's got to be like, yeah what are you really in this for? You've got to back yourself.
00:11:20
Chuku
you know saying like If you back yourself, the money will come.
00:11:21
Emeka
You know what I'm saying? A buck yourself.
00:11:23
Chuku
The money will come. you know
00:11:24
Emeka
Girl, Chelsea be giving man's extensions after a season.
00:11:27
Chuku
Exactly.
00:11:29
Emeka
Like, let's be real here.
00:11:29
Chuku
They just extended Jackson, bro.
00:11:32
Emeka
That's what I'm saying.
00:11:32
Chuku
But now they're calling me.
00:11:33
Emeka
They sent Palmer to the Jackson.
00:11:33
Chuku
You know what I'm saying?
00:11:35
Emeka
They be giving him an extension after a season. And you know you're going to get a seven-year deal. So you straight if you come to Chelsea.
00:11:41
Chuku
You're going to be straight, man. Yeah.
00:11:42
Emeka
And this is us saying this. And I hate Chelsea. But even I'm like depending on Chelsea on this.
00:11:46
Chuku
Yeah.
00:11:46
Emeka
Like, what we do in here, man? What we do in here?
00:11:48
Chuku
yeah I have to agree.
00:11:51
Emeka
Hey, listen.
00:11:51
Chuku
Lowkey part of me was hoping that we would sneak in there.
00:11:54
Emeka
Hey, I was hoping to the end. i okay I'm hoping for January.
00:11:56
Chuku
Well.
00:11:57
Emeka
If things hit the fan, I'll take him to January.
Chelsea Signing Jadon Sancho?
00:12:00
Chuku
Yeah.
00:12:01
Emeka
Even though is he better than Kai Havers? I don't think so, man. I don't think so.
00:12:04
Chuku
The certain aspects of his game is better than kind of Havers, but outlaw I'll be lying if I didn't say that kind of Havers also had some things in his game that, you know, Oshima didn't have.
00:12:15
Chuku
Like, the Havers think and plays by far. Like, by far one of the most underrated aspects of his game that is like easily like one of the best man.
00:12:19
Emeka
By better.
00:12:25
Chuku
Like, he is so good at linking, like linking up play. It's crazy, you know, so.
00:12:31
Emeka
and Listen, see i'm like I'm a Kai Havarts believer. So yeah, he won't get me slanted, my boy. I mean, hey, it's a good tangent.
00:12:36
Chuku
Hey man, I've been a believer, man. Yeah.
00:12:38
Emeka
It's a good tangent. Speaking of Havarts and Osamara Field move to, I mean, I'm sure any Chelsea fan is sticking around, we love y'all but you we've slanted your team enough. It's time to start talking about the biggest.
00:12:51
Emeka
I still, man, Chelsea people, you you wonder why we slanted your team. And then you guys go and do moves like signed Sancho for obligation.
00:12:59
Chuku
It's crazy.
00:13:00
Emeka
It doesn't make sense to me, man. You already have so many guys that half your team is training with the reserves and with the school boys.
00:13:02
Chuku
How amazing.
00:13:08
Emeka
And you sign in Sancho? And you pay for Sancho? Like, all right, no, man. It's beyond me. It's beyond me.
00:13:15
Chuku
Yeah, that one is an interesting one. like Look, don't get me wrong. Sancho, the player, I can see
Sancho's Fit in Chelsea's Tactics
00:13:23
Chuku
the fit because going from a style of how United play versus potentially what I've been seeing and i watching with Chelsea, the style of play for Chelsea definitely fits Sancho, right? Because Sancho is one of those guys that operates in tight spaces, plays 1-2s. He likes to play intricate passes.
00:13:45
Emeka
I guess but just and over over who's he playing over who's he playing over that's that's the real question that's why that's why I don't understand
00:13:45
Chuku
with each other. That's his game. That's his game. Ask him to be in a counterattacking counter-attacking game. But i asked the question so that's that's the question. So question. When it comes to play, like what so thats what I think you you agree with my point. So when it comes to like style of play, just purely how you how a team plays and the fit but when it comes to Sancho, is it is a better fit. No question.
00:14:15
Chuku
But then when you now add the context of all the different players that Chelsea really added just this year alone, and you look at the current squad as well in those in those positions that, again, Sancho will be playing, it's like, what's going, like who, like how?
00:14:34
Chuku
How is he gonna, like who is he gonna be starting?
00:14:36
Emeka
does it make sense to me?
00:14:36
Chuku
Is he gonna be starting
Logistics of Fitting Sancho into Squad
00:14:38
Chuku
regularly? Is he gonna be playing regularly?
00:14:40
Emeka
No way, listen, let's be real.
00:14:40
Chuku
Like who is gonna be benched? You know what I'm trying to say?
00:14:42
Emeka
We'll talk about Chelsea later, but it's clear they've their front three, left wing Natto, Palmer at the 10, Marueke at the right wing. Talkers of Nkunku, Zhao Felix, Mudrik, guys, I'm sure, a few times you guys are forgetting.
00:15:00
Emeka
Do you see that mess? And you think to yourself, I want to join them. Let me try and and stick a claim there.
00:15:05
Chuku
yeah
00:15:07
Emeka
I don't get it, man. I don't get it personally.
00:15:10
Chuku
Yeah Maybe maybe he knows something. We don't know man. I don't know maybe
00:15:14
Emeka
And if you're a Chelsea same thing, like you have all these guys, the fact that they they have that obligation is what's crazy to me. Like, at least when we got Sterling, it was a dry, well thank you for getting Sancho and selling our Sterling, because we got Sterling on a loan for nothing. These mans are getting Sancho for not, they gotta put up 25 mil for this man. and Listen, people can tell me all you want about Sancho staying in Dortmund, good for him. I know what I've seen when I saw this man in England, and this man is trash. I'm sorry, he's trash.
00:15:41
Chuku
No, that's not fair man.
00:15:41
Emeka
so All right, man, y'all can tell me all you want about Germany.
00:15:43
Chuku
Let's play under a united team bro. That doesn't fit this game doesn't fit the style of play
00:15:46
Emeka
Yeah, there's some guys in the United who are trash. Yeah, they still look better than him somehow. I don't know how that's possible. So, hey, we'll see, man.
00:15:54
Chuku
but the which was
00:15:55
Emeka
I've been talking about things in the past.
00:15:56
Chuku
york is please
00:15:57
Emeka
I'll see if I'm wrong about this, but I just, Chelsea, man, like, y'all, Chelsea literally just can't help themselves.
00:15:58
Chuku
but
00:16:03
Emeka
Like, honestly, it's crazy to me how they move. Like, they just can't help themselves. Like, I'm sure they saw the notification that Sancho was available and just started spazzing out. Like, we gotta buy it, we gotta buy it.
00:16:15
Emeka
Like, madness.
00:16:18
Chuku
Well, you say that, but I i see, you see all this, but I definitely feel like the Sancho that we're gonna see in Chelsea is gonna be a lot better than the Sancho that we were looking at in United.
00:16:32
Emeka
I hope so, because the Sancho United has bought a five-player in the league.
00:16:32
Chuku
but So we'll see.
00:16:36
Emeka
So, hey, who we'll see wholl see if the Sancho can be decent. That's the bar.
00:16:42
Chuku
Yeah.
00:16:42
Emeka
But we will see him though, because again, like, i it's early, but it's clear to me that the coach, he wants to play Neto Palmer and Madueke, like, I just and then this still got Felix and Nukunku on the bench, and Mudrik somehow is still getting paid.
00:16:48
blackjag_3
So, where's he gonna play?
00:16:54
Emeka
So, like, when is he going to get money? We're going to see Sancho in the conference league, I guess. I guess we'll see Sancho in the conference league.
00:17:02
Chuku
Well, who knows, man? My Wike has just started to play decently. Like, the who's to say that's going to carry you on all year, you know?
00:17:09
Emeka
You're right. You're right. You're right.
00:17:12
Chuku
So let's not have to say we penciled him at Wike as a, for sure, starter, because he's really not, you know?
00:17:17
Emeka
Hey man, my man's my man's just killing it though.
00:17:21
Chuku
But it does build a question as to, like, between Mudrich and Kunku, John Felix, Like someone has to not be, you know,
Nkunku's Role at Chelsea
00:17:33
Chuku
not be on on a regular basis, you know, not play.
00:17:33
Emeka
That's what I'm saying.
00:17:37
Emeka
Hey.
00:17:37
Chuku
So that's going to be interesting to find out. I think he's, the I don't think he's a fan of a Kukku man. I don't know. I think for whatever reason, I don't think he just doesn't seem to be a huge fan of a Kukku because I don't see him playing, you know, in this preferred position, especially with Kopama.
00:17:54
Emeka
The dangers of coming to Chelsea, man. The good thing. Shout-outs would be be cool and cool cool. You got a 10-year contract probably. Just cash your money and and enjoy London.
00:18:02
Chuku
Hey, but here's the thing, I would be so happy if we sold, sorry, if after returning Sterling back, I would see a year where Mcuckoo is in plane.
00:18:15
Chuku
If we went in and got in from Mcuckoo, how do you feel, you know?
00:18:17
Emeka
I beg.
00:18:19
blackjag_3
Chuka stop
00:18:21
Emeka
i The way people talk about transfers, man, I don't know.
00:18:21
Chuku
Your favorites.
00:18:23
Emeka
where i'm I'm too old now. I can't even think about Masak and Kunku right now.
00:18:27
Chuku
All right, fair enough.
00:18:28
Emeka
I can't even think about Masak and Kunku right now, man. Let me see the season play out before I start thinking it about Masak and Kunku. That's all I'm saying.