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00:00:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello, hello
Introduction to the Daily Wolves Podcast
00:00:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
everyone. Welcome back to the Daily Wolves podcast and welcome back to Global Sports Podcast Network, which gives you access to podcasts from every club, every day, which is pretty fantastic. um My name Nathan, I'm your host for today and I'm joined by um the fantastic Chris and Will.
00:00:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Chris, how are we doing today?
00:00:29
Chris
I'm good. I'm good. It's good to see you again, Nathan. Hey, everyone.
00:00:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's good to see you too, guys. It's been a while. It's been a while. Will, how are you keeping?
00:00:36
Will
Yeah, all good. Even better now that, as you both just mentioned, you know the the trio is ah is reunited.
00:00:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
The trio of dreams, the trio of dreams, are three Musketeers. I'm trying to think of two other, or other trios. Hotter, Traore, Jimenez. Leave it at that.
00:00:53
Will
ah like it.
00:00:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
We haven't got three at the minute that
Immediate Reactions to Liverpool Defeat
00:00:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
we're too in love with. But, um yeah, obviously you guys gave us an immediate reaction, nice and fresh off the back of... um the away defeat to Liverpool on Sunday. um Now that you've had little bit more time to sort of, I understand, Chris, you've rewatched the game and Will, you might have been able to rewatch some of the clips that we spoke about or that you guys spoke about rather.
00:01:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Chris, do you have any further thoughts or different thoughts on what your initial reactions were from that from that fixture? Yeah.
00:01:27
Chris
and I mean, in terms of the overall performance, I think we played actually pretty well, better than some people even, I think, ah giving us... I think some people are thinking we didn't play very well and just say in the second half. I think the first half was okay. I think we weren't actually that bad.
00:01:43
Chris
um Vitor just made the right choices to kind of up the game in the second half. I think overall, I think we actually played pretty well that game and to...
00:01:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:53
Chris
you know, deny Liverpool chances in the second half and be pushing for an equaliser. I think it was pretty solid outside of the couple of mistakes. But overall, the biggest thing that we we touched on yesterday ah few times, the biggest thing in re-watching it again was just the fact that, no, I wasn't i wasn't just being, i don't think, biased.
00:02:14
Chris
The officiating was just very poor. I mean, the amount of one-sided... decisions the amount of times that Wolves players got yellow cards or free kicks against them for the most minuscule thing and then the Liverpool players could do the same thing or worse four or five times and not have anything happen and then look frustrated like they're overprivileged for you know the slightest call that was given against them it was just it was just ridiculous
00:02:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, frustrating one, isn't it? I think like my initial thoughts were probably similar and I always try and hold myself back and think probably being biased here. But having watched some of the bits back again, um clips that are coming through through social media and stuff, it's just, it's so frustrating when there's no consistency and it's something that we keep banging on about. But Simon Hooper was so inconsistent, but towards one team, which just adds to the fury of it. I mean, i know there's big decisions they get wrong and We've been on the back end of of a few bad ones over the last couple of seasons, but I don't know what you think about this, Will, but it just it just feels like we've put together a decent performance and maybe on another day where we kind of have the rub of the green, we come away with a point.
00:03:25
Will
Yeah, um but I think it just comes with the territory, quite literally. um The whole sort of notion of the officials being not necessarily against us, as in against Wolves.
00:03:33
Chris
Thank
00:03:41
Will
you know I'm ah quite reluctant to buy into the whole ah idea of it being corrupt in that sense, but there's definitely a subconscious bias towards the top six, and especially Liverpool, and I can't stand it.
00:03:53
Will
It's so frustrating when Chris, as you mentioned, we we put in a good shift. you know we We played well and it's already a difficult place to go to. And it's it's just sort of like... You know, you just expect...
00:04:09
Will
this nonsense that that's I think is the most annoying part of it you just you know it's gonna happen you know those 50 50 calls are always going to go against you no matter what it is um and it's just sort of it's just annoying it's just really annoying um And, you know, what i well I have noticed since we recorded is the fact that it's not just us, it's not just Wolves fans who noticed it. Obviously, being on on a Sunday 2 o'clock, it was televised for everyone to see. And I've actually seen quite a lot of neutral fans...
00:04:45
Will
um sort of you know saying how hard done by we were in terms of like you know those those yellow cards going against us um or not going against liverpool and so on um so it's there for everyone to see but it's it just annoys me how it's like it's taken as red do you know what i mean
00:05:06
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:05:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, no, definitely. And it's just that consistency. The thing that really gets me all the time um is the fact that they have so many eyes on these decisions nowadays.
00:05:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
There's just so much information there. I don't i don't quite understand how, i don't know, when you when you get to that second half, at half time, do the do the refs have a team talk and kind of go, right, lads, we've actually got quite a
Refereeing Controversy Discussion
00:05:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
few wrong here. Not that you want to be now overcompensating,
00:05:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
but just kind of, i don't know, some sort of objective assessment.
00:05:34
Will
Hmm.
00:05:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got so many cameras viewing all sorts different angles on so many different things. And ah know you guys mentioned it talking about um the game in the previous episode, but the the hotter one where he's clearly dived for a penalty.
00:05:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
You've had all that time to make that decision.
00:05:52
Will
Yeah.
00:05:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Then it's clear and obvious that it's a dive. And if it's clear and obvious and you've got VAR there to check that things are clear and obvious,
00:05:57
Will
Hmm.
00:06:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
then make sure that the the punishment is clear and obvious as well, which it would be to anyone watching that, that it's a dive, therefore it's a yellow card.
00:06:09
Will
Yeah.
00:06:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I think there's a few bits like that that are just like, it's just, I guess, when you compound them one after the other and you see it throughout 90 minutes, you then think, gosh, that was a horrible, that's a terrible performance.
00:06:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Whereas each individual little mistake, you probably go, right, okay, that happens in every Premier League game. It's just, I guess, the amount that there were. um
00:06:29
Chris
Yeah, I think um because you mean, yeah, we talk about consistency is the key.
00:06:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah,
00:06:34
Chris
And you just know that there's many of those decisions that if they happened at one end of the pitch, they don't happen at the other. And when I was rewatching it today, ah because the coverage I watched the weekend was different to um what watched today. I watched back on Wolves TV with the Mikey Burrows and Andy Thompson, all that team.
00:06:51
Chris
And so it was interesting to hear that even, you know, thems I know that they're like us there, you know, they're fans and and lovers of of wolves.
00:06:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:58
Chris
And so but it's interesting to hear them comment on the the lead up to the penalty that was given where Diaz goes down. that there was not even a look at the nudge in Aga's back in the build-up to that from Diaz, which because Aga's going to intercept that ball, and there's a slight nudge in his back.
00:07:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:07:18
Chris
Now, it's marginal, but you you know that if that's at the other end of the pitch at Anfield,
00:07:19
Will
Yeah.
00:07:24
Will
Mm-hmm.
00:07:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's locked up.
00:07:24
Chris
and that's Gedge partially shoving someone in the back as he's chasing the ball, it's going to not be given because they'll say that he's interfered with the defender.
00:07:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:34
Chris
And you just know it. And um again, and and we can say this almost in an unbiased way because you've only got to look back at the history of our of all the decisions we've had at Anaheim at Anfield, the way it goes.
00:07:45
Chris
I mean, you i mean the the FA Cup one with Totty is the the cream of the crop, surely.
00:07:50
Will
Yeah, that's the worst.
00:07:50
Chris
um But, you know, all of that stuff, you can go back as far as you want.
00:07:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh my god. Oh my god.
00:07:54
Chris
and it's And it adds to all the reasons we haven't won there is so so often because you just see it again and again it's so one-sided and it like you say it's not necessarily a wolves thing it's a it's a big team thing and and the crowd is so close that huge crowd on top of them reacting to everything and i've refereed in other sports that don't have cameras and it isn't even i mean we're not with as big a crowd as that but with a few thousand people watching and you
00:08:14
Will
Hmm.
00:08:24
Chris
There is a, there is a, it takes a strong mind sometimes to shut all of that sight and that noise out and be focused. Like you almost have to like, you put yourself in your own little world and just block out all the sound. You have to just be focused on the moment and ignore all of that. And it, I can only imagine how it feels at a higher, like level with 30, 40,000 people on top.
00:08:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Absolutely. Absolutely. I think that everyone can appreciate the the difficulty the and the difficult job that referees have.
00:08:54
Will
Thank you.
00:08:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think just going back to the same point is like they have someone in their ear for the whole game. They have constant feedback with the linesmen that also have a different angle on the pitch.
00:09:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah You know, it's not like it's just individual and just all on them, which I think historically, if you go back, you know, 20, 30, 40 years, it did feel like the sort of the refs on their own in the middle there. And they didn't even have necessarily comms with the linesman.
00:09:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
But on that one with where Aga gets shoved and then, you know, leads to the pen, it's just the the softness of the pen and the contact of that is just as soft as the shove in the back.
00:09:33
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:09:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's just, I don't know, when I see it from that perspective, I'm thinking like, what? it It just doesn't add up, you know? And I know they've got this thing with not going back so far in the play, but that, you know, that we're talking a second between the two actions.
00:09:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
It just, yeah I don't know, it just fuels the frustration, I guess. But um yeah, we're going to end up down ah down a big rabbit hole here.
Player Evaluations: Minetsi and Squad Depth
00:09:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And before before I move this topic, yeah voice getting away from me before i move the topic conversation onto um our forward line because want to chat about minetsi and whether or not he's a number nine um just want to give everyone a chance to hear from our partners
00:10:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Lovely stuff. Right. So I want to get a, well, I mean, my thoughts when listening back to you guys chatting about Minetsi and how Vitor's kind of brought him in as this makeshift number nine, false nine, whatever we want to call it, making runs in behind. um And the main thing that I was picking up from you guys in the previous episode was that, well, if he could finish and could stay on side,
00:11:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
He might be all right.
00:11:15
Will
No.
00:11:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
um Two things that we we definitely would need in a striker. So and i have to say, watching him against Blackburn, and I know it's Blackburn, but I thought he was doing the right things and making the right runs and people called him the...
00:11:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:11:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know, I saw on Twitter someone say he's like the new Dave Edwards almost, you know, making them sort of late runs into the box and stuff. And I don't mind that at all. um But I did think watching the game, it's so clear to me that he's not a centre forward.
00:11:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And ah ah look, I know I've said some, I've had some horrible takes on here and I've got things so wrong sometimes. And then, you know, they've gone and proved us otherwise. But in this case, it just, I don't know.
00:11:43
Will
no
00:11:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
It just seems like it's he's not he's not a number nine, as he will. Like he's...
00:11:59
Will
Yeah, no, I think the phrase square pegs... and round holes comes to mind i just ah i think he's just unfortunately for him maybe because people will perhaps judge him unfairly a bit like perhaps when belgaard was spending so much time out wide when we can now see that's clearly not his game um you know i just think, unfortunately for him, he's just the only real option that we have. i mean Chris, I know you and I spoke about Carlos Forbes there, ah player who was you know about to return back to Ajax from his loan spell in in January. um
00:12:46
Will
But aside from that that, there are literally no other options, really. Yeah.
00:12:54
Will
So, yeah, I mean, i don't get it. I don't get it But just the more the more I look at it from that point of view, the more I look at our squad, I think, you know, there's so many areas where we are just below par for where you need to be to to climb higher in the Premier League. And that's certainly one of them.
00:13:15
Will
um But, yeah.
00:13:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's
00:13:18
Will
Yeah.
00:13:18
Chris
ah I will say, i like overall, I like the look of him. He definitely gives something different.
00:13:23
Will
Yeah.
00:13:24
Chris
You can see the athleticism. And again, watching the game back today, there was moments where there was one point in the second half, he's like the furthest guy forward. Liverpool go on the break, and within moments, he's one of the first guys back. like he's you know The speed from box to box is definitely a benefit.
00:13:39
Will
Yeah.
00:13:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
<unk> insane, yeah.
00:13:40
Chris
though Undoubtedly, he was charging back to get there. And um he, as we mentioned, he's in the right places. I mean, you can't argue that several of these had all these opportunities because he is making good runs, like intelligent, even at least when he stays on side.
00:13:55
Chris
But even then you can see the intention.
00:13:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:57
Chris
You can see when even when he's drifting off side that he's he's doing the right things.
00:13:59
Will
and
00:14:01
Chris
It is just a lack of finishing ability. At the moment, he's only had, what, an hour of play in total with us.
00:14:06
Will
yeah
00:14:07
Chris
ah So, again, not that much. And one of them was against Liverpool. so And even then, he could have had the win at the equalising goal because that 80-something minute moment when Doyle puts a beautiful ball in because it was a great piece of play and literally it's taken off his foot is it and he's like a yard out.
00:14:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:14:23
Chris
so
00:14:23
Will
Hmm.
00:14:24
Chris
he's had moments and i i i like what i see overall and i don't know if you agree nathan whether there's an element i meant i put the again i like to be the devil's advocate i mentioned yesterday i'll be seeing him more of him in this position especially while larson is out and huang is out and all these injuries like oh do you do you reckon there's an addition to that or do you think this is just like a plan b
00:14:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it's just a plan think there's a couple of things we need to like obviously consider as well is that ah yeah the bloke's just been thrown into Premier League football.
00:14:56
Will
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:14:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, like that that is a it's a big, big step up for some of the biggest players in Europe really struggle with it.
00:14:57
Will
evening
00:15:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, you know, we're cutting him some slack on that front. Clearly being played out of position to where he's played previously. You know, he's been a more consistent number eight, even number six at times. And he he he fits the the physical attributes ah of Mario Lamina, doesn't he? He's got that kind of box-to-box, very, very physical, fairly quick, really strong on the ball.
00:15:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
So there's certain bits there where... yeah you can see You can see why he's been brought in. You can see that there's there's a bit of potential and there's definitely stuff to work with.
00:15:29
Will
Mm.
00:15:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I think, yeah, obviously timing of the runs and stuff with the speed of the game, he's not getting it quite right. um But maybe Vitor has seen something because i have to say, as you said, Chris, you you can see what he's trying to do.
00:15:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, he might be offside or he might miss the one-on-one, but that little... um a bit of play when he had his one-on-one against Liverpool weekend. And it was flicked through from Bellegarde, I think it was.
00:15:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
He flicked it through in the midfield. When that first ball gets played and Munetzi isn't that first receiver, ah he's already on his bike. And I remember seeing a couple of different angles on that. And I thought, that's that's a good sign that, you know, there's that, I know, there's bit of cohesion and something building there. So,
00:16:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, um I think there's some positives going forwards. But I wanted to actually completely divert our ah thoughts and ah chat towards another area of the pitch, actually.
Strategic Decisions: Vitor Pereira and Craig Dawson
00:16:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And it's something that we've not actually mentioned over the last over the last couple of weeks since ah January deadline has obviously come across. and We've had to rename our eligible players and our squad for the rest of the season.
00:16:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And in that squad list, Craig Dawson wasn't included and uh I think that's a that's a fairly big big statement from Vitor I know it we kind of we've all seen it on social media and stuff um it's quite a big statement and he came out very very frankly and sort talking about how there was no need for him um which you know yeah it's made it quite clear uh Will I wanted to get your thoughts on it and do you think it's a it's a good thing
00:17:04
Will
um ah To be honest, I'm actually just somewhat indifferent on it. Of course, I think you know Dawson has been great for so you know ah A true old-fashioned centre-half of the highest quality.
00:17:21
Will
you know We've seen him pocket Haaland, we've seen him smash goals and we've seen him put his body on the line to... so ah help our football club. And that's that is you know that is what you want from your centre-back. But we do have to remember um
00:17:40
Will
he has been poor when he has played this season. I don't think there's any shying away from that. And you know so much as he's got a lot of credit in the bank, unfortunately, that's football. If if a manager comes in and the player's not in his plans...
00:17:58
Will
That's just the way it works sometimes. And I'd rather ah manager who is frank and to the point and doesn't mince his words and, you know, sort of makes these bold decisions, rightly or wrongly so.
00:18:16
Will
you know, i appreciate Pereira's standpoint on it. If if a player's not involved or not not in your plans, you obviously he sees more than than we do.
00:18:27
Will
then I don't really think there can be too many complaints. um but i just think, yeah, that aside, is obviously a shame because, you know, he has been very good for us.
00:18:41
Chris
Yeah, the for whatever people think of of Gary O'Neill now, there's a couple of things when you think back that obviously when have carried across to at least two managers because like Forbes, not given any time virtually under both managers, not considered worthy.
00:18:53
Will
Hmm.
00:18:59
Will
Yeah.
00:18:59
Chris
And Dawson thrown in a few times that again, this season under O'Neill, but very quickly often dropped back to the bench because again, just not at where he was the last couple of seasons.
00:19:11
Chris
So it's obviously something that is consistent, not just, you know, it's not just, this is not just one manager's eyes as well, but Vittor's just done it even more strongly big because, because again, there's more defender choices now.
00:19:11
Will
Hmm.
00:19:23
Chris
I mean, O'Neill didn't have the extra defenders to, to drop him further than the bench, but,
00:19:29
Will
Yeah,
00:19:29
Chris
if he had it might have happened this kind of thing might have even happened sooner because now Pereira's got Aga ahead of come in ahead of him he's now got Giga Bueno's jumped ahead of him in the pecking order Docherty's ahead of him in the pecking order I mean he's so far down the list and obviously two of those people weren't even here before under O'Neal and Doc was not considered a centre-back at all under O'Neal so
00:19:43
Will
yeah. yeah
00:19:53
Chris
That, you know, I just think it's clearly that what I'm trying to say, I think, is it's not just one person's eyes. And if that's consistent across the board, clearly ever since he's had that groin injury end of last season, he struggled to get back his his fitness, I guess.
00:20:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:09
Chris
So his speed is definitely seems to have gone. He's 34 and it just seems like maybe ages. Father Time catches up with everyone. And he's in this, at least in this formation that we are playing, where we talk about, yeah i mean, the centre-backs at the weekend were high up the pitch against Liverpool.
00:20:24
Chris
And it's the speed of the likes of Aga and Totti.
00:20:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:20:26
Chris
And I mean, Semedo is pretty quick as well. All those people are pretty sharp at getting back. Dawson can't do that.
00:20:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, definitely not.
00:20:35
Will
Yeah.
00:20:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think um I echo it like it is a bit of a... I do have a soft spot for him. I like his style of defending.
00:20:42
Will
Mmm.
00:20:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
I loved how obviously how good he was for us in moments of need. But Vitor Pereira, I mean, coming in, he came in with a reputation of being the stern manager who's going to make tough calls at times and maybe arguably Gary O'Neill should have...
00:20:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
made a tougher call on Craig Dawson, but Pereira's obviously made that made that selection. And um similar to us here, actually, at the Global Sports Podcast Network, we also spent a lot of time selecting our delivery platform. We wanted to get it right, and Zencaster came out the clear winner.
00:21:11
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00:21:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
pretty happy with that smooth transition there.
00:21:27
Will
Yeah, that was that was expertly done, Nathan.
00:21:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
But before we... Yeah.
00:21:29
Chris
was pro. That was pro. But we'll just, so yeah, just on the Dawson thing. But yeah, so right now he's he's not got a squad number, but he's not even training with the team. And it looks like they're talking about, that you know, the club are talking with him about arranging to, you know, nullify the contract and release him.
00:21:46
Chris
The interesting thing is they didn't choose to do it during the transfer window, at which point he could have gone on a free to another club because it's after the transfer window.
00:21:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:21:55
Chris
If he goes now, he can't sign with another English club this season. So he would only ah be able to sign for someone abroad. So they waited intentionally.
00:22:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
that's It's an interesting one because it it almost, he screams championship now, like a championship club, but he'd be gold dust for them. I mean, I know he's he's not got his pace, but if Danny Bath can do it, then um yeah, I think he'd be all right.
00:22:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
But again, I'm going to keep pushing us.
00:22:19
Will
Sorry, sorry, sorry, Nathan. just Just on that, just on that, do we think that was done because of the whole Leicester situation? You know, how they pulled out of the deal with Cody?
00:22:34
Will
Probably because they were somewhat aware that we were happy to... You know, Dawson wasn't in our plans regardless.
00:22:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:42
Will
um
00:22:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Maybe, yeah.
00:22:44
Will
And because they because they pulled out of that deal, I wonder if we have done that to sort of get get back ah at them.
00:22:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:53
Will
Because obviously, otherwise, he he would be playing for them now.
00:22:57
Chris
yeah i think it's less about getting back and potentially more about protecting yourself from giving an opposition in a relegation fight a benefit.
00:22:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, and I think that
00:23:02
Will
Yeah, yeah.
00:23:05
Chris
you know if he goes and we don't get anything in return and we lease him on a free and then he signs for Leicester the next day and he helps keep them up, then that's that's not good.............
00:23:05
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:12
Will
yeah
00:23:13
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yeah Yeah. The only thing I'm thinking of there is a centre-half partnership of Connor Cody and Craig Dawson, and that would be anyone with an over 34 pace rating on FIFA would be laughing there, wouldn't they?
00:23:25
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But anyway, um I'm going to move us around a little bit.
Highlighting Ait-Nouri's Performance
00:23:29
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We're going to move around the pitch a bit. Ryan Ake-Nory, I really wanted to talk about him again today. I thought he was brilliant.
00:23:35
Will
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:39
Will
yeah
00:23:39
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And I think there's this sometimes he frustrates us and as's you go through games and you think, gosh, he's not switched on at the back stick and Cross is going deep. He seems to always sort of be a bit lazy with certain aspects of over it sort of the defensive role that he's got. But He looked like he was playing in his back garden.
00:23:57
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And I know he plays with that style anyway, but he genuinely ticked every box in the weekend. And ah know he's been linked to big clubs, but I just thought he was, thought was outstanding.
00:24:08
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Am I overreacting here?
00:24:08
Will
Yeah, I really do think...
00:24:09
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Am i
00:24:11
Will
Sorry, I really do think he's just the mustard. I think he's just... It's so, so good. Like you said, um it's it's the style he he plays with. And don't get wrong, it comes with the downfalls that you've mentioned.
00:24:26
Will
Perhaps sometimes he's too casual. with it but But just when it when it comes off, which more often than not it does, you know the little let will sort of flicks on the turn, you know the first touch to to beat his man, and then little one-twos with either Cunha or Xal Gomez, those three seem to love sort of that.
00:24:48
Will
um you know playing playing around on that left-hand side with a bit of flair. i just It's so good to watch. And and again, obviously, as Chris and I mentioned um yesterday, the fact that Salah was only able to score from penalty when he came up against him, it's ah he's just unreal. and I'm going to say something here. This may be taking us off on a tangent,
00:25:13
Will
I think losing him could be the biggest loss that we could face in the summer. ah
00:25:21
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Whoa. That's a big in there. we We might have to clip that one, mate.
00:25:26
Chris
Yeah, ah I mean, that yeah, I mean, we're going to get into the wingback discussion.
00:25:27
Will
I just...
00:25:29
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I...
00:25:30
Chris
the bit a huge loss was going to be Samedo because we're going to lose another captain andnie and you're going to have to replace him.
00:25:31
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Yeah.
00:25:33
Will
Yeah, yeah.
00:25:34
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Yeah.
00:25:37
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I think that they're both brilliant and I think the... The thing that we've been crying out for with all the different changes that we've had in captaincy and other bits is, I don't know, players with the personality to drive teams forwards and consistently create these...
00:25:56
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this cohesion within the team. And it feels as though down that left-hand side, now that Gio Gomez has been around a bit, Aitnori's there, Kuni's been there, you know, second, is it third season they're playing together? Second season they're playing together, all three of them.
00:26:09
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There's just starting to, we're starting to see this, all the flicks around the corner flag and these one-two, Joga Benito, I think they call it, and in Brazil.
00:26:15
Will
Yeah. Yes. Yes. Arriba.
00:26:19
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and it's So, yeah, Yeah, it's just good to watch. And i think, I don't know if I'd agree with the fact that he'd be the biggest loss, but it's just this consistency that we want to build a squad and you want players to stay with us.
00:26:26
Chris
Thank you.
00:26:34
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And it felt like under Nuno, players were staying and there was ah there was a long-term plan.
00:26:38
Will
Yeah.
00:26:39
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And if if the... Obviously, a player was about to leave. Like say, when Hotta was about to leave, Neto was kind of ready there. Now, because we feel so light, it feels as though, yeah, we're in a point where if we lose 8 Nori, who do we have coming in?
00:26:45
Will
Yeah.
00:26:52
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Well, we don't even know a name, really, do we, in that left-back position, wing-back position.
00:26:55
Will
I think two things on that. First of all, obviously depends on the Hugo Bueno situation. um The fact that he's out on the currently, lest we forget that, it's still...
00:27:03
Chris
Yep, that was great.
00:27:04
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Ah. he's an He's an afterthought to me at the minute. You're right, you're right.
00:27:08
Will
I know, but that's that that in itself is just criminal.
00:27:10
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Yeah.
00:27:11
Will
and But also, ah my point was more the fact... like He's just so underrated, Ait Nuri. He's so underrated by, i think, people outside of Wolves.
00:27:27
Will
So everyone's already aware of the fact that Kuna's probably going to go in the summer and, you know, we're barely going to get any profit thanks to our stupid release calls from our stupid owners. Um... But but people people know about that transfer and sort of expect and they know of the quality of Kuhnye, whereas Aitnoui perhaps slips sort of between the cracks a little bit um for those who don't watch him week in, week out. And that's why I say, you know, he'll be the biggest loss player.
00:27:59
Will
Just because neutral fans won't realise how good he he is until he plays for their team.
00:28:10
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Yeah.
00:28:10
Chris
I mean, I'm glad you mentioned Hugo Bueno, because that's what I was waiting to say was a he's arguably, you know, if he comes back from that loan, which I mean, he will because he it's not a a loan to buy.
00:28:21
Chris
Then, yeah, he's he's an option for that left, at least to be some kind of temporary replacement on that left wing back side. Yeah. But ah the only thing that frustrated me at the weekend is he he did his best defensive perform performance in a while, which, yeah, he always seems to raise his game for Salah defensively.
00:28:37
Will
Yeah.
00:28:38
Chris
um But there was a bunch times, I will have to say, he frustrated me where every time he he was, there was so many moments where he had a good moment to, like, beat a man and get a cross in or just take it forward and they get near the corner of the penalty area and then cut back and just cut back every time.
00:28:53
Will
Mm.
00:28:54
Chris
And I was just like, just once or twice, just move forward and just whip it in. Right.
00:28:59
Will
Mm.
00:28:59
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I think my thought on that is that I thought exactly the same thing watching it live. Every time he gets the ball, because we know what he can do when you see the little glimmers of him doing it with his flicks and taking it past someone, you just want him to do it every time.
00:29:12
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My thought is that I think he might be just coached to like downplay that side of his game a bit more, especially when we don't have a focal number nine and one that's going to go and attack those balls into the box.
00:29:24
Will
Hmm.
00:29:26
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and that That was my only thought on it. so I mean, he's not necessarily always whipping balls in when Strand Larsson is playing as well. But I just thought that during the game, i was like, surely he's holding back here because we're not expecting Guedes to beat any of their centre-halves in the air.
00:29:40
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um i don't know.
00:29:40
Will
Hmm.
00:29:41
Chris
But even then, if it's not just like beat your man and get into the box, there was a few moments where it just felt like he had opportunities to drive forward.
00:29:43
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Yeah.
00:29:47
Chris
I'm being picky, I know. But um it just felt there was a few moments where an attack was slowed almost to a standstill when he had the impetus like to drive forward.
00:29:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah, no, definitely. Definitely.
Squad Rotation and Game Time
00:30:03
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and Before we we start wrapping up, I also wanted to mention a couple of other players that I was um i really happy to see, actually. I was really happy to see Tommy Doyle get some minutes. And um it was really also good to see Pedro Lima come on as well.
00:30:14
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I think that we it's nice to
00:30:15
Will
Yeah.
00:30:18
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see that Vitor Pereira maybe is looking at his squad a little bit more, thinking of using his players a little bit more.
00:30:22
Will
Hmm.
00:30:25
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We've had additions and he's still wanting to use a bit of depth and to use it away at Liverpool. don't know if we saw this when he originally came in. don't know if we saw this much rotation. So if anything, it was just a, I don't know, guess a breath of fresh air to see those two.
00:30:39
Will
Yeah, ah something else just on that note again before we finish up. I know um nat Nathan, ah Chris and I spoke about this briefly yesterday. ah just wanted to ask if either of you guys have seen any updates on Rodrigo Gomez's absence because I'm still completely unaware of why he was left out the squad and I've i've not seen anyone um sort of provide any sort of answer for it just yet.
00:31:05
Chris
No, i was um that's I was going to mention that just because Nathan hadn't mentioned it yet. that Yeah, I still haven't found a a but the can' talk certain reason for the omission.
00:31:16
Chris
Maybe we'll find something out in one of the next press conferences. but um
00:31:20
Will
Hmm.
00:31:20
Chris
um Maybe I've missed it. But it was an odd one for him not to even be on the bench because he's been one of our best players this season for me whenever he's made an appearance.
00:31:29
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Yeah, with those ones, it just to me, it just screams like there's maybe something personal going on and needed to take take a bit of time.
00:31:30
Will
Yeah.
00:31:37
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i mean, when it's when it's an injury, it's quite easy for them to just announce that there's something as an injury rights and not not difficult from a PR ah perspective, but maybe there's something else going on anyway.
00:31:41
Will
Hmm.
00:31:47
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um We hope Rodrigo Gomez is back in
Episode Wrap-Up
00:31:50
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the fold soon enough. And yeah, for everyone that's listening this straight as it comes out, I hope you have a brilliant end of your Tuesday. But for everyone else out there, we will catch you in the next episode.
00:32:00
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Take care, guys.
00:32:02
Chris
See ya.