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Daily Southampton: Episode 126 - TRANSFER Tuesday! We waited up for this?!
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Southampton – The January window has slammed closed. We talk about Deadline day and it's lack of action. We discuss the in's and out's, and just as importantly, the outs that didn't happen!
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Introduction of Hosts
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Southampton, part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. My name is Greg Elliott, and today I'm joined by one of my co-hosts, my good friend, Zach Inglefinch. How you doing, Zach?
00:00:23
Zak
Yeah, that's too bad mate.
00:00:27
Zak
We're recording this quite late and it's it's frustrating because it's like, if there was interesting stuff that happened, it feels like it was okay to stay up.
Transfer Tuesday: Myths and Realities
00:00:36
Zak
But now I'm just really tired to talk about they leave people leaving.
00:00:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah it's uh it's transfer tuesday mate it's it's transfer tuesday we stayed up maybe uh some of my blind optimism coming into play we stayed up late to make sure we were uh hot on the nose of any transfer action that came in last minute uh and yeah we've got a few outgoing to talk about mate and
00:00:57
Zak
oh
00:01:02
Zak
not that like One of the things I'll get out of the way straight off the back is like I am seeing a lot of people act like we haven't bought anyone this window. We we have.
00:01:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:01:12
Zak
we had We have had three incomings. It's not been today, but we have Wellington, who yet was a deal from forever ago, but he still came in.
00:01:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:01:21
Zak
and he played at the weekend and he played really well. We have Gromback that's come in who I was sceptical but he seemed to do a job on the weekend, yeah which you know is on par if not better than some of our players so far this year.
00:01:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Add a couple of shots on target.
00:01:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, if you don't kick the ball at the goal, you don't win games.
00:01:35
Zak
and
00:01:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've discussed that.
00:01:39
Zak
simple as that and obviously and we got the young uh young french lads in the under 21s who is is one for the future which i know it's upsetting that we have a lot of ones for the future because it seems like we're never going to reach that future um however you know it means that we've done business i think obviously you're going to get into the outgoings but i think it's just a lot of people are disappointed but remember what happened the last time we went crazy in a january window and didn't stay up and then got stuck with a bunch of players that didn't want to play the championship. So at least a lot of them here now know what they're getting into, you know, and that's kind of where I'm at.
Furkan Malak's Loan Strategy
00:02:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, I mean, you also missed one more incoming that we did get today on Deadline Day. And I'm going to absolutely butcher the pronunciation, so I apologize in advance. But is it Furkan Malak from Gostepe on loan until the end of the season joining up initially with the under 21s for us to track his development? So another one for the future, but better better than nothing, right?
00:02:45
Zak
It is what it is. like This is the multi-card network thing coming into play, right? They want to build up players in a specific way. We'll see how it turns out. We've already had purchases that have gone straight on loan, and some of those might end up being good for us. I think is it's just a ah ah shame that some of what I think would be considered to be our better business has gone the way that it has. But ultimately, from a business perspective, it's worked out real well.
00:03:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah and uh and obviously I guess to touch on and wrap up incomings uh upsettingly early in the show uh the rumoured deal with negotiations uh for Silla uh breaking down pretty much immediately after uh
00:03:36
Zak
That is, for me, I would be real mad if I was the people in charge of that, right? Like, that sounds to me like they were kind of like, well, we'll see if it gets over the line.
00:03:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:03:48
Zak
And if it doesn't go over the line, then, you know, It is
Victor Udo's Transfer Speculation
00:03:51
Zak
what it is. I think we still potentially got that guy from Antwerp still coming in. I can't remember his name, but apparently that might be a thing that's still happening.
00:04:00
Zak
And he might, yeah, Victor victor udu what you do Udo, who is apparently going to be joining not the first team straight away. So another one for the future, qui i quote unquote.
00:04:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Another one for the future.
00:04:11
Zak
So I guess we'll have to see. But yeah. so
00:04:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
I guess it makes sense to strengthen up our under 21s team because they have also seen a few outgoings from this window.
00:04:22
Zak
Yeah.
00:04:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
O'Brien, Whitmarsh, Magoma, Alaleo, all entering out.
00:04:27
Zak
Yeah, so Magoma and Amayo, sorry, both both of whom were sort of brought in as kind of almost coups from Tottenham and we've both sold them for quite large amounts of money and now like Magoma's on loan at like Port Vale, I think. You know, you've got Amayo going to Stroudsburg, maybe he'll do a good job there.
00:04:50
Zak
All the best to him. It's a shame it didn't work out. There's clearly just people that are just ahead of him in the pecking order, apparently.
00:04:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
i mean I mean in some respect did it work out because actually we've sold him for about 8 million profit. say
00:05:03
Zak
Yeah, that's what I mean. like from a business perspective, it's worked out for a while. From a player perspective, who who knows, maybe we would have preferred
Selling Young Players: Business vs Emotion
00:05:12
Zak
you know a little bit, preferred to have him in the team.
00:05:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
He did get his first senior goal for the team earlier in the season which he did set out
00:05:14
Zak
But clearly, you know if he is
00:05:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
uh at the start of 2024 is his ambition for the year so all the best temper
00:05:26
Zak
So yeah, I wish wish him all the best, you know, he's he a young player, he can go far, maybe it'll be years gone by where we talk about how he was somebody that we had for a while, but he is also somebody that, you know, like Magoma where people have kind of acting like he's entirely come from our academy from start to finish but did not realise that you know he he only joined two or three years ago and it's kind of worked his way up, right?
00:05:51
Zak
So you know if anything, it's it's good business, it's just sad whenever you see a player that could be a good prospect to move on to greener pastures.
00:05:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:00
Zak
I don't know if I'd call visiting most places in France greener pastures.
Rejected Bid for Bednarak
00:06:06
Zak
not so upset anyone in france so i forgot the most of my family lived there like it's just just
00:06:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:06:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, and before we wrap up part one and move on to some of the other outward moves we've had today, one move that didn't go through as an outbound Bednarak, supposedly a 25 million bid turned down.
00:06:28
Zak
Nah, I swear it was like eight. I think it was like eight million pounds to Roma and basically we said no immediately considering we're trying to strengthen the centre back and they immediately went off to Galatasaray to buy somebody else.
00:06:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:41
Zak
So it seems like it was probably something that for me feels like an automatic sort of football manager style bid that you make at the beginning of the season for like no reason.
00:06:53
Zak
we see very vet like was it in the beginning Was it this year he committed to the club for like the next couple of years? and Probably to end his career here, I think he said.
00:07:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:02
Zak
so I don't really see you know ah don't really see any reason for us to sell so cheap.
00:07:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:07:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:07:07
Zak
when like What other centre backs do we have?
00:07:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think, realistically, I don't think there's a price you could name. He's such an essential part of the team, really. Basically, our only consistently good centre-back.
00:07:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:07:20
Zak
unless you had a decent replacement lined up which clearly we don't have because we're not planning by the sounds of it we weren't really planning to buy anyone apart from somebody we like the look of in Strasbourg and I wouldn't be surprised if even Silla was somebody that they went well he's 22 so we'll put him in the under 23s and call him one for the future yeah
00:07:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:07:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
He was a left footed, he was a left footed centre back, which supposedly is <unk> what we were looking for, oh which obviously speaks volumes as we have about the future of Bellacott Jap in our team.
00:07:52
Zak
might be forced into a move with Wood out potentially Taylor Harbour bellows out what else are you going to do at this point if Stevens is out too like this is clearly why but
00:07:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah,
00:07:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah that's it.
00:08:00
Zak
But I'm kind of where I'm at is if we were panic buying another center back and then we end up with like 30 going into the championship again. and Like it's probably not the worst thing in the world that we've been smart about
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00:08:11
Zak
it. It's just not very exciting. That's what I think is most people are upset by and the fact that if you know the ambition was to stay up and they're backing their man.
00:08:22
Zak
They've backed him with three transfers, one pre-arranged, one that isn't for his team and he got one that maybe he wanted over the line because I don't know who else is making that decision if I'm totally honest.
00:08:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
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Bazouno's Loan and Southampton's Future
00:09:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, so, to Again, no real surprises coming out, but Bazouno out on loan to Standard Leash till the end of the season.
00:09:15
Zak
Did you see the highlights of his game against Chelsea on the 21s?
00:09:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
I did, yeah.
00:09:20
Zak
Did you see that? Yeah, like i maybe being out is good for him. getting Getting into a team...
00:09:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, at the same time, probably doesn't make it in the first team over Ramsdale, um but it's probably our first choice goalkeeper next season, so gets him
00:09:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
game time gets him back fit. He's still only a nipper, but like 2021, right? So yeah.
00:09:47
Zak
Yeah, exactly. exactly it's It's one of those things where um um i may we'll see what happens next season, because obviously ramsdale if Ramsdale goes, which is probably likely, we'll end up you know having then McCarthy and Lumley in goal other than Baz.
00:10:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:10:07
Zak
And in my head, he'd bring Baz back and put him back in the goal.
00:10:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Does McCarthy have another year in him at championship level?
00:10:14
Zak
I don't think so.
00:10:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
or Even a second choice is probably not.
00:10:16
Zak
he doesn't He's even like coming in to replace Ramsdale, he wasn't fit enough to do that for the whole time Ramsdale was out. So that says a lot to me that I don't think he's going to be fit enough to be our first choice goalkeeper.
00:10:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:10:28
Zak
And Lumley, interesting to see what happens there, I guess.
00:10:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:10:33
Zak
I kind of feel for him. it's not He's not been put in an ideal position and I don't think that he's really going to have a lot of opportunity to to kind of get the minutes that he probably wants going forward. I feel like when you set out your ambition to play for England and then you have some absolute howlers, it's not but really ideal, is it?
Flynn Downs Transfer Collapse
00:10:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
night And Flynn Downs was rumored to be iron and move to Ipswich, which seemed to fall down. I mean...
00:11:00
Zak
They don't want to pay the money. Simple as that, isn't it? like we've We literally signed him this season with a really like like a long contract and then they they want to like buy him on the cheap.
00:11:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:08
Zak
like Absolutely not. like that That's what contracts are nowadays. right That's why the contracts are getting longer and longer and longer. It's just so you have to pay pay the money for the players that you want. and if you're go
00:11:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's mad to me that we would even contemplate selling him. Like, I know that he has struggled in recent weeks and fallen out of favour with Djuric for sure, but that doesn't mean that there's not a player in there that is, you know, just as capable of slotting into that of Rebo Ugo Chugri role with practice.
00:11:38
Zak
I'll be surprised yeah next season for sure because Ugo Chukwui is going to go back to Chelsea and he's not we're not going to buy him.
00:11:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:45
Zak
We're probably not going to have the financial power to buy him anyway and I don't very much doubt he'll want us to come full time. It'd be lovely but I just don't see it happening so then we're going to have to have somebody that comes into that role at that point.
00:11:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:11:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
but
00:11:56
Zak
Juric seems to like small bone. power to him. If small bones in performances get better, I will be happier. It's not that I don't like the lad, I just think that he's not as good as some of the other players we have.
00:12:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. But but again, looking to next season, a perfectly competent championship player.
00:12:11
Zak
I think that, yeah.
00:12:17
Zak
It's one of those things where, like from a personal perspective, both him and Taylor Harwood-Bellis clearly have put their all in. Things are not going the way they've wanted it to go. You can see their frustrations on the pitch. That's starting to spill over in both performances and the amount of cards they're getting.
00:12:36
Zak
Again, I'd like to think of that as being also a Russell Martin hangover of playing bravely and making tactical fouls that usually sometimes aren't tactical. They'd stand up being like, well, that was a waste of a yellow. I think that maybe, you know, if he was, to if it was, I'm going to go on loan for the rest of the season, sure, whatever, like, but we're going to need him, I think next season, you're right. would the Why would the club entertain it?
00:13:00
Zak
if he doesn't want to play here and the offer is big enough that I think any club will entertain any prize. We've done it once before, back when we had the lofty a squad that included Virgil van Dijk, which is so weird to think about, but you know where we tried to be like, no, you're staying, and it was just pointless.
00:13:22
Zak
And I don't think that, you know, I know the manager's in charge and this and the other, but again, it's it's why you're seeing all of these rumors. I'm sure we'll get to Armstrong and Archer and all that kind of stuff as well. But it's ultimately, these are players that have been playing for an entire season last season come up, we showed a lot of loyalty, and now they're being replaced by players who the new way that the new manager plays is getting the best out of them.
00:13:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you very much.
00:13:45
Zak
And they don't want to be sat on a bench. So you know if we get some money out of a loan deal from it, it's not the end of the world, in my opinion.
Adam Armstrong's Game Time Dilemma
00:13:52
Zak
But not I'm not a fan of us really selling anyone, and but we'll have to see what happens.
00:13:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:58
Zak
And by anyone, I mean any one of the people we've discussed. I'm not really bothered if some people leave because they're bad, but I'm not really going to name everyone that I think is bad. Most of the time you can read between the lines with my opinions.
00:14:12
Zak
Or I'm vocal.
00:14:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, Zach, you are not one to hide your opinion. I will sell you that much for free. Okay, I do want to move on to the strikers, but first a message from our partners at the Global Sports Podcast Network.
00:14:20
Zak
yeah
00:14:29
Zak
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00:14:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
OK, yes, I've left it till last in the hope that we would get some sort of news update through. I'm frantically refreshing Alfie House's Twitter feed, but currently no exact word. But it looks like there is a possibility that Adam Armstrong, by the time this goes out, will be on loan to the baggies till the end of the season. And and as you mentioned earlier, Archer,
00:15:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
sort of at some point rumoured to go away but with that armour deal going through and the deadline passing that's definitely not a thing right? So I mean is it a surprise that we'd let him go just to shift off the wage book things? Is he just after more game time?
00:15:33
Zak
Yeah ah from from so from Armstrong this season if he does go we don't know yet because you know They decide apparently taking a million years to decide it I think he'll be disappointed if he doesn't He clearly wants game time and probably wants to recapture the form that he had last season Because it hasn't been the same and I know that that might be changing of roles changing of manager all that kind of stuff But I think the other thing is that Strikers, as we discuss, are usually confidence players. Not all of them. Sometimes you can have players that aren't. If you won an example, most recently I mentioned it in my video essay that's coming out tomorrow. It's like Marcus Rashford, right? Like he had that season where he scored like 30 goals and did amazing. And then he's had seasons where he scored like three. And it's all to do with confidence and where you are in the team. If Armstrong was having an absolute blind of a season last season and hasn't so far this season,
00:16:22
Zak
he knows that his stock as a player is going to go down probably wants to kind of revitalize his career a little bit if it's going to be on loan at championship club for the next six months sure whatever we're probably you know i'd happily take him back yeah one percent in out the squad out the squad
00:16:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. but a bit to mo bit a bit tumultuous for him, like, was basically capped in for most of the season, now out of the squad, pretty much. Yeah. And, you know, you know, he'll go and score goals for West Brom in the championship because he was the top scorer in the championship last season. And the West Brom team that are short of goals. we We'll talk later in the week about the straight of Burnley's 0-0 draws.
00:17:02
Zak
yeah
00:17:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
What's fascinating is how much of a joke that is, but also the Baggies have drawn more games than Burnley this season. so
00:17:10
Zak
Wonderful yeah like and and that's the thing so if they need that position that position needs to be filled and and we're happy to pay it's similar to like when we sent out you know when we had David Brooks on loan from Bournemouth and Rothwell you know we're taking in two two players from the Premier League from a team that probably aren't really going to utilize them And then we utilize them.
00:17:29
Zak
And you know they arguably, you can say that they are reasons that we got into the the the Premier League. You had some key goals from worthwhile. Brooks was even in the playoff final.
00:17:40
Zak
So we can't understate how valuable that is.
00:17:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
and didn't that Rockwell goal win our goal of the season for the team?
00:17:47
Zak
yeah I'm relatively sure it did. And like thats and that that's what I mean is that you know if if it's if he is not playing, because sticking him in every game from now until the end of the season,
00:17:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:17:57
Zak
i Judging by the way that Djuric wants to line up, Djuric wants to play, he's not going to be in the team every single week. He might come on to play a bit part. when you can give him somewhere where he can get game time and potentially score.
00:18:11
Zak
In my head, it's a no-brainer to let him go out on loan. And people might go, oh, well, what about this season?
00:18:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:16
Zak
We know it's kind of over. And I think that they the club do.
00:18:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:19
Zak
And I know that they're trying to not say that because they can't say that. They can't come out and be like, we know we're relegated when it's mathematically impossible. because that's really disrespectful to the new manager.
00:18:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:18:30
Zak
And they do but even though Jurich definitely also knows and is putting in the best that he can possibly do with the resources he has available, they haven't backed this transfer window because the last time they backed the manager over a January transfer window, we ended up with
00:18:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:18:45
Zak
players that, you know, half of which we now still have that are doing a number now, but we ended up sending out on loan the whole of our championship season. So yeah, it's it's frust it's frustrating.
00:18:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:18:54
Zak
Like I understand the frustration. I understand the fact that people don't think we're being an ambitious. Who are we targeting? who wants to come here and if there are players sat on our bench that are not getting game time that are being in a club that is making them depressed why not let them go somewhere where they get game time and can become a better player for us next year because a lot of these guys on long-term deals which means that unless they're going to pay to buy them if they come up or they have the money it's not a problem so yeah
00:19:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Cameron Archer's Playtime Opportunity
00:19:21
Zak
i get i get people's frustration but
00:19:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I'm with you. It makes sense as well, this armor move. And then it's got to be a good thing for Cameron Archer. It's more likely that he'll get some minutes in the team.
00:19:29
Zak
yeah
00:19:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
And to me that just is logical. It makes sense, right? Like you say, in the scheme of things, the season is, we're relegated. We might have take this surge from this win and do something and maybe finish as high as like 18th.
00:19:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Great. Let's hope so. Let's hope we win every game. Perfect. But realistically, We're probably getting relegated. Adam Armstrong is a known quantity, and he's a known quantity for next season.
00:19:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cameron Archer is a young player who who ah ah shows real signs of promise to me, and I still think we should be playing him more than we have been.
00:20:09
Zak
Yeah, agreed.
00:20:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
But this is moving space so that he will get more minutes, and maybe we will see some of that development come into play.
00:20:17
Zak
Or it will fall through because they're all too busy faffing about the paperwork before 11 o'clock, in which case we've still got you know a relatively large squad full of options and admittedly some of those options haven't really been great and there are definitely areas we probably could have worked on strengthening.
00:20:33
Zak
But yeah, I think that I also recently saw a tweet from the Saints Network, the other one of the other podcasts in the South Hampton. We're talking about how all these people saying we've not signed anyone, or all the same people that talked about how amazing Wellington's performance was over the weekend.
00:20:49
Zak
And I'm like, yeah, like I don't know.
00:20:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's great.
00:20:52
Zak
I think people were just expecting some sort of statement signings, because we've done that in a couple a couple of years. And it's like, well, how's that work out for us?
00:21:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
but just not just but in We're just not in a position to do that, right?
00:21:00
Zak
you know Bye.
00:21:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
like we're well Whether close to being in trouble or not, we're one dodgy purchase away from PSR regardless because everyone is the state of the PSR rules at the moment.
00:21:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Except we threw so much money, it nearly crippled us completely financially and probably is most of the reason we can't go and splash out because we're still recovering from that panic by transfer window with Nathan Jones.
00:21:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you just can't do that again. You just have to suck it up.
00:21:36
Zak
it's
00:21:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is what it is.
00:21:37
Zak
and The thing is, just how we how attractive are we? like Again, one of the one of the players we have got on loan is is, again, the reason that he wanted to go out on loan despite being a bottom of the you know league one in France team because he wasn't getting game time is the main reason he's come here.
00:21:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not at all. Not even a little bit.
00:21:58
Zak
like that is one like We were having to convince someone in a similar position from a similar club in another league in another country to come here. And the only way we could do that was with game time, which how, who else wants to join at the moment?
00:22:12
Zak
Like again, when we become a attractive championship club, like that could potentially re climb up the ladder, I actually think it'll open more doors for people willing to come. and you know, I think that we have a scale, you know, if we're getting a director of football in a new director of football, who,
00:22:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:22:32
Zak
you know, has an international experience that's worked across groups, across Europe, if it's the one we think it is, then, you know, that that means that there's a lot of places that he'll have knowledge of to pick from. And we can see where we are next season, but I just, as much as depressing as it is, I don't think that it's realistic to have gone all out today exactly like you said and I'm umm fine with that.
Long-term vs Immediate Gains in Transfer Strategy
00:22:56
Zak
I think that the players we've brought in, I look forward to seeing them play in the main team eventually the players that are going out on loan obviously make sense in my mind and the players we've sold, yeah I'm a little bit sad about but
00:23:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you.
00:23:11
Zak
this good business at the end of the day and it like eight million quid for someone that's played like three times regardless of whether or not could have been a great player for us is still in my opinion good business yeah and it's yeah and it's it's just i think everyone everyone wants that like spark of hope and that you know kind of i think if you still thought that we were going to stay up like you thought they were going to throw the kitchen sink at it
00:23:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's a good business for another prospect, realistically.
00:23:40
Zak
But I think that, like, the realistic prospect is we're probably not. And it's absolute insanity to to do the same thing that we did last time, again, when instead we can build and strengthen properly, potentially with a manager that already has a rapport when we go into the championship, if Djuric stays.
00:23:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:23:57
Zak
I imagine he will.
00:23:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:58
Zak
He's an 18-month. I think he kind of wants to. I think he looks forward to a project.
00:24:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:03
Zak
And who knows?
00:24:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:04
Zak
We'll have to see how it works out.
00:24:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
And look, we're rapidly running out of time, but I want to end on a high note and I want to talk about something that hasn't happened today, which at the start of January would probably have been the biggest couple of wins we were hoping for, but actually we got a decent win
Retention of Key Players
00:24:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
at the weekend.
00:24:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, uh, but Diblin and Carl Walker Peters name's not even banded about today. just guaranteed stay until the end of the season or some some Turkish windows still open, but let's be honest, that's not on the cards.
00:24:30
Zak
Yeah, that's good.
00:24:36
Zak
It's, yeah, di dibbling, definitely not. That'll be great. We'll have him to the end of the season. and And then if he goes in the summer, it'll be for a big bank. If not, then he'll stay with us and get to develop and have a lot of game time in the championship.
00:24:49
Zak
Carl Walker Peters will probably go at the end of his contract. He's not signed the new one. um He'll go on a free.
00:24:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah but Not even a little bit.
00:24:53
Zak
I don't really blame him him at all.
00:24:57
Zak
Fair play to the guy.
00:24:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
and And if he does have a change of heart over the next six months and signs contract and stays on, even better. But I look completely, fully behind him, letting that contract run down, going to get in a big payday somewhere else and no ill feelings towards Cardwall competitors leaving in that matter whatsoever because he stayed and is still regularly one of the only players that puts in 100% every time he's on the pitch. so or bang that drum all the way.
00:25:26
Zak
Agreed.
00:25:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And that's it. that's
00:25:30
Zak
It will be okay. it's It might have not been exciting, it might have not been fireworks, but it will be okay. We will fight another day, even if it's not in this league.
00:25:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah
00:25:50
Zak
It's alright, our co-host Oscar might be joining you mate because as as an actual coach of football he might be able to talk to you a little bit better than the way that I line up the dots in my head when I play football manager. so
00:26:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Perfect. Well, we look forward to that. OK, thank you very much for listening us to us today. will be back tomorrow with Wild Card Wednesday, where Zach has a ah real real treat lined up for us, which I've titled An Ode to Hope.
00:26:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
So so join us for that.
00:26:20
Zak
I like that.
00:26:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is a wonderful episode. I look forward to sharing it with you. What did you think of the transfer business I still think it's a net positive. Let us know in the comments. Is that just my blind optimism? Probably. Until next time, we're on all the socials. Catch us on the new Global Sports Podcast Network YouTube, and we will see you tomorrow. Thanks for joining us.