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Speaker: Yo, don't cry, don't beg, don't blame the ref. Welcome to another episode of the Don't Blame the Ref podcast. In the blue corner, you've got E-Man.
Speaker: And then the red corner, you've got Dom. And then ding dong, the witch is dead. Praise God. Hallelujah. Some people get... um A new year, new start, all of that kind of thing. Everything they want. They get everything and they want in the holidays. But then some of the other guys like me.
Speaker: You know what? it's been It's actually been a while it's it's been awa since I've been to church. And then i went to church on the second. for was it i went to I went to New Year's Eve church, yeah?
Speaker: And the prayer and worship that i did that day. ah god God heard my prayers. He heard my prayers. now i have to Now I have to do seven days fasting just to just to thank God and and do praise. I'll go to church. I'll give a big big big offering, give give big tithe and just say, God, what you have done for me. It's too much. I cannot even repay.
Speaker: So in case you don't know Chelsea, have sacked their manager Enzo Mureska. but if you I don't really know. There's some conflicting reports.
Speaker: Some seem to suggest that he's walked away and not taken 14 million payout. And others are saying that Chelsea weren't happy with him anyway.
Speaker: To me, it just sounds like a couple people just... you know, they're just fighting and then they just said, yeah, forget this. I think they just, they flexed their muscles. It was like bro, when you came to this club, we told you the plan and we're sticking to the plan.
Speaker: Now that it's starting to get a bit difficult, you're trying to think you can... make the minus. No, it don't work like that here. There's a hierarchy here. So it doesn't matter. You can want whatever player you want. If they don't fit our criteria, we're not signing them. So it doesn't really matter what what you're saying. To be fair, Mureska is probably screaming out for like some night experience or competent players in certain key positions because he has to go put out the...
Speaker: Ganacho, Neto, well he doesn't actually, you know no, wait, hold on, let me not alleviate him of blame. He doesn't have to play Neto, Ganacho. He's got to have that's what he's choosing to do. And then he's blaming the boards like, oh, what, my hands are tied, like I don't have anything, like, don't get me wrong, the Lappin, Jao Pedro, your two strikers, that one's a bit nasty, but it is what is. And the club decided to make the decision, if if you don't fit what we're doing, then you've got to go, that's it.
Speaker: For me, the the fact the the the position we're in, one win in seven, the fact that we have this squad, like the play is as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker: i don't think i don't think thisqua I don't think the players are good enough to really elevate Chelsea, but I also don't think Mureska was deploying tactics that got the best out of certain players. and I'll be honest, I think the players that he excluded, they weren't good enough to to play every game. um I'm not going to lie to you, bro.
Speaker: that And when you say excluded, to who do you mean? like Which players? So specifically, we're talking about Gennaro and Neto. I'll be honest, as much as I hate them, I know Gittins is worse.
Speaker: which I know Kittins is worse. And you know why I know Kittins is worse? Number one, Kittins can't defend. Number one, he doesn't work as hard as them. Sorry, number two, he doesn't work as hard as them. Number three, he's not technically secure. one minute One moment he might do something decent. Next moment he touches baggy, he's losing the ball. So, even look, they even though Garnasso and Neto hate them, but they can consistent consistently receive the ball and keep it.
Speaker: Whereas, you know, you've got the S of Al's 18. Palmer's coming back from injury. So for me, I know why he's done that. Left back, I know why he's playing Cucurella every game. That Hato guy is not good. If you saw him even today as he came on versus City, yeah, i was telling the I was telling the group in the in his first two actions, dodgy pass from the goalkeeper to him, yeah. But he's got about 10 to 12 yards of space.
Speaker: Ball's coming up high. All he has to do is step take a step back and control it. He's panicking, panicking, panicking, panicking. He's off balance. He heads it away. City pick it up. Luckily, someone else gets it it. He gets it back again and then he just passes it into space and to nobody. And then he made about three, two two more mistakes after that um in quick succession that gave City, you know, really good chances. Yes, he made a goal-saving block slide, but My point I'm trying to make is I know why he's not playing.
Speaker: So I can't go and blame Mureska. I know why Badia Shile, like people are saying, oh, he shouldn't be rotating that many players. Why shouldn't he? We haven't had a pre-season this summer.
Speaker: He has to rotate. People don't understand this. You can't flog the same players non-stop without a pre-season. The point of pre-season is to build strength, build body strength and get you ready for the upcoming season.
Speaker: They did not have the opportunity to rest. from the last season, then they didn't have the opportunity to build body strength to last the season. So a lot of them are walking injuries. So hence, he has to the squad and rotate the minutes. Yeah.
Speaker: So yeah I just think he just got, a he's just, he just needed to do tactics that suited Ganacho and Neto better. He needed to stop doing the same things over and over, even when it was, what it wasn't working.
Speaker: And at the end of the day, you know he he laid the bed and to stand by he want to stand by his principles. I'm glad he's gone. i think i don't think he's a particularly humble man.
Speaker: i think yeah i think i think he's a manager of a lot of stick talk, especially when it comes to you players. Seems like he tried to flex his muscles on the club and... they just showed his boss. they like then You can't do that around here, big man. That's all it is. The thing with football, I can tell your personality from the decisions you make, whether you play on the pitch or your manager, and I can tell your personality.
Speaker: And that showed me that someone that was very self-orientated around what he wanted to do, not what was best for the team. So good luck to him. um Chelsea are still not going to be... I did want to speak about a rumour about... You mentioned your players not being able to build body strength and lack of fitness because without the pre-season, there was the rumour about... um one of the reasons why he was potentially let go was because he wasn't listening to the medical staff's advice on playing time for like minutes for particular players. So I think one of the main highlights was obviously Cole Palmer. He picked up a long-term injury just getting back into the team.
Speaker: And then we've seen the issue with Rich James, but feel like that's been kind of handled now. He seems to like... This is the first I've seen him in the last at four years, three years. Facts. There's something that seems to be working on that. and So what do what do you think about that? Do you agree that is he played a part in it? Or do you think that's just the club that's just putting out things? Because you know how when you have favourite players, the club can kind of push out a narrative to say, that oh, look, he's the reason why your favourite player is not on the pitch.
Speaker: He's the reason why, because he's not listening to them. And the fans are trying. And the fans are trying to... They'll eat up. The fans will eat it up. They love it. You're problem. You're the problem when my favourite player is not playing. that did the did So then all the nabs come out, whatever. Yeah, so what do what do you think about i think I think it's tough because if you're not in the room, we don't know.
Speaker: And there was actually conflicting reports from different journalists. One said that from Moreska's POV, it wasn't that that viled him up. It was um him being told by staff that a certain player's got to play because his agent is complaining.
Speaker: e Yeah. Oh, okay I didn't see that. You didn't see it, yeah. You won't see it because they're not the journalists as popular as the other one. Right, right, right. It depends on who you want to believe. Do you know who that player potentially is?
Speaker: na No, no. I don't think we'll ever go into that deep level of detail. buter h it just says It just says players. It just says players. So it depends who you want to believe. Both sides are putting out their spin in the story. they ah theyre They're saying their version of the truth. ah it's It's usually somewhere in the middle. They're definitely pushing certain players to play, in my opinion, because I look at some players' talents and I don't know why you're on the pitch.
Speaker: So who who do you think that, if you had to speculate, who do you think fits that profile then? Number one, anyone that they've signed.
Speaker: one yeah no but if you if you look through the team you look at a lot of them they haven't signed so if you look at our back four the only one they haven't signed any of our back our main back four for Fana Cucurella Chalabar Rhys James they didn't sign any of those if you look at the midfield Caicedo and Enzo always play even though Caicedo and Enzo doesn't actually work unless it's a midfield three in my opinion yeah yeah But they they will always play.
Speaker: Garnaccio will always play. um Neto will always play. They signed him. The ones they signed. Gooey from Barcelona. Sometimes I look at certain players and I'm thinking, wow, how are you at this level?
Speaker: How are you playing for my Chelsea football club? like No offence to the guy. I'm sure he's he's a decent guy. He works hard. but No, is we have strikers in our academy that are much better than that kid.
Speaker: Why is he playing over them? And it must be that they're selecting them because we've signed them. You've got play them. That's how it is, bro. And they say it. They say it in their briefs from the beginning anyway, saying any manager that we bring in has to follow with with what our philosophy is. So yeah it's it's most likely somewhere in the middle. Yeah.
Speaker: i think I think managers have a history of overplaying players. We've seen that for... Oh, yeah, 100%. 100%. 100%. Donkey years. So I do think maybe in the 21st century, we might have sometimes sometimes we go the other way where we're overly too cautious and, you know, they're looking at load management, looking at data and this and that.
Speaker: unless I'm in the room and learning these things and watching it, I don't want to speculate too much, but at times it feels like it we can be too cautious these days. But, but, but managers will, for a result, got to remember their job is on the line. They will sacrifice a player's body.
Speaker: We've seen it happen. Listen, I've seen on my club, like to the best of players, like even, um Speaking of Oli, when it came to Rashford, remember a couple episode episodes that ago I mentioned Rashford had like a floating bone in his ankle. He had the back. played He played a whole season with a back injury and just played. like And he was playing like 90 minutes, 70, like full games. And he was he was injured to point where he needed surgery and he just never got it because Oli needed him. He didn't know what else to do.
Speaker: Do you know how insane that is? Yeah. They're sacrificing someone's career for a few games for like four months. Just for him to do the surgery and be out for four months and then he'll come back stronger.
Speaker: Exactly. And to be fair, when i when I look at from the club's point of view, it makes perfect sense for you to be able to step in and say, hey, like listen... these are ah the biggest assets at the club right now. They're keeping the whole thing ticking. You're not you're not going to be here forever.
Speaker: Neither will the players, but you literally aren't going to be here forever. You you shouldn't have the ability to overplay a player and potentially just destroy his career because he's playing when he shouldn't. He's not rehabilitating the way that he needs to.
Speaker: So, like... good step in, saying no, he cannot play more than 20, more than 50 minutes max. And then if it's coming to the 8th minute and then my man's still on the pitch, I'm going to pull you up on it.
Speaker: Because he might not get injured that game, but two games' time, he's probably in the red zone. And then that means he can't play the next game. And then he might get injured. He might pull something. And now you're looking... Everyone's looking at each other like, bro, we told you not to play him, but you still played him. Bro, facts. and the fact Another example from our POV was the season Potch was here.
Speaker: um Now, look, I'm not blaming Potch because a lot of the injuries actually wasn't Potch's fault. contrary to what um rival fans are feeling ah thinking. him There were players that had you know pre-existing issues for Fahna, Latvia, Badia Shile. They all had pre-existing issues. Nkukwu got injured in pre-season. that was That had nothing to do with Poch's training regime. It was literally one or two games into the pre-season, so it can't be his fault.
Speaker: And my point is that But all of those players ended up getting rushed back mid-season because because they needed results. So if it was Poch's fault or the club's fault, they rushed those players back and pretty much all four of them didn't play that season. Nkuku, Badrishile, Fofana and Lavia.
Speaker: they did not play a whole season. Maybe one game. Lavio comes back in February. No, he comes back in December, even though they told us he'd be out for three months. So he was actually due back end of Jan, something like that.
Speaker: He should really have been... He shouldn't... And then he started. He got injured in five minutes, bro. He was out for the rest of the season. Yeah, crazy. What's the And he's's he's never he's never recovered. He's never recovered and he's still he's still getting these injuries till now. So...
Speaker: If that was a factor that the club saw and you know they did not like, I'm 110% back in the club. um But I do think it's somewhere in middle. I think both parties are immature as hell. I think both parties have got these massive egos. The club wants to prove that their way works and they're the ones that selected these great players and they want to take the credit for it. Moresco wants to prove that, hey, big man, I'm working on scraps here. I need you guys to assist me.
Speaker: Help me. And you might know as good as you think you are. um Yeah. And it's it's somewhere in the middle. So look, it wasn't working. ah I still think Chelsea aren't going to be great moving forward anyway. and Yeah, i've I've got two questions I want to ask you. So with Maresco going out, who did you want? Because I think we already know who your next manager is, but who would you have tried to get?
Speaker: um I am tired of managers who haven't done anything in their careers. Facts. Big facts. so Bro, I can't. Like, if you put Talking Hardest Beat on the back now, I'm going to get a mic and I'm going spit. Are you mad?
Speaker: Are you mad? Don't stop hiring managers that haven't done that haven't done anything in their careers, man. Yeah.
Speaker: Like, I understand the need or the the want to, you know, try and get someone who's up and coming and get them before they become this big person. But, so my point is, I wanted Glasner because Glasner's taken a team that's not meant to be competing for trophies and made them win trophies twice.
Speaker: Twice. Yorker League and FA Cup. That's clearly someone who has got a skill. Liverpool have never beaten them. o
Speaker: That is someone... Every time he plays a top team, they struggle, bro. It's a tough game. We haven't beaten him this season. It's a tough game. We didn't beat him last season. So this is a manager that's clearly showing he's elevating the, you know, they've recruited relatively well. However, they've lost key players in Eze and Alise, who we've now seen are top class players.
Speaker: And he's still able to achieve to to keep them, where are they, what, seventh? No, that they've dropped. They're like 13th, 14th now, but it's like three points. It's three points between 6th and 14th.
Speaker: So it's literally one result. just yes So four points off Chelsea, who spent yeah X, and Z, he's overachieving with a squad that you know shouldn't be where they are and he's doing well in Europe and he's won them a trophy.
Speaker: That's somebody that's excelling. Go and get someone like that. Go and get someone like that that's actually gone over the line that knows what it takes to win. and Would you be bothered by 3-4-3, even though Chelsea played it before, like, with Conte and Tuchel? Does that bother you?
Speaker: i think I think formations are overblown. i ah genuinely i think I think fans are too concerned about formations sometimes. I think it's a problem if you if you're certain, if you feel like the formation doesn't suit the team you have, and so the scenario you've got going on. Oh, don yeah. it's it' it's It's not that... it's not that i don't like the three four three i think the three four three is whatever formation doesn't matter it's the the problem is his obsession with trying to get it to work with this copper players that's the problem so you know if glasden's a three four three i think i generally think we've got the squad for three four three um we've got wing backs in james cucurilla can they can do it gusto can do it um we've got mobile center center backs they can defend high We've got... um
Speaker: yeah amid he he does He does the tens, right? He does the same... Yeah, yeah. We've got Esteval, we've got Palmer, they can do that. So i think we I think we've got pieces to actually make that work. but It's not going to happen.
Speaker: And it looks like they're looking at a man called Liam. Is it Liam Rosanier? vi zeina Yeah, Rosanier. I don't know how to pronounce his name, but I'm never going lie. But Fabrizio did confirm that today that he's looking to be the guy. He's planning on being in London within the next 24 hours and looks like it's going to be him. He's the Strasbourg manager, isn't he? So he's part of your... conglomerate. So it's just a pipeline, right? So I guess they're just trying to... um it makes Don't get me wrong, it makes sense because he is doing well at Strasbourg to the point, but Chelsea's a different kettle of fish, man. There's different pressures, different expectations. You can't just like, oh, he's doing all right over there, can't breathe.
Speaker: He played in the Prem, he's never managed in the Prem. So it's it's just... what why do you all right so what What do you think his expectations are?
Speaker: What do you expect from him and coming coming in at this point?
Speaker: Honestly, bro, so I've watched him. i've watched I watched Strasbourg quite a bit last season. I haven't watched him a lot this season. um And i was I really liked what they did last season.
Speaker: They then lost three of their top players, ah One being Santos that came to us. Dak Vaquhar went to Nottingham Forest and then that was their star winger.
Speaker: And then they there was someone else there was someone else who left as well, who got sold as well. A midfielder, one of their star midfielders. So their two main starting midfielders were gone and their starting right wingers gone.
Speaker: so My point is is that the dip this season is kind of to be expected. They then bought in new They spent a lot of money, bought in new players, but you can't just expect it to go perfectly perfectly. So they're now seventh.
Speaker: My problem is it's probably too soon in this career. And... ideally you want to wait for him to try and achieve something substantial with Scharlsberg. So whether that is winning conference league or qualifying for the Champions League or Europa League with this team. and you know And number two, if you look at Mid-season, Chelsea's already destabilised. You now want to destabilise another team, your other team, in the hope that you're going to find an adequate replacement and not torpedo their season.
Speaker: Good luck when their fans are already rioting and um protesting outside your stadium every game. yeah These men have got balls. They have got balls. So my my expectation is...
Speaker: I don't know. It's my honest truth. I don't know. I don't know, bro. He seems like when he speaks and whatever, he seems like a nice guy, but we've had nice guys before. Is he good? Is he good? Is he going to be able to manage the personalities in the group? Is he going able to tell Neto, stop being stop being selfish? Is he going to be able to scream at Enzo, can you run with your fat ass?
Speaker: Can you run?
Speaker: Run, bro. Stop huffing and puffing. Run. Like, me you know, duke are they going to respect him? Are they going to take it? Remember, this is men's football.
Speaker: If you talk to a man in a certain way, if he don't respect you, he ain't going to take it. He ain't going to listen to you. So I don't know what's going to happen. if they If they end up respecting him,
Speaker: His defensive record in the French League was good, so that tells me he can set up a decent defence. So I think we'll be okay if they respect him. Yeah. If they don't, our season's done, bro. And we're goingnna be oh we're going to be stressed because we're already unfit. we've We've ran the least amount of distance in the whole league.
Speaker: So that's either going to continue or you know they're going to they're going to fight with the manager because they don't like him. Right. well It's all one of them ones where you just don't know. I just don't know. um um i'm playing he hope you best in I'm praying for Champions League.
Speaker: Just give you Champions League. and um I'm praying for it, but I generally don't see it happening, bro. I don't see it happening. Fez, we've spoken a lot about Chelsea, but let's talk about the game a bit more today because it was actually a big, it's a top four clash.
Speaker: I was kind of in and out of the game, pairing duties, like it's chaotic over here. So, um, so it Talk to me about the Chelsea approach from... Who who was even your manager today? Was it... um Bro, your academy manager, right?
Speaker: Yeah, so our under-21 academy manager who came in in the summer, or I think he came in in the summer as the under-18 coach, assistant coach to Suleyman, who is a coach that's been at Chelsea for over 10 years. And he's got a UEFA Pro license.
Speaker: So it goes UEFA B, UEFA A and UEFA Pro. UEFA Pro is the top one you can get. <unk>lan McFarlane is the guy that came in as the under 18. Then we moved on the under 21 coach to work with Strasburg.
Speaker: And then we promoted, listen to this, we promoted McFarlane to the under 21 coaching job. coach instead of the guy that's been at the club for 10 years. McFarlane is also on his UEFA B, so he's only now actually completing his UEFA A. That's crazy. He has even got his pro-licise. This is from the information I've i've ive played like you got. a so, hey. Hey, bro, listen. Hey.
Speaker: this The result is the result, but it's the process of how we got here. And it speaks to the mentality of the people that are in the building. Right.
Speaker: What does it say that you can't reward someone who has put in the graph that Suleiman has put in here and instead you you promote the guy that, bear in mind, McFarlane has followed Joe Shields from City to Southampton to Chelsea? Right.
Speaker: So you've just repeatedly hired your mate. And whether he's good or not, the optics aren't good. The optics are not good at all. It's not good. So... Your initial question is how ah how did the game go?
Speaker: It was a game of two halves, as it usually is. In the first half, he very much kept the same shape and tactics that Mareska adopted. and we have some key injuries in Sanchez.
Speaker: I was very worried about our goalkeeper, Jogerson, who has not had... good games whenever he's coming. Kukrelo was injured, so we had to play Gusto, left-back. Achen Pong is a better centre-back than he is right-back, but we had to play him right-back because Rhys James has to go in midfield because Kaiseido's suspended. Then you've got Enzo next to Rhys James and in the front,
Speaker: four of Palmer, Esteval, Neto and Jao Pedro. So it was sort of, we didn't really press them high in the first half. We were a bit passive.
Speaker: um I don't know passive is the word. i feel I feel like they had a tactic of like so kind of standing off and then trying to counter. But every time we won the ball back, our quality didn't um did it show and we just kept losing the ball.
Speaker: And then the problem with kind of standing off in the mid block is at some point there has to be a trigger where you actually press the team. So you actually put them under pressure. If you just kind of stand off and give them the room, they'll just keep dominating the ball.
Speaker: So even if I don't press you at your goalkeeper, I can still press you at the halfway line. Do you get what I'm trying to say? Well, for whatever reason, our front three just kind of sat off them for the whole ah whole half. City go 1-0 up and they pretty much just controlled the whole first half. foot So it was it was really it a really frustrating watch.
Speaker: um The team and McFarlane then made the decision to take off Esteval. He wasn't getting the ball anyway and Esteval's best talent is with the ball. So they took off Esteval. The one chance in the first half where I think it was and Nacho played the ball across and he just kind of missed it. It was it was neto's cro yos Neto's cross. He actually he actually got a decent contact on it. Not a clean one, but a decent contact. It was a great block by the defender, to be fair. But apart from that, he didn't get enough touches. Palmer did get enough touches. None of our attackers got enough touches because we were just too passive and we didn't have the ball.
Speaker: So McFarlane done something i wasn't expecting. When I saw that he took off Estival for Santos, I thought he was going into a 4-3-3, which for me, I've been screaming for ages, 4-3-3, because I want that midfield free.
Speaker: So he kept with a midfield free of Santos, Rhys James and Enzo, but he actually moved shifted the team into a three at the into a five at the back, three at the back. And what that enabled us to do is just press City high.
Speaker: We just started pressing. The moment we started pressing City high, bro, you could see in within the first five minutes, City, six because of our press, City made three, they lost the ball three times.
Speaker: And we had the way more touches in the first 10 minutes of that second half than we did in the whole of the first. So um it was really positive to see, you know, that takes some bravery to go, hey, let me let me do a half-time sub of one of the youngest and best talents in the world. Yeah.
Speaker: for the betterment of the team and then let me go and press this City team. So, fair play to McFarlane or whoever, you know, okay him and the team, whoever, whoever came up with those tactics and it really allowed us to... It seemed like you approached a game in stages more than like, oh, let's just run with this tactic for throughout the whole whole game. I think, Maybe. When when um it got to a certain point in the game, I feel like that was always his plan because it seemed very intentional. I don't think you just throw on the player and then tell everyone press. I think that has to be organised beforehand.
Speaker: It's either you' you've done it in training or it's just what? Everyone's just running around their heads as chickens and it looks completely destroyed. But because it looks so... um cohesive. all I'll just give them the credit and say that tactically it was a good adjustment. thatt mean facts Facts. I'm not in the room so I can't say it's not it's not it wasn't premeditated. It it was a hard watch in the first half but fair play to the to the boys. they They fought back and that was our first point at the Etihad since Tuko.
Speaker: Damn. So that's four four four years ago now. so fair play. Fair play. I'm annoyed that it gives Arsenal, extends Arsenal's lead at the top. But yeah um we we really, from the first half, I could see City's weaknesses was on the wings.
Speaker: um And we really took advantage of that in the in the second half. And we really got behind them um in the wide areas. and um No, I like the second half. I think...
Speaker: I think Palmer was struggling. he didn't look he didn't look sharp at all. um oh Oh, my days. How did I forget? Bro... you You guys were actually playing. It was like 12 versus 10 because Pedro Neto, yeah. He was playing against you, man. Oh my goodness, bro.
Speaker: You know, you've spoken about this guy so much, but every time I watch it, I'm just my mouth on floor because I'm like, bro, what's wrong with this guy? I'm going for shit now. don't even support Chelsea. I'm like, bro, every every time you guys had opportunity to Transitional, you had a break, bro, man. Janky touch.
Speaker: Terrible pass. Wrong decision. Wrong decision. Bad shot. I'm like, rah, like, really? You don't even have to do that much. Like, just, bruh, nah. Every time he gets the ball, I wonder, how are you going to mess this up?
Speaker: How... What way are you going to mess this up this time? and Oh, bro, I just... know He's actually on like a proper tackle. Honestly, from what I can see anyway, obviously I don't know him personally, but the talent does not match the ego that I see on the pitch, mate. Honestly. And...
Speaker: If he imagined imagine you had some quality on that left-hand side in that second half, what could we have done? Look at that. Three, four times we're getting the ball into that winger. We're playing through City's press. and We're picking up the ball in midfield or through transitional moments.
Speaker: 1v1 with the set. There was one. He had like at least 10 yards of space. He's receiving it on his left foot. How does he not get a shot off? Janky touch. Then tries to go in. The defender just stands there like, bro, where are you going? Defender's looking at him like, bro, is everything okay? Oh, man. Oh, man.
Speaker: But... oh but but I think Jao Pedro's performance is a little bit worrying. I don't think he was great at all. De Lapp came on and actually had his best best game.
Speaker: in a while, all season. Yeah, yeah, he looked he looked sharp. He looked sharp. I think it's just like he's he's just suffering with that. Obviously, don't get me wrong, I think he's been terrible since he's come to Chelsea, but like the benefit of him being at Ipswich at the time was that no one cared, no one watched you. So you can have a bad game, but then your good games are going to get highlighted a lot more. but And then when you're playing against a big team, if you really perform, then it gets highlighted. I clearly remember him.
Speaker: when we played, think it was literally Amarin's first game and due to Ipswich, the way he was turning our defenders, i was like, oh my goodness, that what kind of a play is this? And then obviously I don't watch Ipswich in between that.
Speaker: And then the next time I'd see them would be if I just happened to catch a game that he's on. But yeah, and I think... Yeah, go ahead. to Just to touch on that, yeah look at how mobile he was when he played you and look how stiff and immobile he looks when he plays played for us.
Speaker: That is what you get with young players. In one year, you can look physically, you can look a certain way. In the next year, your body can start to fill out and it and you could literally change, whether it's you grow taller, you get wide wider, building building on more muscle mass naturally, not necessarily you in the gym.
Speaker: Yeah. So that's the thing with getting young players. It can go great where they their body develops great in you know great and it increases their talents or it goes the other way where the lap looks more like a conventional nine now.
Speaker: Before he was looking mobile, he was looking active, he looked hungry, looked like he was pressing. Now he looks a bit more stocky, he looks a bit slower, he doesn't look like he's getting past people a lot.
Speaker: And that's just something he's going to have to manage and try and find a way to to get used to his new body. But again, that's that's the problem with the with the plan of the directors and getting young players.
Speaker: From when you get them at 18, 19, their body could completely change at 20, 22, 21. Mm-hmm. a Yeah, 100%. What to mention as well? Speaking of the goals in the game, um who scored the first goal? Oh, Randers. Randers scored the first goal from... Yeah. thing who Do you think it was someone that fought or do you just think like that was just...
Speaker: So three... simply lead not to go So I usually know when Chelsea are going to concede the goal. And it's usually us constantly losing the ball for five minutes. So that was literally our fault. like There was about three or four passages passages of play. One was Gusto, one was a Cheng Pong, and the other was Badr-Shane, where they just lose the ball for no reason.
Speaker: Just poor technique, poor concentration or decision-making. And what that does is give the other team energy and it keeps and it hounds you and keeps you in your own half.
Speaker: So we couldn't get out for about five minutes. And then Badr-Yashile's one where he loses it, that's the one that gets punished. And to be honest, once he gets into that 1v1 with winders,
Speaker: He just doesn't get close enough. Mind you, he's small and and mobile. Paddy Shealy is 6'5", and he's relatively mobile, but he just can't get enough to... to to i I'd probably look more at the key... I'd look more at us losing ball, and I'd look more at the keeper in that moment.
Speaker: I do think... maybe i ah Maybe I'm being harsh, but I do think Sanchez saves that. um To be fair, Sanchez of recent has been in slightly better form, so...
Speaker: maybe Maybe he does. And then speed is speaking of the equalizer, it was good play from Gusto on the right um on the right side Where? man Gusto where?
Speaker: On the right hand. Gustav where? Oh, who would have thought? A right back playing right back. A right back playing right back. Overlapping. if that what is When you first signed Gustav, yeah, I used to really like him. I was thinking can like, no, this guy is a bit electric. He's dribbled bit. He's got a decent cross.
Speaker: ah you see He seems like he's got a bit everything. And you guys got him for only like about, what, 35 mil or something like that? And this was on the time when we were debating about Wambasaka and Dalot. Those were the two nasty brothers I had to work through. And then you guys just go sign someone who's better than like that. And then, yeah, great play from him. I don't know who Skiposs was. Was that O'Reilly? I think it might have been O'Reilly Skiposs. Yeah, yeah, he gave him the business. He literally did not make the difference.
Speaker: And then just plays a good ball across that in a dangerous area. I don't know how the lap missed that, but maybe was just a bit too far in front of him. The play in front of the lap gets a nick on it. That's why the lap misses it. Ah, okay. And then that's what sends it into Enzo, who can tap it in. So, hey, fair play, man. It's a couple of swipes on it, but gets it in. Yeah, I would have let him off with that first shot, but... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got completely fluffed up. No, it was... want to say was coming, but no, it wasn't really. The game was quite... was starting to peter out a little bit. We...
Speaker: i If I was Pep, I'm pissed. I'm not too sure what they were doing course in that last 30 minutes or so. They were so passive. I think they let us have the ball way too much.
Speaker: maybe Maybe it was tiredness, but it was quite poor from them to to allow us to come back in the game there. um We were there for the taking, in my opinion, I don't think.
Speaker: Don't get me wrong, I know we performed much better in the second half, but i think in the first half, we were there for the taking. They should have taken advantage. And even in the second half, even though we were playing well, we still gave them quite you know you still gave them two really, really good chances, which which they missed.
Speaker: Did you see Holland's shot in the first half? Yeah, yeah. Shifter onto his left foot, hits the pole, starts where... To be fair, he's blanked in the last three games, you know? yeah He hasn't scored in the last three games. but He's still... Funny enough, he's got 19 goals still.
Speaker: He hasn't scored in three games. don't know... i don't know I think it's just just just had a tough period for himself, isn't it? It's just a dry spell. Yeah, it happens. He'll fine. And then he's going to end up playing United. He's got United this month, so... What's that? Hat-trick.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. Especially if... Without Maguire, without De Ligt, without none of those guys. And you're telling me going to be what? Aiden Heaven having to do with Haaland. We sure. We sure that's the one we want to go for. Who did he get out of the spy today?
Speaker: Flippin. Hamilton. He's quite quick, to be fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I was thinking, bro, why is Heaven look so slow? I suppose he's mobile. No, we're done with Chelsea anyway. I'm done. Bro, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done. They did well. So let's see how this new manager goes. Bye, Chelsea.
Speaker: So if we segue to into United now, Yeah. just just on that Just on that goal, that ball actually spins away from Haven. Yeah, yeah, that's what it was. It was right there. Yeah, looked like it was there, but it spins away from him.
Speaker: The problem is, what is Dallow's... What is that? What is that? What is Dallow's problem? What's his problem? It's the it's the the brain and the cat, the meow. It's the whole thing every single time when But why can't he just make sure the pass goes to his teammate? but black just Because he's a person.
Speaker: No, he's actually just a nonsense. like He's actually just an idiot. I can't even... I can't think of any nice words to say about that guy. but he's But then, saying that, obviously, in a competent system, in a competent thing, he could be a decent right back. But anything... any Where he has to make a lot of decisions based on his own ideas of how football works, it's most likely going to be the wrong one, bro. If it's not systemic and like, but you have pass ball here, you have to pass ball here, and you're leaving up to Dallas Free World.
Speaker: God gave us free will. I don't think that Dalot should have free will. That's what I'm saying. He's going to make a mistake. He's just... Man said, don't let that guy do what he wants. Give him give himage exact instructions of what what he needs to do. Yeah, and then obviously Aronson gets in. you unique i I do think Le Mende should have stepped out far far um like come come out a bit maybe to close up the angle but he did take the shot kind of it it was a good finish like there's not much you can say about but I think better goalkeepers rush him and at least try to like throw him off and he just ran up to the goalkeeper slapped it bottom corner like what can you do? I do think you're nitpicking. I think it's one of them ones. even if he does Even if he does rush out, I think he either rounds him or he flicks over him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not saying like, oh, it's the goalkeeper's fault why we conceded. I'm just like, just looking at like just simple goalkeeping.
Speaker: The timing was off. Yeah, his timing was a bit off, but that's that's fine. i needs yeah This isn't the final version of Le Mans. It wasn't his fault. It was just, bruh. It's something that just happens in the game. It's a footballing incident. That's what I'm saying. There's nothing. Like, you know, in the MF1, they say it's a racing incident. Like, both drivers are doing the right things and then they're just like, ah, they just made contact. That sort of thing. That's the footballing version of whatever that is.
Speaker: But, yeah, let let me, look listen, listen, and listen, listen. That game here, don't even really want to focus on the game too much. I want to focus on like the more rounded thing of Manchester United, where we are right now.
Speaker: so know because Because I feel like fans looking at games too individually.
Speaker: They're going game by game. Even now... even though um the The narrative coming out of that game is draw at Ellen Rhodes, a good result. Oh, bro. Considering the team that we put out. That was said to me. That was said to me. And then I'm looking at it, I'm thinking like,
Speaker: Is everybody alright? Is everybody sane? Is everybody like, have they got their lights on in their head? They forget that we drew against Wolves as well, so we dropped points there and we dropped points again, but now you're happy that we've dropped points again. well this like i don't understand. that If we picked up the four extra points, we would be sitting above Liverpool right now.
Speaker: And I'm just thinking, I'm like, we were just laughing at Liverpool. Were we not just laughing at Liverpool? So how can we laugh at team that's above us now? whoa Who are we actually really talking about? Who are we talking about? we are we are I'll tell you this right now, yeah?
Speaker: We are not catching the top three ever. Like, that's it. They've created enough distance to where we will never even be in the same room as Villa, um Man City or Arsenal.
Speaker: Forget that. Top four is our last hope. If Liverpool start picking up results and the gap stretches to about, I'd say six points, we'll never claw it back. that's Champions League out the window completely.
Speaker: Then you're looking at, oh, maybe there's a fifth place. Maybe we don't have Europa League tocumbag it to it to get back into the Champions League. this has to be straight through the league and because everyone else is doing so badly or like i but I won't say badly I'll say everyone else is just as inconsistent as we are when we have a bad result it's like everyone just waits for the weekend to end and then they see how close we are on the table and like eh I don't really care okay well We're still there. We're still in the batch. We're still in the group.
Speaker: Yeah, but you can't keep chicago dropping their points. No, you can't. know you can't Because when it comes when it comes to May, April, and now instead of being two points ahead, we're two points behind, and we've got a tough game against...
Speaker: our next four features are tough games, everyone's going to be like, ooh, I don't know if we're going to meet our objective because but wrong but I'm looking at these moments here because this was supposed to be an easy run. Even though it's AFCON, this is the easier run. We we have Wolves, we have Leeds, we have... Who's the other team? We've we've got... um can't remember our next game is against. Let me... Sorry, let me just quickly... So, you then we got Burnley coming up.
Speaker: This should be nine points. Yeah, if you don't... It should really be nine points, if we're being honest. But right now, we're sitting on two out six. If you don't beat Burnley or... And it's it's a way at Burnley as well. So now what is this? He's going to be our turf more tough place to go.
Speaker: Like, you know what I mean? Great point. Yeah, great loss. Great loss, bro. I had, I had, I had, oh my God. I hope he actually listens to his pod, yeah, because he does listen.
Speaker: One, one of the guys I know, yeah. After we lost to Aston Villa. was even supposed to bring it last week. i need to know I need to know this person's name. I'm not giving her names, man. What's the nickname?
Speaker: What's the nickname so I know who you're referencing next time? What's the nickname so I know who you're referencing next time? I'm just going to him S. I'll call him S. Yeah, S. Even though there's a few S's in my other group chat. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll call him S. He actually wants to come on the pod, by the way. would love to have him on. would love to have him on. I'm telling him, bro, listen, get a mic, get a mic, and then we'll get cracking. Get a mic and we'll get cracking. Because I need to speak to him in public, bro. I need to bring him to the town centre, bro. He said, after the Aston Villa loss, that was a good loss. I'm happy with the loss.
Speaker: I said, oh? ha.
Speaker: I said, what? What? Majestic. They're on the win streak. They're in good form. And like, you know what? um is At least we didn't get smashed. u zo Zero points. Zero points, brother.
Speaker: wait. i feel anyway No offense to S. How old is he? He's my age. We went to school together, innit? We went secondary school together, all of that. Bro, um slow quarrel right So he's he's li food he's lived through peak Wenger. I mean, peak...
Speaker: for yeah Yeah, yeah. And it's not even just him. hiss name it There's a couple of them in that group chat, isn't it? Why is the standards so low? Why is the standards so low, bro? That's why I don't even really want to talk about the game. I need to speak about the overall of what's happening because I really think our fanbase has lost the plot.
Speaker: Our fanbase lost the plot. Even the other day...
Speaker: and So we're talking about um this game. let me Let me go back to this game a bit. I'll jump between like the points. I'll use examples from this game to highlight the points that I'm making. right okay So the manager, I believe ah we don't have a good squad.
Speaker: That's fair enough. We don't have good squad. We also have loads of injuries. and two three Two of our key players are away on AFCON and one of our squad players who would actually be playing in right now is also on AFCON.
Speaker: Cool. The manager's hands are tied. He can't play everyone who he wants to play, right? and Cool. The manager also, in a recent press conference, came out and said, I'm not going to be backed in the way that I need to be backed in order for me to play my 3-4-3 formation. So I'm goingnna going to have to change.
Speaker: He didn't say that verbatim, but it was along the lines. He said, um we don't have the money to buy the players I need, going have to do something different. Right. Cool. If that's what you're saying, I'm expecting to see the difference, right?
Speaker: Crazy guy. Why is he playing 3-4-3 when he doesn't have the players to play 4-3-3 and he admitted it? He admitted it. Why is he doing that? That's something I highlight to like um the the guys in the other chat that I'm in here. And their response is, what do you expect them to do?
Speaker: why are you always complaining? saying that. Well, I'm complaining because I take two hours of my weekend to sit down and watch a team that I support, to watch a loser lose with my team.
Speaker: that's what That's what I'm i'm watching. He's he's got... Right, so he's... I can't even... I can't even understand. Bro, he's got Evan, Martinez, Euro as your back three, right?
Speaker: Yeah. As your back three. Then you've got Big Boy...
Speaker: Wait, did he play... Yeah, he's got Big Boy Luke Shaw playing left wing back. Then he's also got Dalo... Dallow, pigeon brain, Dallow, right wing back, right?
Speaker: Don't get me wrong. There's not much you can do. That's your squad. Whatever. Me, as a logical person, I would try to play the least amount of players who aren't good, right? You know what I mean? I'm not going to lean into my worst players because that's stupid, right?
Speaker: So I've named you five defenders. I'll name you the rest of our team, right? Marimo, Garte, Casemiro. Two other defensive players. So now were now we're talking about seven defensive players. Oh, wait.
Speaker: That's not it. Right, 10. Patrick Dolgu.
Speaker: And then Cunha and Cesc. We had two attackers. Two offensive players on the field versus Leeds. Ooh. And people are like, oh, well, injuries, what do you expect them to do? Well, first thing, I don't expect you to play seven defensive players, right?
Speaker: That's stupid. And one of those defenders be put in one of the most specialized positions. Literally, we grew up here. i don't know what it's like for you, but we grew up here. The number 10 position is literally like, that's the best player on your team.
Speaker: You can't just put anyone there. Like, that's the guys who can do things that most other players on the pitch can't even think to do. We're talking about Ozil. We're talking about Kakar. We're talking about, like, Neymar when he's playing in the 10, Messi when he's playing in the 10. You don't just f throw any person there and the hope that you get results.
Speaker: Those are the guys that everybody else won run for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're the guys where if if I'm having to do the heavy lifting for him, I'll do it because I know when he gets the ball, he's going to do something. Even... Sorry, ah um as much as I don't like him, Bruno Fernandes, he's not the most, like, technically secure, but...
Speaker: you You can play 10 if you can put up those numbers, bro. li bro And he's got a right and no a left wing back playing in 10.
Speaker: like what what why Why are we accepting that? Why is no one... What's the alternative? So you're talking about the front line, yeah? And you don't want seven defenders on the pitch, yeah? What's the alternative?
Speaker: What team would you play? Hear me out, yeah. So first things first, I would just drop the three out of the bag. Drop the three out of the bag, bro. Let's just be guided, bro. And when you say drop it, you mean actually drop it instead of this hybrid, free, free, free. No, no, no, no. three at the back sort of thing that he's trying to do. I'll take it back to the stone ages, bro. I'll probably play 4-4-2 than even do that. We got Sesco and you could play Sesco and Cunha as a front two and just do big man, little man and just knock the ball up and just hope it drops. Just try to do something off. I would respect that a lot more. It's considered kicking the ball long anyway. That's what Sir Alex would do.
Speaker: Bro, the funniest thing is it's great you brought up Sir Alex. They, the man I'm in my other group, chat they're using things like art, but when Fergie used to play like John O'Shea, centre mid, and Raphael and Fabio left mid, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, but what he would tell them to do isn't stuff that's outside of their capability. He's not asking O'Shea to build up play. He's saying, O'Shea, you're playing centre mid. All I want you to do is break up play, get the ball and give it to Rooney, bruh.
Speaker: get the poor Give it to Rooney. That's literally the whole tactic. We would play. So there was one lineup where we played like, um it was like Wes Brown, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra. Then it was like Fabio, Raphael, O'Shea and like Fletcher in our midfield. But then the front two was like Rooney and Welbeck or something like that. Like it was a nasty team.
Speaker: All we did for that 90 minutes, give the ball to Rooney, bruv. Just give the ball to Rooney. If you get the ball, give it to him. He's going to something. That's it. Because that makes sense, right?
Speaker: You've got this. Let me... You know, all right, cool. Let me just try stay focused, innit? So, yeah, you asked me about what would do as an alternative. Cool. 4-3-3, straight up.
Speaker: Cool. You can play a normal back four-year that is actually going to... do decently in duels, have arch your right-back and left-back to do right-back and left-back things.
Speaker: So it's simple, is that? I'd play Dalot right-back, I'd have Heaven, because I think Heaven's actually played well in the last couple of games, even though it wasn't his fault for the Arison goal, but I just felt like he was just a bit slow, but that's not his fault. That's me nitpicking again.
Speaker: Martinez just came back from an injury, but Hoyoro's in very bad form, so I would rather just go Martinez. Luke Shaw left back, right?
Speaker: Midfield three. Casemiro is in the midfield three. Ugarte is not touching the pitch. Sorry, I ah don't want him to touch um did you see did you see Did you see that clip that was going around before the game of his warm-up?
Speaker: No, I didn't see it. I don't even want to highlight too much, like, because obviously some of these stuff are like just just people being mean and deep, yeah? Yeah, yeah. But honestly, so basically it was just um someone playing the ball to you, got just warm up little ting. And then like, you got it was hitting it back first time.
Speaker: And you can see the passes that the person is giving Ugarte, yeah? With that clean, skidding off the ground. And then Ugarte's like passes, the ball's just bobbling, bouncing off my feet. Bro, like, he's literally a hatchet, man. He's the guy who runs around, gets the ball, give it to the better players. That's all you have to do. but in the system, he's not allowed to. you So, yeah, I'll do Casemiro on the midfield. Let me look at who's available. Let me look our bench. Let me look at everything. want to just throw out names because...
Speaker: um thing. the The DNA of Manchester United is if you don't have options, you play the youth. That's literally that that's all we got. That's all we got. my literally Literally. Okay, so cool. I'll do Casimo in the midfield.
Speaker: I would do...
Speaker: I would play Fletcher. I don't know if he's good. I don't know if he's good, but I'll i'll just play him. In this scenario, you're just playing because you need... You will be forgiven for playing Fletcher because you don't actually have options. If he plays bad, you can sub him off.
Speaker: if he If he's having a bad game, sub him off. Don't sub him on, sub him off. Because he might need time to build them into the game. He might start getting a bit more confidence. You've just got to throw him into the game cold and he can't do anything bad. Who would you play Fletcher with? So you said Casimir and who?
Speaker: Casemiro, Fletcher, and... so I'm looking at a bench now. He's Louise. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, no, no. Forget. Then I'll play Konya.
Speaker: As a what? Ten? ah Yeah, as a ten. Okay. I'll play him as a ten. Front three. Now, this is where it can get a bit funnier.
Speaker: Patrick Dogu against Wolves. I think he was good. allegedly he can play winger because he's played winger at his previous club. you You spoke about him last week where you said you he had a bit more tech than what he's been showing at Manchester United. So because he played well against Wolves, I would have just played him again as a right winger.
Speaker: Right? Left winger, one of the kids is coming on again. I don't care. Shea Lacey is supposed to be the next one up. I don't know if he's good. I don't know if but he's ready. I don't know. But I know he's an actual...
Speaker: attacker. So I would play Shea Lacey and Sesko up top. That's what I would do. Now, that lineup, don't get me wrong, it's not moving the needle. It's not is not revolutionary. It's not any anything. All it is, it's just playing players in the position that they actually can play and asking them to do things that you do when you're in that position. If we go out and then play that lineup and lose to Leeds, I would look at the lineup. I'm fair. I think I'm fair as a like...
Speaker: United fan. I'm not overly harsh when i see you're doing something that is logical. When you're doing something illogical and getting bad results, um that's that's what drives me crazy.
Speaker: But do you know what's bad? Even if he did go into a game with that line-up, bear in mind... um Salix would actually go with that line of luck. I know I'm making, but he'd have the bravery to just do that.
Speaker: and In this scenario that he's in with the his first team players off at AFCON, he'd just play them. And yeah the the thing that people miss is, if you, like, sometimes the balance is more important than the pieces on the field.
Speaker: Right. Do you get what I mean? Because it's not so funny. Speaking of... Oh, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. So just to finish, it's like, OK, cool, they're academy players who may not have as much experience as some of the other experienced players you've got in your squad.
Speaker: But if it creates balance because their position fits what you're trying to do, so let's say a 4-3-3, that is probably better for the team than just doing whatever the hell he's doing now.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly. That's ah that's actually the the main point that I'm trying to get across. And when I speak about playing the young players here, our fan base is overly harsh on young players.
Speaker: But it's because they're overly supportive of an idiot as a manager, right? So when when a young player comes in and does badly, rather than blaming the manager for maybe the set-up,
Speaker: All they want to do is draw our individual players. That's all it is. One of the worst things that happens to Manchester United was Ralph Ragnick giving the fans the quote of, oh, we need open heart surgery.
Speaker: Because what that did was that allowed the fans to constantly blame players And then the media comes up with this thing oh, it's the same players getting managers sacked. It's the same players. It's the players. And the brown fan base has brainwashed the idea of like, no manager is going to be successful here because our whole team is bad.
Speaker: that's That's essentially all it is. But it's not that. It's... the manager's doing dumb stuff. He's been doing dumb stuff. He's constantly doing dumb stuff. That's why I'm not even mad. Like right now, I'm sitting very content in the idea of like, I'm not going to get my club back until we at least get a competent manager.
Speaker: So for the whole time that he's here... Well, I'm not going to expect him to move mountains. I'm not even expecting him to be logical because he's shown me he's an illogical person. And that is exactly why I wanted to move on to the next thing of his quotes in the presser.
Speaker: I don't watch his presses. I mention this, lot I would say this every week goes because, i bro, I'm a crasher. I don't i don't watch i don't watch the presses. I don't watch that, bro. Like, listen,
Speaker: That guy here is coming out and saying, our um see ah my brain my brain just looked my brain just went blank. I need to get the quotes. but um he's He's essentially, said he said he said, yeah, oh wait, yeah it was it was um this.
Speaker: He was basically saying, everyone at the club needs to do their jobs. The scouting department, the sporting director, I'm here for 18 months. Everyone needs to do their job.
Speaker: more lo was that and What was the question that was asked to him? What was the question that was asked to him? That's what we need. We need the question that was asked to him that just like created this.
Speaker: Yeah, but you the novice i i'll I'll just do i'll talk on the wider thing. he he's he start sorry He started off the message. I came here to be the manager of Manchester United, not the coach.
Speaker: That's what he said he came here to do, right? But I'm sorry. i want everyone to do this exercise right now. Type in Ruben Amarin hired by Manchester United and look for the official Manchester United um statement or like the post saying that he's been hired.
Speaker: It says Ruben Amarin's hired as head coach. Yeah. So you were you were brought here to be a coach. sorry sorry here Sorry, mate. so so just just to give you the shift just to give you the the context, he said thequet I remember the questions now. It was, has anything changed in relation to the transfer budget?
Speaker: Why didn't you know the situation around recruitment when you joined the club? why didn't you read I think this is the one that pete really got him riled up. Why didn't you realise that the 3-4-3 won't work sooner? but only why we yeah Why didn't you realise the 3-4-3 wouldn't work sooner until now?
Speaker: And then he refused to answer that question. said, I don't want to talk about that. I don't want to talk about that. And then he went on to the... He's a cash out. By the way, he is a crasher. Mike said I was hired to be the manager, not just the head coach. That man should have got me the players that wanted.
Speaker: You brought me into player formation and you didn't get get me the players I wanted. That's what he's saying. These men should have done their job. Everybody should have done their job so I can do my job. Now they didn't do their job.
Speaker: Now they can't do my job. That's why I had to change to 4-3-3, bro. And I'm hoping the egos of the board or like whoever, Jason Walcox, whatever, there's apparently rumours coming out that there's tension between Walcox and Amarin, blah, blah, blah, blah. So now you're publicly drawing me out.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, he's drawing them out. because He's drawing them out. There's a problem. mouth and But I think the reason Moesco got set for less, you know? Moesco got set for less. Yeah, but I think it's a different scenario at Manchester United. I think their futures are intrinsically, like, tied to each other. I think they don't like each other, but I think if Amarim goes, Jason Wilcox goes.
Speaker: So i I think they're stuck in a, like, stalemate of, like, bro that's why the Do you remember a couple months ago where there was reports of Admirn being called in into ah to the board to talk about changing this formation? and then recently yeah I believe that was led by Jason Wilcox because he knows that, bro, you have to give me like, bro, you have to try something else. What you're doing isn't working on making me look bad.
Speaker: This is our first appointment. And you're you're essentially... only the might you're sitting You're setting me up to fail, bro. You might not care, but I care. I want to be the football, the sporting director for Manchester United.
Speaker: And if you keep performing the way you're performing, I'm not going to be able to be here. But Amorim is so stubborn and so like defiant in what he wants to do that he doesn't care.
Speaker: He don't care. like he Every time this guy gets an opportunity to speak, he tells us he's going to quit. Why is he still here? Why is he still here? It's actually mad. It's actually mad.
Speaker: It's actually mad. It's actually like pure insanity. Like, why is he still here? Like, so what if someone thinks he's said... Yeah. And he still has some of the things he said and he still has a job.
Speaker: Bro. And even, sorry, yeah, I picked up that first thing. There was another point in that which actually very much upset me. He said, I'm going to be here for 18 months. Because that means, like I've been predicting, i think he's staying another year.
Speaker: He's staying for another year. They're going to give him the full three years. It's not going to be like an end of the season. and he's going and But that's what I've been saying. He's not going. Why would they fire him now? If they were ever going to fire Reba Amram, it would have been last season. They would have just...
Speaker: like let's just take the old man, he's a loser man, get him out of here, no, like, people are proper, like, the the board is proper, like, stuck, because, this what I'm saying, I even think Omar Barada's in a bit of trouble as well, because, wasn't he the one that flew over to go get him?
Speaker: They pinned Eric Ten Hag on Dan Ashworth. They said Dan Ashworth wanted... Dan Ashworth didn't want Amarin. He said Dan Ashworth wanted Southgate and pinned him on him. They threw him out to the wolves and they told him... You know... Because he did.
Speaker: Yeah, go ahead. You know the first scene in Bane, in the Batman, with Bane on the plane? On the plane where he's telling my man... They're attacking the plane and then...
Speaker: but that Then he goes, they're expecting someone in the wreckage, brother. Yeah.
Speaker: That's basically what they did. They basically basically told my man, sorry, bro, look, we're going to get paid off by her.
Speaker: Oh, you got go. We need a full guy, bro. Like, you know what mean? They've played that card already. That trump card's gone. That so funny. Now you've got your perfect board, your, um what did they call them?
Speaker: What was it? They said they going to hire best in class. You've got your best nest in class. Best class. You've got that. And you're telling me you made the worst decision than that guy? And all it is is you guys just don't want to admit it. It's not that the fans are buying into this idea of like, no, the board trusts him. The board thinks he's going to do it. the but No, all it is is that if they admit that Ameren has failed, big heads are going to roll. That's what it means. It means they have to go back to square one. And so Jim has to get potentially a new CEO, whatever position Barado is, if he's the CEO.
Speaker: they They potentially have to get a new sporting director. And then we have to go through the whole phase of rebuilding the back room to get in the thing and then get like that. Bro, it's a lot of work.
Speaker: But for me, I've never thought about it like that, man. and um like that That's what I'm saying. like I had to i to learn actually like try to find any bit of logic I can to explain why this is still happening. Because...
Speaker: Because it's illogical. It's actually illogical. Rival fans are like, what is going on? that No one understands. No one understands anything. This doesn't make any sense. Why are they still holding on to them? It's because the legwork they're going to have to do to go and replace the hierarch hierarchy.
Speaker: It's a lot. And Sergio Mane done an interview in a minute. hein't Why aren't he talking in anymore? He's not doing, not going to talk. want to talk. you know why?
Speaker: Because I know you're, you're screwed, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know you're screwed, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're just writing that out. They thought they could go into the summer and say, all right, cool, look, just buy him a whole new attack and he'll cook.
Speaker: they They thought that was theyrefore they could spend the problems of away, just like the previous regime, just like the um Ed Woodmans and all of them. They could they could spend the away yeah could spend away all their problems. But guys- That we that realization that realization in their head where they're like, we've messed up, man.
Speaker: Yeah. And they're doubling down. They're doubling down, doubling down, doubling down. It's like, whoa. There's nothing bad enough that can happen throughout the season for him to get sacked.
Speaker: Like, when you think about after what happened last year... there's There's nothing worse that can happen from this point onwards to get sacked because what can happen? We're still in in the race. We're top four, whatever. and Yeah, we're going to have a few bad results, but then we might get one result and people will be like, see? Oh, apologise. Apologise. Where's your apology letter for Amarun? Look how great great he is probably Brother.
Speaker: It's just a waiting game at this point. It's a waiting game for when they pull the trigger. They might not ever pull the trigger. Don't get me wrong. Next season, I might be sitting here on this pod. I'm to instill it as my manager. But potentially, we've signed Belayba, Wharton, blah, blah, blah. Then everyone's going to be hyped in the preseason, in the bit, saying, oh my God, we got him to play. Now he's going to cook. Now he's going to cook. Now he's going to cook. And then he's going to proceed to fail again.
Speaker: oh But then, now he's got have less of an excuse. Bro, listen, when we drew against Wolves, yeah? S said, are um ah now i'm concerned. Okay. Now i'm concerned with Amarin.
Speaker: I said now. Now. Only Only now. You guys are such generous people. i don't want to be offensive I don't want to be offensive, but some people like abuse, you know.
Speaker: What's going on? like What you mean? What you mean only now that you're here? Bro, man said, oh, yeah, now, because thinking, like, why is the draw against Wolves the final straw? Isn't losing to Tottenham should have been the final straw for everyone, I think. way we The way we played in that game as well. Not even just the result. We lost to Spurs and gave them a European title. we don't help The reason why we're not playing Champions League football right now because you couldn't beat Spurs.
Speaker: And you guys are coming into this season saying, oh, ah he needed a pre-season, needed a pre-season. that's all it let me Let me tell you something, yeah? i want to debunk the whole pre-season theory here.
Speaker: Preseason is a bunch of nonsense. you're actually more You're actually better off being hired mid-season than you are having the preseason. Because mid-season, you get to have real-life heat of the moment where teams are full flow. And you get to see what the pressure and what the actual intensity of the Premier League is. And then you can go, right, cool.
Speaker: Next season. I know what the man tried do to me. They to kill me, bro. This season, in the pre-season, all you're really doing is building fitness, trying out a few tactics in there. The the the um title that Liverpool won, the one before last, they lost every single pre-season game.
Speaker: And then went on to win the league. like is look Yeah, i think i think the only problem I think the only problem with pre-season, though, is like, or not being there for pre-season, it depends what your predecessor done.
Speaker: So, for example, Ten Hag left you guys in a sorry state. Half the squad weren't, most of the squad weren't even fit like to actually play with intensity. um And you can see, just from Amurim having a pre-season, at the bare minimum, he can be 7th-6 and be somewhere near Champions League football.
Speaker: Whereas Amurim made your team so unfit, you you guys couldn't even muster up anything. See, I agree, but I'm going to have to disagree with that to some extent because where my issue of what Amarim was doing last season was Ganache on the 10th.
Speaker: Hoyland playing basically every game, even when he was basically playing against us at that point. The wingbacks, he was always playing defensive wingbacks. we never want When Dalo and Masaru were our defensive wingback pairing,
Speaker: we always lost. We never won. I don't know if we always lost. We never won. But you can't do it. like So don't get me wrong. Injuries, 100% agree. I hear I hear But your approach to what you were doing never made sense. I remember in in my other group chat, I remember, I think it was that end of January.
Speaker: I said, I'm wearing out. He was only there for two and a half months. I said, I see it. I see it already. I'm right now. it's nothing to do with results. It's nothing to do with any of that. It's nothing to do performance, whatever. It was because those decisions that I'm seeing don't make sense. And I don't like that.
Speaker: It makes me uncomfortable. So, yeah, I think... I'm going to... I could go on and on and on about Manchester United. I honestly feel like our fan base is stuck with this sickness and we've been infiltrated yeah by a bunch of people who are essentially... What is it? They're not rage-baiting. It's like the um they're just saying things to get interaction on social media.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, of course. They're just saying things. They're saying things that... they know riles up. Actually, yeah, it is rage-baiting. They're rage-baiting people to get into action because I can't physically believe that people are honestly backing this. And then i want to speak on two people.
Speaker: This is the last one I want to say. want to speak on two people. There's two accounts. Actually, no, there three. I always spoke of about it. Elite Pundit. Remember, always used to tell you about that, Don. Fully, Amarim, Baccar. Do you know what he does now?
Speaker: He don't do Manchester United content anymore. No. He's just become a general football commentator. He said he's leaving because the fan base is too toxic. Oh, I think I saw that tweet, actually.
Speaker: Bro, you were wrong about your guy. That's all it was. And it's okay to admit you were wrong. But instead of admitting I was wrong about Ameren, no, I'm just going to leave it, man. I'm going to leave That's all it That's what I'm doing. That's one. That's one guy.
Speaker: Two. Two Americans. There's two Americans, yeah? But let me start with one guy. I can't remember. I think his name Matty Sutton FC, right?
Speaker: These guys are compromised people. They come on social media. They've got their nurse set up. He talks loud into the camera. He's like, you guys are so stupid for thinking that he's aiming for. What do you expect him to do when Patrick Dogu is blah, blah, blah. And I'm just like, I'm like, brother, this is the wrong sport for you. You don't know about anything happening. But then there's another guy as well, Muppeteers.
Speaker: He said, me get you this. Let me hear this, hear this, hear this. yeah My man says, ah some of you some of the fan base is scared that Ameren's going to do well because it proves them wrong.
Speaker: What? What? What? I come on this pod every week and I say, i want to be proven so wrong by Ameren, yeah, that you could have to clip up every single audio that I've ever said, every single tweet and put it up and say, ha ha, you were wrong. Do you know what I'm going to do?
Speaker: Sit back with my Premier League title. Sit back and watch Manchester United play by some merch. Like, do you think I care about being right or wrong? Do you think I care? Yeah, these both. So let me ask you let me ask you some the two questions that you asked me. yeah So if he got sacked now, who would you want?
Speaker: um So for me, I need you to have some sort of pedigree, bro. i need you I need you to... at least be at, you have to have at least been at a big club for me because I think it's underestimated how relentless the English media is when it comes to Manchester United and you need to have the bottle to be able to tell man, like, F off. You need to be able to stand firm on what you believe, yeah, but also what you believe has to actually make sense.
Speaker: So for me, my leading candidate, even though I could be wrong, I'll take Xavi. That would be me. Won the Premier League title with Barcelona. Been at a big club. Promotes youth. Likes technical players. His style of football is... If he comes over here, he might have a brain aneurysm because of the level quality of our team. He might actually cry. that He might have one training session and come back say, actually, no. You don't remember um when we signed Sanchez. Sanchez said he had one um training session he wanted to go back.
Speaker: you' That's what Javi might do. But then he also might fail, which is also fine. I don't care about manager failing. So yeah, that's ah um who I'll potentially bring in. And what was the second question?
Speaker: The second question was... is What do I think is um not expectations for... what Yeah, what would you what would you... For the rest of the season, what would you aim for?
Speaker: What are that for? Top four is still there. Champions League is still there. I've i've been saying since the start. I'm still... I'm not letting go of top four. Okay, yeah, but... like Yeah, but realistically... Realistically, I need the European football. So, conference.
Speaker: Conference, yeah? Yeah, I'll take conference. I'll take conference. You know why I'll take conference, yeah? know why you're a hypocrite? Do you know why you're a hypocrite? You're crossing S and the rest of them for low standards. and No, but that's not my standards. You're asking me to be realistic. I'm telling you what what I would actually still push to do.
Speaker: The only reason why I'm saying I'll take confidence because we need the extra games because players aren't being able to play. Kobe Maneu can't play. These people can't play. There's not enough squad rotation and we're picking up injuries anyway. We got one game a week. We're picking up the same amount of injuries. What's the point?
Speaker: What's that? The last thing wanted to mention yeah on um the whole thing about trying to draw out those those guys, here I think any fan channel Any fan channel that works with the club, um whatever, i doing the fan channel on, is compromised. and ask often I think nobody should ever listen to anything they say, ever. And those two Americans work directly with the club. They do interviews with um the thing. They've got sources within the club.
Speaker: I think any fan channel... tied to a club. There's different ones. There's Arsenal, there's AFT, now they're in the good graces, there's probably Chelsea people.
Speaker: Because you're not going to say what needs to actually be said. It's actually true. You're not. And even when you do, you're going to sugarcoat You're going to try and deflect blame. You're not... Because some of the comments and the quotes and the things that you man say is actually very scary.
Speaker: It's actually very scary. And you guys are able to... you're able to change the narrative. Oh, another one. Stratford Paddock. That's one of the biggest ones.
Speaker: um Like, these guys... um You've said you you've said some some pay some ones I've never heard of, though. can't lie. No, no, no. Them men have like 700k followers on YouTube. They're big. They're the second biggest after United Stam.
Speaker: that Okay, okay, okay. Bro, I don't care about none of them, man. I care about my club, bro. And these men are out here pushing stupid narratives, making the fans fight, in-fight, in-fight. All I do now, every time I see a tweet from any one of those guys, I just quote to you, I say, you men are losers, bro.
Speaker: That's all I do. I just, I say, you men are losers. If you go check my Twitter and go check, search the word losers, look how many times tweeted that in the past, like, month or whatever. I go to all, I'm all um on all of them. All of you lot are losers. Any fans that agree with you, man, you man are losers. My club isn't built on losing, bro.
Speaker: My club isn't built on winning. Foundations are winning, bro. Don't get wrong, that's not going to come in the near future. But I don't want losers to represent my club. I don't want you to get into a room and start chatting to other fans acting like you support the same club as me. You don't.
Speaker: You don't. You support something else. so back for So my final question to is do you is, do you have these rants with your wife? Huh? Do you have these rants with your wife?
Speaker: Nah, it's only football that gets me like this, bro. I'm actually a very calm person. only football with that proper rattles me like when it comes to this stuff. No, bro, I'll be having these football events with my wife. She couldn't care less, bro.
Speaker: Nah, bro. I can't subject her to this, man. It's too much, man. I need the speakers. She already has to sit and watch me watch the football match. that That's lot of fun. I don't want to take it outside. And all I do, after we have a bad result here, you've seen the group chat. Voicel, voicel, voicel, voicel, voicel. Because I need to get out.
Speaker: I need to get out, bro. Since you've been out the country, though, you've been a bit mellow. Not as many moister. Yeah, nah, man. I'm enjoying the sun, man. I'm just like...
Speaker: yeah I have to after to detach sometimes. Because when I go back to England and it's cold and I'm just depressed walking to work and then I'm having to think about this stupid club and all these decisions that the manager's making. Honestly...
Speaker: Yeah, let's wrap up the pod. Let's wrap it up. Yeah, I was interested in saying that. Yeah. We did do Don't Blame the Ref podcast segment.
Speaker: So, yeah my Don't Blame the Ref moment is obvious. Mr. Ezo Moresca, the refs in this country aren't great.
Speaker: And they make a lot of mistakes, but they're not why you couldn't get the results. They're not why you have one win in seven. They're not why you're here fighting with your bosses, live oh in press conferences, moving like an absolute madman.
Speaker: right he He looked like he wanted to just leave. He just wanted to go. That's what it mine just said yeah um done he's done that from early as well you like now that he's gone you can we you can you can plainly see yeah we didn't even didn't even speak about it but i'm hearing i'm hearing talks like united might be interested in maresco like those leaks started coming out and i don't know about all that bro I'd even bother talking it because that just must be Cap. That must be Cap. And so Arrivederci...
Speaker: so and so arivadehi I wish you were the best. he'll pop vote in He'll probably go somewhere else and he'll probably do right. Like, he's a decent coach. From the intangibles that I've seen of him ah him as a manager, 10 years from now, he might potentially be a completely different person, bro. He seems very arrogant, so maybe not. But at the same time,
Speaker: You just need some experience, bro. Now you've come into Chelsea and you see what it's like at a big club. Cool. You're going to take that experience that you've just had and you're going to go somewhere else and you're going to experience that you're going to go somewhere and then you're going to start moulding into the actual manager that you're supposed to be. So, yeah, man. I wish you more the best. What's your, what's your time, blame the left moment?
Speaker: I'm going to take a leaf out of your book, bro. I'm going to take a leaf out your book. Ruben... Ruben Augusto Malcolm Amory.
Speaker: Is that his full name? It's not his name, but I don't care what he's doing. I'll give him names. Because the real names that i want to call him, would have to bleep out the pod, bro. So I'll give him those names for now. That's the PG version of that.
Speaker: You cannot blame the ref. You cannot blame the sporting director. You cannot blame the scouting department. You cannot blame the weather. You cannot blame the media. You cannot blame the players. You can't blame anyone but yourself for you doing a bad job and being a loser. You, sir, are a loser.
Speaker: That's it, Liz. You are the biggest loser I've ever seen come to Manchester United. Forget forget Oli, PE teacher. Forget Mourinho, Dinosaur, whatever. Whatever things you want to call these managers, Ten Hag, you cannot lace the boots of Oli Gona Solskjaer as a player or as a manager.
Speaker: You can't do that. Sorry. Sorry, yeah. You've got some titles in the Portuguese league. No one cares. You're at Manchester United now and you're losing. You're loser, bro.
Speaker: That's all it is. You're the biggest loser, bro. Bring back that show where they've made people lose weight, bruv. You'll still be a bigger loser than them, bruv. You are a waste, man. That is all it is. And I can't wait for the day when you when I see official commune, Cardo.
Speaker: Ruben Amarin is no longer Manchester United manager. I haven't hated manager more than this guy ever in my life. Ever.
Speaker: It almost seems like his comments are him trying to rile someone up trying to get himself out. He's been trying to quit. He's been trying to quit since he got here. he wasnt he's he's He's daring them. He's daring them to do it. But the reason why, now i I'm understanding the reason why he's able to talk like that, because he knows if I get sacked, I'm taking heads with me. Someone's coming with me. So he can he can come and talk as much stick, because Jason Wilcox, if you want to lose your job, you will sack me.
Speaker: Omar Barada, if you want to get um get rid of me, you'll lose your job. I know for fa... Watch. Manchester United is going to implode again because of Ineos, yeah?
Speaker: And it's all because they've hired a loser, bruv. And they don't want to just sit down and admit, mandem, we made a mistake, let's just move on. No, people have doubled down, tripled down, quadrupled down. Every time there's a little bit of so speak um conversation about, ah, Amerinders tensions, blah, blah, blah. These lot release a statement and say they fully back him.
Speaker: Cool. Let's see what the hell is going on. Let's see how this club... I'm just sitting back here. I'm chilling. I'll wait for my club to come back. Football doesn't run my life. I enjoy football. I have a very happy life. Cool, cool, cool. I don't get into rooms. I don't get into rooms and defend losers, bruv.
Speaker: If anything, going to join in. You know when someone's getting rushed and then you see some random guy throw a punch at him and that's not even involved in the beef? That's me. That's me. Kicking him while he's down and I'm going jump in. I'm cheering him on. Hey, guys. Hey, guys. I've been trying to end the pod for a while. Don't just keep going. I'm going to lose.
Speaker: like Not me, though. Not me, though. This ain't the club that I support. Miami's a loser. All right, yeah, let's end it, man. I'm dead. Thanks for listening.
Speaker: If you're loser,
Speaker: if you actually enjoy it, if you actually have pride, if you actually have anything about yourselves, you will not be back in Ameren. If you are back in Ameren, you are also a loser as well. so Too many enablers.
Speaker: Yeah, two main enablers, bro. Thanks for listening and we'll catch you next week. Benjamin Seska, I'm watching you. You. You are one of the players I'm watching. I'm watching, bruv. Don't make me start targeting bro, because you are smelling.
Speaker: I'm going to have to mute your mic. Yo, don't blame me. We're done, we're done, we're done, we're done. In a bit, in a bit. Peace, weeks sweet eat peace, peace. peace.
