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Speaker: Let's fucking get it, boy.
Speaker: I am ready.
Speaker: Stoked.
Speaker: I'm bringing some trash talking shit because we got a missing person today, Brian.
Speaker: You want to elaborate a little bit more on this missing person situation?
Speaker: On the record.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: It's fair.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Yeah, a focal point of the fuckery and the absolute crazy banter that we hope to get and expect from a one Robert O'Leary will not be provided today.
Speaker: But nevertheless, I shall be bringing some of that energy for him in replacement.
Speaker: In a certain degree, I'm extending the hand a little bit to Mr. O'Leary.
Speaker: I got your back.
Speaker: I'm coming for some crazy, crazy shit.
Speaker: I think you're going to like O'Leary.
Speaker: So we'll see.
Speaker: I hope I do you proud, you crazy fuck.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: Love it.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: Mars.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Nine total changes.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: So you saw that too?
Speaker: It wasn't just us?
Speaker: It wasn't just us?
Speaker: Okay, good.
Speaker: Just making sure.
Speaker: Making sure that was a thing.
Speaker: I mean, look, Brian, I think this is a great place to start because you get early in the year.
Speaker: We want and love and appreciate a good midweek fixture, a good opportunity to get some ball in the midweek.
Speaker: Get, you know, hey, you're having a bad week.
Speaker: You're having a good week.
Speaker: Whatever's going on with your work and your personal life, a good midweek fixture to just get you going into the weekend morning to where you can just enjoy embrace a full day of nothing but ball watching.
Speaker: So you get the sprinkled in midweek fixture.
Speaker: You never fully anticipate to get a blessing of an absolute shambolic behavior by a trending.
Speaker: He's like Supreme five years ago.
Speaker: This guy's trending upwards.
Speaker: Everyone's loving him.
Speaker: God, I love the cocaine in the 80s reference.
Speaker: It's so spot on.
Speaker: Everyone's on it.
Speaker: I mean, I started to sip it for a little bit.
Speaker: And then I had to remind myself as I looked through transfers, Laporte denied this fuck.
Speaker: It's.
Speaker: Great name to add to it.
Speaker: Another Spanish.
Speaker: Well, Laporte's French Spanish.
Speaker: I don't know what the fuck he is anymore.
Speaker: Shout out to Laporte.
Speaker: Thank you for your service.
Speaker: I don't know, man.
Speaker: I think at this point, you got to laugh at the fact that we saw Fulham kind of trending upwards, doing the thing, starting the year off with some fight and some scrappiness to him.
Speaker: It's Fulham.
Speaker: What the fuck do you expect?
Speaker: They have a pretty decent squad.
Speaker: And this is not, I don't know, FC Wimbledon.
Speaker: Dare I say Chelsea who almost squeaked away with one themselves.
Speaker: But this isn't a squad where you can necessarily do nine changes.
Speaker: But per Angball and Ang we trust, he does it.
Speaker: And look what fucking happens to him.
Speaker: What a moron.
Speaker: The only...
Speaker: Opium.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: And for good reason.
Speaker: I think there's a little bit more structure there.
Speaker: I'm not even going to take that as a diss to Brighton.
Speaker: It's more of a reality check to Tottenham, which it should be because financially –
Speaker: There's probably something to it too.
Speaker: I would say they didn't necessarily want to commit to everything that needed to be done for the Fati deal.
Speaker: We can speak more of that when we get to Brighton and their portion and look at their total window.
Speaker: But what I would say is Tottenham have real, real suspect situation here because you got a puppet as a manager who came in and can convince you that there's a good ball going.
Speaker: But now this guy...
Speaker: while being a puppet, is failing at his job just when you thought everything was going so smoothly.
Speaker: And you got to say he failed at his job because, quite frankly, you can't make those changes and not trust in the club.
Speaker: His reasoning after the match, if you saw the quotes, was how am I supposed to trust that?
Speaker: How am I supposed to see if some of these players can do it in these games?
Speaker: And I'm thinking to myself, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yes, that's what's preseasoned.
Speaker: That's exactly right.
Speaker: But that's for like, I don't know, when you play Middlesbrough.
Speaker: That's not when you necessarily play Fulham or when you play another Prem team or it's this early or it's the Carabella Cup.
Speaker: If you want to do that later on, you know, in the Prem after you, it's that one off weekend where you just feel good about it and you get an Everton.
Speaker: I feel you.
Speaker: I feel you.
Speaker: No one's knocking that.
Speaker: You got to assess.
Speaker: You're always assessing.
Speaker: That's the job of a manager.
Speaker: But sir, you botched it.
Speaker: And this is what this is.
Speaker: You can get away with it in previous locations.
Speaker: This is not fucking Australia, big boy.
Speaker: You can't be fucking doing this shit.
Speaker: This is the fucking Premier League.
Speaker: And for that, watch Levy knock on his door.
Speaker: I'd love to see what the puppet does.
Speaker: I'd love to see how the puppet responds because ultimately a man can only take so much.
Speaker: Look at Antonio Conte.
Speaker: Look at Jose Mourinho.
Speaker: Look at Pochettino.
Speaker: We can go on and on and on with the managers and how things work and operate there.
Speaker: Puppet today, fuckery tomorrow is what I expect with this whole situation.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: laughable.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: No, at St.
Speaker: James.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Well,
Speaker: Eddie's entire situation, too, looks a little bit tighter with a particular draw today.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: It's incredible.
Speaker: Incredible.
Speaker: Incredible odds.
Speaker: Fucking take them to Vegas.
Speaker: Take the whole fucking squad, the whole team, and take them to Vegas and put it on whatever the fuck they want because they have incredible odds.
Speaker: You got to love it.
Speaker: Got to love it.
Speaker: Don't know how they do it.
Speaker: There it is.
Speaker: There it is.
Speaker: There it is.
Speaker: There it is.
Speaker: You got it, man.
Speaker: Got it up.
Speaker: Solid.
Speaker: Solid.
Speaker: Decent.
Speaker: There are three teams in that group that play good ball, and I'm willing to argue with anyone that that's the case.
Speaker: We'll talk about it.
Speaker: We'll talk about it later.
Speaker: We'll talk about it.
Speaker: That's a decent group now that I look at it.
Speaker: Decent group.
Speaker: For the life of me, you can't tell me who's the third best team in that.
Speaker: That is so hard.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, go D. Decent.
Speaker: Decent.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: It's incredible.
Speaker: No, this is incredible.
Speaker: This is incredible.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Any.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: That's a red star.
Speaker: Yeah, Estrella Roja, Red Star.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: So this is the group where this is a good situation where finishing second, is that going to be a potential team that finishes second and paves the way for that?
Speaker: Those teams that finish second in the group got themselves a good little segue because if you remember last year, the team that finished second actually had the easier matchup.
Speaker: There was the Milans on the one side, and it was cakewalk with what they had going.
Speaker: So the fact that this is a group that hard now, but if you get out of this and you squeeze in that second, you can actually line yourself up for a good little road.
Speaker: A good little road.
Speaker: I struggle with seeing, I think if I'm looking at the team who immediately gunned to my head, I had to take one out.
Speaker: Dortmund, I think you might struggle.
Speaker: I think Milan have it with just the offensive explosion.
Speaker: I think you can, I gotta be consistent.
Speaker: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker: The pedigree matters.
Speaker: The pedigree matters with Milan.
Speaker: I can speak to it with dealing with the other side of it, but yes, absolutely.
Speaker: You're right on that point, but this is where I have to be consistent on my thesis here.
Speaker: Some of these Prem teams in the first year, I gotta see it first.
Speaker: I gotta see it first.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Major factor.
Speaker: And that's where just in the thinking of it.
Speaker: Okay, so, so, so, so.
Speaker: Newcastle at home versus Dortmund.
Speaker: Go for it.
Speaker: Immediately.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Fatinia is going to be okay.
Speaker: Madrid, Asensio.
Speaker: Oh, Concaves.
Speaker: Yeah, Ramos.
Speaker: Con Claves Ramos.
Speaker: Oh, Ugarte.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, all right.
Speaker: You got PS.
Speaker: Who's your two?
Speaker: That's where I want to press you right now.
Speaker: Who's the second team coming out this group?
Speaker: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's fortitude.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'm taking
Speaker: That's the, absolutely.
Speaker: But I got two different folks coming out that group.
Speaker: You're going, you're going PSG Milan.
Speaker: I'm going PSG Dortmund.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And in fairness, I want to make sure I'm accurate in that sleeper.
Speaker: Yes, you're right.
Speaker: We anticipate them to always get to that knockout stage.
Speaker: But I think they're going to be trouble in the sense that I trust Luis Enrique to figure it the fuck out.
Speaker: and really make that team a formal, formal adversary, at least attacking.
Speaker: I mean, I'm thinking they're putting four or five goals on folks' heads.
Speaker: I'm going with an upset because I think every year there's an upset.
Speaker: And I'm going sole factor on the fact that this –
Speaker: I'm going Newcastle to botch it and play a different tactics against Dortmund and them capitalizing.
Speaker: And I'm going with inconsistencies with Milan and just the fact that I think there's a little bit of something on Dortmund thinking.
Speaker: Yeah, we're probably, everyone's thinking we're the easiest out.
Speaker: Let's get something out of it.
Speaker: Let's push and show who we are.
Speaker: Because actually, when you look at it lately, Dortmund have been the second best in this group.
Speaker: Just in the last four or five years, Dortmund have gone farther than Milan and Newcastle.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And that's what I talk about when I mean like some of these clubs that I'm going to also talk about in the other groups where they've played it.
Speaker: They're not European giants in the sense, but they're European contenders.
Speaker: Every year they're playing in it.
Speaker: It's nothing new to them.
Speaker: And that I trust more than some of these other teams that are a little bit more flashier, attacking, and
Speaker: are up and coming.
Speaker: I trust it.
Speaker: And I'll give more examples as we go on.
Speaker: But yeah, Brian, absolutely.
Speaker: This group is going to be must-watch TV.
Speaker: Any matchup, I've got to see.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: In the power rankings, I'm going group C.
Speaker: I'm going group C. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Union Berlin.
Speaker: First time getting it.
Speaker: played their way into top four, wild team, attacking team.
Speaker: I think this could be a year that depending on the circumstances, you find the rare, is the Bundesliga good?
Speaker: Do they have good players, good clubs?
Speaker: Is this something to where we're kind of questioning it?
Speaker: But
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I mean, I'm telling you, they play some good ball.
Speaker: Napoli and Madrid, you're not shoo-ins.
Speaker: Yeah, you're not shoo-ins for top two here.
Speaker: You're not shoo-ins to get out of this group.
Speaker: You get a draw, and one of you fuck up with Braga.
Speaker: Look out.
Speaker: Look out.
Speaker: Napoli.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, the... Or Jude does Jude things.
Speaker: I don't know if you've been looking, but Jude has been doing Jude things.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: I'm fucking happy he's not in the Premier League if he didn't go to us.
Speaker: Because that man, oh my gosh, he is a game changer.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, I have to.
Speaker: I have to agree.
Speaker: I can't.
Speaker: I can't.
Speaker: I can talk them up, but I don't think they'll be doing that.
Speaker: While I predict upset, I'm going Dortmund in the other group.
Speaker: Braga and Berlin, they're not going to be able to keep up.
Speaker: But it's good to see Union Berlin and Europa.
Speaker: That'll be a little bit more fun, too.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Hey, Cardi.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Ass.
Speaker: Don't expect much out of them.
Speaker: I think it's going to be trouble for them.
Speaker: Yeah, this is a good group, Brian.
Speaker: You know, again...
Speaker: I don't see it with United.
Speaker: I just don't see it.
Speaker: This is a team where for me, Europe lately has been a problem.
Speaker: There are question marks.
Speaker: And I think Bayern are shooing into winning this group.
Speaker: I think they will win it.
Speaker: You're making things spicy with Galatasaray.
Speaker: I completely agree with you.
Speaker: They are dangerous.
Speaker: They could get a couple draws and a couple points and steal some shit to maybe make it a little interesting on that last day of group stage.
Speaker: I actually think it ends the way it looks right now.
Speaker: Just Bayern and United.
Speaker: I think United somehow are going to get through.
Speaker: But it'll be dicey.
Speaker: It'll be dicey and spicy.
Speaker: And I'll look.
Speaker: I'll be watching.
Speaker: Because if they don't.
Speaker: Oh, my God.
Speaker: And if you're united right now, let's be honest, you must, you must do this.
Speaker: You must proceed.
Speaker: You cannot not get out of this group.
Speaker: This is an, look at it.
Speaker: You've been blessed once again with circumstances that you are not in group F right now.
Speaker: You are blessed.
Speaker: So with that being said, you must get out of it.
Speaker: And if you don't, oh my gosh, the reckoning, the reckoning.
Speaker: Sexy.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Very much so.
Speaker: Very much so.
Speaker: I actually think Salzburg can do a little something.
Speaker: Sociedad as well.
Speaker: Inner, again, Inner are going to be pretty consistent.
Speaker: Nzaghi's doing things over there.
Speaker: But Benfica's the one that I got going through.
Speaker: Benfica is the one that I think will proceed.
Speaker: And I got...
Speaker: I think Benfica will win the group.
Speaker: 100%.
Speaker: Yeah, I think Benfica will be going into the knockouts as part of that group that have won it.
Speaker: So I got Benfica and Inter going through.
Speaker: I like it.
Speaker: I like it.
Speaker: It's a really good balanced group.
Speaker: I agree with you.
Speaker: Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker: Probably socially glad.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: I'm going F. I'm going C. I'm gonna go...
Speaker: No, I have to agree.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
Speaker: That's probably, it's the balance of it all.
Speaker: Top to, you know, Sociedad's really up there in Salzburg.
Speaker: I give them respect.
Speaker: I've been dealing with the Red Bulls every year for the last few years now.
Speaker: So I can give a little light as to the games that we play against them, both Leipzig and Salzburg.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Group B. I rate it.
Speaker: Anytime you got a group where there is a European champion in it.
Speaker: You got to give respect.
Speaker: Sevilla, Arsenal, PSV, and FC Lens, which Lens can do a little something to it.
Speaker: I think PSV is just literally getting farmed every year.
Speaker: They're getting rid of, I think, one more, two more guys.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: 100%.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: French speedy wingers.
Speaker: I don't know much about anything else there either, but it's going to come down to Arsenal Sevilla.
Speaker: It's going to come down to, you know, I do see both of them coming out, but again, another situation to where you're looking at the group stage, you're looking at what you've done and you're asking yourself is second, the better route.
Speaker: It's going to be tighter situations.
Speaker: It's going to be how does the group finish?
Speaker: Obviously, if you're Arsenal, and again, I'm staying consistent.
Speaker: It goes to Newcastle.
Speaker: It goes to Arsenal.
Speaker: I got to see United.
Speaker: I got to see it in Europe first.
Speaker: I gotta see it.
Speaker: As someone who has just watched my team, arguably one of the best teams in all the land, for the last decent amount of five, six years, I have seen my team climb and climb and climb and deal with the different type of shit.
Speaker: You have got to show me that you can show up on a Wednesday night, because guess what?
Speaker: You don't play on Thursdays anymore.
Speaker: That's great.
Speaker: It's Tuesday, Wednesday nights.
Speaker: It's big boy nights.
Speaker: The big lights are on.
Speaker: So it'll be fun.
Speaker: It'll be fun to see how these teams show up.
Speaker: But I'm going with experience here.
Speaker: And I'm going with Sevilla coming out the group and winning it.
Speaker: Oh, I'm going Sevilla, Arsenal, exactly how it looks.
Speaker: PSV and Lens.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Yeah, that'll be interesting.
Speaker: The other thing is, I think it's also fair, like we approach Eddie Howe with the shambolic behavior of Miguel Arrata the last year in Europa.
Speaker: We have got to have cautionary eyes as to how he approaches some of these games.
Speaker: And...
Speaker: Oh, I'm not talking about resting.
Speaker: I'm not talking about resting.
Speaker: I'm talking about Thomas Partey at right back conversations.
Speaker: I'm talking about situations where when it comes time to go at folks and substitutions.
Speaker: And wasn't that a big deal last year, too?
Speaker: You guys put in like like a couple substitutions later in the game.
Speaker: And you guys were thinking like, what the fuck?
Speaker: Why did we put those guys in in the circumstances?
Speaker: So, you know, again, what was it?
Speaker: Sporting Lisbon last year?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'll be very curious and interested how Miguel approaches it.
Speaker: And I'm open slated to him, to Ten Hag, and to Eddie Howe.
Speaker: I am on suspect watch with those three.
Speaker: Because as the Premier League folk and the representation is there for the points and all this other shit, I want to see it.
Speaker: I want to see it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's a coin flip.
Speaker: It's a coin flip.
Speaker: Yeah, I'll go Group A. Feyenoord, because they won their league, you gotta give them... Oh, have I not done Group A?
Speaker: Then Group A, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, I'll go Group A here.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: And then B. Group A. Yeah, Group A. Juggernauts.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: No, no, no, you can't.
Speaker: You can't.
Speaker: No, I agree.
Speaker: This isn't a bad group, though.
Speaker: Atletico, I think, are going to be there.
Speaker: Fazio attacking.
Speaker: Celtic always do a little something.
Speaker: Always do a little something.
Speaker: Yeah, but potential 2-0 lead and then get a 2-2 draw against Madrid or something like that kind of thing.
Speaker: I see that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So for time's sake, I'm going.
Speaker: Atletico, Lazio, Feyenoord, and Celtic.
Speaker: That'll be interesting.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: It is.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Jesus.
Speaker: He's a baller.
Speaker: Shout out Yavin.
Speaker: Yeah, he is.
Speaker: Yeah, he's going to ball.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Xavi's got balls.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, sure.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: No, me too.
Speaker: Same.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: A couple big clubs missing, 100%.
Speaker: You got to love to see it.
Speaker: This group, I don't know, man.
Speaker: I think it's a joke, and I think Barcelona and Borto are going to walk it.
Speaker: Shakhtar and Royal Antwerp, I hope they can give us the joy that we all want in our life, which is somehow getting a 3-2 win over Barcelona.
Speaker: But I just don't see it.
Speaker: I just don't see it.
Speaker: And so I'm going to settle for...
Speaker: Exactly how it looks.
Speaker: Barcelona, Porto, Shakhtar, and Royal Antwerp.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: It's a weak-ass group, and I'm just blessed to be able to say that we get Leipzig again.
Speaker: It's going to be fine-tuning for us in some of these games, playing with formations, seeing how we can kind of defend against some of these low blocks we're going to have to deal with with Young Boys and Red Star.
Speaker: And that's fine.
Speaker: Leipzig should be good.
Speaker: I actually like, from a...
Speaker: Focusing on what we have to do to win and get the three points approach.
Speaker: I like the difference in styles that we have to go against.
Speaker: It'll be good preparation.
Speaker: Because when you're champions of Europe, that's what you're doing at the group stage.
Speaker: You're doing preparation.
Speaker: It's not really worrying about getting the fuck out the group.
Speaker: I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker: That's how everyone else comes into it the following year as a champion.
Speaker: And now as the first time as being European fucking champions, we're doing the same type of mindset.
Speaker: Group stages for us to fuck around and play.
Speaker: Period.
Speaker: Bar none.
Speaker: We will be there.
Speaker: Shout out to fucking city.
Speaker: Reigning fucking champions of Europe.
Speaker: Blessed with the fucking balls today.
Speaker: You love to see it.
Speaker: And we move.
Speaker: It's going to finish exactly how it looks.
Speaker: You're absolutely right.
Speaker: There's no point to maybe even change it with young boys and red stars.
Speaker: Because it truly doesn't matter.
Speaker: Although they'll be getting Europa, right?
Speaker: They'll be getting some Europa dough.
Speaker: Which is good.
Speaker: So, I don't know.
Speaker: We'll see.
Speaker: That one's dead last.
Speaker: That one's dead last.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker: Group G's ass.
Speaker: Easy.
Speaker: Fine-tuning for us.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yes, sir.
Speaker: Oh, that is correct.
Speaker: Going into the weekend, current score of 19 to 18 after a great week by you.
Speaker: A couple bullseyes and one goal score.
Speaker: Goal scores haven't been good to either of us.
Speaker: One a week, although I did have one week where I had two.
Speaker: Same week you had none.
Speaker: Wild.
Speaker: So you've only had one a week.
Speaker: I've had one where we've only had two.
Speaker: So we've yet to have all three points from goal scorers.
Speaker: We've been shit at picking them.
Speaker: But a couple bullseyes, we're right into it.
Speaker: We're grooving at this point.
Speaker: You got a one-point lead.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Holy shit.
Speaker: West Ham.
Speaker: West Ham.
Speaker: Do they do a West Sham?
Speaker: I don't think so.
Speaker: Listen, I think there's expectations for what we need to have.
Speaker: We need to be consistent with how teams spend and how teams get things done.
Speaker: They've turned $100 million from Declan Rice into some really, really good players.
Speaker: And you've given David Moyes, David fucking Moyes, more toys and more...
Speaker: options to kind of figure it out.
Speaker: Which is so fucking funny because it's David fucking Moyes.
Speaker: So shout out to them, man.
Speaker: I got to be respectful of the situation.
Speaker: It looks good.
Speaker: And it's an easy opponent.
Speaker: This is where we need to start questioning going into the international break.
Speaker: The overhype of a certain Tottenham going into this week.
Speaker: I think we should probably be doing the same about West Ham in about a week or so.
Speaker: Calm down, you Irons.
Speaker: It's not quite there yet.
Speaker: But they'll get the win.
Speaker: I am going 3-1 West Ham.
Speaker: 36.
Speaker: Shut up.
Speaker: Fucking hell.
Speaker: That's ratchet ass shit.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes, it is.
Speaker: I don't see them getting four wins.
Speaker: Do you see them getting four wins?
Speaker: And if so, who are they?
Speaker: I was going to guess.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't disagree.
Speaker: They're bad.
Speaker: I went 3-1 West Ham.
Speaker: You won't pick a score.
Speaker: You won't pick a score.
Speaker: He has.
Speaker: There are.
Speaker: I will.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: Easy.
Speaker: Easy.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: I'm a bit bothered.
Speaker: But I get it.
Speaker: I get it.
Speaker: You know, the funny thing about this.
Speaker: Everton have not scored a goal in the Premier League this year.
Speaker: Oh, did they?
Speaker: 1-0 Sheffield.
Speaker: You're right.
Speaker: A little bounce back from Frank and them boys.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't see anything spicy coming up with the cherries.
Speaker: I don't see it.
Speaker: Brentford still finding a way to attack.
Speaker: Dare any of us to put in Boo-You as a score.
Speaker: I'm going 2-1 Brentford.
Speaker: Now it's time to have a chat.
Speaker: It's time to have a chat.
Speaker: We need to have a conversation.
Speaker: We need to have a conversation.
Speaker: I want to be clear with you.
Speaker: I was wrong.
Speaker: I was wrong.
Speaker: I was drastically wrong.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Let me be very absolutely quite frank.
Speaker: Spurs are going to look good.
Speaker: Burnley struggle right now.
Speaker: I don't get it.
Speaker: I really don't get it.
Speaker: And I was wrong.
Speaker: 2-1 Burnley.
Speaker: Vincent Company will get it the fuck done.
Speaker: I back this team.
Speaker: I'm going to be there in heart and in spirit at Turf Moor.
Speaker: And I know for a simple fact that Company is doing great things.
Speaker: How do I know this?
Speaker: I don't.
Speaker: But I'm going to talk shit like I do.
Speaker: Burnley, 2-1 over Spurs.
Speaker: And Big Ang has some more questions to ask going into international break.
Speaker: Talk me into it, damn it.
Speaker: You talk me into it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, same.
Speaker: Same.
Speaker: I don't trust either of them.
Speaker: I don't know what kind of Chelsea we're going to get.
Speaker: I know we're going to have an aggressive force team.
Speaker: I know Stevie Cooper's doing his thing, running a deli in the Fordham section of the Bronx.
Speaker: And I know, love a pastrami sandwich on rye.
Speaker: Holy God.
Speaker: Just switched the dinner plans up.
Speaker: Thank you, Lord Jesus.
Speaker: Chelsea are going to have themselves a fight.
Speaker: They had themselves a fight midweek and got out of it.
Speaker: They rested, did do some changes, but ended up bringing on a few players.
Speaker: I want to make sure I'm very clear on what Chelsea are.
Speaker: They are a young player ruining club.
Speaker: If you're a young player and you go to Chelsea, your career is ruined.
Speaker: You're ruined.
Speaker: Cole Palmer, I'm looking at you.
Speaker: Cole Palmer, I'm looking at you.
Speaker: The thing, and I want to address this later on with City, but I don't get it with him.
Speaker: I'm really bothered by it.
Speaker: It's not a smart move for me.
Speaker: But Chelsea continue to spend in ways that I don't understand, specifically because, I don't know, I support a club that spends a whole lot of fucking money and we never did it like this.
Speaker: So how are they able to do it like this?
Speaker: And we got all the scrutiny, but I digress.
Speaker: Chelsea are going to win this game 3-1.
Speaker: And I don't know how they're going to get three fucking goals.
Speaker: But they're at home.
Speaker: I did see some of the feedback from the midweek fixture.
Speaker: And I did see that Chelsea's feeling a lot more confident about how they're attacking the final third.
Speaker: So, just a little bit of some... A little bit more confident.
Speaker: I'm going 3-1 Chelsea.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: He has to, right?
Speaker: While Awonihi took care of me last week,
Speaker: I'm falling away.
Speaker: I'm stepping back.
Speaker: I'm not going back to back.
Speaker: I want to spread it out a little bit.
Speaker: I want to show a little bit of some love to everyone.
Speaker: It's early.
Speaker: It's early to go ahead and go crazy full commitment on a player or two.
Speaker: So I'm staying away from Chelsea and Forrest.
Speaker: Staying away with it 100%.
Speaker: I can see it.
Speaker: I would love it.
Speaker: I really would like to see a clean sheet.
Speaker: Fulham coming off of a devastating attack on Tottenham and their whole situation to maintain their trophy-less seasons.
Speaker: Fulham coming off and taking points away from a tough Arsenal team who are predicted to go far in the Premier League and do other great things this year.
Speaker: Fulham coming on an opportunity to do things against City at the Etihad.
Speaker: Feeling good about it.
Speaker: I rate what the mentality could be for them.
Speaker: I got City winning.
Speaker: I want to be very clear.
Speaker: And I got City winning this one 3-1.
Speaker: Now, I want to address a certain thing about
Speaker: Just clingliness.
Speaker: City fans cling to some of their academy players.
Speaker: Brian, I got to be honest with you.
Speaker: It hits a little differently when you watch your players win and win everything and consistently have been on rosters for you to where
Speaker: They've had opportunities to go.
Speaker: They've been literally maybe up and coming through the academy or have been with you for long periods of time.
Speaker: And there's just a moment where you just feel, yeah, the day will come that they go somewhere else.
Speaker: But it'll be maybe in a situation that is right for them or goes out like on free, like a gun to gun where you're just like, yeah, great service.
Speaker: Thank you for everything.
Speaker: And you move.
Speaker: What I've seen a lot of City fans try to do when it comes to our academy players is have love and appreciation for them, but also kind of wonder why they leave.
Speaker: And what I kind of want to just hit on when it comes to this is because it's going back to the great business that City do.
Speaker: And one of the things – it's tough.
Speaker: I know it's tough.
Speaker: I cling to some of these players too.
Speaker: personal favorite is always going to be Phil Foden.
Speaker: And actually, I really like McAtee.
Speaker: I really like McAtee.
Speaker: I would love for McAtee to work out with us.
Speaker: Left-footed, small, David Silva would love to be in his spirit and move forward through him.
Speaker: I just see it and I want it for him.
Speaker: I know you feel great about Smith Rowe.
Speaker: I know you feel great about Saka.
Speaker: Saka's doing great things at your club.
Speaker: He's the cornerstone of it and he came up through.
Speaker: I feel that.
Speaker: But the thing about City that you have to understand is
Speaker: When you're trying to do football as a conglomerate by creating the City Football Group, when you invest into the entire foundation to make the city of Manchester even better with the funding and how things operate, some things that the red side of Manchester don't do because they can't even get their own fucking stadium right.
Speaker: When City do these types of things and they create this ground of foundation of success, you have to be willing to part with some of these players.
Speaker: And if you ask yourself or question the club or think they're not doing it right kind of thing, you might want to remind yourself on the circumstances and the status of who we are and what we're doing.
Speaker: And what we're trying to do at this point is very, very simple.
Speaker: Continue a level and a standard that at this point in time has not been matched by many clubs.
Speaker: And I'm only looking at Real Madrid.
Speaker: I cannot look at another club.
Speaker: Now that we have done the Champions League and you look at consistently where we've been in the last four to five years, semifinals, finals, semifinals, finals, winning it, winning the three-peat, going for four, the treble, the consistency.
Speaker: This is a business and it's running at full cylinder right now.
Speaker: Since Pep has arrived, we have produced $442 million.
Speaker: In sales from the City Youth Academy.
Speaker: That is an average of $63 million a year.
Speaker: $63 million.
Speaker: We're selling a cucurella a year just off of our academy.
Speaker: It is incredible at what we do when we invest and turn things into a profit and get things going.
Speaker: And when these players come up, like the Oscar Bobs, who I have a complete, absolute admiration for right now, like the Rico Lewis's, and some stay.
Speaker: I'm looking at Rico.
Speaker: I'm looking at Phil.
Speaker: Phil will never leave.
Speaker: You heard it here first on the podcast.
Speaker: I don't know if that's breaking news to anybody, but it's laughable when I heard someone on TalkSport try to even bring up the simple concept that, well, he's not starting.
Speaker: I mean, where would he go?
Speaker: City Academy.
Speaker: It's the lack of respect for what I call right now.
Speaker: We are big club fucking status.
Speaker: And we have to remind ourselves that is where we are.
Speaker: And when we get down about what are we doing selling our young players and all that, we swindled Chelsea.
Speaker: If you would have told me a year ago you would get $100 million for both Raheem Sterling and Cole Palmer, I would have laughed at you.
Speaker: And I also would have laughed at you a little bit aroused.
Speaker: You're nuts.
Speaker: A hundred millions in absolute steel for those two types of players.
Speaker: One doesn't want to stay because of competition and playing time, and the other one doesn't want to stay because of playing time.
Speaker: Now the both of you lot get to go enjoy together, playing the same fucking position right now.
Speaker: That's not a question or a problem I have to solve anymore.
Speaker: I take the cheese, and I keep it moving.
Speaker: Cole Palmer, I rate you.
Speaker: You're a young, raw talent, but you made a horrible, horrible decision.
Speaker: A horrible business decision.
Speaker: player decision for your career.
Speaker: I rate you, again, I want to state right now, and all you did throughout this beginning of the season,
Speaker: was essentially raise your stock value.
Speaker: And to that I say Pep is a genius one more time.
Speaker: By bringing you on and you getting that fucking equalizer in the UEFA Super Cup to get us into Penns and ultimately we win it.
Speaker: The opener against Arsenal in the I don't give a shit shield.
Speaker: Incredible, incredible that you raise your stock and do those things.
Speaker: But I had high hopes for you to continue to stay in fight and battle.
Speaker: Right behind me is a fucking poster of us winning the Champions League.
Speaker: And you're there fucking lifting it, Cole.
Speaker: And you could have stayed and built something more.
Speaker: It's Jaden Sancho-ish.
Speaker: You took bad advice.
Speaker: And again, I say I rate you.
Speaker: You're raw talent and I rate you and I'm thankful for what you did.
Speaker: But you got bad advice and this is a career changing move.
Speaker: We will see how it plays out.
Speaker: But us City fans have to learn to let go.
Speaker: We have to learn
Speaker: Well, I mean, shout out to the brother because he is biracial.
Speaker: Cole Palmer looks like a white guy.
Speaker: I'm here breaking news.
Speaker: He is a biracial man.
Speaker: That man is legit.
Speaker: You can give those looks all you want, brother.
Speaker: I have seen pictures.
Speaker: I have seen pictures.
Speaker: I know what his granddad looks like.
Speaker: I know what his father looks like.
Speaker: This is what I talk about.
Speaker: We love these guys.
Speaker: We love these kids.
Speaker: They were with us since 16.
Speaker: He's done nothing but win.
Speaker: His trophy cabinet is bigger than certain players at 30 right now.
Speaker: There's a reason why we cling to these players.
Speaker: Oh, he clocked early?
Speaker: And see, this is what I love to have.
Speaker: This is a great conversation to have because Cole Palmer hit a banger goal on the way to the treble in the FA Cup, like maybe seventh, eighth round against some titnicky team.
Speaker: But that's a big time minute.
Speaker: You contribute.
Speaker: Remember, remember, a bench that you say is world-class.
Speaker: He sees a sprinkle of minutes.
Speaker: Oh, very little, if none, if any.
Speaker: If any.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: for free.
Speaker: In a year from now, should you – that's just so laughable.
Speaker: He didn't contribute to the – he did contribute.
Speaker: He's on the roster.
Speaker: He got Champions League minutes.
Speaker: It's not like he didn't play.
Speaker: Now, group stage, yeah, but the knockouts – like any club, Brian, you're going to shrink the lineup.
Speaker: You're going to shrink the minutes.
Speaker: You want to win the games.
Speaker: Listen, when you win a trophy, we can have a conversation about how you feel about with your players and the connections there.
Speaker: I know how much you rate Sokka right now.
Speaker: Sokka gets awards at
Speaker: I'm well aware.
Speaker: I'm well aware.
Speaker: But he's your academy player.
Speaker: He's your academy cornerstone player.
Speaker: He is a player that has come up into a certain... Here's the other thing, too.
Speaker: When he gets love from a pep at a young age, that says something.
Speaker: I.e.
Speaker: Phil.
Speaker: I.e.
Speaker: Rico.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So did Sancho.
Speaker: I'm not sitting here saying this is a good decision.
Speaker: I'm clear on this.
Speaker: This is a bad move, and you are 100% right.
Speaker: He's going to get lost in the shuffle.
Speaker: But I want to make sure the but is clear.
Speaker: There is a player there.
Speaker: There is a player there that could be nurtured.
Speaker: He will not get that at Chelsea.
Speaker: That he could do things.
Speaker: The potential is there.
Speaker: That's what bothers me so much.
Speaker: Like a dad, Brian, I'm bothered that it's better for you to listen to what I'm telling you.
Speaker: It's better for you.
Speaker: And he's not doing it.
Speaker: And it sucks.
Speaker: But we got to pull away from some of these academy players.
Speaker: Because we're averaging a cucurella in sale per year with these fucks.
Speaker: Business.
Speaker: Things.
Speaker: At City.
Speaker: Maintaining the excellence.
Speaker: We did swindle Chelsea for the record.
Speaker: 3-1.
Speaker: Who does the more bouncier?
Speaker: Who does the more bouncier at the back?
Speaker: What if I think either of them don't do a bouncier back enough?
Speaker: What I think of just... I think there's a potential for a draw here.
Speaker: No one really cares about Seagull Stadium and playing out there by the coast.
Speaker: It ain't that difficult.
Speaker: Anyhow, coming off of an embarrassing loss, you have to go... You lost an easy one at home by easing
Speaker: Oh, God.
Speaker: That's making him lose sleep, ain't it?
Speaker: Oh, Eddie, Eddie, we're going to see the fortitude that you're made of this year, sir.
Speaker: Testicular fortitude will be checked on you, Eddie Howe.
Speaker: Just brace it.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm going, you know what?
Speaker: I'm going 2-2 draw.
Speaker: Gold score?
Speaker: I know who's scoring in this game.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Alexander Isik.
Speaker: Let's score it.
Speaker: Let's score it.
Speaker: Yeah, you're at one.
Speaker: Sterling.
Speaker: Here it is.
Speaker: Here's your next score, right?
Speaker: Shut up.
Speaker: You're really thinking SA?
Speaker: You're touching this game?
Speaker: I'm going 2-1.
Speaker: Crystal Palace win.
Speaker: And I think two matchups ago when talking about City, we talked about the swindling.
Speaker: It might have been when we talked about Chelsea or when we talked about City.
Speaker: Yeah, we talked about the swindling.
Speaker: I want to talk a little bit more about some swindling because Matthias Nunch, welcome.
Speaker: We're doing the Portuguese pronunciation when it comes to Matthias.
Speaker: Oh, the final price.
Speaker: Good question.
Speaker: I think it was $63 million.
Speaker: Let me confirm.
Speaker: No add-ons.
Speaker: No incentives.
Speaker: None of that shit.
Speaker: He does get a 10% sell-on clause.
Speaker: That I know for sure.
Speaker: But yeah.
Speaker: The swindling.
Speaker: 53 million.
Speaker: 53.
Speaker: Five three.
Speaker: Fucking swindling.
Speaker: Wolves got hit with Augusto.
Speaker: Thank you for your service.
Speaker: And goodbye.
Speaker: You get...
Speaker: The Tommy Doyle on loan with a salon clause and all that good stuff that we'd like to do or buy a buy option.
Speaker: We did all that good stuff.
Speaker: All right, Tommy.
Speaker: Again, clinging to your academy players who have won things in your club.
Speaker: Do good things.
Speaker: You've been loaned out before, so this is nothing new with you.
Speaker: Enjoy that process.
Speaker: You're going to get some goals put on your head because it's Wolves.
Speaker: And, you know,
Speaker: taking advantage of a financial situation for them.
Speaker: I think he's a great player.
Speaker: I've obviously spoken on how highly I rate him and I love to fucking see it ending the window.
Speaker: Great.
Speaker: I think we're done at this point, but you got to question wolves and what they're doing with a couple of the players that have been leaving recently.
Speaker: You look at the circumstances over there.
Speaker: It's not, not good.
Speaker: And managers leaving suddenly happened before years past.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: Got to ask a lot of questions right now on this Wolves side.
Speaker: So, yeah, I'm going two to one Crystal Palace, and thank you for Matthias News.
Speaker: Thank you for Matthias.
Speaker: Oh, I'm going two to one Crystal Palace.
Speaker: They get a goal.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: No, sir.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
Speaker: It's a great bounce back win for pool to be undermanned and still take advantage and show heart and fight and determination.
Speaker: Villa are a scary team.
Speaker: Kind of hot and cold back and forth.
Speaker: I know they're going to come out aggressive.
Speaker: I know they're going to go at them.
Speaker: And ultimately my biggest question mark here is who's got the worst defense.
Speaker: And I think it's pool.
Speaker: I'm going with a...
Speaker: Two to two draw.
Speaker: I can't fucking pick up.
Speaker: I can't.
Speaker: I can't do it.
Speaker: I can't do it.
Speaker: It's Anfield, but I'm sorry.
Speaker: That bullshit is over.
Speaker: I'm done with it.
Speaker: I'm done with it.
Speaker: I'm not here to listen to how great it is to hear you'll never walk alone.
Speaker: It's done.
Speaker: The days of that being a fortress are over.
Speaker: And I think Villa come out.
Speaker: In fact, if you want to do it, I'm willing to do it right now.
Speaker: Villa score first.
Speaker: If you want to take the opposite for a prop bet.
Speaker: Yeah, that's how much I rate the whole situation with Anfield and how fucking lackluster that shit is.
Speaker: Fill a score first.
Speaker: Two to two draw for me.
Speaker: I'm going draw.
Speaker: I do have a goal scorer, though.
Speaker: Mohamed Salah.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Do me right, Unai.
Speaker: Do me fucking right, Unai.
Speaker: Ho ho ho ho!
Speaker: uh
Speaker: Yeah, you've already talked too much about last year.
Speaker: You've already talked too much about last year.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: There it is.
Speaker: That's what I need right now.
Speaker: That's what I need.
Speaker: I need it.
Speaker: I need it.
Speaker: Here we go.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Does he do it?
Speaker: No, Raya, after the Fulham situation, this isn't time yet.
Speaker: We're three games in.
Speaker: I have questions.
Speaker: Why do we go sign a top keeper for fucking nothing if our Ramsdale keeper is going to do it and fuck up and we're not going to give the guy a chance?
Speaker: He's not giving Carabella now.
Speaker: He doesn't get the Carabella now.
Speaker: Does that not change anything?
Speaker: Because Brentford are not going to let him play.
Speaker: So does that not mean he gets a start before international break?
Speaker: Free Jose Raya.
Speaker: Nah, free Raya.
Speaker: This is bullshit.
Speaker: This is bullshit.
Speaker: This is unbelievable.
Speaker: What are we doing?
Speaker: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's ballsy for you to say.
Speaker: You're going to war with those three.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Fair.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Get the fuck out of here, big.
Speaker: Didn't he come off the bench?
Speaker: Hmm.
Speaker: This could be something.
Speaker: I see this being something.
Speaker: I didn't even think about it being something, but I think this could be something.
Speaker: I think we're going to be demand.
Speaker: I think there are going to be demands for Chisard Jesus.
Speaker: I think there are going to be demands.
Speaker: I think.
Speaker: All right, well, let me just ask the question right now because I'm going to go ahead and say it.
Speaker: O'Leary, I hope I'm doing you proud, bucko.
Speaker: Let me ask, Brian, what in the fuck does Fabio, oh, Fabio, what does Fabio have to do to get a fucking start for Arsenal, sir?
Speaker: What does he have to do?
Speaker: I'm asking the question, sir.
Speaker: I'm doing O'Leary as best as I can over here.
Speaker: The follow-up questions are for O'Leary.
Speaker: does he have to do?
Speaker: He super subbed and got a cross in.
Speaker: I mean, look at him.
Speaker: He almost hit a bicycle.
Speaker: He almost hit a worldie.
Speaker: Aaron Wan-Bissaka is going to be tearing up Martinelli.
Speaker: I couldn't even say it seriously.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: I couldn't even say.
Speaker: Look, I'm giving you the United starting fucking 11.
Speaker: Since we're in here, O'Leary, tell me if I'm doing you proud.
Speaker: Atkeeper.
Speaker: Oh, na-na.
Speaker: Yeah, you suck.
Speaker: Oh, na-na.
Speaker: Clear.
Speaker: He's got to start.
Speaker: He's got to start.
Speaker: Uh.
Speaker: Varan's out.
Speaker: I'm going.
Speaker: Basaka.
Speaker: And I'm bringing in the new guy.
Speaker: Whoever the fuck I finish signing by the end of the windows, the guy I'm going with.
Speaker: Who is that?
Speaker: Regulon?
Speaker: Looking like Regulon?
Speaker: You think?
Speaker: He's hell of attacking.
Speaker: That's gonna be
Speaker: Hey, let's hope he was doing that while running on a treadmill.
Speaker: Fuck, he needs something.
Speaker: I mean, this is problematic right now.
Speaker: Casemiro, Bruno, and I'm going Erickson.
Speaker: Yeah, Lissandro and Ligal.
Speaker: It has to be.
Speaker: It has to be.
Speaker: I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker: Get the fuck out of here.
Speaker: We don't even have to say his name.
Speaker: I can just joke as much as I want, but I'm not even going there with O'Leary.
Speaker: It's not even a point to bring that fucking douchebag up.
Speaker: It's gotta be Lindelof, and it's gotta be fucking... Fucking what's his name?
Speaker: Yeah, The Butcher.
Speaker: It's gotta be The Butcher.
Speaker: He's gonna talk Spanish to Regulon on the left.
Speaker: They'll be okay.
Speaker: Figure it out.
Speaker: God, this fucking...
Speaker: Oh, God, that's not even a question.
Speaker: We should be wondering.
Speaker: The better question, over or under three and a half yellows.
Speaker: Can I share with you my prop bet?
Speaker: Oh, yeah, I have to agree with you on there.
Speaker: I don't support gambling.
Speaker: Technically, I do.
Speaker: I'm in an illegal state, so don't ask me questions on how I'm able to do this.
Speaker: But let me pull up this prop bet and tell me what you think here.
Speaker: Because I am a big fan of this here.
Speaker: I actually think I'm going to be cooking something special here.
Speaker: People sleeping on some of these bets.
Speaker: Let's see.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: So the bets that I have going on right now for this game, I have over five and a half corners.
Speaker: Over three and a half yellow cards.
Speaker: Over or under.
Speaker: Three and a half goals.
Speaker: That is.
Speaker: my over-under prop bet for this game.
Speaker: I'm actually pretty stoked for it.
Speaker: I think this is going to be a good doozy of a game.
Speaker: Are you taking Saka?
Speaker: Yeah, this is a really good game to get a goal scorer.
Speaker: I fucking hate to have to do this, but I got to pick a rat, and I'm going with the rat that is named Bruno.
Speaker: The rat himself.
Speaker: I think Bruno's going to do it.
Speaker: You know, 3-1 Arsenal.
Speaker: I didn't even finish the fucking...
Speaker: starting 11 for United and that's clear of O'Leary.
Speaker: I'm doing him justice because that's exactly what he'd spaciously and just go into other tangents.
Speaker: So let's do Arsenal.
Speaker: You must win, right?
Speaker: You must win, right?
Speaker: Confidence factor.
Speaker: How are you feeling about this one?
Speaker: Have to, right?
Speaker: 10 point scale.
Speaker: What is it?
Speaker: Yeah, where you at?
Speaker: 10 hags record against big teams is fucking shit.
Speaker: It's shit.
Speaker: And then it's not good.
Speaker: It's not good.
Speaker: I'm going to go three to two Arsenal.
Speaker: I think.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Shout out to them.
Speaker: We know what they do.
Speaker: I think, look, shout out.
Speaker: Let's say it right.
Speaker: Awards were just recently done.
Speaker: A couple of players were awarded some of the achievements of what happened last year.
Speaker: Saka got himself a good award.
Speaker: Holland doing Holland things.
Speaker: A couple of other players were awarded.
Speaker: I think that's a good note to kind of finish up on last year's achievements on the, um,
Speaker: Correct, yes.
Speaker: The PFA Awards, which I liked the team that they actually put out.
Speaker: I was kind of a fan of the 11 themselves.
Speaker: I think they did some justice to a few players that in years past have not gotten justice.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm a fan.
Speaker: I'm a fan of the winnings.
Speaker: I like it.
Speaker: I like it.
Speaker: It was real.
Speaker: I thought this was, yeah, I was about to be like, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And this is where I want to talk about the voting and the players voting for it.
Speaker: Because the players themselves are showing bias.
Speaker: That's clearly a bias towards the Champions League final and how he finished the end of the year and how incredible of a Swiss Army knife he ended up being for us.
Speaker: statistically, minutes-wise, all that stuff is exactly accurate.
Speaker: But it's the same reason, in my humble opinion, that they chose Saka for Young Player of the Year award.
Speaker: Because they basically... I mean, by deductive reasoning, when you're qualified to win both and you win Player of the Year, it's as simple as understanding you should have won Young Player of the Year.
Speaker: We have...
Speaker: Yeah, when you have Gareth Bale and when you have Cristiano Ronaldo doing the thing where they've done the picture of the two before, it's, in my humble opinion, just simple, easy understanding.
Speaker: But they have a thing lately about that young player of the year award.
Speaker: And if you've noticed, it's been five years running that an English person has won it.
Speaker: Foden won it twice.
Speaker: A couple others have won it, young players.
Speaker: So they do a thing about that.
Speaker: Little buys from those players who are voting.
Speaker: But yeah, no, it's just a thing.
Speaker: It's City fans getting all your panties in a knot about it.
Speaker: Really, honestly, it's not that big of a fucking deal.
Speaker: And if anything, you're just making the fucking robot more hungry.
Speaker: So that's completely fine with me.
Speaker: I don't give a Hulu fuck.
Speaker: Let him feast on fucking Fulham this weekend.
Speaker: I think he cares about everything.
Speaker: I think he cares about everything.
Speaker: I've seen stories about conversations that he's had with players coming up that he's played against and then with later on.
Speaker: And he's big on certain things.
Speaker: If you've heard his press conferences where,
Speaker: There was one in particular where he was asked last year about a particular team going into the game.
Speaker: They said they'd stop him.
Speaker: He was respectful and didn't respond and give him anything.
Speaker: He scores in the game.
Speaker: And then the commentator had the audacity to ask him about the comment before the game.
Speaker: And then even said, they seemed like they found a way today.
Speaker: And his response was, well, actually they didn't because I scored.
Speaker: Like he gives a shit about little things.
Speaker: And I think that's just who he is.
Speaker: But –
Speaker: Even if it's not, the beautiful thing about it is the intrinsic motivation is there.
Speaker: The fact that we just got younger at the end of this window, the fact that we're looking average age just got that much more, and Pep is going to find a way to get the guys who haven't done shit with us to be salivating and ready and push Holland, I'm completely fine with it.
Speaker: I'm pretty sure he's qualified to do it this year, and if he doesn't get a goal record and does his thing and has a good season, I'd like to get my next goal.
Speaker: And again, just fucking around, right?
Speaker: Obviously, I want to win everything, but my next goal, 10-plus assists.
Speaker: And if I'm not mistaken, he had seven or eight last year.
Speaker: So if I can get a season where he has 25, 30 goals and 10 and 11 assists, holy fuck me.
Speaker: Holy shit.
Speaker: What are people going to be saying about Holland then?
Speaker: And that's scary to think because he literally had seven or eight assists last year.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Peace.
Speaker: You did, crazy bastard.
