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Episode 76 - West Ham Crossover!
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Daily Brighton – Joe and Bless discuss the Seagulls upcoming trip to London with Daily West Ham.
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00:00:10
Speaker
hello guys and welcome back to another episode of the daily gspn westland podcast i'm joined by jacob say hello mate hello how you doing i'm doing well mate i'm also joined by a couple of guys from the brighten gspn podcast say hello guys introduce yourselves god bless yeah i'm blessings gspn brighten happy to be here speaking to you boys Yeah and i'm ah I'm Joe from Daily Brighton, yes. Ready to probably get cooked on the weekend to be fair but other than that we're all good mate, all good. Good, okay right so I want to start this podcast with some questions from West End fans for b Brighton fans. I think my first one is
00:00:50
Speaker
Your recruitment strategy is obviously brilliant. How does it feel watching the players that you sign and turn into these amazing players, go on to other teams and do really well? Obviously, Caesado signed in for Chelsea. He initially didn't set the world a light, but this season he's been amazing. How how does that make you guys feel?
00:01:09
Speaker
hello you go bless if you want um yes it's obviously tricky to see your best players leave pretty much every season um but the sort of money they're getting from it I think the idea is would hope that that money is used very well and we can sort of start progressing and have ah more seasons in Europe um that we've previously done. But yeah, like you um like I said, it is difficult, especially because it was a big hit, but that transfer fee was a lot of money. um And that's been used quite well to sort of just make sure we're sustainable and we can actually continue to keep finishing at least top 10 each season.
00:01:50
Speaker
So I think, yeah, long term, if that money is used well and we keep just progressing, um being a sort of homestay in the top 10 and then progressing to be the and the outside European positions, then yeah, bittersweet, but I think I'll take that. Yeah, I think my my one question for that is,
00:02:13
Speaker
Surely you get to a point where if you want to make that step up, you have to stop being the selling team. I know obviously that might be quite far in the future, but I guess the what I would assume the projection is, you know, you you keep doing it until you can consistently get into Europe. And then if you want to stay there, you have to stop selling basically at some point.
00:02:32
Speaker
Yeah, that's the idea. And I think once we in the long term, in an ideal world, once we are sort of finishing in the those European spots a bit more ah consistently, I think the players would want to stay. I think one big ah driving point for a player who wants to move is to play in Europe and all the promises these other clubs can give. um That's definitely one thing that's a ah real big selling point for them. So if we can,
00:03:00
Speaker
off of European football, I'm sure more players would want to come to play for Brighton and our best players would be happy to stay as well. Yeah, that's really fair. Jake, have you got any questions for the guys? Yeah, I mean, I get what you're saying with how hard it can be to hold on to your best players. I know that's sort of Brighton's whole model really is, you know, scouting these exciting young players from South America and then turn them in superstars, send them off and making a huge profit on it. and You know, we haven't really done anything to that sort of same extent. i'm we We haven't made a huge amount of money. The only one really in in recent times would be Deck and Rice.
00:03:49
Speaker
but he was homegrown anyway. so yeah um who Who do you think you guys, who's who's your standout player so far this season? who's Who have you been impressed by the most? Maybe you weren't quite expecting it.
00:04:05
Speaker
Um, to be fair, I mean, I'd say not expecting it. Personally, I think, um, ah I would say belabor personally, but I feel like if you watch enough of him, you sort of see it there anyway. Joe Peugeot, you can't really count because sort of, he's a bit more in terms of like his sort of pedigree is a little bit more known. Van Hecke was good last season. Um, but I'd say that it,
00:04:34
Speaker
Carlos Belabre is a player who is like you said like you were talking about just then saying about how you'll end up selling on for a lot of money. I feel like Carlos Belabre is a player who even though to be fair I still think we paid like 20-25 million for him like it's not a small transfer fee and I think it actually might have been this might be similar with Quesada. We've actually splashed like 20 mil on a put a lot in the Ecuadorian League or the Colombian League or whatever And um that's still a lot of money, especially for that division. But there's there are certain players who like you can sort of see it might happen, but you're not sure yet. Like Yasin Ari, he looks like quite promising to be fair to him.
00:05:16
Speaker
um Van Hecker is, I think he's 24, I want to say, Van Hecker's like 24. And I mean, he needs, he had an awful game against Palace, but pretty much everyone did. But like, it's i'm curious to see how much of a fee he would command if he was to sort of get into that sort of consistent form. But I think Belé was a bit of a where he's got like that game-changing a thing in him and also like that need for like uh athletic six who can sort of do a bit of everything um i think is is quite popular at the moment so i feel who i feel like he'll command a good fee but he's also probably been the most consistent performer i believe apart from the red card he gets born with but there's only one game isn't it
00:05:59
Speaker
Yeah, I guess like it must be frustrating that if you sign a player and you know they start playing well, all the other clubs come just circling, don't they? So how how well do you want them to do? And is there like a little part of you that goes, oh, just just don't play well, this one game, it might put a little bit of doubt in other clubs of mine and we'll keep them for an extra season. Well, I think that's the sort of thing that's going on with Belieber as well. I think um the red card that Bournemouth, I think a few teams might look at that and be like, oh, it's a little bit rash.
00:06:29
Speaker
I gave away a penalty at home against Forrest as well. So like when he was doing a couple days, I'm like, oh maybe ah eyes are off for maybe another year. um Like he he is still quite raw. And sometimes when you do see that, I think it it might put some teams off, which is a good thing. Yeah.
00:06:46
Speaker
Because I guess the money's not coming to me, so I don't want him to go. That's not what I mean. I'll add to that, to be fair, because for for someone like, when you see the way that the like the sort of way that Tony Bloom works is that, like so for example, you with our players, we ask for, normally, a team would go in under what they would actually want to pay, right? And then, obviously, you build up to there. If you can get below it, then calm.
00:07:15
Speaker
But the thing is, is that we've caught with the contracts, if the players like contracted to the club, the player would have to force his way out because we're going to ask for exponentially more than what we even value that player at. So like Kaiseido, for example, I'm sure that obviously I don't know, but like I'm sure you could just see it in the inflated transfer fee. It was a crazy amount of money for a player who'd only really been good for a season.
00:07:40
Speaker
So like you you're sort of looking at the but then you look at Alexis Lacala star and Alexis calluses will sort of come to the end of his contract um I think he had like a clause in his contract as well But like you we're not gonna sell to you if we don't need if we don't want one wants other player And if we if you are gonna come in with a crazy amount of money then you can have the player But you're gonna be paying over the odds for the value of the player anyway So it that in that way, it's sort of like a win-win situation. So obviously you want your players to do well, but that if they're going to be so like, for example, Jal Pedro, we're looking at like a hundred million for Jal Pedro. Like that that was said, I think it was reported a couple of days ago. Like that's, it's a lot, you might not think he's worth that money, but that's the money that you have to pay to take him away because he's under contract.
00:08:29
Speaker
Yeah, that's a pretty smart way of doing it, isn't it? It's like, yeah not completely, like the option is there, but they have to jump through certain hoops in order to get that, which I think is a really good way of having it and having those safeguards in place so that you don't get ransacked every year, I think is a really good way of doing it. Okay, we're just going to go to the first advert and then we'll get back. The Brighton boys are going to ask us some questions.
00:08:51
Speaker
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00:09:19
Speaker
Um, my first one is actually going to be, to be fair, it's a little bit selfish for me to sort of, um, to sort of ask just from a curiosity point of view. Uh, this goes to both of you as well. Is it a Lopategi in vibe or is it a Lopategi out vibe? Is it, uh, what are we, what are we, what are we sort of thinking? Go on, Jacob. i I'll let you take that one. Um, the thing is I.
00:09:45
Speaker
have no ill feeling towards Lopategi at all. I think he's he's got ideas and he's he's tried. so you know it It just hasn't worked, basically. um I think Tom Waller grew with me. like the The main thing we've lacked this season is just like an identity, like any sort of identity at all. um And with David Moyes,
00:10:14
Speaker
that is something we had, you know, that you could turn on the West End game and you basically know what you're going to get from the game. We're going to sit back, have like 30% of the ball and hit you on the counter. But with Lopategi, we never know what we're going to get at all. um Sometimes the players show up, sometimes they don't. They make bad decisions. You know, it's that inconsistency that has frustrated us so much because there have been times where we've looked really good. And then there have been times where, you know, we literally look like a semi-pro team out there at times, like, you know, can't string more than a couple of passes together, give the ball away, concede. And we're just like back to square one. And ah once again, he's under pressure.
00:11:07
Speaker
And it's not something that, you know, you can really keep up with for a long time. I think me personally, I would. Now that we're at this stage of the season, I wouldn't get rid of him. I would, I would want to make that decision closer to the end of the season or at the end of the season, because, you know, otherwise we've kind of just wasted our time. Really, you know, they they've spent all this money and.
00:11:36
Speaker
there's got to be something to show for it. um i think I think he deserves until the end of the season and then we re-evaluate and I'd be looking at somebody else to come in, I would hope. Because where we're sitting right now just isn't good enough for our club.
00:11:56
Speaker
yeah is What do you think, Tom? It's a really weird one because he's not been good, but he's not been bad enough to the point where everyone thinks he should go. is It seems like this constant cycle of, oh, it's really bad. It's really bad. Oh, that was all right, actually. And oh, we've got a a win here. And if you look at the you know you look at the point figures, it's not terrible. And you know we're not getting relegated or anything. It's just been a bit lackluster. so when it actually comes to making a ah choice about whether to keep him or to let him go, I don't think it's bad enough to be beneficial to get a new manager in at this point, and to be honest, because how can you guarantee that a new manager is gonna be any better? And he's I think he's only gonna get better with time. you know When you have the sort of squad overhaul that we had and a new manager bringing a new philosophy to the club, you know it is those things are gonna take time. It's just whether the board are gonna be patient enough
00:12:46
Speaker
and are willing to potentially write off the season in hopes that next season will be better. And then the risk is, what if it's not better next season? Then we've wasted loads more time. So it's a tough one. I'm kind of fence setting right now. I don't think that we should get rid of him. But if we do, it has to be before January. Because if you are bringing a new manager in, you have to give them the opportunity to go and sign someone. They have to be able to make a couple of additions. But you know if we sack him in February,
00:13:12
Speaker
The new manager then has to deal with you know the whole second half of the season with no additions, which is going to be so difficult. And that's only going to make the chance of that new manager's career tenure actually at the club. It's going to be worse. So yeah, I don't know, maybe slightly fence-sitting, but it's tough. It's a difficult one.
00:13:32
Speaker
He does sound like a bit of a sticky one, so I don't know why. I heard Russell Martin and, what's a matey's name from Wolves F3, currently, job centre. Yeah. Hit them up, mate, honestly. I think I'm all right, mate. I probably have David Morris back there. He's got his number saved somewhere.
00:13:47
Speaker
It just sounds it sounds very like um like you you you're not confused. that That sounds patronizing, but you sound like you're not sure. like you're not you know You don't know whether that's the way forward. though You don't really see like the way forward, which is quite deep, actually. but a like To be fair, obviously, I don't envy you. Also, not one to take the mic massively, but like um it is a bit of ah a bit of a sticky situation. Blessed have you got one. Yeah, i think um I'm glad you touched on playing style because that answered one of the questions I did have.
00:14:17
Speaker
um But my original idea was, um so going into the season, what was the expectations? Obviously you've got a new manager in with a um high reputation. um What was the expectations?
00:14:33
Speaker
I think it was we wanted more of the ball. you know if he If we wanted to continue on the David Waters route, he is someone that likes to play kind of defensive football on the counter attack which worked really well and it brought us so much success. So I think to downplay that way of playing football I think is so naive because it brought us our first trophy in absolute yonks.
00:14:56
Speaker
When you actually want to take that step up, you obviously have to change the manager and you need to change the squad and you need to revamp the way that we approach the game. And Lopategi's supposed philosophy was having the ball, controlling possession more, you know not rushing to score goals, but working and building play and having tricky players that can you know intricately pass the ball. and It just hasn't really materialized. Like we've seen it in glimpses. the The Newcastle game is the one game where we actually showed that way of playing and we were amazing. It was really good. But is one game actually playing that style good enough compared to, you know, however many like 10, 11 other games, but we haven't. And also, do you think he's been given the chance of bringing his players? I know ah one player came from La Liga. Is it Rodriguez?
00:15:50
Speaker
Greedo, yeah. Yeah, we're doing good, yeah. Yeah, and then obviously, Juan Bissaka as well, who I ah don't know, I don't i don't watch West Ham that much, but I wouldn't put him down as a sort of ball playing, like a player who's going to be good enough to be playing up from the back kind of thing. So do you think that he that's his sign in as well? j i think I think there's definitely been a nother in hear Yeah, a bit laggy. ah ah Yeah, so there's there's definitely been a mixture of, you know, his signings and, you know, Tim Staiten, our director who, you know, has done great things for us so far.
00:16:38
Speaker
um Not all of them have been great. You know, like Rodriguez, like you mentioned before, he was a bit of a ah roll of the dice at his age. You know, he is technically a ah World Cup winner and it seemed on paper like a great signing, but he hasn't been amazing. You know, he's, I think he's kind of struggled to get up to the speed of of the league. Um,
00:17:07
Speaker
at his age as well it's not easy it's not easy to do but with the money we've spent you know there's there's no way we should be in a worse position than we were last year basically and and some of the signings are excellent players you know like Max Killman has been one of our best players so far this season and you kind of feel for him in a way because he's obviously trying at looking to look into sort of progress his career moving up you know ah what we would say is ah an upgrade from wolves to be you know kind of in a bad situation now where you know he he's obviously worked under Lopategi in the past he knows what he's like but just the results aren't there um and it must be it must feel kind of bad for him you know probably being promised this you know whole West Ham rebuild and then
00:18:06
Speaker
having such a lacklustre season so far. So I don't think ah don't think the signings are the issue because the quote we quality we've got is there to be seen. You know, some of the players, Paquetta, Bowen, Kudas, you know, Sucek has been one of our most important players this season, getting on the end of, you know, corners and set pieces. and We just need to find our identity and you know, just we shouldn't be in the position we are, basically.
00:18:41
Speaker
I hear it, I hear it, I hear it. It's a, it's a, it's a Gollum sound in, um, Gollum sound in Figrid. Sucek is your, your, one of your most supportive players. Those disrespect on my Sucek. He is, he is. Oh my God. I only, I only hinted at, at disrespecting him as well. I don't even get it off in time. I'll defend that out of my life. He is an absolute hero as well. And he's kind of patient where he does a little spinning circle with his arms out. Iconic. Out back for FIFA instantly. Amazing.
00:19:09
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00:19:38
Speaker
Okay, so combined 11. We're going to start from the goalkeeper because we're not like insane start from the striker that'd be nuts. nice city Do you who would like to start who thinks that they their player is a shoe in definitely has to be in no, you know, qualms about it at all. Anyone?
00:19:58
Speaker
To be fair, I haven't really watched much of West Ham this season. Probably them and Fulham, I'd say, are the two that I haven't watched that much of. But I don't think Arriola is that bad, to be honest. I think he's decent, but he also has a lot to do quite often. But I think Verbragan has been one of the best goalkeepers in the league. I'm not even just saying that either, genuinely. I think he has been probably... I say, we've said it on the pub before, haven't we bless it? Goalkeeping has not really been a strong suit of the Premier League this season. I think if you're looking at some of the players who are like Chelsea a second, they've got one of the worst goalkeepers in the league. So like, do you know what I mean? Like, I think I'd say probably Verbragen, Rijer, Ohnana maybe, and that's saying something as well. But yeah, I'd go, I'd go Verbragen personally.
00:20:46
Speaker
Yeah, but that's fair. It's tough when obviously ariola would be our starting center back, but it's actually been Fabianzky that's been playing a lot recently. and He played really well, especially in the last game. He played if id really well. I think it's a weird one. If if you're saying on like just pure ability, you probably say we're broken over Fabianzky. But if you're saying like,
00:21:06
Speaker
ah the experience and the amount of clean sheets. And if you look at all the stats, like Fabianzky has had an unbelievable Premier League career. So I think he definitely deserves to be in the conversation. But like I wouldn't hate for Brogan being in there because I think he's a really good keeper. Jacob, I don't know what you think. um Yeah, I think a I think I like you said none. There hasn't really been one standout keeper.
00:21:35
Speaker
um this season from any team, I don't think really. And we've seen good performances, you know, the Brueggens had good performances, Fabianski has as well. So I think it's just a toss up really, but just based on what I have watched from the last game, the man that matched performance from Fabianski, you know, managing to rescue us a point, and I would have to choose him basically.
00:22:06
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair. It's a good argument. I think... I think that... I'm guessing both of you guys want... both of the Brighton boys want a Brighton keeper. I'm assuming. I don't know if either of you are going to stay for a West Ham keeper. That would be a bit nuts, to be honest. I'm not biased, to be fair. I'm actually not biased. I've got some... I've got some spots that are literally just for West Ham players. Okay. It's not Thomas.
00:22:33
Speaker
we'll go over brigan and goal let's let's go We'll do all the back four together. Does anyone want to just say they're back four and then we can make our adjustments to it? Who's your left back, Emerson? Yeah. And then send it back to Kilman and? Tadebo.
00:22:51
Speaker
the are to d So for me, I think Juan Massac is definitely in it right back. He's been really good. ah and When you were saying before about him not being that attackingly proficient, he actually has been really good this season going forward. It's really strange. like we didn't We signed him as this like you know kind of mythical one-on-one defender. Everyone's like, oh, he's like the best one-on-one defender there is. But going forward, he's been really lively. And I think it's he seems to have been kind of unleashed at West Ham. So I really like him. I think he definitely gets the right back spot. I guess left back I kind of understand Estou Pinan because Emerson is good and he's played a lot of football in a lot of different competitions. I think he's the only person to win all three UEFA competitions as well. so
00:23:41
Speaker
That's something of an achievement, but I kind of understand as stupidly I'm being in there as well because because I think he's really good. it's then For me, I think the contentious part is more the centre backs, to be honest. I would actually say that both of the West Ham centre backs get in there. I think Max Kilman has been amazing this season. i think he's Jacob's not sure about that one. And then I think to Divo, you know, he was wanted by a like, Juve and stuff like that. And we managed to get him and they're starting to create quite a nice little centre back partnership. I don't think Juve want him anymore, to be fair. I'd just say Van Hecke and then your choice of centre back person. I'd take Van Hecke and Kilman. Yeah, that's fair enough. I'd say not biased. I just had to laugh at the unleashing Bamba Taka. I never thought I'd hear that sentence ever in my life.
00:24:32
Speaker
as a ma heaven and But yeah, has anyone else got any any disagreements with with those picks? not Strangely, one position I would change is left back. I don't think a Stupinian's been that great for us. Oh, did you say a Stupinian? I didn't even hear that. No, a Stupinian's been pony, mate. I think I'd go for Emerson, yeah. I'd go for Emerson, yeah. I wasn't saying it because Emerson would be bad. I was saying it because I thought a Stupinian had been pretty decent. But if you disagree, then that's... He's missing a tendon in his knee or something. He's not the same yeah bloke anymore,
00:25:04
Speaker
Okay, we can go for that then we'll go go for Let's move on to the midfield we'll do we'll play a 4 3 3 just because it's simple We won't get into all this like 4 3 7 2 6 stuff 4 3 3 3 midfielders Who wants to, are there any shoo-ins? Belayba has to go in there, mate. Yeah, I agree with that. That's fair. Peketa. Peketa, right. Can we put Kudus in the midfield just for vibes? I love Kudus, man. I think Kudus... Unbelievably attacking. Well, if you love him, why don't we put him left wing? Seems pretty simple to me. Matoma, we want to get all vibes, surely. I'm thinking more about if we put this team out, how much vibes is it going to be?
00:25:58
Speaker
fair. who would um Who would be that? Who are you putting kudos in for in the midfield? It's not, is there really anyone else you'd say kind of more? tough To be fair, the thing is, is that we play 4-2-3-1. So we only have really two midfield, we have more than two like so central midfielders that we can offer you. But Jal Pedro playing the 10 normally. yeah So then obviously that takes away from like, I wouldn't put, you don't have a striker.
00:26:23
Speaker
Like, I hope Antonio ends up being calm, all that stuff. But Falkrog, where's he? I don't know where he's at. He's been injured as well, so he's only played a thing like two hours of football in total, so not a lot. But then this is a Danny Welbeck podcast, so I don't really know. I don't really know what we need to, what we should do. I'd say Belabor definitely. Matt O'Reilly's barely played. Wiff is awful so far. um And then the only other player is Ari. So you might actually be able to get Shoe Check in there.
00:26:51
Speaker
Yeah, I think what my argument would be was, would you say Beliebers more attacking than Beketa? I wouldn't say, I'd say Beketa's more attacking. Yeah, because I play Sucek and Beliebers, the two midfielders. That's quite a duo in midfield, to be fair. And then Beketa and midfield. And then Houdas on the left, Bowen on the right and Jal Pedro up front. That sounds like the best. Can we swap Jal Pedro for Danny Wilbert?
00:27:20
Speaker
please yeah and because the only reason is, Jal Pedro as a focal point number nine is actually not as good as, he's not being utilised properly there, whereas Danny Welbeck is just the guy. He's Danny Welbeck is our version for you than Sue Trek is for. yeah means underwrite yeah and there Are there any disagreements with that?
00:27:44
Speaker
To be fair, the only player I'd say that we that we would definitely, we've had in almost every single one is Metoma, but I like Kudos a lot. But he was doing up some, he was punching up some dons, wasn't he? I don't know what was going on there. I swear he's just come back from like a really long suspension. It wasn't that, just five games, it's not that long. Just five!
00:28:02
Speaker
ah
00:28:06
Speaker
But yeah, no, I think I think that's pretty decent to be fair. I can't believe soo checks in there. Honestly, sujik is class is he though? He's so good. Jacob, do you think she does good? I know.
00:28:20
Speaker
Like, true technical ability wise, I don't think he is the best player in the world. However, the impact he has I think gets gets very sort of lost. And just generally how many times he's popped up for us. And and yeah, if you if you watch it, if you watch a whole West Ham game, you'll probably see what he brings for us like he wins almost every header like yeah's yeah he's one of one of the best people in the air in the league yeah oh i'd say he wins eight out of ten headers probably against you know most premier league center backs you know are we talking about going forward or defensively or both both he's ease's all over the gap honestly he's everywhere um i'm not trying to pretend that he's
00:29:17
Speaker
you know, the best player at the best center mid in the league. But he, the impact he has, I'd say it's a similar sort of situation to like, McTominay at Napoli sort of vibe, like, just, just everywhere and scores goals, makes big tackles and just reliable, really. yeah So yeah, I could see why it's amusing to non-West End fans, but we, we, we have a lot of respect for him.
00:29:48
Speaker
I hear it. I do hear it. You got respect to respect it. Everyone has their sort of like, would you say he's a cult hero? He's been there for a while, isn't he? Yeah, think I think I think we kids say that about him. Definitely. The amount of money we bought him for, I think him and Kufal, he signed for like 15 million combined. And they've gone on to play over 100 games for us each in the Premier League. So you know, it's um it's a amazing far company to the end now no surely right yeah it's why i like for kufa racket He was sick at one point, he was really good. yeah yeah Yeah, I think he's nearly there. Well, if anyone's got any objections to any of that, they have to speak now, otherwise that's getting locked in and that's going to be our starting 11. Bless, what do you say? you You've been lagging for the time, mate. No, I'm pretty happy with that. I have been sort of trying to tune in and figuring out where where everyone is. but um i'll
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I'm pretty happy with that. I like Soojek as well. I think his skill sets are really underrated to be fair. So, yeah. That's got to be cap, mate. That's got to be cap. Mate, I've known you since we've been in school, mate. You've never once said anything about Soojek in your life, mate. Never once, when we've been down the pub, have you gone, do I really rate Tom Soojek? Never said that before. I have said in the past. He's just put on a compilation while he was lagging. Yeah, I was watching your highlights. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, those two populations have hundreds of views, mate, hundreds. At least 12 views, mate, on a subject. And they're all you as well. Oh, that's good.
00:31:27
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But yeah, I think we were locked in. Yeah, I think that's locked in. So for Bruggen and Gull, Wamba Saka is the right back. Van Hecke and Kilman as centre backs. Emmest and his left back. Midfield three of Belieber, Suzhek and Beketa. Bowen on the right, Kudus on the left, Danny Welbeck up front.
00:31:48
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Absolutely. That's a team and a half, you know. That's a great team. forever livess in the yeah there is a bears and the Before I forget, i've I've actually got one more question. Yeah, go for it. And it's any updates on Michael Antonio? Jacob, do you want to go for it or do you want me to? Not that we've not since the initial sort of Obviously, as in when it happened, we saw, you know, everything. And then there was the official statement, um you know, saying that he's undergone surgery, basically. But since then, nothing at all. I'm a little bit surprised we haven't seen anything from his side. You know, I mean, maybe it's not a surprise, really. sort of work it out probably It's shocking
00:32:42
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you know scenario for anyone to be and let alone somebody that's that much in the sort of public eye. Everyone's seen what his car looked like and Yeah, it's it's horrible. we were We were really shocked when we found out because he's such a nice guy as well from what we've seen obviously. He's so funny. He's so, so funny. Exactly. hes Yeah, it couldn't really happen to a a nicer player. um And yeah, but there's not really been any updates, but you know, he's a strong guy and considering
00:33:19
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how it looked, I think he's come off quite well. It's probably a grand scheme of things. um So we're pretty grateful. I'm sure he's, yeah, we don't want to speculate too much on it, but yeah, which yeah we're happy and just knowing he's stable and he's had the surgery and needs really.
00:33:39
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It still comes back. yeah i mean ist someone that like is It puts everything into perspective, like someone that you idolise, and we all talk about players on the podcast that we do, and when something actually happens to them outside of football, you go, ah actually I really appreciate what this person does for my club like, you know, Michael Antonio is like our top scorer in the Premier League. He's done amazing things for West Ham and obviously people will say the comments about his ability as a footballer but he has been such a good servant for West Ham and then on top of that, he's just a really nice bloke. He comes off really well and you never hear anyone talking bad about him and he's someone that seems to
00:34:19
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make everything that he does seem enjoyable and he seems to live the people up around him like you know whenever he's doing the media stuff and when he plays and you know his celebrations being nuts he's he has this like enjoyment for football and I think generally for life which is such a positive thing for the clubs or when something bad does happen to someone like that it's it's heartbreaking so we just send all our our love to him and his family and hopefully as quickly as possible Covid, Michael Antonio was actually like Harland mate. He also played for the same like side of the league team that I did when I was younger as well. Really? Oh wow. but Is it two in a midterm or straight? Two in the played four ages? Yeah, I used to play for him when I was younger. Wow. What a guy, mate. What a guy. Now, praise up to Antonio, 100%. Yeah, I wish him a speedy recovery. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, definitely.
00:35:09
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