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Episode 117: TRANSFER SPECIAL! Wildcard Wednesday- Saints make a signing!
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Southampton – We have an unexpected arrival at Southampton! And lots of other news in the transfers this week to talk about. We cover everything in, everything out, and some rumours for good measure.
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:09
Zak
Hello and welcome to the Daily Southampton part of the Global Sports Podcast Network. I am your host today, Zach and Gophinch. I am here with Gregory Elliott, one of our plethora of team members of three now that we have.
00:00:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
Woo and ever growing team.
00:00:28
Zak
Right, it's going to be windy not to say co-host. I'm going to need to kind of come up with a new word for that. um um Well, we've covered lots of the last
Transfer Segment: Wild Card Wednesday Special
00:00:37
Zak
game. We had the two episodes on the last game.
00:00:39
Zak
So our usual segment of Transfer Tuesday is now going to be Transfer Wednesday. It's not quite...
00:00:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
It doesn't alliterate well enough.
00:00:47
Zak
Yeah, the interaction isn't there, but...
00:00:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think Zach, I'll call it Wild Card Wednesday Transfer Special if it's all right with you mate.
00:00:55
Zak
that's that you know what me That sounds so much better. you're right Obviously, we we've had some some news where we we were jesting last week that we wouldn't hear anything and that nothing was going to happen. Then actually a flurry of things have happened, not on the last day, which is exactly what you want. How much they mean, what it means for the season, who knows?
00:01:18
Zak
I feel like everyone's in the same boat with how how they think we're going to end up. But we're here to talk about anyway. So where
Major Transfer Highlight: Albert Gromback
00:01:25
Zak
do you want to start, Greg? Do you want to start with strange rumors, transfers out, transfers in?
00:01:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, we've got to start with the big news big transfer in surely we can't leave that till the end whose first name albert gromback
00:01:30
Zak
Where should we go?
00:01:34
Zak
Right. Well, you went out of your way to learn how to pronounce his name. So who have we got coming in, Greg?
Transfer Decision-Making Process
00:01:48
Zak
Danish International. We've brought them in from REN on loan with an option to buy. So I'm not going to lie, it's kind of crazy how this has happened because it's like where, who,
00:01:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah Yeah
00:02:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
out of the blue I told you we keep we keep our cards close to our chests which is why I wasn't hugely concerned by the lack of news we've had this before where it just you don't hear a peep until about three hours before they actually announce it and I think actually the first time I saw the rumor was sort of late last night and bang here he is signed and on the website and everything
00:02:25
Zak
I think it's been it's been knocking around like I've seen it on the socials for a couple of days, but it's one of those things where like It wasn't even that great. It's like who's making the decisions?
00:02:36
Zak
Who's who's got to see this and like I know we have a whole scouting network obviously, but it's for me.
00:02:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, yeah.
00:02:42
Zak
It's very It's kind of mad. Is this something that Jurek was happy with? did he He must have signed off on it, surely, you'd like to think? Or is this a sports republic have had this on the cards for a while kind of thing?
00:02:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, I think that this has got to be off the back of that meeting where that they had to identify transfer targets. Maybe this is a name that you know, Juric has had his his mind on for a while or or who knows, but I mean, it's it's a new player and quite exciting new player and attacking option in the centre of the park.
00:03:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Sort of a bit creative. He's not scored a huge amount of goals in Ligue 1 for Renz, it's got to be said, but he's scored two goals and had one assist, which to be fair does equal about the tally of the rest of our team.
00:03:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
so
00:03:29
Zak
Well, that's going to be my next question. that Part of the interviews of Zurich about whether or not we we go back to Italy and get some people out of there, and he's like, they're not Premier League relic ready. well What about the French league screams Premier League ready? And what I find even more strange in this situation is he seems to have played regularly for a run, but it's his first season with them as well.
Recruitment Strategy: French vs. Italian League
00:03:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
yes
00:03:51
Zak
so
00:03:53
Zak
unless we've come in with a significantly lucrative package. And I guess maybe the lucrative package is just a chance to impress in the Premier League. it's It's kind of odd to me that we're saying we want to get all these players that you know have Premier League quality.
00:04:08
Zak
And we're we're saying we can't find them in Italy.
00:04:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes.
00:04:12
Zak
What what is what is there that we can find in France?
00:04:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I don't know. and so
00:04:18
Zak
It's strange like again. It's not I don't I don't think I have the right answers. This isn't me being negative about the signing necessarily. It's just It's just a bit of a out of the blue weird one And I'm guessing maybe it was just trying to find people that you wanted to you wanted to come you know to To the club in such a situation and maybe it's just finding the right fit from a personality perspective and
00:04:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Well, they're currently, they're currently one place above the relegation zone in Ligue 1. So I don't know what, I don't claim to be a Ligue 1 expert, but any stretch of the imagination, I did some research and looked at some of his stats and ah a couple of his video packages and it looks like a decent player. and it could just be a case of a bit of a tumultuous time and not a great team around him. And that's why his stats don't blow us away.
00:05:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
It could be that two goals and one assist in that team, uh, is an outstanding effort. I mean, they ah ah themselves have only won five games of their 18 this season.
00:05:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Uh, so it is.
00:05:21
Zak
Still more than us.
00:05:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. But I don't know. Uh, someone's seen something in him and you know, as is often the case, I feel like I say a lot on the show, the jury's out for me until I see him in action.
00:05:36
Zak
Yeah.
00:05:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
but you know, it seems, it's a positive step.
00:05:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's, it is an area of the field that we are weak in. I
00:05:43
Zak
much so. well it's ah it's ah We don't really
Transfer Window Skepticism
00:05:45
Zak
have the manpower, right? like but are the
00:05:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
we've seen it, we've seen it in action this past week when we keep bringing more small bone on.
00:05:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
So it's.
00:05:54
Zak
Well, maybe that. part of I think one of the reasons that I've heard that we wanted to re recall Shay Charles was in case Big Lez went back to Chelsea, which is completely reasonable. But obviously that's that what worries me about that is that we felt like maybe we couldn't get a deal like this over the line.
00:06:10
Zak
maybe you're right. Maybe it is ah is a huge positive. Maybe he'll surprise us all.
00:06:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
and he he describes himself as a player who likes to press so it sounds like he fits beautifully into exactly what Djuric wants from a player and hopefully he can lead from the front and yeah yeah
00:06:23
Zak
And it's alone, so if it doesn't work out, it's not the end of the world. And if it does work out, there's not the option to buy, and it's happy days. So yeah, you're right. I think it's it's not the worst thing. I think I've just been burnt so much by this window.
00:06:34
Zak
it's very it's every Every transfer in now is very sort of kind of maybe more analytic than I should be, whereas previously I was quite excited and ready to let everyone have a give it a go sort of thing.
00:06:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:06:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. But it seems like a really positive low risk side in like you say, it's a loan. So if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. If it does work out, we've got the option to buy supposedly, great. And you know, if, even if it doesn't set the premier legal light, it could well be a well and truly versed player for the championship season. So.
00:07:12
Zak
Very true, very true indeed. Right, well I think despite the fact that, you know, we've only talked about the one player, I think it's time for a word from our partners at Zencast to meet.
00:07:24
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00:07:47
Zak
And we're back. So um obviously we've had Wellington and Kaiya Sander come in. We've not really seen much from either of them. Kaiya Sander's been playing in the other 21s. I think he's been capped twice. I think he's actually playing tonight at time of recording, which is a kind of, you know, maybe we'll get a chance to see him, but he's very much one for the future. You know, we kind of knew that whenever we were buying someone that young.
00:08:10
Zak
other Other weird link also from struggling Ren strugglingre who we are aware of because he played in the player final against us is ah Glen Camara.
00:08:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:08:19
Zak
Bit of a weird one mate. I wasn't really expecting us to be again like I think similar sort of area of the field we're really struggling to have people in.
00:08:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:08:29
Zak
So I guess it makes sense.
00:08:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so I you mean, I don't know what we're doing poaching Ren and what we're thinking him but we know he can play at the level so it makes sense to me like he's an experienced player which is also something we lack so yeah why why not why not bring it in
00:08:57
Zak
it's good it's it's this it's a difficult one right because it's kind of like we don't really know what to expect from the window and being linked with anyone let alone getting some signings through the door i think is personally a surprise to me i expected us to get to the end with only outgoings so
00:09:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:09:14
Zak
it's exciting either
Potential New Director of Football: Johan Spors
00:09:15
Zak
way. Another big thing which isn't necessarily a player signing is that we actually look Greg to be expanding the backroom staff with ah ah Johan Spors as our new director of football. Whilst it's not confirmed there's a lot of sort of conversations going on in the background and things happening to sort of get that over the line. But you know that's exciting we've been asking for sort of a person in charge of the football for a long long time.
00:09:48
Zak
The latest reports are he he had no his like work permit has been denied so apparently there's some issues going on there but I'm sure we'll be able to sell that all in the wash right like.
00:09:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:09:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, i I don't claim to be an experienced head knowing, you know, these names and what they've done in football, where they come from. But just appointing someone too specific to be in charge of football is a step in the direction that we wanted to see. And we saw when Kraft stepped down the that that was the direction they wanted to head and so yeah good we it feels like Sports Republic are working on learning the lesson they need to learn and so I have to respect that and hope that it comes good eventually
00:10:39
Zak
I think it makes sense, I think he worked with a ah ah group previously, so he'll be used to the model of having different clubs as well and potentially looking to utilise that a little bit more.
00:10:51
Zak
Because whilst it's wonderful to see our counterparts in Turkey do well, that means absolutely nothing for Southampton. And if they have good players that potentially we could take next year in the championship, or maybe some of our own players are on loan their back,
00:10:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:11:04
Zak
don't think I think we should start maybe looking into that we've already seen a inter club transfer or inter conglomerate transfer or whatever but yeah I think anything that is a step in the direction of stability and potentially moving forward to a place where it feels like someone is actually paying attention to what's happening in the club.
00:11:27
Zak
It's nothing but a positive. That's pretty much tapped out my income in spade.
00:11:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've got a couple of, I've got a couple more.
00:11:33
Zak
I don't know.
00:11:35
Zak
you but you've always got You've always got the insane ones, so let's hear
Rumored Signing: Gazdag from MLS
00:11:39
Zak
it. Come on.
00:11:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've got, I have a genuinely insane one where we, I can't, I have full caveat of I do not trust the source necessarily but have seen it banded about in a couple of places of signing Gazdag from Philadelphia in the MLS, who's another big builder.
00:11:59
Zak
Right.
00:12:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
another experienced midfielder I don't know if there's any depth to that and ah announced on the club website today not so much an incoming transfer but a first professional contract for one of our youth Moses Sise signing on so you know things are moving about things are moving we're
00:12:01
Zak
Sure.
00:12:16
Zak
Nice.
00:12:24
Zak
Things are happening. That's always ah that's alwayss a good that's always a good good thing to happen. but we'll see There are some outgoings we can talk about. One that I'll quickly get out of the way that isn't so actually probably, in my opinion, more of a talking point than the other two. but i think until next season said obviously Ronnie Edwards he was brought in with lots of sort of buzz around him and then for some reason didn't really get a chance at all and I think maybe it's just because the a list of centre backs behind you know that in front of him was was vast it was obviously gone on loan to QPR and he seems to be doing doing well out there now and he sort of got jumped straight into their team so hopefully we'll have a championship ready player by next season unless of course they decide to put in some sort of ridiculous bid to buy him I wouldn't
00:13:11
Zak
put past us accepting if i'm certainly honest with the with the way sorting out five point answers of b when we go down if sorry sorry if yeah it's not confirmed yet yeah you're not wrong obviously uh maxwell corey who he sure did play for us four times
00:13:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hmm.
00:13:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
He, he kidded Zach. He kidded. We all know 13 points is the target. We're not but not't messing about.
00:13:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
That was the most depressing farewell statement I've ever seen on a website.
00:13:47
Zak
He played for us four times, we wish him well. that is a That is all they could say and I feel bad because it's like, do you remember when I reminded you that Stephen Caulker played for us?
00:13:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:13:57
Zak
You're like, oh yeah, pretty sure he had about double the appearances that um he, that Kornade had. And I'm relatively sure it will go down as one of those pop trivia questions in the years to come.
00:14:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's such a strange one because I really felt like he would do something for us this season. it was but when When we signed him on Deadline Day, it felt like a weird signing, but a positive signing, like a player that could play ball and take on some players. And and I'm a little bit surprised that we didn't see a similar sort of resurgence of him as we saw ah with Tsunamana under Djuric but ah ah in fact it took less than a week for Djuric to say no no hopefully he goes back to West Ham so yeah
00:14:38
Zak
i I wouldn't be surprised if by that point he'd made up his mind and decided he didn't want to play anymore I wouldn't be surprised if even if there was a clean slate like he's a lone player who was just like nah and maybe he could have done some more maybe putting him in the right positions and play him in the right place and not expecting him to be a strike force despite the fact that he was not and should have never really been deployed like that Obama sort of you know didn't really get a proper chance but also if you're in his shoes you're not getting a proper chance yes a new manager's come in you have a chance to go on loan somewhere where you're probably going to get significantly more of a chance here chance with probably better weather and a better better a better city to boot you're probably going to go and and do it and i don't i don't really blame the guy but also like it's nothing ventured nothing gained right and also nothing really lost you kind of forget he's even there he wasn't making the match squads he wasn't even
00:15:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:30
Zak
You kind of forgot he was there.
00:15:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I disagree. There is something gained because now we've got another slot in our Premier League loan. We can potentially take a loan to another Premier League team.
00:15:37
Zak
This is also true whether or not we want to film that.
00:15:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
So yeah, I'm sure we'll be on the lookout.
00:15:42
Zak
Be interesting to see. Yeah, so obviously he's out the door. Another one of our summer sightings, but an actual one. Ben Burroughton Diaz, the Sheffield United in the most sort of unsurprising piece of news that we've all known for the last month.
00:15:57
Zak
with him turning up to Bramall Lane, watching their games, pretty much camping outside the stadium, hoping to leave us, which I don't blame him either. And I think it's a mutually beneficial deal, right? Like if he goes on to do really, really well and they decide to buy him for more than we paid, happy days, we somehow make a profit. If he starts playing much better and the championship is his level and we go down and have a championship striker,
00:16:26
Zak
Happy days? like What's your opinion on that?
00:16:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
no I don't see him coming back. I think he'll stay and add good riddance. like Another player that I thought could do something for us, but I mean, was clearly above his level. Didn't fit in for one reason or another and fine.
00:16:48
Zak
yeah I'd say it's brutal, but it's brutally honest.
00:16:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah i I mean, he he tried. i got no I've got nothing bad to say against him apart from he wasn't good enough to cut it and that is what it is really.
00:17:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
I hope that he goes on and succeeds at Sheffield United and finds his feet in a team there but it was clearly not destined to be here. so
00:17:15
Zak
It was not, it's just one of those things. Right, we'll talk about a few little bits more and then wrap up after a word from our partners at the Global Sports Podcast Network. The Global Sports Podcast Network is changing the face of football podcasting with dedicated daily content for every Premier League team, women's football, fantasy football, and a daily Premier League wrap-up broadcasted in five different languages. This is your one-stop shop for your daily football fix. Find GSPN wherever you find your usual podcasts.
00:17:43
Zak
And we're back. So there's only sort of two two small things that I've got left, realistically. So somehow we'll drag it out. One, Larios potentially wants a change of scenery and is looking to move to Sevillea because apparently he wants to sort of reignite his career a little bit.
00:18:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm sure the medical rooms there are much nicer.
00:18:08
Zak
but Yeah, it's it's a weird one, right?
Larios' Potential Move to Sevilla
00:18:10
Zak
Because I'm kind of like, are they going to be willing to take a risk on someone that's played, I don't know, like 12 minutes of football in three years? Because I don't know what's going on. There must be something more. Like, I don't know if it's just that it's it's consistent injury prone. Like when we bought him, it was very exciting. He was part of the the cohort of city players we bought and often forgotten part of that cohort. And, and you know, I remember We've all heard your story.
00:18:37
Zak
I've heard it many times of the fact that you thought he was a ball boy and no one is really surprised by that because he's still young looking now, but is it's Genuinely a player I forget we have though.
00:18:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
young and tiny like he is short but he could play he I was impressed with him when I watched him play he could play down the wing and he was a handful for defenders
00:18:58
Zak
This is the thing like I don't know You know I wouldn't be devastated. Apparently, he's quite nice and he quite he chats about the games and stuff to people down at Ocean Village.
00:19:08
Zak
I can't remember where I saw that. I thought someone was commenting about it. But also, like I wouldn't begrudge him for going somewhere else to restart his career.
00:19:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
we haven't seen him anywhere near the first team in in so long that yeah there's no if he needs to move on to get in there somewhere fine that's another space in the squad we've got such a bloated squad you know if he's not going to be a part of the plans then fine move on to Seville fair play good club sure he'll do well out there
00:19:22
Zak
like You wonder how much
00:19:42
Zak
So speaking of injury prone players, do you reckon we're ever going to see Ross do it again or is that...
00:19:49
Zak
I feel bad for that man, genuinely.
00:19:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah I don't know, does he...
00:19:54
Zak
like It was a very silly decision for us to buy such an injury prone player but also
00:19:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
He feels like he would fit into a Djuric system very well, as that target man that we but that we sort of have been lacking if an actor who's not on the pitch or tool pool's not on the pitch.
00:20:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I guess if he can get himself back fit, I feel like there's room in the squad for him, but is is he ever going to be fit again i don't know he's been nearly fit for ah since we signed him as long as i can remember i think yeah yeah
00:20:27
Zak
almost there very close since then he would play a game and then would be like I think he had what that run of like two games he almost had a full 90 and then he got his like first proper start and then went down after 26 minutes and that was like the last time we saw him and it's just it's got to be slightly upsetting it's got to be devastating to be as a player to have to deal with this and you know that but it just it just makes you remember like makes me remember and wonder like we've got two probably quite expensive players probably one laryus less less so on our books that ultimately, when it comes to the team, don't contribute a lot.
00:21:01
Zak
It might contribute an atmosphere, but you could pay someone to do that. like It's where I'm at with like far right back with like that weird way that Nuno described James Ward-Prowse as being great in and around the club, despite the fact he's not playing football.
00:21:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, for a lot of people it's like...
00:21:18
Zak
I'm like, that's that's wonderful. It's really nice that you're going to keep him on loan for the rest of the season.
00:21:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean you think with Prowsy though it's less probably like personality and atmosphere around the dressing room although I'm sure that goes some way but also he's an in experienced head at this point in his career and he'll be you know a wealth of knowledge for younger players and he's a very intelligent footballer and so there's a lot that you can take from that so there's a bit more to it than that but yeah the all the sort of injury prone yeah
00:21:23
Zak
but
00:21:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I feel feel like feel like you're saving the the biggest talking point to last, right?
00:21:55
Zak
situation.
00:22:01
Zak
is this the Is this the fact that Tyler Dibbling might be out of the door or sooner rather than later? Is that what you're trying to bring up or is it some of that?
00:22:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, no, that's it, right?
00:22:09
Zak
great
00:22:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are we gonna end up losing people in this window?
00:22:14
Zak
I don't think this window, I think this window is time for all of the piranhas to test the water, right? Who's going to start putting in bids and what they think are reasonable and where they will ultimately land towards the end of the season?
00:22:31
Zak
Put the seed of doubt in the young lad's head, make him start thinking, oh, maybe I could go, you know, he's going to get a choice of potentially lots of places to go.
00:22:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah well we've seen we've seen on Sky Sports that Leipzig have put in supposedly put in a bid for 30 million euros which is about 25 million pound and that we've said no that's not enough so
00:22:39
Zak
RB likes to pick be the main one, right, that's currently put A.
00:22:54
Zak
No, thank you. But is it enough to disrupt him? Like you see, it he's shown so far that that kind of stuff doesn't get into his head, but also there's rumors of him not signing a new contract because it's not good enough.
00:23:06
Zak
And that's when it's going to start because like the problem is it doesn't help that outlets like Sky Sports are like, well, surely you can't stay at Southampton. He's too good for that. And you're like, mate, he's been playing for like half a season.
00:23:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but he's also, he's 18. And so a season in the championship with us is, in my opinion, wonderful for his career.
00:23:18
Zak
Yeah.
00:23:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's a wealth of experience in a team that he's going to be probably the star of, if not a huge part of. He'll know he he'll get game time in a surrounding and an atmosphere that he is so familiar with because he's grown up there.
00:23:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then hopefully win promotion back to the Premier League. and then we'll go from there maybe maybe another year in the prem with us
00:23:46
Zak
Yeah. I'm in full agreement because you you look at some of the younger players that that fell down, sometimes a dark path, that sometimes an unadvised path. Unfortunately, a lot of them being related to Man United. But like I just can't help but think of Jesse jesse Lingard in Sol after multiple failed loan spares. You've got Delly Alley, who I know has had a lot more trouble than than just what's you know just the football side of things. but But in my opinion, this is what happens when you you sort of have
00:24:18
Zak
you are advised and he might end up getting to a point that he outgrows us, you're right. But like the idea of sort of playing 20 games and then having teams chomping at the bit to then play him for three for like over the space of a season, I just think that, you know, I would be very, very cautious.
00:24:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:37
Zak
But the flip side of things is that football is a short career.
00:24:40
Zak
You have to make the money and, you know, also, the sort of young guys that have gone out to Germany, especially the young British guys have gone out to Germany have resulted in great things for them, right?
00:24:51
Zak
Like you look at sort of Jaden Sancho before he came back was extremely influential in Dortmund, Jude Bellingham.
00:24:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
speaking yeah and arguably since he's gone back to Dortmund, seems to have been revitalised.
00:25:04
Zak
So there you go. it's It's like you could also kind of understand the other side of things and how people are quite you know, willing to put in a new challenge, especially in the German league. You've seen it with other players, sort of older players, such as Harry Kane. And, you know, it's... I don't know. I have i felt have really, really mixed feelings on it. I hope that he'll stick it out. I could also see us, you know, get rid of him.
00:25:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, yeah, I
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00:25:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
can see that. And I don't know, I hope he stays. I think a year in the championship will do him good. And fingers crossed he stays the same forever and becomes the next Mount Letizia. That's all we can hope, right?
00:25:42
Zak
Well, that's the wonderful note of optimism that you usually like to leave this podcast on.
00:25:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:25:48
Zak
So I think with that, we'll wrap up. Thank you very much for listening, as always. We appreciate all of your support. Like some of the social media, we're on Twitter, Blue Sky, sorry, X, the everything app, TikTok, Instagram, anywhere else, any anywhere we can post random clips about.
00:26:06
Zak
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00:26:17
Zak
It gives us a nice little buzz, makes us feel like we're doing all the hard work we put in, gets appreciated and we appreciate all of you for listening. So have a wonderful morning, evening or afternoon and we will see you in the next one.
00:26:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank you. you. Guys.