Episode 32 - No World Cup for Ireland

This week we reflected on Irelands agonising defeat against Czech Republic which meant no trip to America this summer for the boys in green. We touched on plenty of news from around the world including Spurs managerial situation and we gave our opinion on Mo Salahs time at Liverpool. We finished with great questions from our listeners.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:06

Welcome back everyone. Naz on the side line podcast. It's me, Connor, as always, showing by Virashana. Welcome back everyone. And our father, Vinno. Welcome back everybody. As usual. Thanks for listening.

SPEAKER_02 0:18

Shout out to everyone listening and uh especially like you mentioned last week, Villa, all the people listening around the world and especially in America. We've got a couple of people listening out of America.

SPEAKER_03 0:28

I was just looking the other day. Just uh out of curiosity. Many countries do you reckon we've been listening to? In I mean in yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm assuming obviously it goes to Scotland, Wales, England, United Kingdom. No, it's County United Kingdom is that okay, so that's one then technically uh Ireland two.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Hard to get them all, but as I guess I'm going to say A.

SPEAKER_03 0:52

Twenty-four. Twenty-fourty four. And then fifty-eight cities. So just a shout-out to everyone for listening and the continued support.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Thanks very much. As I said, I like to go. Thanks for that, actually, yeah. I did say last year then if you listen from far, like you like if you listen from Maryland as as you we could know a few people that are listening, and other people would know us that we would know that are listening. But if you listen from far to field and you don't know us three in person, um you know thanks very much for putting you the time in to listen. Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

If you are listening from Ford or afield, we we do have a an Instagram page and whatnot.

SPEAKER_03 1:27

If you want to follow us on there, we we put up in our episodes live and when they're out so people can if you have any questions, yeah. You can throw them in there, yeah. Any questions at all, they can write and DM us and we definitely get back to you. Yeah, eventually. Sean will get the questions out eventually. Yeah, we should get them all out this week, and think, shouldn't we?

SPEAKER_01 1:47

Well, United not playing out till well. No, you've like football wise, it it was meaning poorly for us to be talking about the football, isn't it? Really, like, but um I'm not playing Monday week again now tour day.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

It's like the old film, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 1:58

Twenty-eight days later. Literally Monday week, yeah. Like a disaster. We could do it without meeting tonight's sleep just to keep watching them. Like it's three three and a half weeks is a long time to have a break, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 2:08

It's our own fault though, isn't it? Yeah, it is literally though.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

Yeah, yeah, it could be this week, isn't it? So they could still be in that year, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:15

Well uh as always we'll start with our news, and uh we might as well start with the United News or whatever for the United News that we do have um for thought they're coming over to Ireland for the training camp. Very good. Next week, uh somewhere else, Kilder. I think they've they're coming over for a couple of days, and then that's supposedly gonna be coming back then in the summer to play a friendly against Leeds in Crow Park. No, I I thought it saw that the other day. No, we're we're doing this on we're actually doing this on Wednesday because these pairs were in Lanzarati, so we're doing it today later. They flew like at two o'clock this morning. It's gonna be a little bit later than usual, but um I saw her today thinking it was an April Fool's joke, but pretty sure I saw her the other day.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

No, it was, yeah, we we seen on holiday, so it's yeah on uh Monday or Sunday. So you've told me that now you never mentioned it was Crow Park, but you'd be right it was Crow Park because it's not a couple weeks ago, I think. Yeah, 100%. We heard it I heard a couple of weeks ago that you were posting ladies and friendly, but then he didn't say where it was or what the story was. Like um, and um if if it is true that's crow park, it's filler because there's so many ladies fans and so many Man United fans. Yeah, big time.

SPEAKER_03 3:23

Football, yeah, yeah. Some football matches there. Football, yeah. That'll be the game to filler. Yeah, anyone who's listening outside the country, Crow Park's our biggest stadium, but it's more um local, localised uh Gaelic football and uh Horland. And they must be getting a fair whack to uh another sport, USA Stadium, so fairness it's like they've stunned their ground, yeah. Yeah, they think I wouldn't I'd be liking to go to Crow Park to watch Ireland play, even though they're they're on to them in the minute, but still Crow Park would be great to go to. And the V is a lovely stadium as well, don't get me wrong. Yeah, Crow Park's Crow Park, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 3:55

It's always the atmosphere, doesn't it? Like even if you if like for the music people to go to all the concerts and all, yeah. Do you like it's always great? Yeah, there's a part of me as well that likes that though, that is exclusivity, I suppose, of it.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

Yeah, true, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Every now and again he's gonna have one. Well, look at you, you know, five concerts nearly a year as well, don't you? Like you don't you don't willy-nilly throw it out here for everybody. So I mean the likes of that, like you know you'll be making a book or two. Yeah. Definitely, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:24

Then er just sorry, we mentioned last week about a couple of the contracts, and it looks like McGuire's contract is all about signs now. Yeah. It'll sign till 2027, and then the usual thing that United do he'll have an extra year option. So okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

He did have a couple of years, no?

SPEAKER_03 4:43

No, nothing yet, no. Okay. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

No, he did drop down 100% his wages, it would take you take it to be dropping his wages.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

Yeah, I I don't think he'll he definitely won't get an increase anyway. He's not a type of player. No, he might get an increase for the back in the Champions League, touch wood to get into it. Maybe that might be in his contract anyway. The bonus structures there for parents and all that's an incentive to keep fit as well.

SPEAKER_02 5:06

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

Because then a couple of years ago they rationed his wages, god love him, went from 350,000 down to 300,000 or something because of the they weren't in the Champions League.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

So yeah, and look at Camera, which I'm sure he could have been somewhere else to play football and got more money than what my United has offered him. But in fairness, he wants to play for the and finish his career with United, it looks like so you have to give him something there that he's a bit loyal to the club as well. That's it. Yeah, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_03 5:31

Like you said, we've realistically we need much better than that, but at the minute, as a cover, he's the only one that he can talk to rely on to stay fit.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

Yeah, yeah. Well, looking looking there in England as well, he's he could be their best centre half. Not in the corner, too, but whatever.

SPEAKER_03 5:46

No, yeah, no, I said that's you. Yeah, you're putting gay heat ahead of him, definitely. Well, concert played the day, and you say that the he's there and Dan Bournemouth there as well, but John Stones he fit in him. He's always seems to be injured as well, isn't he?

SPEAKER_01 5:59

He's giving him time, I think, to come back, is he to try and get there? He's leaving the spot open for him just in case.

SPEAKER_03 6:08

As far as experience and all that definitely would really go in Sandhouse, I think Bargayhi, that's the only one that's you take. Yeah, I think. Oh yeah, big time. Do you take anybody else thought? No, I don't think so. No. And you wouldn't mind if like Avery McGuire is a bit slow, but you've got Gay beside him, who's a flyer. Exactly, yeah. And like I watched the matches against Japan, it's flipped flipping between loads of games, and he's watching that and he came on as a subaguer straight into the box and nearly scored in the corner. He's a trend.

SPEAKER_01 6:36

So he does bring that sort of stuff as well, doesn't he? Yeah, so he sent off all the losing.

SPEAKER_03 6:40

Or people are trying to defend the lead as well at the back of the field. Yeah, especially nowadays with set pieces and how like reliant paper teams are on them. Like but uh yeah, another player then we know who is leaving, Casemiro. He's sort of all but done to go to into Miami. Yeah, it's a good move for him.

SPEAKER_02 6:57

Yeah, you go over there and play with Messi and Busquets and probably a couple of X-Marts or look come here.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

I know that's the way it is, isn't it? And he generally obviously if you sign in and it's nearly sealed, he's obviously looking forward and he'd bring his family over there and he's live in the sun down instead of the rain in Manchester, get well paid over there and live the life over there.

SPEAKER_03 7:17

Just because they show you, doesn't it? If you do make it to the top top and you can retire somewhere like that, yeah. Man United, winning everything and then just play a couple of years in Miami. Beach from the villa uh in Miami and just show up. Yeah. I'm sure you still put the effort in, don't get me wrong.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

Yeah, still got hundreds of thousands. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:37

I don't mind to be playing over there now with Brazil at the World Cup, so you won't have to like come back to England and just enjoy life over there. Many goals and you have and said pieces up there. If I'd get hungry, we'd have a half cross.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

And you wouldn't really have much interest in in American football. You wouldn't really, because but we really never really had any players that would live here to go over there, like like that was when Ronaldo left, he left to go to Madrid and all. So I mean, like you might get something to go out to Saudi Arabia, but you you'd never watch, just say. But the likes of him out there playing and being such a good player like for Brazil now through the years and Real Madrid, like you'd nearly watch the series doing because he's had to be in having good little good little stint by United. He'd make you sort of nearly watch it, wouldn't he? Like, just to see how he's getting just obviously because it's David Beckham team as well, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah. So fair play to him, that's how he said.

SPEAKER_03 8:26

Very clever bit of business David Beckham bit did with that. Ah, stop playing. With his contract and all whatever way he manoeuvred that even Messi's contract if that team is mad, or he has a contract with Adidas as well. I think all the teams in the MLS are sponsored by Adidas are at least 90% of them, and he gets like one percent of all the MLS short sales or something. Like that's good business, it's good business. Yes, I know, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

Good business people behind him.

SPEAKER_03 8:54

Well, he's he's obviously messy, he's talented, but he still put the effort in throughout the ears, yeah, keep himself fit, keep himself on top of the game, keep himself sharp. I'm sure he didn't just roll out of bed and show up to the game. It looked like that, but he certainly didn't know.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

No, he played for Barcelona as well. I have to say, like, for the size of Nan, and you just get kicked around and you just go up the ground and carry on. None of this uh diving when you're not even people that don't even hit you and you're going down and pretend he'd hit you in the face and all. He was a like as good as he was, like he was a proper professional, wasn't he?

SPEAKER_03 9:22

See him and Ralph did get at the top of the game for so long, they get the numbers he'd gotten, but they were always available for selection.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:29

Which meant he looked after their bodies and looked after their diet and looked after their social media.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

Yeah, everything. Uh antics compared to other people, innovative. Yeah, the mental health, everything goes down goes down to everything, doesn't it? Like if you just focus on football for the club and that country, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 9:44

Especially when none of them have gotten like mad ACL injuries or broken legs, or like none of them have gotten any big injuries like that. I know Ronaldo wrote his name for Portugal that's on, but like none of them have been out for like a whole year or anything. No, no, no. No career to find them injuries like that. A lot of it is down to themselves. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, definitely yeah. Er just two more quick things on United. One of them is about the women's team. I was watching our Champions League game last week against Borough Munich, and you lost a hole, so they're playing. I think they're actually playing out at quarter-sixth in their second leg, so a bit of luck they go through one. Now, I think some of the Bayern Munich players are like three or four times Champions League winners, so even get close to experience when I'm in. Yeah, yeah, because United they're talking about actually getting rid of the United manager, yeah. Skinner, because of the results haven't been great lately, so maybe a bit of luck in that competition might keep them in it and maybe keep him in a job, but a bit of luck anyway. Er then the stadium. Twelve months since he came up with a plan for the new stadium and this big dome and all this stuff like that. But they came out the other day and they were talking again about it. And you're saying that it's 2020 was the original plan. It's still the plan, but now it's oh well it'll take two years to lay the groundworks and get the construction company in and get the planning permission and because the ground that you want to build it on, they don't own it. What's this Benadorm? The series there was there's the buys and uh what do you call it? The over the hills, yeah. Doesn't own the land that's built upon. Oh, it's hilarious. It's a TV, English TV show. People don't know it's absolutely gas. Go on, sorry. It's exactly like that because the it's so behind people that don't know all Trafford, so behind like the Stratford end it's a big massive bit of land and whatnot. But the railway company own it. So I think they own it since like the 90s or something. So all these plans for the new stage are on that land. So they said to the railway people, blah blah blah, we want to build the stage and it's gonna cost this much. Can we buy our land off you? So obviously the the railway company are like, oh, you're gonna spend such and such on the stage and that's gonna cost a billion. Well, our land was 20 million. Now I think they're saying you want 300 million up United. You don't blame them the problem. Like if they would have just wanted to buy the land and not say that about the stage if you'd get it for cheap. Who are these people put this out for us, and this is our plans for a bit of land that we don't have. Then we go and try to buy the land. What about showing you a hand and poker?

SPEAKER_00 12:34

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:36

You don't pack the front. They're they're just putting them all in, regardless, you know. If they don't then you fold and you still win. Yeah, because the the railway tracks go there, and there's houses and all on the opposite sides. So you can't build or extend the the stands there. Um this Bobby Charlton stands, like you can't extend that because you'd have to go backwards to go up. So I don't know what they're gonna do.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

So you just fodding it off again. Just say that there's plans and they're all just and like like the obvious thing with them, so you just can't trust them.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

Yeah, yeah, I think that's what we had to take it as. If it does happen, then it's a good surprise. Yeah, you know, wouldn't that we just keep keep getting let down? No, it's not only so I'd like to see. They might spend a million on the leaky roof then instead. Yeah, I'd love to see all traffic done up.

SPEAKER_02 13:20

I said it'd be difficult to sort of do it up and even like it's I think most fans are just rather it done up, wouldn't they?

SPEAKER_03 13:26

Yeah, like if you're sure they could just put money into and do it up, could they? That's I'm thinking there like history is there, big time, yeah. Yeah, like put 200 million into it, it's already just something that's right somebody can do. And there has to be some sort of a thing with new stages and teams, and it just doesn't work out at least not straight away, like arms of the Emirates and Spours now. Yeah, get relegated and all like exactly yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:49

Mad, isn't it? Like this did your thing or something, somebody sent it or something. You might be able to elaborate on yours we had more like that. Uh do you have more managers this year than wins? Spores in the Premier League.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

Or in the Premier League probably, yeah. The Premier League, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

More managers than Wins.

SPEAKER_03 14:06

Since last since May last year, is it probably that? I think it's May, last year, something like that, something called that, yeah. More more um managers than Wins at home. Yeah. It's April. Yeah. Obviously, come here, it's not a shock that Tular is gone. But is it more of a shock that Zerbies in on the five-year contract? That's been an April film's joke, isn't it? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

No, well, it was LJS.

SPEAKER_03 14:40

Yeah, 75 contract. So, like, is it a case of if they get relegated, he'll just be still with them anyway? Or I don't think there's a I read that there's no like relegation clause in the contract where he can leave or they like they have to pay him off if you get relegated or something. No, you wouldn't just he's obviously happy to go down with them and try and get them back up.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

Yeah, it has to be because there's no way they'd give him it, there's not a hope in hell he'd sign up to get seven games, give him whatever he is his wages, give him a five-year contract, and when you go down, like if they do go down like that, you he can just walk away rather than.

SPEAKER_03 15:13

I'm gonna tell you something though. That's probably a good bit of business when I'm thinking of it. Because if they go down, it's highly likely that they go down. Get them out of that, because they're gonna lose players. Get them out of that championship is one of the hardest things that you can do. Can't go in there with a tutor or someone I haven't even heard of off the streets, basically, it feels like so. They're bringing in him so that he can get them back up to the premiership and then keep them there. So I think they're obviously investing in him, you know, and that's smart. That's right. But it might be one of all the smart decisions, unsmart decisions he's made to get them to this position, I think that's a good decision.

SPEAKER_00 15:46

Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_03 15:47

I think he's he's a world beater, but I wouldn't want them at United.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

But uh he can certainly get them out of the championship, I think. It's like Edwards wasn't it was he knew he's new even way back when he signed, he was he was signing for the championship, or he keeps them up.

SPEAKER_03 16:01

Either way, if he if he brings them in, it's not his if you bring him in now and he gets a couple of results and then if other team just keep winning, you know what I mean? The cooker down not off his fault. If if if he does do that, uh it doesn't do that and they go down and you bring him back up, he'd so he'd have a they'd have a great chance to come back up with him. Yeah, but if they bring him in and spend the money and he stay up, well then it's money well spent either way, I think.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

Not saying he'd bring them up easily next year, but in your right, you can't really lose.

SPEAKER_03 16:25

No, I think it's a good sign, but it's good that they actually he wanted to take the job.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Yeah, it's a tough job now to take it on. Yeah, yeah, there's not much head cases. I don't know whether he's right, I don't even know whether he's the right man for the job.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

Yeah, I don't even know what way to take it. I thought like you were saying, I thought you I genuinely thought you're just gonna get in the next player, like uh Harry Rednap or something, or Robbie Kane or something. Like a Robbie Cain went just like now you say got relegated with them. Yeah, he could sort of stay there and nearly bring them back up and not say go on at a radar, but if he didn't come back up, Robbie Kane was sort of thrown in the deep end and he didn't have out of deliver. But if the Zerbi fails, that's like he's not gonna get anywhere else, is he?

SPEAKER_01 17:06

If he relegates the team from the premiership, because at the end they go about you and you go where all the other X-Men just passed the coglium and all this and the whole lot, and um Nuno as well was there and all, wasn't he? Like, and you turn around and say, Well, he's the one he was the manager that wanted giving down it.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

Yeah, do you think so? I don't think if you're looking at it like that, because I think it's too close to the end of the season. No, uh not that way. I just think it's uh might be more worried for next year. Yeah, he's yeah, yeah. Might be more worried for next year if they did get either way, if they got relegated or set up, I just think he's a bit of a head case in terms of like one of these managers that he'll speak up about if he doesn't get played. Like if he got relegated, he can't expect to get any players that are anyway top level. But like, would he accept that? Like, or if he did stay up, maybe some of the players are thinking, I just get out here anyway. Like, so I mean, if he stays up, I can see him being sacked next year as well. Yeah, like he's not gonna be one to bring them back to the top floor. Yeah, they can see him being sacked or else. No, but he might be able to keep them up and he might get them back up to championship, but he's he's not gonna be there for ten years. No, and he might know that as well. Like, I'm just gonna get paid off in here, who cares? Yeah, yeah. But one thing that makes it very interesting is if the board are wondering about geez, if we are in a relegation fight and we could get relegated, there's sort of a bit of serious talk about Man City getting points taken off them now this season, and it's like 60 points. And they'd go on, they'll get out to like one point or something, or whatever it is, and they'll be gone. Be gone. But if there is a case where sports can just throw a bottom, that could save them. Yeah, it could. Like so do they know stuff that we don't really know? Like you've just read a few times.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

Oh, that's the two play each other next year in the championship. Yeah, well you might be catching sports, like I mean, like going near to a wolves.

SPEAKER_03 18:48

Yeah, it's just it's smart because they're saying that that's there's a really well from what I've read, anyway, like the athletic and big newspapers like that.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

Well, look at where Leicester now and Sheffield United now uh well deducted, no obviously are different things, but like you got deducted points.

SPEAKER_03 19:03

Everything last year.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

Everything as well, as you said last year now, yeah. This year. This year was this year last year. Yeah, yeah, before Christmas, isn't it? Yeah, wasn't it? So um so then you always think like last year. It should be ordered the time. Anyway, but um when you look for it they're no different just because you have money and people being bit billionaires behind them. The the rules are the rules and that's it.

SPEAKER_03 19:24

Yeah, it's just like this, the sixty points is massive, isn't it? Yeah. Like and like we said a couple of weeks ago, Riz Man City, so it is very awkward. Yeah. But whoever like if just say they win, I'm sure the Premier League will put in the case or a complaint. Or else if Man City do get relegated, I'm sure they'll put in the city.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

They they'll drag it out. They'll appeal it and appeal it and feel it. They've dragged it out five years already, needed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:46

So like if you do get relegated and then you just say put in an appeal and then it's overturned, sure then like they've been in the championship just say for two years or and all the money they've missed out on in the Champions League will win in this trophy, winning that trophy. Like it's a premiership. It's not as easy as take points off and relegate them. There's a lot more to it than just that, isn't it? And even if they do it next year, they'll say because I'm reading some things, uh, some outlets were saying that they could start the season minus 60. Yeah. So that means you'd have to get a centurion to stay up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give or take. Give or take 40 points, should keep you up technically. Even that, which that means you'd get 100 points.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

Settle for that. Yeah. If you didn't want to just say just rub things in the league now, Joe said with sports now, like and uh like you were saying that sports could say if that did happen. Yeah, to go there with and say, well, from next season like that, like you're gonna start off as you said with minus fifty or sixty points, whatever it is, yeah. Yeah, so it's a bit it's a bit strange, like do you know what I mean? Well well the no man for city fans that I know like we'll better complain about because like I don't know any. I know one or two, I think that's about it.

SPEAKER_03 20:54

Uh we know more Liverpool fans and as well as like a commercial three United fans, so we have to give him his duos, L Salah. He's leaving now at the end of the season, though.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

I can't say it's the biggest surprise in the world, but no the right time for him to go. Yeah. He was a great servant to Liverpool and and um to football in general. And you can't sets you you don't like.

SPEAKER_03 21:15

It's like one of them people when you get the stats that high, it's very hard to replace them. People I've always uh like said that you'd just spread out among other players. That's if you have the same caliber player in your team. Like for example, when when Ronaldo left that time, the fourth time for us thousand what eight was it? Thousand nine? No, no. Like you scored 40. Well, I actually that that season wasn't great for him. He only scored 30 goals. But the season before that, he was going to take over. So Rooney was there to take over. He scored 40 odd goals, 36 goals, 38 goals. So he had there with Mulligan. Exactly. Then you bring Peter Percy in and you know, he had more players than it. Is there anybody on that Liverpool team now that can go and get forty goals and thirty assists?

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Well, you'd all be spent on devouring dishes to try and do it. I know exactly. Injured and I don't know I don't think it's spread across. No, I mean like you're okay. You bought him as one of them too to score a lot of goals, and he probably still can it's I always say as well to say it's hard to judge people like coming from another league coming straight into the premiership because it's a tough league. You have to you have to have time, yeah. Just has to be betting in time. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Like like Salah was a good, well-experienced player along when he came in and just saying he hit the ground running, to say, but even look with Benjamin Sesko in United nine goals or whatever it is this year, just say, and then look, even that's good for his four seasons, 22. It's a new league, it doesn't make any difference. Like it's a bed, like these players for Liverpool could hit the ground running next year. Yeah. Without him now.

SPEAKER_03 22:42

Looks like Ferris and I'll have step up a bit more.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

Maybe one year in it. You definitely have to improve after one year. If you have a couple of seasons in it and you're struggling, then the league is not for you. No. One year you couldn't you couldn't look into football.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

Um you take him out and you don't win the league, I'm telling you. Salah.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Yeah. That's the only thing.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

This year, and then stuck what happens then.

SPEAKER_01 23:02

Yeah, that's the only thing. Like like certain players can do nothing in the game, but he can twist and tow him once and put the ball back in there or give you two assists. Yeah. Like he's that type of player that you have to play him. And when when Slot wasn't playing him there at that time now, like the Liverpool fans weren't happy. Like now, when he when he was going through that trouble and all, and he was wanting the leave and all that, like like a lot of Liverpool fans would say what exactly what you were saying, Sean. You still have men to team because he's always capable of doing something, getting your pen on, doing something.

SPEAKER_03 23:30

Yeah, gets one of them is he's a game changer, isn't he? There's not many of them left. No. They're linked with Elise, aren't they? I think the bar and director said if they gave us£200 million from we'd we'd just laugh off. So that's that's a no. That's the other problem though. Like who who else is out there that they could actually replace him with? Like there isn't too many that you look at and thought, oh yeah, I thought Bemo was a lot like a fifth sort of bouncy, and that's his cleanest on the ball, but just seems to just score goals. Yeah, you could see him playing around the hill all the time every week on the right wing. Similarly, not getting solid numbers, but if somebody got 40 goals a season and he got 20, it's still very good. Someone liked him though, yeah. That's why you're not ringing a thing. Yeah, how old is he? Don't know. I just said, but he could be bleeding. Yeah, he'd be 40 or something, but yeah, there's nearly like you wouldn't he you'd be surprised to see him. You could look at him and think, geez, he's 42 or something. Like you wouldn't be surprised if he was, or if he was 26, you wouldn't be surprised either. Like, you know. As right wingers go, that the but with the left the left footed right wingers. Yeah, there's not that many that are good. Consistent people, Arsenal fans be listening, and they're like, Whoa, but he's Star Boy's gone, that's yeah. He's 24 and they were comparing him to Ronaldo a couple of years ago, but he won a Ballon Dor, 23. So see years later on that one. I think you know. Even Salah, you know, compared to Genoa, Sallin's. That's just one example I can think of. Who else is playing up on the right with left foot?

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Now, Genoa, if somebody gave me if somebody gave me a choice to say, here's two players now. No, it never happened. So it's hype this is a hypothetical uh uh uh question or just uh uh uh comment to say, right? If you ask me um would I take um Saka for United or would I take back Mason Greenwood, I'd be taking back Mason Greenwood. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It never happened, and what happened what I'm saying is right, he's a better player now. As a player, yeah. He's a better player, even if you put him out on the right wing and you don't know if you just go and go right or left to say, because he can go down the wing and go in. He's a much better player. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:28

Takes to defender.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

So so he's an actually gifted footballer. It's just a shame what happened to say, but just the same what you were saying, Sean, there's not loads of them out there. There's not many of them.

SPEAKER_03 25:37

There's not many or missing somebody big or something as we're talking now. Well, the likes of Dembele and all are there, and the likes of Dewey and like you said, Rafinha and he say, like, there are like obvious ones there, but they're all playing with the big clubs. Like what we say, like it's very rare that big team buys the best player from the big team. Valbert is out and right now, isn't he? Yeah, like he's a right. Yeah, yeah. Like even if they bought like some I know he got injured, didn't he, Am Rodrigo? But like if they bought him, like he's not gonna get solid numbers unless he could change their approach completely and you go old fashioned, and maybe the likes of Ekatique and Isaac can be strikers together, and you might have a point winger and start crossing balls. But I just think as a pull, but as as as Salah goes, he's up there with the Rooneys and number wise hundreds. And the any there's not many players in the we were saying before in the world now that are even touching into that category. Yeah, who might the only one left in the Premier League that can get mad numbers like that. Goal-wise, I think, is Haaland, and then assist-wise, would be Fernandez. Yeah, they're sort of what De Bryan and Salah were a couple of years ago, like De Bryan and getting all the assists like Fernandez and then Haaland getting all the goals like Salah. No, people need time as you said, but at the minute, I can't see anybody.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

He's a legend for Liverpool, and I'm not the what we look at. As much as we hate Liverpool, but you say we get our own opinion now, as a footballer, he'd be missing the premiership. I'm delighted now. Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_03 27:00

Yeah, but you know, I'm glad he's not gonna be playing against United anymore. We both scored against United. 20 odd goals or something against United Onlox. There you go. So yeah, the last one, start a bit new, so just start with a bit of a fun game. Now, this is just a yes and no answers that I'm gonna ask you to read. Yeah, of course. No, no need to elaborate, just yes and all, right? So again, it's probably United's pushing all this while it was an international break on and all the transfer there was, right? Yeah. So just a couple of players that wanted you to say yes and no to whether you think we should get them. And then answer then if we will get them or not, right? So we're gonna start at the back. So we're getting just the players we've been linked to the last week or so, right? So uh while Lewis skinny. Do you think we should get them? No. Do you think we will get them? No. No, no, anyway. Lewis Hall. Yeah. Should we get them? Should we get them? Do you think we will? No.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

No.

SPEAKER_03 28:08

Should we get them? No. No, we will get them. No, no, no, no. Yeah. Will get him? No. No. Anderson. Should we get him? Should get him. Yeah. Will we get him? No. I'll tell you what, and I'm gonna talk to elaborate. Man C get related to get him.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:46

If not, C you go to C. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

I'd say yeah, United get him.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

United get him. Adam Martin. Should we get him? Yeah. Definitely, yeah. Will we get him? Yeah. I think he's gonna be the one that I was gonna rely on. I don't think it's too much pressure on him anyway. Do you think we'll get him then? Or we'll deliver hill?

SPEAKER_01 29:03

No, because I don't think United are capable of getting Anderson and Martin.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Right.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

So I think they're putting a lot of baskets. No, they might elaborate on it, but I think they put a lot of eggs into the basket or Anderson, so I think United they get it. I'm not gonna find all these players on it. Just if I had to pick up individually, like the Labour. Should Garden? No. Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Only a young like you've proved that he's a good left-foot midfielder. No. Half the price of what you were looking for. No. He'd be a good footballer, yeah. Do you think we will get him?

SPEAKER_03 29:34

No. Yeah. Yeah. I think we will get him. As a cheaper option. I think as a cheaper option. Because we don't have the ball to go out and fucking sign to Narnie and Anderson. Nail on the head to back all the money out. Nail on the head. But if he comes in, we'll back him. That's what I'd say. Yeah, definitely, yeah. And then the last one then is a winger. It's a chap Diamond from Leipzig. Do you think we should get him? No, too expensive for a rough diamond. Do you think we will get him?

SPEAKER_01 30:02

Yeah. Because I think as much if you hate Jason Wilcox, he has a good acquaintance with that club, hasn't he? And if they were looking for a winger, he's supposed to be the fastest thing on two legs, isn't he? I'm gonna say no because he's too expensive. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:15

They won't give that that kind of money. Yeah. In Europe. What did you look him for? He was in America. I I think he was in like in America. 70 one year with 80 million euros or something, whatever that is in pounds, 72, 70 million. Yeah, if you can say that they get him for 50. Yeah, one year with Leipzig this year, so you get him for 50. Yeah. Yeah, and anybody does come in and we'll back them definitely. But yeah, big time. They're good questions, actually. Yeah, it's just how I throw around. Yeah, yeah. Obviously, come here. Look at throughout the summer, we'd have the World Cup, but we'll be doing a lot of like transfers and transfer talking. Not just United, but the whole Premier League and any transfers that do go through, we'll touch on them. So if anyone has any questions about transfers or any opinions on whatever team they support, if they think you'll be able to do it. Yeah, you can write you. Exactly. We need to be honest. You might even get your own team if you obviously you don't support United. A lot of I think the majority of the people I know who listen to this don't even support United. No, like that only got a lot of my acquaintances and yourself now, a lot of them are Liverpool and United too, don't get me wrong. But um not more not United supporters. Look and commanded supporters.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

And you wanted their opinion as some of you that's just three people that wouldn't be just into basketball or into American football, like we'd look around and we'd give our honest opinion. Yeah, try to question it.

SPEAKER_03 31:34

So before we go into Sean's questions, we'd have to just touch on the oil again against the Czech Republic.

SPEAKER_01 31:41

Yeah, the first question is I was gonna say so now your question.

SPEAKER_03 31:50

Right, we're not going to a World Cup again. No. Did that surprise you? No. I I had a little bit of hope going into the game. And then the way the game started, they put it out there, they're taking the oil and hat off. It was a poor game of football. Two brutal teams. It was like a League One match, hoofing the ball on, long throws, having running around.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

Ah, that five minutes. Yeah, it's rendering up.

SPEAKER_03 32:14

It's like oh what's this? We were watching that on holiday.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

We said that on holidays, you said it's five minutes gone, that's got golfers kicking the ball on, and they're throwing the ball on, yeah. And they're trying to try to throw the ball in the heart where line and all the vibe. I said here the game was this, and it was exactly like that. I said to him, like, it was a League One game. Yeah, slap no meaning you're gonna get a bit heavy-handed.

SPEAKER_03 32:35

You slap that, you slap someone on the arm or something. Look at this, they throw the ball in the heart of it.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

Yeah, I don't believe I said, Do you know what I said to him? It was crap, I said I obviously hoped you win, yeah, but I didn't give any of them a hope. But go see show with football, doesn't it? I said, whoever wins this match, Denmark is just gonna have an easy game. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, you did, yeah, yeah. And then there you go, and and I thought even over the over the whole game, I thought even Ireland were better than Check. No, yeah. So then I said to myself, Jesus, Denmark will easily beat them. Yeah, and then like to show Ghostly Show, it was an opportunity missed. It's two and up and then up.

SPEAKER_03 33:11

And they're man, man ain't giving away a penal, that's just ridiculous, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_01 33:15

Do you know what? Even going down to just say right. I said to him, the most important penal with them all of them was the fourth penal.

SPEAKER_03 33:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

Because that would have put tremendous pressure on down the score on the last two, and then two brutal panels.

SPEAKER_03 33:27

Who missed that is, isn't it? They're winning three.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

He's a good striker, why wouldn't you just rifle it? I never get this about trying to be too clever. Yeah. Two bad penals.

SPEAKER_03 33:37

Yeah. Yeah, I think that wasn't as true. He came on and goes, he's gonna get the winner's texting into our little group, yeah. Should have stayed on the bench. Yeah, then your man come on and buried, didn't he? For yeah, for Chechen and left foot bump. Poor game of football though, but it would have been nice to get to a total football. But look at there you go, Chechen there. Might have half as well from Poland. Yeah, they did they Jacques R scored a winner last night, didn't he? Look if you look at Italy.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

I don't know whether there's a question, but Rebel know where you're working out. But there's how bad is the football in Italy? Yeah, three three.

SPEAKER_03 34:13

That was one of the questions I brought into.

SPEAKER_01 34:15

Yeah, well they will wait then, yeah. But that would answer now, yeah. No, there you go, because they were going to say three consecutive World Cups are Italy not in the World Cup. That's unbelievable. 2014 is the last time you were in the World Cup. No, I mean for for for supposed to be a powerhouse of one of the big six of the of the football leagues, mm-hmm and you're not making it to the World Cup in um in tr in three consecutive World Cups, that's 12 years to get things right, if you know what I mean. Like Andy won a Euros in between beating England at Wembley in the final and also.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

How are you not able to get the World Cups?

SPEAKER_01 34:43

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 34:43

Like power that proved to how bad the football is.

SPEAKER_02 34:47

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:48

Don't say Donor Elman. I saw that, yeah, get pulled away and then like Yeah, and like he was 17 when he made his his um got his first cap, and he and he potentially to get into the next world cup could be 31 or 32 the time he plays his first World Cup game. That's mad. That's mad, isn't it? Yeah, terrible. Terrible's mad, yeah. Just before we go back to Orient's response to this you were saying about Poland and Sweden there. Sweden didn't win a single game in qualifying, but they grew into the playoffs through our Nations League position and our way to work with. Poland finished second to Holland. Yeah, I think they're at 78 points. The Netherlands had 20, so they go into the playoffs obviously coming second. And Sweden didn't win a single game in the qualifying. A couple of dodgy decisions, referee game referee wise in that game. There was a free kick that should have been a free free kick, nowhere near a free kick that led to one of the goals, and then it was another uh one of the penalties a bit dodgy. But see the penalty, the goalkeeper. Yeah, so Ireland, he was off his line twice, I'm telling you. One was tight, but didn't he even look at it? No, yeah, no, he didn't. He won with he was for the force one about the force penal, whatever the force of the two penalties. Yeah, just going back to Ireland, they were yeah, no, hopefully. We put so much pressure on Floyd Paris, don't we? To get goals and obviously you scored a pen or whatnot, but you've nothing else. Like always, like there's just no yeah, but look at who Sean, sorry, been quite crashing. Sean used to like Wes Huland, didn't you? Yeah, and you're always used to pushing for him to play where I had that bit of quality. We needed someone like that, didn't we? Yeah, someone to put the ball in the game. Play football, put your foot in it, you keep the ball and make things happen. You'd be ball played again, they're at a different level, of course. But you but someone who's creative creates things, yeah. It doesn't just a true ball, but it's dragging defenders out, it's making them the opposition think, and then that's how things doesn't always work out. But Fernandez, I know we give out about him, so he's mad with the ball sometimes, but he's starting to get a lot more clinical, don't you? And that's it's dragging the happening, doesn't he?

SPEAKER_01 36:54

And then he's yeah, it's falling the players actually put the ball in the back of the net now. Yeah, and I was just thinking that overall from the start of the competition to the end, I think they improved a little bit as a team. Yeah, it did. Yeah, so you like and they still like even now we don't know who who was at the match last night, and they would just say because obviously we we couldn't say Sean, we were on the playing home, and then uh he had side party giving a bit of an interview, and you said you couldn't believe there was still a great crowd turned out for them. Yeah, just like 40,000 or 49,000. So so no matter what, like uh like the fans are behind him, which is a good thing.

SPEAKER_03 37:25

Yeah, he scored a goal last night that was disallowed for offside, but if they had drew the lines, he would have been on. He could have scored a few in fairness. He was one of those nights was just unlucky for him. Yeah, and that's it.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

They didn't really want to play if they were knocked out of the world cup, you know what I mean? So Fernandez got another two assists last night for Portugal against USA.

SPEAKER_03 37:43

A little back hit. Yeah, yeah. Well uh look, we won't be going to the World Cup, but should upbeat we'll watch it and we'll have our we actually have our predictions on the on Instagram, don't we? We pour our predictions for the World Cup to see who we think will win. So we'll have plenty of World Cup content during the summer and yeah, well they don't cover everything.

SPEAKER_01 38:01

I don't think many was picked early in and we're all right. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:04

It's best to look at all the teams that are in the cup that are later countries that have actually qualified.

SPEAKER_01 38:08

Like the USA and all the fans are there, we'll be we'll be watching.

SPEAKER_03 38:10

I'll be watching up just because we're not you know it always watched. Oh the World Cup is great to watch. That new Brazil is one of the questions wrote in to us from Tony, his name is um did you hear the new um Brazil song for the World Cup? It's absolutely brilliant. It's only it's deadly. I do check out. I did, but then I I heard one for France and Portugal, so I I don't know. France started it. Is it real? Is it real? I tagged her AI or something like France and all these players. Like it could be something like that. I don't know. But France started it and then that and then Portal and coming out. Yeah, yeah. Then there's uh Unite, someone's on Unite. It's not the same beat, like you know, it's something different, but you can all do it, but it's just the name and the way they're putting where we're designed, it's brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 38:50

Even if it's AI, I'm just saying about because you just can't trust something that you see. You think I don't think we're all the but whoever put it together did a good job.

SPEAKER_03 38:56

Exactly. Yeah, it's brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 38:58

Listen to it, have a good. I never heard it. Like you would just tell me about it, wouldn't you? I couldn't really hear it.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

It'll get you in the middle for the World Cup, that's what I'd say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But uh yeah, no, look on the groups I've got now. Yeah, thanks, Tony, yeah. Uh so there are thanks Antum. There aren't just many sort of groups of debt, if you will. Like do you know what I mean? Like just like the toughest one, England have a bit of a tough group with Croatia, Ghana and Panama. But other than that, I'd say the probably the best group is probably the Netherlands, Japan, Sweden and Tunisia. So, okay. You were looking at Japan last night as well, can't you? So okay. It's the walk up, isn't it? So enjoy it and to be teams getting there that you know I wouldn't be surprised if a South American team got forward because of the climate and all this sort of stuff. Like Florida goes to a semi-final or something, but we'd catch some around holidays now and flying away to Spain in the summer. Yeah, we'll catch the is it quarterfinals, semi-finals, and final.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

Yeah, we'll have to organise to see Spain lifting the World Cup again, maybe you never know.

SPEAKER_03 40:01

Maybe if you could another to pick her up, but you'll see. Argentina portional final, isn't it? The last two World Cups against each other.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

Yeah, I've got to look at and it throws up some great players, doesn't it? That you never heard of when they come out of the woodwalking on and look at the World Cup, it's just it's away competition. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 40:20

So we'll have to come up with some plan. Yeah, might be going solo for two weeks, you never know. We'll we'll we'll figure it out coming this summer, come close to that. Yeah, yeah. But uh yeah, so we'll move on to Sean's questions now. My questions are done, so we did away there. Yeah, pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

Who made you the questionnaire tonight, Carl? It's Sean's job. That's how we know that.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

I know no stress. Oh desperate, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 40:45

I actually quite enjoyed the little bit of a break, as I'd ask you my question to you. Did you ask this question the last day? No, you said that to me yesterday, and you said and I said to you, Do you know what? Like it's you can enjoy a break, but not in the goals on this long. And I said that to you, so I said, You thought you not saying you thought you were going, you know, just not thinking that you're playing next Monday now, and the break is all said, no, no, no, they're playing Monday week. Yeah, yeah. You said another fucking two 14 days or something, whatever it is. I don't know, it's always too long. It's too long in the middle of the season.

SPEAKER_03 41:13

Yeah, yeah, it's too long. But I did enjoy the bit of a break on it, I'd say it's just frustrating, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 41:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:19

And they just want the now at the minute where I was sitting here now, I just want the back.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

Yeah, and they're playing well at the moment. I'm not saying the barmwood was was like we said you said it last week, we took the one point with the way the results went, like to stop now, like, but look at we just carry on and that's it.

SPEAKER_03 41:34

Yeah So you have your question, Sean? Right, so again we'll go into um Mark wrote in a question to us um because we were on the app about things and he said since the downfall well I sort of questioned it like this because it was more of a statement we were talking about. So since the downfall of the quality of football in the Premier League, is there a connection in between that and the League of Ireland attendance? The League of Ireland attendance at a record high now, apparently. Yeah, well this season. Would that be something that's driving what we're trying to say, like driving fans to look at the or go to games more, or is it because the quality getting a bit better? I don't know. Um I'd say just between plenty of factors in it. Probably has, I'm sure the quality has gotten a little bit better than a couple of years ago, just saying the more Dublin teams that are in the League of Oregon there is better. Like Shells aren't in the second division anymore, they're up in the top league, obviously they won the league and whatnot a couple of years ago. Like so that obviously helps, but I think sort of helps as well. Now maybe this mightn't be a factor either, but we obviously know people that would support Shammock Rovers probably more than anybody else, or that's even just say but they'd support United or Celtic or Liverpool as well. I'd say it costs thing as well, has to come into it. Like if you support Rovers just as much as you support United, like to go for us to go to a man United game, easy costs what, about 400 quid for your hotel, your flight, your ticket. Like it easy costs you in the round uh, anyway. It might be a five or up and back, and the ticket might be twenty-five, thirty quid. It may be something like that as a fact. Maybe people are thinking, oh I can't afford to go to England anymore. I keep going.

SPEAKER_01 43:22

I don't want to watch live football and just go to the League of World and I just season ticket with them and just keep calling it night out, it's a good night out then. Yeah, yeah. And look at and obviously it's to do with I don't mean obviously because it you but the the footballers like they have the youngers that have to say it's their eight in that good footballers, all of them are uh and a lot of youngers are plant a start for the teams now, and so so that's always making it better. But I think it's better as well because like obviously advertising is the marketing is better, like for now for the League of World. You can see well, advertising the telly now, like a very players, and they do get ads for it and all the side, right? And then I just think as well, like the managers over the last couple of. Coming in like um a good manager's like sort of established names as managers. They like to just say uh Stephen Kenny, that was he was managed early in all, and he managed Bowers and and then and then he's he's with Pat's now just says he's a good established manager, so he'd bring good football in it. Stephen Bradley have Shamar Brovus, he's a good manager. Long time, yeah. I mean he he had he had he was over Arsenal and and that and he was a good standard. And then you Joey O'Brien now that took over from Damien Duff. Like uh sh sh uh uh he'll have a great shell, won't he as well? Just say, like as you said, we won the league in O'Connor, and then and and um so so them just as as experienced people are making the League of Ireland better. So there's lots of there's lots of factors really in fairness to it.

SPEAKER_03 44:40

What do you think, Sean? I yeah, I well I don't know if that's a factor too, but definitely better. Maybe it is, maybe it is contributing to it, yeah. Um because I know a lot more people get just as talking, they're a lot a lot more talk of League of Ireland. Yeah. Just in general, it sort of feels. Yeah. Even talking to people in the gym or you're talking the street and woke or with you lads or whatever, like you know, it's commenting on the thing on on Instagram or whatever else, it's just yeah, it feels like uh people are maybe maybe that is contributing to it, I don't know. I won't say massively now, but I'd say it's a factor, alright.

SPEAKER_01 45:14

But it's usually it's better, isn't it? Like like but when if you market something and you do it right and you're good on it, you'll sell it. Like you did like it's like anything, isn't it? Like like if you could if you you've got a good marketing crowd behind you, so the league weren't marketed really well this year, like before I started and all like they really advertise it with that virgin on and the girls and the boys and the kids now and whatever you put all together. Like so it's it was there, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_03 45:36

A lot more foreign players come in the league this year as well, which is obviously a good sign that people want to come to the league outside of the country. Like, just yeah, exactly. Yeah, the career long may continue, and probably forward down the line, the League of World players might get a game or Ireland or not. Yeah, hopefully. I don't know. Wish we're thinking, but yeah, but hopefully. Or Trap League France or if he's over to England, maybe. Yeah. Well, there's a couple of them, isn't it? Like as you were talking about the youngers now, like the Vergon to Spores and Nice Emilia and all, and Victor don't know what the second name is, and that you're gonna try and butcher it with going to hear, and he's only sixteen, isn't he? Yeah, but he'll make our shame groove or something.

SPEAKER_01 46:09

There's good talent coming through. Yeah. It is, definitely, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:13

Another fella, Pat wrote into us, he said, uh, why has the overlap of matches been ignored? Oh yeah, just yeah. I don't know. We talked about this on this podcast plenty of times and personally and uh to ourselves and what I thought. What the people I'm sure you have, I'm sure you have. It's a great question. I think I mentioned it after this the final, did I? We were talking about this the cup final with City and Arsenal, and I like that second goal of Man City because the fullback actually overlapped the winger, crossed the ball in and he scored.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

Yeah, like oh no, he went over it in his head, didn't he? Oh, fashion, you don't like it look like old-fashioned football. Now, the old-fashioned football as we said all year is coming back in with long throws and long, long free kicks. But that's a part of the old-fashioned football that they could bring back. Realistically, yeah. That that that like a team like um you go out there now and you have two good wingers and two good full backs, and they're overlapping each other. Like the people wouldn't know what to do now because it's gone out again.

SPEAKER_03 47:09

Yeah, I just uh it's like I said, even I know he's brutal and whatnot to know, but imagine if he was passing Ahmad and overlap, you take another defender, right? You know, and then leave Ahmad one on one. Now you you pass it to him and he's getting marked by the winger, but the fullback is behind him, so he has to be two players. I don't know what happens if you do receive the ball on a in an on side stay, you have more space to cross the ball. Yeah, yeah. You don't have to take two or three touches and then you know, you can just if you make a if you get the run right and the pass is right, it's only up the line usually. Yeah, do you have a very rarely over here on the hit? You can pay a fourth time. Yeah, it's you know, so I think the law will be fit enough to do it. I'm not slagging, but he's a fit, he's a fit lad, he's fast and he's fit. I'll get him given that. Like so he'd be able to do the overlap and get back. Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_01 47:53

And then like it's we didn't want to go in the middle of placing it to forward. Instead of just running up and being a bit Yeah, it's well that's a real cross volume. Yeah, well, that's everybody.

SPEAKER_03 48:03

You go and get back, would you? I think even as a kid, like ever played right back a good bit as a kid, and like the first thing you're told is pass it, get the ball from the goalkeeper, pass it to your winger and overlap your winger. Like, where's that gone?

SPEAKER_01 48:16

Yeah, it's definitely gone out again, yeah. Don't know why you somebody should look at the colour.

SPEAKER_03 48:20

The only two team uh the only team that do it, and they have the two best fullbacks in the world is PSG. Like you constantly see Hakimi and Yaman Mendez overlapping and across. Is it a surprise that to the best team in the world? Yeah. Do you not think the likes of Yakarez and Sesco would benefit from with fullbacks getting around and cross the ball? Because they know what's coming, they can make their make their runs in tune with the cross. Yeah, you know, that's that's pretty much in the forwards there. Yeah, the ball comes down the left, you kind of know he nine times out of ten floats to the back post, and if it's going down the right, he only whips her in low so we can get across the front post. Do you know why it's so uh uh effective as well? Because even the Man City game, when most of the time you do overlap a little bit, you're more or less closer to the end line. Yeah, they're gonna be on side most of the time. You're not crossing it in from the 18-yard box, not the D there, like the corner, but then there's plenty of space to be cut offside. If you're receiving the ball and you're already two feet away from the end line, you're whipping it in, chances of being on side, it's good it's it's gonna be a chance created.

SPEAKER_01 49:17

Yeah, good defenders have stepped out. I mean good defenders will live up to them then, obviously. Yeah, exactly. And then, like if you said, because the good forwards and good midfielders that can run as use as as as as an overlap and centre uh winger or right full or left full, um it's hard to uh catch or mark um a centre midfielder or a centre forward in the box that these at the walking and it's just saying train and all the because clever players run hard and you twist behind your back and all that. So it should be really part of the game.

SPEAKER_03 49:44

There's no he has to come back to your number 10 in the crossing, and this is what happens in the flow of the game is then the strike has already made his run, then he has to come back to make another run. That's you know that's why there's not many crossed goals now.

SPEAKER_01 49:56

We've the best overleapon fullback in England, haven't we? Sure. That was just a low goal. That's what I'm saying. So you definitely need to work on things as well, don't you?

SPEAKER_03 50:05

Like just the last point on it. Don't be surprised if in five years some there is a team that wins the league by doing that, and people are like, oh, look at this. Just because they live with us. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm doing. I looked, I'd love United to do it now. Yeah, of course. We'd look to get the players down next year, but you fucking saying it's Cuny on the right 'cause he's right footed and Wemmo on the left because he's left and get balls into the box.

SPEAKER_01 50:26

Yeah. And put dog or left, put dog or left foot, he'll run all day for you. Yeah, yeah. He's only 20, so he's he's has he's just improving.

SPEAKER_03 50:35

Yeah. So yeah, thanks for that. Uh writing that in there. Uh let me see now. We were we were on holidays just only back, so we were talking to um one of the the the barman there, Julian. He's gonna give it a give it a listen, so thanks for supplying us with all those um aquashed over there. Um did we hear the Brisbane Brazilian national theme song, so we we got into that already. Um but I have a feeling uh he he said he he's a Letico Madrid supporter. He says, but uh he does I think it's Chelsea as well. Okay, I can gather like another way he didn't know low about the thing, but he hates Arsenal. Right, he hates them. Is that what you're talking about the time? Yeah Didn't pay for a drink, I didn't know but he sent me a picture actually. Um I'll tell a lie, I took a picture from his phone off his thing. It was it was the Arsenal players out injured. So he said, what do we think? Like he said, what do we think of this? So all the players that went home injured for their for international teams, it's it's disgraceful.

SPEAKER_02 51:46

Do any of them I don't know if you have the picture there? Right, England, England, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Brazil.

SPEAKER_03 51:54

Like the only thing I would say about that is none of them are probably playing important matches, and I'd say Ferguson used to do that all the time as well as me. Well no, probably not to that extent of like really everything. It's a whole fucking level. No, he's like something should should something be done about it. I wrote that in. Sorry, Julian said, should something be done about this? Oh no, I don't think you can do that about it. No, you can't, but it's just another doggy tactic from that slime ball art heading. I'm telling you, I hate it. I'm passed over it now. I'm gonna say it, I can't stand the man. He's gonna win the league with doggy tactics. And did Julian think this as well? Well, he used different words now. He used different words. He speaks English and Spanish, and he's already knew the Spanish words, he was just compadre. But it's just horrible, horrible football, isn't it? Oh overall, the pitch is just gonna be uh well Don't Kegat probably and just shut up. That's what I'm gonna say to them.

SPEAKER_01 52:45

No, that's I think that's it.

SPEAKER_03 52:46

Yeah, but no, it's nothing you can do with the audience, I'm afraid.

SPEAKER_01 52:48

No, no, no, because if they're injured, they're injured, but you can't prove whether they're injured.

SPEAKER_03 52:52

No, as United, I would love to do that as well. We've seen it for years, especially at United. If I think the trigger can just have like deals and all with some of the managers and I'd say some of it is like you're not that he's not playing for England if it's a friendly because we've a big Champions League game and so forth. I'd definitely say that's um still the same case as that. Like they're they're playing the Yapley Cup the weekend, and then they've a Champions League game during the week, then and then would you would you be right in time to play Man City, maybe after?

SPEAKER_01 53:20

It's a whole start eleven. Six of them maybe probably playing now next week.

SPEAKER_03 53:24

Yeah, that would you know I'd be happy. I'll be honest with you.

SPEAKER_01 53:28

Look at you last out on the on the League Cup show, you have three more competitions played for, so you want everything uh available for them three competitions. That's an art head the move, isn't it? I'm sure people were saying the same years ago and it was Ferguson, that bleeding fags and fellows always at it. I can scream and went ref time, ref time.

SPEAKER_03 53:49

But look, you don't yeah, he's done that at the right times. He's not playing for a draw at the 30 minutes. No, I thought it's a Ferguson, you know, don't even say that again, but it's terrible. Yeah, they're skipping a beat there. Um mentioned them two in the same ref bar that he tried to buy him one day, won one season or something. Yeah, oh definitely not because Ferguson played end-to-end football, more or less, you know what I mean. If Ferguson had this team in the the state of the war now, uh if Ferguson had Arsenal's team, they'd be winning everything. Clearly, winning everything, not just the rambling on the line throwing the winning. He'd be positive after half an hour and like you know, he would be more positive. So just for anyone listening, Sean is a secret Arsenal fan, if you can't tell. I don't know why that pissed me off so much. It's our tether. Look at the team, look at the players. I have the picture in my hand there. Look at the players they have. Why can't they go out and be whacking teams out? But they're and they're trying to throw the ball in and get because most of our goals at home are from their pieces.

SPEAKER_01 54:56

Scored two goals in the last two minutes and do well, James. Look at me, that's his frustration.

SPEAKER_03 55:03

It's weird because maybe you'll maybe that's just the level, mate. Like Saka's not really like he's a good player, he's not brilliant. The left wingers they're not great. Yakrez is bumpy up front. Maybe they're just not maybe he's just utilising what he has. Like maybe a couple of players that aren't that great. Well, something that Julian said as well, because I was sort of going on a rant again with them there, but he said they're just not good enough, them players. That's our that's the level he kept saying. That's the level. So maybe yeah, maybe that's maybe I'm just overhyping them. Maybe because I'm listening to arsenic, even the people I know, because I listen again, I don't really care, but you know what I'm I'd say to you when I'm like um face the face or whatever. But you shouldn't feel like you get questions out of them don't you? Oh no, we have a great back and forward, I don't know. Sound people, like no, but just like Sack of Taken, for example, or SA and all, they think they're ball and are contenders, they're not. Do you know? And maybe I think in my head I've I maybe even up in their quality if that's what it makes sense. Maybe you should have said there, they're just not good enough, and that's the only way they can win the league. Joe, touch touchwood united are sort of challenging for our league, so I wonder what maybe like that like not because it's been so long. I wonder they like just it's been so long for the tactic. No, I call out just saying like I wonder some of them thinking, gee, it's this is the team that wins the league, so they have to be just as good as the previous Arsenal teams that won the league. Like maybe, maybe they won't care.

SPEAKER_00 56:28

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 56:29

I know the people that listen to me now, like they won't give a shit. I don't care when I win the league. And you're right. Correct? Grant. But uh yeah, thanks for that, Julian. Um another guy from holidays Dylan, uh guy from Sheffield, uh he said, What made us start a podcast?

SPEAKER_02 56:50

We've always wanted to sort of rant around.

SPEAKER_03 56:52

We just we talk about United and football all the time, anyway, don't we? All day, every day.

SPEAKER_01 57:02

What we say is knowledgeable, we know what we're hard to talk about, like what I mean. We could talk about but when we did start it, it was defend our frustration because you like realistically, but you wanted to start the years there when we said we do it because it is only a football chat, yeah, and and it's about all football. And um, as you said, that's all we're doing. I should we're just roaring and shouting and said, people look at each other, yeah. We will start looking at it, we will start listening to ourselves. Yeah, yeah, and there'll be other people listen to us.

SPEAKER_03 57:30

I think that's it's more of a getting an opinion out there, opinion out there, just seeing what people talk about. So many people I stopped in the street and have forcing you to talk about football in the park, walking the dog, talk about football in work, customers' football. Yeah, the drivers, delivery drivers, people talking, they just it could be a ten-second thing, just you know, actually it's all about football.

SPEAKER_01 57:49

Yeah, you know, we're football fans, that's what it is.

SPEAKER_03 57:51

You're walking past something and grabbing three and be talking as you're boats going their separate ways about football. You know, it's just so yeah, that was just a platform to get us not a platform, just to get people's opinion and see what they think, and yeah, it's more of it's get your frustration now, isn't it? Yeah, it's like an hour return to be, isn't it? Yeah, when you're like that shy. And they like the interaction as it went on, it just gets complicated. I mean I enjoyed the interaction.

SPEAKER_01 58:15

I mean, we'd enjoy doing as well because what why wouldn't you enjoy doing it like you're enjoying doing a bit a lot and I'm enjoying it doing so so enjoyable?

SPEAKER_03 58:22

We won't always be here forever, that's that's you know, yeah, exactly. Yeah, but um yeah, I think that's the that's the the reason. Dylan, he did we were talking, I said I'd write that question down. We sort of answered for him on the day, but not a way, so wanted to hear your opinion, colour. Um and from Dylan as well, he said, Who is our favourite uh YouTube fan channel? It can't be from any team, like Albridge or I don't listen to all he's the only one I listened to.

SPEAKER_01 58:48

Goldbridge.

SPEAKER_03 58:49

I like him, uh Housen. Stephen Housing, you know, fanic. More sort of uh in-depth and more sort of think the way we would think like Joe Middle, so I'd say him like yeah. Yeah, he's a good one. He's a good one. Actually, I quite like Damfield agenda, Craig. Yeah. Like, you know, likes of these fan channels, I only watch them when they're losing, but he does put up some good things, and um yeah, I had I did comment on one or two posts on it and he wrote back, you know. So he got one of the comments he wishes best of luck on this. Yeah, yeah. So fair playthrough, like you know, he's the only one that has sort of wrote back. Oh, that's good. Yeah, Dalbridge is good too, but he can't be frustrated, but he does have good inside knowledge and he's a good team around him and get some good information. Sometimes he can be very funny.

SPEAKER_01 59:29

Yeah, he can be very funny as well. But that's the only thing. Sometimes he can be being a bit negative, but he does get loads of good information and he has good he's a good source and all, but sometimes he's he's um he he he puts it out there like and you look at um what his agenda is then, and sometimes it could be negative.

SPEAKER_03 59:45

Yeah, you know what I mean. Oh well, it's funny when spores are losing your man expressions. Yeah, he's hilarious, he loses the plateaus. I like troops. Jesus Christ, you must be losing the plot, they have TV are funny as well when they're when they went on. I just have to won, really like troops, he's not with them anymore, whatever happened there there, but uh yeah, he's gas. He's hilarious him. That's what you get a chance to watch when you're not you beat him three, two. It's absolutely comedy gold. But uh yeah, thanks for that. Yeah, thanks for that.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:18

Um, they're welcome. Yeah, they'll do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:22

I wouldn't mind that chapter and he he's he he's shepherds. You're telling us on how he's he's the 61 and his family all together, and that's that's brothers and uncles and aunts, and he says out of them all, he says only three of them support Shepherds United, the rest of the Shepherd went. He says they don't target you for days, did you have a break?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:40

Do you know what our answer to that question next year could be us, you never know. Yeah, you never know what could happen further down the line. Yeah, could be. Um another fella, we have our time. Yeah, we get one more in. United fan Mah, his name is. He said, should I write this backwards back to front lad? Sorry. So should you look to the free transfer market? For example, um, here's some of the here's some of the players that are available in the summer. Um Goretska, he's 41, Sensi off Warmer is 28, Valhovich off um Juventus is 26, Hardy Wilson is 29, all out contract in June. Min Minase, I think I'm probably butchering his name. He's a right back from Celde Vigo, 26, and he's worth 20 million. I was just looking at him. So I don't know if some players have something linked to him, so someone will pick him up. Basuma is available, he's 29. Rico Henry from Barmert, the left back, um, he's 28. Uh Guerrero. Brentford? I think it might be. Brentford, Brentford, isn't it? Yeah, I think it is, yeah. Um there we go. Guerrero, the left back from Bayern, 32, and then he's getting a bit older. Uh Kokay's 34, I'll stay away from that. Uh Cardi's 33. All out of contract. Would should we look at the free transfer window? Yeah, they should. Look, I'm sure we'll have rants over the summer at United's transfers, but they should. And they should look for a couple of older experienced players, like I keep saying, they like a well beckon. They're just not going to, would he?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:26

No. It's just not. Yeah, it seems to suit their profile. Yeah, I think. That's a Goreski, he's a good midfield player. Like, if we get him on nothing and for nothing and give him a contract there, and he played plenty of games, but as just as a backup, because you're gonna let you need extra like career. Casimir's definitely gone, and Ugarty should be gone as well. Like, and you can't be on time by bringing in two. You could buy two good ones and bring him in as well. Like to him, he's only 31, and you do a good job for a couple of years as an experienced player.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:52

Fernandez is 31.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:54

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:56

Do you always question why these players at those ages are f going into like free agencies? Yeah, like what's real? Like, if you look through that list, just say angel pound and Goretzka is, isn't he? Yeah, Lahovich is Basuma is Rico Henry did his knee in or broke his leg or something. Licardi sort of never really hit the heights that we kind of thought he was going to. Cope atlet goes since he's about seven. Yeah, so maybe that's why like you it's rare that you get a free agent that's Jesus. The falling outwards, yeah, club and this, that and the other.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:28

Not a dark agent anyway. Yeah. As you say, the likes of Mbappy became a free agent just said right in the right hand and he let her run down. There's reasons behind that just early, but he's a world-class player, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Like, and he he knew we want to go to Real Madrid, didn't he?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:42

I think they should go look into it. Just you have to like as you said, there's a reason why Garetzka is not being kept on as far Bayern. Fair enough. But the likes of him, just it might you might want to come just to be a bit better player, but that's up to United to sell this project to him. Imagine having him just on the bench as a part of the squad. Yeah, we're gonna get we're gonna get injuries. We're getting injuries this year, we're only playing one game a week, but definitely want to get more injuries. I don't think it's nothing. Sensi is a is a strange one because he's not a bad footballer at the back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He might be TB might be trying to run his contract down to get a big sign on to him, it'd be a big sign on. He's not gonna be getting 100 million. 28. There you go, so he could be someone you could look at as well. Um, Val Hobich, I don't know. We need a backup striker, so maybe maybe. I said just again, just sell the project to him. You can be getting 200 grand a week. There's 80 or whatever you are. I don't know what he's getting now. If you want to play for Man United, you will get game time. One game a week.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:38

Get them in, as you said, that's free free transfers and buy you a four or five world-class real players if you can get them.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:44

Because I think I know that they're buying players in 26 and 26, maybe, and then bel or below. That's fair enough. I sort of understand that a bit. But what I've got it's like the Chelsea model, they're hardly a success, I think. No, they're definitely not. So you need I I can understand that from a the Cunia and that that age group, that's brilliant. Yeah, go for them. That's where Tanali is now. You're gonna have to pay the money though. These are all free. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think maybe add one of them into the into the group group. One or two. Maybe add Goretzky into that group, he's a he's a winner. He's won everything.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:12

Look, you're not having him playing Ughati.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:14

Oh, 100%. No matter what, and he came for Boy Munich, and you know what I mean? So I I think they should. I think they should. And that's just examples there. I'm sure if you look into them, it'd be more, but if Hardy Wilson's a stranger, he's a good left foot or him, but we're already playing. Yeah, yeah, for real. Someone will pick him up and tell you. Yeah. I think Liverpool wasn't it. It was it.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:33

It wasn't Liverpool, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:35

But anyway, yeah. Yeah. Thanks for that question. Yeah, thanks for that. Yeah. And uh I'm sure we'd have plenty of more questions, but we're gonna be here by two hours if we answer them all. Yeah, so you answer so many. Thanks very much for them questions and Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Thanks, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:49

Thanks for writing in and thanks. Thanks, Dylan. If you if you are an extra listener, you said you listen though. Thanks very much, and we had a good time on holidays, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:56

Yeah, yeah. Thank you all, that's that's it for this week, isn't it? Unfortunately, Ireland aren't going to a World Cup, but we'll be back next week and we'll still have no Premier League games to talk about. We'll have to review the preview the games coming up. But yeah, look at it again. Thanks for everyone that's listened and follows us and shares everything and whatnot and continues to do. So I suppose we'll be back next week. Do it all over again. I disagree or anything that we send it in too. That's no problem.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:26

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:27

Thank you. That's it. Thanks very much. Bye bye.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:30

Bye bye.