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Ben, Tom and Watto reflect on England’s win over Andorra, Manchester United’s transfer window and Daniel Levy’s departure from Tottenham after 25 years!

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✍️ – Senne Lammens – is he the Answer for Man Utd?
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😬 – Nicolas Jackon & Bayern’s CRAZY Statement…
🔴 – Rashford to return from Barcelona?
💵 – What’s next for Spurs after Levy leaves…

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Timestamps:

0:00 – Intro
1:10 – Has it been a Good Transfer Window for Man Utd?
3:45 – Is Amorim Under Pressure?
5:40 – Man Utd are asking for MIRACLES!
13:15 – Marcus Rashford back to United?
14:50 – England vs Andorra Review
22:05 – What’s the point of Jordan Pickford playing these games?
23:25 – Who’s England’s best Right-Back?
26:17 – Free Agents! Our Free Agent XI!
30:19 – Kiwior Finds out about Loan Move on Social Media?!
32:11 – Will a player message Fabrizio Romano about a Transfer Move?!
35:36 – Daniel Levy’s Has LEFT Spurs!
42:54 – Where will Spurs finish?
43:31 – Nicolas Jackson & that CRAZY Bayern Munich Statement!
47:29 – Owen/Rooney DEBATE!
49:44 – Quiz
1:00:13 – Outro

[Music] This episode is presented by Shaw. This month sees Europe’s elite start to battle it out to become the best of the best. There’s so much pressure at this level and you can’t be distracted for one single second. It’s so important that you keep fresh and focused. Which is why it’s good to have Shaw’s non-stop protection range of anti-persperence to hand. 72-hour non-stop sweat and odor protection that’ll keep you fresh and dry on and off the pitch. Shop now at Boots. Sure, it won’t let you down. Welcome to Football Filling, everybody. We’re not talking about England today cuz it was absolutely miserable. Can we start a show like that? Well, yeah, it’s true. We’re starting the show like that. Got some other good stuff. We’ve got plenty to talk about. We got loads of talking points. And we’re going to start with Andre Anna, aren’t we? Yeah. What an incredibly lucky guy. What an incredibly lucky guy. It would be nice, wouldn’t it, as a goalie to have a bit of a stinker for a year and a half, right? And then still get alone and play first team football. It’d be nice that, wouldn’t it? Yeah. And he’s gone to the back of Beyond and nobody will see him for a while and uh we’ll see what happens. Mate, that transfer window for Man United was a very good transfer window, wasn’t it? The the ins were decent, but the outs for them were just as important. Seems to be solving the problem, doesn’t it? Well, it does. Yeah. There’s the talk, isn’t there, about the transition and it’s not simple because he’s got to get rid of the Deadwood. And I do agree. And you look at who’s gone out. They’ve got Sancho, Garnacho, Rashford, Anthony who were all problems for them. Hland’s gone, but he wasn’t a problem. No, he wasn’t a problem, but he was a problem on the pitch, I’d say, because they were sticking with it and trusting it. And it just wasn’t work. It was very obvious it wasn’t working. But they got some massive money off the books. Massive money. And it changes the culture, doesn’t it, as well? Yeah, I think that one might the thing for me. Um I think Anana actually I think he’s been decent in and around the building. Yeah, it seems like he’s a good lad apparently. Yeah, I I just think he’s the level of what he’s brought to United’s not been to the required thing for a club like that. So losing him um they’re hopefully going to get a better model in terms of the goalie. So we’ll wait and see on that one and we’ll talk about that a bit later. But I think I think the rest of the guys Amarin’s had to get a culture change in there. I don’t think Hland like you said to be honest has been a problem. He’s just not been good enough for a center forward for Man United. The rest of them have obviously caused problems in and around it and you can’t have that. It’s really really really early days in the season but if you were a United fan now what would you be optimistic? I think they’ve shown signs haven’t they? Look you don’t want to get beat the first match of the season off Arsenal do you? They beat Burnley and actually they were a lot better than Burnley but they needed a real controversial penalty. Um but it’s just small shoots all the time. I don’t think that they’re going to be real challenges anywhere near it this year. Um and unless he changes his tactics, I do think they’re still going to struggle. That’s the worry for me if I was a United fan because there’s a lot of talk of Thomas Frank going in and I know they lost their last Premier League game but people are going he’s had that group for a month or two and you can see big shoots whereas United is little when would the inflexibility be a worry for you? massively. They honestly if they didn’t beat Burnley, if they didn’t get that last minute penalty against Burnley, this international break here would have been it would have been touch and go. Do you really think? I honestly think it would have been touch and go. The negativity from the fans, the pessimism from the fans that would have been rumbling on all this week would have made it even worse when they get after back after the international break. The pressure on them to get results straight away after the international break is going to be massive. Well, let’s put it this way. So I watched this morning before I came in the uh tennis final was it? Yeah. Guardiola big Manchester derby next weekend in it. He’s sat at Flushing Meadow watching the tennis final. I guarantee Amarim weren’t doing that. Yeah. Amaran was in a computer room somewhere studying something trying to get his 352 to work properly as and that’s the reality. Look Guardiola even though City had a bad result obviously didn’t the last time out the same. They just know that it’s a different game for him. He’s been at City so long and you go back to Man United, I agree wholeheartedly. I think if they didn’t win that game, he were under so much pressure in that window and we only played three Premier League games and obviously getting beat from Grimby’s no great shakes is it? But the pressure that mounts on anybody who is associated with Man United as a player or a manager is absolutely astronomical and I don’t believe that he will have gone away and had a nice international. My question would be like now so they’ve they’ve they have what looks like to have been a good window for the club financially and on the on the pitch as well. But then you look at such a key position in the goalkeeper, right? And you think the club where they’re at with their evolution at the moment? surely need a tried and tested solid presence at the back and they’ve got a 23 year old lad from Belgium Lemons. What we saying? Well, Man City have got or had Edison. They’ve got Ortega who’s a good good standing. James Trafford Premier League goalkeeper Gigi Donnaruma worldass goalkeeper. Yeah, that’s the level if you want to be competing. Look at Liverpool. Allison, Mammadash, Villi, they had Kellaher. Yeah, that’s the level we’re talking about, right? If you want to be one of the big boys and Manchester United is the hardest team to play for in the world, especially in that goalkeeper position. I think the goalkeeper position for Man United is harder than anyone else, right? And they’ve got a kid now from the Belgian league. Never played for the Belgian first team. I think he’s played about 60 or 70 first team games in his career. Top flight. They’re expecting this guy to be able to adapt to not only the Premier League, but adapt to Manchester United as well. And it is you’re you’re asking miracles. You are you’re asking for an absolute miracle for this to work. It really is. So it just reachs of sort of like sticking a band-aid on it. Really sticking a band-aid on it because Bayer ain’t the answer. This kid to expect him to come in and be able to do it. 23 years old. I still call him a kid because in goalkeeper terms he is really, but it’s asking. I don’t think it’s even I don’t think it’s even sticking a band-aid on I think sticking a band-aid on it would be bringing in a a an old experience maybe 36 37 year old. This is like revolutionary new trials. Like bringing in someone at that age is such a risk cuz let’s say after 10 games he’s he’s wobbling. What then? What then? They’ll put Bayer in. They’ve got to put Bayinder back in. Does Tom does Tom get a sniff? Tomaton’s that’s the one person I think is going to be sitting there going I’ve got half a chance here. I reckon Tom would be thinking I’ve got half a chance here just for that reliability and stability. Listen, don’t get me wrong, we’re not writing um Lammonds off yet. He hasn’t even started. Do you know what I mean? But I just think on the face of it, the risk that’s involved and expecting this kid to hit the ground running for Manchester United, you’re asking for a minute. It’s any it’s any goalkeeper in the Premier League, isn’t it, W? If you bring in a 23 year old lad from Europe that isn’t in one of the the best leagues in Europe, to put him in any Premier League team would be a big ask. But I don’t I don’t think any Premier League team, unless you maybe at the the lower echelons of it, would sign a goalie and expect him to hit the ground running in the Premier League. And that’s not being disrespectful to the teams we’re potentially talking about, but you’re talking about Manchester United. It is a different animal to go and play in goal there. And obviously, we had a group chat over the weekend and we knew we’d be doing a slightly different kind of show today with no Premier League games. So, you asked me to look at the clips, and I’d seen some clips before, but I went into it in a little bit more detail, obviously, to try and explain where we’re at with him today, and there’s a lot of positive stuff for sure, but there’s also a lot of stuff that he needs to develop and work on. And the Premier League is a brutal place to be coming to do that. And the pressures he would have had at Royal Antworp compared to going into Man United, it’s a different ball game. What were Man United’s best signing of a goalie in their recent history? If you take the hair out of it, it was signing Vanderesar to come and replace what they needed to replace and have a steady head for three or four years. So that’s why last week when we talked on the show, Martinez would have shoeing to do that. They could have still on the back of that signed this kid from Antworp and let him have some development, see it for a year, go out on loan again and learn off the very very best in Man United get to look at him and see whether they think he’s up to the level because there’s been plenty of goalkeepers, plenty of players that big clubs have signed and they get him in the building and then they see him up close and personal and you can just tell. you can tell whether they’re going to be able to maybe cut it or you can definitely tell if they’re not going to be able to cut it anyway, can’t you? Yeah. The pre and if he’s not quite up to it, you just know. So, you’ll send him out on loan. Hopefully, he might do well on loan and then you’ll end up we spoke about this with Stacky the other day and don’t want to kind of rake up, you know, our whole podcast, but look at look at Liverpool with Mammadashi that he’s playing in Valencia, which is a different proposition to the Belgian league. Yeah, for sure. He’s he’s had a really brilliant Euros. They’ve signed him. he’s gone back on loan and now he’s there as a two. Yeah. And you would think that in the future they’ll be a step up. Whereas Lamemens is all those steps have been taken away from it. The the I think what says it the best way a minute ago when he said I wouldn’t expect any Premier League team to sign a goalkeeper from the Belgian league that’s never played for the national team 50 games in his career. I would never I would not expect one Premier League team to do that. A newly promoted team. Not as a starting point. I really wouldn’t. It’s such a risk. Well, you’re setting them up for failure. You’re setting them up for failure in the most brutal league. The Premier League has destroyed a lot of goalkeepers. Maybe me in particular, I don’t know. But it’s destroyed a lot of goalies, right? But if you add into the mix a Man United goalie that has destroyed even more, it is a brutal place to try and, you know, take that next step. And has he got some ability? Has he got talent? 100%. But Man United shouldn’t be taking a chance on a 17 kind of million pound signing. You’ve got to be doing the thing at Man United. That’s why they signed Ana 45 million on it. He’s going to come and be the real deal. Nowhere near it. Now, at the point you sign Ana and then you look at this kid from Antwerp, surely Anana had got more things in his favor and still failed and failed miserably. So, it’s going to be difficult for him. And I just think for Man United, they’re setting him up to fail and they can’t afford a failure. They’ve missed the boat in my opinion with a Martinez and still sign this kid if you think he’s got the raw attributes. The clips I saw very, very talented and you’re still going to make loads of mistakes like you were making. He wants to be aggressive on the crosses. He’s not quite got the timing and the attributes yet, but he’s not going to learn that in the Premier League cuz he’ll get found out very very quickly. And as I said, I I really fear for him because it’s a long career and at 23 it could get destroyed very very quickly. It can burn you quite deep. It can if it really gets to you, it can really burn you really deep. Uh before we move on, we’ll talk about England in a second. Yeah. Um did you see when Ganata signed for Chelsea had his like brother with him? He was acting as an agent for the day. It’s a good wage for a day that agency fee mate. Don’t worry about that. I do what I just think he just sends such a bad message from the get-go. Like again, every so many people say like you can’t was he is he his agent? I don’t know either way. You can’t like I just feel like sometimes you can’t always keep harking back to like Sir Alex Ferguson days and stuff like that. But I can just think right that I can imagine if I turned up to Manchester United to sign for them and I had my brother with me in his sort of like suit with his shirt untucked and top buttons undone and he’s doing gang signs in the mirror and he’s got slits all in his eyebrows and stuff. I’m just thinking if I’m Alex I’m going who’s that? Well he would get him out of here now. He would have said he would have said that wouldn’t he that were the power then players now. Yeah. And it just sends such a bad message to start with like put your tie on, dress up nice and smartly, get the contract signed, look absolutely professional with it. I don’t know. I don’t know. We haven’t prepped. I don’t know who his agent is, but he’s the it’s his brother. Is it? It’s his brother. No, I don’t know. But he’s Well, his surname’s guy. Yeah. But he he he screams of the kind of guy that needs a a proper agent. Someone that’s going to advise. This is like good agents will earn their keep, right? And he needs someone that’s proper. Yeah. pulling him in the right direction. What about Rashford? I listen, there’s always rumors and smoke and the rumor was that he might have his loan cut short at United. Gen Balagay’s come out and rubbished it. But smoke without fire. Yeah, I think that’s the bit for me. It just sort of follows him a little bit and I think people are probably very quick to make up story because any Marcus Rashford story sells very quickly, doesn’t it? And travels. Um, but he hasn’t had a fantastic start. He’s been on the bench for a couple of games. Got I think he got hyped at Halime in one of the games as well. Um so it’s not been brilliant and apparently they’re not enamored with his sort of personality and attitude really. He’s not the most outgoing of lads. Uh which I think we kind of knew that anyway really. Um but yeah, it’s not been a fantastic start, but if something like that was to happen, it would be a massive problem for Marcus Rashford. I can assume that Manchester United have got clauses in there anyway which basically safeguard them from anything like that happening. I I think they’ll have really protected themselves on this one. Um, look, obviously they’ve they’ve moved him on because the character and personality obviously weren’t fitting into the the the Man United way at the at the moment with Amarin. Um, but they would not allow that to happen and that loan be stopped. I think that would be a disaster for I think they’ve got a buy option for about 27 mil really as little as that. Yeah, that’s what I read. The England game the other night. I I watched sort of most of it and he wasn’t fantastic. He had he had some good chances that he could have probably scored and should have probably scored. Yeah. I mean, who was in fairness? It was a rubbish game. It was a rubbish. Like we we had this little talk, didn’t we, before the show about the the smaller teams, the Andoras and the the like of that, the Samarinos, Pharaoh Islands, Lux uh not Luxembourg, Likenstein, all all them though. They they shouldn’t really be in it at this stage, should they? It’s not because it’s not this is this not representative of anything. England against them or Spain against them or France. You can’t it’s not there’s no point in it. But they know it’s like the biggest game for them and they’d be devastated actually that that game were at Villa Park. Them players want they want to go and play at Wembley for sure. Um but but for them it’s we I spoke be before we started and actually it’s very hard in football to be offensive and and have the quality on the ball and score but to work against the ball the coaching and managers have got better and better and these players uh have got better but to work against the ball and just put a deep block on and like you said really it were two lines of five. There were no real attacking threat. Um, I mean, Pigford could have played probably in the middle of the center circle for 99 minutes of the game or whatever, but it’s so hard when they sat deep against the ball. You’ve done it. How many times do you do it in training? You know, you put a back four in and two sitters in front and a training game would be sometimes a phase of play. You’d have eight or nine against that. You don’t score many goals because that’s what I was going to ask you. How so? So so how do as a as a coach you break down what is in effect two banks of five because when they get the ball when they dispossess England it’s not like they looked for a quick transition like there’s a ball it’s almost like a pass that just then comes back to one of the England center half. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. It’s difficult mate go on mate. I mean I think the England’s problem particularly is that we’ve got nobody that’s fantastic at beating in the man. If they had somebody who could go and technically just beat a man on dribble, three players, Jack, that’s exactly what I thought in the game. And when we saw him in the Euros, somebody like that who can get past players, it actually what you’ve got to do is you got to disrupt their two blocks. So you got if he’s beating somebody, the second guy’s second guessing we might need 2v1 against him and somebody else is guessing we might need another one. And it’s just changing by a meter or a yard and then passing lanes and things open. But when you get them deep blocks, it’s hard to keep getting corner runs and stretching teams. So you talked about Rashford in the game. He needs a big pitch. He needs to be opened up and be able to run somewhere. It’s not necessarily his game the intricacy even though he’s got skill and ability but like the when the game’s tight like that you do all these practices and it’s very hard against an organized five there and if you just even put two sitters in and you had seven or eight or nine against them and they don’t move and you’ve just got two pressing it. You can manipulate the ball all that you want. It’s very hard to move that far. There’s not the space for a Maki was all right, but like there’s not a space for him or Rashford to to pin their ears back and go. So, you almost rely on, you know, a Greish type character that’s going to stand his one-on-one and beat his mouth. Yeah, you need width. You need to make the pitch as big as you possibly can if you’re England. And we just don’t play that way. So, it kind of makes it a little bit easier for Andor again to go, “All right, well, we’re just going to chill here.” They set out from the get-go to not get pumped. Yeah. they they they were thinking right if we can keep this to two or three today we will be over the moon. So that result there is that honestly that’s a result that’s an absolute result for them. We like I remember playing um San Marino were always in the groups when I were doing it and um they just weren’t normal games of football you know you know what I mean at Wembley it were probably harder because they’d got no thought of doing anything. You played them away and that’s the difference. Even at two or 3 they’d try and do something where Andor like you said just happy if it’s two or 3 it’s a win. We’re not trying to do anything other than this. This is why pace as well is so important in in the game nowadays as well. It’s why the best teams in the world who are kind of your Spain and your Frances who even Portugal, they’ve got pace. Yeah. And so when when you’ve got pace, you get down the wings, you get into Mbappe or Det or players like that. Problem it’s not a spectacle for the fans. No. No. And and the the the problem is is that players are making like Elliot Anderson for example and players are making debuts and it other than giving them their debut and blooding them, it does nothing for them. So Lee Dixon was on comms and was kind of acting lyrical about Elliot Anderson. He’s proved that we can trust him. He kept saying he can be trusted. And and I’m thinking, listen, Lee Dixon knows more about football than me. But I’m thinking really like you could you could put a 43y old Steven Gerard in there, right? And he’d do a job. Exactly. He would do an absolute job as well. And well, I were thinking I could I could have played in goal for England that night. So that’s You would have done a job. I would have done a job. You would have done a job. And that’s what we’re saying. All you’re showing here is that he’s got a mentality to turn up and play for England, which is a a pressure itself. But the level of the opposition without being disrespectful, that’s national league at best. A lot of them are third and fourth and fifth tier. I think I saw when the striker come on or off was fifth tier Spain. Yeah. He’s buzzing with that being his first game, by the way. Like if if you get your first England Cup and you’re starting against Andor in that midfield, you’re going, “Oh, thank you so much.” Like it’s the it’s the easiest like your cigar on all chew your way through it. Let me ask you a couple of England questions then. So, um Kobe Mayu when when we were all at the Euros together and he’s got in the team and he’s playing and he’s the next thing. He’s been overtaken by a few people, hasn’t he? Miles behind it now. Absolutely miles behind it. Declan Rice, um Elliot Anderson, Walton, just nowhere to be seen. But you’re not playing first team football. You’re not playing on a Saturday. You’re not playing with a smile on your face. You can’t expect to be anywhere near it anyway. Who would your two be if if we’re playing like a double pivot? Who would your two be? Um I I don’t like doing this yet. I don’t like doing this yet. I like to wait. Like we just played Andor. Like honestly, you could genuinely pick a championship team of players there that should be able to absolutely dominate an Andoran team. Yeah. And even a league one team you should be able to pick and they’ll be able to dominate. So it makes no difference for now. And even the next game against Serbia, it shouldn’t really matter to you think the winners of the National League would beat them. Should do. They should do. Yeah. You ain’t got any Andorans playing in the National League. I promise you they should beat Andor. That’s just the way that it goes. Yeah. Know it’s very you’re only seeing a a young England player being able to cope with the England shirt and all that goes around it. But the level of the actual game in terms of the the devel the the the players, Mano against Mano, it’s a it’s a it’s a non-starter. The only thing is putting that shirt on and being able to deal with everything that comes with it. But I agree 100% what a start to be able to play these teams because you know for a fact that they’re they’re not even going to win a corner. You know what I mean? That’s the reality of the the job. But it’s it’s such a mismatch and it’s actually not a game of football that fans want to see because it’s not two teams trying to win. Yeah. It’s one team just trying to get anything below five really is a massive result for them. Would you like Jordan Pigford’s played 90 minutes? Yeah. Is there an argument to say what what’s the point? Just put James Traford in or Yeah, it’s I totally agree. Put James Traford in. Give him a whole game. It doesn’t matter who you play. That’s the whole point of it. It doesn’t matter who you play because No, you’re not you’re not putting a team out there to make sure you win. We’re going to win. Yeah, we’re going to win. It’s as simple as that, right? So, give give James Trafford a game. It’s Jordan Pitford knows the script. He knows he’s England’s number one. Yeah. Give Dean Anderson the game, right? He knows he knows that Jordan Pit’s number one. It makes no odds. I would have really liked him to see Trafford in the goals just because of what’s happened to him at City and just give him a real Yeah, I agree. pat on the back and say, “Mate, you’re our guy here. You’ve come through the pathway. We’re going to give you a cap here. Um, we believe in you and you know what’s happened there.” It had just been a nice gest and I know football’s not all about that, but it didn’t matter who you played in. It didn’t matter who you played. That’s why we, like I said, we it’s almost like you could get all these sort of teams and they should be in like their own league to start with and then only the best two make it out of it to cuz otherwise it’s they’re just pointless. People people will make the argument and go how are they ever going to get better though when and you go listen look at the size of the country and Pandora are never never going to qualify right for anything. No they’re not. Um who’s England’s best right back lads? Uh Reese James obviously started the game. Um but you’re looking at your Ben Whites and your um Trent Alexander Arnold as well. Um again I I don’t like doing this because I think you can only pick this nearer. But you asked the question. I know I did, but it’s kind of it’s good to have it’s good to have the option. Yeah, it’s going to be a debate and you’re going to have it in 8 months time when we get to the last internationals in March, I say. But for me at the minute, I think James is a little bit too injuryprone. Um, if White’s back doing his bit, I think Trent and White would fight it out. But I think Trent’s a little bit more expansive if you’re playing, and this is not being disrespectful to Trent. I mean, he’s moved to Real Madrid, he’s won the lot with Liverpool, obviously, but if you’re up against a real diligent team with where he’s got some proper defending to do, I think you’d probably put White in and that’s where I like to shell cuz I think he’ll make a tough decision and it’s horses for courses and if it’s got to be a day where we we we know we’re up against it, but we’ve still got amazing talent going forward aselves, but we want to be a bit tighter, it might put a bit James stays fit this season and plays. Yeah. and can grow like physically. Not physically, he’s a beast, right? Physically, he’s an absolute specimen in these animal, but I think he’s his muscles are so good and so fine that they are just asking to pull all the time. And he constantly gets these little three weeks, four weeks, and it sets it just keeps setting him back, setting him back, and if he can get through this whole season, it gets a bit of hardiness into the muscles, right? And it will it will stand him in goodstead going forward. And I honestly think that if he does do that, he is one of the best right backs in in the world. He genuinely is. He’s he’s everything, isn’t he? He can go forward, not crazy like Trent, but defensively he’s a beast. Strong as a beast, fast as a beast, confident. Well, if we’re going to try and win that World Cup, you want obviously the offensive side of the game, but you’re coming up against the very, very best if you get to the later stages. You think if you’re playing France, Yeah. and you’ve got I don’t know like a bark or or a duet running at you, I want Reese James in there going, “Nope.” And that’s what I’m saying. Nope. At the very end of that tournament, if we’re fortunate enough to get anywhere near it, you’re going to have to keep a clean sheet. So, the goalie, the back four, they’re going to have to be on it. And then when you talk about what you touched on a little bit, who’s going to sit with Rice, it’ll be a different thought process depending how deep you get into that tournament. And then you’ll hope the front four can go and do something for you. All right, stop talking about England. You like it was okay. Nobody wants to talk about England. I’ll agree. We tried. We tried to do as best international weekend should be just banned. Gone forever. We want Premier League till the World Cup. Rubbish. Just play a behind closed doors friendly on like a Tuesday night or something that nobody knows about and get it done with. Like the virtue trophy. Yeah, something like that. The virtue trophy. Um we are we’ve got like a free agent 11, have we? It’s not really an 11. It’s not an 11. It’s kind of like It’s good to call it that though, isn’t it? cuz we got we got three goalies in our 11. We can’t have it as a free agent 11 because we got three goalkeepers. But even at this stage of the season, right, we are what, three Premier League games deep now? Three Premier League games deep. Um there is an awful lot of talent that remains unsigned even at this moment. So I’m going to read a list out for you lad. You ready for this? Don’t don’t read like that name there because I’ve never heard of him. Patrick Bamford. You’ve heard Oh, yeah. He’s Patrick Branford. Patrick Brford. So, I don’t know who he’s ever going to play for. And if there is a Patrick Brford out there, I really apologize, but imagine he’s a league one top scorer or something. You’re bang out of order. You are. Right. Anyway, so uh we’ve got Fraser Forester, Scott Carson, uh Craig Dawson, Christian Erikson, Deli Ali, Oxade Chamberlain, Mal Antonio, Patrick Branford, uh Fabansski, Hackin Zets, Sergio Regulong. Sergio Regulong is 28 years old, by the way. Is he? He’s 28 years old. Wow. All of these players at this moment in time still remain unsigned. So, if you’re a if you’re a Premier League team, who you go who’s your guy? Who who you shopping for? I think there’s I think there’s a few there that like I don’t understand why they haven’t got a team already. Do you know what I mean? Like Scott Carson and Fraser Forester for me seem like the easiest choices in the world cuz you’ve got to get that English core, that British homegrown talent kind like that’s your third choice goalie straight away, isn’t it, Wat? They’re easy. They’re just absolute gimmies. I mean, tick boxes. take boxes. I mean, I was surprised with with City really obviously because he’s he’s been there so long and seems part of the fabric. Um, and if if if Scott wanted to carry on, I can’t see why they the change, but obviously they uh they take the guy from Chelsea, didn’t they? And then Chelsea then, but you know what I mean? And it’s a great move for Bettonelli. You go you go to another phenomenal team and you accept that you’re just going to be that training ground goalie. Genuinely, if you put that into a a starting 11, right, you’ve got the makings of an half decent team there straight away. I’m not saying you’re going to be like flying up the Premier League or anything like that, but you’d like to think they’d be able to hold their own against, you know what I mean, a Premier League team. Oh, you you’re expecting some of them to turn up in in Saudi or something, aren’t you, over the next week or two before before their window their window closed? Do you think the problem is when you’re a free agent at this point in the season? Do you think a lot of these players are kind of waiting for just to see something that works basically because like you say, a lot of these are older players anyway. Yeah, a lot of these are older players. Um, and they’re kind of they don’t want to be moving too far from home. They don’t want to have to drive more than like an hour in the morning or anything. Oh, they’re kind of set in life, aren’t they? Um, but there’s some younger ones in there. I mean, Zach, well, he can’t be that old. How was he? He’s got to be 30 odd max. Hakeim Z at 30. Alex Ox Chamberlain’s curious one. He’s only just turned 32 last month. Right. And he he has played he has been playing at Bashiktas. Do you reckon that team would beat Andor even with the three goalies? If you’re playing your goalies at right back and left back, big Fraser for playing right back. No, I want honestly Fraser center. If if Fraser went up front every time they got a set piece, it’s a goalie. I would back that team. Beat Andor. I really, not the three goalies. Hold on. How many is that? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. We’ve got 13 players there. I reckon we could pick an 11. Put your two goalies on the bench. They can come on if you need them. Put pick whoever you want. We’re beating We’re beating them. I’m trusting them to beat Andor. That that team’s beating Andor. That’s ridiculous. Who’s your captain? Um, Ericson captain out of that doors. Yeah, probably. No, Christian Erikson. Come on, Christian Erikson. We got to give it Christian Erikson. Dors is like, nah, Dors leads by. Either way, I think they’ll be all right. Um, right. What else we talking about? Um did you hear that the um Arsenal player Jacob Kibor Kibior um only found out that he was getting a move to FC Porter because the the main man the man the myth legend um Fabro it was a here we go how does that happen in the modern day what I I would be astounded at that whole story to be honest with you I mean the player himself I mean if that who’s representing you and what what about the club for for a start like you know what’s the internal stuff there. I find that really bizarre. But then for for the guy who’s representing you to not come up with a good look. It’s not a good look. I mean, what what’s the plan? You know what I mean? I think he knew I think he knew he was going from what I read. He knew it was just a when and I think he was in at uh Arsenal the next day and they um kind of he said goodbye to most of the people, but I think it was a a bit of a surprise. Yeah, I would say so, mate. to to have it. I bet you all his mates start texting him and everybody’s flooding his tweets and Instagram. Fritz Romano knows what’s happening in three transfer windows, let alone this one. He does. He knows what happening next week. He does. See Fabro in your uh in your Insta comments last week. Just giving us a little chairs, lads. He’s a good lad though, any to be fair. What a he needs to come on the podcast. He does need on the Give him a couple of weeks off. Honestly, he’s unreal though. Like what? He’ll be He’ll be sleeping now for 3 weeks. His phone’s on fire. It’s been on fire for No, he’s got that Saudi window and the Turkish window and all that. It never stops. But yeah, he might be doing one of them free11s to Saudi. He’s not sponsored by a power bank company. He’s sponsored by everybody. Have you seen all the adverts he does? He does adverts all over the shop for anything, mate. He’s incredible. Again, what he’s built, like from what he does, it’s phenomenal. From the players perspective, he gets the job done, doesn’t he? It’s just the work around it and how you find out about these things. But he’s probably spinning a thousand plates. That’s the problem. That’s a that’s a really good point. Do you reckon we’re at the point where if a player wants a move, right, they get into Fabrom first to put a little tweet out? I reckon it’s happening because if a if Fab Rom puts a tweet out saying player X is on the books or on the radar. Yeah, he’s unhappy. It gets the it gets the pot stirring, doesn’t it? So, if I knew how to do all this stuff, should I get into him and say, “Look, I fancy Dubai next year for a coaching trip. Any chance you can open a few doors for me?” Yeah. Waters on the free agent market. Hey, no one’s no one’s [ __ ] having motto from this. Wage demands wage demands are extreme though, mate. They’re extortionate. Exactly. And now you’ve stopped getting free Guinness in where I start. I can’t I can’t come. Can’t come. Uh PSG’s new kickoff tactic, Watt. Well, they’re doing what your old manager Pis did 20 years ago in there. And Boo Freud and Eddie Boo. They were called dinosaurs. Explain explain what this new tactic is. All right. So if you’d have watched the Champions League final, they did it in the Champions League final as well, PSG, right? Basically, they won the toss. So they kicked off, first thing they did at the feet, boom, kick it as close to the corner flag as possible, right? And as soon as they’ve kicked it out up there, it is like, “Right, lads, front foot.” And they first corner, first throw in seven to five. Exactly. Yeah, we can’t talk about betting, but it’s a good one. There’s going to be a throw in within 3 seconds, lad. I’m just letting you know. All right. Um anyway, so what they do is they get basically get up there and they must work on this in training religiously than what I right if they’re going to do it they must work on it. So of getting in there and locking it in and making sure they have cut off all those little avenues. No quick throw in everybody’s up there quick and it’s like right let’s get territory and let’s block it in right and then try and win the ball back. And when we win the ball back we’re already up here. We’re straight in on their goal. That’s what they’re working. I mean is it going to be widely adopted because a team like them that press like they do it makes sense. It makes I back it as well. I don’t see anything wrong with it. It kind of flies in the face of the beautiful football and all that kind of thing. But like I say, Adroy got Tony P. We were doing this 20 years ago. Genuinely Ado, right? He would say to us, get it out there as close to the corner flag as you possibly can. Right. I’ll call this little lane here. He had this 5 yard lane next to the throwing line Quality Street. He said, “Stick it in Quality Street.” Yeah, Quality Street. Stick it in Quality Street up there. Let it go out for a throw in. Do not let it go out for a corner. Sorry, a goal kit. If it goes out for a goal kick, that’s bad. And then big Darius will be in there with his elbows. And then it was just lock it in, mate. Get up there, lock it in. All right. And that’s the weird thing, you know, if you go and watch football and how big the pitch is, it’s normally say 110 by 70, whatever, depend on the stadium. But how many times you watch football and the simplicity of a tactic because apart from the two goalies, you get the other 20 PE players in a 20 or 30 by 30 square is incredible. And that gives the pressing team such an opportunity to win. Well, you see there, we’ve got a picture on the uh on the screen there behind you, Wat. Newcastle did it against Villa at the start of the season as well. So, they’ve been taking a little page out of PSG’s, but boom, straight out there for a throw in. Get up and block it in, lads. Simple as that. Yeah, you can see from that picture, they’re certainly not trying to find a green shirt. Look at it. Look, everyone’s on the front foot. He hasn’t even kicked the ball yet. And you’ve got four Newcastle players already like 5 yards into their house. Anthony Gordon absolutely hunting it down. and turn it down up there as quick as you can. Don’t let them take the quick throw in. Block it in, lads. Lock it in. Boom. We like to say it. We do. What about your childhood team then? Spurs with Levy. Um, so we were doing a bit of uh research on it this morning, weren’t we? So, um, some of the stuff we’ve heard this morning as well. I don’t know why Daniel Levy didn’t do this years ago. Like I what? Apparently, he’s got a 26 or 27% stake in Tottenham Hotspurs, right? And the club are valued at two to three billion quid, right? Three to four. Three to four billion quid, which means that stake is worth near on a billion. Daniel Levy is a billionaire. And he’s been having to put up with all of this stress and all this m from Spurs fans and everybody else calling him a tight task, calling in the holding the club back for the last like however many years. He’s a billionaire. Well, well, that’s why he’s been doing it in he Nobody knew about Well, I certainly didn’t know until this morning about the uh the shares that he’d got in the club. And when when you now see how he’s been running it, I mean, his worth is astronomical. But I actually think from the outside the fans want to win things, don’t they? You know what I mean? But actually, they did win some last year and that’s the first trophy for a long time. But what he’s created is a massive business opportunity for somebody with the stadium, the training ground. It’s a phenomenal thing. And I’m like you. When I realized he’d got like basically a billion quid sat there, I’d have been out a long time ago. But he can put the Lewis family under a bit of pressure, I would assume, with owning so much of that because if he puts his shares up on the open market, then it’s going to obviously open a pathway. The job he’s done though as well is phenomenal. So everybody knows Spurs in the Premier League era have been the most financially successful club in the whole in the whole league. That’s what they’ve been, right? So for him to have Spurs in this position now, absolutely brand spanking new stadium. They’ve got a very good squad. It’s a very good squad, right? And now they’re getting rid of him. I’m thinking I’d be a little bit agrieved if I I think it was the I think it was the Lewis family that I don’t think he chose to walk. From what we were reading this morning, it is and what you see online and everything else, it was more that decision was made for him. But I think it’s really easy for non-spurs fans to go, he’s done a fabulous job. The the club are in a really healthy PSR position. um balance sheet’s great that stadium and like you said if you were an American billionaire and you go look at a club smack bang in the middle of London and you go they’re they’re like the dream and the potential revenue generation and that will continue you think absolutely fabulous but then when you speak to the fans so I was speaking to Luke this morning about it and he’s saying no it’s just those times where they should have gone like when they got to the Champions League final or when they finished third in the two horse face and they didn’t go again the following year because you can’t argue that they have spent they have actually spent money and they have been ambitious with who they’ve appointed Conti Mourinho right so they have been ambitious but it just seems like the maybe the the micromanagement was an issue from Levy and when it’s really mattered they haven’t spent the money maybe though that’s because Daniel Levy is thinking all right I own a quarter of this football club do I need to go for that 90 million pound player. That 90 million I’m about to spend. I I own a quarter of that. All right. I don’t want to go blowing all my money. All right. Let’s get a little trophy on board. Get the club valued at four billy. Right. And then I’ll sail off into my Seagar and my yacht. They have they have spent money. They have spent big money. And I think the argument is Luke is that they haven’t spent it that well. Fair. They’ve always signed the nearly players, right? Instead of going the gold standard tried and tested players, they’ve always signed the nearly players. And I think that’s the bit that makes fans just go just go put an extra 15 mil and you’ll get the one that’s guaranteed because would they have kept that Kane? So like well that’s that what my point going to be like surely when you’ve got the best center forward in the world thereabouts potentially. Yeah. And he’s decided to leave your football club that is not a very good indication because he’s been there so long. He knows what’s happening behind the scenes. He’s ingrained in it all. And he didn’t believe that whoever the coach or manager were at that time were going to be given the financial tools to buy the very best to compete. But that’s what that training ground and that’s what that stadium demands because they’re set up to sign the very best players now because the environment that they’ve got is is wanting the very very best. And the manager looks the real deal, doesn’t it? Yeah. I think the club though I think it’s it’s you know what it’s really hard like Harry Kane I can’t you can’t blame him for moving because it’s paid off in the end he’s gone out to Germany to buy he’s winning things he’s scoring ridiculous go I saw the other day what is he scored his 90 or 100th goal so here’s one for you imagine now January window Levy’s gone boom he’s back because they’re going to try and win it Ly you know what I mean yeah but the problem is though he’s almost guaranteed to keep winning stuff out in Germany with Munich yeah but you come back over to England mate it’s so hard to win the Premier League now. Like if you want to win the Premier League, you’re going to have to beat Liverpool. Look at that Liverpool team. Like they’ve just broken transfer window records and money spent on players like you wouldn’t believe. It is it’s nearly impossible now to win the Premier League. It really really is. It it’d be some mad 10-year project for a team like Spurs. And not only that, like Spurs need to change their kind of the way that they feel about they need to change their aura. Like we we had Delhi Ali, no we didn’t. We had Eric Dyer on the podcast, didn’t we? Yeah. And he said when he signed for Bayern, he said, “You walk in the building and you walk onto the pitch and you’re with the club.” He said, “And you can just smell it.” He says, “Success is the minimum. Success is the minimum.” He said, cuz he made a comment about the training pitches. Yeah. To is it Thomas Müller? Yeah. And Thomas Müller said, “Oh, we haven’t really noticed. We’re too busy winning, mate.” That was it. That was it. But but that’s a culture you’re walking into. But that’s where culture Man United have dropped off when you talk about them. And that’s what Liverpool have created. Now, we spoke about it a lot about the the players you didn’t want to lose, the leaders, the winners, international captains throughout the team. And I seen Vert scored his free kick yesterday. So, him and Suz will be fighting like [ __ ] next week if they get a free on that. You know what I mean? How good was it? Eric Dier said um he said we we lost a Champions League, I think it was quarters or something like that to Napoli or to somebody anyway, right? He said it was 1-0il first leg, lost one nil away or something. in any way like that. Uh he said we did okay in the game to be fair, he said but Thomas Müller just came sort of sauntering in in his pants as he normally does sat down dead calm and just went don’t worry boys we’ll get them back at the alians. He said we pumped him like 5-nil at the Alians or something like But it’s an inner belief in who and what the club, the badge and everything represents. And until you get that at Spurs or most clubs to be fair who are trying to compete with a really really like United had like City had to very very until you get that and that’s what you talk about in recruitment. You can see a good player on your eye but we talked about the goalie. Can he come in and can he affect a club like Bayern Munich, Man United, Liverpool, Man City? That’s what you’re trying to buy. What What do you reckon for Spurs this season? I know they’re the Do you know what? It’s really a disrespectful calling it a blip saying load because again they’ve lost players this year and they’ve gone again and they’ve gone to Spurs and beaten they could have beaten they could have beaten Spurs 6. I’m not even bantering. It could have been 6. It was they were that much better than Spurs. Where where do you reckon Spurs first few games of the season? What what do you think? It’s a it’s a top six finish for me for I think top eight eight would be a good year. Yeah, I think so. I I’m sixth or seven. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, top six. Yeah, I’d say so. Yeah. Yeah, six. I don’t mean like fourth or third maybe, but I do mean sixth. Yeah, I do mean sixth. They’re not They’re not going to challenge No, I don’t know. Ben, Nicholas Jackson, have you seen what Biden’s president has said? Uh, yeah. Not a great start. It’s not a great start for Nicholas. I won’t lie. Um, a right. So, um, their president, what? uh Ulie Hunes um has basically said it it’s not a 16.5 million euro loan fee because the player and his agent are contributing €3 million. So that leaves 13.5 million and there will definitely not be a permanent contract. That only happens if he plays 40 games from the start. He will never do that. We will make sure he doesn’t. What on earth is that? Like cheers mate. uh it’s it’s not uh enamoring you to the uh football club, is it? Or the the model of what that should be. Um yeah, I I don’t understand why it would why it’s a story that he would get involved in as a as a honorary president. you know, obviously you you you know all the intricacies of the deal because you’ve put it out there now, but why you would get involved and disrupt the the the hierarchy of the club and the manager and the coaches who have got to deal with this situation seems pretty crazy to me cuz I actually thought he were going to be a good fit for him in terms of the playing and and get the team uh you know competing certainly in that Champions League because you expect them to win the Bundesliga but they want to do well in Europe um and for him to say that he’s not going to get 40 games is a bit of a killer block. Do you want the straight? Do you know the question I’d be asking is why are Chelsea sending him there? Because again, is this a for Britzer? Like when everyone was talking about Nicholas Jackson and 60 and 70 and 80 million, right? Where’s the where have these numbers come from is the first thing. But then if those numbers are real, which are meant they were meant to be, Newcastle, Man United, V, you know, all these people, why are they sending him there to Bayern Munich where by by reading between lines there, he’s going to be coming back and his stock will probably be lower? Well, they they want him to basically do as well as he possibly can. Their goal is basically get him off the wage bill. Yeah. Which is apparently an awful lot of money. You’re talking near on 150 grand a week or whatever. So, one, he’s off the wage bill, but two, he gets a chance to go out to Germany where I think it’s a very it’s a lot easier to look good as a player. You know, you see a lot of players get moves to the Premier League because they’ve smashed it in the Bundesers League. Doing it in the Premier League is a big ask. Yeah, it’s a tough way to do it. And at Chelsea, his stats are actually okay. The goals he scored, assists that he got, but I think the eye test was always the reason why he never cut it at Chelsea. The chances that he missed as well, massive problem. And I think out in Germany, he’ll have a lot more chances. Maybe it would be tough at the beginning to get into the team. I think obviously be, you know, Harry Kane’s gonna be first name on the team, but I think his agent and Chelsea would have been thinking, “All right, we we’re arguing for €3 million euros here because there’s an agent and player contribution, but it’s still a big loan fee, 30 half million. And if it and if he can like do well. So when you talk about the 50 60 70 millions if if they’re paying like saying our money 10 10 million kind of loan fee. Yeah. And obviously his worth’s got to be 50 and if he does a season like he would expect because the level drops a little bit compared to the Premier League. They’re thinking come the end of the season he’s a 50 60 million pound playerop for for somebody. They’re hoping that you know where it says the player and his agent are contributing£3 million euros. What that basically means is say he’s on 150 grand a week at Chelsea. He’ll have said to Bayern Munich like Bayern Munich, we’re not paying 16.5 million euro. We can’t afford to pay that. And he’ll have gone all right. Well, I’ll just take a bit off my wages basically. So, we’ll be on a bit of a lesser wage at Bayern than what he was at at What did you make of um did you hear Mike about Harry Kane’s move? Yeah. saying didn’t like it. Didn’t like it. And Rio said he’s won the Bundesliga and Michael. So what? And what is that disrespectful? Um I think yeah, a little bit it is without doubt because if you go over to Germany and um if you’re listening to that as a Bayern Munich fan or whatever, they’re saying, “Hang on a minute, Michael. G we’re one of the biggest football clubs in in the world, right? Don’t respect us.” I think it’s more aimed at the league. Was it? I think it’s definitely more aimed at the league. And if he would have stayed in England, if he would have signed for a Man City, for example, he would have he would have he would be I don’t know if he’d have done it now, but he would have been very much on his way to breaking that Alan Sher record and he still would have had a couple three four years left in his in the Premier League as well. Um so I understand it, but I just think like just leave it like you got you ain’t got to come for him, have you? I mean it was it was a good it was a good interview. It was a good interview. It was a good interview. I enjoyed it. There were a lot of things coming out of that, you know, the the comparisons with Wayne Rooney and who was the best at 17 years old and all that kind of stuff. I I do genuinely I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that when he was 16, 17, 18, like I think we’ve we’ve probably got slightly short memories where we probably remember the Newcastle and the Uniteds and stuff, but you rewind when he was a te teenager. He was a force of nature, like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Don’t get me wrong, Wayne Rooney was similarly an absolute beast. Yeah. But the numbers wise, yeah, Michael Owen was on a different planet. He really, really was. The only difference is that Wayne Rooney though went on and did that in the Premier League for another 12, 13, 14 years. Yeah, that’s the difference. Michael Owen didn’t. He got injuries and it it really hampered him. Um I just don’t like the um modesty of it all. There were no modesty there, mate. Yeah, there’s not much modesty there basically. Um and I just think the career that he’s had just like enjoy it, mate. You’ve you’ve earned it. Well done. We’ve got little Darcy on set and she is snoring her head off. Hey, she’s comfy, mate. She’s This has put her to sleep. This show here has put her right to sleep today. Don’t blame her. Yeah. And she definitely watched England. Oh, yeah. Bl. She was doing this on Saturday evening, weren’t she? Um, should we go to the quiz, lads? [Music] Right. Before we start the quiz, I meant to ask you in the show, who is your signing of the transfer window? Um, it will Can I have more than one? Um, Sunderland goalkeeper RS, uh, Brenford goalkeeper Keller or Man City goalkeeper Roma. Take your pick. You serious? No, I’m just going. They’re all three very good signings though. Um, you’ll do well to look past Isaac, won’t you? You will. Come on. What? Yeah, to be fair, I was trying to go around the houses and not say Isaac. So I thinking Gawkarez at Arsenal because they’ve definitely needed a forward but he’s not tried and testers Premier League. So I would have to go Isaac J. Me if it’s proven in the Premier League at the moment I think Ekit TK really good signing cuz he’s come off he’s kicked the ground running and he’s done well hit the ground running the ground the ball in the back of the net. Yeah. I’m going Ken and Jubury Hall been unbelievable and Harvey Elliot. Special mentions to Jack Gish as well. Yeah, I didn’t put him in because he was alone, but still I still think Kuna for Man United is going to be I think he’s going to score so many goals this season. I’m sure of it. I think he’s going to drive Man United from what it 16th to 15th. Ninth. Ninth. Yeah. Where did you finish? I did a sneaky top four, didn’t I, this season? I’ll take it back. I rescend it. Finish it. Quiz time. Quiz time. Right, we’re ready for the quiz. Straight into it. Is there any chips? Obviously Tom, you don’t have a chip at the start, but do you want to use a triple captain for three head start today? Nothing. I want nothing to try and get back into it like and feel as though I’ve done it the old fashioned way. We’re not international friendly, are we? No. This is This is So, this is the fourth week of the season. Tom, it’s 3-0 up. What I don’t like is that being in me face before I start. Yeah, I know. It gets us off to about Yeah. Come on. Let’s go. Okie dokie. Right. Question one. Who was Danny Mills last permanent club? No. Who was Danny Mills last permanent club? No. He was there, weren’t he? Okay. Yeah. Uh five. Did he go back to leads? No. All back in. Man City. Man City is the correct answer. Wow. Well done, Ben. One. We went around the houses. Nil. We got there. We got you sit back, please, Jamie. I just saw a bit of screen there. I didn’t see any words. Let me um turn on the brightness. Right. What is that to help me? Elliot Anderson was man the match in the England game on Saturday, but what club was he at before he signed for Forest? Newcastle. Newcastle’s correct answer. That’s a bad question. It’s a bad question. I nearly jumped in after three about a bad question. I thought I got It’s been a good show. Yeah. I thought, yeah, he’s learned from last week he’s learned. The only possible answer by saying Elliot Hansen is Newcastle. It can’t be anything else. It could have been the same. What could it be? What What specifically would you would you want to think about with what you’ve got? You’ve got So based on play for one other team. What team did he score? He’s played for one other team in his career. Yeah. Apart from Nottingham Forest alone, but it’s fine. So, so based on that, why didn’t you get it right? Because again, I put too much faith in him being a little bit deeper thinking. Listen, listen. I saw the Barnet manager get sent off on Saturday afternoon for obviously saying something he shouldn’t done about the officials. So, you’ve got your cards. Use them. I forgot about the cards. I’m I’m going to give you a yellow card in a minute. Get a yellow card, mate. What’s that mean? Warning. Warning. Does that mean he misses this question? No. Shouldn’t you be giving yellows to people going up to like the ref and doing that like what should I wave I never wave no cards. I’m just having a conversation. Yeah. Yeah. I definitely give out the cards. Weasel you. Okay. Hey, come on. I’m calm. What’s your heart rate? Not that high yet. 53. Actually, it’s not that bad. 55. Question three. Career path question. I have played for Manchester United, Crew Alexander, Leicester City, Birmingham City. No, Blackburn Rovers, Derby County, Brighton, Loan, Stockport Town. I’ll say it. Port Town. Yeah, county. County. Stockport County. I think this is Stockport town. Special one. Special club. Right. You have to go again. Am I out? Yes, you are. Help me. Question three. I have played for Manchester United, Crew Alexander, Leicester City, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Derby County, Brighton Loan and Stockport County. 5 4 3 2 one. Right, you’re all out. You’re all back in Matt Jansen. No. Do it again. I played for Man United, Crew Alexander, Leicester City, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Derby County, Brighton Lone, and Stockport County. Uh, five, four. No, you’re out. Am I back in? No. Robbie Savage. Robbie Savage is the correct answer, but not a point. I’m glad you’re out. I’m glad you’re out. Yeah, Robbie Savage. Yeah, the crew one. Did me crew did me? Did he play first team game for United? Not sure. Um have a look cuz this is a bit ambiguous when when we Okay. Uh scores on the doors 1 nil and Ben got yellow card. Question four. Rafa Bonitez was an interim manager for what Premier League club? Newcastle. Chelsea. It’s the correct answer. He also won the Europa League that year with Chelsea. Did he? Who’ they beat in the final? I don’t know. Okay, that would have been a good question. That’s on screen now. I feel like the answer to every question like that is Valencia. Yeah, probably is. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Question five. Who is the only Premier League player to score five goals in 45 minutes? Cole. No. Jermaine Defo. Germaine Defoe is the correct answer against Portsmouth. Wigan. Wigan for Spurs. Yeah. It was Wigan, wasn’t it? Yeah, it was Wigan. It was Wigan. Yeah, they scored eight goals in one half. Yeah. And then Well, it was nine goals and a half because they scored the one and a half as well. One, two, one. Baller. Yeah. Question six. Victor Lindelof plays for what country? Sweden. Sweden’s the correct answer. No. Come on. You can’t say no. Come on. Because you always get them questions wrong. So, you can’t say I’m I’m biting on that because Well, give him a card. No, I’m g give myself a card reacting. Look, the the dog is coming to give me some emotional support right now. All right, he’s a therapy. Even she heard that question. She just went, “Nah, nah.” Well, no. I had to give you I had to give you an easy one because you got other simple ones wrong like mun got wrong. You got door wrong. You don’t have to emotional support. Listen, you’re in charge. I needed this right now. Go with what you’re going with. And if you have to defend yourself, get the cards out. What do you think about that question, Ben? I appreciate you. I really do. What do you think about the question? No, I’m fine. It doesn’t matter. It’s gone. Question seven. Steven Waro had his biggest in Batman. Honestly. Okay. Honestly, you know how close it is though. Honestly, I’m going to walk out. Honestly, I’m going to walk out. Steven Waro had his biggest stint. Got the answer right. Yeah. Yeah. So, why didn’t you get it right? What don’t you understand about? There’s no way on this earth anybody should be able to answer a question before the actual questions been asked. What were the rest of the questions? It’s impossible of Premier League games or what club? Rack Bur is 88. Aston Villa 84. So it could have been Aston Villa, but it wasn’t Aston. I just don’t I don’t know. You just You’re not learning. You’re not learning. Just saying these questions do get approved as well. Hey, listen. Yeah, by me. Remember, you’re remember you’re the official. I know, but he’s fine to react. Is he? Yes. All right. He’s on a yellow. He’s on a yeller. I got it. Question. You’re not learning. Question eight. Who is Brenford’s alltime Premier League goal scorer? Brema. No. Vissa. Vissa is correct answer. Vissa 45 and Bumo 42. Tony 32. Yeah, 32 don’t be more than that. Scored a lot in the championship. How easy is he scorer than uh Saudi? Yes. Three a week. You may as you’re just you’re gone in body. You’re just here in spirit. Well, you can still win. I’m pretty sure Tom’s on three. You’re on two. You’re on one. So surprised at that. You’re on two as well. You see so surprised at that. Question nine. Where did Phil Jones start his career? Blackburn. Blackburn. So bad. It’s not a bad question. It is for two teams in his career and he’s now a pundit. Yeah, a lot of players are pundits now. They are indeed. Question 10. Where did Aston Villa sign Ezri Konza from? Brazil. No, I don’t know the answer to that. No. No idea. See, because they don’t know the answer cuz it’s not. But it could be easy for someone. Is it Brenford? Brenford is the correct answer. But you said Brazil. It’s no. Well, I can’t let these two just have a meltdown. I’ll just Brenford, but it don’t matter. How many is he got? He’s got four. So, you couldn’t win anyway cuz you got the question nine correct. So, Tom Mo goes for uh Brenford. No, he’s already got the answer. Oh, what was it? Brenford. No way. It was I went No, you got it wrong cuz it was Brazil. Ben, you just got to wrap it up, mate. So that we’re uh we’re fighting the tide here. If you want questions, send them in and we’ll see you see any better. I didn’t think it could get any worse. I didn’t think it could get lower. I really didn’t. And you’ve gone and done it. You’ve gone You’ve exceeded my expectations of shitness. Okay. I remember that cards carry over, don’t they? Game’s done. Once the game’s done, that’s it. No, you can’t get sent off after a game. You can’t get [ __ ] sent off after can’t carry on to the next next week. No, you double him up, don’t you? Get him off. There’s a tally. Oh, yeah. You got all the best. We’ll see you next week. All right, show’s done. You can’t give me a yellow card now. Show done. [Music]