EPL Final Weekend: That's a Wrap!

In this captivating episode of Football Yanks, our seasoned hosts Ryan and Luke delve into the rollercoaster ride of Chelsea's Premier League campaign. They meticulously examine the team's heartbreak of missing out on a Champions League spot, while Ryan injects a ray of hope with his positive outlook on historically strong Europa League performances.

The duo shares their takes on Pochettino's history and current performance, sparking a lively debate about the infamous coach's decisions and the time needed for his strategies to take root. They don't shy away from critiquing Chelsea's player acquisitions and analyze the possible changes and improvements on the horizon for both Chelsea and Tottenham.

Switching gears, Ryan and Luke express their thoughts on the precision of VAR in offside calls. The hosts' predictions for the highly-anticipated clash between Manchester City and Manchester United add a thrilling element to the conversation, with intriguing speculations about player impact and the potential for managerial changes.

The episode also features lighter moments as the hosts reveal plans to run the Baltimore half marathon together, discuss injury woes like Derek's multiple knee surgeries, and make jokes along the way. Insights on Bayern Munich's current situation, potential manager moves, and the latest in European football competitions round out this comprehensive episode.

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Transcript

Ryan [00:00:00]:
Welcome to the Football Yanks podcast in the EPL. Well, I guess. I guess all football wrapped up this week, so we talked about some Laverkuzen updates and their remarkable season. We will talk through the, I mean, relatively boring EPL title race in the end and then our thoughts around Tottenham and Chelsea. Then we'll cover some, like, random nonsense from. From like, international football and some other like, rumors here and there. But it's. It's a.

Ryan [00:00:38]:
It's a pretty short one this week. Hope you guys enjoy. Luke, you have anything? Did I miss anything?

Luke [00:00:43]:
Fifth place, baby. Suck it.

Ryan [00:00:48]:
Yep. Yeah, we're the. I guess the worst of the best. I don't know.

Luke [00:00:55]:
Better than the worst. Cause we're fifth place, baby. Welcome to the Football Yanks podcast. We're american, but we're talking about soccer here. Hosts Derek Ryan and Luke are all football fanatics tracking our fellow Yanks in the EPL and abroad. Enjoy today's episode.

Ryan [00:01:21]:
And we're. We're live, man. That's a wrap for the PL season. How's it going? How was your weekend? How are you and you and Tessa doing?

Luke [00:01:32]:
We're doing all right. I mean, I drank quite a bit of whiskey yesterday and ate quite a bit of crawfish. So, you know, yesterday was kind of a long day, so I'm a little sleepy today, but can't complain. Some good, good Premier League action today. Actually, maybe not all so good.

Ryan [00:01:46]:
Pretty predictable, but yeah, there's not a whole lot to talk about, right. Like kind of what was expected to happen happened for the most part.

Luke [00:01:59]:
And no real drama at all in the day. Like really anywhere across. Because there's not. The only real, like, potential drama was the fifth place finish and then of course the title race. But that neither of those games, like, never, ever looked in doubt whether Spears versus Sheffield or Man City versus West Ham.

Ryan [00:02:23]:
Yeah, Newcastle could have overtaken Chelsea too if Chelsea didn't pull it off. And. And Bournemouth have, like, I didn't. I didn't come into the day feeling too comfortable, if that makes sense. Like, I. Bournemouth has been good. I felt a lot better when I found out Slanky could not start on the pitch. Uh, because he's.

Ryan [00:02:48]:
I mean, he's had a great season. You know, I only root for Tottenham players to get injured, so I did feel bad to hear that he was injured, but.

Luke [00:02:57]:
Well, and he's a former Chelsea player anyway, so.

Ryan [00:03:00]:
Yeah. Yeah, true. I think he. I think he played one match for Chelsea, but yeah, there are some things to talk about for sure, though. Right. So there's some interesting manager stuff. Laver cousin shout out to them. Completing an unbeaten.

Ryan [00:03:21]:
Yeah. Invincible season, never been done before. Job. Alonso took over that team, like, partway through last season. Right. He hasn't even been two years on the job. I think.

Luke [00:03:35]:
Yeah, he part way through last season. Just an incredible story.

Ryan [00:03:40]:
Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, we haven't covered them extensively on this podcast. You know, it's more like Pl focused and USA player focus. But I mean, what, what a final.

Luke [00:03:56]:
In the Europa League, too.

Ryan [00:03:57]:
Yep. Yeah. So they have a chance to take it undefeated throughout their entire season, including their Europe competition. So, like. And I would back them to do it. So, yeah, I did read something wild about Frimpong, his release clauses. It's something really low, like €32 million. And City are looking at bringing him back, so.

Ryan [00:04:26]:
Yeah, so, like, that would be a big loss. He's been a huge player for them. And I guess Jobby Alonso hangs out for another season. People are acting like he's likely to take the. The Real Madrid position when Ancellotti sets the steps down. And that's why he's. He's sort of hanging on the project he has and then he can only lose.

Luke [00:04:53]:
Going to Liverpool, like, there's, like, there's Arnie slot could do a really good job, you know, keep him competitive in the top four, but he's never going to do as well as Jurgen Klopp has done. It's just. Just from nostalgia. So I think Xavier Lonzo is smart and Alonzo smart enough to know, like, stick it out with what you got. If it goes downhill from there, he overachieved anyway. Like, he'll get another job. So I think he was smart to stay at Leverkusen.

Ryan [00:05:19]:
Yeah, I agree. So, yeah, I mean, that huge Bayern Munich come in third, not. Not 2nd, 3rd place. So they will not even. I don't know if you saw what I sent you. They will not even play in the Community Shield, which is another missed opportunity for Harold Kane to win.

Luke [00:05:44]:
Harold, is it? I don't think it is.

Ryan [00:05:48]:
It might just be straight up Harry.

Luke [00:05:50]:
Which would be like a british thing to do. Right. Yeah. Harry Edward Kane.

Ryan [00:05:57]:
All right, well, well, that's another missed opportunity for Harry Edward Kane. Dude, that is such a british name.

Luke [00:06:09]:
He's like a king from, like this. That's actually like one of the characters names in medieval times. Like the restaurant you go to. Harold Edward Kane on top of the horse. Yeah, dude mounts the horse. Yeah. Fucking sucks for him. Like he's.

Luke [00:06:27]:
Yeah, it's kind of funny that that happened to him, that he went to, like, a team that was, you know, I would have. I would assume that he stays at spurs. That team probably finishes top four. Right. And is in the same exact position that he is now. Empowered.

Ryan [00:06:43]:
Music yeah, yeah, but, yeah. And then, so interestingly. Yeah, I guess let's just, like, talk about the german league real quick while we're, like, while we're talking about Labrakus. And so Tuchel on, I think his final press conference said that he is not taking the manager position. So they had. After failing to secure several managers being. Being turned. Turned down by several managers.

Luke [00:07:13]:
They.

Ryan [00:07:15]:
Bayern Munich. Yeah. They then went back to Tuchel, who declined to take the job on next season, said they couldn't come to terms. And the rumors were, it was like, Tuchel wanted more years guaranteed, because why wouldn't he after this season? And they couldn't come to terms, so. Yeah, and I. Dude, I don't know if this is true, but I saw something about. What's the guy's name? German Thomas Muller. That.

Ryan [00:07:48]:
So he's retiring. I should, like, just google this while we're talking about it. But anyway, he is retiring and the Thomas Muller. Maybe he's not retiring. This might be fake news.

Luke [00:08:07]:
Yeah, I hadn't. I hadn't heard he was retiring. I know that they're having a lot of trouble filling that. That post, though. Like, I imagine it's gonna end up being like Hansi flick or someone, like, kind of boring, but. And I've listened to a few athletic podcasts, actually, on this that's like, such a specific managing job. Like, it's almost less coaching, more just managing the relationships, you know, the political structure inside Bayern Munich. So it's a really hard place to go.

Luke [00:08:36]:
I think that's why Pep Guardiola didn't stay that long. You know why the ones who have had success there are, like, the institutional coaches.

Ryan [00:08:44]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:08:45]:
So, yeah.

Ryan [00:08:46]:
German football culture is really unique. Yeah. And, yeah.

Luke [00:08:53]:
Particularly for the biggest club with Bayern, you know.

Ryan [00:08:56]:
Yeah. Yeah. And it's. And it's very weird for Bayern. You're right. Right. So they are. They are.

Ryan [00:09:04]:
Without a captain, like, without a. Without a manager and, like. So what do you think? So other notable manager moves this week deserve? Yeah. He has announced that he's not returning to Brighton, that there were, like, irreconcilable differences.

Luke [00:09:22]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:09:23]:
And so he won't be back. Like, how do you feel about him going to Bayern?

Luke [00:09:29]:
I think there's almost no chance that happens. No chance he doesn't fit the profile of the kind of manager that Bayern Munich wants. Like, everything that I just said about like, you know, the coach of Bayern Munich is less of a coach and more of a political figure deserves. Deserbi is a loose cannon, man. That dude. Like, it's not. It's not like a huge news item every week, but that guy has like an edge to him and I just don't. It's kind of like, Tom, why Thomas Tuchtrel didn't work there.

Luke [00:09:56]:
Really? Yeah, I just. I don't see it happening. I think it's going to be someone pretty fucking boring.

Ryan [00:10:01]:
Yeah. And deserve. He is. I mean, this is kind of like, kind of what you're saying, calling him like somewhat of a loose cannon, but he. He is like really uncompromising about like anything, so. And that's not a club where you have a manager come in and just sort of get carte blanche to implement what you want. Right. So, yeah, so I.

Ryan [00:10:26]:
I don't know. Yeah, I mean, you're probably right about Hansi flick. I don't know what. Who else they bring in there.

Luke [00:10:31]:
Ralph Ragnick. Can't really do that.

Ryan [00:10:33]:
Like, he turned it down.

Luke [00:10:36]:
Did he really?

Ryan [00:10:37]:
Yeah, he turned him down. What does that.

Luke [00:10:39]:
The report. That's interesting.

Ryan [00:10:41]:
Yeah, yeah, he. They thought they were closing him. He turned it down. They. Who's the young guy? Nagelsman. He turned them down.

Luke [00:10:52]:
He's still with the german national team though. Naglesman. I think it wasn't really going to happen because the euros this summer. Right? Like.

Ryan [00:10:59]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:10:59]:
They need to appoint someone like within the next, what, four weeks or so to get.

Ryan [00:11:04]:
Yeah, ideally, like the next couple of days. Really? Like. Like while they. The team will be on holiday. They. The. The, like management of the team should be planning right now, you know? So, yeah, that's. That's rough.

Ryan [00:11:21]:
Like, it's kind of crazy to see a Bayern that is this week like this fragile after the last in terms of the setup.

Luke [00:11:31]:
Yeah, well, yeah, it'll be good for the team. I think. Actually, I like I might have said this before. I think Byron winning every single year is not good for Bayern. Like, at least the footballing side, it doesn't progress. And I think you just. Last year really. They should have lost.

Luke [00:11:46]:
Right. Dortmund fuck it up with the like last kick of the season, essentially. I think it'll start a good reset. And in terms of. I think that if, like, appointment that kind of weirdly makes sense. I think if Pochettino was to fire up, Chelsea was to fire Pochettino. I bet you Pochettino goes to Bayern Munich because they have so many young, so they have so many young players. I think he has like, standing as a coach right now even, you know, you.

Luke [00:12:13]:
I know you have a feeling about him. I think he'll stay at Chelsea, but.

Ryan [00:12:16]:
I think he will too.

Luke [00:12:17]:
I think that that kind of appointment would make sense. It also do the Kane Pochettino thing that like, you know, everybody will fucking like for a second until it doesn't work out.

Ryan [00:12:28]:
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, true. I didn't even think about that.

Luke [00:12:31]:
Yeah. So speaking of managers, how do you feel about Pochettino after, you know, last game climbing into 6th place Europa conference league, which doesn't really mean anything in terms of dollars, but it's a competition.

Ryan [00:12:44]:
Well, they'll probably get if this. What is it? I can't keep track of them. So there's the conference league and then there's just Europa League. Right.

Luke [00:12:56]:
Or whatever. So six places Europa League and then 7th is conference, I believe.

Ryan [00:13:02]:
Right, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So Chelsea are in Europa right now as so long as if Man United beat Man City next weekend in the FA cup final, they will take this the 6th place Europa League.

Luke [00:13:23]:
And we should, we should google this while we talk about. Keep going. I'm.

Ryan [00:13:27]:
That is how it works. Yeah. I'm like, I'm like virtually, like. Because, because I'm a Chelsea fan. So I'm like fairly up on like, what our odds are. So we need city to beat Man United for us to secure Europa and then otherwise we'll be playing conference league. And I like either option. So, um, Chelsea have had a lot of success in Europa and I just, like, this is still a big squad and it's a young squad and people need to be getting game time.

Ryan [00:14:03]:
And I think in, in both cases it's just something that needs to happen and for some of these, these kids, like, imagine Cole Palmer and the fucking conference league.

Luke [00:14:16]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:14:17]:
Like, he would tear that shit up. Like, it's.

Luke [00:14:21]:
It's certainly a competition that really any Premier League team who qualifies for it should be able to win. If West Ham can fucking win.

Ryan [00:14:28]:
Yeah. Like, West Ham won it.

Luke [00:14:30]:
Chelsea, you know, Spurs, Villa, obviously they're in the Champions League, but those kinds of, those statures of team should be because should win the competition, you know?

Ryan [00:14:40]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:14:40]:
So I think the rumor is.

Ryan [00:14:43]:
Yeah, the rumor is real, real quick. Sorry. The rumor is that if it's conference league, Chelsea may decline to compete because the extra, like PSR issues would not be worth the revenue generated for the club or something like that. That's the rumor. I think that would be a mistake. I mean, the financials are the financials. Maybe there's another hotel we can sell to ourselves or whatever, but, like, I think that these kids need game time and sort of, like, weird decisions we've made with our squad. Like, having two left footed right wingers who are the same age from the same country.

Ryan [00:15:38]:
You can get away with that, I guess, to a degree, if you're in. In, like, several competitions and tournaments. Right. Like, but, but if you're not. If you're not then around.

Luke [00:15:49]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:15:49]:
Yeah. Like, Madwecky is not going to develop because Palmer is going to start. So, yeah, that is, that is something I don't know. And then there's like, the, there's part of me that's like we've. We've no longer won it all until we've won that competition because they, like, they added that. So there's a part of me that I'd be into us going into the conference league and winning it, and then we'd be. We'd be back to having checked all the boxes, I guess so. You aren't about that life, though, right?

Luke [00:16:20]:
I avoid winning, actually. Just, just coming in fifth place.

Ryan [00:16:25]:
Yeah. Dude.

Luke [00:16:26]:
I think Ponchatino deserves a huge amount of credit for that 6th place finish, by the way. Like, you got it. Like, when you look, sit here and look at the table, is, is the spend on the players justified yet? Probably not, right?

Ryan [00:16:39]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:16:40]:
But the end of the season that they had was pretty fantastic, so.

Ryan [00:16:45]:
Well, a couple things I'll address there. When, when people say that Chelsea spent a billion dollars on the squad, that's, like, a little disingenuous because a lot of what they spent are on these, like, young players that they've got out on loan everywhere. So there's not a billion dollars sitting on Chelsea's.

Luke [00:17:03]:
Even. Even if it was a half the amount.

Ryan [00:17:05]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which it exceeds that. Right. Because just in the midfield you've got 200 million.

Luke [00:17:11]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:17:13]:
Pounds or whatever in the mid. In the midfield. So it is a very expensive squad and the results are not there. And I have concerns about, like, like, I really hope that that groin injury, the, the. What is it called? It's like a hernia. Yeah, sports hernia. That's what it's called. I have had one of those and I couldn't imagine.

Ryan [00:17:43]:
He, he said in an interview in Argentina that he has had the sports hernia for eight months and has been taking pain injections to keep playing. And I just can't imagine, like, I'm still not right from it. I never got the surgery. I did rehab, but I can feel it, like, if I don't warm up or whatever, like, it's. So it's a groin injury. They call it a sports hernia. It has, like, a little bit to do with your psoas.

Luke [00:18:10]:
I treated a few of them when I was in college and.

Ryan [00:18:13]:
Yeah. Okay. All right.

Luke [00:18:14]:
The athletic medicine medical department. Yeah.

Ryan [00:18:17]:
Gotcha. Yeah. So, like, real weird.

Luke [00:18:19]:
If you get, like, if you get a disc that, like, bulges out, I can't exactly remember what causes it, but, like, you can get this, like, weird, like, lump on your groin.

Ryan [00:18:29]:
Oh, yeah, that. That didn't.

Luke [00:18:32]:
Something getting in between the muscles and the muscles inflamed into, like, a nodule, essentially.

Ryan [00:18:36]:
Oh, wow. Yeah, that didn't happen to me.

Luke [00:18:38]:
But now, of the ten people listening to this, please correct me, because I'm certainly wrong how I'm describing it.

Ryan [00:18:46]:
Yeah. So anyway, the point is I can't. Like, I am worried about Enzo because he looked bad, but he also had an injury that is, like. Like, it actually blows my fucking mind that he even attempted to play for his as he did.

Luke [00:18:59]:
It kind of makes sense. His mobility was always kind of. It always felt like he wasn't getting around the pitch quite as quickly as you think he would.

Ryan [00:19:07]:
And that's why Caicedo looked so bad for so long, because he was left isolated so many times because of the lack of mobility in the pivot that he was in. So. Yeah. And then to address your. The Pochettino question. So, like, obviously at this point, I think we'd be fools to let him go. He could also leave. I don't know.

Ryan [00:19:35]:
Apparently Man United is knocking. I don't think he will.

Luke [00:19:40]:
I don't think he'd go to Man United. I think he's probably smarter than that.

Ryan [00:19:44]:
Yeah, I think you're right. He clearly really loves the squad, and the squad really loves him. Yeah, yeah. And, like, you don't. Like. You don't build a bond like that if there isn't sincerity on both sides. And so I do think that, like, I mean, he's got a contract for another year with a option to extend for third. I can't imagine he's going to leave.

Ryan [00:20:12]:
I don't like him, but he basically all of the. So there's the. I don't like him because he's a Tottenham manager and I'm tribal like that. I don't know. I I just, I don't.

Luke [00:20:28]:
Can't. You can't handle your feelings about it?

Ryan [00:20:30]:
I don't. Yeah, I just don't like Pach the, the person, however, all of our.

Luke [00:20:36]:
So it's like nothing to do with actual football. It's like this.

Ryan [00:20:39]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:20:40]:
I just rotten, like.

Ryan [00:20:42]:
Yeah. Yes. I mean, he, he, like, outside of Harry Kane, nobody is more tottenham than Pochettino. Like, at least for the last.

Luke [00:20:54]:
In your mind. Yes.

Ryan [00:20:55]:
Well, in my mind, yeah. But I mean, if I were him, I can't believe he took this job. Like, if I were him, after the battle of the bridge and after we, like, for basically no reason other than out of spite, like, caused you to, like, we had nothing to play for and we. We eliminated you for, like, we, we eliminated you from. From overtaking or whatever, stopped you from winning the Premier, Premier League. I would hate Chelsea if I was him. So it's a little weird that he's even there.

Luke [00:21:29]:
However, everybody in the world is as tribal as you are.

Ryan [00:21:32]:
I think I have had sound footballing reasons to not like what he was doing for almost two thirds of the season. And sort of out of nowhere, he, he's addressed those concerns and I don't even know what to make of it. It was so sudden. He made a big tactical change, inverting Kukureya. So my criticisms were the tactics were simple and predictable. He was terrible in the second half of games. His substitutions were not proactive and he couldn't make tactical changes on the fly to adjust to what the opponents were throwing at us. And over this run, he has.

Ryan [00:22:31]:
All of those things have changed and all of them were provably true for two, one half to two thirds of the season. And then all of a sudden, like when we. Who are we playing?

Luke [00:22:45]:
Well, I would. I don't think you're wrong or anything. You've watched them closer than I am. I'd also say the players grew into the roles that they were playing as well. I don't think it's like, it's such a one way street. I think he came in with a group of really young players who were really inexperienced in the Premier League and he struggled to get them to do things. Like if he, he might not have felt the players could handle the tactical shifts.

Ryan [00:23:12]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:23:13]:
It was better in his mind to keep things really simple, conditional and consistent that.

Ryan [00:23:18]:
I mean, that's.

Luke [00:23:19]:
And then that's fair. Players grew into it. So that, that just tells me a little bit more what his history is. Obviously with spurs, when he got there, was a very similar season, first season to what Chelsea just had. And at Southampton too, like he, he grew into those positions. It wasn't like a one year and done thing. Right. He was at Southampton for three years, spurs for, you know, five or six.

Luke [00:23:41]:
So that it was, you know, I think that a lot of those issues were, are on him, but I think that it wasn't just reflective of his ability as a coach.

Ryan [00:23:52]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:23:53]:
So with young players, it takes time.

Ryan [00:23:55]:
Yeah. So if you're asking me right now, it's kind of, it's, and it's kind of interesting. Like, I think if you went back and listened to this podcast over the last year, the last season, I, like, I bet I was, I was with you for a while. I remember Derek was like anti Pochettino.

Luke [00:24:16]:
Despite saying that you hate him as a person.

Ryan [00:24:19]:
I do. I do hate him as a person, but I was also like, he needs time. He needs time. He needs time. And then there the thing, the thing that like, I finally like, looked into the stats and that's when like the second half stats were cr. It was something like we'd be 19th in the league if, if placed strict strictly based off the second half of games. And I was just like, this guy doesn't have, like, maybe he's washed, I don't know, like. And so then I was like, poch out.

Ryan [00:24:53]:
And like, practically the moment I said that I was poch out, he turn, he turned, like, all of the criticisms that I had of him around, aside from the fact that he's a Tottenham, like, he's, he is Mister Tottenham. And so, yeah, I mean, I guess, I mean, he's beaten Tottenham twice now, so I guess I should thank him for that. But I mean, he even made that. So like, you, you can take the injury. Like, I think the injuries have been really bad and you're, you're starting to see how good Chelsea can be with like a healthy and cuckoo, for example, and not having to play Desasi every game, like the sassy has just been frozen out of the team now that Trevo's back. So like, pots just stuck Sassy's.

Luke [00:25:41]:
I don't think of a technical quality that, yeah, from his center back. So I just don't think he's good enough.

Ryan [00:25:46]:
He's not up for the PL. I don't know what they're gonna do with that dude, but how much did.

Luke [00:25:51]:
They buy him for?

Ryan [00:25:52]:
I don't think it was expensive, but it was not cheap either. Yeah, I'll look that up. Are you looking at yeah, all right, I'll let you do it. But, yeah, 45.

Luke [00:26:05]:
That's what, like, that's what Vanda. Van cost and less than what Van Dyke cost. Yeah, that's expensive.

Ryan [00:26:11]:
Yeah, yeah. It's. It's not like, as bad as it could be, especially knowing this ownership and when he was purchased, I think. I think that you'll stop seeing the insanity around transfers going forward with this club because they have turned that part of the club over to people who appear to know what they're doing. I think that the. What?

Luke [00:26:40]:
I'm glad that we've come to an agreement that Todd Bowley certainly does not know.

Ryan [00:26:44]:
He should not have been handling the transfer policy at all now that he.

Luke [00:26:49]:
Didn'T find good players or they didn't find good players when he was in charge of it, but right, when they're.

Ryan [00:26:54]:
All the same age profile, did he find good players? So, I mean, that's when we were buying, like, oh, what's this? I already care. He was there for one season, those.

Luke [00:27:09]:
Kinds of players, right?

Ryan [00:27:11]:
I don't know if Boli bought Mudrick. I don't know. But, like, I mean, he for sure bought Ku Korea. Kukure has come good. But we definitely, like, there's no way to squint at Kukureya and think he's worth 70 million, which I think is what we paid for him. Yeah. So stuff like that was, was happening on bullies watch, so anyway, we'd be crazy to let Potch go. Hopefully he's back.

Ryan [00:27:41]:
It is really coming together for this team. I think. I think that. Well, so I want to save this for another episode, but I like, I want to give my recommendations for Chelsea. I want you to give your recommendations for Tottenham for next year. Like what you'd like to see, what positions you'd like to see strengthened, if you. If you have any targets in mind for those positions. I don't pay attention to the rumor mill with Tottenham that much.

Ryan [00:28:10]:
I'm always looking at transfer rumors and stuff just because I'm. I don't know, I need that dopamine.

Luke [00:28:16]:
But hate your job and you need clickbait.

Ryan [00:28:18]:
Yeah, but, yeah. By the way, Chelsea today closed the Esteva. William Messino is what they call him in Brazil.

Luke [00:28:28]:
Like a young, young brazilian player.

Ryan [00:28:31]:
He is 17. He will join the team in 2025 and go straight into the first team. But we'll see.

Luke [00:28:40]:
We'll see if he goes straight to the first team. But that's the goal.

Ryan [00:28:42]:
Yeah, yeah. The goal is for him to go straight into the first team, I imagine they'll do everything they can to stick to that. But it just. I mean, getting him qualified as homegrown would be huge, but he is, you know, I don't know how often, what percent people like players who this is set about. Like, they actually come good, but, like, he's. He's basically considered the most coveted prospect in the world right now. Yeah. And so that's huge.

Ryan [00:29:16]:
They. I think it's like 25 mil up front and it can go to 60 if he hits certain benchmarks or whatever. So, yeah, anyway, yeah, I guess that's like. I mean, they won five in a row to close the season out. They look the business right now. Cole Palmer's ridiculous and cuckoo looks really good. I don't know what'll happen with Raheem Sterling. Nico Jackson is a phenom.

Luke [00:29:49]:
He did get better in the last, last periods of the season. I thought he, like, looked more confident. His finishing still leaves a lot to be desired, but he got a lot better. You got to give him credit.

Ryan [00:30:00]:
I think you'll see. I think you'll see Palmer on the right. Like, our ideal starting four at the top will be Palmer on the right and cuckoo down the middle, Jackson on the left and ace nine. That we're going to go into the market and get. It might be awesome and. I don't know, but.

Luke [00:30:26]:
Well, yeah, depending what. What dollars there are to be spent. What. Yeah, outgoings as well. Because you got to. Chelsea definitely is a club that's going to need to move some players on.

Ryan [00:30:36]:
They have to move a lot and.

Luke [00:30:37]:
Has nothing to do with money, just to squad size, essentially. Even with Europe, you know.

Ryan [00:30:42]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:30:43]:
So a lot of players. So, yeah, we'll see.

Ryan [00:30:45]:
Totally agree.

Luke [00:30:46]:
I think things are looking up for Chelsea. I give him credit.

Ryan [00:30:50]:
Yeah. So let's talk about your. Yeah, let's talk about the year. So, you guys. Yeah, you lost the city. You beat Southampton. Right.

Luke [00:31:05]:
We played Sheffield today.

Ryan [00:31:08]:
Sheffield, sorry, not Southamptons. In the championship. I get them. I get them. Like, it fucks my mind up for some reason, but, yeah. So how.

Luke [00:31:20]:
It was pretty good. Yeah, the game was pretty straightforward. A little nervy at the beginning, I think, you know, it's really awkward game. There wasn't a huge amount of, like, quality in it from Sheffield particularly, but, yeah, good win. Glad to finish the season with a couple, like, solid, solid results, albeit against, like, poor teams with Burnley and Sheffield. That. That whole blow up with ange after the city game was really, really interesting. We haven't really talked about that at all, but I kind of like to hear it from him.

Luke [00:31:49]:
I appreciate his point of view, especially because he's not coming out in like the Conte rant kind of way. I don't ever want to hear an italian get so high pitched and upset ever again in my life. Oh my God. But, yeah, no good things. I think it's interesting. Like, Chelsea and Tottenham almost had like inverted seasons, but they're pretty similar. Where we ended the season really poorly. Had a rough run in for sure with Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea, all in like the same basic month and a half or so.

Luke [00:32:25]:
But we ended the season poorly, which I was a little disappointed by. But only good things ahead. Lots of positions that need to get improved, updated. Some really good found, like founding blocks. Like, I think van de Ven is going to be one of the best center backs in the world, if not just the Premier League. I think he's that good. I really like Christian Romero. Benticur was back to his best today.

Luke [00:32:50]:
So I think that, you know, foundation, some foundational blocks are there. So, yeah, only. Only looking up. Excited for next year. I think Europa League is perfect for our squad. What it's cost to assemble the squad, you know, where we are in the wage bill rankings. So, yeah, overall, good season. I would have bitten your hand off for fifth place in Europa League if you showed me that at the beginning of the season, to be honest.

Ryan [00:33:12]:
Yeah, it's fucked up because you guys should be in the Champions League. Well, the, like, England teams just shit the bed. Europe and like, it. It's fucked. Yeah, it's fucked up. Like, like I would. I mean, obviously I'm a Premier League fan, but to me it just seems like common sense that you would assume that England is going to like nine out of ten seasons they're going to hit the coefficient necessary just to grab a fifth slot. And it just so happens that this year they didn't.

Ryan [00:33:57]:
And, yeah, I don't know if you.

Luke [00:34:01]:
Look, I think if you look particularly at the Europa League performance, that was really where the England teams fell flat. Right. You look at Bayern Leverkusen going all the way to the final. Bayern Munich. I don't think it was just really the Champions League. I think it also shows how diverse and complicated the international game is, especially the continental game, where you go from.

Ryan [00:34:22]:
It's a totally different ballgame.

Luke [00:34:24]:
Exactly. You look at city, you know, obviously playing Real Madrid, which is probably the most historic team in the competition.

Ryan [00:34:31]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:34:32]:
But, yeah, so I'm not bothered that by that at all. I'm kind of on the side of Anne, just like, that's out of our control. I think the results were pretty good for most of the season. Obviously some big dips at the end, but. Yeah, I have nothing to complain about. Like I said, I'm not worried about that. Fifth Champions League spot. I think we'll do well in Europa League with a little less pressure.

Ryan [00:34:53]:
Yeah, yeah.

Luke [00:34:54]:
So we do have a couple players. There's another player. Have you heard of this Lucas Bergval guy? I think he's out. He's like 18 or 19. We signed him. He looks fucking filthy. So excited for him to come into the team.

Ryan [00:35:11]:
Yeah, he is, dude. He's a very good. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know you guys had him.

Luke [00:35:19]:
Yeah, we signed him in the. I think in the winter in the.

Ryan [00:35:24]:
It might have been a five year deal. Yeah. Okay. So it was like an agreed. Yeah, yeah. Interesting. So I did know about this kid. I just didn't.

Ryan [00:35:35]:
I didn't catch that. You guys signed it. You got a letter of intent from him in January. I missed that. Yeah. He is good, man.

Luke [00:35:43]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:35:43]:
He's like an attacking midfielder. Really dribbly. Yeah, yeah.

Luke [00:35:47]:
And we need. We need another. We need a new number six, but we also just need some more dynam. Dynamism in midfield. I like Pepe Sar. I like James Madison, but if James Madison's out of the team, there's no creativity and.

Ryan [00:36:00]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:36:00]:
You know, so we'll see.

Ryan [00:36:02]:
Your whole season was sort of contingent on his form.

Luke [00:36:10]:
Who's Madison? Oh, no. Yeah. And he really fell off after, when he came back from the injury. He just wasn't himself. We need a number nine that can stay fit. I'm still bullish on Richarlison's ability, but. And I would. This is.

Luke [00:36:23]:
I think I said this last week with Derek, the biggest credit you could give Nico Jackson, he was available, right? He was available.

Ryan [00:36:30]:
Yeah, yeah, I was. I was there. I was like, I was bantering with you about. Yeah, the.

Luke [00:36:37]:
Can't remember yesterday at this point.

Ryan [00:36:39]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:36:43]:
I really appreciate Rich Arlsen as a player, but because he's never available, it doesn't even fucking matter. So number nine need some. Need something new up top. And Ange needs to continue to adjust a little bit. I think this was a good first season for him. I think that despite him constantly saying mate and him, like, fucking having a, like a tantrum after the Man City game.

Ryan [00:37:07]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:37:08]:
I'm still. Still all in on the ange ball.

Ryan [00:37:11]:
Okay. Yeah. I was going to ask you. That VAR big vote coming up.

Luke [00:37:19]:
There's not a fucking chance that they take it away. But I'm glad that a club brought it to the table, basically saying, this is not fucking working, because it's not. Right.

Ryan [00:37:31]:
So I think next season. Sorry, go ahead. I asked you a question.

Luke [00:37:36]:
They are going to try to improve it by doing the automated, or semi automated offside, which I think will help, but that's not the only. Those aren't the only issues. You know, there's so many big issues right now in the Premier League.

Ryan [00:37:48]:
Yeah. Do you think that this is a, like. Do you think that offside should be that exact?

Luke [00:37:58]:
Um. No, I don't.

Ryan [00:38:02]:
Yeah, I don't either.

Luke [00:38:03]:
Yeah, it's. It's just hard because when it comes down to, like, a. Like, you're drawing a line on a computer.

Ryan [00:38:09]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:38:10]:
It's. It's just like. So what's the spirit of the game? Like, what. What is the game like? If this is a game of it about entertainment, how do we heighten that and, like, forget about the little tiny details, you know, the bright blades of.

Ryan [00:38:22]:
Grass if we're going to get. So I think. I think VAR is a good thing. I think Klopp this week said it. Like, I read a quote from him about it. He was at. I think every manager was asked about this in their. In their press conference this week, but Klopp said something like, the, like, VAR is fine.

Ryan [00:38:47]:
The way we're using it and the people that are operating it are not. Okay.

Luke [00:38:51]:
That's. I entirely. I don't have a problem with VAR, but the way that it's used, I don't want it in the game.

Ryan [00:38:58]:
Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, I think about, like, if we're getting ultra precise with how we're calling offsides, then I think there needs to be, like, a buffer or something. Like, you're going to give six inches, like a six inch buffer. I don't know what you land on, but it shouldn't be like, if one player's fingertips are further forward, you know, and that's like, the level of precision that they're applying here. And that's, to me, not in the spirit of, like, I don't know, soccer is, like, imprecise. Like, deliberately imprecise in some. In some ways.

Luke [00:39:42]:
Well, it's a game about mistakes in a lot of ways. Right? Like. Like, yeah, you play the game to try to make your opponent make mistakes. And referees are human. They're part of it. They make mistakes, and you have to allow space for that, yeah, but like.

Ryan [00:39:56]:
If you award a free kick, right. It's like, that's like roughly in that area, you know, put, put the ball down and, and take it, it like this level of precision around offsides, I think. Yeah, I mean, it's diminishing the entertainment value and then I don't know. I don't know what they do about these, like these, the, the fouls that they, that they just play over and over again and slow down more and more and why like that is. It's a problem. And I think Chelsea have benefited from that a lot this season, if I'm being honest. Like, I think they've been given the most penalties, penalties from far in the league now. They also.

Ryan [00:40:41]:
I think they lead the league in box entries. So, like that would like coincide to some degree, but. Or they're up there for box entries, but yeah, it needs there. I saw an idea from someone online who was like, maybe they, like the, the officials should be able to watch it like twice from two different angles and if they can't make a call, then they just move on. It should be obvious enough time frame.

Luke [00:41:14]:
Yeah. You have to now, like, you can't just sit there, look at it over and over again.

Ryan [00:41:18]:
Like, if it's not obvious enough that on, like with two viewings of it that you can't make the call, then just, just move on.

Luke [00:41:27]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a lot of same feelings on it. I just think the way it's implemented, the people who are, who are operating it. Yeah. Basically on the same line as clap. And I don't think there's really anybody with hostile intent. Like, it's not like, it's like you've asked these referees to be super perfect about or super precise about everything and refereeing on the pitch is not really like that. It's a kind of different.

Luke [00:41:53]:
You're basically asking someone to do something totally opposite.

Ryan [00:41:56]:
You know, if you were listening to this and you've never. So there's a good one that I watched was Bruno Gimmerish, or however you say his name, from Newcastle. He wore like a gopro on his chest for one of the preseason matches they played in America, I think, and watch that. Watch like, that's preseason. They aren't going 100 and it is played at such a crazy speed. It will make your fucking head spin if you haven't seen this before.

Luke [00:42:35]:
They've been trying to.

Ryan [00:42:37]:
I mean, it is too.

Luke [00:42:38]:
Right. They put a couple cameras on referees chests. Yes.

Ryan [00:42:42]:
I think recently they've done that. Yeah. And it like, it gave me a new appreciation for both the players and. And the referees when I saw that, like, that, that, that. It is wild how fast the game is played. It just doesn't. It's something about the perspective of being pulled that far back. I mean, this happens with, like, when I talk to, like, my, like, uncle who hates soccer and think everyone's flopping.

Ryan [00:43:10]:
Like, I think that happens a lot with injuries, too, where you can't. From that perspective, the camera angle that the game is broadcasted at tell how hard these players are being hit. Like, they're getting clobbered a lot of the time. Yeah.

Luke [00:43:25]:
It's very easy. Forget that. Watching from television.

Ryan [00:43:27]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Last thing I wanted to mention. Well, so Derek's out next week. I don't. Maybe we try to do a proper yanks in the ranks wrap up. Well. Two things. First, because.

Ryan [00:43:41]:
Yeah, I know you. You got a hop. This is a shorter football yanks episode today. Everyone but the FA cup. Let's do that. Yeah. What do you. What do you like, city? Get it done.

Ryan [00:43:58]:
Right. Like, what do you think about this, man?

Luke [00:44:00]:
City win four 50?

Ryan [00:44:02]:
Yeah, I think.

Luke [00:44:03]:
I think it's going to be heavy. The first goal that goes in. I think Man United's heads drop. I will say the way that. That United are playing, like, really heavily dependent on the transition is actually a really good way to hurt City.

Ryan [00:44:18]:
It is. Yeah.

Luke [00:44:20]:
Like, it's kind of the building blocks. I partially, like. That's why son has always been so devastating, other than in the game that we played against City last week.

Ryan [00:44:30]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:44:31]:
Has been so devastating because he's one of the best transition players in the world. Right.

Ryan [00:44:35]:
Yep.

Luke [00:44:37]:
So there is. I think there is something there, but I just could not. I just can't imagine United defense can hold up. Like, Phil Foden is fucking unreal right now.

Ryan [00:44:47]:
He's. He is cooking.

Luke [00:44:49]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:44:49]:
That guy is so good.

Luke [00:44:51]:
Next fucking level. Could be the best player in the world here in the next couple years, I think.

Ryan [00:44:56]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:44:58]:
So I just. I'm really interested to see how up for it united is, and I don't think they're gonna be up for it. I think they want ten hag fired for some reason I just don't like. It's just not working.

Ryan [00:45:11]:
Yeah. Do you think ten hag gets fired?

Luke [00:45:15]:
Um, no, I don't think so.

Ryan [00:45:19]:
Really?

Luke [00:45:20]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:45:21]:
I can't imagine them not firing him.

Luke [00:45:23]:
What, though? If it was not. If Sir Jim Radcliffe hadn't come in, I'd say he's definitely not going to get fired. I think that the wild here is what Jim Radcliffe does to the team. Or does the club.

Ryan [00:45:35]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:45:35]:
What kind of investment he wants to make in a new manager. All those kinds of things. Things.

Ryan [00:45:40]:
How much money there is to do it, too.

Luke [00:45:42]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:45:43]:
That's a club that's up against it.

Luke [00:45:45]:
Oh, yeah. They're in the shit right now, probably good that they're not in Champions League UEFA position right now.

Ryan [00:45:51]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:45:53]:
I just think that, like, they're. They've tried firing the manager so many times now they've got to change something else. Realist.

Ryan [00:46:01]:
Yeah. That's fair.

Luke [00:46:03]:
And I would say that similar thing for Chelsea, too. It's like, how. How many times is buying the manager really going to get you where you want to go? There's about spurs, too, in the last couple years through, you know, Nuno, then Jose, or Jose. Nuno and then Conte.

Ryan [00:46:21]:
Conte.

Luke [00:46:22]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:46:22]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:46:23]:
Just at some. At some point. It's not like he can't just fire the manager, I think. Yeah, I know. I also want Man United to continue to lose, so keeping ten hogs might help that.

Ryan [00:46:38]:
Yeah. Yeah. I. I love. I love the state that Man United's in. I looked this up a couple weeks ago. Mason Mount has not won a game, I think, for club or country in a year and a half, and I'm just fucking loving it.

Luke [00:46:56]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:46:57]:
All right, so, last.

Luke [00:46:59]:
That was a mistake.

Ryan [00:46:59]:
He made the transfer. Yeah.

Luke [00:47:02]:
That was stupid.

Ryan [00:47:04]:
Yeah. Last thing I like. We'll just throw this out there. I don't know if you have any thoughts. I have no thoughts. I just have a sound clip to play, but Jesse Marsh taking the. The coaching role. The coaching job for Canada.

Luke [00:47:24]:
What the fuck would anyone want with Canada?

Ryan [00:47:26]:
And that's. That is. That sums my thoughts up on that. Crazy. I like that.

Luke [00:47:36]:
I think there's an element to this is like, he wasn't getting any other fucking jobs.

Ryan [00:47:41]:
Yeah.

Luke [00:47:42]:
Like. Like, he didn't want to work with the US men's national team. He was waiting out a club, and he probably realized, like, oh, shit, I gotta make some fucking money.

Ryan [00:47:51]:
Yeah. Yeah. I. I hate it, man. Not. Not stoked about this. It feels like a betrayal. I know Derek feels that way.

Ryan [00:48:04]:
Derek. Derek would be fucking going off right now if he is here. Derek's in Germany. He'll be. He's missing this podcast and the next one, so I am completely, completely at Luke's mercy for these.

Luke [00:48:20]:
I'm much, like, more tepid about this. Like, I don't fucking care. Like, Jesse Mars, was he going to do a great job managing the US. Maybe better than Greg Berhalter. I wish Greg Berhalter would go manage Canada, to be honest.

Ryan [00:48:35]:
Canada? Yeah, they can have him, dude, I'd celebrate that if you went up there.

Luke [00:48:40]:
But I don't think Marsh has it. Go, go, go.

Ryan [00:48:46]:
I guess there was a period of time where he was doing a job at Leeds and.

Luke [00:48:53]:
Well, and at, I don't know, Salzburg. Was he at Salzburg or Leipzig? Leipzig. He was at Red Bull. Leipzig, I think. Or was it Salisbury?

Ryan [00:49:01]:
Leipzig. I think he was at Salzburg.

Luke [00:49:03]:
Yeah, it might be Salzburg, but he's not a manager who should be really coaching a national team. He's like a. He's a. Yeah, he's much more of a system guy. Right. Managers at the national team. And this is one of the big issues with Greg Barhalter, so. Right.

Luke [00:49:22]:
Bruce arena had a decent amount of success, right. Fuck Bruce arena, whatever. But he had a success because he didn't really have a system. He just let the players go and do what they were good at, which was being really physical and staying in games for as long as possible. Right?

Ryan [00:49:37]:
Yep.

Luke [00:49:38]:
But Jesse Marsh is going to try to integrate this whole system of playing, which is really not what a national team needs. They need camaraderie, they need a base level of tax tactics that works for the. That group of players. So we'll see how he does. I think that the US men's national team is a really toxic place. I think that's what this tells us more than anything else. Yeah, there's. There's no reason that us has not already talked to Jesse Marsh about taking over as a coach multiple times.

Luke [00:50:09]:
Yeah, no way. You know, even before Berhalter was a part of the setup, you know, I just think it's so toxic and the expectations are unrealistic as well. Um, but, yeah, I don't know, I hope he does. Well, now you want me to give you.

Ryan [00:50:24]:
I don't.

Luke [00:50:25]:
Derek, Derek, Derek reaction. What the fuck is that? Fucking half fucking. I don't even know. What is he like some kind of haves. He like some canadian us? What the fuck, dude?

Ryan [00:50:43]:
Yeah, I can't imitate it. Derek has his own brand of rage that just can't be replicated.

Luke [00:50:51]:
So Derek came to play soccer last week. Did you hear about how long he lasted? He lasted like, you know, he subbed on a couple times, half time he just left the field. It was so funny. I feel bad about making fun of him.

Ryan [00:51:10]:
What is he doing?

Luke [00:51:11]:
He's like my knee is bruised, and I'm like, all right, man. See you later. It just leaves at halftime. Oh, he's probably pissed.

Ryan [00:51:19]:
Why?

Luke [00:51:20]:
I have no sympathy.

Ryan [00:51:21]:
Yeah, dude, just stop it. Four knee surgeries?

Luke [00:51:28]:
Yeah, dude, that's fucked up that he still plays soccer. Like, he should.

Ryan [00:51:31]:
He really shouldn't do that.

Luke [00:51:33]:
It's not good for his heart.

Ryan [00:51:34]:
No, I would just. I would have different goals. Like. Like, avoiding surgery. That would be, like, number one goal.

Luke [00:51:42]:
You should, like, run a fucking marathon or something.

Ryan [00:51:45]:
Soccer. Seems. I heard you're running the Baltimore half.

Luke [00:51:49]:
Yes, that's the plan.

Ryan [00:51:50]:
Is that a thing?

Luke [00:51:51]:
Yeah.

Ryan [00:51:51]:
Hell, yeah. I might be joining you.

Luke [00:51:54]:
Let's do it.

Ryan [00:51:55]:
Yeah, I've been. I've been. I got a prp shot.

Luke [00:51:59]:
Oh, for your what? A prp shot?

Ryan [00:52:03]:
Yeah. Platelet rich plasma. They. This is so boring. They. They drew blood from my arm. They put it in a centrifuge, they separate the, like, white blood cell plasma, and they injected into an area with low blood flow. It did that into my knee, and that was six weeks ago, and it's.

Ryan [00:52:21]:
It's seriously never felt better. Oh, that's since I. Since. Yeah, since I had the, like, chondromalacia, like, really inhibit me, I should say. Yeah. So I've been. I've been, like, going to a PT. Running.

Ryan [00:52:40]:
Specific PT dude runs, like, a 225 marathon, and he's been putting me through the paces with that. Yeah. Yeah. So I told him my target is Baltimore, and he says he can get me there, so we'll see. Might be joining you.

Luke [00:52:57]:
Let's go on, buddy run. Yeah, let's do it.

Ryan [00:53:00]:
Yeah. Yeah, we can do that.

Luke [00:53:01]:
I just need to stop drinking whiskey and actually go run, but, yeah, yeah.

Ryan [00:53:08]:
Yeah, yeah. Life is hard.

Luke [00:53:11]:
All right, so. All right, well, we've got to get some t shirts for this half marathon. Football yanks.

Ryan [00:53:17]:
Yeah. All right.

Luke [00:53:18]:
With a picture of screaming face on the back of the shirt.

Ryan [00:53:25]:
I have just the photo of Derek T shirts.

Luke [00:53:30]:
It's a plan. We'll say. Sponsored by. Maybe we'll get some listens.

Ryan [00:53:36]:
Yeah. There you go. Sponsored by the football. Yikes. All right, well, that's. That's an episode. Luke. Luke, we had to.

Ryan [00:53:43]:
Well, I'd prefer to keep this short. This was like football yanks after dark. We're recording this one very late, but thanks for all the support. This season, we'll be covering the FA cup and maybe giving recommendations for each of our teams. I don't know who Derek's team is anymore. He was betting against Chelsea earlier this week. I don't even know what's going on with that guy. But, yeah, we'll find some fun stuff to do.

Ryan [00:54:08]:
We'll be tracking the transfers and. Yeah, like, and subscribe wherever you're listening to this and join our discord. And I think that's it. You got anything else, Luke?

Luke [00:54:21]:
I like this idea of football yanks after dark. Can we go back to this?

Ryan [00:54:24]:
Yeah, football yanks. Of course you do. None of us. None of us are Lucy wearing a banana.

Luke [00:54:30]:
None of us are wearing shirts. I'm eating a banana.

Ryan [00:54:34]:
We're all topless. You're eating a banana. I'm just, like. I'm just, like, going off on some, like, crazed rant about Pochettino. Yeah.

Luke [00:54:46]:
All right, everybody.

Ryan [00:54:47]:
Yeah, all right. Yeah. Thanks, everyone. Catch it. Catch you next week, guys. Peace.

Luke [00:54:54]:
Thanks for tuning in to the Football Yanks podcast. Be sure to subscribe wherever you heard this podcast so you never miss a future episode. We'll see you next time. Time.