Everton's Last-Minute Meltdown: How They Blew a 2-Goal Lead and What It Means for Relegation!

In this episode of "Football Yanks," hosts Ryan and Derek dive deep into a whirlwind week of Premier League action and off-the-pitch dramas. Ryan and Derek hash out the EPL's latest matches, scrutinizing Manchester United's puzzling transfer decisions—was sidelining Harry Maguire a mistake? They examine Tottenham and Newcastle's tactical showdowns and highlight the impact of key injuries on team strategies.

The Osimhen transfer saga proves a hot topic. The hosts unpack the striker's turbulent tenure at Napoli and the surprising financial implications for their club. They debate the fallout from this "unimaginable" situation and speculate on potential landing spots for Osimhen in December.

Everton's rollercoaster performance sparks discussions about relegation predictions, with the hosts weighing in on the fate of teams like Ipswich, Southampton, Fulham, and Nottingham Forest. Critiques fly as they dissect Tottenham's defensive frailties and question Ange Ball's effectiveness.

Tune in for a blend of fierce football analysis, personal anecdotes, and an uncompromising look at the beautiful game's latest controversies. Whether you're a die-hard fan of the Premier League or just looking for an engaging listen, this episode of "Football Yanks" is sure to deliver!

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Everybody, this is the football Yanks podcast with Derek, and we've got Ryan here this week. No Luke. I'm not sure where Luke is at the moment, but that's. That's usually an ongoing saga, but we'll get through a wrap up of transfers in the Premier League in conjunction with all the action around the league. This week, we'll talk particularly in depth about transfers and gameplay from our Blueco holdings Chelsea company and their related activities. And then we'll see a little bit digging into Yanks in the ranks. In particular, Ryan will try to keep it in his pants over Gabrielle Salanina at the end. Yeah, I'll fail, so maybe check out. The live stream football Yanks podcast. Thanks, everyone. 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 Aethereze. Enjoy today's episode. And we are live on Twitch, theoretically. How's it going? You had an interesting evening? Sounds like evening or morning. Morning. Whatever. I don't know. This is all before the Chelsea game started this morning. Oh, okay. Yeah. Heather, like, stumbles into my apartment, and she's like, the elevator drops with me in it, and my back hurts. And I'm like, okay, well, we should probably call some phone numbers that aren't, aren't Derek and sort that out. The ambulance cave. The fire truck came naturally. The fire truck. The fireman couldn't get into the apartment building, couldn't get to the right building because the porter's a shithole. And so I let them in, took him around. They checked Heather out, then took Heather to urgent care. He took x rays, and now she's passed that on muscle relaxers. So. So, yeah, I have a lot of questions. I don't know if I'm going to get any answers. Her elevator dropped. She left and walked to your place? Yeah. And I was like, what's the matter? And she's like, the elevator dropped. And I was like, okay, well, you know, you should probably get checked out. So that she walked back and then, like. Yeah, walked back to the. Because, like, at this point, like, the elevator. And then the elevator is, like, stuck below. Like, when it drops, it goes below floor level because the level, I assume the leveling fails, right? So it's. She then tripped getting off the elevator, and I. And so the elevator was, like, broken, but, like, nobody really. Her property managers don't really work to begin with, but, like, they obviously, they weren't working on a Sunday, so I don't think anyone's picking up the phone for maintenance or anything else. But she had hit like the emergency call button in the elevator because there's no cell service. And like, they were like, oh, well, have you alerted the maintenance facility? Now it's like, why the fuck would there be a red emergency call button in the elevator for me to then call somebody else to report the issue? Like, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, this happened to me on a, well, this has happened to me twice. One time I was on like cruise ship that, now that big apartment complex that I lived in in Annapolis, it's called Mariner Bay. Yeah, I don't know. I never went down there anyway. Yeah, it's like a 1314 story building. Like huge building. Might be the tallest building in Annapolis. Actually. I assume you were living in the bougiest building in Annapolis, bougie Place. So yeah, this checks out. But I was on the top floor, got in the elevator and it like, the door closed and it dropped. But they catch, they, they have like tons of safety, right? Yeah, yeah. And then what happens is it lowers you slowly down to the first floor and it does like stop below the, the final floor. I say, I thought that was weird, but maybe there's like something that holds it like just below. I don't know. And then actually the second time this happened to me, I maybe didn't even mention this to you. I told Shannon, but when we went on the trip to Park City this year, it happened to me in the elevator at the airport garage at BWI. I got in, it started to go up and then it just failed. And I mean, it. Dr. It's scary. It drops like for a second and then the safety stuff catches it and then it lowers you. And in that case, they were like, they were really proactive. They came on the intercom and they were like, is everyone okay? And I was like, it's just me. And they were like, okay, we're sending someone there. And I was like, all right, I got a plane to catch, so I'm going to get out and get on the other elevator. And I just went on with my day, but there's no shot she dropped six floors. I would believe that she, it's only, what's the building? I think there's four floors or five floors. I don't know. She's on the fourth floor, so about four, but yeah, I'm assuming whatever, an emergency break would activate it and then it just jolted. Yeah, if she dropped four floors, she'd have just broken yeah. I mean, it certainly wasn't a free floor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When he told me that, I was like, this. This is an exaggeration. This is. Heather was spooked. Yeah. I didn't just free fall. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. She would have had, to your point, like, modern. I mean, any elevator made after, like, 1980, like, won't free fall unless, like, you literally, like, detonate, like, multiple safety measures on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we don't live in, like, fucking Alabama, so, like, no matter how janky that place is, the government is going to inspect that shit. Yeah. We have government inspectors in Maryland, north of the Mason Dixon. I guess we don't really live north of the Mason Dixon line. But anyways, we have actual inspections of infrastructure in our state. Yeah. Required in reading level requirements in middle schools and high schools. Yeah. All right, well, how many days into the school year did Heather make it before calling in? Like, a week? Yeah. Yeah. It's a good shout. Yeah, it didn't. They haven't even started teaching curriculum yet. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. All right. Well, that. That's an eventful morning, for sure. Weekend going. How's your long weekend going? Pretty good, actually. We. So, I hung out with you guys yesterday. Caught the EPL matches. Yeah. I wouldn't say that. But I'm assuming that wasn't, like, a highlight of your. I. Your weekend. But, I mean, it was fun. I had fun hanging out with you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Watching Tom. I guess the rest of your weekends just aren't that exciting. Kick the shit out of Steven and. Yeah, it's not every day you get the witness, like, borderline child abuse. Watching our 38 year old friend just body his child off the ball and. Then blast the ball at him. Yeah. Like, you're gonna play goalkeeper. You're four and a half. Start. Disturbing. I hear shots. Okay, ma'am, calm down. What kind of shots? All right. Yeah, he doesn't like it. I think I'm gonna have to start pre screening these. These sound clips you're loading. Oh, man. Yep. Yeah. So that was. I mean, that was entertaining. And then Shannon got back from her run, and we. She was in pretty rough shape, actually. Really? Anytime I see her running, I say. Like, Shannon's usually a pretty rough shape in general. Yeah. She kind of lives her life. Yep. Trying to be healthy and, like, do stuff. It's not. She would be the first person to admit that what she does is not healthy. Yeah. It's. It's just. It's just nothing. So it obviously takes a lot out of her. And. Oh, and so she, she, she went out to. You've seen the pictures where her, like, legs are just shredded from running through bramble. I remember the story. I don't know if I saw the pictures, but that's. Well, if you play soccer with her tomorrow, you'll see it. She went back to that trail and did that again. So her legs are just shredded just for good measure. Yeah. And then, um. And then, uh, she had to. This time she had to bring a water filter and like, filter her own water out of a lake there. I don't. I don't really remember why that was. Uh, she ran like 35 miles and, uh, then went to Taco Bell, I guess, to just like pick every fight she could with her body in one day. So. So, yeah, she was, she was in rough shape last night. And then we, we hung out, we watched some top chef and then went to Chuck's trading post today. Have you ever been there? I don't even know what that is. It's really good brunch. It's like this, I think it used to be a general store in Hamden. And it got, I think, like maybe eight years ago or something. It was bought out and they turned it into a general store slash breakfast spot. And I think they only make dinner one night a week. They have a burger night. Other than that, it's just, it's just brunch, I think. And it was really good. It was very, very good. Yeah. So that's been my week. I'm pretty low key so far and. Yeah, I mean, we've got tons of stuff we could go over. We could probably do it. We're not going to. We could probably do a two hour episode today between the games and the transfer window closing out. And I mean, I'm sure we could do an hour just on, you know, forest and wolves or, you know, maybe an hour and a half on Ipswich form. I know you'd be. Yeah, I was just gonna ignore. Dial that back. Right. So that we can stay under the constraints. Yeah. So do you want to talk about some matches first or do you want to cover your thoughts on the transfer window? What, what order do you want to. Let's talk about the matches. Okay. Yeah. I mean, so today's matches. Today was a good slate. Face value. I wouldn't say that's how it played out. But I mean, you walking back from most recent, you know, United folded pretty quickly, as you would expect them to. Yeah, I. I don't. I don't know what Eric ten Hag's doing playing Rashford still, when he's got Ahmad available. He looked really good when he came on. He's looked good previously. And I've said the younger players, him and Mano, especially in Xerxe two, right, like, need to be out there. The crowd let him have it for subbing. He subbed off Garnacho for. I didn't even know if I picked up on that part. Yeah, that's shocking. You're chasing the game and you're subbing off Ganacho. Yeah. Probably the most dangerous player of the last two seasons. Diallo sub don for. That's who you were talking about. Yeah. Yeah. He subbed on for Garnacho and I. Don'T know, you know, what he's thinking, not starting my boy Harry Maguire, but, you know, life's full of choices. He subbed, so he's got to make delict work. Yeah, but Harry Maguire's football heritage. Yes. Yeah, he is. He sure is. He also, I think, is better than delict. But that's. I mean, maybe that's debatable. Might actually be. I think he's better than delict. Which goes like, you're like, oh, well, they're buying. They've bought a couple good players. Like, maybe they'll improve. Like. No, like, they bought. You know, I don't trust any of their transfers anymore. Like, they're all. They're just like, grabbing players out of the dutch league with, you know, they, like, ten hag is just picking player. Like, I don't know, it. It's a mess. Who else? Let's talk about theirs. We can talk about their transfers. It was delete. And then who else? Xerxe. I forgot circus. He was a trans. Okay, so Xerxe may be okay. Uh, trying to think. I mean, I can. I can look this up pretty. I mean, they didn't. They should have bought Robinson or somebody, the player, Chillwell, to play left back. Yeah. Like, they're going to try and negotiate that in the winter now. Just figure it out later, which is shocking. But, yeah, like, they. They spent a bunch of money, but it seemed. It looked like the same. Same old trash bin, I will say that, you know, again, Liverpool looks like they're cruising. Oh, they brought. They brought in Lenny Yoro. That was huge. And then he immediately got injured. Oh, and Manuel Ugarte. So he'll help. He'll help a lot. Casemiro looked not great in this match. Case was bordering on a straight red, like, inside of the first, what, 15 minutes of the match. He's such a. He's such a fucking dirtbag. If there weren't enough reasons, like, I already hate this team. Like, mainly the fans and ownership and every one of the players. Like, he's just like the icing on the cake at this point. Yeah. And then now Sara Mazra Mousrowi, I think is how you say, his last name picked up from Byron. The right back. Yeah, I think started. Yeah, he started and he's looked good. Yeah, that. That has been. I thus far. N equals three. Yeah, he's looked pretty good. Yeah. But I don't know, man. This is. This is rough. Yeah, I don't think. Really rough. Johnny Evans on their bench, who I think I saw announced his retirement from international football this weekend. It. It's rough. It's not good. It's not looking good, man. Yeah. Because I mean, that. I think that that defense is going to get torched all season. Even if, like, you go up day. Helps the midfield and it's. Oh, God, I just saw, dude, their midfield and defense. Delick with a 6.1. Lissandro Martinez with a 5.9. Menu 5.9. Casimiro 5.85. Catching strays at this point. But yeah, that. It's not. It's not going to get better again. Rashford doesn't look like he's even like, improving slightly. I mean, I guess he had the first play of the game looked okay and then like, just faded the rest. What is. I'll have to dig into this. I don't know. So main U is deployed pretty defensively in this system. Yeah. They don't have like, a very progressive passing midfielder and they're definitely not getting that in Ugarte. I mean, they have, like, if they have a ten. Bruno is obviously phenomenal. Yeah. But yeah, set up doesn't. Isn't gonna work at this level. Why isn't he playing Maguire and, like, why did Delick come off? Maybe it's fitness. I don't. I don't know. I can't. I can't come up with. He's on a yellow too, but. Well, both of them were. Martinez, de lick, true menu and Xerxe all on yellows. Yeah, some things that. Well, Lewis, Diaz. So the score of this one finished three nil to Liverpool. Yeah, Liverpool looked good for it too. They could have scored a few more. Yeah. Diaz, sobersly and Salah basically all balled out. I think in different ways, each of them could have gotten the. The match ball. Jonah in front of him didn't do shit because he's a little five nothing scrub, squibbed one eight yards wide. Should have had out there so good. Why is Jonah at nine? I played him there a lot last. Yeah, but by itself it doesn't make sense. I mean, you got Gakpo and, you know, I don't get it, but, um. Yeah, yeah, they're really good. They must really be ready to turn the page on this Nunes experiment anyway. Yeah. Nunez and Gakbo, hack bow. How do you. I don't know how you pronounce. Yeah, it's just gack bow. Okay. I've heard people call it hack Bo. He's not really a nine as much as a winger, but. Yeah. Who on the. I think you can play both. Yeah, they've played them up top. It's kind of like this square peg stuff and that, but. Because they don't have any faith in nunes. But I don't think Nunes has looked that bad this season, to be fair. You know, it's not a best look to go into the stands and start clapping fans heads against each other. Shit happens, you know, life goes on. He, uh, he's just a mayhem engine. He's going to take shots. You put the ball at his feet anywhere near the. Who do you think would win a reading contest between Jack Grealish and Darwin Yunes? I don't. I guess it depends on what time of day

and how many. Like, is it after 11: 19:15

00 a.m. and drinking? Yeah, if Jack started hitting, hitting the pints, then, then. Yeah, but, yeah, it. This one pretty brutal for if you're a man united fan and if you're me, phenomenal to watch this one. You wouldn't rather united put one over on Liverpool? No, I'm just. I hate pile. I hate Man United so much that I just don't care. Yeah, I don't care. I'll take the l's anywhere I can get them and. Yeah, I don't, I. I don't know, man. I don't know how long ten hag lasts. I. He barely survived last season. Um, I don't. I mean, I. I hope he stays. Remember Ole Gunnar Solskjaer? How long he, he lasted? Everybody thought he was going to be. They could keep him ten. Yeah, they're, they're not quite as quick on the trigger as the next team we'll talk about which is the Chelsea football company. Yeah. Okay. Let's just, let's just go to that. We could. So three nil. Could have been a lot more, actually. Goal got rolled off for. I think it was like offsides. Like Salah got involved in a goal that. Yeah, what's his name? Trent scored and Allison made a great save at one point in this one, I think it was Xerxes and maybe it was Bruno. Anyway, I just remember Allison making a really phenomenal save. He is nearly Liverpool's highest. Oh, no, he's not. I'm lying. He is the fourth highest rated player on Liverpool. Salah with a 9.5. Diaz with an eight. Diogo jota with a perfect ten. I made that up. That was. Yeah, I see the actual rating. So, yeah. Anyway, so, yeah, let's talk about Chelsea football company. Blueco. Yeah. What? I want to hear your thoughts on this before I give mine. Yeah, I mean, it's not. I saw 80% of the game in between this morning's activities. I mean, it's just, it's not good enough. Like, Luke is mostly full of shit when he talks about the statistics, about meeting anything. But, like, when you're getting 63% accuracy or possession, 90% pass accuracy and you're. You're. You're tying Crystal palace one one at home. Like, that's a problem whether it's payroll or players or coaching or whatever the fuck it is, right? And, you know, Neto didn't do much in this one. It's tough to pinpoint, like, what went wrong. Again, like, we give up, you know, a fairly soft goal where we just don't close the guy off. So you can blame it on that. But, I mean, we've seen that happen so many times against palace and every all these other mid table teams last season and just, we can't figure it out between our defensive midfield and our defensive structure, how to prevent this shit in games that were winning. And, you know, the other thing, you know, from a transfer front we could talk through, like, what else went on there. But, you know, we bring Sancho in, which I think is really good business, and I'm not quite sure what the rotation ends up looking like. Like maybe Neto plays between Mad Wicke and it's Sancho, and in cuckoo and whoever, Mudrick rotating on left or whatever it is. But I. But, like, unless Sancho. Like, I. We bought Sancho a couple days ago, he's there, like, so I don't understand this whole thing of not being available for, like, I don't. Do you need to teach somebody that's been playing soccer since they were five years old how to play a 4231 like, it's not that rev revolutionary what it's like to go play on the left or the right in that. And so, like, if Sancho is going to be the starter, which I'm guessing he's going to be for the next game, like, I don't know why he wasn't available for this match, but he's obviously rested. But I think that would be highly irregular. He's had no. He's no matches. But, like, this isn't. Like, this isn't the NFL where you're memorizing plays and fuck it. I mean, Lamar Jackson can memorize plays. It's not that hard to get out there and play soccer, but they have. Pretty specific tactical, like, the way they work things up in possession. There's clearly, like, patterns of play that Mareska has a very, very specific system. Well, some didn't do shit today. I mean, Neto is not a bad player. And whatever they're between him, Palmer, Jackson, Madwicke, they get one goal. I mean, Madwick. Aoma scored. I mean, to be fair, right? Should have scored. I think Palmer should have scored. Joe Felix could have done better. I don't remember. Neto had a poor game. I just remember Neto being bad and Mudrick looking a lot better. I also remember the announcers calling Mudrick Madweck a. At least the american announcers. And then at one point, Levi Colwell was taking a free kick and they called him Cole Palmer. It was like, I don't. I don't know what's going on. What is later over there. Yeah, yeah. They're anything like the, you know, Pat McAfee. They've already had six to twelve beverages before they go on air. Yeah. So I think the move here, Netto. Neto prefers to play on the right, Sancho prefers to play on the left. Neto and Madwicke are going to compete for that position down the right, which is fine. Well, yeah, except there's no competition at the moment. Right. Like, Madueke looks far and above how Netto is playing. Yeah. Sancho also hasn't played. Like, man United was not playing him. He didn't go to the Euros. I don't think he went to the Olympics. He would have. So, like, he could lack match fitness? I don't. Yeah. Um, to just cover that real quick. So Chelsea secure Sancho with a. It's a loan with an obligation to buy that will trigger at either 20 million pounds or it will trigger at 25 million pounds, depending on how he plays the season, which is. It's pretty cool that they structured it that way for perspective. He was purchased by Man United for €100 million. So that is. It's a 24 year old. He. That's great business. And I think he's perfect for this system. He's a very tricky winger. He does, he does the things that Mareska clearly wants his way. He wants his wingers to receive the ball defeat and be able to beat a man and make a very. An incisive pass that, that takes players out of. Out of the. The equation. So, yeah, to your point. Right. Like where. Where it's about patterns of play and passing and movement. Right. Like we saw, we talked about how just ultra effective he was doing that for. For Dortmund last season, particularly in their Champions League run, where he often looked like the best player on the field on a very good team. And if he can bring a piece, even just a piece of that, I think he, to your point, fits it very well with the role Mareska wants him to fill there. Yeah. Gives a stark contrast to what Mudrick brings to the table. Generally, the wingers in this system are the most important part of the system. Looked as good as he has the last couple weeks. Right. And note, I meant to shout this out last week. Medweck A is scoring with his right foot. And that has to have been a deliberate, like something that he's worked on. He had. He was a very one footed winger last season and I think he scored well. He scored one goal off his right for sure. I think he's just taken some really, I'm thinking across all competitions. I don't know that he scored in Europe, but he's. He's definitely. He's got a rocket on both feet at this point or he's more confident using both. I know something has been worked out there. He's just becoming a very, very complete winger. Yeah. So this is just one of those matches wherever Chelsea did everything right except finish the. The chances they had. And it's. It's kind of, you know, it's a tale as old as time with this team and it points to the ownership. Well, it's hard to say that Niko was even the problem in this match. I mean, he finished. He should have scored a second one in the like, I think in the 90. 90 plus three. I mean, I. I'm pretty objective when it comes to Nico. Unlike not to name names, unlike other people on this podcast, but I thought that he took, he. That play was well done. Controlling the ball, being back line, taking touches and get. Releasing the shot. When he needed to. There was a. It was a really good save, I think, for the keeper hand up there, but. So, yeah, I wouldn't. I don't think this one's on Jackson. Yeah. And Jackson, the goal. He did score. Not only did he. Did he tap that in when he. When he should have, he also is responsible for drawing the yellow on Will Hughes, which made it so that he could not pull noni Madweke. I think it was down on the break. Um, so I like. It was. I think this was just a strong match for Niko all around. But, you know, if you have consistent underperforming your XG issues for, you know, as long as this ownership is. Has been here and predating this. This ownership, for sure, I like. You gotta find some killers like you. We like. They should have. They should have. They thought that they could get awesome and done. We need. We need a nine. Like, it. Like, there just has to be a nine. There needs to be competition for Jackson. Like, true competition. I'm expecting a full apology be issued to Nico Jackson on your behalf after the things you're saying here today. For what? Dude, I'm the head of the Nico Jackson fan club now. You're saying true number nine, did you. See extended to 2033 today for Nico? Yeah, yeah, he signed a contract extension till 2033. I. I don't have a problem with that. Yeah, I mean, so. So I actually. I mean, like this. So on the Osaman thing, I mean, there's two things, right? One is, like, the fit and the other is the transfer saga. From a fit standpoint, I don't. I'm with you. I don't think we needed Asimin. Unless you're backtracking on that now. But I thought you said we didn't need him. I didn't want specifically asimin. I think that we need another number. We need competition for. We need competition for Niko. Like, there just has to be. There's no true competition for him. You could say mark Gui. Yeah, you could say that, but he's not really competent. That's a child who we're bringing along. That was a opportunistic transfer. And clearly he's not seen as a true challenger to Niko, as encouraging as he's looked. But, yeah, I don't know. I. Ivan Tony maybe would have been okay. I'm not as, like, gassed on Ivan Tony as a lot of people seem to be. I think that the sample that we have of Ivan Tony performing well is in a two strike. In a strike pair, which we don't play. And he's never like, what you look for in a good nine is someone who outperforms their XG. Yeah. And he never has. So Osimun does, but Osaman, like, he's done it in Syria. I have not really seen a lot of success with Syria strikers translating to EPL success. And he clearly has a huge ego. Like, look at, we just got ourselves out of the Lukaku nightmare and. Yeah, like, he's got all kinds of. Shades of Lukaku in him. Yeah. Asimin seems perfectly. I do have a counter view on some of that. But yeah, I mean, I think if Sancho, when Sancho is available. Right. Then you've got in Cuckoo, Zhao, Neto, Mudrick, Felix coming off the bench, who. Looked good today, by the way. I did think he looked good. He got the ball. He's been doing better at getting the ball off his feet at the right moments instead of holding it as long. And the passes actually look good in their 2ft. So I'll give him credit for that. So, I mean, I think between Jowin and Cuckoo, they can, they're not going to press Jackson, but they give us somebody off the bench. And it's tough because Jackson maybe isn't world class, but I. Or, you know, he's not a top five striker. But is Jackson a top 15 striker in the world? I don't. I don't know that he's not at the moment. I think he probably is. Yeah. And so that's tough to say. Like that's where we need to fix things. But. But if the opportunity presents itself in the winter, then I think we should take it now in terms of the transfer mass. I mean, like, I think the, the bigger issue is just Chelsea in general. Right? You have all these players that got stranded on our side that are going to train with the U 21s, players like Fafana and Chili. Chili and Desasi or, you know, whoever. Right. We didn't sell when we needed to. Meanwhile, we're sending a delegation to negotiate with Asimin in a circus. And, you know, we can sit. Yeah, I think that. Honestly, I think there's a lot of. I think there's a lot of whitewashing that went on here in terms of comparing Asimon to Lukaku, not present company included necessarily, but like, this whole notion, like Osaman should have just taken a fucking pay cut and gone to Chelsea or just gone to Saudi. Like, you know, I don't. I'm glad this isn't like the, the NFL where contracts aren't guaranteed and people just, you know, a bunch of white owners can just cut it anytime they want, right. In soccer. Like they're beholden to paying awesome. And what they agreed to and they signed an extension what was in December. Right. With the, their mind on turning that into sales revenue for the club and they couldn't accomplish that. I, you know, if they really wanted to move him on instead of wasting a season, they could have subsidized his salary to Chelsea, I'm sure. Right. And Chelsea for their part, wouldn't back down. I don't know that. I think that maybe it was one of the few things they did right in this disaster of a transfer saga over the last twelve months. But, you know, I'm not going to fault Osman for saying this is what I agreed to, this is what I'm owed. And if you're not going to play me or move me on to where I want to go and pay me those wages, then I'll sit here and collect the wages. But I don't expect them to take a pay cut. Maybe. I think that's pretty heavy handed to call this whitewashing like that. That's, it's not fucking racism to say that, like, the parallels are pretty easy. Well, last time I saw this, I mean, Lukaku aside me, last time I could think of it being this, this ostracized. Right. Was breathe. Right. I mean, again, like in. Yeah. I don't know that it's necessarily as much racism as just the fact that there's a bunch of white and saudi owners and that's it. But, you know, the owners don't need any protection in this situation. The players do. And so I don't. Something doesn't sit well with me about the backlash towards Osama in this saga. I don't know how much backlash there is, but I know how I feel about it, which is he. He has been perfect. The parallel between the two is Lukaku had that interview with the italian media where he said that he loves Italy. He wants to go back, like, like within six months of the infamous interview, unsanctioned interview with italian media, Osaman has done that. Like, it has been an open secret that he wants to leave the club. He did an interview like, he did an interview where he said he knows what he's doing next. And like, you know, went in public and said he's leaving the club. It's his last season. That's why they came into this transfer window. Like, Conti got there. And Conti has said, I've been told by Osaman and by the club that Osaman is not in my plan, so I'm not planning on Assimiland. And that was awesome and doing. And so Asimon has, like, he limited his options by doing that. Just like our options have been limited with Lukaku, Lukaku for a long time. And Lukaku has collected his paycheck and yeah, Osaman can sit there and collect his paycheck, but he's 24 and now he's not going to play. The club is furious with him because he's created the situation where like he's eliminated their ability to go out and sell him and he. So they're not going to play him. And if he wanted to chase the bag, fine, the offer was there from Saudi, the Napoli would have taken more of a transfer fee from Saudi and Osaman would have paid. It was been paid something crazy, like 30 million a year. Yeah. If he wanted to chase the bag, that option was there for him and he turned that down because he knew what that would mean for his legacy. And from there, I don't know what the details were. Like, we don't know if Napoli was willing to cover some of his wages to go to Chelsea, but Osama knew that there would be an expiration on that. Like his position was he wasn't taking one penny less than what he was. €1 less, I think is the quote of than what he was being paid by Napoli, which is fine. Yeah, he has a contract and that's his right, but like, this isn't going to help his legacy and if he doesn't care about that, then, then fine. That's, you know, he can choose to take this path and he is, but pretty, pretty shocking. And I was happy with, I was happy to see Chelsea back off, stick to their guns. There are plenty of players who have been willing to lower their wage wages to come and play for Chelsea. I don't know why they're doing that, but there's a better question. Yeah, I have no idea why they're doing that, but this, this team has been successful at convincing players that they're, they're cooking, cooking up something special and they should make concessions to come and be a part of it and they lose that if they, if they cave on their structure for awesome. So. Well, I think this is where to that point, right? Like, they backed off and it was the right thing. I don't know, maybe the people in the room understand the dynamic better, but I don't think the casual fans are paying attention to the transfer fee plus the wages that some of these transfers are taking on. Right. And so, like, the market value, whatever, you know, I'm sure the SA, to your point, almost doesn't matter what the Saudis are willing to pay because it's just, it's fucking camel box. But, you know, it's funny money. It's only playing monopoly. And in reality, he wasn't worth whatever transfer fee we agreed to pay Napoli for because we would have had to take on such astronomical salaries. Right. But that's a gamble Napoli, I think, took when they signed that extension to a point. And so, yeah, we'll see. Maybe you're right. And he can't even move on the winter and he just languishes there for another twelve months. I don't know, but part of me feels like they're just gonna have to cut the transfer fee and try and move him on the winter. Yeah, somebody will, I imagine, will go in for him in the winter. Yeah, but I mean, the, it's a guy who, like, clearly has a huge ego and is more than happy to go out and create a. These challenging situations for his club. So I don't want. I don't want him at Chelsea. I just got off that ride, you know? So, yeah, that's my position on him. If he, you know, whatever, I wouldn't want to take a pay cut at my job. So I can understand him not wanting to take a pay cut at his job, but he didn't do a whole lot to help that happen for him. And him continued to progress his legacy as a soccer player. Yeah, it seems like he overstated his value, even to himself. He also had a shit season last year. He was fighting with the club on social media and stuff all season, and part of that was the club's fault. They did some boneheaded shit. But, yeah, I mean, it's a pretty rare situation where I feel like everybody lost Chelsea hardcoming to that because they thought they had assimilated, and Napoli, in a situation where they were, that they were the only option. Like, nobody considered that awesome and would just be like, all right, I'm fine with not playing. I'll just, I'll just sit here and collect, like, cash checks. Like, nobody thought he would do that. So that's why they send this delegation and gave up on all of their other options. Where was the fallback plan in that? Right. If you really felt like you need a number nine, like, it's not like he's the only one on the market and there's all this noise around. It's like, why was this the only strategy? Yeah. That I don't get. But I mean, Chelsea lose, Asimon loses. Napoli is the biggest loser because they have Lukaku and they're paying. Awesome. And now. Yeah, they didn't get transfer fee for him yet. Yeah. And they, like, they. And they're going to have to play McTominay. Yeah. Yeah. They made a splash in the market and I don't know, these Italian, like a lot of these italian clubs have been on a razor's edge with FFP and I don't know what Napoli's situation looks like, but they, it's not hard to imagine that they committed to some of these transfers that they, that they made with the I. With the thought that, that Osaman would be leaving for sure. So they could. I mean, I think that they're, I think that they're in a big. They're, they're in trouble. Like, and I don't. I think it's going to be really challenging to move assimilan. I think the saudi window closes today so it's possible he could move. But the issue is that the clubs that were in from, for him in Saudi, there's a ten foreigner limit in Saudi and they don't have because. Well, the one club that signed Tony, that basically took their one open foreigner position, now they just make up their own fucking rules there. So they could, they could. Yeah. When you said there's rules in the saudi league, I had to, I had to start googling what exactly those might be. Yeah. Yeah. So they have, they have a tendency, a ten foreigner limit on their, in their squads and they have stuck to that. Now that hasn't stopped some of these teams from acquiring more players. Yeah, so, but there is, yeah, there are teams that have like, you know, a handful of aging like european soccer stars that they can't register because of their, their league rules. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know if they'll, they'll move someone on somehow, but yeah, I mean, the awesome. And that whole situation, it's crazy. I was watching Fabrizio Romano's transfer window. He must have been incomprehensible in that accent, go through this situation. He said that in his career he's never seen a situation like this. Like, he was just like, it was basically like, I was convinced something would happen here and like, the situation as it stands is unimaginable. Like, and he was basically like, Napoli is in trouble here. So I don't. I don't know. But, yeah, I mean, good for Chelsea. I guess not everybody is a total loser. Like, Chelsea doesn't have the striker they thought they needed and Napoli is completely fucked. But, I mean, Osaman gets to get paid and somebody will pick him up. I'm surprised Arsenal didn't go in for him, but. Yeah. Is that a cheap shot at Kai? No. Well, is Kai playing? Where did he line up for them yesterday? Let's talk about that match striker. What do you think about. Did you see the red card? Yeah, real time. I thought the other guy was getting the red. So did I. So did I. Then, like, the announcers were like, well, by the letter of the law, like, shit. Kai did line up as. As a nine for them yesterday. Scored a beauty of a goal. Yeah, I thought he looked good yesterday, but, like, above replacement level, which isn't something I would say about often, but. Yeah. Jael Pedro might still be the best attacker that was on the field. Well, Saka had a good game. Saka is probably the best attacker, but I think Jael Pedro is probably a better striker. Pedro is really good. You know, I don't even think Jael Pedro was lined up as a striker. Was. He was in the middle, but anyways, Welbeck, too. I think Welbeck and Pedro are both better strikers than Guy Everett is, but. But guy had a good game. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, the red card just defies, like, I actually agree with our tenant that, like, there needs to be some consistency and, like, just sanity about this stuff. I mean, like, we see people purposely blocking free kicks constantly. Kai's got his. His back turned legitimately. Knew nothing about that, I don't think. And, like, the guy was clearly striking out at him and kicked the crap out of him, you know? Like, I. Yeah, like, I don't. I don't know what development, I think. I don't know. I. Yeah, I forget who was involved in that on Brighton side, but, yeah. I mean, it's arsenal, so I don't really give a shit. But, like, objectively speaking, like, it's pretty asinine and, yeah, changed the game. It's disappointing. Brighton couldn't put another one in on him and this one finished one, one, um, with Brighton scoring after the red. But I thought that was like, it's pretty interesting. Arteta, very obviously from that point on, just sort of decided to park the bus and play for, at first a win and then for. He, like, he seemed happy to take the point. Um, well. Cause Brighton's not a bad team. Like, there's teams. They were true. They were a bottom third team. I think you might approach it differently or be less worried about them tying it, underscoring a winner, but that was probably the pragmatic approach, especially given their defense has been very, very good for a long run of it. Yeah. I think it's crazy that Milner is starting for Brighton. How old is. Yeah. That does raise some questions because. Yeah. Who. What's his name? Yeah. And sees out. Could be, I guess, in. Cecil's more of an attacking midfielder, so I misspoke there, but, yeah. I don't know. You would think they rearranged something so they get somebody a little bit more progressive at this stage and see. So 38. Already came in. My knees hurt thinking about that. Yeah. True. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know anything else from this one. I mean, socket continues to look good or. I think Arsenal will be fine in games where they don't take a red card in the first 15 minutes or whenever that was actually was at the end of the half. Sorry. So that was the end of the. The first half, but. It was the be. It was the beginning of the second half. Yeah. 49th minute, beginning of the second half. Yeah. I. It's. It's pretty shocking to see the. The red. He was given it. Yeah. I should say it's a double yellow. Not our straight red, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's a double yellow. He'll get a one match ban. It's his first red of his career, I think is what they said. It's a bit surprising for a central midfielder. Yeah, yeah. He. I mean, pretty. That's the other part that's surprising. Right. Is like, you're giving the team captain Declan Rice a double yellow. Yeah. Was he the captain on the. Was he not in this one? Maybe not. I don't know. I don't know who their captains are. I don't. I don't follow them closely enough to. I mean, I thought Odegaard was usually. But I don't see it on here anyways. I think that's a very odd person to be giving it. Double yellow. Yeah. It. I mean, it was shocking to see because, again, it looked like he was fouled. I thought for sure the. Whoever it was over there, they were getting the yellow. Not. Not Declan Rice, but I mean, to the letter of the law that he. He should have been shown a yellow for that. Yeah. I don't know. I think there's going to be a lot of debate around this and, like, clarification that has to come from the Pl. Well, well, they already said that, like, the rule is he interfered with the kick. Yeah, so. Which. Fine, like, yeah, I mean, the. The Pl has been pretty consistent that. They don't believe. There needs to be any sanity or reason or consistency, anything. You just follow the rule book and like the rest of us can suck it, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, I guess that's it for this one. What are the other matches? So yesterday we. Oh, you know what we should talk about is this Everton game. Just because Everton is a dumpster fire. Yeah, that was, um. 87Th minute. Yeah. Just Everton is up to nothing hard selling. Yeah. I mean, if there's anything ripe for like a betting investigation, it was probably the end of this one. Yeah. Yeah, Everton just. I mean, dice might have had money on the. On the over or something. I don't know. I don't. Dude, Kepa Arisa Blaga on sofa score has a 7.6 and he let two goals in. That's pretty wild. He must have made some crazy saves. I mean, yeah, six saves, five big chances. They scored twice. Right, so to wrap that thought up, so Everton two, Bournemouth, three. Everton in the 87th minute of this one was up two nil on a keen goal and a Calvert Lewin goal. Then semen Lewis Cook, I think is. I think it's Lewis. And then Sinistera just scoring. 87th minute 90 plus 290. Plus six. Incredible love dice, by the way, using two of his allotted five subs in this one. Yeah. And one of it was to take his goal scorer out, Calvert Luanoff, in the 88th minute for Beto. Pretty remarkable stuff. Yeah. Beto, I thought was going to be good, man. I thought I saw like some clips of him in the portuguese league and he was just a monster. He, he works really hard. He's just shit. He's just not good. Yeah, you, you had praises for him pretty recently. I mean, in. I could very much see Everton being out of like firmly in the relegation zone and them having this set and selling Calvert Lewin at the winter break. But, well, they have to sell him. He's in the final year of his deal. So they, they basically, if they're going to get anything at all for him, they have to sell him in the winter or figure out a way to get him to extend him with shit like this. Cannot fucking believe nobody, Arsenal or Chelsea or somebody didn't make a play for him at the night. He's so injury prone. True, but like, if you've got Chelsea's, we've got a 27 man roster. It's not an issue if somebody gets hurt. Yeah, I mean, that's true. And I don't know, like they probably should have put a call in and, and asked what the price would be. But, yeah, it. I don't know that that will be one to watch at the transfer window for sure. Calvert Lewin, especially if, I mean, he had a great game. Yeah. The only. Yeah, I mean, almost. Yeah. With only one. I shouldn't say only one. I mean, they're, their attackers were okay but, you know, they gave him the lead. Right. In fairness. But, yeah, the defense couldn't hold it and dice didn't do many favors. But I think Everton's in trouble again. I think Lester has a good chance of staying up and Everton's going down would be my guess at this point. Yeah. Who do you think goes down? Ipswich. Yeah, I assume Ipswich and Southampton are going. Southampton and Everton. Everton along for the ride. Okay. I think. I think. I probably agree with you although Ipswich. Hasn'T looked terrible but I think there's a disparity in talent there. Yeah, Ipswich, I mean, spent big. Spent big in the window. In fairness. They get a tie this week. Right. So they tied Fulham one one. I don't know if there's much more to talk about. That game. Fulham's underperforming again. Looks lackluster and Anthony Robinson needs to get the hell out of there. Are they underperforming or are they performing as expected? I mean, they're under performing. I mean there's. You think they should be better than 12th? They should be, yeah. I mean they're, they're in danger of. Based on how, in my opinion, of how they've been playing of being in, being down in like the relegation conversation. Yeah. I mean, again, like picking up a point against Ipswich isn't going to get it done. I'm looking at. So you've got city, Liverpool, Brighton, Arsenal, Newcastle as the top five and then behind them, Brentford. Do you think Fulham's better than Brentford? Not right now. I mean, I would have expected to be, but Brentford. Okay. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like when you say they're underperforming, I. Mean, I think fool is underperforming relative to Brentford. Dude whistle is so good. Where did he come from? Whissa, like at some point last season just started the ball for Brentford. I think he scored yesterday. I think I saw you scored yesterday. Anyway, Bournemouth I think are going to be really good. Villa Forest will probably drop. Like. I just have no faith in that team at all. Yeah. Like, for me, Forest and Fulham are right next to each other. Right. And where that finishes, I don't know, like down in 15th or 16th potentially. Yeah. Tottenham and Chelsea even on points. I didn't watch the Tottenham match today against Newcastle, but they lost some stuff. But, yeah, well, I was watching Chelsea. Yeah. And then I watched Man United, Liverpool. And now we're recording. But yet I caught the highlights of the Tottenham game. Yeah, that. That high line and they were like. They eviscerated. I don't know if you call it the post game, but they basically pulled the ryan or evisceration of ange ball being found out and tore apart the high line. I mean, love it. Christian Romero was like, somehow, like, there's only like 60 yards between the mid lay line and the goal line, I guess, right? Something like that. Somehow Christian Romero is 50 yards away from the goal when the goal was scored. Like, they broke the line and he just stood there and. Yeah, I mean, I don't know when Tottenham decides to start doing something differently. I mean, I hope they don't. I hate, I hope they just keep throwing the same shit at the wall, but like, they. Their defense is getting exposed and that's what we saw. Newcastle's too good attacking into clinical to let go. I think the good times with Ange are over for Tottenham. I just think that it's feeling that way. They. They just got found out. It was like, I think there was the shock and awe effect and teams have figured out how to deal with it and Ange seems too stubborn to, like, I don't know what sample Luke was looking at when he would. He would say that he thought that. That Ange would. Would like, employ like, whatever the next level tactics of his system were. But like, he. It's just, I mean, I. He hasn't been at any team for any substantial amount of time. Like, it's usually two to three seasons. I have like, this multi year progression. Of developing, ensuring the tactics. If you listen to him at press conferences, like, the. The press will be like, why didn't you make some changes? And he'll just be like, cause that's not who we are. He doesn't want to set piece coach. He doesn't want, like, he doesn't want to work on anything, any of the glaring issues. And if he doesn't come off that, then it's gonna be a long season for Tottenham and I'm here for it. His substitution pattern made sense in this one, but, yeah, like, you gotta change do something that changed the tactics so you're not going down in a hole constantly and getting countered constantly for goals. For sure. Yeah. Where's this match? I was trying to pull it up. So. Yeah. That one ends two one in Newcastle's favorite Barnes and E sack. Both so good. Louis Hall. I bet they wish they could have backed out of that Louis hall deal. I think we absolutely destroyed them on that exchange as I think Louis hall is fine. But like. Yeah. Berg volun for Madison. Brennan Johnson in for Saar. We forgot to mention that Malagusto got hurt in that Chelsea match, which is huge. Yeah, his hamstring looked pretty jacked up the way he just stopped there. Yeah. Which is problematic because I don't know how close James is to being ready to play any minutes. Like, he wasn't going to be ready until after the international break, which I guess. Are we in the international break next weekend? Yes. Okay, so, but maybe we're okay there. Yeah, dude. Like, to me this looks like, having not watched this match, it looks like Tottenham just dominated this game and lost. I mean, they had similar big chances to big chances apiece. Newcastle's XG is higher, 1.57 to 1.2. 620 shots to nine for Tottenham. Tottenham maintains 66% possession. Twelve corner kicks to their seven. Like double the passes, double the. Or not double the tackle rate, but much higher tackle rate. I don't know, like, this looks like Tottenham just dominated this game and got counterpunched, which is what will happen if you're playing a crazy high line like that. Vicario is like coming back to earth. Vicario is another one who has found out. He's like soft as fuck. Yeah, true. What? Um, the, the dutch lightning guys hurt, I guess, right? Van Devine, van de veen? Vanderbilt's hurt again. Vanderbilt. It wasn't, you say the dutch lightning guy? Yeah, it's fast as shit. I mean. Yeah, because, you know, you don't like. It's fine to play a high line and play like, just exert your possession. Right. But, like, city does that in a way that they're not completely exposed on the counter every time somebody takes it back. And granted they have Kyle Walker and in Tottenham should have Vanderbilt back there, but, yeah, I mean, Romero and Dragusen weren't up for it, that's for sure. It's a knee injury for Vanderbilt. I don't think I had an opportunity to say this to Luke because he's never around, but Dragason is. He seems pretty good. Like, he's a good. Like, he's a good backup for Vandiven, although, looks like. Yeah. So in this case, Vanderven is left footed. Vandiven plays on the left side of the pair. Looks like they just moved Romero over and Dragason played on the right. So Draguson must be right footed. He looked great in the euros, I thought he looked very, very good in the euros. Yeah. Fair. I hadn't spent a lot of time watching him, but that. That's probably a good pickup for them. But again, euros, you're not having your center back stand at the midway line like a fucking lunatic like ange does. Yep. Yeah. I don't know. And you know what helps playing that style is having, like, the fastest center back in the league available. So, yeah, I mean, they looked really bad without him. I made a joke that last season he won their player of the season and he only played like two thirds of the matches because of injury. The problem is, like, it's one of those things that, like, it's like you burn really bright. You burn out very bright and fast when you're that style of player. If you're like that size and that quick, a lot of times you end up being so prone to injury. Yeah. You gotta figure out your. Yeah. How to play within that style and stuff. I mean, Van Dyke's very fast and he's biggest. Yeah, it just made it work for the most part, but, yeah. Had a pretty healthy career, let's put it that way. But, yeah, it's tougher. Obviously. That's why I'm injured constantly, is because I'm just. I'm carrying. I'm cultivating mass and that speed. Derek eat two breakfast sandwiches yesterday and I saw you eyeing up that Jimmy John's. Yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't triggered that they didn't order food with me. I was. I was triggered that there was more food ordered and I wasn't even. And you weren't included in the order. Yeah, yeah. You think I'm done eating today because you watched me eat two bagel sandwiches? What if it was turkey sausages? No, there's no calories in there. It's like a vegetable. Yeah. Just protein. Yeah. Anyways, digress. What happened to Georena? He's still at Dortmund. The scuttlebutt as they see him being important to them this season and taking on a bigger role. Okay. I mean, that's cool. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm trying to. I don't have a full. I should have put together a full recap of kind of the the Yanks transfers and maybe I can do my job and talk about that next week. I'm trying to think Austin trusty, I think moved on to a better spot. Geo stayed put. I'm trying to, I don't know if anyone big even moved. There was the one guy that went, yeah, Aidan Morris is at Middlesborough. Right. I don't know if that was how long ago that was in the transfer window. That might have been a couple weeks ago. Right. But that's going to be a good spot where he's going to get a ton of playing time and he's looked, he's looked good over in Europe. But we can talk. Yeah, maybe talk more about Yanks in the ranks next week because all we ever bullshit friendly against Canada next weekend made the get the fuck with Jesse Marsh. I will say from a Yanks in the ranks perspective, Pulisic got an assist. So I think he's got a goal and assist through two games in this season. If I'm up to date AC conceded, I'd say two soft goals against Lazio again ends up tying two two. They decided to spend money on Tammy Abraham so they could have like a 7th attacker and no defense again. So I, I shut that game off halfway through because I can't fucking watch that team anymore because of how bad the defense is. Like they're going to score goals and it's fun to watch Pulisic and Liao and in that attack, Loftuscheeks playing well, but like, I don't, I don't understand how they keep changing coaches and they can't do anything to fix that defense. Yeah, that's kind of ancillary to this podcast. But Pulisic continues to look good, which is, which is good. It's just disappointing not to kind of have him given his output, to have them in that conversation as a top team in Serie A, which maybe they will be, it's a long season, but they just, their defense looks like the same stuff over and over again. They just picked up Tammy Abraham. Yeah, that's what I was saying. Right. They went out and bought another attack. Yeah. I don't know. Did you say that I might, I might have missed? Yeah, I glossed over it, but yes, that's a good call out. Right. So Tammy, they adding to their collection or former Chelsea players? Yeah, Tammy Abraham's there now. So I mean, like, yeah, they can score goals, but you know. Yeah, winning games requires defense. If you ask anyone other than Ange. I have a, I have a yank shout out for you and I. I alluded to this in the discord. You guys should all come join our discord. There's lots of. We're chopping it up in there these days. But Slanina, we were talking. I was talking about how shit Matt Turner is he shit and we should get rid of him. He's shit gaga. Slanina has played four matches with Barnsley now, and he has dropped a seven five, a six six, a seven eight and an eight five in his matches for Barnsley. He played out of his skull against Sheffield in the EFL cup for them and then they won on penalties in the EFL cup against Wiggin. And that's the one. He got the eight five in. But, yeah, he's. He's killing it. He's like, poch, if you're lit. I know you listen, I know you. You subscribe. You love hearing what I have to say about you. You should take a hard look at Slanina and send Matt Turner packing because he's fucking trash. Matt Turner is trash. I do. It is. It's weird how that pools become so depleted, but it's interesting. I don't know if you've. The media's been pretty bright on to their credit, Zack Stefan's been playing well stateside and so I think he could be back in the mix or at least playing his way back into the mix. And so, yeah, I mean, at least there's some competition there at this point. It's tricky. You don't see a lot of 20 year old goalkeepers getting call ups at the senior level. In fact, I didn't. I don't know if I assume he's in the call up. So this friendly against Canada. Probably should have looked at that, but. Well, beggars. I don't think they've announced the squad for the. For next week. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Figures. Can't be choosers. Yeah. So he should be in the mix, which is good. We need somebody to push Turner off a bridge. Yeah. I'm not going to hate on the guy that much because of what he did for us in the Gold cup and some of the other tournaments and. I don't know, just because there hasn't been somebody behind him at times. Right. But, yeah, I mean, it's not. It's not where our player. Where we need to have our goalkeeper player pool be if we're going to be competitive with the top teams, like. Yeah, he's not it. Yeah. The question from one of our listeners was how the hell, is Matt Turner earning a living in the prim? Lovely lad, but calm. Come on, you make yourself. I mean, if you're, there's only so many starters on top 25 national teams, right. And so I think he got some credibility for that. He stood on his head in the Gold cup and, yeah, I mean, the body of work's not that bad, but yeah, somebody. Is he a world class keeper? No, I don't even know where he's playing. That was put, somebody posted that, um. Jeez. Oh, he's at palace. That's right. Okay. This dude is in London playing at Palace. I mean, he obviously didn't play today, but. Yeah, to your point. Yeah, to everybody's point. Is there a better backup option for the palace? That probably, but he's got the experience. There has to be. They could have loaned Slanina. It is weird to juxtapose those two, but again, like, I feel like experience counts a lot and again, like, it's good that slowly need is playing well in a real team, in a real league. But last season I, we talked about where he was playing. Like it wasn't relevant. I wanted to say it was the french second division or he's playing Switzerland or something, I don't know, but. Yeah. All right, well, that's all I got. Did you have anything else you wanted to go over? I'm done trashing Turner now. Okay, well, we can allot some more time for that next week if he plays in the friendly. Yeah. Nice. Well, I'm sure I'll have plenty of fresh material if he plays, so. Yeah, we'll have, we'll have some stuff. Maybe we'll focus on Yanks in the ranks next week, but we'll have some stuff on the international break. I don't really know what else is going on because it looks like friendlies and stuff. Yeah, I don't know. We'll catch up. We'll catch up on yanks transfers and. Yeah. Any, any international news? There will probably be some transfers. Like the dutch transfer window is still open, I think. Saudi. It's really important to me that we cover all the dutch transfers. Yeah, well, there will be like outgoings, I think. Like maybe the odd, what I'm saying is like maybe they find a solution with awesome and I don't know. So, so. Yeah, well, I'm sure we'll have plenty to. We'll talk again about how much we hate, like, having an international break after two weeks of matches. It's so silly. It's, it's really silly. We can talk about a stupid. The new format is for the Champions League and stuff. Perfect. Well, plenty to talk about. Maybe we can talk. We can debate whether NCAA is more or less corrupt than FIFA. Yeah, I'll get on that. Chelsea's experience in the conference league, you know all kinds of interesting stuff. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for tuning in. Please, like, subscribe, dislike, whatever, leave reviews, join our discord. There will be a link in the description of the show on YouTube and on whatever your favorite podcast platform is. But we'll catch you guys next week. Thanks for listening. Thanks, everybody. 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. It.