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Okay, well look, for the purpose of the review, let's look at the team. Andy, I'll start with you. First line of the team is Minile. We'll look at the defense as a bigger picture in a minute, and that's an altogether more kind of complicated discussion. But Simon Minile, it would be very, very hard to be anything but full of praise for what he's managed to do by the end of the season. We've had the discussion on here a couple of times about this summer and the summer coming up, and it tells you what we chatted about earlier on with budgets. Are you happy enough to see Simon Minile continuing as the number one keeper for us? Yeah, absolutely. At the moment, as we know, it's going to be limited funds. Every penny I think has to be invested in goals. Simon McNay is a decent enough goalkeeper. It's just, he has these patches where things go a bit upside down from, and a false roger is into playing Brad Jones for a number of weeks. So, you're boiling on the story. Simple as that. You spend maybe far for a minute on something that's a bit better than Brad Jones. Another experienced goalkeeper who maybe is our contractor are just someone that's kind of not getting in elsewhere, but it's an upgrade. And you deal with that way. So, what just means, if you get to injured or you're not fancying them for a few weeks, you can stick this down and go off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And then as well, it puts the shits up. Like Valle would have been perfect. You know, that's our team of goalkeeper. So, that's what we should be doing. What about to speak about the player himself for a minute? Because he does warrant, I think, specific attention out of an awful lot of the squad for the turnaround. He did sort of pulling on himself. Yeah, it was magnificent. Like, it was totally, totally different to what we'd seen in months, probably months previous to me. One thing he probably never see him in the field of honors is kicking. But everything else improved. Yeah. You know, was commanding in the area and was confident. Just, he got back to, you know, the start of some of the saves was pulling off the previous season. So, yeah, no, credit on the fair plate and I think why he put it down to something as what he said. Yeah, that's what he said. Yeah, he did. It's as simple as that as a mindset change. Dave, I suppose there's no point in going around the same circumstance. We can expand a little bit now and start looking at the defence in general. Obviously, there's a lot of moving parts here. Would you look at, would you break it up into what you thought worked well and what you thought didn't work so well, perhaps, in the defence? Yeah, I mean, I think it's the type of situation where some of the parts were worse than their individual components. You know what I mean? I don't think we actually have terrible defenders. I think we have poor defense, but individually, you know, I think the majority of the players who played showed enough to suggest that they can play at this level. You know, Moreno, as you would expect, I guess, from a 21-year-old to play in his first season in a different league. He was very up and down. You know, probably got a lot of grace because he scored against Tottenham. You know, I think if he doesn't score that goal, he probably gets a bit of a tougher view for most people. But I think the raw attributes that he has is there to see. Moving across then, looking at, you know, the two players really have caused a lot of their contentious issues. I guess all season of that, our two left side had sent them back. So, you know, Mamadur Sacco and Lovren. Sacco, for me, you know, if you just look at the minutes he played on the park, he's the best defender in the Premier League, I think, this year. You know, I think he's strong. I think he's commanding. He's good with the ball, positionally very sound. I think it really shoots him to play three at the back, covering that left-hand side. I think that his communication looks much better, stepping out with the ball on Sunday. In what was it just a terrible, terrible, terrible performance? He is, I think, the only player who looked as if it was painful for him and that it hurt him. And, you know, he's the one controlling Emory Jean when Emory Jean's conceding the goal is like, you know. So, I mean, Lovren, I mean, look, we've done Lovren to death, you know, to the point where if he gets sold in a summer for four million, I don't think anyone would really be complaining too much. I don't think that will happen. I don't think it makes financial sense for one thing to do it. So, I don't think they'll do that. And then, quickly, Skirt will, Skirt will, Skirt will. He's always going to do Skirt will things. He's Skirt will, you know, nobody should be surprised that he's, you know, brilliant one minute and looks terrible the next. And then, right back, you know, we had the ghost of Avium Ankyo, you know, who played for the first half of the season and then completely fell through a trap door and obviously did something horrific, probably, you know, something terrible. We've asked this question before, is there any further theories or clarifications on what actually happened to Avium Ankyo? I just think the manager didn't fancy him. I mean, I think there was rumors that he got a little bit homesick that he found the move difficult. But it'll be interesting to see if Rogers does stay on, you know, and maybe some of the direction he gets from the ownership around using some of these players, whether he commits to Mankyo, although Trigdale Wisdom has just signed a new deal at the club. Looks like he's going to be at the club next season, whether he plays and sent him back or... As is colloidly. As is colloid. So, you know, we're, Flanagan's being offered a new deal. Flanagan's got a new deal. Who's out for a year, who's out for a year. So, you know, I think that, you know, right back is probably where we're weakest. I wouldn't sign a single, I wouldn't pay money for a single defender unless we were selling Skirt will. But if we had to get someone, I'd get a new right back. Yeah. Just on that Flanagan domain, I don't see an issue with that. Like, the fellas being at the club all his life, they just fuck him out now while he's injured to be real. That's enough. Oh, I agree. You know, okay, he's not like, it's money, but he's not going to be on a huge 12-month contract. But it's enough to keep him with a focus to get himself right again. Yeah. If he's without a club, there's nobody going to be investing in his rehab and getting them right again. Yeah. So, it's all I think it makes sense to. The defense, bag of shit. Mm-hmm. Basically, the whole team's been a bag of shit. Mm-hmm. Right. You're not in who's put a little window of brilliance in the middle there where we had the tray at the back and seemed to click. Mm-hmm. Well, I'm certainly not now. You're not. Look at that. There was that run. But unfortunately, it's the period either so that run take away from it completely. You know, and it's absurd decisions, absurd choices. The tray at the back was the only thing that really works. It was the only thing that seems to suit Scout down through. It's the only formation that suits Scout, because as soon as we went back to a back four, he was exposed and isolated and looked shit again. And people were just running past him for fun. Yeah. The one time in the whole season when he wasn't being run past or being bullied was when we were playing the tray at the back. When were you trying to tackle it or something? Yeah. Like, that's the key. It's not the tree. It's those two players in those positions. Yeah. I think, though, like, you know, then we found out that back from me, he was the best, he was our best defensive fallback that we have at the club, right? So, I'm, I'm, yeah. I've got rewritten as, as, you know, underperforming. Yeah, and it's, it's bathroom because there was the, the, the, the, the Glenson fan brigade. He wanted to lend some back because, you know, because he does something that he never did for like two seasons. But anyway, right? You know, and that to me, it was just, it was just an absolute crock of shit. Like from, we're talking about Minuli. If you were going back to December when he did get dropped, people are calling from the get dropped anyway. Yeah. Like, people were saying put bad Jones in. He couldn't, he can't be any worse than Minuli. Yeah. Yeah. It was. And everyone's going, shit, put Minuli back in because he is actually worse than fucking Minuli. And, but it's just, it's a complete abomination of a season. Like, you're quite, you're quite so far off the boil to forget everything that we were good with last year. Don't do the whole agenda now. Do the defense. It's just, it's, but it's all a part of it. Like, had we not had a fucking cluster fuck of the last two games. Well, I just could have walked into a review and said, well, lads, we paid the money and the defense is 24% better than it was last year. Have we kept two clean sheets in the last two games? Yeah. We would have been nine golds better off, which would have made us 12 golds better off than the amount that we conceded last year. Which would have put us, I think, about 48 golds for conceding over the course of the season. Which he could argue, well, you know, we paid the money and that was a lot of money, but look, the defense is improving. We only let him money game. Yeah. Right. So we end up conceding nearly the same amount of golds despite the amount of money we spent on defenders in the summer. Right. So, like, the whole, every time, every time you tried to pull something positive out of what just went on, your mind is cast back. And for me, it's not just what happened in the last nine games. It's what happened through the majority of the season with that little run. As Andy says, up to the Swansea game where everything seemed to be clear and everything was fine. And we did look like we were going to go and take the far place because we were arguably the best team in the shit team to top four race. Yeah, we were. That's what it was. That's what it was. We were at one stage. We were playing some of the, like, we were probably one of the better teams. We were the best team in the league from January to March. We were the best team. Because there was nobody, like, if they looked at their. Awesome. No, but if you looked at their records, if you looked at, like, every time you looked at their farm goal, the last six games. We were on top for ages. South Anton and Ursula were hanging around. But they had lost games. We hadn't. So we have been, genuinely, we have been the worst team in the league at times and the best team in the league at times. The best team in the league at times. The worst team in the league at times has been consistent, even throughout that run of the tree of the back. We were fucking sold as organized. Like, it was just the fact that we had scared, like, on the map and up and challenges. You know, everyone kind of tipping away. It's grand goal to trade the back for a tactic in a particular game because you think it's going to work and you want to get more bodies forward or something like that. That's grand. We can't rely on trade the back to stop golf, stop shaping goals. You know, because then it's the only way to stop goals we've won an extra cent a half in. It's fucking ridiculous to think that we don't have a back four. We do not have a reliable back four. L of all the defenders we have, I trust Moreno has a left back and Sacco has a left center back. After that, we don't have another player that can kind of jump in and make a solid back four. It seeps into the midfield a little bit, though, because I think if you look at the teams that have the best defensive records, they all play with the defensive midfield player. No segue. You know, so the reason that we don't show poor with a back four is that we don't play with a defensive midfield player. But we play with nominal defensive players in Alan or Jared, you know, in the deepest role. But that's why I wouldn't -- I wouldn't spend anyone on defenders. I think if you're going to upgrade, upgrade your midfield and have someone to either play Lucas as your start-in defensive midfielder, which you're not going to get a full season out of him. Yeah, but when he did play, we were better at simple. You know, and now that we don't have to accommodate Jared in that midfield, I think it should give us more options to play a recognized defensive midfielder and protect the back four. But isn't that fundamentally one of the biggest issues of our season? Is that it was the Stephen Gerard for our well tour? Yeah, of course. People won't say it. People won't want to say it, right? If you look at our run of form, when we did go on that win and run, he wasn't in the side. One of the downsides of the last nine games is that it is made it appear as if losing Stephen Gerard from the side from a tactical perspective is a bad thing, but it's not a bad thing. Unfortunately, the last nine games have made it look like we're so poor that Jesus Christ, even Stephen Gerard, should be started from us. But the reality is that he's being an albatross around the manager's neck and around the side's neck for all season. Yeah. And we've struggled to accommodate him. He has not had a good game. I can't remember that. But the midfield, to come back to the midfield, you know, I think on paper, if you look at what it feels likely to be next year, you know, assuming some means and outs. Henderson, Allen, Lucas, Milner, Emory Zhan, Akuchenia playing in one of the more attacking teams, as well as Ross Stern Williams coming through from the young sides. I think we possibly upgrading Lucas. We should do. But apart from that, I think we're OK. We're starting with Phil. When you talk about like defence midfield, it's just, it's not just an individual. They get an ear saying a lot of the other teams play defence midfield. They play to sit and they have a screen, you know, and they have tight lines that you can't get. We are just notorious for letting players in behind the lines, you know, and letting the opposition run on us. But sort of awesome. Yeah, they do. They do. They're no great change at the back of the year. They put Kocalan in there and even by putting in a half-competent defensive midfielder. OK, so you're either going to keep Allen or Lucas and playing him with us as that screen. We all know that Henderson is going to play pretty much every game next year, like Captain Elect and everything else. And then we are want Emery Chan to play in midfield. So does Emery Chan and Henderson do that, screen roll? I'm not sure as a parent, they'll do the job that. But I think if your recruitment is right and you're signed on that even corner, the specialist defensive midfielder, if you sign a player that's capable of playing in the tree with Henderson, Chan and somebody that's tactically competent, that's able to rotate in. Maybe at times, David a box-to-box midfielder, at other times, David is sitting and screaming. So that they know that if the two boys have pushed on or gone and pressed and right, they automatically drop in and cover the space. Because the one thing that we never tried, and the one thing that frustrates me, especially after what had happened, was that we'd spent an hour full of time using Chan as a towards centre-black. But we also wanted him to step into midfield and drive with the ball when he had it on his feet. It was that role that we played Gerard in so much in the season, where he was basically just dropping in between the two centre-backs. You think it's a fellow that we've played six or seven games at centre-back who's good on the ball, who is a sentiment-filler. And you can see in the way he plays as a sentiment-filler, Troy in there, especially in the last three or four games. Troy in there. I think if you've got a three of, for argument's sake, Milana Henderson and Najan, all three of them can go up and down, right? I think you need another one that can come in. I don't think Alan can go up and down until he gets physical enough, and Lucas can't. So, for me, you need a fourth who's either in the Henderson mold that can go up and down, or you buy a specialist offensive midfield player, and you say, "This guy's going to sit there." And then the three of Milana Henderson and Najan rotate in the other two places. We do need a starter in midfield. It starts every game, because look at our sport. And if you talk about Milana, I think most fans would accept that we stick with Milana, right? You know, in terms of where the money needs to be invested. Then, okay, we'll check this out. Then you have Sacco, which it's a bit of a concern, because he gets injured all the time. So, what do you do? Do you ban him? Well, no, I wouldn't spend any money on defenders, because I think that they're not. That's why they've signed Colo and wisdom up, is because, actually, I kind of suspect maybe Lovern's going to go if they've signed wisdom up. So, that's part of my... I'm wondering whether they're thinking that they need it to tie him down, in case they let Lovern go. Is he not just a step in for a chance on who's gone? But I think they've got Flanagan. I know Flanagan won't be back to another end, but they have him. They have my keyo. They're in the market for a right back, apparently. You know, they're looking at Montoya from Barcelona. I would go and buy, like... If it's so hard to buy marquee players for strikers, I'd go and buy someone like Vidal for the middle of the park. So, you're going to come? Well, we didn't need to take a reverse back to the defense table. Yeah, it is some part. It's real important that we get a spoiling back. Yeah. That we've got, we make us going to play every game. But there's no one at the back that will probably scare out the players every game. You do need two centrehashes. You just fucking do. They play it and they build up a partnership and they become unstoppable. And then in midfield, you need at least one man. Yeah. And that man probably at the moment, we need more than anything, is a very defensive-minded player. And Lucas isn't really going to make it. Regardless of your opinion of Stephen Jared, you do not let Stephen Jared walk away from your club in the summer and not buy a really impressive midfielder. You don't, you don't, you don't fucking go down the rabbit hole of trying to replace him. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Because that isn't. So, when going back to Dave's point and Andy's point, yes, you look to improve your midfield. What you're trying to do is you say, "Okay, a star." Do you know what? Well, I'm going to bet Jared is gone and I know the best of him. But I'm going to be in one of Lucas or Alan, right? And to be honest with you, if I was going to pick one of the two, Lucas can have very good games in a team, right? Alan has struggled for fitness. No. Apparently, that's right. He has struggled for Lucas for fitness and for runs of forms. Yeah. And I think you'd get more money for Alan than you would for Lucas. Yeah. Right. So, of all of them, I think he would raise more money if we were to sell a player. Yeah. And for that reason, you'd keep Lucas and I'm looking at even now, the likes of fucking Noisier, the young where he's full of experience. We're talking about somebody who's come in and has played in that role and can play in that role, right? Right. And bring experience into the team. I have no issues seeing him come in because he's on a free. And then you're still going, we still have to replace goals. We have to put goals into the team. And we do need goals in the team. It's a bit of a cliche at the moment. But if you can sign an attacking midfielder who is a goal scorer, right? And make it hard, if he was available, let's say, or Firmino, who plays attacking midfielder and scores a lot of goals, bring that type of player in. And now what you've done is you've replaced Gerard in terms of what's going to happen because you've got these players in who will create goals and make goals, right? And score goals. And you've also augmented the position that you have had Stephen Gerard playing in for the last two seasons. But you've got somebody that plays in that position. So straight away, you've straightened the team. And when you look at the weaknesses, that addresses the weaknesses that we've had right away through the season. Square fucking pegs in triangular holes. They won't even fucking fit in the holes. And we've been bashing them and bashing them and bashing them. And it's been to our detriment. And that's what this whole season is being about. It's been this constant. I want to put a floory on things. You talk about the midfield. I want to put a floory on things. When it's blatantly not working, stop doing it. It's the channel right back. Stop doing it. It doesn't work. Yeah, Roger's hitting it as we say all the time is pecking harder. He doesn't really deal with the same way. He's two players for every position. That's what he wants. That's what Rafa wanted too. You have two players right and he controls them both to come in. And each of them knows where they stand. There's very little. You don't really see it where they're on par with each other. They don't see the two players that kind of share the full back position, left back. But you don't really see it hitting at most top teams where someone holds a position. They're on a story. Yeah. And it's only really an injury. A really bad run again. Someone comes in, they hold a place down. That's what he should be aiming for. Not this fucking business of, you know, like, if we needed a right back chart, we're being playing right back. You know what I mean? Like just to get them into the team. Yeah. I think your point about the spine is a good one though, you know, in terms of, you know, that's where we should be looking to spend the money. We should be looking at it. Striker, Taka midfielder, defensive midfielder, and maybe a centre back, you know. Invest in all of them. We don't need any more wingers. We don't need any more full backs. We have the players to go around these players. So I think what we need is you need an upgrade on Lucas. You need someone to play at the top, so where Coutinho and Norman are the plays, you know, and whether that's the LAN or whatever. I think we need someone else. And then you need a striker. Either the player on his own or the player with storage. And if you get those three players, and those three players are 20 million pound players, you know, top, you know, 24, 25 years old, maybe a Champions League experience, able to walk in, you know, the spine of the team. I think in those three players, you've made the squad and everything so much better. And those three players, that's what's lacked this whole season. And they just had more 24, 24 million pound for those players, right? That's what was wrong with this season. Our lowering signum was the centre back that we were to sign. Yeah. Failure. It was brought in to augment the goals. Failure. The LAN was brought in as an attacking midfielder for a massive amount of money. And I'm not getting the fellas back because of production, he would be a good squad player, but it's 24 million. You want 10, 15 goals out of him, right? And you want him being able to put that output in and influence the big matches. Not the games against Crystal Palace and Halls and the ones where he scored his goals in, but the big games. So when we look at our season, it's going to be the failure of those signings that will be remembered, more than what happens with the Moreno's and the chance where you've paid less than 15 million pound. And these boys' points have been, have outperformed the fellas that you've paid 20 yard million for. The only thing I'd say is, look, there's a temptation to do it when you have the bad season. And I think as Liverpool fans, we do it every season. We think transfers is going to fix everything, right? The reality is, it's not. It's not going to fix everything. What's going to have a bigger impact next season is not the players that we say in the summer. But the progression of players who are already in the squad, that's going to have, if you look at Chelsea, right, what was more as important to Chelsea when in the league was the improvement in John Terry and the improvement in Ed and Hazard, as it was, the introduction of Fabregas and Kossle. And Matt is for a full season, and they have a different sort of... The look at Manure Lake, that is the best example. The Manchester United got top four, because David DeHair was phenomenal, because smaller and improved in the second half of the season, Rooney and Ashley Young. All players at the side. So there is a little bit of, we can get caught up in saying that, you know, signings are going to make our season, but it's not actually. What's going to make our season is, does Moreno kick on? Does Markovich kick on? Does L'Alana kick on? No one's probably lost calls. But you know, do these players that we already have within the squad that have done a year in the league, do they kick on next season and compliment the one or two signings? Which are going to work? It is a revealing, Dave, that we haven't specifically just naturally moved our conversation forward, because is that psychologically the area that most of us think, "Yeah, let's all write, and it's too much shrouded mystery." You don't know. No, no, there are a key man as well. No, no. I think that in terms of the way we've just debated... Well, we should do so. Well, now, like, that is the areas that you can probably fix fairly easily in a tournament, because, you know, if you're going to have to sign a defensive midfielder, you need to have a defensive midfielder to do it, right? If you're going to sort out your defence, it doesn't take much to sort out the defence. To sort out your attack, so many managers have failed by not being able to get that magic balance up in the attack, like even Rafa struggled to get that real balance in attack when Torres was injured or when Gerard was injured, because he was never able to replace the goals when his main goalscorer was out injured. So when you look at... Rafa was never a little player, apparently. No, I'm just saying... The closest... You know, dozens of... The year we went to the closest in the league, as much as people malign him in the whole arm, it was the only time that we had another £20m centre for all of them, in terms of Robbie Kean. And he did enough for the fourth half of the season to have a stare down about to come Christmas time. And that's saying that he was brilliant, ranting, but he had done a job for us up until that point. People are talking as if... You know, people are fans of the club are talking as if Suarez and Starridge last season was what it's always like. It's fucking never like that. Yeah, that is. We never had... We've never had strikers like that. It never works like that. Not since the end. Don't worry about the game. Don't worry about it. It's probably the last time we had it. You know, in Rafa's six seasons, you know, he'd go from Torres as his number one to... And go... Thorin as his number two, or, you know, Crouch as his number one and Coates his number two and Bellamy's his number three and maybe that's as good as you got for him, you know. So trying... People saying... Like, I've seen people make the argument, I know, sorry, we're getting into attack and I'm talking a little bit about it, you know, that we should consider Starridge third choice and we should go and buy two better players in Starridge to come in. Playing the side. People are fucking mental. People are mental. First of all, who are the two players at the best in Starridge that are going to come and play for Liverpool? Second of all, Starridge are 140 grand a week. So today we really think that this ownership group, this management structure is going to pay someone 140 grand to sit on a bench to be a third choice striker. Get off the heads like, you know. It's just mental that we need. We just need... We need... Like, we want the story to say, well, I wanted them to be the main man. Like, I thought it would have really sealed them. He doesn't have the fitness capability to be the main man. It's just unfortunate. Yeah, exactly. I think, like, if he stayed for all season, you know, we would have been in top four because it's goals. He would have got a stare. So we just need to boy a striker who becomes the main man. He plays... He stays fifth for the whole fucking season and if he can have storage in the team, up there at the top of them, well and good, and you adapt the team to suit. Fair enough. But that is not going to happen, we need to boy a player that's going to stay up top and score goals. But that's... And once we do that... That's been the issue all season. That's been the issue all season, being able to accommodate different styles of players up front. Right? Now, I've whipped the piss out of Ricky Lambert, right, for what he's being put in. And let's build this. His effort hasn't been good enough, right? But at the same time, we never once taught ourselves, but, look, storage is going to be out for annoying months here, right? So we need to build a team around whoever we're going to play up front. So when we put Lambert in, we didn't... We didn't set up a team to get the best out of Ricky Lambert. When we put Ballotelian, we didn't set the team up to get the best out of Ballotelian. We set the team up in a way that was almost, you know, well, how do we get him to start to play a bit like storage? Yeah. Or how do we get the players who are used to playing with storage, start to play to fit in Lambert, right? And like I've heard madness about, well, Barini is pacey and he runs the lines, maybe we should have put him in instead of storage. Did you not see when Barini was on the pitch? Yeah. He was around and all, but like, he just runs around. You've got to probably fit in, you've probably fit in Martin, what we are used to, fair and all. This means he missed lots of chance he wasn't doing, he wasn't, he wasn't caught me. Ballotelian and Lambert, they were never really supposed to be what they turned out to be. Lambert certainly wasn't ever supposed to start an important game. No, this is. He was supposed to come on with a bit of physical presence up top, and you know, we're seeing him as they were attempting to go, you know, go for a system through balls and flick guns and stuff like that. And he props up with goals and he was taking penalties and all that. That's all he was ever supposed to be, a few minutes at the end of the game. And Ballotelian was supposed to be a number two man, to storage, play up top of them in some games and then, you know, that's because he's not our games and score a few goals. We did enough, we gave Ballotelian enough fucking servers for him to score on my goals and he did. Well, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the team, I know you know, there's other ways of building around Ballotelian. He likes to have a player up top, but I mean, we could have done a BRC, but fuck's sake. They don't, but I lent you to get and he should have been, or all the chances, he should be a double face. This is not a defense of Ballotelian. This is looking at our season and looking where we have failed in, in, in attacking situations collectively. We've reliant on the, we've been completely reliant on the brilliance of continual throughout this season to drag us out of the shit, 99 times out of 100 when the games are going on and things weren't going our way. We had Sterling in a, in a real rich vein of form when we were playing with, with, with those up front and... And relied on his flexibility, Phil. Exactly. Exactly. We were playing him as a center forward and we were playing, we were saying we got Lelana and we had Catino and Sterling probably, when, when we were on our best run, that was the trade that was up front because they were the most mobile. They went naturally forwards, but that was the most mobile. You know, what, my issue for the, and this is why in, in the season review, when you look at the attack, I see the positives for me that came out at this and very few did, but Catino was warned. He, talking about Dave's progression, he really kicked on to a different level this season. Yeah. Right. He really did. And the run, the run that Sterling had from say, the middle of November right the way true to match when this, when this transfer ship hit, well, sorry, when, when, when the contract ship really kicked off, right. He was brilliant. We were talking, we were, people were talking him up all over the fucking January and February period. But look at, look at him come on now. He's starting to come on. He's got all the goals, was games, and he was still capable of misses, but he was adding goals. And we're saying he's a top scorer now on look, imagine what he's going to be. You know, we need to get him toyed down to a contract. Then the fucking contract ship blows up and that, that rules that fucking thing with him. You know what I mean? You're thinking to yourself, yeah, we have something special here. And then he goes bleeding ballistic. Yeah. Like him and his fucking agent go, absolutely dogshit mental. And it's like they're gone, what are you doing here, dope? And then for the, for the rest of the fucking season, as we're talking about the shit knowing games that we had to run in, we had a player that looked, that was mental. It looked like he fucked on the pitch, mentally for, yeah, we played him and played him and played him and played him. And we never thought that this, the, the, the, Mark of which he would shown also in that run a good form that he was capable of playing in those attacking positions. Now, don't play him anymore. We brief him off every fucking five seconds. The slaughtering he got in the Arsenal game when that passed it and landed directly on Stairlands for he wasn't seeing him again for the rest of the season. So that has been very small broids backs in terms of going back to day to day about who could possibly progress next season, who can offer more, right? You've got Mark of which has definitely shown capability. Katina, we really wanted to kick on and the word he is, they're coming out now and Ronald Daniels out today saying that, you know, Barcelona should be looking at him because he's one of Europe's best midfielders. You know what I mean? And this is inevitable because, but that's what you want at the same time. You want players to put themselves at that level. Who else keep, keep going the rest is, is all you've been that category is? Oh, you know, it's an interesting one. We sent out a lot, we brought him back and for me, I thought I was better for the first couple of months when he came back than he has been, but I do see an offload in him. He's so direct. He runs the players. He makes me, he makes up opposition defenders nervous and he reminds me a lot of Stairland when he was in the good run except he hasn't got the goals yet, but he is younger and gold's come. It's very rare that you're going to see a 17, 18 year old who's going to crack in 10 golds when he's when he comes back off long for half a season. So he's, he, they are the small broids backs, but again, it doesn't address the issue which was fundamentally held out attack. Before he's gone, if you don't have goals, because what we have, I think I said around here, we have loads of people that want to play the assist. We have loads of, we have loads of number 10s or wingers. So, you know, but we have no one who's a killer in the box. We have no one who's just their entire thing is scoring goals. Even Bala Telly, he's never in the box. He never attacks the front post. He's never waiting for the cross. He told me that it was against sports and he scored and he scored, but like, and his first, yeah, both times against sports, he hit the bar on his debut when he attacked the cross. And when he came on against, when he came on against, you noted an old Trafford and he missed about 96 chances that day as well. Like that was like, they were the moments and you're saying, why doesn't he do that all the time? But people are looking at the type of striker we, we look for and see, this is where I'm slightly different probably with the majority of people. Let's use Bentek is an example, right? So we've been into a Bentek and one of the few people to think actually, Bentek, it would do really well for us because, because he's a goal, he's a striker, he's an out and out goal striker. He can play a front on his own and I think he'd be great with, with storage. He scores goals. He's not going to drop into midfield, looking to play a ball off, you know, and, you know, you can snigger and all that all you want. But the reality is the list of, the list of players who we're likely to get, we're going to come in and play a striker for us, there's not a lot, Lord met Betta with a better record than him. But the nice snigger is that if he was 50 million quid, and this is, it's like having the La-Nana argument this time last week, it's the exact same, it's not him, right? It's paying towards the million quid, but you can't argue that we, we have to overpay for players because we're not on the champ's league and we have to go and get the players we want and then say, but we shouldn't do it just because you don't like the player. If, if we were paying 30 million for someone in a German league who had the same record as him, we'd be saying, just pay whatever it takes, get him in, pay to get him in. We won't pay 30 million for Medtag, I don't think we will. But you said that better than, I don't, well, maybe I did. But I still think that you are not going to get goals for cheap. You're not going to get cheap goalscorers, you're going to get to try to go off. I just look at it and say, 43 million euro. But I don't think we'll pay that. But hang on, 43 million euro, if we drop 30 million quid on Christian Medtag A, right? And you say, that's 43 million euro, on telling you now, you will sign a proven goalscore from Europe for 43 million euro. There is not a team in Italy, France or Germany, that will torn down one of their, a top classroom, and I'm talking Cavani Higuain. I'm not saying you will. I'm not saying you will. That will torn down 43 million euro for their center for 43. That money, that money. When we're talking about the marriage to them as a player, not the price for a minute, right? Because we don't know how much he is or how much we're going to pay for him. So just park the price for a minute. If we end up spending 43 million, you could do a whole pod on how mad you are about that, right? But I'm just talking about what we need in terms of the team. Right? I can watch this Cavani in a week, hopefully, a new day, 200 grand a day, as much as fuck hell. It's just, it's just like, where they're ever shabby into the idea. Like Cavani be a fucking great son and, you know, they should be, that should be what they're looking at. Yeah, I did, right? Like, I mean, but I think it's going to cost us 30 million. Now, you get Cavani for maybe 50 million euros or something like that. But is Cavani that good? Yeah. Is he? Is he? How do we, why do we think? Well, psychologically as well, I mean, teams will not fear Ben Techie the same way as Cavani. I'm not, I'm not saying Ben Techie should be, and I, so let me be really clear before I get like, you know, 100 tweets tell me or try them. I am not saying Ben Techie is or should be our number one choice, right? I'm saying if he's who we end up with, because we don't get other players, he will do well for us, right? He will do well for us in our side, playing with storage. I think storage in my take up front would be a very good choice. And I'll say if this was last summer, I'd be saying to you, because we talked with Bonnie and I wasn't totally against him. We talked about our players like, if this was last year, I'd be all for it. Because I would have talked to myself last season, storage will play more games. Yeah. And I've already kind of accepted that storage is going to have another season like this season. He's already come on back for an operation, probably won't be back for the fourth few games of the season. And then, by the time he gets himself going again and where he gets to stay in the team, why don't many games storage is going to play before Christmas? So we need to be looking at something a little bit better and a bit more class and someone who can score different types of goals than Ben Techie. And I think maybe Kavani is a poetry and I don't know how good Kavani is anymore. I don't know. He's won until on Italy. Same as he's won until on Spain. So he's adapted to Italy. I'm not going to Kavani. What was he? They're taking a look at Kavani. I'm a player of always and more, but I think he would give us more than he wanted to think he wanted to be like just to, you know, eb more, what's interesting about all three of them to be fair, though, you know, different, we can argue about the different classes, but they are all a different, a specific type of striker, you know, Kavani, Higuain, Ambedecker, all very traditional number nine's, you know, like big powerful, play with it back to go. They're not, they're not mobile for always the way Suarez is as an example. But Kavani, Kavani is, because Kavani played in the tree and played wide in the tree when he was playing for Uruguay, because for an un-played disorder. I know he did play them, but he wasn't great at all. When he was at the, when he was at the Nablis, he, although he played up front, they played tree for two, one. So they had two, they had Hamzick and they had Levetsi often. So if you take it on to wear a squad, right, and plant him at the top of arrows and you're saying storage is ill, just say he's filling in. You can see Coteño playing where Hamzick played. You can see where, say Jordan Oeba play where Levetsi would have played. But that's how, that's how, or Markovich, you know, my point is that's how Higuain plays right now for Napoli. And it's also how Bentecker plays for Villa. My point is that they're not these small kind of tevis type strikers, if we were looking to a play Suarez who play in that kind of terrier fashion, they don't play like that. They prefer the ball. On a side technical play, Cavani and Higuain do walk the line. So you know, in terms of, you know, walking the line of defenders, they don't let defenders settle. They go and depress and they cover. And the one thing that we, the one thing that we didn't do, our centre forward didn't do, and the storage included, they didn't go and press the defenders. You didn't go and pressure the defenders constantly when the game was going on and that was the one thing that we really missed from the attack on the corner. As a player, I'm not saying Bentecker should be our first choice. I'm saying that people are right in the office if he'd be a disaster for us. He wouldn't do very well for us. Like if you sell, like if you sell Balotelli and you know, the player is going to be leaving like Jared and Johnson, you're going to free a huge amount of wages. Like spending 50, 60 million, well, 50 million, 60 million euros on the voice of that. It shouldn't be beyond us. It really shouldn't. We shouldn't be saying as fans like that, we've to now accept that Bentecker is our level. Not given the changes coming up. Yeah, or any things in our league. I mean, things to be fine is a towards choice. Choicker. Grant, I don't know what's going to happen there really, I don't know where things fit in, if our choice doesn't really make sense. We should be going on investing all the money and goals. There is a squad there now, like where again, some of them are, you know, there's a squad now where you're not embarrassed at looking at the bench, because there's players you can come on. Like, it wouldn't mind seeing the line on the bench there, it wouldn't mind seeing Lucas on the bench. But you want to invest every fucking penny they have now on a striker. But when they come, that's the thing, right, because when I say, if we can make them call me, I'm not even going to be a customer like, when I was saying, oh, we should go and get the dial, right? You want to get away with you, come deliverable money. Why is commanding coming deliverable money, but even though other offers, anything we offer them, right, even if we offer them 150 grand a week, 100 cent a grand a week, a champion is going to come in and give them the same deal, because they can afford to do so. So it's all well and good saying, let's go, and I agree with you, let's go and buy Benzema. But Benzema is not going to come deliverable, doesn't matter how much money you give. Okay, look, we've strayed into the realms of what might happen, and that's for the future. This is a review. So let's stick with the review. There's two aspects of it. Do we have a review? Two aspects of the season. The review is too fucking depressing to have a look at. And the two aspects of season, we've basically focused on the Premier League and the overwhelming nature of that. I want to look at that. Let's focus on the underwhelming nature of that. Yes. That's exactly what I'm going with this. Thanks for taking my punch line, you fucker. So what I wanted to do was look at the European campaign, and look at the cups and see what we thought it was, and if there's anything that we can learn from that. So we started off with the Champions League. Well, I have to say, the Champions League campaign was arguably the worst part of the season. It was for me. It was for me. I haven't waited so long to get back into Champions League to have performed so shit in the Champions League. And I mean, like, towardedly shit, right? In every fucking game with the exception of the bit of pride that was on shelves was Madrid away when they were started. Yes, bollocks. Yeah, people say about that, but I hated that. I hated the line up. I hated the choice. It was because like, it was a little bit different, those few changes made, and the players made this pro that they were putting in more effort than what we've been looking at. That's tragic. Well, I've been going on a ride. They're in the Barnabell League. For the other reason that you were happy probably, and I was happy, is that the team you put out in the Burnabout is the team you should have been playing for the fucking eight games before that. Oh, yeah. You know, the drop in some of those players, they shouldn't have. But the team was picked on the basis of the Champions League match to come, and that's just ridiculous. Look, I think the lesson from the Champions League is that Rogers wasn't ready to manage in the Champions League. Yeah, but it doesn't seem to be ready for Europe and the story. Well, I was very disappointed more so in the Europa League, actually. Yeah. Because I think that by the time we were in the Europa League, we were actually in a pretty rich vein of form, we were playing well, and it's a legitimate opportunity to win a trophy and get into the Champions League. Yeah. And we lost... I mean, if it goes through the teams that we lost to, or they have to be in the European Champions League in the Champions League, look at that group. Look, I understand that. If you can't acquire from... No, no, no, I understand that. But we're not going to win the Champions League, it was my point, right? Yeah. 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All right. These are the soldries. Some people catch up on everything. Some people are mad at that catch up. I really wouldn't put catch up near him. No, not. I've seen people catch up on pizza. Yeah. I've seen people catch up on their Sunday dinner. I've seen people catch up. Oh, I've seen people catch up. Oh, fuck off. I don't get people to catch up on bar the names. [laughter] Where's the brown sauce? [laughter] Why are they fucking beans? Because the brown sauce, I think, why are brown sauce? Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think, yeah. Yeah, that'd be the only, a violin sort of... Oh, a violin sort of... A violin sort of... A violin sort of... A violin sort of... Next question's got you about which spaghetti do you like. [laughter] In order for our which... Quick meodles do you like, you know what I mean? Which one does it mean? For you? Because you're a coach, you know. I've heard there's a trillion there. Bachelors is the nartoid one and Heinz is the sell soy beans. Amongst you jacking types. I don't give you shit beans or beans, man. I've got no... I don't think... Bachelors are a bit sugarier. Alright, okay. Yeah, there's a bit more sugar in them. And the sauce one. Well, if you're getting Chef Red Sauce, something wrong with you. Okay, go on. That's a good one. Chef Red Sauce, it can understand. That's wrong with Chef Red Sauce. 'Cause it's just... Oh, that's really... It's too tangy. It's not the one. Yeah, now, the coins. Red Sauce. [laughter] Okay. And it's called the amount of ketchup. Red sauce could be anything. Red sauce. But at least coins call it the amount of ketchup, so you know what we're getting, right? Whereas Chef Red Sauce... What the fuck is it? Red sauce. Red sauce. No, I never call it red. I hate that fucking time. It's the use ketchup, dude. The use ketchup, yeah. The use ketchup? No, you say tomato sauce. Tomato sauce. Yeah. Is there any tomato even in the fucking hand? I don't eat that personally now, like, you know, my wife's a big fan, so... It's ketchup. The next question is from Paddy. I think we can... I'm just going to throw this up to the table, because I have a bet that everyone's going to say the same thing at the same time. Which one of you is most likely to fall in and cry on talk sports? They will. They will. They will. What do you cry? Yeah. He broke down into his last year. He did a cry on me. Yeah. Where did he do the crying? He did the crying. He did the crying after the match. The Lord, everyone, whatever it was called. The king had it. The king had it. The Lord, everyone. What the fuck was wrong? He was so proud of what Brenda was just talking about. It was us. It was us. Generally. Listen. When I saw the chapstick, I was all having a cry. I tell you he's taking the piss, but he was doing a big cry. And, like, it was, yeah, what's wrong then? I was just so proud. Really? It's pretty much. This year, Bill just has taken the knife out. He's had the strength for the odds of her. It's unbelievable. Next question is from Sean. Sean wonders. He's got suggestions as well. What's the greatest gift given to men? And, Sean says, just so you know what I'm getting at, I think. It's woman's tights. Sean's got his own fetish going on there. Fair play to him. What is the greatest gift given to men? There's so many things. You know, there's so many things that work so well, far. Like, I mean, I think even stag deals are better than hennights. Unless you're a bunch of 40-year-olds in Las Vegas like Treff. Yeah, yeah. The 40-year-olds. That's a shit stag do. But are you speaking from your extensive experience of hennights and the odds? You just look at hennights and say, just look. They just sit down and have their blow-up wheelies and all that. Do you know, wheelies, trails and all that. You know, I always see, like, a couple of miserable shits sitting at a table. I don't even have any blow gods to talk to me. They're just like, "Fuckin' not talkin' on fuckin'. I'm not enjoying myself. Fuck off. I don't want to have a good time." Whereas, like, every stag deal people are going belubas. Like, having the best time of their life. And no one ever has a shit time on the stag. That's actually tough, I'll tell you. Just make the most of these. Andy's answer, the best gift to men, is being a man. But yeah. It's gonna be the one that's going to be a man that's like, you know. Yeah, they're gonna love that. I mean, like, women can, okay, they can... I mean, things like... Steady only. Motorbikes. [laughter] Hang on, where are you going with this? I don't even have a motorbikes. Well, like, when I say Las Vegas, I'm motorboicing on. That's a fuckin' such a fuckin' cool thing. Like, a big motor a bike. Whereas, you don't see women with big motorbikes. [laughter] Now, like, well, like, I've never had a motorbikes, but it's something I've always kind of wanted to have. Like, but I just said to myself, I've had too many accidents, um, push-bikes. You've said that. Yeah. Just, it's just unbelievable. I just can't do... [laughter] Like, I can't do two wheels. Like... I mean, maybe that was the end. I came down on a bike. I'd stop with the cops in the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause he was only have to get in all his new bike, and he got rid of all the, whatever gear that suit was all bike didn't suit us. So we hadn't got all his, well, he had letters and all that, but he hadn't got the, the whatever, fuckin' flashy jacket that went off or something. And the cops pulled him in and said, "Where is our fuck, how he is? Is that the rule for a bike? Is it somethin' that he does?" It's like, "Is it?" Oh, it is, yeah. And the big-tick, cold-cheek, I had to say. Now, what would you do with Mr. Fogg come along? Mr. Fogg. [laughter] So he was there, "Well, yeah, probably pull Mr. Fogg again, and... [laughter] Take him, Mr. Holy Viz, Mr. Hogg in there. Mr. Fogg! [laughter] Awesome, yes. [laughter] That's fucking brilliant. Yeah. [laughter] That's fuckin' funny. That's fuckin' brilliant. [laughter] [laughter] We've got to pull the point. [laughter] Mr. Fogg. What was the strangest thing that you believed as a child, Paul, once now, Paul Murray? I could hear the grass growling, I was... ...firmly believed you could hear the grass growling. Fuck off. Yeah. You could hear it. [laughter] I was like a gullible youngster. Yeah. But that continued into, like, almost adult... [laughter] ...because I just had... ...me down and never set, like... [laughter] What kind of people it is for years over? I just... [laughter] Stop there. [laughter] But I don't wanna go fuck to the point. I used to, like, shit there listening, and I got that. That's probably the grass growling there now. [laughter] That noise. Well, what kind of noise was that? It's scratch noise, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it's, like, just fucking, I don't know. [laughter] It was probably, like, an insect or something, just making a living. The noise was gone. That's the fucking grass growing there. [laughter] We were fucking embarrassed there, didn't we? Yeah. Well, I thought you were going to hear the grass growling. What about you, Downey? Uh, believing... I wasn't very gullible, but I didn't make other people believe shit. I was great glad to spin the air. I told people that I could turn into the Hulk. And they all believed me. All the guys around. Well, that's because nobody wouldn't know what the Hulk was making for the tree. Well, that is true. I did have the benefit of going back in time. But yeah, I did. I used to spin the air as I said, like, a spaceship and a hanger underneath the field and stuff. [laughter] Fellas believed it. Some bloggers loin' out in the grass just listing. Yeah. [laughter] When this grass has grown, anybody else believe anything? I was growing up being used to live by a lighthouse, and my father used to tell me that Fraggle rocked. Do you remember Fraggle? Yeah. That's where they lived. Tuesday and then later. Brilliant. You were having that for a long time. I thought the Fraggle rocked it. I thought the Fraggle rocked it. Fraggle rocked it. Far as our pricks, really. I don't know. I even know now, as apparently. I just make stuff up just to find the fucking puritan. Oh, the puritan. It's just lying to your children for 12 hours a day. And you don't. You don't know what's taken. I mean, you probably told me you had so many things like that. You're in about the grass growing, went for whatever reason, stuck in my head. But it's, I think, you're right. It's purely for an all amusing, for our amusing. That's why we do it. Yeah. That's why, I mean, that's why religion sticks in so many countries is because it's just so, so much easier to say, "Oh, God says." You know. You don't have any of God's says. Yeah, because. Why, though, Dad? Because God made it. How did he make it? Because he did. I don't know. I don't know. Santa Claus is the best ever kid. But I'm able to use Santa Claus all year round. The motion sensors in the house that have, like, the red light comes on, right? Oh, it's like, that's Santa. That's his camera. He's scoping me out. Oh, really? You know, what we do upstairs, nothing. Don't worry about it. Just ask Santa. He's able to see what's up there. Yeah. Yeah. That's what our parents did to us as well. It's just constant stream of lying to your children. Yeah. For their benefit, obviously. For their benefit. True. True. The truth is horrible. [laughter] Something to finish this whole fucking thing off. Did anyone ever get flashed properly? I don't mean flash with lice. I mean, flash doesn't-- On the wrong way, is there a liven? That would be impressive. I mean, bloke in the jacket in the fucking park. I ever happened to anyone. I was just like... Surely your flashes are only interested in flashnote women. I would have told so. What were you wearing at the time? [laughter] Was this one your... Your walks? [laughter] Are you taking a shirt off the helmet? [laughter] The flashes used to be really popular. [laughter] The bombs here were flashes. The bombs here were flashes. They're not going to vote. Yeah. Flashes going around flashing. Now they-- But they got the internet now. That's some serious-- [laughter] They were just flashes yelling. There was a fellow at the bottom of our garden. I say our gardens. At the bottom of our garden? Yeah. [laughter] We live in the country. It's supposed to be about half an acre. It's not a garden. It's a fucking field, right? But we're at the bottom of the field. And I went down to the bottom of the field, to the tree house place it had. And there was some fucker in there. And he just had a jacket on. And he just went, "Eh!" [laughter] Open the jacket at me. Fucking flashes ugly bits. And just kind of ran. Scarped up as... hold, buried to the world. And then what did you want on the way? And what did you want on the way? What did you want to say to the priest then? [laughter] Finished with some admin. And we want to thank Astro Park for a season of hosting our weekly nonsense. You can check them out and book your pitch time at astropark.ie. I want to mention a couple of five times gigs that are coming up. The first one is a local one for us Irish people. In Galway, in the Pokémon bar on the 19th of June, tickets are £35, or £35 euros. And you can find out far more details than that on the five times Twitter feed and on our own Twitter feed. Similarly, if you're based in America, at the North American Tour, features Jason McTear, Robbie Fatter, and Dee Dee Haman. And they have nights in Toronto, New York, Charlotte and Los Angeles. Finally, the details and book your tickets for those from the same sources. Your day trippers tonight were Dave Thomas, and the young Phil Casey, myself, Trev Daddie. Yeah, exactly. Candy could have been, you know, what are you going to do? What are you going to change? Yeah. Candy voices. No. Fuck off. [laughter] What are you going to change? You're going to change. I know you're going to change. Fuck you. [laughter] And bring me a donut and fuck off. But the running around is going to be sitting there, sweating blocks. Yeah, you will. [laughter] That's right. You can get different things to spill, don't you? Hang on there. Why are they sweating blocks? [laughter] It's sweating blocks. You could easily end up just pouring around gold. You know what? It is from our own Paul Brennan for you, Dave. It says, "If Dave Thomas had a choice, would he rather lick some of those balls?" [laughter] Tell Betsy the fuck. [laughter] Yeah. [laughter] Tell us, go sell them. You use it, you can buy whole chickens in a can. It's not a whole chicken in a can. It's a whole chicken in a can. That's good. How bad must that be? It is. It is. It is. It is. It is desperate. I like everything. And what sort of respect would you have for your body? But the poor can of chicken called you. [laughter] You must hate yourself. How about you taking a whole chicken? This is a whole chicken. Imagine that. Open in the can. And how expensive are chickens to buy a whole chicken? Yes. It's a couple of quid, right? That you're going to save yourself money, 30 cents on it. I'm disturbed by having a can. I'm not sure. How much is the can? It must be the can. It must be the can of chicken. It must be the can of chicken. I feel the can of chicken. I wonder is that I'd say it smells disgusting. Did you ever open like even a... Slice chicken or a slice of ham and a slice of ham? Oh, it's like a fan. Buy all of it. Oh. But like, imagine I want a can of chicken. I get a can of chicken. So, we didn't do best, but worst is... It's kind of chicken. They're russians. They shouldn't be russians. They shouldn't be russians. On the shelf. On the shelf. Of... At Capella University, you're in control of your education. With the game-changing flex-path format, you can set your own deadlines and move at your own pace. The faster you move, the more you save. Visit Capella.edu to learn more. Time to fire up the grill. Time to go to Total Wine and find the perfect flavor to pair with those burgers. Ooh, I love their beer cooler. You love their prices even more. Wonderous selection, helpful guides, ridiculously low prices. Total wine and more. This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. 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