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3:17Vishnu Vaka: FIFA needs to be far, far, far better But you ever want Gianni to run, run, run, run away Welcome to the Football Ramblin It's Friday 7th of August I'm Pete Donaldson I'm Jim Campbell And I'm the Lucian of Hunter Island Hello boys Hello boys What song was that? That was Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads Nice For some reason Ho ho ho ho Hey hey hey hey It's Friday It is It's Friday boys Why have you got your big suit on? I'd love to just turn up in a big suit Yeah Because we've done that before where we've sort of worn silly sort of costumes and stuff apart from Marcus who wasn't involved Did we do that at Halloween?

4:08Vishnu Vaka: We did that at Halloween and we didn't tell anyone we were doing it on the audio version and then they looked on the video version and they were like... They were like, look at these scamps. Look at these scamps. Scamps. I'd love to spend time with them. Great banter. Great banter, boys. Fashion banter. How you doing, guys? You alright? Fash banter. Fash banter. Maybe not. I'm good, yeah. Either it's John Fashanu or fashism and either way, it's not good. Either way, it's a bit right wing. Fashism is a different thing. Fashism. Vish, you alright? I'm good. You've shaved more of your beard off than I'm used to I'm not sure you've had a haircut What have you got against hair this week?

4:45I have nothing against hair I made a mistake I don't know why I'm doing this like a disgraced politician I was in the shower The curtain fell off Yeah, I fell, landed on it

4:57Jim Campbell: Right up there onto my beard And thought I could continue on with my day I happened to roll in front of a live webcam It could happen to anyone It could happen to anyone But yeah, basically I just got the setting on my clippers And I shaved in the shower not in front of a mirror and then I was like that's a lot of hair falling into the butt and that's what it was

5:16Vishnu Vaka: I love that you blind shave it's a very do you? it's a lot of trust that is bold well not only with the clippers you know when I do the lines and stuff I'll do that in the mirror but yeah do you do cool lines? well no just like the normal ones ooh yeah I want to do some cool lines but I just fear it would look too it would look too angled I'd look like a sort of a dubstep DJ from the 90s I'd end up with a sort of Picasso beard like just like

5:39Jim Campbell: Did he mean it to look like that? The only person who could do proper sideies

5:42Vishnu Vaka: in this, you know, Less Than Glorious podcast is Marcus Beller and I keep on demanding that he does the lovely thin Del Piero lines. Yeah, well,

5:52Jim Campbell: Bepi DiMarco, I think.

5:53Vishnu Vaka: Oh, yes, Bepi DiMarco.

5:55Jim Campbell: Also, Marcus oddly looks like he has a soul patch even though he doesn't.

5:58Vishnu Vaka: No, it's a good point actually, yeah. That's a very Mandela effect thing, Marcus. Yeah. Does Stanley have a moustache or not? Well, I mean, this, I think we've started every show this week is with Gianni Infantino and the FIFA truck keeps on a rolling. Gianni Infantino inexplicably has survived the vote of confidence from his own people who, as you ever point out, rely on him for their continued employment. Infantino has apologised for errors he made in the plans to sell off stakes in FIFA competitions, but he will remain president. We spoke about his sneaky meeting in Morocco. That is editorialising from the production staff.

6:36Vishnu Vaka: I'm not having that. Sneaky meeting.

6:38Jim Campbell: I back that

6:40Vishnu Vaka: okay alright fine that's absolutely fine but FIFA executives have given Infantino his backing the Times report that Infantino's promised Morocco the 2030 World Cup final in return for its support FIFA disputes this it's just all getting back scratchy hand jobby I'm going to say it's just all a bit of a shame right now isn't it Jim

7:03Jim Campbell: the whole thing about this sneaky meeting sneaky meeting sneaky meeting is that It's essentially about kind of just them reiterating the status quo, trying to minimize the gravity of everything that's happened, and then going, yeah, we'll just move on now, yeah? And everyone's going, no, absolutely we are not going to just move on. And UEFA's stance on this is amazing, because they've come out and immediately said, as you reiterated there, everyone back in Infantino works for him, and their career progression is based on his favor, so we're basically ignoring this. We're not falling for this. they're also planning to stand their own candidate and they're also talking about investigating a number of different things including whether or not the initial plan was undersold in the first place the plan was terrible and there's more corruption in it this is war from FIFA, sorry from UEFA and I love it

7:54Vishnu Vaka: it's not even kind of a corruption on the side of just being bad at your job, it just seemed like Gianni kind of wanted to pay off and he kind he wanted so almost maybe he felt that he wasn't going to make the next run as FIFA president he just wanted a lovely little Donald Trump you know Supreme Court kind of payoff and everybody who deals with these kind of deals basically said even if this is a good idea it was massively undervalued the future of FIFA like 20 % for like a few million but yeah not great Argentina are on board though with Gianni Infantino. Not with the plan itself, but Argentina, the same FA that were subpoenaed by an US court recently for mismanagement.

8:43Vishnu Vaka: It's incredible stuff. Have you seen the head of the Argentinian FA, by the way? No, I haven't. Claudio Tapia. It's a bit rich for me, but he was sporting a very severe undercut up until recently. Right. And he's a man in advancing years and he's a proper, like, oh yeah, bad boy for life kind of looking guy. Yeah. He's good stuff. He's good stuff. He's well built. Well worth a Wikipedia glance. But, I mean, it's funny because UEFA are obviously saying that Infantino's apologies changes nothing and the World Cup boycott may still go ahead. Their associations were very clear about the conditions attached to their non-participation in FIFA competitions, they said.

9:21Vishnu Vaka: Firstly, the proposals to sell off the major competitions had to be withdrawn, and secondly, assurances had to be made that such attempts to disfigure the game in this way will never be made again. Yesterday's announcement that some people employed by the FIFA president and whose careers are dependent on his favour, agree with him, it changes nothing. I mean, it's a strongly worded statement. Yeah. They're good at those. They've clearly got like a nuclear template that they just had to keep going back to. Shut GPT. Spice this up, will you? Now make it bigger. Little paperclip. Put your nasty hat on.

9:51Vishnu Vaka: Make it verging on rude. Well, FIFA said they're no longer going to tolerate any attacks on its integrity. I absolutely love this.

9:59Jim Campbell: So they come out swinging about not tolerating attacks on their integrity while also apologising for something that was a completely heinous error and they promised it would never happen again. It's strong. You don't get to do that. It's one of those things that when people are in those positions, they become so officious and so, you know, ironically, so beholden to process that they're like, we decree that you can't call us twats again. It doesn't work like that. You're a twat. You're acting like more of a twat now. Yeah, and they also said that everything happened within the rules that FIFA have set.

10:32Jim Campbell: It's like nothing happened, though. But the whole point of this is it didn't happen because you were stopped because it was so awful. It's like that is just complete word salad. And I'm really interested in what this lack of tolerance actually means because that sounds like a veiled threat, right? Would you want to tolerate any further attacks on our integrity? Behave with some integrity. Shores where the integrity is, for crying out loud. Is the integrity in the room with us?

10:53Vishnu Vaka: Open the integrity vault and Shores the integrity. They probably have an integrity surplus. They probably do. Yeah, that's probably a euphemism for where the bungs are. I love how on the nose it is that Argentina are supporting him and being like, look, if you need somewhere to stay for a bit, come chill. We've got a lovely bed seat, yeah. Change your name if you want. And it just seems to be that everyone's kind of got the knives out for FIFA. And even this week, more FIFA news have been revealed, has been revealed. And UT tells about the ill-fitted European Super League have been revealed. apparently after the plans were revealed back in 2021 which everybody hated Gianni Infantino said that FIFA strongly disapproved the creation of the European Super League it has been revealed or reported this week that they were deep in talks with the European Super League founders before it was even announced it was going to be called the FIFA Super League they had an initial contract set up and they planned to grant themselves key decision making power across basically every aspect of the tolerance organisation and then a 12-year plan sketched out.

11:56Jim Campbell: Yeah. I mean, it's just good stuff. The best thing about this... Business is good. ...is that the Super League would then feed into a Club World Cup, which would have been knockout, and every year. Yeah. So, I mean, it really is like a proper, like, worst of this plan. And it feels like a reveal in, like, the third movie that the villain from the first movie was actually behind the stuff happening in the third movie, isn't it? Like, the writers ran out of ideas a little bit. FIFA do seem like this kind of cartoonishly fiendish organisation now and this just furthers it In a Wile E. Coyote kind of way Yeah, massively Every day there is more stuff coming out that shows how kind of I suppose out of touch they are with what everybody who watches the game and seemingly most of the people who play the game and work in it feel that it actually needs It's just more, more, more more, more, more kind of profit margin and the growth of that is the only driving factor and it's an incredible oversight.

12:55I would say that profit margin is probably giving them too much, I suppose, intellectual respect because, Pete, as you mentioned before, when they talked about the deal that FIFA were trying to strike or force people to strike as undervalued, that's not really important. It's the equivalent. Basically, Infantino has been put forward two possibilities, a million quid now or a penny that doubles every day. And he's gone, well, the million now, obviously. he's never thinking about the long term it's never really about profits it's what they can get out of it as soon as possible as quickly as possible and presumably what he can get out of it personally yeah sorry that's exactly what I mean it's about the people who broker those deals what they can get out of it because the value doesn't mean anything to them what it might be worth in 10, 15, 20 years time it's what it means to them tomorrow

13:44Vishnu Vaka: yeah what do you before the show you sort of mentioned that the reason why the Argentinian FA came out was presumably because UEFA are going heavy on providing their own candidate for the FIFA presidency? Well, I mean, I think it's, to a point, I think they're generally looking at it and thinking selfishly, understandably, that Infantino has been good to us, good for us. And they won't be the only country thinking like that. They're a big country, you know, they have a steep history in football, you know, winners in 2022 of the World Cup, finalists in 26. and it's easy as you know i was going to consider us all as part of uefa but you know what i mean you know from a european football nation to think that our views on football are a universal and b right and i think in this particular instance uefa are right but across the world in different federations there is clearly a you know there is a european snobbery that they would feel and they would sense much more than we would internally and i feel like their their statement amid all the bootlicking it did speak to a bit of that you know a bit of like well we have to look after us and we think this guy is the one who can look after us in terms of universal also a european

15:01Jim Campbell: candidate yeah and i suppose kind of um try and redistribute the power um yeah in international football and I suppose that's kind of most kind of heavily expressed in the amount of teams from various continents but I mean who knows if that will be any different later.

15:20Vishnu Vaka: You need to cut through the waist with that big chainsaw that Milet had.

15:22Jim Campbell: Yeah I mean it does feel like UEFA do really see this as an opportunity to just oust Infantino and that it is gonna be really like a a besieging of FIFA until they get what they want. And I, for one, am here for the entertainment factor of that. Yeah, yeah. I wonder if UEFA knew previously that FIFA were involved in the Super League. Yeah. Or wanted to be involved in the Super League. Because if they don't, that is absolutely seismic. They should know that though, shouldn't they? Yeah. I don't wonder if that has basically been leaked. Well, fueled the fire of that. And also, yeah.

15:59Vishnu Vaka: Knowing they had a one-two punch to hit them with later on. Yeah. Yeah, interesting. Well, I tell you what, you know who needs a 12-year plan? Manchester United. Coming up after this, more excellent accounting from them.

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19:17Jim Campbell: For five years never complained about the referees and the action but this action is really incredible incredible

19:25Vishnu Vaka: incredible incredible I like to know where Pep Guardiola is I don't like to see him at large I like to know where he is I just hope he takes a job sooner rather than there I don't like him I don't like him watching kids football in New York. I don't like him just sort of stomping around doing weird football stuff. Yeah. I want to know where he is. You can watch kids football, just take the cap off. It's a bad look. Welcome back to the Football Ramble. So on a previous show, we discussed the news that American hedge fund manager Ken Griffin will be the primary funder for big-faced Mauricio Pochettino's new deal as the US...

20:04Vishnu Vaka: As he's now being referred to. As he's now being referred to on this show when I'm hosting. Mark on YouTube, he famously bought a Stegosaurus. Yes. Which is just wonderful. Ken Griffin, not Mark on YouTube. No, no. Well, we don't know. Mark shows the receipts, for crying out loud. Seems unlikely. I don't always agree with Luke's opinions on football, but he's 100 % correct about the best dinosaur. Hashtag Team Stegosaurus.

20:26Jim Campbell: Steggies are good. You'd be a fool to deny it.

20:29Vishnu Vaka: It's a solid dinosaur. We're big Steg fans on this. In 2024, he bought the skeleton named Apex for$44.6 million. Has he named it that? Yeah, you can't name a herbivore Apex. No.

20:44Jim Campbell: That has made it lame. You've bought a dinosaur and you've made it lame.

20:47Vishnu Vaka: And you've kind of tried to upgrade it with a cool name.

20:49Jim Campbell: Yeah. Very musk, that. It is a little bit.

20:52Vishnu Vaka: Call it Steggy. Who had a head of a T-Rex, I think, in his boardroom. Chilling. Tyne Skipper reminded us also that the new Ivory Coast manager Harv Renard managed Cambridge United in 2004 well done Tyne we've all got Wikipedia I'm not allowed on there anymore made too many changes to certain hosts of the football ramble their entries I think you're banned from Wikipedia too many edits too many edits is that true? no no if I could edit Wikipedia and had the time on the interest interest, I would not have my picture that has been chosen for the Wikipedia while I am about six pints deep in a pub in Kentish Town.

21:36Vishnu Vaka: It's absolutely disgraceful. I look like a right-wrong. I'm looking at it as well. It's good stuff, isn't it? Absolutely pissed out in my mind. That was so good. Terrible, terrible. Speaking of...

21:49Jim Campbell: You do look like you're being thrown out.

21:52Vishnu Vaka: No, just one more. Just one more, actually. Just one more. I love the idea.

21:55Jim Campbell: You're in a local touring production of Trainspotting and you're playing Begbie. The caption is simply, Donaldson in 2024.

22:02Vishnu Vaka: Yeah, pissed in Kentish Town. Speaking of big swingers, splashing their money where they shouldn't do. Transfer updates. People are on the move. Yep. The logjam is starting to sort of ease into gear or ease away. Manchester City midfielder Rodri has agreed to join Barcelona, according to Marseille. It's been reported in some places that personal terms have been agreed. Hansi Flick personally called Rodri and try to convince him to join the club, which is incredible stuff.

22:31Jim Campbell: We've got a really high line, and I refuse to change that, because I need someone really good in that area of the park. Are you busy?

22:37Vishnu Vaka: Real Madrid are also working on a deal for Rodri. Shall we work on a deal for Rodri? What can we offer Rodri?

22:42Jim Campbell: Throw our hat into the ring.

22:43Vishnu Vaka: Would he be a good guest on our summer series? It's a good point, actually, yeah. He better do it quickly, though, before we start the episode properly. Speaking of which, Jamie Carragher was saying on Tuesday that he shouldn't sell him and instead make him see out his contract. absolutely you're never going to replace him are you no

22:59Jim Campbell: he's one of the few players I think in the world who is truly irreplaceable at the moment certainly if he can kind of keep up the form that he got back to after the injury if you're a Man City

23:08Vishnu Vaka: fan that must be quite annoying because he started the season not that great just coming back into after a horrific injury and it's just kind of like I just got into form now he's up to speed and back to his best yeah

23:19Jim Campbell: but I think you know the fee they're talking about is 60 million which for a player who's 30 and is that good is kind of probably the minimum it's going to take for you to even consider it. But so much is going to be down to whether, you know, what he wants. And I've seen reports saying that he's made it clear that he does want to go back to Spain.

23:36Vishnu Vaka: What a rod wants, what a rod needs. There's always a further stepping stone, isn't there? Even from a club like Manchester City.

23:44Jim Campbell: I suppose so. It also might create a bit of an interesting situation in the market because Frankie de Jong is going to be out injured for a few months, which is presumably why Barcelona are in for him. But they've got Gavi and Marc Sardo in that position as well. Both very good players who perhaps one of them moves on. Yeah, yeah. And again, you know, the log jam breaks a little bit. How did Real Madrid fumble that? Yeah. To a team without real money. Giving all of their money to Vinicius Junior.

24:14Vishnu Vaka: Yeah, well, as you said... Of course, that's probably... Yeah, that is certainly part of it, yeah. As you said, Jim, Vinny Junior has agreed his new six-year contract with Real Madrid, ending speculation about a potential move to Arsenal.

24:24Jim Campbell: Yeah. Boo!

24:27Vishnu Vaka: I mean, that would have been a big ticket item that felt too big ticket for even Arsenal.

24:33Jim Campbell: Yeah, I mean, well, they explored it and they could afford it, apparently. So that now just makes... They just didn't want it. We didn't want it.

24:41Vishnu Vaka: Big talk, haven't they? Yeah, I could afford it, actually.

24:43Jim Campbell: Yeah, but no, all that does is make negotiations with far not as good players much more complicated. It's like, you can do a Galactico deal, can you?

24:55Vishnu Vaka: It's like me walking around. What's the... Is it... It's not Benjamin's. What's that big shop down Oxford Street? Not Benjamin's. You get yellow. The bags are all yellow. Not Lilywhats. Yellow. It's like really posh. M &M World. It's like a shit Harrah's. Yellow. It's not quite a bit of a store. Yellow. I actually don't know. I know what you mean. You can buy fabric there as well. What? Selfridges. Selfridges! No, that wasn't what I was thinking. Oh, yeah. It was Selfridges. Where they've got like a... It's basically a shit harrods, but it's still very expensive. It's like when you go to the basement level, there's basically a tech wonderland of overpriced technological products, like, you know, paper white, like e-ink writers and stuff.

25:39Vishnu Vaka: And like you can buy like a Formula One, like driving sort of like simulator and stuff. And they're all stuff that you never really see on the high street. And I'm in that F1 driving simulator if I'm going around for like Christmas presents and stuff. And I pretend I can buy that stuff. I can't buy any of that stuff Can't really do that with a simulator can you? I'm just giving it a test drive to see how it handles

25:59Jim Campbell: Is that what you're saying Arsenal were doing?

26:00Vishnu Vaka: Yeah, pretty much trying to pretend they're in the market for a 700-quid e-ink writer

26:06Jim Campbell: So I think had they signed the deal I think that probably would have caught up with them quite quickly I mean by all accounts the money was there they put everything together to make the deal happen obviously I think the pull of Real Madrid is quite big even when you're already there Yeah, do you think they forget how nice Madrid is when they go on holiday during the summer and he comes back and says oh it's a lovely year

26:28Vishnu Vaka: yeah well one player leaving the club is Arsenal midfielder and BGAM's Bruno Christian Norgard he's joined he's joined Evern guys yes

26:40Jim Campbell: funny funny move Christian Norgard to Arsenal I think he he joined with the expectation that he wouldn't play that much even with that in mind I thought he'd play a bit more yeah there were times where players in his position were absolutely knackered and he just wasn't really trusted. I think what really did for him in Arteta's eyes was there was a game against Chelsea where Arsenal were winning at home and Chelsea were down to 10. Norgard came on to sort of shore it up a bit and it ended with Chelsea kind of besieging Arsenal for like the last 10 minutes or so and I think that probably made him wonder if he had the legs for it and seemed to lose a bit of trust there.

27:14Jim Campbell: But he's coming in to replace Adrissa Gay who's obviously a massive player for Everton and will fulfil a sort of similar role certainly in terms of his position. I think it's a good move for him, good move for them as well. They're in quite an interesting window, I think, Everton. Hayden Hackney coming in is big. One of the best players in the championship last season, so obviously a big stage for him. They've made loan deals for Merlin Roll and Tyreek George permanent. So it's not like hugely eye-catching. Hackney's quite exciting, but it's still a fairly solid window so far.

27:47Vishnu Vaka: On the Arsenal side of things, we'll come to Everton, but why do Arsenal never sell people for oodles of money? It's always like less than 30, which for a side who's challenging for the title and winning the title last season, you just sort of think, why can't they, are they not a good selling club? It's quite common. Man City United have had that as well. I think the summer they sold Scott McTominay was the first summer they've reaped 100 million in out earnings.

28:13Jim Campbell: I think part of it is that they, in the modern era, they tend not to sell players who are at their peak because they want to keep them. Obviously, in the past, players have left with only a year or so left on their contracts. So when they had players going to Man City or whatnot, they were in a situation where it was harder to command a bigger fee. And I think they have just genuinely been terrible at selling in the past as well. So that's something they need to be better at now.

28:38Vishnu Vaka: But you are right. It would have been nice to see him a little bit more just for the sake of Rice. Yeah, just for the sake of the other knackered players. I mean, no shade on him. And as we said, nice signing for them. He did appear to be wearing like four blue leather trousers in his announcement video, which we obviously do not endorse here at the football round. At the same time or four different ones? What do you mean? As in like... Four leather... Four. Tell you what that is. That is anti-Northern sentiment. And do you know who will not stand for that? Mr. Andy Burnham, who's called for Everton to buy a right back.

29:13Vishnu Vaka: Seeing that Jake O 'Brien can't play another season there. I mean it's a terrible thing to say about the face of diabetes Ireland but nice to see someone not absolutely flustered what he's the face of diabetes Ireland that's what I always think about when I think about Jacob Ryan he is actually I thought that was a weird thought his pallor is great I don't know I just no but it's nice to see like a head of state not being absolutely flustered about talking about football that they clearly love because the last guy clearly loved football Arsenal season ticket holder and all that stuff went all the time but just could not get his head around talking about football without trying to sort of couch everything and please everyone um who should

29:54Jim Campbell: was he asked who should be the front three for England and he I think he got he said Kane Saka and then just you know fainted yeah it's mad isn't it Kane Saka and then the right person for the job I'll see you all later

30:08Vishnu Vaka: he'd make a great horse at the football rumble that's all I'm saying but but Everton like from what I've seen in pre-season they've scored a couple of late goals Barry's frustrating best I think they just need more bodies because David Moyes just loves a small squad but you can't have a small squad in the Premier League with all the injuries and all the matches that need to be played but he's always been a manager who finds it hard to trust more than 15 players I don't necessarily see that as a criticism but it is a blind spot he's had for a long time it took him a while to get over it at West Ham.

30:46I remember actually in the early days of him with Four Nows, there was a bit of distrust there and then he just Four Nows obviously had an incredible work rate and he was basically ever-present from that point on. Yeah, I suppose it's just the nature of the beast as well. Everton, well, clubs beyond the lucky few that we end up talking about most have to take these kind of punts. Norgard is a punt much more than Hayden Hackney.

31:12Jim Campbell: Yeah, for sure. and yeah I suppose that just comes with it although actually I mean is that fair he was captain of Brentford for a long time hasn't played a lot hasn't played in about a year yeah but I mean don't really know if he's going to fit into and Brentford played in a very specific way sure but you know it's still a risk it is a lovely signing but yeah it's still a bit of a risk

31:32Vishnu Vaka: they used that video clip of him saying how great Everton as a fanbis were when he was interviewed post-match he said when you come to watch Everton and the fans are really loud. I think if you are a player who's kind of a bit of a jobbing midfielder, just say that about every team after every match, and then it'll be attractive to the PR team to put that out when you sign for them. Did he say that last season, when he was playing for Arsenal? Well, in the 10 minutes he was playing for... No, I think he was playing for Arsenal, yeah. Okay, right, right. At least it was in the new stage. At least it was in the new stage, exactly, yeah.

32:04Very quickly, just because of how you started that question, why are you watching so much pre-season football?

32:09Vishnu Vaka: What do you mean? I like a bit of pre-season football. But you don't like normal season football. That's a good point, actually, yeah. What is it about? I don't like the sticks. I don't like the sticks. It's a non-sticky kind of situation. If we had a friendly, like, Jackson Cyclopaedia, you'd nail that. Yeah, exactly. Right, okay.

32:26Jim Campbell: I went to one of the pre-season friendlies, possibly two of the pre-season friendlies, at the Emirates last season. And honestly, being able to enjoy it without any sort of stress or jeopardy was so nice. There is absolutely something to that, isn't there?

32:38Vishnu Vaka: All bets are off. are you allowed to in pre-season friendlies at the Emirates a drink in front of the in front of the match I think you should be able to no you're not but

32:47Jim Campbell: I bloody did though didn't I yeah little hip flask

32:52Vishnu Vaka: at the hip lovely you see that NJ's dad has been getting involved saying that he's staying at the club which it's always good when the dad when there's a bit of transfer and the dad gets involved yeah

33:04Jim Campbell: because you really don't want to you don't want to mug off someone's dad No So it's going to make you think twice about it

33:11Vishnu Vaka: Apparently he rang up his son Speaking a few words of Arabic as a joke Because Al-Halala in the frame for it Someone did make the point that He's not been on good money for very long So a couple of years in that league Is probably an attractive one I think we sort of judge these kind of players As kind of like Oh well it'd be such a shame if you go But it's like well He's playing like non-league for quite a while Well he started He came from France to Boreham Wood And then played at Sheffield United or made his professional debut at Sheffield United but no like no says Fish no don't go he's so much fun he's such a good player he's a really fun player

33:49Jim Campbell: I think it'd be mad for him to leave the Premier League now even like if he stays at Everton you know like he's a he's a good player who will be able to get himself a move to a European club for sure if he you know can't achieve that there I'd be very sad to see him go there whatever his dad says no yeah he also his dad sounds fun too he's only 26 yeah well look

34:10Vishnu Vaka: I think the two years at Al Hall doesn't kill your career as everyone thought it would I would think you can always come back are you angling for a move I just want to move to Al Hall look Keyes and Grey they've gone from that part of the world Keyes and Grey that's your bell I just think we could

34:25Jim Campbell: yeah I mean there is

34:25Vishnu Vaka: a vacuum there isn't there certainly bells yes in other news James Trafford's on the move again Leeds of Simon City goalkeeper James Trafford for a club record fee he started in goal for City in both the League Cup and FA Cup finals winning both. That tells some of the story but he's commanded fees of nearly 90 million and he's not played any matches really. It's interesting. Weird old season isn't he?

34:47Jim Campbell: I suppose he was kind of very unfortunate with Gerard Luigi Donnarumma coming in. You absolutely know what the pecking order is even if you've been told that you've been signed as the first choice goalkeeper there. Very nearly moved to Newcastle as I know you've signed two goalkeepers haven't you? We'll probably

35:03Vishnu Vaka: sign a third for a laugh. So Newcastle weren't back into it. I'm very surprised they went back into it but I think they've gone to the full Brighton model and it's like we're not spending that amount of money. That's kind of... Because that's not just the Brighton model is it? They do a bit of scouting with that as well. They need a little bit of that, yeah. Schola's moved away from the lawn... He used to be a lawn manager who used to look after the lawnies and now he's moved upstairs to a different role as a directorship I think.

35:28Jim Campbell: The reason I say oh god because was it Schola that there was that story about where he thought he'd been burgled and then he realised he'd just left his house really untidy. He's the lone player liaison.

35:36Vishnu Vaka: He was the one. Oh my God, you've been robbed! There's a lot of admin. Schola, no, please. I'm really sorry to say that that lone player we had last season, he hasn't returned for pre-season. You're almost there, Schola. You're almost there. Milan forward Rafael Leal is keen to move clubs. His agency even offered him to Leeds alongside Manchester United and Arsenal.

35:59Jim Campbell: This is part of the market you forget, isn't it? Where players get offered around.

36:01Vishnu Vaka: Yeah, yeah. Do they still have the Michael Owen dossiers Where you sort of go The man, the myth, the legend The marketing opportunity Here's me doing a plank I don't really think they do I think a lot of times they get them I've seen a couple recently And a lot of times it's PDF With the watermark of who they're being sent to Oh really? So if it gets leaked Like scripts and stuff You wouldn't remove a PDF You wouldn't remove a watermark from a PDF.

36:34Jim Campbell: Yeah, so Rafa Liao is a funny one now, isn't he? I think his status has dipped considerably in the last couple of seasons. He strikes me as someone who is going to do well to a point because he's very strong and he's very quick, but his decision-making isn't always great and he's known for being quite wasteful with opportunities. So I wonder where I'll land.

36:54Vishnu Vaka: Well, it looks like Turkey may very well be the destination. There's a couple of clubs out there, but did some Turkish anti die recently because there's a lot of money slashing around, even for them. Looking very flush at the moment.

37:07Jim Campbell: Yeah, they have a... Players have a fixed 20 % flat rate of tax on everything they earn. So it makes it very attractive to them. And I think that's because Erdogan likes football. Yeah, he's very involved in it, I suppose. So that's part of it, I think. Come on, Vernon.

37:27Vishnu Vaka: Well, as I previewed in the first half of the Football Rumble today. We chatted about Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho's futures with Rick on Wednesday's pod. Rashford on Andre Inanna's Man United salaries have been increased by 25%. Just like that. Thanks to the club's qualification for the Champions League even though neither of them played a minute of this campaign last season. You love to see it, Jim. Yeah, I mean, I love to see it.

37:51Jim Campbell: That is... I thought Man United had sort of stopped this nonsense. No. But the season hasn't even started and we've got a lovely little bit of Man United nonsense.

37:58Vishnu Vaka: Radioactive ooze still. It's the river of that still underneath the city. I love it. It's still there. It's still there. That's a great example of how much there is still to unpick. Because it is in clauses. Quite literally, it can be in the walls of the place.

38:19Jim Campbell: Yeah, I mean, that is a real kind of spanner in the works of the potential Marcus Rashford return and redemption at Man United, right? Part of the complication with him and landing spots for him are the wages he's on and that's just got worse, right? Yeah, yeah. I realised as well when I was talking about him on whenever we were talking about him, on the Rick Edwards show, yeah, that was very much my opinion rather than Man United fans because there is obviously a lot of Man United fans who accompanied with this news and are like, just go, just get rid. But I realised as well, reading that in the running order, I had the, you know the bit in The Simpsons where the dog goes on the screen and everyone's like, oh, that's really sweet.

39:01And then the cat does it and they tell him to fuck off. That's the Rashford and Anato thing in my head. I'm like, you know what? Good for him. Good for him. And Anato's like, you crook. How dare you?

39:14Vishnu Vaka: He wouldn't catch the bag, would he? No, he wouldn't catch the bag. Well, finally for now, the very definition of a finally story on the Football Ramble. Nicky Butt has been banned from his local tip after a row with staff. Why haven't we led with this? I know. Should have been the top of the show for crying out loud. He was reportedly raging. That's kind of his default setting, isn't he? He's a pretty morose fellow, isn't he? When his Range Rover was deemed to be a commercial vehicle as the seats were down. I mean, to be fair to Nicky Butt, that is ridiculous. To be fair to Nicky Butt, that is bullshit.

39:48Vishnu Vaka: That is absolute bullshit. Presumably it's the amount of waste He was looking to dump then Well maybe he Well Because I do that I mean it's a Honda Jazz Not a Range Rover Yeah that's mad Well if you put the seats down It's just a Range Rover I mean is it kind of like a Kind of what Range Rover Is it one of those Oldie timey kind of queen ones With like the back Is that Does that count as like I have no idea A different kind of rover I don't know But like So most tips As I understand You're not allowed to take Commercial vehicles down Yeah because that's just a piss-tick. But what constitutes a personal, you know, a commercial vehicle is the question.

40:26Jim Campbell: I think the team that the person making the decisions supports might have some bearing on that. It's a very good point, actually.

40:33Vishnu Vaka: What area did he attend this tip? He went ahead and dumped his smelly bags at the centre anyway, and he was chased by an attendant with a walking target. It's amazing. I've dumped it now. What are you going to do? It's proper partridge, this. Also, the smelly bags, in quotation marks, taken from like an anonymous tip off from the tip off from the story yeah he wasn't dumping like freshly picked roses he was going to a fucking dump yeah I know smelly bags oh and he gave us rubbish yeah Nicky Butts said I've got a lot of crap from the house a bit of cardboard yeah I've missed the bin man last week so I've got a few smelly bags so I put the windows down obviously my seats are down apparently I'm not going in because it's a commercial van so I'm raging literally literally I mean what is literally like jumping in the big receptacles and throwing...

41:19Vishnu Vaka: Frothing at the mouth. Yeah, biting the attendants. Baby ears round and stuff. Yeah. This is very strange because it feels like he's just, you know, revealed this willingly, which is fine. Yeah. But also like, it's just the tip, mate. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Why are you having a go at them? I love the tip. What's the best part? Yeah, I don't know,

41:38Jim Campbell: but if you've gone all the way down the tip and then someone's going, no, sorry, this is an ice cream. Yeah, that's true. Actually, yeah. Yeah, that is fair.

41:45Vishnu Vaka: If it's a Range Rover, unless it's one of those oldie-timey Queen ones that she used to drive around in, I think that feels like a commercial farming vehicle. But if it's like a modern kind of like Range Rover, you want... So you think Nicky Bart in 2026 is driving around in a commercial farming vehicle? Yeah, and a trailer on the back.

42:03Jim Campbell: There was a chance. And that he's not being honest about it.

42:07Vishnu Vaka: And the shell of an old caravan filled with nappy bins. Filled with his daughter's toenails. dirty dirty wrong one that's the wrong one yeah what

42:20Jim Campbell: those are Paul Scholes yeah oh shit but they do a podcast together maybe it's what they've got in common maybe

42:25Vishnu Vaka: maybe Paul Scholes gave him some of the rubbish from his house easy way to remember this both from the classroom 92 yeah one loves toenails yeah the other drives a combine harvester really straightforward which one's Willie popped out that time again was that Scholes toenails Which one did a bicycle kick in the first minute of a football match playing for Newcastle? Nicky Bo. Colin Armister. Yeah, fantastic. All right, let's get out of here. We've got one more Film Club episode coming out next week. Just to remind everybody, we're going to be watching Golden Shoes. The synopsis reads, a young boy captures the hearts of the nation as he overcomes bullying, intolerance, and a dire home situation to pursue his dream of playing soccer.

43:13Vishnu Vaka: One review of the film read, this film has no characters, no arc, no growth. It isn't funny and its message is so obvious that it is insulting to children's intelligence. Just everything we need from a Pete's Film Club and Jimmy, you've watched it. I have watched it. A little sneak preview of what we're going to expect?

43:28Jim Campbell: A little sneak preview is that when we did Film Club before, you personally did an incredible job of finding truly some of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. You've excelled yourself here. the thing that got me through this

43:44Vishnu Vaka: the discorders have the discorders suggested this one so in other words sign up to the Patreon patreon.com forward slash football ramble

43:49Jim Campbell: well done discorders because what got me through this was knowing that Marcus has to come home from his holiday and then watch this and I found that so funny

43:59Vishnu Vaka: I'm hoping he gets on Sunday about 6pm puts the kids to bed yeah hasn't really thought about it I hope he forgets that he has to do it maybe he's got talk sport on the night as well he's like he's having to watch it on the train not really prepping for his talk sport show and then he's had such a bad trip back on a Sunday that he's starting to lose his faith a bit as well and he's just oh no well it's an affront to God this film will be an affront to God yes I mean fantastic you sent me several text messages while you're watching you're going this is incredible look out for the film you should probably watch it again if you're second screen that's not really in the spirit of Silk it's a good point actually

44:37Jim Campbell: I've never felt more comfortable not paying full attention to a movie I know I missed nothing no exactly

44:43Vishnu Vaka: well later today a couple of central defensive hatchet men will be taking turns and two foot in each other it's Champions League versus Champions League my bitty aunt Luke versus Jamie Carragher it's not bad is it so look out for that that's coming out at about 3pm this afternoon at all wherever you get your podcasts thank you for listening to the Football Ramble part of the Acast Creator Network I like the way I'm just about to say that I'm going to finish the show like that Jim and I will be back on Monday with Marcus and remember the final film from the summer is back on Tuesday so make sure you watch Golden Shoes before then it's on Amazon it's awful get yourself a slice of Golden Shoes it's like he it's like he saw the finish line and thought ah fuck it I'll stop here okay what is it matter I'll just start grandstanding what's 100 metres 80 metres it doesn't matter does it I've done it Jim Campbell say farewell bye say goodbye what is it matter they've already left there's goodbye from me come

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