Will Lankshear Stays? | The Harry Kane Media Narrative, Mateus Fernandes Danger & Alex Scott (feat. Ricky)

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2:03hello everyone welcome back to rule the roost podcast and i'm delighted today to be welcoming back. Ricky, I was about to say your full name though. Ricky. How are you doing? I'm trying to say Mr. Ricky, lads are none, fighting cock. Obviously everybody knows you, but hello mate. How are you doing? Welcome back. I'm all good, mate. I'm all good. Monday morning, the sun's shining. My house has been invaded by house flies, but that's not a positive. So if you see me a little bit preoccupied, it's because I'm just eyeing them up thinking and I'm going to fucking kick your head in later. Little bastards.

2:41They love it. You know in the heat when we're all like melting, they just come alive, don't they? Mate, I'm just laying on the sofa, little tickles on my arms and legs. Fuck off! Try to watch a football. Leave me alone. It's those persistent ones that like, they land on your leg, you swat them, they just do a little circle, just like, ooh, and then straight back down again. Little bastards, aren't they? Little bastards. I hate them, hate them. Because it's just, the thing is as well, You all know. It's just been sat on a poo somewhere as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been on a poo. It's probably had its horrible little...

3:14You know how they've got those little, like, trunks, don't they? Yeah, yeah. That they suck stuff up with. Isn't it like how they digest stuff? They put acid on it and it, like, dissolves it and then they suck that up like a fucking soup. So it's like, oh, them just buzzing around me all the time. Go away. I always see it because, you know, we always send each other like those horrible nature videos from like there's various different like instagram accounts nature is metal and all this stuff where it will show the actual horrible side of nature yeah um but they always use this quote i'm not sure who it is that said it but they always say something like nature is just full of the most unimaginable horrors to human beings which it's just you know it's it's miserable some of those like i know i know we apply like was it anthropomorphism isn't it where you apply human characteristics to animals right yeah and you sort of you look at like you know when the lion eats a baby wildebeest and you think it's evil it's a horrible thing to do yeah yeah yeah but when you watch those videos i do think you bastards it's just it's a toddler that little wildebeest yeah especially when it's like the smallest run of the pack and you know they're just watching them and they grab it and run off and you You think, oh, come on.

4:34Come on. There's bigger ones. Pick on the bigger boys. Go on, have a go. You think you're hard, do you? You think you're hard, do you? King of the jungle and all that, yeah? My arse. Ricky, I'll tell you something else that's been annoying me, actually. Yeah, go on. Well, it didn't annoy me just whilst we were on social media. Have you seen the video, the clip doing the rounds of one of HS Tiki Toki's boys trying to get this lad kicked out of a bar. No. So one of his, like, I'm going to say one of his subordinates, right? One of these lads that rolls with HST. Yeah, exactly. There's this geezer standing at a bar, and they've obviously, the clip is cut in when they're all telling this kid to get out of the bar.

5:23And there's this one Irish lad, he's pretty stacked. Do you know what I mean? He's a pretty big boy, and he's not intimidated by him. But there's like six of them all around him being like, you know, get out. You just told me to fuck off. Why are you telling me to fuck off? And he's just literally like, because your man just walked past and knocked my sunglasses off my face. So I told him to fuck off. Like, what's the problem? Yeah, yeah. And they're all like, they're all on him. They're all like shouting in his face. And he's just standing there like, don't care. But then this lot, right? So they go around all these strips, don't they?

5:51Magaluf or wherever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Acting the big one, right? They've got like a private security guard. Do you know that? Oh, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because this geezer won't move. They're literally telling him to leave this bar and he's like, I'm not, I'm watching the football. I'm not going anywhere. And so their security guard just comes in, this obviously massive fellow, just comes in and frog marches this geezer out. And I just thought, I hope it ends badly for those boys. I don't like to wish ill on people, but I hope it ends miserably for those boys. they are they are a net bad for everything scumbags you know scumbags utter scumbags i watched i watched louis theroux's thing and i know you've done a a very good lads non-pod on it actually and i i actually thought you know for one of the first times i i thought louis got done by them actually do you i did i i don't think he i don't think he really i think he tried too hard to actually show them as in like maybe they're not all bad maybe they're like maybe there is something more to them and i think i think they had him i think they had him on strings i think really yeah i think they played on louis like journalistic sensibilities of trying to show a balanced side to them i think there's just scum i think they're horrible people i i think louis did enough for them to kind of hang themselves on the way they conducted themselves yeah okay yeah perhaps to perhaps to people who don't like them but I think if you're trying to convince like a raft of young people that idolise these people I think they banged Louis out do you know what I mean oh maybe maybe yeah I don't know I know it's just an interesting note to start a Tottenham pod on but it got me a bit Rick this morning when I was looking through the internet when I was doing a bit of doom scrolling I saw this I just thought what's going on what is going on what is going on You know, in our day, what do we like?

7:53Johnny Knoxville and all that lot, didn't we? Do you know what I mean? What's wrong with us? Throwing poo at each other and things. I've still been watching Jackass clips and stuff like that. It's brilliant. They've got another one coming out, don't they, I think? Yeah. So I think they're doing a lot of press for it. So I'm seeing a lot of new clips and stuff, which is great. And just some of the old ones. Have you ever seen one when him and, I can't remember which one it is. Is it Chris Pointers or something? When they're on the, like, seesaw, but there's a bowl in this room.

8:25and chris point is like runs off and johnny knoxville's just doing the seesaw on his own and he's just saying i'm not out i'm not out and the ball gets him it's very good it's the best of times the best of times how are you enjoying the world cup rick yeah i mean i'm watching most games um as like the Obviously, the early morning games, I'm not watching. I'm just watching highlights, goals mainly. But, yeah, I am enjoying it. I'm enjoying the fact that, you know, before the World Cup, there was a lot of apprehension, it being held in America, didn't know how it was going to be received. And the first kind of notes of it was the ref being sent home, not allowed to kind of ref a game and there were other bits and pieces where people weren't allowed to travel to America and they weren't let through and had to go home and I think there's quite a few Scots as well that were turned away for one reason or another so everyone was thinking oh shit man it's gonna be it's gonna be bad but football it feels like has won and a lot of these things is kind of um i don't know you get caught up with i don't want to go all political but you get caught up with what your government are saying and what they do but the people of america and how welcoming they are to a lot of the countries and cultures and everyone drinking in bars and getting involved and stuff like that it's been it's been amazing it's been it seems like in in all the cities everyone has just kind of got into world cup fever and everyone's enjoying it whether they love uh soccer or they don't they're still kind of like really um in that party mode which is great because that's what it's all about it's all about celebration of football of cultures of countries and people meeting different people finding out about each other and stuff so you're seeing loads of different amazing stories on the internet which is great uh football side of it football's been good i am enjoying really enjoying the booing for the refreshment breaks um but yeah yeah yeah i'm enjoying it how about yourself yeah i'm i'm enjoying it and i agree with you like i do think a lot of a lot of the chat beforehand was sort of off-putting.

11:00And I think just with Spurs' season, all that type of thing, I just kind of felt like, no, actually, I'll tell a lie. Do you know, I tell you when I started to look forward to the World Cup, the second Gabrielle's penalty flew over the crossbar in the Champions League final, I suddenly thought, I'm free. I can enjoy football again. This is it. I can look forward to the World Cup. I can look forward to the World Cup and hope that Gabrielle messes up for Brazil as well.

11:31But did you, are you on board with England? How are you, I mean, because I, you know, it's a funny, it's a funny world. Like when you go from like tweeting about Spurs a lot, when you start tweeting something about England, you start getting like pelters from people with like Stockport flags in their bios and all this type of thing. Do you know what I mean? and all these various different little bobbins clubs that make supporting England their personality get really angry. So I think it's fair to say both the Ghana game and the Panama game, England were crap. I don't think they played well at all, right?

12:08Yeah, yeah. But apparently that's, you know, it's a sin to say that sort of thing. I've been pretty disappointed with England, I've got to say. It was, yeah, it was, I mean, both games was shite. It was boring. I didn't feel like, especially, I mean, the second half, obviously, against Panama was a lot better. But you have to, I think teams know how strong England can be with the players that we have. So naturally, you're going to get teams that will sit back or teams that are going to be in a formation where it's way more defensive and try and nick one on the counter. But then you should have players that will be able to unpick those locks.

12:58And I kind of feel like we have missed a bit of a trick without having Palmer or Foden just to kind of give us that little bit more. so i but then also equally i am you can't play amazing football in every single game and this is tournament football it's just getting enough points and making sure you get through to the next round like if we play i've got congo next right and congo dr congo and if we play against them we're more more than likely that you know they will have a lot of their team behind the ball hit us on the counter again and we will more than likely the press and everyone else will be giving England pelters but as long as we go through that's fine if we start playing against teams that are a bit more expansive and that don't play that way I think we'll get a you know a better performance like croatia they actually you know tried to come out and play against us and try to win the game but that's where we you know where we excelled especially in the second half we absolutely annihilated them created so many more chances so i just think because of the the matchups and the way the other teams have been playing it's not been favorable to us and you can get those types of games in the Premier League where if you've got you know the favoured one of the top six teams and someone's playing a low block and they're just defending for their lives you're not going to see lots of chances because they're trying to work the ball and trying to move the opposition out of you know position and it takes time and it takes the while to bait the press and for them to get out and sometimes they're not even coming out to press it's like you've got a score mate and but by the time it gets longer and longer in the game the nerves get you know more intense and then people kind of like and you know your stamina intensity the heat it all plays uh a big role but i'm not i'm not particularly worried i'm not here to say i think we've been playing well or anything like that but i'm not shitting the bed either you know uh if we do beat dr congo we've probably got mexico in mexico in the round after that and they haven't lost in mexico for quite a long time i don't think yeah i did see that i didn't know it was actually in mexico though that is not um fuck i mean we should we should be able to beat mexico like mexico a good home support is a thing yeah but if england want to win a world cup they should be able to beat Mexico right that that's kind of the way you got looking at isn't it it is oh man like that opening game that opening game of the Azteca uh the atmosphere was insane it's I think it's Mexico City not the Azteca we'd be playing them I think let me right okay but um yeah that's gonna be tough man it's still good it's still gonna be very tough but the thing is we like i mean whether it's playing capability that yeah we should be beating mexico but we have a lot of players that are prem experience champions league experience all of that stuff they've played in these types of situations before so they should be able to handle themselves it's not like they're top them and they're going to crumble in those fucking high pressured environments so i do have hope for them but um yeah hadn't realized that it's going to be in mexico that oh shit mate it is the azteca right we're out that is where we get so i've just seen it now yeah so they're like i think the gringo name for it basically is the mexico city stadium but it's a steady azteca so it's um yeah we're out that's i mean but what what a game though as well.

17:09You gotta say, like, what a game. I mean, was Handic Gods? Was that in the Azteca? The world's biggest soccer tournament has arrived, and you can trade the entire tournament on Kalshi. On Kalshi, you can trade every match from the opening stage all the way to the final. On Kalshi, you're trading against peers in a live market, meaning there's no house. And as the probability changes, you can buy in and out of your position. For a limited time, download the Kalshi app and use code CUP26 to get$10 when you trade$10. K-A-L-S-H-I Kalshi. Trade the beautiful game. 18 plus only restrictions and eligibility requirements apply.

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18:55I'm pretty sure it was. I swear I saw an interview with them confirming that it was there. Come on. It was the Azteca. Yes, go on, get in. That's it, vengeance. Maybe we can do our own, yeah, our own hand of God. Can you imagine? I actually, I think somebody, I think he'd be taken out if that happened. Yeah. To be fair, that is a gross and unfair xenophobic mischaracterization of the Mexican people there. Right, okay. Judging them by their worst element, which, you know, we as British people should probably be wary of.

19:42You like Jude Bellingham because you see what he had to say about Harry Kane after the game against Panama? No, I didn't actually. What would enlighten me? What did he say? He basically, like he was just waxing lyrical about Harry Kane, just saying that he's enjoyed playing with him these past few years, that it's actually a great honour to be playing with what he considers England's greatest ever player. Just as the way he conducts himself in training, the way he acts as a captain is an example to everybody. He's a true leader, a wonderful professional. And, you know, it just, do you know what I mean?

20:23In that sort of, you know, game recognises game way. I look at Jude Bellingham, right? And I was saying this on one of my little World Cup pods, It's like, I feel that like, because Jude Bellingham doesn't get the Premier League exposure, we sometimes forget that like, we've got one of the best players in the world playing for England. Yeah, yeah. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. When suddenly when England starts playing again and you see him doing what he does, like that, the goal against Panama, do you know what I mean? It's sneaky, it's a little cheeky thing, but just to have the pitch IQ and that to do that.

20:53I think people get a bit lost with Bellingham because do you remember there was those reports of that he was a bit maybe disruptive in the England camp, maybe a bit arrogant that he wasn't getting on well with people and maybe a bit kind of, you know, attitude or arrogance or there was bits and pieces that were going around and I think that probably still lingers with people. So I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, he's like him at Madrid. For him to flourish at Madrid in the way he has done, I mean, you have to acknowledge that he's a fucking talented guy because a lot of people go to Madrid and get swallowed up no matter how good you are, like British, whatever.

21:46And he's gone there and he's ruled the roost. so to speak yeah there you go yeah there you go um but yeah he is it's it's nice for you know i still hold a torch for kane i think i always will and for someone to come out and be you know talking that way of him it only kind of um fervors what a fucking tremendous heroic man harry kane is man i'd love it if he could if he could lift that world cup that would be just imagine the photo yeah you know we've got that one of bobby moore sat on the shoulders don't we yeah yeah yeah the harry kane one although in this one in this world cup it'd be trump there won't it with him that's that's what the moment will be immortalized by him oh god sitting next to donald trump he'll have a cowboy hat on yeah cowboy hat and a big gulp in the other hand Make America great again.

22:43Cap on that Trump's just put on him. Fucking hell. I reckon Harry secretly likes all that sort of stuff. Do you?

22:54He's just very patriotic. He loves Tom Brady and all that, doesn't he? Yeah, he does. Yeah, yeah. You know. It does annoy me, though. It does annoy me. Like, I just can't help. As the sort of triggered Spurs fan, so much of the discussion around this World Cup, is all... Hasn't he gone on levels? Hasn't he gone on levels since he left Tottenham? Ridiculous, isn't it? He hasn't at all. Why are they so loathe to give us respect at all? Every single turn, do you know what I mean? He's gone to Bayern Munich, he's playing with better players. Mate, it's like fucking... He was doing that at Tottenham years and no one would acknowledge him.

23:34No one, because he was at Tottenham. They wouldn't give him his flowers. And now because he's at Bayern Munich, Like, you know, it's a different story. I'm not having it, Jack. In fairness, he broke Ronaldo's record. So he's 70 goals in a season now. Wow. So, yeah, so Messi's the only one to better that with, I think it's 90-something goals in a season he got in, I don't know, when he was like peak Messi. That's outrageous. Yeah, second was Ronaldo with 69 goals in a season, but big H, 70 and counting. So Ballon d 'Or, Ballon d 'Or incoming, mate, maybe. Yeah, hopefully. If he gets that work, imagine that.

24:23This is the sort of stuff I was memeing years ago. Do you know what I mean? I was making on Photoshop. Harry Kane with a World Cup and Harry Kane lifting the Ballon d 'Or. And this is, maybe he has gone on level since he left Tottenham. I don't know. No. No? He's still the same old Harry He was doing all of that stuff at Tottenham I'm telling you But he just Because he was at Tottenham And he wasn't part of The top four Or the red mafia They just wouldn't Give it to him You've got to win a Premier League before you can call yourself this You've got to do this before you can call yourself that Goalposts shifting all the time And now Like, now he's at Bayern and he's, yeah, he's won a couple of titles, won a couple of cups there as well.

25:13They got further into the Champions League. And now it's like, oh, he's changed his game. He's done this. He's done that. He's dropping deep. He always fucking dropped deep, you fucking slugs. I fucking watched him. I watched him binging balls all over the shop. Yeah. Week in, week out, you know. um saying that week in week out um i was doing one of those things earlier you know where you're supposed to be working i've got i've got some stuff to do but you know it suddenly dawns on me that it's more important to sort the top drawer out on my desk and um i didn't even know i had these but i found this i don't know if you can see that oh yeah that is a ticket stub for the fa carling premiership tottenham v arsenal monday the 2nd of january 1995 um so there you go block Do you remember what the score was?

26:15I do, actually. That was 1-0 to the mighty Tottenham. Was it? That was Gika Popescu scoring, and he was wearing gloves in that game, and it was fucking cold. Was that your first NLD? No, no, no, no, no. My first ever match was my... It wasn't a typical NLD. It was a friendly against Arsenal in the Mitre Cup held at Wembley, and there was a tournament, and it was Tottenham, Arsenal, Bayern Munich and AC Milan and we lost 3-0 to Arsenal. That was my first game. And the Tottenham end was sold out. So my dad bought us tickets in the Arsenal end and I had a big Tottenham flag. And my two memories from that game was my dad cupping his hands over my ears because I was crying because it was so loud.

27:08And the second was loads of Tottenham fans running up the side cage that separates the two teams and jumping over and fighting with the arsenal lot right in front of me that was my uh initiation so yeah i mean that one and also i remember that is because we're on um the wooden seats back at white art lane and i was standing on my wooden seat right and my sister was next to me and we'd scored and she nudged me and my seat went up like that and my leg, one went either side, so my nuts smashed onto the seat. Then the seat went forward and while everyone was celebrating, my ankle was just trapped in my seat.

27:50I was just laying on the floor, my dad having to get me out. But when you're a kid, you're usually all right, aren't you? Yeah, yeah. I'm fine, I'm fine. Yeah, yeah, run it off. I don't remember the wooden seats. Do you not? I don't, no. And on here as well, it says, members ticket invalid without members voucher do you ever remember getting the the members book and it's a ticket stub that you rip off and give it to them so that's that's how old you know i am when i went to see tottenham and then this second one is tottenham v sheffield wednesday saturday the 10th december 1994 block t where the fuck was block t oh that was um paxton upper that was i don't really remember much about that game if i'm honest i think we won 3-1 but i don't remember any of the scores maybe clinsman school actually thinking about it but um yeah i've got so many ticket stubs that are from those years fucking mad all all i can see is early 90s so it's after the taylor report early 90s they got rid of the last of the wooden seats at white heart lane so if anybody does it because my first game was 94 or 95 so i don't know maybe they just had wooden seats in a certain part of the stand.

29:24They had them at Everton in the away end, like Goodison Park forever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was nice, a nice little thing. On Tottenham right now, mate, Will Langshire, the talk of the town, the talk of the town is that we've knocked back a substantial or at least a significant bid from people are believing to be Sporting Club de Portugal, known as Sporting Lisbon. Is that what they call Sporting Club de Portugal? Yeah, so I spoke to Phil about this the other day. So yeah, they have a big thing that that's actually our name. We're not Sporting Lisbon. It'd be like calling us Tottenham London or something.

30:12you know right they say their name is Sporting Club de Portugal so um they uh so Spurs apparently want a significant amount of money for Will Langshear um I mean what do you make of that mate that's interesting I mean certainly interesting I mean like he had a in terms of loan he had a very good season at Oxford I remember they like him don't they yeah I've seen quite a few goals of him and good goals as well I I wouldn't really want to sell him if I'm honest I'd like to see how he fares in one of the kind of to go back to the championship again but one of the you know the middle into bigger clubs there at Oxford he would have been like the main man everything would have been fed into him like to see him try and apply his trade at somewhere a bit more tougher where there's a bit more pressure on it on him to deliver but if they have come in for a bid and depending on what the bid is I guess you'd have to look look at it I feel like that there might there is there might be a turn in Tottenham's transfer strategy, whereby if we have these players like Bergvall and clubs are coming in and they're willing to pay a decent amount of money, this would go to propping up other transfers.

31:57And by that, I mean, what it's reported for, what we're trying to sign Tonali for, what we're trying to sign Fernandes for all these I get that we you know that there's been a cash injection you know and all of this other stuff but we don't really want to go down like a Chelsea route where we're just spending a lot of money but and to be fair that you know when a player doesn't work out they are able to sell these assets on so maybe we're trying to kind of go Chelsea light by with our players that are a prospect but De Zerbi maybe doesn't feel like they're ready and his preference is to rely on senior players established players more experienced players so he may have said you're not ready yet maybe in two seasons we'll have another look and if a player is like well do you know what I feel like I can progress further in a different club if I take a step down if I go outside to Europe then you can't really argue you can't really it's hard to kind of put a block in someone's career path because you feel like they may have a they may have something they may have a chance at Tottenham and I would like to see Lanxier develop and Bergvall and Archie Gray and whoever else Sosa but then you've got to think of them and you know it's it's it's weird to be like oh like um no I'm just thinking about Tottenham what's what's good for Tottenham that's all I'm concerned about but you know these are young lads and I do want them to do well um and it is their career at the end of the day so if they feel like they're not going to get that stepping stone or that chance or that opportunity at Tottenham then you just have to say like fair enough go go and get you know go go and achieve your dream somewhere else but it's all dependent on how much that they're offering for for Lancashire really because like I said he did really well Oxford so I would like to see him integrated more into our first team or either get a you know a higher caliber loan have you seen him doing uh he's done the thing that footballers do where he's put out like a video of him training on his social media without a shirt on and he's just he's just twatting the ball top bins but i think he's sort of keen to show off the fact that like he's a unit now because you know he's one of those players that like was like a little boy i think we gave him did we give him like an appearance in the europa league or champions league and he got sent off didn't he and there's he scored a goal and then got sent off oh i think i can't remember i think it was i think yeah yeah and i think it was his debut oh fucking uh um yeah he scored a goal and got sent off but now he's suddenly like wedged he's suddenly and i guess what is he must be 21 22 now i guess so he's probably suddenly gone through like another one of those growth spurts he's wedged he apparently is like very eager to impress Roberto De Zerbi in pre-season so I'm always the thing is like I totally get what you're saying and I'm always going to be more like excited by the idea of one of the kids from the academy coming through and making it like I still you know I love those stories and I think that's what football is all about at the end of the day and I think yeah weirdly enough I think Spurs have like really lost sight of that the past few years um but like you as well I still I'm somewhere between and I heard you lot talking about it on fighting cock the other day and I know gal was like quite no nonsense about it in the respect that like I want to see Tottenham succeed more than I want to see young players realize their potential which sounds really brutal but at the end of the day I support Spurs and I really want Tottenham to to win something massive you know like I didn't for most of my life and then we got close to winning something massive under Pochettino and as people always say toothpaste out the tube and all that like I think we just because we brushed it I'm just now like well I can't want to see it that's the next step in it I want to see Spurs win the league so like do I want to see Spurs win the league having spent 100 million pounds on Savino or whoever?

36:44Or do I want to see Spurs, you know, heroically come sixth because we've given Mikey Moore and, you know, Lancashire minutes? I think there's only one answer there, isn't there? But it doesn't mean it has to be either or. I was wondering what your answer was going to be there. No, but do you know what I mean? It doesn't mean it has to be either or. But, you know, again, you have to trust the manager, don't you, to make the decision as to whether or not he thinks these players are good enough to add value at this point in time. But the lad's doing everything we can ask from him, isn't he? You know, I think he's a Spurs fan, I want to say.

37:23And, you know, it'd be the dream, wouldn't it? It'd be the dream to play for us. But I guess there's a wider point, mate. Like, we have been quite good. We've been linked with a lot of players this summer, but no strikers. equally I've not seen any sort of news or any reports that there's actually any interest in Richarlison from any clubs or that we're actively shipping him out same with Solanke and also now when you hear that like Will Langshere we're saying it would take significant money to get him out I wonder if this is Deserby or the club saying right now our like strike just we're talking like the top of the triangle top of the the system the striker actually the options we have maybe we're quite happy with that maybe we just need to build around them um because baker who i had on before made a very good point like comparing the profiles of like dominic slanky and danny welbeck who deserve he had at brighton before and deserve he was one of the managers who really really got a lot out of danny welbeck because he was a player that could play quite well in that link-up role.

38:31He could play well up top. He could hold the ball up. He could bring other players into the equation, the players who were coming in from the wings and all that type of stuff. And I know, like, I've been super critical of Dominic Solanke, and I'm not really the biggest fan of his. But that's more because I'm like, he's not scoring enough goals. Why isn't he getting in the box enough? Yeah. A lot of the stuff he does really well, though, are those things that apparently De Zerbi really wants from his striker. I think Solanke does work hard in the final third. Solanke does manage to hold on and retain possession really well in the final third.

39:04He does do really well in that way that we always used to make fun of Soldado being like a link-up player or that type of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe, maybe actually Deserby's just looking at the players that we have and thinks, you know, maybe they're right. Fitness is always an issue, especially with Charleston and Solanke, fitness is always going to be the thing, right? But I guess, would you be happy going? We spend, say we spend£200 million on a mixture of the different players we've been linked with. Yeah. But we have the same strikers going into next season. Yeah. As well as Will Langshire.

39:38Yeah. What are you saying?

39:43I would like us to refresh that department. but if our money is being put into elsewhere, then that's fine. But it's like we did have a problem scoring goals last season. And although Richarlison grabbed a few, Solanke, it's not enough to raise us that level. Like you're saying with Solanke, he's great at linking up the play. he's really great at engaging the opponent's centre-backs holding them off and then giving the ball away he at Bournemouth he was known for being in the penalty box and just you know finishing and that's kind of why we signed him and we haven't seen that at Tottenham at all so maybe Deserby is like that's kind of the way I want to play if you've got I don't know Savinho and Kudus as your wingers and they're going to be there to skin the fullback and cut it back for Solanke.