Guéhi stays and the Premier League’s wild window

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1:03Ryan Hunn: hello everyone welcome back to the stadio podcast it's the thursday edition i'm ryan hunn i'm i nearly said i'm musak wonger that's how unused to doing the intro i am was that a sentence i uh well i wouldn't that's how not used to doing the intro i wouldn't envy you whatever you're weak in my shoes my friend we hope everyone's staying safe and well how are you doing musok konga i am very well indeed yeah yep yeah good week well i'm just looking i'm focusing on the small things had a great coffee from the uh the next door cafe oh nice oh my god sad thing on the way here i took a turn there's a new there's a new uh coffee place on my street and it started by like a middle-aged dude but i think he started it to like just make friends because he's always super friendly when they go in there but the last few times it hasn't been open and i'm like i hope he made his new friends but yeah so that's the drama you just started it to feel something i think he did existential coffee honestly espresso honestly i would i would if someone started an existential cafe i would drink that all the time existential chino with uh oat milk generally genuinely that i i drink therefore i am honestly yeah man if you if you wonder why stadio suddenly stops because moose has gone and set up his existential

2:29Ryan Hunn: you can't enter without some kind of crisis and then you know there's i think on your way in you have to have like a piece of paper it can be printed of course but like an anonymous musing of a thing that you are like pondering and then you just put it in the box. You can do misfortune cookies. Yeah.

2:49Honestly, it's a concept. It's a concept. It's a concept.

2:52Ryan Hunn: Well, good luck with that. Let me know how it goes. I think about popping in. Anyway, today we're doing a little bit of, we're doing our own musings today on the transfer window. The men's transfer deadline happened on Monday. We're going to touch on some of the stories or the themes that came out of it and basically keep it quite loose today. You're going to get this on Thursday. There will be a very, very quick Stadio Social Club podcast on Friday. You and I are actually in London for a bit of work. We are. Very exciting. We'll let you know who we're chatting to next week. Hint, don't call her a comeback.

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4:08Ryan Hunn: Oh, God. You and your gold jacket. Which I do love very much. The least low-key intermediary of all time. Hiding in plain sight. Moose Aguanga is the gold intermediary. The intermediary. Right, today, should we just get into some transfers? Let's do them. Talk transfers. We've talked quite a lot of Liverpool recently. But let's quickly shout out them getting the deal over the line for Alexander Izak. not much we already didn't know about the prospect of them getting him but very interested indeed to see how they line up in an attacking sense not negative at all but just I am very intrigued to see what Arna Slott does with that front five yeah probably five right because you have to include Gakpo in that Gakpo, Salah Vietz Eketike Izak yikes sounds like an ultimate team on the AFC yeah I mean it's I mean it is yeah it is you know who's salivating over that Pep Pep just playing like one at the back well we'll talk about Pep in a bit because I'm a bit worried about Pep I'm not going to lie but yeah anything on Ezek I mean I feel like we kind of have touched on Ezek before it felt like it was if it was going to happen this is the transfer that would have happened so I don't really have anything massively insightful to have people talk about you know fit and Ekatikay Ezek can they fit but just look at like Ian Rush and John Aldridge you know I mean that was terrifying that was absolutely a very long time ago I'm just saying it was yeah but things are cyclical 4-4-2 is back people never thought 4-4-2 would come back you could say Ekati K.

5:45Ryan Hunn: Mamouche people never yeah but also people never thought people never thought that you can and also people never thought 4-4-2 would come back and it's back and it was so back yeah yeah it was so back Atleti of course being extra playing four centre mids at one point which I really did love because you know but yeah it's it's exciting for Liverpool it's terrifying for everyone else as we said I think the wider conversation is maybe one about players forcing moves and I just want to say very quickly on that more generally because there's a lot of talk about oh my goodness like this is a transfer window where and so this is a wider conversation a lot of people saying it feels like players that forced their way out got rewarded and players that like were honourable stay put that's been the case for a while now.

6:34Actually, and I mentioned actually in the chat too, Gareth Bale actually goes under the radar for this quite a lot. It's fascinating actually. Him forcing it out of Spurs was super interesting in terms of the way he did it because this was a, I don't know what was a hostile take or what was a hostile exit very much, but it partly, I mean, it's kind of been memory hold in terms of what he did, but the thing I would say about this is player interests and club interests align a lot. especially when a player is doing really well for a club. But because clubs can be so ruthless when they discard a player, I tend to be more generous, I suppose, towards players that force their way out than most, only because I just see the consistent ruthlessness of clubs.

7:19And it's not just the transfer time. It's like when a player is injured or fighting their way back, especially a player who doesn't have the same profile within the squad, or a player is out on loan and discarded, or a player is given false promises towards the end of their time in the academy, or when a player, for example, a new manager comes in and then a ton of players are discarded. I just think that so many footballers fall by the wayside. The very, very few that get sufficient agency and autonomy to actually get the destination they desire, I tend to back them as a whole. It's not even about an individual, it's not even about ISAC specifically or Bale, it's more about it's very very rare that a player goes up against the club and gets an outcome that they deem favourable

8:06Ryan Hunn: If you look at Marguerite some reports have come out today that he's now extremely unhappy that that transfer didn't go through he just carried on playing I think to be honest that's kind of what a lot of people would do anyway just because people play or don't play I don't think it changes necessarily how much they want to leave a club or want a move to go through I think some players will just do that and some players won't. That's always been the case. I don't think this summer's been any different for that. It's interesting with the Mark Gahey one because it feels like if he is unhappy about it, then obviously you can understand if a player wants a move to go through.

8:42Ryan Hunn: But he's also going to get absolutely weighed in next year when that move happens, which it will do. Or he'll go somewhere else that he wants to go to. He's got huge leverage at this point. As a free transfer, yeah. He can agree a deal with anyone in Europe in January. It was an interesting kind of tussle, the Mark Gahey thing, because you had Parrish, who I think was willing to sell. Gahey, who I think was... All of the reports said that he was open to the move, but he wasn't pushing the move. You know, I think he seemed quite... I don't know whether that's just briefings. I think Palace are the winner, to be honest.

9:15Ryan Hunn: Glasner's contract's up next year. And he was basically like, look, you guys promised that we wouldn't sell him unless we had an agreement. And if he goes, I'm gone. Well, that's what I meant by Palace being the winner, because look, what did Palace get? They get a Conference League run with Gueye as the basis of that. And look, we saw Palace sell Michael Alisa and they run the FA Cup. They've seen him sell Eze and they still look really, really good because Gueye is the basis of that. And Glasner knows what he can build on, right? Glasner knows that he can replace playmakers if he has to, as long as Gueye is the basis.

9:50and actually instead of looking at it as palace losing the money i look at it as that's the cost of retaining glasner that was a preview of today's episode of stadio

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