S16E12 - Everything We Want

31:40That was our biggest problem against Brentford where they did go super aggressive man-to-man and forced us to go long into Richarlison. And Richarlison just cannot make it stick whatsoever. Kudis has always been brilliant at that. You saw that last season. Our only outball under Thomas Frank was to play the ball from Vacario to Porro. And Porro would just lump it down the line to Kudis. And Kudis would have one man, two man at his back. And the amount of times that he'd be able to hold them off and then bring other players into play, he's so good at that. He's got that strength and got that ability to hold the ball at his back.

32:15And also, if you've just got better technicians in that front line generally, which is what Marmouche is, Savio, despite his faults further up the pitch, he is a very good technical footballer that will hold on to the ball. Kudus obviously come back as well. And Solanke to come back. If you are forced to go long and be more direct to get over the press, then they are just going to look after the ball a lot better generally. And then you can turn and then you can make something. And also, teams are then probably less likely to go as tight because they know that these players can just sort of actually look after the ball and spin away.

32:48They're not going to be as aggressive. The upgrade in technical quality in that front line is going to force teams to not be able to play the way that Brentford did. Yeah, I agree with you. It's kind of a mental upgrade. And while we all kind of rate Mikey Moore and wish him well and hope that he has a long and excellent career at Spurs. Really nice goal. The keeper probably should have done better, but he hit it with such venom that it went in. And he rebounded after a couple of failed take-ons, losing the ball. And for them to go again and actually have a really strong second half, Mikey Moore...

33:28The goal gave him so much confidence, I think. You could just see it was night and day after he scored that goal. Yeah. but I don't think he's quite at Premier League level yet which is fine and so you do need players like we've missed Kudis massively if you think we're actually okay looking okay not necessarily the way we played but our results under Frank I think we went something like 13 games unbeaten if I remember rightly I remember Justin Cochran tweeting about it something like that I might get it wrong but everything changed when Kudis picked up his injury and just having him And just as options.

34:04And Mamouche can, like you said, play off the left if he needs to. I think we'll probably get Gakpo now. That's exciting. What a mental summer. What a fucking crazy summer. I'd be really excited for Gakpo. We've obviously all joked internally about, you know, when the first links were there together and saying it was shit. And I've always liked him because I think he's just such a Spurs player. And yeah, he'll be inconsistent and that type of stuff. but you can't tell me that he's not an upgrade on tail like he just is yeah he is uh and yeah but you've got a boner about tail you just that you don't but you've chosen not to like him and now he's got the opposite of a boner yeah yeah exactly it's i mean i can't even force it in but you have a boner for to for tell being uh no i and i and i i lean into that sometimes but i have been i recognize now my position would tell now is that i i would like him to stay and i'd like him to be in the squad but my my issue was people going we should invest our energy and that's position to tell and see how he develops and i'm like we're not that if if if what we're doing this summer is is now what tottenham are like this is this is the mentality we have to move beyond because no other elite club would be going yep that position is his for him to grow into that doesn't happen it didn't happen with phil foden it didn't happen with cole palmer it doesn't happen it would be lovely if we had could do that but we are in a position now where we where we need to improve and we need to improve substantially and tell odiver bergval you know and i i almost include gray in it but not quite like no i don't want to be that club at the moment like i want us to jump four rungs of the ladder and be where we need to be.

35:57100%. Without question. It's not time to... We're not worrying about youth integration. Send them out on loan. If they're not good enough, you can't... We don't have the luxury of nearly getting relegated twice and then going, no, but we need to develop our young players because that's the right way to do things. Yeah, but tell now, I feel, has deserved that place in the squad. And he can stay. And I think he'll get enough and we'll learn from... the players that are now going to be there, where it will do his development just as good as him being out. Maybe not just as good, but he'll still be able to develop.

36:31Marmouche and Tell, when he was in the Bundesliga, he was the most underrated player. Yeah. Well, there you go. So, yeah, so I've softened slightly on Tell, but yeah, the rest of them can all go.

36:45All of them go. Gorilla splashes. With anyone else encouraged by Richarlison's contribution to the chart and win, him staying firmly on the bench, made a real positive impact on the team's performance. His best game in a while hopefully can continue this for. See, I'm not comfortable with this. Yeah, I'm not comfortable with this Richarlison bashing. He's got to go, right? If we buy him, Mahmoud. Now we've bought him. He's not going to play a minute. He's not going to play a minute. Fine, but I'd still like him to be around because he is someone that didn't have to play a minute and you need a goal in the last five minutes and there's crosses coming in from all sorts of places.

37:16I've got no issue. If he wants to stay, I've got no issue with him staying. Yeah, I do get that. I respect him. I just don't rate him in any way. Yeah, he can't be starting. He shouldn't be our starting number. Oh, no. I think like, and it's the thing with Mahmouche, I really like him and I think it's a great signing for us. I don't think he is necessarily, he might be, but I think he's better off kind of playing with another number nine as well. And I think that Solanke would bring far more out of Mahmouche than what Richarlison would be able to do. So Mahmouche could be our 10, you think? I think so, especially in the time where we don't have another option.

37:55Oh, yeah, 100%. And it also changes the – it gives you different ways to play. There will be games where you need a Madison, you need a – I know he's not going to be around for a while, but like a Xavi, someone like that to help like – So would you go Tenali, Benton, Kuh, Marmouche, Savio, Solanke, well, Telven or Gakpo? Are you talking about specifically for tomorrow? Just in general. like if what Marmouche in a 10 yeah I would I'd think for now that I would go Tonali Fernandes Marmouche Solanke as a front two and then Savio and probably Tell until Kudas comes back and then I just think that if you look at Marmouche's career like he is best when he's playing with a target man number nine like Eketike at Frankfurt or like Haaland at City where again if you want to go direct he can benefit from harlan dropping deep and marmush then running into the space and beyond or he's a very good player at kind of being he's a traditional like if you go back like 20 years and you saw that strike partnerships picking up those second balls exactly and he's got such good ball striking from outside the box as well which is something that we don't have and i think it's something i spoke about so much when we were in for croupy like they're quite similar in certain ways specifically with that ability to play off a number nine and kind of drop back a little bit and then take shots or arrive late into the box.

39:21Marmouch's record against Newcastle was really, really good. And if you look at the first, when he first went there, he scored a hat-trick against them in his first game. The first goal is him, a long direct ball where Haaland drops deep and he runs in beyond and chips the goalkeeper. The second ball is like a ball to feet in the penalty area where he quickly shifts it and then wraps it bottom corner past the goalkeeper, which again, I don't think any of our strikers would do that. And then the third goal is Savio getting to the byline, and cutting it back and Mahmoud's kind of arriving from nowhere just to sweep it in first time so I think that if you're going to platform him in the best way sometimes you might overcomplicate he definitely can play as a nine for us I think but I quite like the idea while we haven't got a proper number 10 option and I don't really I don't mind Gallagher but I don't count Gallagher really in this I would play him and Slanky up top together yeah I like I like the sound of that yeah let's just do that the noble yeah it's fine just email the club Ben yeah um no bowl plan versus 17 says Mikey Moore keep for depth or loan loan loan championship loan or Premier League loan uh I think Germany loan I think I think he'll end up going to Kloon um that was I think that as soon as maybe after the weekend or like I don't know whether they're still waiting to get one more in and then do it but now with Kudas coming back I think that But interesting question here about Gakpo.

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42:32Honestly, I just... It's just ridiculous. It's me. What I just made, that noise then is me stood in the kitchen with one hand on my hip looking at my phone, shaking my head. My missus going, what is the matter with you now? like that is it because Barcola is out of reach to Tottenham at the moment yes like it's like why don't just buy Messi why don't we just buy the best player in the world like you don't think that like Barcola isn't some secret that the Spurs network would have gone bloody hell I hadn't even heard of him I've looked at a couple clips he looks really good we should have gone for him like it would have it would have got to a point where it was like well yeah I mean that would be incredible like have we got any soundings whatsoever that he would be remotely interested and of course that would have You come back as no, and then you move on.

43:16I don't... Barclay has been really impressive when I've seen him in an incredible PSG team. I don't think any of those players, barring probably Kravat Scilio, and obviously... I don't... They become lesser players when they leave PSG because they're not in that unit of... you know, did Portugal romp the World Cup because they had the best midfield in the world? No. No, these are the best midfielders for PSG. So much of it is Enrique, like you said. Oh, of course, yeah. So while this may say crazy, Kakpo, proven in the Premier League, knowing exactly what he wants, is probably more of a sure bet than buying Barcola at less price.

44:05Well, I think you only have to look at... Could be a reasoning. You only have to look at Liverpool. I mean, look what's happened with Wurtz. You know, when Wurtz signed, I think I remember every pundit going, well, that's a leak. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He was incredible for Leverkusen. Yeah, of course. But it's just such a... It's such a... There's no science behind people being able to come to the Premier League and adapt. Like, it just isn't. And as much as people get frustrated, like I've heard certain places go, I'm just frustrated with Tottenham's business because there are other players that we could have got for not as much money who are just as good that we can invest in that are from the continent and all the rest of it i'm like yeah but again if you can take out if you have to pay a 10 million pound surcharge for example to take away an element of that risk and then you can never take all of it away we've signed other players from other premier league clubs that turned out to be shite but if you can take away 30 of that risk 40 of that risk that actually they can adapt because they've already been here that the adaption is done to a degree then you then you pay it i just yeah i just there's so many variables in it and you know the market as it is is you know partly down to us i would say you know is inflated to a degree so us going oh we'll get back gacpo isn't very good because liverpool might not want to keep him is a nonsense yeah yeah barkler is one of the best wingers in the world instantly comes into the premier league i think like you said there's no guarantee that he hits because it's just it's not it's football but he becomes the best winger in the prem straight away in my opinion like it'd be the same if i know he's a lot better but if vinnie went to arsenal like he would have become the best winger in the premier league and it's like those kind of players are just not like that's not where we are right now and that's fine like that's absolutely fine it's it kind of goes back to the awesome thing a little bit as well just like what why would he like i know that's more about the money but like again he's not going to come to top him he's going to go to if you can if he's going to go to the premier league he's going to go to a team that is there.

46:02Tottenham can get there by doing what we're doing now and massively raising the floor of the squad to a point where next summer if we get back in Europe then maybe we can have a little look at some of these players. But the thing about the Premier League proven stuff, I understand, now we've brought like eight players all from the Premier League. I do understand some people kind of going, well maybe we can afford to take a bit more of a risk and not pay the premium that we need to pay to get another Premier League proven player in and these clubs know we've obviously got the money and we want one.

46:31but at the end of the day, like there could, if, if we didn't sign Gakpo and I think Gakpo is frustrating. I think he's got limitations. I like parts of his game, but there is also a world in two months time where we're going, Oh, we probably should have done that. I don't understand if there's any criticism of buying Premier League proven players. It's like, it's the best version, the best possible thing you can do is play by players, you know, can perform at the highest level in club football consistently over a 38 game period. That, is like that's that's what we haven't been doing for years we've and now we're doing it people are like oh no actually no it's only because people want to say want to talk about some knowledge that they have about players that are outside of this league i'm convinced that that is all it is um and uh if you are outside of this league uh then you're gonna need salie that was terrible wasn't it probably the worst link ever it doesn't mean anything what do you mean you're out of this um yeah so if you're going on holiday uh this this summer still some time uh here's a generally useful useful thing it's called an e-sim and you need salie it's going to save you on money it's going to save you on dealing with dodgy sim card sellers you have to queue in airports and you absolutely will pay less than you pay you have to pay ee or vodafone or wherever it is so you sign up and when you're going on holiday the minute you land it's available for data to use and yes cheaper and like um alex might you know i can't i can't go on holiday uh probably not but it's it's i mean the main point as you made pretty evidently clear the other week was that you know i don't need it because i can't go on holiday because i'm poor um which which by the way i had playing in the in the car and heart my daughter my nine-year-old daughter listened to it and pissed herself laughing it's exactly the same way that you and john did and i still now i still don't get it now and i didn't get it then but she she was she was absolutely pissing herself so um i've had numerous messages this week or tweets about you know sorry to hear you're poor and stuff like that um but all i can say is that i'm also i don't i'm not poor oh right right right right i just assumed because you weren't going on holiday i didn't i've been on holiday i just went to like yorkshire mate that don't count you're just in england you've driven somewhere that's what's happened does it count as a holiday if it's in this country no well yeah but that's because you don't understand nature ben said to me i spotted right i just tell a story right very quickly uh for anyone that is uh interested in any type of nature or you know kind of the unnatural world um i saw spotted a whilst on holiday in yorkshire a um hawkeye uh hummingbird moth fucking everywhere well i had not seen one before in real life and they're kind of a bit of a all right i said i said in the group it was a bit of a bucket list that i'd seen one bucket list that everybody in the uk has done this year i don't think that's true i've they're not not they've had a boom this year so i've read anyway yeah i read about it yeah um so i put in the group of that and ben was like you had had a few drinks and you're like i genuinely feel sorry for you if that's on your bucket list and i was like he's like why why are you interested in this stuff i was like it's just who i am ben that is the weakest bucket list ever you're going to achieve everything on that bucket list i tell you yeah i was just like a plane uh travel around the world uh natural world see a moth yeah but just animals in the natural world is my is my he was like why do you care about it i was like it's just my thing that's what i'm into what i will say is they are aren't common in in the uk but in this summer the people you've had they've come over and they are amazing they are massive but everybody has seen them wow I hadn't I've seen about eight I'm not even bothered anymore yeah well that's another one I wish I'd fuck off back to where they came from do you remember a few years ago there was all of the Asian hornet wasp things yeah they're nasty they are nasty it was a fucking massive one in my bedroom I'm not ticking that off my bucket list I'm getting the fuck out of there our hornets are great European hornets are great right they're not aggressive they're much less aggressive than wasps they eat wasps and they're good for press control but they are terrifying.

51:08Yeah, they are. Their heads move independent of their bodies which is not normal. What would you expect in a fucking bee-like creature? Are wasps the most hated animal in the world? Yeah, I'd say. They are for me. Yeah, they're cunts. But flies are the most hated. Not hated. They're just irritable. Like I've got the door open now and this time of year it's okay but there's going to come a time in there where you can't have a door open for longer than 30 seconds there's 40 of a buzzing around your light shade do you know like like if you're saying oh hate flies get away but they're buzzing everywhere they're crucial yeah i know this because i'm into nature ben won't know it tell him mate he did a alex did it for a laugh did a zoology degree yeah actually wasn't for a laugh i was quite proud of it but uh but yeah thanks mate good for you okay La Machine JT says you've got a gun in your hands and the Zerbi is making you shoot one player in the squad to set an example to the rest this will give us the motivation to win the league would you pull the trigger and if so who's getting pumped PS this is your chance to put the racist rumors to bed

52:25it's got to be couldas isn't it

52:31without thinking straight in there bam see you later one player in our squad I don't really want to shoot any of our players no maybe Richarlison because it's like this is standard you know when you get like a it's like when a horse goes down at the Grand National and it's just like it's just kind of to put them out of their misery a little bit no I'd I'd I'd I like Richarlison I'd kind of take him home and let him eat my... Yeah. Maybe, yeah. After Saturday, I wanted to... Yeah, I was so angry. Like, unacceptably angry about a young man who I've never met who was trying his best. Like, it was...

53:13That's the problem. There it is. There it is. We've seen his best. Can we talk about the press conference? What does Erby said in the press conference? Because I'll be honest, I wasn't particularly impressed with the press conference afterwards. After Charlton? No, after Brentford. So he talked about Bergvauld saying he knew that it was a game that Bergvauld would suffer, but had to start him because what was the point in pre-season otherwise? And I was a bit like, that's either a bit of a cop-out or that's not in the best interest of the club. It all seemed a bit excuse-y. You're almost writing that game off against Brentford as another pre-season game, if that's the case.

53:58Yeah, I just felt the press conference was a bit excuse-y. Shut up. Yeah. Shut up, Alex. Maybe I'll shoot De Zerbi. Do you want to feel this has been hard enough this week? Now you're picking holes in De Zerbi. Well, again, Flav, you can't... Just wait until it's immediately obvious that he's out of his depth. Let's not just hope he's out of his depth. Or think about things. It's like, well, no. Because we've spent all this money, and then you're like, and it starts and Brentford start well and then you're like, oh my God, they're still going well. 20 minutes has passed and they're still going well and you get to halftime and they should be 4-0 up.

54:32And then the second half, so I was like, he's going to put a rocket up them now. The second half would be different. Then they could have got a couple more and then the game ended and they just obliterated us for 90 minutes, right? And then what are you thinking? You're thinking, fucking hell, De Zerbe is your fraud. Is that what it is? Can he do this? So we'll find out, Alex. Yeah, which I appreciate, but we are not your moons. We don't revolve around whether you're upset or been a hard week and you don't want to talk about this. This is literally your job now. We had this conversation when you went full time, but this is what happened.

55:05I can control what is said on this pod. I can't stop you from saying this shit. Okay, fine. I was at the game, so I couldn't really tell, the Brentford game. A lot of people were saying with Bergvall, he, maybe this is unfair, but a lot of people were saying he kind of just like looked a bit disinterested, looked a little bit like head down. I think his confidence is... Yeah. Whether it's confidence or whether it was attitude, but yeah, there was a bit of walking going on at times where I'm like, let's just say I wasn't shouting walk. Yeah. Run you fucking... downtown guard 5201 so gents I've been listening since before COVID almost religiously but only just started following Flav and Ricky on socials given his voice his name and how right wing his politics tend to be presented I've always envisioned John as a most generic looking bald headed fat Englishman who happens to stand at 6 foot 3 to see an Instagram recommendation for the real John Bass and a picture of a dude with a full black beard and an equally full head of hair albeit a big forehead absolutely rattled me.

56:27Love the shirt, love the pod. If you need another person with a big male army, I'm 6 '5". I don't think we're taking any more applications. See, Ben's on the back foot already. Don't need any more. And also, sizes. Also, you would be taller than me and John so that doesn't really work. Yeah. also there's no guarantee of you know hardness evidently because yeah i could have you both i think i've always said this i'm not hard you'd be from crush a baby's skull in your hand i don't think you could i'm gonna say it i don't admit that look look i'm not like i've got little chicken arms i'm not like i'm just big i'm just tall like i'm not struck yeah look alex is more of a man than i am no no alex is more insecure than than you are that's why he's definitely yeah I'm securing my own body and my own frame I like the fact that whenever you wind someone up on Twitter or you make you you make a point about their football club they go to you fat cunt all the time like Ben look at him he's like the opposite of that he's not a fat do you know what it is I'm not fat he's like lock stock when he's like yeah you look like you should be fat but you're not yeah yeah nah we're saying I look like I should be fat yeah yeah yeah Yeah, absolutely.

57:42You should be fat, but you're not. And it rattles people. Hmark23 says, what's your favourite away day you've had with Ricky?

57:55Probably Prague away. I'm just going to say a couple of things. Pills. And strippers. It's a good away day. What more do you need? there is this kind of weird like when you not to expose anyone but like when you're when you do spurs away in europe it's sort of like carte blanche everyone's going to shag prostitutes like it's is it yeah it's just people talk openly about gang brass in later but at home you'd never talk like that done any brasses lads this one wasn't there wasn't there the thing about england in the euros and germany a couple of years ago where they were running out of like sex workers.

58:41They sort of ran out of brasses. They were all knackered. Yeah. They were like, we need to ship some more in. For the Englishmen. Literally. Amazing. She's rested this week. Yeah, managing her minutes.

59:02Gary Spurs, A-E, says, if Omar Mamouche makes his Tottenham debut on Saturday, he will be given the legacy number 9-11 who in Tottenham's history is the most 9-11 player. I'm going for Kolo Mawani. Absolute disaster of epic proportions. It is Mawani. I think it's got to be Mawani. It's mental. We were so excited. Me and you in particular. I was like, what's I need? What's I need? This changes everything. There's probably been worse players, but like in the context that couldn't have gotten any worse well the biggest disaster is Ndombele because of Ndombele and Lo Celso because of what it did to the hierarchy of this club thinking what happens if you ever spend more than you know 11 million quid on someone yeah it put them off for life yeah probably Mawani I've just still got when he came out and did that interview when he was going to sign him again for Juve where he was like oh you know I spent the whole of last season just thinking, I wish I could go back there.

1:00:04I was like, is that what you were thinking at Chelsea away at the end of the season when you just passed the ball straight to Cole Palmer? Yeah. And we went 2-0 down. I was like, you fucking cunt. I was like, I don't think I've had that level of hatred for a player in a long time. Like a long time I hated him. Yeah, fair enough. On Gakpo quickly, I just saw that Tottenham tears put out a thing saying Spurs are one of the other attackers we might go for as an alternative is Njai. at Everton. I'd love that. Yeah. I don't know the validity of the source, but Tottenham T is... They're trying to get greelish, aren't they, Everton?

1:00:40So, maybe. Illiman and Jai is amongst the options for Tottenham to bolster their attack. Richardson could go the other way and join Everton. Discussions between Illiman and Jai and Man City are also continuing and progressing positively. That is exciting. Enjoy. As Erby said, I didn't expect to transfer a window like we have done. I think we can do one more player in one specific position. Yesterday, we went to dinner with the owners, Johan and Vinay. Brilliant. It's so much fun though, isn't it, this bit? When you're signing players like this, it is fun, regardless of, oh, he doesn't hit the profile.

1:01:16Fucking enjoy your life. Yeah. Because what happens with that is that I've done it in the past as well. Yes, you have. That was you. I said that for a reason. You spend like, it's like with Gakpo. I'm not massively convinced about it. I'm take it or leave it on Gakpo. I see the strengths I see the weaknesses if we don't sign him I'm nonplussed if we sign him that's fine I can see the value in it but people will have a whole summer of going no no no and then when he's pitching the Spurs shirt the tweet will be like you know now he's here let's get behind him good to see him play great to see him play yeah that's you I didn't yeah but on Gakpo I like Gakpo I just don't know if he's I'll tell you a secret I think I prefer Njai yeah yeah yeah the only thing is with Gakpo is that he does if you look at his numbers for Liverpool like you would bite your hand off for someone that gave up that could give us what he gave Liverpool last season also I think there's a bit of and this is one thing I did say when I was criticizing him like when you take Trent out of that Liverpool team last season and you've got Mo Salah that like just fell off a cliff Gakpo is a player that needs other players around him to facilitate him.

1:02:28He's not going to win you. He can win you a game on his own with like a shot from outside the box or whatever, but he's not always going to impact the game. So taking Trent out of that team to put those crosses in where he comes in at the back post because he's very good at attacking the box, that was massive. And they were just shit last season in Liverpool. Whereas a couple of years before that, I was looking at him thinking, well, if you're going to win the Premier League, you need a player like that that's just going to get you kind of... And it was 10, 15 goals like that, just cutting in or getting in the box site yeah and a season under you know the first season under slot i think it's pretty much common that you know not a huge amount was changed yeah and then obviously the second season under a slot a different system um it didn't work that way the reason why i might prefer in dry is that you know he really can beat a man and if we've really got that that that talent of actually getting past someone with trickery a bit pace directness yeah we'd have that in three or four specific players in which means options around that is probably a little bit better yeah he can play across any of the front three i've got felonious's voice in my head saying he's a match of the day player every time there's uh i think about like someone i haven't watched a huge amount but i always really like i always worry that there might be a match of the day player that happened with njai last season like he started really well when like everton were flying a little bit and greelich went in there and then i don't think he scored a goal for like six months after that.

1:03:55But he is, I think with Njaya, why people are more excited about it is that, comparing to Gakpo, it's a bit like the Savio thing as well. He is a Tottenham player. Like, we want players, like, everyone wants players like that. But with Tottenham, we've always had, like, wingers that would just take their man on and do something exciting. And I think that's why we are, we are excited about Savio. And Njaya, I think, fits the mould of what a Tottenham player is. Like, there's something unquantifiably, unquantifiably Tottenham about him. And he does score goals as well to be fair. Either of them, I'll be alright with that.

1:04:30No responsibility says, not a question, but every time Alex Bristol is on the pod, I do think, does this little bald man from Bristol really think he could score a goal in the Premier League? Yes. That's the answer to that. With the right, with weeks of training. No, actually, that's not true. Not for the Premier League. If it was, and maybe not now actually, but peak Pep Man City where it was I think I could get a tap in for Man City with my with my reading of the game I don't even think you would touch with your reading of the game I wouldn't have to touch it no I don't I don't think you would get you said you'd score eight goals right I don't think you would get eight touches in a Premier League season you would not be able to get anywhere near the ball well no agree to disagree but I it's not no it's it's it's objectively correct.

1:05:22My argument always was for that Man City team that played 90 minutes constantly I would get a tap in. You wouldn't have the fitness just to stay on side. Of course I would. That was part of the argument originally. Give me a pre-season. Give me a pre-season. Give me a pre-season. You're 38. You're going to be 40 this year. I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this was, the question was originally asked, you know. There are games in the Premier League where Haaland might touch it five times. Haaland. Yeah, yeah, but that's because, you know, that's just, he's... You're on the wind-up. You've always been on the wind-up.

1:05:56You don't actually believe this. You can't. What do you think is more likely? You are a fucking psycho. I think all men secretly think give me a couple months. You should see the delusion. We're wearing sports teams, like jerseys, just in case. You should see the delusion. There was a kid who did this tweet. He said, how many goals would you score? And in the comments, it was like, no, I'm ready to get nine. Yeah, play me as a false nine. I'll get nine. What are you fucking on about but that's not what i've said what i'm saying is don't tell me that if they're in a stadium and there was an announcement that went out and went uh ladies and gentlemen there's been a you know it's something i'm not maybe not something terrible's happened but something someone is one of you is needed like on the bench terrible can you genuinely if you put put your hands up right if you genuinely genuinely think that you could probably got enough enough about you about football where you might be of some use.

1:06:46I guarantee you at least 80 % of the men in that thing might go, yeah, go on then. And I genuinely believe that men... Yeah, and they would all be shit, all of them. Well... What do you think is more likely? Me, Alex, to score eight goals for Prime Pet Man City over the course of a season? Or me and John Bass up front for Prime Stoke to get 10 goals between us? I think that's harder. You wouldn't... Because you wouldn't need that launching throw-ins. If you've got the aerial ability, you're having to get off the ground. You're six foot nine. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying, Alex, right? You would be in the game.

1:07:22Could you imagine how much the crowd would turn on you? Like, you're not fit to wear. Sure. Within about 20 minutes, I would say within about eight minutes, if the ball came to you, you'd be completely exposed, right? And then you've got to play another 38 games, and the crowd you'll think the crowd are not going to react what's he doing on the pitch get him off they're worse away from home as well but this wasn't this wasn't any this wasn't any part of the question this was about being able to read the game and read about when there might be an opportunity for a tap your interpretation of the question that's what that is that was the question next Alex is going to add another parameter where it's like well no it was actually COVID where there was no people in the stadium so I wouldn't actually feel the pressure it's just like playing in front of the stadium people's opinion doesn't fuss me alright boys we're coming towards the end of the podcast but we still have time for

1:08:20I didn't realise we did this on a Thursday as well do it whenever I remember today we're doing to celebrate the signing of Omar Mamouche the world's hardest Omar Mamouche quiz and it's John and Alex versus the audience John's not here so that'd be difficult I was like, yeah. It's Ben and Alex versus the audience. And we're going to start with this one. Mad quiz. What a bugger is a mad quiz. Which Egyptian club did Omar Mamouch begin his professional career with? Was it A, Al Ali? Was it B, Zamelech? Was it D, C, Awadiyah Delgalla? Or D, Pyramids FC? Pyramids FC.

1:09:05No idea. Al Ali. Actually, are they even Egyptian? No, they're not. They're Saudi, aren't they? Option B, please, Bob. The answer is Wadi Degala. Good saying. Which German club did Marmoush join after leaving Egypt in 2017? Was it Wolfsburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, or St. Pauli? Wolfsburg. Yes. It's Wolfsburg. It's correct. didn't he Wolfsburg he played with Van de Venne at Wolfsburg didn't he yeah he did yeah it's very loud this music turn it down a little bit like that well now you should take it at all now

1:09:54which two clubs did Mamouche play for while on loan at Wolfsburg was it St. Pauli and Stuttgart Hamburg and Mainz Schalke and Augsburg and Werder Bremen and Freiburg. St. Pauli and Stuttgart. Yeah. It's a correct answer. Well done. That one you've got. No, two. No, two. All right, fine. Get him into it. Such a banger. How did Eintracht Frankfurt sign Mamouche from Wolfsburg in 2023? How much was it? How did it happen? Was it approximately 20 million bill? Was it a season-long loan? a player swap deal or was it a free transfer? Can you say that question again? Because that was absolutely different.

1:10:40How did Eintracht Frankfurt sign Marmouche from Wolfsburg in 2023? Is it 20 million euros, a season-long loan in a player swap deal or was it a free transfer? I think it was... I think they paid for him. Or maybe not. Maybe they loaned him. 20 million. They loaned him and then bought him. D, free transfer according to this. Doesn't feel right, does it? Honestly, that question was like, what happened? What happened here? It was essentially... I don't know. Against which country did Mamouche score on his senior Egyptian debut in 2021? Senegal, Libya, Morocco, Ghana. Morocco. Yeah, Libya. Which club did Mamouche leave to join Man City in January 2025?

1:11:28Frankfurt. Frankfurt. Frankfurt. All right, that's it. We're not doing another one again. I will say out of the ones I've done that was the worst one it's down worst it was terrible yeah what is Flapsky which how did this happen what happened here the second there's such a so it was so awkwardly phrased that question that um yeah don't blame me I must say in the comments and stuff like that the quiz it does split people doesn't it the quiz yeah it does I mean I I like a quiz yeah when we used to do Bardi's Brain Busters back in the day it was genuinely the highlight of most of our weeks because it would get proper competitive.

1:12:05All of us stood around that mic in Ball Street just quite angry with each other because someone has managed to get that answer. I just enjoy it. Bardi's Brain Busters. I think that's the beauty of being recording in person, isn't it? Yeah. Do you remember the time when we brought a lie detector that electrocutes you if you get things wrong? Yeah, I've got some brilliant videos of that day. It was, yeah, Bardi, it didn't go well for Bardi, let's put it that way. Right, cheers boys, speak to you. Cheers. At the Spurs.

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