Gab & Juls Show: Does Christian Chivu deserve more credit at Inter?

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I'm God. He's Jules Grace Guy's over West London.

But I tell you where they're not gray.

Over the red and black half of Mila of Milan.

Because, of course, they win the Derby de la Madonina

under the watchful.

I have the golden statue that protects us all.

We're going to be talking about that.

But there's so much else going on.

Barcelona, winning, staying four points clear.

We may have to delve into Ligan where things aren't looking.

It's the tightest title race in Europe.

Never believed I would say that.

And, of course, there's the magic of the FA Cup

or Wattu Follum.

We never knew you.

Why didn't you even try?

Maybe I'm being harsh.

Anyway, Jules, let's start at San Sido.

Essentially, inked it had a chance.

I'm going to make it tennis terms.

This was match point for Inter.

Because if they win this game, they go 13 points clear.

And under the Marcarthu rule, if there's no head to heads

and you're 13 points clear with,

what is it, 10 games left to go?

Nine games left to go, I think, even.

10?

Is it 10?

OK.

You ain't coming back.

No.

Instead, it went the other way.

Purvis is stupid, man.

Coming up big.

Seven points, obvious question, as you say in Spain.

Ailega?

Yeah, I think so.

Because, as I said, 7 is still significant.

And if you look at this casual and the 10 games

left for both Milan and Inter, I mean, both play lads.

You want a talented, for example.

But then you've got Napoli for Milan.

You've got Komu and Roma for Inter.

So it's probably, I don't think there's much into it.

If you look into schedule by Inter, not playing well.

We saw that against Bodoglim.

We saw that again last night.

It was not a good performance.

Lautaro is still not back.

There was no Turam.

It was ill.

And without them, too.

And Chaloglu.

And Chaloglu, who the camera keeps panning out on the bench,

looking like more and more deflated.

So it's more the form that Inter, I think,

is worrying more than the seven points.

So, yeah, of course, there is a title race.

It's still not the very tight.

But because Inter are not in good form,

I think there's something to hope for for Milan.

Yeah, I still think the titles very much interest to Luzor.

Although it's high as 80, 85% at the stage.

And I take your point about Lautaro and Turam.

I completely agree.

It's not that Boni and Bios Bosito aren't good.

I think both have a lot of quality.

But they haven't played together that often.

And without Chaloglu, team them up.

We've talked about this before.

It's not quite the same thing.

You really pay price for it.

And as for the run-in, especially in Serie A,

I think the difference, it's not,

when you look at a tough run-in,

it's not just kind of like the other big teams

that are competing for things.

For me, a big part of it is the teams

who are fighting to avoid relegation.

Yeah, sure.

Because we've seen teams that go and pack it in.

We know Colmo, for example, who, of course,

are fighting for Top War.

They are not going to pack it in.

That, I think, is what can make the difference.

That said, when we boil this down,

are Milan any good?

In the sense that it comes down to Purvis,

the Stupina and Scorsis goal.

Good work from Fafana to set them up.

And before that, even Laos touched.

It didn't do much, but that was good.

But in that had, you could argue, two bigger chances.

Yes.

So it's the McIeterian and DiMarco.

And they both missed them.

I mean, is it six of one, one half,

doesn't have another?

Yeah, I mean, we've watched a leg-real season.

We've watched this Milan team all season.

With talent, sure, everywhere.

And still a midfield of Modrich, Fabio and Fafana.

And then relying on policy can layout

to make something happen.

Which has been, it looks like it's been the thread of the season.

Let's be solid.

And then somebody's somewhere is going to do something good,

more than anything else, really.

So even yesterday, in the way the ball was moved,

you could see exactly what Inter were trying to do.

No, well, because Barrelad didn't have a good game either.

Because we mentioned the front two and two sun in the next ten.

I mean, I don't freeze, came on.

But Luis Enrique is, you know,

when he had the level of a right-wing back for Inter, anyway.

But Alice, he's always reminding himself,

wait, I'm not a winger anymore.

There's nobody behind me.

Let me check myself a little bit.

It's a hard transition.

It is, it is.

So we didn't tell Alice, you could see what, you know,

the rotations and what they were trying to do for Milan.

It was very basic, but it worked to be fun.

That's quite a lovely goal.

Basic, as in another word, for defensive.

It was, yeah, like, just solid.

And yeah, and then, you know, like...

I mean, Modrich dropping between the centerbacks to go

and like, literally quarterback.

I mean, I don't know how often he came into the opposing

third, except for unset pieces.

Loud and Polish-ish worked hard.

Polish-ish is always there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It makes things happen.

It's not so little at all, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, it was not.

But that's just how they've played all season.

So there was nothing, nothing surprising.

It was efficient, and they've been quite efficient

all season long, really.

But you're right.

If Mickey Tians calls that chance that he has,

which he should, because he just hitting the ball

from six yards out, literally on the chest of menu,

if he scores that, I don't think Milan

come back into the game.

So one thing that we did not mention,

and I think regular viewers will know,

I have no problem criticizing referees constantly, right?

However, I really felt for them.

What if we did not mention was a somewhere

that he'd cheat, handball the ball, strikes his arm,

the referee, Daniela Doveli, he doesn't call for it.

VAR does not intervene.

And the thinking was, because the arm was down

by his body.

This should not be a big talking point.

On my favorite sort of Sunday night,

Celia Highlight Show, they spent the first 20 minutes

talking about this, and I really don't get it.

Because to me, this was 100% rubric of,

well, I didn't think it was a handball.

If you think it's down to the referee's call,

but I think even if you thought it was a handball,

you should be able to accept the fact

that it's not obvious.

It's a referees judgment.

And VAR should intervene.

Am I wrong here?

No, no, no, I agree with you.

I thought the same.

He's very close to the ball to start with.

And I think even he tries to take his arms away

when he realizes the ball is about to hit him.

And that's what looks like the movement,

because it looks like there's a movement of his arm,

but I think he's really trying to get away.

And the ball still eats his arm, but his arm moves.

For that, I think that a bath of the referee

was very good.

And again, that can't be easy to referee anytime, you know?

Very good referee.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Especially when it's a bit of a, like, no title decider,

because as we said, it was 10 points bad.

But you know what I mean?

Like, first against second.

And well, there's so much a stake.

The atmosphere looked amazing to be found television.

So I thought it did really, really well on that call,

but more or less on every other call.

All right.

Let's talk about Inter.

Let's talk about Christian Kiva in the future.

OK.

You mentioned Inter didn't play pretty well in this game.

They obviously absolutely soiled the bed,

against Bodo Glimt.

Equally, I'm kind of, when I take a step back

and I think about Christian Kiva this season, right?

He's following a guy in Simone Zaghi, who is hugely successful.

He had, I think, half a season in Syria under his belt.

And literally, it's really has never managed a full season,

never done a preseason.

I mean, not at senior level, because he did it as a player

and as a youth theme coach.

He's coming into a team that's been very successful

and he's going to look at him as like, yeah, who are you, right?

And also, he's coming over, he has to rebuild a team

that that's not forget.

I know he was improbable, but you can say,

because probably it's not your man in the final,

but Inter until late, late in the season,

it's like, I want to say, it's late as late April.

They were in the running for a treble.

Yeah.

And they ended up with nada, so that creates, I think,

there's something to rebuild psychologically there, right?

Yeah, sure.

When that happens, and he took all that,

and he has a huge lead at the top of the table.

I think overall, he has, he's surprised me positively.

Yeah, for the way he would deal with those situations,

for the way he's made some tweaks to the way Inzagi did things.

Yeah.

You know, we don't see those automatic substitutions

in the minutes, 60, for example.

We ever think it's good or bad,

but he's shown that personality.

I think there's something there.

Yeah, I agree.

I think he got more points in his first season than Inzagi had,

and I think there was only one in to Madagascar

a long, long time ago in the 40s or something that had more points

than him on his first season, so he's a good season.

It's a season that can end.

They are going to finish with a domestic double.

OK, the Champions League, the bar call against Bodo is bad,

and that would be a bit of a stain on the season anyway.

That's true.

But if he ends up for his first season with Inter,

even if you consider them with the best squad in the league,

which is probably true-ish, then the domestic double is great.

And I think, again, that seven-point lead at the top of Serie A

is significant.

The aim at the start of the season would not have been

to go and win the Champions League on his first season.

It would have been, we need to regain the title that we obviously lost

to Napoli last season with everything that happened, et cetera.

So he's on course to just do the job he was asked to do,

which I think, again, is pretty significant when you think about the injuries.

When you think about the China glue,

will he stay one, he stay at the start of the season,

the club workup that they were involved in,

and we see with other clubs that is taking a stall in terms of injury

and maybe even mental fatigue and things like that.

I think he's done really, really well.

Yeah, the Champions League is the one really well.

Yeah, that's the bad one.

And I think we've also seen him push younger players.

You know, the club will obviously have to start thinking about transition, right?

Because some of these guys are getting older, but, you know,

we're seeing Souchic get more and more minutes.

We obviously saw Pierre Esposito.

Barney's not old either.

Yeah.

The reality for Inter right now is they're owned by an investment fund

that needs to show a return.

So it doesn't mean that they have to necessarily break even every single season,

but over time, they have certain restrictions.

And because they can't grow their revenue right now until the new stadium is built

or don't say, yeah, becomes dominant again and gets a gigantic contact

like the Premier League, you know,

these are the realistic financial restrictions that they have to operate in.

So they have to make the right call.

So I think they're on a, I think they're on the right track.

And but I want to turn it around then and say, who is the brighter future?

Inter or Milan?

Wow.

That's a good question.

With the rights of future, I legally said something.

And this may help inform your answer.

He said, the goal this season was to qualify for the Champions League.

Yeah, that's what he said.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not a fan of allegory anyway.

So I would rather, you know, I would more go towards what Kiwu probably could try to build

with the squad that he has that OK needs rebuilding and needs investment.

And some players need to go and others need to arrive.

Sure.

Then go for allegory and the project and Milan.

I mean, we saw your French Eric Allen who was there.

It hadn't been there for a long time yesterday with Latin,

in the stand was very happy and great and you've got layout and you've got

policy and you've got some, you know, good talents till young.

There's something really interesting.

I think to build in Milan, you'll have the new stadium.

I was going to say soon, you know, it's Italy.

Yeah, four five years time, but they will come at some point.

But I don't know.

This is what would make me slightly uneasy and it was why I didn't like it when he said,

well, our goal this season was qualifying for the Champions League.

Yeah, sure, Max, it's your first year, but

did Milan behave like a club that whose goal was to qualify the Champions League?

I mean, I have the fifth highest wage bill in city.

But it's only a couple of million lower than three and four.

I think our Napoli and Roma.

You go into the season, you have a 40 year old central midfielder.

You come on, Rich, what you think he came there to go and celebrate

qualifying for the Champions League.

Yeah.

You spend big on Rabio because that is a big contract.

That is a point in your player.

He's 30 years old, right?

You can't say, oh, yes, this year we qualify for the Champions League and maybe

in two years time.

In two years time,

Modrich is going to be gone.

What's your succession plan?

Is it really cheap?

Really?

I don't think so.

Yeah.

Did you know I'm saying, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

When you come out and you say stuff like this, I think it kind of, it kind of sets

the tone.

And if I'm the owners, I'm not happy to say that.

I said, no, no, because you didn't play European football this year.

You go back next season with this team with Modrich at 41, maybe next season.

Who knows?

And you have to play Champions League football next year.

You're going to cry from the first week about the squad and how tired it is.

You have a week to prepare for every single game.

Yeah.

Plus the other thing is, you know, you can say at the start of the season,

when you want to fish top four, we're not as good as Napoli, whatever.

Okay.

But then Napoli have his biblical plague of injuries.

Juventus change managers.

Yeah.

All of a sudden the landscape changes.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, and that's why, like you, I'm, I'm higher on where Inter are.

Yeah, I go.

Then, then the, then frankly, then we're maxes.

Yeah, I agree.

Can Max pull some voodoo next year and do something in the Champions League?

Maybe.

But the investment would be interesting from, from both of them really and see where you

go, how much you can spend, you know, it's very unlikely that I don't think either of them

can spend 70, 80 million on one player anyway.

This time it's gone.

I mean, and Kunku was the highest transfer fee last season wasn't he?

And he's like 38 million euros, which is already a lot of money.

It's below 40 million.

But still, that's probably who has the more money, who can spend the most, who

will be the most efficient renewing that squad?

Because really both, both of them at some point will, will have to, you know,

what you do with him and his, what you do, okay, full crew is a bit different.

But what do you do with?

So many of us extended, obviously, you've got police and layout, but

Rabio will be there.

But like you said, it'd be 31, moderate.

What do you do?

You probably need another midfielder, maybe two centerbacks.

What happens in your two wingbacks?

Is Salamacka really good enough for you to go and win the title with Ema right

wingback?

No, I don't think so.

So there's a lot of things there, same for Inter.

So it'd be quite fascinating to see.

I think Inter, maybe fewer concerns in the sense that they can get some money

back for Fratezi or half Fratezi in the mix.

John Ogle, we don't know, but you can get another season from Zelinski, maybe

Suchi continues to grow.

Really, I think they're one kind of sailable asset realistically, unless

somebody wants to go honest, you know, maybe you'll win the World Cup and

they'll get 150 million offered from Ramadrid for Bastonia.

Let's ask something.

We improved because yesterday, I was like, hey, man,

did not have the evidence of the point the guy was getting booed for the reasons we know

exactly every time he touched the ball.

But I think Inter's squad can, just to me,

looks more complete going forward right now.

Yeah.

But yeah, it's going to be a big summer for, for both of these.

And I think Inter's, I'm slightly more, I'm slightly more bullish

than we have right now.

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All right.

Enough, Dad.

We have some quick hits instead.

Let's go.

The quadruple is on jewels.

Pep Cordiola makes 10 changes and Manchester City roll to a 3-1 win in Newcastle.

Also, what do you make of the fact that Pep now will now have to face a two-match

band.

He thought it was a big joke.

Yeah.

I mean, I was there.

I was sat right behind his bench anyway.

So I could, I had the Pep Guardiola show.

Why didn't you help him with his coat?

The whole, oh, he didn't need any help.

Trust me.

He took it the way he took it.

He was so angry and then his face.

Arthur was confronting the fourth referee after he got his yellow card,

which I, uh, videoed from, from my seat and went quite viral on social media,

because I think his, his face looks threatening, Pep's face looks threatening,

certainly.

Well, I find fascinating by this too much band.

That's his six yellow card, right?

So you get, again, a match band for every like, it's a lot of three games.

So that's two except that in the rules, if amongst the two next game that you

are banned for, there's one Cup final, either the League of Final or the FA Cup Final,

you're not banned for that game.

So, so if a player gets sent off and get a three-match ban and he misses, he misses the

final, but yeah, a manager has to be, I don't know if it's because he has to

lease the team, you know, I did it in England and then check the hands of the king,

the queen, the prince, the, uh, the prime minister, whoever, I don't know why,

but I find that a little bit, so a good thing we, we on the bench for that game,

a Wembley against Arsenal in the League of Final,

Arthur City, well, standing even with a B team bar the first 15 minutes when they

conceded after that.

I thought it was some of the best football I've seen them play this season.

I was really, really pleased that I should play instead of the other guys.

I have to say, uh, you know, it was really, and then Newcastle,

a really good team, but they, they fatigued now.

The house said they were tired and he said, we also were holding something back

for the Barcelona game in general, so absolutely.

But you'd said they should focus on winning the FA Cup because they can win the FA Cup.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, completely.

Yeah, again, I go back to maybe they should have rested players in earlier games.

Yeah, yeah, maybe as well.

Yeah, yeah, certainly, but it looked like with the, it was the strongest Newcastle team,

pretty much available like a bargo, then, uh, where was Pep made all those changes.

And clearly the priority for ADH and Newcastle was that game in the FA Cup,

not really the Champions League, otherwise he would have done like Pep, uh,

for Guadalajor, like clearly the, the Ram Madrid game was more important than this one,

but they still want it.

And the crowd report is also on, God, because men's field did give us on a really tough

time on Saturday before falling to one.

I'm going to guess you're not going to approve of Michel Artita's lineup choices.

No, I'm not, um, I mean, like, I, I just don't know that you need to give

yourself such fine margin, right?

He started two 16 year olds maxed down and who we've seen before, he's very,

very good. He's also 16 paying on a league one pitch.

Probably not as nice as the pitches he plays on regularly.

The other kid, Sam and, again, highly rated youngster, obviously made a mistake for

the goal. I didn't know that you want to say put guys in that position.

And also, but more than that, it's the message that you send to the other team to the rest of

the game as you play. Hey, guys, I want you guys to all have a game of run out.

But, uh, to shoehorn you in, I have to change my formation to a back three.

And I think he realized that because minutes 38, he made the change,

he's peering copy coming on. Yeah.

So these are looks something like the first teams.

You're not sending a message that you guys are scrubs.

I don't think it's the message that I wanted to send.

And the other factor is, what if this goes wrong?

What is the thing goes wrong?

You know how they're so precious in this car.

You know, right now, our tent is getting so much hate because of the set pieces,

the defensiveness, dull boring art, blah, blah, blah, right?

If on top of that, you disrespect the FA Cup, um, it can do real everything else.

Yeah. So you're playing by your labor cousin here.

You know, you're, you're not playing, you know,

Pele and the guys who escaped the victory midweek.

I play something more resembling a real team at that.

Again, with a benefit of hindsight, that's how I see it.

More FA Cup, Port Vale, dead last in league one, beat Sunderland,

who filled pretty close to a best 11 green granite shocker was on the bench.

Yeah. Um, does weirdly, Port Vale have one more cup games than lead games this season.

Yeah, the only game they lost in the,

in one of the two cups, the, the league cup and the FA Cup was against Arsenal in the

league cup when they were beaten at home.

Um, but yeah, they've been outstanding.

They've, they're much better since the, John Barry, the new Australian manager arrived

in January.

There's still a million points back.

Yeah, but of course we get the 11 points behind.

They've got three games in hand, so, um, obviously they're still not out of it

completely to go down and they have momentum and this would be massive because

it's not just that they want and they play the footballer.

You expect a league one team like them to play anyway on the terrible pitch.

It's just that they fought really hard and they didn't actually give much

a way to Sunderland who were quite poor.

I had a couple of good chances.

So I need to come back into the game.

But, but yeah, it was, um, it was one, one of those kind of afternoons in the

FA Cup. Plenty of rotation in La Liga too.

As Atlético Madrid beat Real Sociedad 3-2 in a preview of the cup of the

Real Final coming up soon and Nico González backs two goals.

Yeah, I thought this was really important.

Atlético Madrid, of course, both these teams playing in the cup of the Real

midweek, uh, both tired.

I think it did affect the game.

Uh, I'd like to take the lead and then conceding take the lead and then

conceding.

Nico González, um, eventually getting the those two goals, uh, lovely back here,

like I, uh, assist from your boy Antoine Griezmann.

And that's a lot.

This is really important.

They have a stretch, which I think is as brutal as any stretch can be because

they play Ramadre in the last game before the initial break.

Then they come back and then I think it's, then they have Barcelona, uh,

if they advance in the Champions League, then they play Barcelona twice again.

And then they have to go for the re, um, so he needs, he needs everybody, all

hands on deck for El Cholo.

Barcelona has a four points clear Real Madrid.

There's Pedro and La Minha Mal combined for an absolute stunner of a goal.

Oh, wait, what did you build out?

Yeah, I got finished like one of those curlers that you are used to now from La Minha Mal.

In a game that was not pretty, uh, some rotation made by Nancy Flick.

Like you saw Marcus Rashford, for example, of Ferran Torres and people like that.

You didn't really work.

I, I, they looked super tight, Barcelona, which, which again, it's normal.

They play midweek in a couple of days that are trying, yeah, there's been about two.

So both teams, not great.

In the end, you just win a, you were under pressure because Ramadre won before.

And if you're La Minha and you put a lot of stats there, Gabby, on our script,

I will help you out with this.

Since it's now a thing, apparently, to combine, uh, club goals and goals for your country,

he has scored 44 goals for Barcelona, six goals for Spain, which means that's 50 goals.

Yeah.

And Spanish media who love comparing La Minha Mal, two other footballers,

they point out that La Minha is 18 years and 237 days old.

By the time Leonel Messi hit 50, he was 20 years and three hundred and 15 days.

So more than two years older, by the time Cristiano did it, he was 21 years.

And 297 days.

So more than three years older, yeah, I don't like his comparisons.

No, he's forcing us to compare.

Yeah, I know, but he's still pretty amazing.

Juventus destroyed pizza, four nil this weekend.

Gabby, I spoke of a new default, Chano Spaletti even.

Yeah, I thought you've played really well, Ken and Yildes, um, to be playing wide at first.

The movies that are forward rolled us up better than anyone.

It's funny.

When you got somebody who's better than everybody else, he's better than everybody else in multiple positions.

Exactly.

Um, there's no deal for Spaletti.

I see no reason for this.

What so ever.

What do you mean?

It's way too early.

You have a deal.

He gets an automatic renewal.

If he gets them into the top four, right?

Just leave it at that.

You don't know what's going to happen.

There's a reason you didn't even get the longer deal before.

You made the right choice with making that conditional.

He's done a phenomenal job.

I'm not doubting that mostly.

But put just wait.

And I think we can imagine who's putting this word out.

Yeah, and I don't like it.

More magic of the cup.

Rex, I'm nearly produce some unbelievable content for their show twice,

taking the lead against Chelsea Jules.

Liam Rossignor says his team were, quote, a bit lucky.

Were they?

Uh, yes, well, they were.

They were not really yet.

The twice they went behind, which is obviously not good.

When you look at the goals that considered as well, it's pretty poor defending from a very,

changed Chelsea team back three against me.

There makes no sense against the team like this.

I'm sorry, the Arsenal principle, but it makes sense.

If I want to shoehorn as many people into the team, didn't work,

changed things in the end.

They had to go through extra time and that, although it was the right call,

came to the rescue as well, not to go to three, three when they were three to up.

But I guess you move on.

It's another competition they're still in, which I think is good for Liam and for the players.

Some got some rest, which is also needed before they go to Paris on Wednesday for the Champions League against PSG.

So in the end, yeah, you got a bit of a scare and it was a great afternoon.

If you're rexam, if you're, you're in neutral as well, like black, lively and run Reynolds.

All the big, big names, big stars were there.

Good for them and for Chelsea.

You move on very quickly, I think, but they commentator on my feed where we're talking

beginning, kept referring to him as Robert McElhani.

I don't think he has any idea who the guy is.

Yeah, exactly.

Let's rewind all the way to Friday, Gabel.

Late, Feder Valverde Gold gives Ramadred a two-one win against Celta Vigo.

Are things beginning to turn?

It's not based on the performance.

You have the mitigating circumstance that, yes, you had a million players out.

We saw Thiago Pitarc start again in midfield.

We brought a bunch of kids out the back.

Again, this game could have gone either way.

Yago Aspas came off the bench hit the woodwork, Vini early on.

It really, really well.

We'll score a bit of great goal.

But you drop on Zalo Garcia.

You're asking Vini essentially to do everything on his own, which I've never trained

this.

Have you ever practiced this?

Why are you doing this?

What's the thinking here?

Trent got done it right back to the goal, sorry to say.

And again, it's, it's San Thibault of Courtois.

But it's three points.

Jules, I got to go there also on Friday.

Paris Saint-Germain soiled the bed at the park.

The Bronx against Monaco losing three.

One, this was pretty much Paris Saint-Germain at full strength.

Other than Luis and John Neves and Machinio Sandembele.

So that's four thousand.

Well, the bell came off the bench and the blacking us apart.

Yeah.

And don't know whom I will now place for another club, because you wouldn't get caught.

Now, I have, excuse me, much happy that you do not have to see Monaco again this season.

Yeah, absolutely.

It was a tough watch because Monaco were very good.

I was standing, exploiting the mistakes by, by PSG, the first goal.

I mean, we love Warenza Iremri, who's a great young player.

That was his 34 starts in a row, which is probably too much.

And his head seems to have explored what and the mistake that he made,

that caused the first goal.

But over Monaco, we are standing, PSG were poor.

They've been poor for a few weeks now, bar, a few glimpses there and there.

Speedy scored again, but do ASL was poor.

Do ASL was poor, Barcola was poor, far from the goal.

And even there, he got a bit lucky.

For us, Kelly, I was poor.

It was not good.

Hakimi is far from the form that he showed, not even just last season,

because I think we need to stop comparing with last season.

They're not the same team.

But even earlier in the season, so it's difficult.

And I think the Chelsea tie is going to be difficult over the two games.

You see, don't compare with last season.

I think in some ways, somebody watches will say,

oh, but we should because last season,

they were underwhelming in the first part of the season and then took it to the next level.

But like you pointed out, they are serious differences between this year

and the kind of underwhelming they were last year.

Last year, they had turned the season already by now.

It's not. It didn't happen that, you know, in March.

Also on the busy Friday, by Munich,

rolled to a four-one win over Borcia, motion, glad bar, but gap.

Let me ask you about Robert Lewandowski's comments on Harry Kane,

who is obviously chasing his goalscoring records.

Yeah, so I want to get your cake too, because I kind of like this.

I think Robert Lewandowski is very, you know,

he doesn't say much, but when he does, it's pretty much a straight shooter.

So they pointed out that Harry Kane has 30 goals.

There's nine games left and Lewandowski reached 41.

And he came out and he says, yeah, but I did it in 29 games,

which presumably Harry Kane will play more than that,

even though he was injured and playing this one.

Do you have a problem with that?

No, I don't either. I love a little needle.

And in fact, I like it so much that Robert, I'm going to help you.

Harry, you only converted eight penalties to get to your 41 goals.

Harry Kane's already converted 10.

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Liverpool all are through in the FA Cup with its 3-1 win at Wolves on Friday.

Andy Robertson and Mo Salah both score and Ryan Gravenberg signs a long-term deal.

Yeah, I think that's the, let's move on very quickly from the FA Cup.

There's not much to do in that game.

I Salah scores two games in a row and he's still got to hit on it.

No, no, it's great. Two goals against fours.

Well done for the Gravenberg deal.

It's nice, and Obrina, how good he's been in the last two years anyway.

Even this season one is a bit more difficult collectively.

He's very important in everything that they do.

So it makes a lot of sense.

He got a reward for doing so well, a more for that as well.

And now they can focus back on the league where they obviously in that massive

dog fight for Champions League places.

They need help.

Yeah.

Still Friday, Gabi Napoli, Bitorino 2-1.

The how nice is it to see not just Andre Frongzambu and Giza back,

but also Kevin Debrain.

It was super nice.

Lukaku coming back off the bench too.

Soon, I think you'll be ready to actually start.

Look, there's still a ton of guys out from De Lorenzo, to McTomany, to Rahmani.

And we all, we like to bake fun of Conte when he says stupid things and his hair and

whatever, but he is a point.

The no team has been brutalized by injury as much as Napoli this season and been affected

in the same way.

And if these guys are back, if we'll see how long it takes him to get into fitness,

obviously the World Cup has got to be in the back of their minds.

Just as a neutral, I want to see the real Debrain at the World Cup.

I'm hopefully we get him.

But Napoli are third and I think they're going to stay there.

I think they're going to lock up the Champions League spot.

Bullseye Dortmunds win 2-1 Akun and because it's Dortmund, make life difficult for themselves

conceding late despite playing the entire second half with an extra man.

But Jules, the headline, all that anyone is talking about is that after seven seasons,

300 games, 50-yard goals, Julian Brandt won't be returning next year.

No, which is a big, as you said, the thing about Brandt, I think there's so much talent

there.

I think there was, I mean, not 90 more, because he's 30 and it was the end of his career.

But there was huge potential that felt was never really completely fulfilled at Dortmunds

or even with a national team, even more with a national team, where he's capable of some

great things at times.

And then in others, just go through games, completely anonymous, doesn't do anything.

Is it, you know, like kind of mental strength thing?

Is it the fight that moments where he switches off?

Is it the lack of consistency physically, maybe?

I don't know where the lack comes from, wonderful footballer, no doubt, but probably he should

have done better than what he did with the talent that he has.

Sliding Dort's moments, Julian Klopp, very famously, excuse me, Jurgen Klopp even, very

famously, wanted Julian Brandt, the Liverpool's nerds, persuaded him to sign that Egyptian

striker, Muhammad Sala, and Klopp had the humility to trust the nerds over his gut instinct.

Like I'm really curious to see what happens.

He turns 30, 30 years old in May.

He's obviously not part of Kovac's plans anymore.

I like this up.

He was in the squad 20 times this season in the Bundesliga and he only started 13 games.

To me, this says I'm not building anything around you.

I do think it's interesting that both they and the club, both his people and the club,

kind of mutually agreed to announce this officially and put an end to the speculation,

say, you're not coming back at this stage of the campaign.

I thought it was a grown-up thing to do.

I think it's helpful.

It's helpful for Brandt.

Yeah.

Do you think he's a fit in the Premier League or do you think he's got MLS written all over it at 30?

Yeah, it's slightly depressing.

Is it?

I don't think so.

He just turned 30.

I think he was back when he was not much older than 30, sorry, with all due respect.

Emil Forsberg, who we all love because he looks like a little cartoon character.

I don't know.

I might be wrong, but I can't see what he's 30 really that.

I think so.

Yeah.

All right.

I mean, maybe in the Premier League, I don't know who would take him in the Premier League.

I see him more in Spain, personally.

Yeah, maybe, yeah.

Daniel de Rossi puts a dagger through the heart of the club that he loves.

Genoa Biroma 2-1 and Kasperini is angry.

Yeah.

This is like choice, Kasperini.

Well, first he decides you can tell he's had people advise him because first he comes

out and says like, well, look, no, I'm happy.

Of course, I'm happy.

I'm competing for a Champions League spot.

We're still there in the Europa League.

We're achieving great things this season to be fair to him.

You know, he had a bunch of younger guys out there, Vinturino, Pusili, which, by the way,

like a lot of coaches and really talk a good game.

Kasperini is actually delivering it by promoting the kids.

So respecting there, but then he goes on and on about the Balinovsky-Haran ball should

have been a penalty blah, blah, blah, bro, grow up, explains to me more about how the

fact that you can see the 2.75 XG, while only putting together zero point in his life

pull with the ball.

Oh, and shout out because we love our Viteñas.

We do.

Big Viteñas scored.

Yeah.

And then remind you, that's why he's not as good as little Viteñas, but I absolutely

making a hash of his chance to make it through.

Yeah.

Those demolished met three nil and moved back within a point of Paris Saint-Germain.

Chours are not dropping away.

I mean, it's not that they're the best team in the league.

They've been the best team in the league the whole season.

So they are where they should be and probably a few points off where they should actually

be.

Just the point behind, as you said, Gabi there still in the French Cup, too, where they've

qualified for the semi-finals and have a big chance of potentially doing the best

in the French Cup.

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And, a fourth one.

Ha, can't remember it.

Well, Toulouse knocking out Olympic Arsenal.

That's right.

Yeah.

So, no, they have a big chance.

I mean, I love the way they played.

They were outstanding against a match team that is pretty much relegated already, but still, despite

the injuries, some of the young players that they have, they were outstanding after playing

Paris has your man not advanced pass Chelsea.

They're not unleashed their fury only gone and go ahead and win every game and

demand and just destroy everybody. But I don't think we should take that for granted.

Should we? Oh, no, no, definitely not PhD. No, no, no, no, no, that's not going to be the case.

It is obviously a lost PhD again coming up, which could be the title decider, but

loss of looking really, really strong enough. So, you know, good for them.

Look at Akunia, not Paris Bourbon and Brett. He's from Brittany.

Best in French, guess the winner is Komu, winner Caliarei too, one and a half fourth in the table.

God, more love versus Fabregas. Yeah, just confusing. This was a really tough game.

Especially at home are a lot better than people think they are.

They have, I think, one of the best wide players in city half, not the big five best young ones

anyway in in in palestra, who create a lot of problems for them. But again, they're so confident.

They're so different for me. I don't know if he could have done this in insane Spain,

because in Spain, they're like, hi, you want to keep the ball on play with it?

Go for it. We're used to it because we can all do it, right?

In Italy, it's not so much a thing. So, I don't know if it's a contrast that helps them,

but he's kept everybody so calm, they kept going. I'm just curious to see what you a for do

if they do qualify for Europe. Not just under the and full of them also lose to lower league

opposition. They fall one at home to Southampton. As Marco Silva rotates the heck out of his squad

and brings out a bunch of starters. Tools, how many understand? I think they're like joint

ninth in the table. What is he resting his place? What was he dying to try to get a conference

league spot? Yeah, I guess that's it. What are you doing, bro? Yeah, I guess that's it.

Trying to get that seven spot, you know, eight might even be enough and might also make it, I don't

know. And for what? Go for that. For you care, conference league. I don't know. Maybe he

thought you can't win the the FA Cup when you still have Chelsea Liverpool Arsenal and City in it.

No, listen, listen, I don't know. Quarterfinals now, right? For all you know, Liverpool are going to

play Chelsea and City are going to play Arsenal and then two of those guys around and then maybe

they play each other in the semi-final. Yeah, no. And you know what? You're full of them. It's not

it's not like you're in the you're in the the conference league South. True. Okay, so there's

the things that we don't know someplace mind, you know, maybe needed a rest. Eight of them all at once.

No, no, no, but maybe need a rest. You also probably thought that the team he put out was good

enough to be Southampton, which they were. Extra didn't happen. I thought Southampton played well

in their own style and those transitions were deadly to be found very, very well done. From

Kai Larrin and Finn Azaz and people like that, I thought they were really outstanding,

pace, very disappointing from from from full and because that was a bit like Sandolin. That was

the year where you could have given it a massive, massive go. I don't follow the championship, so

help me out. Are Southampton in danger of coming back up? Yeah, and since they changed managers

and psyched with steel and Eckert came on, came in. Sorry, they have been outstanding. They are

in the last player of position or if they're not, just outside. So yeah, I know very good, very,

very good. They are a really, really good one of them. We told you it would happen and he did

talking about the championship. The football league we love, expanded playoffs next season. So not

this in the next one with clubs between 5th and 8th, playing a one-legged eliminator tie in the

championship for the playoffs in the league one and league two as well, I guess. Gap, do you like

the name and do you like this new format? We've talked about the format before. I don't particularly

like it. I think I think it's working well now while changing. Well, also like there has to be

a sense of fairness, right? I appreciate the playoffs, but if I finish 3rd and I have a 25-point

lead over you, why I got to go and play more games and stuff? What's the logic? I also wonder

else about some team finishing 7th race, not being good, fluking their way into the top and then

collecting two points in the primary league next season. But most of all would offend the

eliminator tie. What marketing moron came up with that? It's a horrible name. Come up with something

better, guys. You can do it. Ugly scenes in the old firm after Celtic beat Rangers on penalties

in the Scottish Cup tools. Yeah, because we saw a pinch invasion. I mean, as you would expect,

if you beat your rivals, their ground in a cup tie like this on penalties, the Celtic fans,

went mental and mad and celebrated massively, which angered some of the,

kind of like, I was going to say, Ultras. They don't have Ultras, but they're like the

hardcords. Rangers fans, if you want. If you say they don't have Ultras, but

will you see them? Like they did that thing. They dressed all in black and on top of that.

They're like lovers. Well, they're by the clavus at a football match. Yeah, I know. That should be

planned straight up. It should be simple. I know. And the things that we saw pinch invasion,

confronting each other, I thought the police did really well to be fair. And because I think

it could have been far, far worse, had the Celtic fans also go into the pitch. And we would have

had probably, I thought I was handled well. This is why Marseille fans don't go to Paris or PhD

fans don't go to Marseille. And you don't fans don't go to Santa. And this is why for many, many years,

no Celtic fans were allowed to go to our Bronx. No Rangers fans were allowed to go to Celtic Park.

Because of risk like that. And this was a terrible look, obviously, for Scottish football,

there would be a lot of repercussions to it, sanctions, etc. etc. I'm not that I'm obsessed with

a ski mask aspect, right? But like, I don't understand why you're allowed in a football stadium

with your face covered. I know that in many countries, that's not allowed. I don't even know

if it's allowed in here. I don't know. I'm going to get my Lucha Libre mask. I'm tempted to do

this weekend and try to walk into a primarily game wearing it. I guarantee you somebody will stop me.

Maybe. Yeah. How are you supposed to identify and differentiate between the Rangers fans

who behaved and the ones who didn't if they're all wearing ski masks? No, babe, if you

worry around your neck first, it looks like a scarf. So maybe when you go through the gates and they

do the, I don't know, you call it the pattern. Yeah. It's just a scarf. And then you put it over

your head. I don't know how, but there was so many in that. Clearly find a way of bringing him in.

Mr. Marinaki strikes again, Gab Edu, who looks after not just Forest Ball in Piacos as well and

other clubs from the Marinakis. Galaxy. Galaxy was going to say exactly. It's been asked to stay

away from the clubs running around the ice forest despite being a spot in the Richter. Yeah,

this is a funny one. Okay, so the story was in many outlets. So clearly the story is well-sourced.

Who would know that Edu's been asked to stay away? It's either the club who told them to stay away

or it's Edu who was told to stay away. So there is no mystery about where the story comes from.

The club insists that he's working as normal. Well, clearly is not because if part of its

warning director's job is to go to the training ground and be a liaison. It's not just to be far away

and due deals and due to contracts. I don't know what's going on. It was a very tight-knit loving

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I remember correctly, from the game, great game. I thought Porto were very good for most of it,

only until they went to Nileb. They have this young polish. One, the kid, who's called a lovely

goal at 17, who has a name that I think we will hear again very, very soon. And then when you

think that's it, Benfica completely out of it. Benfica is still on beaten, by the way, this season,

the only team in one of the big six leagues to still be on beaten.

Coming back into the game, it created a lot of tension within the stadium of the

Luthe. There was a potential end ball at the end, and Joe Costa, it was just all going off at the

end, including the red card from Jose Mourinho, facing its former club obviously.

Jose Mourinho was very angry. Somebody at Porto, people have speculated about Lucha Gonzales,

I'm not sure if 100% concerned it was him, but the former players called him a traitor,

a traitor to Porto. Now, I'm 100% team, Jose, on this one and only this one,

because he made the point that, you know, when he was Chelsea at Inter around Madrid,

Fenerbahce, doesn't mention spurs fully enough, but he was there too. He said, he gave everything.

He's a professional. Yeah. To call a coach, especially who can be sacked, a traitor,

because he goes and plays and coaches a rival club. That is pretty freaking rich, especially if you

have any sense of of Joe Sourmourinho and the type of person he is. Yeah, yeah. Trader, I mean,

that's like Soul Campbell maybe. Yeah. Like somebody like that, but yeah, not come on.

Luis Vigo, yes, but not Jose. He just says a hired gun. He will give you everything.

What you hire him. X, the platform, previously known as Twitter, has removed a bunch of offensive

posts about Liverpool and Manchester United created or made by Grog, which is his artificial

intelligence. Gab, you went to university with Elon Musk. You must have some insight then

on what's going on here. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Elon didn't write the code for Grog himself. Although,

who knows? Who knows? This is really some pretty nasty stuff. I mean, it's sort of nasty stuff that

appears regularly on this platform, but it's one thing when it's morons and their basements,

putting it out. Nasty, tasteless stuff about Hillsborough, about scoutsers, about the

Munich air disaster and so on. It's just that you don't expect Grog, which is artificial

intelligence to go and spout the stuff out, but we've been here before. Remember when Grog was

calling itself Mecha Hitler and putting out all this anti-Semitic nonsense. I don't remember

that, but it did happen. And, you know, X can apologize.

Obvious issue is if you have a product that puts out, I appreciate artificial intelligence,

isn't infallible, whether you use Gemini or Claude or chat GBT. You can see sometimes they

put out false information, but there's one thing we're putting out false information. One thing

is putting out information that is so inflammatory and so inaccurate or racist or whatever else.

Whatever else you want to call it. He's got some very clever engineers, a little fewer engineers

than he had before. He needs to take a long hard look at this and how the language model works,

because to my knowledge, I'm not big on AI, but I have used Grog's rivals. We're going to call

that from Gemini to Claude to charge GBT. I've never encountered racist or anti-Semitic or sexual

stuff on there. And this comes out with this. It's pretty horrible stuff as well, because of

course, there's always people who helpfully screenshot it and share it with you.

Christiano Ronaldo is back in Spain dealing with a muscular injury. El Nasser's

coach, Georges de Zeus, confirmed this. George, this is nothing to do with the war, apparently.

Although I wonder, there was a story about his private jet flying back to Spain, but he wasn't on it.

Does he's going to come back to pick him up? I don't know. Yeah, I'm not really sure exactly.

I mean, we believe El Nasser and Georges, when they say they are in Spain, I don't know how he got

there. He might have more than one plane maybe or something. You don't think he flew commercially,

do you? I don't think he flew commercially. He hasn't flown commercially probably for a very long

time, even. It's a big blow for El Nasser in the massive title race with Alhali and Alhali Hilar,

obviously, quite close there, which is very exciting if you're a fan of the Saudi pro league.

Now, watching it, and you should get some really good stuff there. I don't know, they didn't say

when it would come back. I don't know if it's a two week thing. Is it a big muscular injury?

Is it just a little strain? We don't really have much more on this, so I guess we just have to wait

and see. Yeah, I hope he's being just extra, extra cautious with a view towards the World Cup.

Yeah, maybe. The manager in the fair has lost its case at the court of arbitration for sport,

and we'll have to pay a hefty fine after FIFA found that they forged the documents of seven players.

Yeah, this is a pretty bizarro story. So, basically, all the top executives have resigned and

disgraced as a result. I look, what they were found guilty of doing is they got three Spaniards,

two Argentines, a Dutch guy in a Brazilian, and they said, Hey, your grandmother,

grandfather was born in Malaysia. Therefore, we can give you Malaysian passport and you can play for

Malaysia. Now, obviously, it's not like they're getting paydry and we're illegal to pull. No,

no, no, yeah, and Memphis to pie, right? It's a bunch of randos, but still good enough to play for

Malaysia. What I'd write, it's awful. This looks like stuff that used to happen, sadly, like

15 years ago, shouldn't be happening today. But I wonder, we don't have the names of these people,

and I would really love to know who they are, because I think they should be banned, too.

I mean, because we just need to go on this recent teams from Malaysia that have put up for the

national team, and then they would be them, I guess they like them, right? Yeah, I am really

trying to do, because Jules, were any of your grandparents born in Malaysia? No, and I think if

somebody, do you know where they were born? Yeah, and someone at the Malaysian FF was saying to me,

yeah, we can, we can saw the ah, I would say no. Would you have been tempted? Come on, come on,

come on, come on, 18-year-old Jules playing in the French board division. Yeah, but you know,

you did something wrong. If you, like you said, I think those plays are going to get banned, by the

way. I know for now, it's not the case, but I'm not, I wouldn't be surprised if they are. So,

you put your own career into jeopardy because of that, and I'm guessing these are third division

randos, nobody started, we're looking up, still the career. Yeah, you're right. I'm not to mention

the damage it does. Also, how stupid do you have to be to think that you can get away with this?

Yeah, I agree. Like, hey, I didn't know Jose was Malaysian, yeah. He doesn't look Malaysian either.

But whatever, Lietto Messi in the news Jules, he scores for Inter Miami in the 2-1 win over

D.C. United, making it 899 in his career for club and country. This is the stop, which of course

is kind of for Gazy to me, but it became an issue with Cristiano Ronaldo, and so we got to be equal

here. Well, we have to be equal. Also, a lot of people are giving him stick for visiting the White House

with Inter Miami in what turned out to be a political setting, because this is the president said

some political thing. Yeah, exactly. Your champions of, you know, your American sport,

where they soccer, hockey, basketball, baseball, American football, you've been invited to the White

House, whoever the president is, you can decide to go, not to go. We've seen many teams franchises

before, not going, for example. Inter Miami, as a club decided to go, they wanted to go. So,

even if you as a player don't really particularly want to go, I think you have to go there,

I guess, yeah, you can take yourself out of it, but it would be a pretty strong call to make,

especially when you're both, as in, you know, the owner of your football club who pays,

you said you have to go. And your boss is very close to this president. Exactly.

So, we got to see Macy and Trump and Trump saying to Macy, who's better? You or Palais,

which I mean, some of the stuff that you would expect the president to say in those kind of things,

right? David Beckham wasn't there. You could say that his wife was his, the Palais fashion week,

and Beckham and the family. It's funny how he always manages to avoid any political situation.

You know, I think I know how we'd have done exactly the same David, don't worry.

So, yeah, I mean, those, those things, I don't know what, what we would do in the same position.

If you were an Inter Miami player, would you have gone?

Um, well, I, you kind of have to, even if you don't want to read.

I think it depends. I mean, we're not going to make this about politics. I think if you have,

if you do have a heartfelt political position, and we've seen this, I mean, the U.S. women's

hockey team, for example, decided, I think, collectively not to go. We've seen other teams where

some of the players go, some don't. I think the, the reason people bring this up is that he didn't go

and collect the presidential medal of freedom from Biden after Argentina won the World Cup.

Yeah. And he didn't go to the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires to meet with the president of Argentina

after they won the World Cup. I mean, interpretation was that he's like, I am above politics,

so I don't want my picture taken with the politician right or wrong.

Funny enough, he would have been the first Argentine to receive the presidential. The second

Argentine was, a week later, the late Pope Francis, of course, but I think the difficulty here,

and I think I was, you want to show community, it's a start of the season, it's important to your

owner. He would have made a political statement by not going. Yeah, yeah. What he might have done,

especially since by his own admission, he has no idea what people are saying when they speak in

English is just sit there respectfully. And since you don't have any idea what the man in the suit,

what they call Mr. President is saying, maybe don't react, right? That might be the one thing that

could have gotten him out of it. When you're a public figure and when you're a commercial public

figure to, there's a famous quote, which gets attributed to Michael Jordan, which he never actually

said apparently, but I think the principle applies, which is Republicans by sneakers too. So there's

that to mention, if you decide I'm not going to be political, you know, it can be difficult to kind

of slalom between things. Iraq have asked for the World Cup Interco Federation playoff in March

to be postponed. God, they would face the winner of Bolivia against Suenam in Mexico. Yeah, so

they have a number of issues here. Obviously, the fact that Iraqi airspace is closed because

yeah, ongoing conflict in Iran, it would make sense to postpone the playoffs. The one thing I would

say is they put this out and it was reported in the Guardian elsewhere. Oh, because FIFA suggested

to them that they make a 24-hour journey by car. And by the way, it's not the whole squad that's

behind it. Part of the squad is in Baghdad. Part of the squad is in Dubai. Yeah.

I looked at it and the idea was, oh, you guys drive 25 hours from Baghdad to Istanbul and then

fly from Istanbul. Okay. First of all, I don't understand why they need to do that because I,

myself, maybe FIFA's travel department might want to hire me one day or maybe hire me as a consultant.

All they have to do is actually just drive like 10 hours. I know it's still a lot. Yeah.

To Dierbarkir where there's an airport and then they can take an internal Turkish flight.

Turkish airspace is open. Right. Right. So to me, there's a bit of spain in this story.

Now, if you want to say we're not in the right state of mind because there's bombs, there's war

next door blah, blah, blah. I get that and it still might be unfair. But I don't know what you can

postpone this to because the calendar is what it is. And Bolivia and Suenam also have other

professional players who play professional league. So I don't know. I think FIFA need to find

a need to help them find a solution to Q1 and certainly not a 24-hour road trip. That sounds

dire. Yeah. Joe, this brings us to an end. But we got to come back. Oh, yes. You know why? Yes.

The champion. Oh, God. I'm hyped. And I am.

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