Football club valuations and player transfer fees reflect the complex economics of modern football, where clubs like Sevilla (valued at approximately 400-444 million euros) can be acquired by former players like Sergio Ramos through consortiums, while elite players such as Kylian Mbappe command transfer fees between 120-200 million euros, creating significant financial challenges for clubs seeking to balance talent acquisition with squad harmony and long-term sustainability.
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Welcome back to yet another live broadcast on your favorite football updates channel. It's a pleasure to be back with you on this beautiful Tuesday uh night/ evening. uh joining you live from Kala Uganda where it's uh 16 minutes past the hour of 11:00 p.m. Uh we are here yet again to discuss the latest from the world of football and uh very very interesting. Um I've just we've just wrapped up the game between Al Hilal and Al-Nasa and Al-Nas have won that game by goal to nil to brighten their chances um to brighten their chances of winning the Saudi pro league. uh you know um league titles. So the they are one win away from clinching it. They beat Karim Bezma's Al um in a very closely or highly contested game as you would expect uh to that's a first and second in as far as the Saudi pro league is concerned. Hi Reluctant Gamer. Good to have you on the broadcast. I hope you've had a wonderful day. Hope you're doing all right. Um so in tonight's broadcast we'll be talking about um we'll talk about um Sergio Ramos who is close to who is close to you know um completing the purchase of Sevilla his former club where he was given handed his debut I think in 2004 came through the ranks then we'll also get to talk about um Ben White being ruled out for the remainder of the season will also talk about the controversy surrounding Usman Dembele's accolate um which I told you about briefly yesterday that he won as a French league one player of the season.
Meanwhile, the game between Atletico de Madrid and oh there's also a championship game in the playoffs between um it's between Southampton and Midisport. It was 1-1 at halftime. As we speak in the Spanish La Liga, we've already had some games and as we speak, Atletico Madrid are in action against um against usa and Madrid are leading by goal to nil. But there's a penalty appeal in that game against Madrid. So we are waiting to see what the resultant check from the V could reveal subsequently, but the referee is yet to be summoned to the monitor. So we are wait to see we stand in waiting to see what the result will be there.
Remember um and players like Anton Griezmann are playing their last games with the club that's at Madrid. So good evening everyone once again um my name is Robert Kesakos and I'm coming to you live from Kala Uganda. For those of you that have just joined us, kindly like the broadcast, but also please consider subscribing to the channel if it is your first time here and help us continue to grow. Um, so basically, um, it's it's going to be it's it's a a full week of action of football, one game after the other. Um, shalom. God bless you and your family from the Holy Land of Jerusalem. That is Rico. Um, hi Rico.
Good to have you on the broadcast. I hope you're doing okay. Uh, how is the Holy Land? The referee has been summoned to the pitside monitor to investigate the matter further and we see what we will see what decision he comes out. Uh possibly we could head into halftime with or square W says hi.
Hi Wid where are you joining us from Mr. W. Uh it's good to have you on the broadcast. Um I hope you're doing okay.
Apologies guys. Was just um uh trying to have um you know a network test on my end and then need to have audio tested. I think the audio is good.
Uh the network is so far not bad. I think we're good to go.
Oh, is it the goalkeeper that commits the foul? Oh, it's a clash of heads. Oh, he's rescended the penalty. He's rescended the penalty. He's deemed it a clash of two players contesting for the for the ball um for you know the header.
Two players contesting for the ball. One heads into the other but as opposed to it being a foul on an Osuna player by Joan Moso. That's the ad Madrid goalkeeper. So it remains 1 nil in favor of Atlet Madrid there over in the Spanish La Liga. Remember these midweek fixtures are meant to send us uh to are meant to send us to through March the 36 of the Spanish La Liga and then over the weekend we'll be playing March the 37 and subsequently uh the league will climax because remember in the immediate aftermath of this particular season we are going for the world cup.
So in the earlier games you had Sigo lose to Levante by three goals to two while Rabbit is managed to beat up against Elch by a goal to nil. Sorry by two goals to one. Yes Rabbit is beat up against Elch by two goals to one. And the action will continue tomorrow with Espan taking on Villa will be away to Villa Royal. Barcelona will be away to the Portivo Aves while Maloka will take on um will be away to Gitafi among that and then also in the French League one we'll have two games one kicking off at 8:00 p.m. between Breast and Strasburg while the other game will be between the table leaders playing away to RSC loans who have been for the majority of the season been their title or title rivals but um PSG have already sealed the league one title given their you know spiral difference with a six point gap between them and second place Arsons with only two games to spare for both teams um I Hada says hello from Japan Ohio Goasi.
Hi, how are you doing? How is Japan?
What part of Japan are you joining us from? I hope I've not murdered your language when I said those that that that simple phrase. You say, "How can you remember so much thing about football?"
What do you mean how can I remember so much about football? Now the the honest bit about the sport is that there's a lot that I know but there's also too much that I do not know. That's just about it because football as a discipline is so wide.
It's so wide. I keep learning and unlining where necessary every single day. Um, I have to keep picking up on information that is relevant to my audience um or that I believe is worthy to help but also that is of relevance to my my individual self in terms of helping shape my opinion about certain issues within the game before I bring it to you. um I I have to to think through certain things especially when it comes to uh the topics of discussion um then for the things that you ask me generally I'm honest enough to tell you if I do not know about something that I have to go and read about it and then I get back to you or I'll give you my op opinion based on the information that I may have available to me at that opportune moment. So, it's just that's just about it. So, anyways, um like I said, too much football coming your way. And then also tomorrow there will be a game in the Premier League when Manchester City entertain Crystal Paris, but we'll get to discuss that one tomorrow morning in a morning broadcast. Um but with that said, where should we start it from?
Let's start it with um with the news regarding uh Sergio Ramos.
Now, Sergio Ramos is leading a consortium called 511 Capital who are trying to pursue a deal to purchase um Sevilla. Now, Sevilla have been in sort of turmoil both financially as well as football-wise in terms of excuse me in terms of how things have been going for them on on and off the pitch. So, it's not been a pretty sort of spell for them in a way. and a lot has happened. Um and as we speak this season, um they've been one of the teams fighting against predication. You know, they've been one of those teams.
So, meanwhile, that game between um Southampton and Ministra has already resumed. Remember it went into halftime 1-1. Um so, whoever advances between the two sides because this is the reverse fixture. The first leg ended in a goalless draw. um whoever advances will take on Hal City in the Championship playoff final that will take place on the 23rd of May. I think it will be Saturday uh the day before the climax of the Premier League um at Wembley Stadium. It's it's arguably the most expensive game of football. Not in terms of what you pay to go watch it, but in terms of the money that you earn yourself when you win it worth £100 million. How that comes about is still a mystery I'm trying to solve in my head in my puzzle. Not the source of the funds but what qualifies it to be that you know is for me always been uh you know something of thought. Um do you know if Messi and Neymar will be in the World Cup? I think for Lion Messi for as long as he's injuryfree I think it's a given he will be at the World Cup. That's what I think for Neymar.
It will depend on how he trains, on how Brazil go through their test games that they're supposed to play prior to the tournament and we will go from there because at some point I'd want to believe that a final squad will be named of about what 23 to 25 players should be about that if I'm not mistaken. you know I stand to be corrected if it it's more but around usually 23 25 that's usually the sort of size of squad so out of the 55 you have 30 players that have to be omitted from the current squad you know uh meanwhile the referee has sent us into halftime for that game between Atletico Madrid and and um and um Osasuna with Atletico Madrid leading um by a goal to nil. So that is happening. So anyways, that's football for you. It's been it's been a bit of an odd season for this Atletico Madrid side, but a penalty from Adolaman is what still separates the two two sides.
Atletico Madrid simply pushing to finish within fourth place. I mean, they already have it secured, so it's just a formality. I mean they're almost Oh well, there's a penalty shout out in that playoff championship playoff game.
We will see but it's been dismissed quite quickly on. Sorry guys, I have to juggle a couple of things. Uh the the Madrid game just went into halftime. on the side I have the championship game against Mis Pro is also going on. So a lot is happening on my screen at the same time or at least has been and there are games that I've sacrificed that I've not had the opportunity to watch. So anyways, um so according to multiple reports, like I said, um the club is valued at about at least north of 400 million euros. Some sources do suggest it's worth about 444 million, but it's not a definitive figure. and Sergio Ramos in like I said leading the consortium called 511 capital uh with his brother called I think known as Renee are leading u are leading the process and are waiting for official and formal steps with lawyers before a statement that's according to Fabrio Romano I mean it it will be a huge milestone for um for Saguramos because like I said this is a club that um handed him his uh you know La Liga debut back in 2004 before he later switched to Real Madrid and you remember he was a right back and then eventually turned into a center back and one one of of the best there has been in as far as the game is concerned. So that is what is happening in as far as that front is concerned or in as far as the acquisition of Sevilla is concerned. for quite some time they've been struggling uh financially like I said when you look at the La Liga standings they are 13th on the La Liga table with 40 points and that is only three points above the 19th place team on the La Liga standings now with three games left to play for some teams because remember some play tomorrow and two games for left for some to play you can make the case that um Um the the up to the 10th place and below are all in the relegation battle apart from Rio Oo who have already confirmed their place in the Seagunda division. Rio Dandandy says hello. Hello hello Rio Dandi. Good to have you back on the podcast. I hope you're doing well and that everything is going on well with you thus far.
So really it's um I I think Sevilla and Valencia have all been in tatas for quite some time now.
We're talking about the sea side who won the Spanish title um in 2002 and in 2004.
Uh that se sorry that Valencia side that were under the charges of um Rafael Benes Modis before he left to join Liverpool. And it was really really an interesting side that um uh that you know we had at the time. And you remember, you know, they had um players like Santiago Canarees, um defenders like uh Roberto Ayella, um uh Robin Ruben Baraja, David um Abel Lalda, Ala those sort of players, you know. So in a way Sevia is a big club, one that you cannot underestimate, one that you cannot simply write off. In yesterday before Atlet Madrid's resurgency to the top, Sevilla and Valencia were always the clubs that we expected to try and challenge Barcelona and Real Madrid's dominancy. Of course, they were not always doing it to great effect, but at least um they gave you a seamlessness of competition, you know, but it's without a doubt that it's a there's a lot of mars between some of those teams and the other two giants in Barcelona and Real Madrid, you know.
Oh, missed opportunity for me. Okay.
Real Dandy says, "Where do you think Zavia Alonso will end up?" Um, increasingly chances do point that he could end up at Chelsea. However, nothing is determined yet. Um, there's a feeling on my part that Chelsea are holding on fast tracking that deal, waiting to hear from Andoni Iola, but chances are really high that he could end up at Chelsea and I think Chelsea would be a good project for him.
The question however for me is will he be accorded the time because a lot of us think that just because he moved from Rasbi and went to um and went to Busen in October 2022 and literally pulled the team from the doss and oversaw them finishing sixth on the Bundesliga and qualifying for Europa League football that essentially it's supposed to be the same match everywhere he goes. No, he cannot be the same. Circumstances are going to be different. The set of players are different. You could you we cannot discuss talent pound for pound, but there's talent. There's maturity.
You you would be walking into a Chelsea side that has a lot of young players.
So, it's not a given. You know, you say, I think Chelsea might go for Ces Fabregas. I do not think Ces Fàregas is going to leave Ko after guiding them to their first European season. Remember Ces Fàregas is part owner of Ko alongside with the likes of Kir Henry among others. So his heart is where his money is. There's that as well. So for an upcoming manager, yes, I would understand the desire maybe to go a step further and move on to maybe a slightly better oba club, but switching from Ko to Chelsea is the equivalent of coming from one extreme end to another. It can be challenging. I'm not saying it cannot be done but um there's among us his camp and as equally reported by Ben Jacobs um there's this feeling that um he could um that he he does not want to leave Ko as well as the case is for Franchesco Faruri at FC Porto there's an understanding or a sort of contentment that he will stay at um at FC Porto at least for or in Portugal uh for now. So there's that. Hi Pedri, good to have you back on the broadcast. It's been a minute. I understand you've been busy with perhaps school. Adash says, "Hi African son." Hi Adash, good to have you back. Always a pleasure. It warms my heart when I see familiar faces reunite with us every single day. you know, um, whereas I'm not a shop, I I would want to use the analogy of a a shopkeeper who has a routine customer. So, you guys pass for my routine customers and and I appreciate you a great deal, more than you think. Rio Dandy says, "I really want Ces Fàregas in Chelsea. I really like his playing style as a manager and when he was a player, too." Okay. I mean, I've said this before and and I I'll keep saying it time and again. As football fans, we always have our preferences for for our respective teams in regards to what we think they need or what they must be having for them to succeed. We all want our teams to succeed. I think that's um a given. But as we exercise that or as we think about that, we also ought to remember that we do not always get what we want. Allow me use the example as um and and I hope you you you get to view it in the objective sense in which it comes regardless of my allegiances.
I take myself back to the year 2018 as Wenger has announced he will be leaving the club at the end of the season.
At that stage or at that point we in normal everyday fans conversation in different small groups at places where I watch the game from at random stopovers etc etc. It was a talk of town in as far as Arsenal concerned.
Who is worth the assault in replacing a man like Asent Springer? There was no easy answer to that. But nonetheless, they were contenders for the job. In my humble opinion at the time, in no particular order, I made a case for managers like Antonio Conte. I made a case for managers like Max Milan Allegri. I made a case for managers like Eric Tak at the time still as um there was talk of Jose Mourinho but I was not in support of Jose Mourinho. I understood those that were of the opinion that Jose Mourinho should be um a contender for the job but I was not so into him because of overall playing style. um Asenva even when you see a lot of people criticizing Arsenal or Mikaleta and he's you know maybe playing tactics it's because they have that image of Asenva that um regardless of the circumstances he played that fluid attacking ball domination football pass it more like not tic tac to the tea the way Barcelona did it under Pepadola or Bay or match seed at some point but that sort of we used to call it cow or that's what Arsenal were known for you know that smooth and very entertaining sort of football and of course Jose was never in that shade then eventually Diego Simone was a key candidate and I was rooting for Diego Simone as well as a candidate I appreciated the fact that Diego Simeon's style of football was always going to be different from what we had come to know of Arsenal and Asen Wenger. I understood that and respected it. Nonetheless, I felt that Diego Simeon had had a certain level of flexibility to adopting his style, maybe to try and play the No Way than Jose Mourinho could ever do. That's where I thought maybe.
But also the mentality that hardcore sort of sort of rock and roll kind of mentality. when when I say rock and roll, you guys who love rock music, you'll know it's hardcore, you know. So, I thought that about I thought about that at the time, you know. Those are some of the things that I did consider at the time.
So, um guys, um real dandy, I'm going to get to your other comment as well as Adash indulge me as I complete this. Um you know, you're trying your best to persuade a career in giving valuable information regarding the game of soccer.
Thank you so much Adash for that compliment. I'll take it in the most positive spirit that it it does come. So um I looked at it in that sense and those were my top cabinets. Then fast forward as news comes thick and fast all those options for some reason were out of the window. Thomas Tuko was another name that we also discussed at the time. You know, we knew that as much as as Arsenal fans would be of the preference to get Pep Guardula, we were never going to get him out of Manchester City. Um I think he had just completed his what second season with Manchester City and he had won the league title.
Now, never had I thought that Unai Emory was a contender. Later on, Mikaleta who was little known to the coaching world beyond him being a former Arsenal captain and an assistant to Pep Guardola at the time.
And even by the way about that we learned much later after Una Emry had been you know given the job that Mikaleta was one of the top candidates that were being considered at the time.
Now, I seem to remember and I stand to be corrected if I get the timing right, sorry, the timing wrong, but it was around the same time when we got Rahul Sani into the club and he made a case for Una and Una at the interview impressed with his expansive video analysis and his understanding of Arsenal players that were part of that squad at the time. So eventually or fast forward he does get land the job and he starts to do the job. I thought he had an incredible first season. By the way we finished Arsenal finished fifth on the Premier League. I think they were just a few points shy of achieving Champions League football. Um he took them to the finals of the UF Europa League and and they lost to Chelsea by four goals to one. It it was a painful loss almost an it was nothing short of an embarrassment given that Arsenal were playing against their direct rivals. So going into his second season because and the the reason as to why by the way I do never entirely personally blamed Unai Emry for what went wrong for him at Arsenal was that there was this overall expectation that because he had he was experienced and that he had managed sever managed PSG that suddenly he was going to convert Arsenal quickly into this title contender and yet that couldn't be much further from what was realistic at the time.
Of course, when you also look at the some of the players that were recruited around the same period, you realize that we're in the in the trenches. We went for Socrates past from Rosha Dortmund, the Greek center back was in the evenings of his career. We went and signed a free agent in Stefan Lesteiner after he left Juventus. Uh then we brought in youngsters like Mate Gunduzi, Lucasa had impressed at the World Cup 2018 with the Uruguay national team particularly in the Euro guys game I think against Portugal among other players. Uh we got Kan Tiani from Celtic for about£25 million and it felt worth it. But when you go back and assess the overall quality of the squad, there were some excellent players. Me ozil per Aubameyang, Alexander Lakati, but we also had inefficient players, the likes of um Mustafi, you know, among others. So that was the type of team that it was. So when we talk about um and then when we talk about fast forward bringing in and then he eventually is sacked and then they bring in Malata when he gets sacked and they bring in Malata again. Once Unai Em got sacked, I went back to the earlier options that I had in mind and made this the case for them once again to say we could not afford to get it wrong this time around that we needed to get it right. You know, not in a million years had I thought that Arsenal had the cience of going to Manchester City and pick out Pepola's assistant, a rookie who I mean that's like being tossed into the deep end.
It's like getting your fouryear-old son who has never swam before but has only played in a basin and maybe beyond that a a bathtub in your guidance with your supervision and then you toss them into a pool.
Even if it were a kids pool, they have not swam before. But this one would have been an adult pool because you're getting a rookie manager in Mikalita and you know plugging him into an Arsenal team. Arsenal is a big team.
It's a gigantic team, a global brand of football. So the weight of that to have it on the rookie shoulders of a manager is not something I thought he would cope well with. And I do not think anybody in any part of the world would have been surprised if let's say Mikata was sacked after just one year in charge. I do not think that would have surprised anybody.
The the case would have been simple, inexperienced, never done this before.
He's not managed anywhere. What were they thinking appointing him? But the one thing they afforded him is time. up until this day the one the biggest commodity that Arsenal have afforded Mikita is time that's the biggest opportunity you go back in his debut half season and he wins the FA Cup when they beat Chelsea to one in the final I think Christian scored for Chelsea while Alexander Lad scored for the Arsenal sorry Pom Aubameyang then beyond that he's not won anything since in his first four season of course ending that season they finished eighth on the Premier the globe and so did they in his first full campaign that was 2020 2021 predominantly known as the coid9 season.
So whether it is Frances Solar Fabricas, whether it's Zab Zabono or Zavia Hernandez, the question is a Chelsea going to afford that person time because they need time. Time is a very very important aspect and I often reflect on that on those bad days of Mika in his first debut full season and I thought I've always thought to myself if the fans were coming to the stadium every week in week out don't you think the pressure on him would have been much more from the fans that maybe they would have been they were going to be bored at every end of the game because he had that spell of 10 games where he only won one game beating Man United by goal to nil that penalty by Eric Aubameyak you know so in that sort of sense so Dandy you say I really want Ces fabricas in Chelsea I really like his you like his playing style and who he was as a player I appreciate that so in explaining all that as trying to drive two points home that one as fans we do not always get what we we want or what we would have preferred when it comes to these decisions as is the case when it comes to the acquisition of players. But then the also other question that are trying to preempt is what would it require for any manager in the realms of C fabricas that they would need to succeed at Chelsea.
Time is an important element.
Often times you feel that club owners are playing to the gallery as soon as a manager stumbles.
Uh fans are up in arms. Social media is like social media it's it's it's on fire and before you know it they cave in. They their conviction in the person they appointed quickly diminishes and they suck them.
Okay. Um allow me move on. Um, where is Zavi? Um, are they are there any updates on Iniesta on Inesta's manager training?
I've not heard anything about Iniesta, but Savvi is there without a job. He's open to taking a job in the Premier League. Um, Chelsea have discussed Savvi. um reports earlier this week um earlier this week or late last week had suggested that Chelsea had reached out to his representatives and had preliminary conversations but um conversations did not go deep. Uh that's Zavi Hernandez.
You're trying your best to persuade a to persuade a career in giving valuable information regarding the game of soccer. Yeah. Every day I'm challenging myself to learn from people with whom I share the same spaces with. Um, every day I challenge myself to try and read or take in as much information as I can.
And sometimes it feels that there's very little time to take it all in. But I do my best so that I keep bettering myself.
If there's any one of the things I really want is self-improvement. I love the criticism when somebody says and I love the constructive criticism or feedback not necessarily criticism but the feedback for somebody to tell me you you do this right you need to improve in that area you know do that you know I love that guidance and it doesn't matter who from whom it is coming from learning is a process it's an everyday thing for me so thank you so much Adash for those kind words says where does Frank clamp manage Now, was he good as a Chelsea manager? He's currently at Coventry City. He's just guided them to a Premier League promotion after I think about a season and a half of being in charge of them. Now, Frack Lampard did well at Chelsea in his debut uh you know as spell and I think the first season they finished was it fourth or fifth? It was the subsequent season where things burnt his hands. First of all, they went on and bought him these um experienced players, Eduardo and Kuri, that group of players. And I think he failed to manage that group of players.
Before you knew it or before you knew it, he was in and out of his depth. He's eventually sacked when the club were ninth I think on the league standings at the time and they brought in Thomas Tuko who then eventually guides the team to um the UEFA Champions League uh title.
So when you look at um I think I think um he's the kind of manager you'd say was good but also also a little bit out of his depth. I mean, it's Chelsea. It's not easy. What he had as an advantage going for him was that um was that um was that he's he was a Chelsea legend or he is a Chelsea legend. Therefore, he had the respect um he had the respect of uh the dressing room as a guy that has hacked it at Chelsea before. And that can be quite valuable. You know, it's one of the things that Malita had on his side that in his lack of experience because at least by the time Frank Lampard um joins Chelsea, he had managed at Derby County. So he had a little bit of experience at a club like Dby County, but Malar did not have any. Uh so on the other side so in using that experience of having played for the team having cap captained that team um you sort of give yourself the opportunity to have a say in the dressing room where you have respect of those players.
They'll respect you, you know, because you played for that club before. You know what it takes to play for that club and things like that. So he had that respect uh for him. Remember when when you go back to 2015 in December when they when the club partways with Jose Morino Steve took over for briefly and then Gidi came in. Um he came in as caretaker manager was enter until the end of the season and then they brought in Antonio Conte. When Antonio Conte comes through, he wins the league in his debut campaign 2016 2017. Then the subsequent season he's fired. Uh that is 2017 2018 he's fired or they part ways with the club. Um oh no, he completed the season but they part ways with Chelsea. So he was there between 2016 and 2018. And then they brought in Marisari from Napoli. You remember the guy who used to smoke?
He comes in and he handles the club for only one year 2018 2019 and that's when the club brings in Frank James Lampard from Derby County. So he goes through the 2019 2021 league season where um where you can argue that he did well you know you can argue that he did well. So the club finished fourth with 66 points which was good. I think he had done well. Now they wanted to go for more.
Now in going for more that's when things never worked out and eventually they had to part ways with him.
Of course um that is in in January 2021 and then Thomas Tuko comes in and eventually they finish fourth again. So fast forward September 2022 they part ways with Thomas Tuko you know so that's been the story of Chelsea or and that's Frank Lampard now when when he leaves the club of course he went on to manage at Everton things did not work out um then they brought in when Too is sacked they bring Graham Potter from Brighton um That was very early on in the season around September 8th, 2022. By April, they've sacked him and there's a guy called Bruno Salt um handed Chelsea for about a week and then Frank Lampard returned for his second stint as an interim until the end of the season. That was April to June. If you remember that period, it was so shambolic.
He lost so many games and then that's when Mauricio Pochettino comes in for one season before Enzo Meska.
So the one thing they ought to do or that I feel is they need to give time to managers. But I hope I've answered your lump question. Joshua says we've got bigger dudes to kiss bro. I don't know what what you you tried to imply with that. Uh but um I I leave the comment as is because it does not appear to be football related.
Anyways, the red Madrid game is also back for the second stanza. Meanwhile, we are into stoppage time for that game between Southampton and Midport as we speak.
So things are happening quite quite thick and fast there.
Um Milton says, "Hi Robert, sorry just joined. It's all right." Good to have you on the broadcast. I hope you're doing okay. I hope you've been all right. I think I've not seen you for the last two broadcasts or something, but I hope you're doing okay. So, anyways, briefly away from Chelsea. Allow me digress back because you see, you see the thing about doing these discussions with you is that I cannot impose my topics on you. I ought to respect what you demand to impart here because you the audience matter than any of my topics that I may have come up in head.
So allow me digress back to um to the situation to do with Sergio Ramos. Like I said, Sio Ramos is leading the 511 Capital um a consortium that want to purchase Sevia for about 40 million plus.
If he does seal that deal, he will be joining um Lion Messi who in April this year completed the acquisition of a Spanish club from the Catalonia region called Cornell. Sorry, Cornella. Yes, it's called Cornella. And then also earlier on this year, uh, Cristiano Ronaldo bought 25% stake in a Spanish side or in the Sagunda division called Almeria.
And of course, in addition to that, you have Ky Fabas who have shares in a club like um, Ko. I don't remember particularly but Ronaldo Nazario Dimma had a club in Spain.
So he would be joining a cohort of other football fan sorry football former footballers or great sportsmen who have acquired football clubs. There's also I don't know no he's not a sportsman. He's a Michael B. Jordan the the film actor from the USA. He's a shareholder with Bonmouth, you know. Hit the road says, "Is this relatable to anyone?"
It should be, but how hit the road.
Hit the road, Jack.
Sounds like a statement. Sounds like you're telling yourself something, Jack.
It reminds me of that series called um is it My Summer with the Walters?
Something like that.
or the summer might turn pretty one of those two series you know or TV shows. So anyways there's that. So that's to do with Sevilla. We can pl it aside and then move on to the other topic. The other topic involves Arsenal because earlier on today it was revealed that um Ben White had suffered um had suffered an injury.
Okay, we know he was forced off through injury in their 1-0il victory against Southampton, sorry, against West Ham United over the weekend. Uh, that was around the 28th minute of the game. And as soon as he went down, when you saw the amount of pain that he was in, you felt for the worst. You sort of felt that he was not going to return. And reports were confirmed today after tests that he suffered a suspected MCL. You know, uh that's um I think a miniscus crucet ligament injury, something like that. And his season is as good as that. You're not going to see him back in Arsenal colors this season. There's also concern that he could miss the World Cup through injury. So according to David Austin, he said Arsenal defender Ben White expected to miss rest of the season with knee ligament injury. Um 28-year-old England international suffered a suspected MCL damage in the AFC victory against West Ham though full extent is yet to be established and I think that says it all. So for me and I remember watching him go off and my worry because he he he walked off the pitch in the guidance of a physio holding him and you could see how he was limping with that knee and I felt for the worst. I said, "Not another bad injury, Ben, because he's had knee surgery before, you know, and he's one of those loyal players, a very sort of great players.
First of all, it's very unfortunate for Ben White to suffer this kind of injury at this stage of the season.
It wasn't too long back that he had returned from injury, you know, and he was starting to sort of find his footing in the game and he's had to go back to the sick bay. But more al more importantly because he was summoned at the previous England national team, you never know what would have happened if he had not gotten injured. Maybe, just maybe, meanwhile, the game between Southampton and Medro has gone into extra time or is going into extra time. If he had not suffered that injury, who knows what would have happened. Hi, Bono. Um, let me get your comment in a bit. I hope you're doing okay, you know.
Okay, let me read the comment. Bono says, Sino Bono says, good morning, brother. I'm off to work. God bless you, brother. Okay, thank you so much, you know, Bueno. Um, I mean, good luck at work and safe journey.
So, really, okay, just a second. Uh, was having something fixed here. You know when you're following up on games and multiple games that one keeps ending, the other keeps starting. He got off.
Bmir just forced one more into a save.
Brilliant save. Almost a static header.
Ball is floated in. He stands still and he heads it on target. Unfortunately for him, he was close to the goalkeeper.
So anyways, um still about, um, Ben White, like I said, it's very, very unfortunate, especially when you reflect on the kind of season that he's had, one that has been troubled by injuries.
And as a a football player, a professional football player, that's the last thing you want to to to, you know, be dealing with.
And because it's a World Cup year, who knows, maybe he would have got in lucky and get get someone to the England national team. Remember at the previous um at the previous international break, there's a defender that pulled out of the England national team for and he was replaced by Ben White.
So I would have loved for him to stay fit. But also on the asenoc site that means they do not have Ben White, they do not have UN Timber ahead of the season showdown. They have a next game against BI at home that will be next week on Monday, Monday night football and then the subsequent Sunday against Crystal Palace before the UFA Champions League final on May the 30th.
Those are three very very important games of football.
Three very very important games of football. So it's not that ASA out of options because they can conjure out something. Even if it would mean to play Declan Rice there, they would do that. They have Christian Mosca, but when you getting to the business end of the season, ideally you would have loved to have your top top players to be available.
Eura should have returned to action by now but apparently suffered a setback sometime in in March and then they've been trying to push in but then to be ready and he felt a bit of a discomfort. There's something that you ought to be very cautious about when it comes to a groin injury. It's what has troubled Kama through the season. Lamin has been suspect to that although currently he's out with the hamstring and things like that. So they do not have timba or have not had him for quite some time and his backup in Ben White is equally out. So now that means by hook or crook regardless of what their preferences are they have to play their Christian Moscera Christian Mosca has been quite the revelation of a defender but forget not he does prefer to be a center back then he would have be a right back nonetheless he will have to play there because that's a requirement and you cannot have a bigger stick than league title when you're faced with these such situations. Milton says Arsenal will be missing another player now. Exactly. And for me, the concerning thing or the take from this is what I've been saying literally all throughout the entire season. Literally, every every game of football that Arsenal played have literally walked away with the player injured. According to Malita, K Fury was withdrawn at half time. Was it I think because of some form of injury or discomfort or knock.
Every game they've played, they've ended up losing a player either to a knock or something.
They've struggled to have a very consistent starting level all throughout the season. You then remember the fact that Bukaiaka is currently playing under injury. A lot of people do not know that but he has that Achilles injury. They are Christianopathy and they've been managing him. That's why you see um they've been very intentional on the number of minutes he plays.
Over the weekend, he played more minutes than he had played in the previous two games against Fulham and against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League, but it still felt a bit forced.
I don't know you if you've observed every time they passed the ball to Saka into space, he was sort of hesitant. In other words, he never went for a sprint. And I meanwhile Madrid have found the second goal. They've scored. I think it's Alexander Sol who squad to make it 2-0.
Excuse me.
Yes. Very careful with Saka and it affects him as well. So now when they whenever they play the ball in space he hesitated to do the sprint and it felt intentional. There was one scenario where he they passed the ball and he had a loose first touch and he thought he had it had gone beyond him and that the western player was going to run onto it and get there fast. So he hesitated to run to it. But eventually he realizes that guy is not going to get there before I get there even regardless of whether I'm going even if I'm not going to sprint.
So and he runs after the ball and he gets to it. So you you you you almost sense a caution about him in how he operates off the ball and once the ball is played for to him into space. You can see that he's hesitant to do the sprints. Now I don't know if this the not doing the sprints are attached to the Achilles injury or there's something to do with his hamstring that he does not want to risk. Remember as much as he's a very crucial player for the Arsenal, he's in the same respect or measure or even more a critical player for the England national team. So Arsenal are very aware of that. they wouldn't want to cost him a World Cup of football, but um they have to deal with it anyway because their wingers have been very very uh less productive.
Zabulu says, "I am actually trying to forget that football exists right now."
Zablu, hi Zablu, where are you joining us from? uh where you what team do you support and where you joining us from?
Just hearing Arsenal gives me trauma.
I'd want to assume and I hope I'm wrong that one you're a West Ham United fan or you're Liverpool fan.
there was going to go on either you're a West Ham fan, a Manchester City fan, otherwise as a Liverpool fan, what bond you have to pick with Arsenal?
Indulge me. Let me understand what is it about Arsenal that you dread or that has caused you the trauma, you know, because Liverpool are not in the title race. So Arsenal's results had zero significancy to Liverpool or against Liverpool or for Liverpool.
I do not think there's anything they've done to cost Liverpool. In fact, Liverpool is the only team is one of the few teams in the Premier League not to have lost to Arsenal this season because it was a goalless draw in the reverse fixure and the other was um a one- nil victory for Liverpool.
Man City beat Arsenal 21 and the other was a one draw.
Style of play is garbage.
Wow, that's an interesting take. Anyway, it's one man's opinion, right?
That's your perception of them or your interpretation of them. But I'm sure a lot of people would argue otherwise.
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You people play too much. Jeffrey Epstein or there's some other Epstein that you're referring to because the Jeffrey Epstein that I've heard of is a very very infamous man. He's a very unpopular figure in different corners of the world, you know.
So meanwhile there's a V check in this game for Madrid against Oasuna. Everything is clear. Everything is clear. Nothing to worry. I'm any news around? Uh not much apart from um the championship game between um Southampton and Mispro. That one is into extra time now. It's still 1-1. Um it's the second leg. So they have to find a winner. The first leg ended in a goalless draw. So whoever advances has to play City in the Championship playoff final uh which is the most expensive game of football. Um I was here asking my audience uh Gladiator when he joined us. I I've never understood why the championship playoff final is the most expensive game of football that there is. I mean, the winner gets what £100 million to spend.
And sometimes every time I think about that, it reminds me of the sharp contrast between football finances within UK's elite side of football and that of the rest of the world. Because in the UK, it's not all Rosie. There are clubs that are struggling financially. Sheffield Wednesday among others down there in the lower leagues that have their issues and Leicester City have had their problems with finances etc etc but when it comes to teams playing in the Premier League and relatively in the Championship the resources are there and just imagine what 100 million pounds could mean for a team like um last year that could what it could mean for a team like Atlanta what it could mean for a team like um Bologna? What it could mean for a team like Girona, you know, for Sevilla, for Valencia, present day, you know, for Riabetis, you know, that kind of thing, that kind of money.
And that's why you get teams that are just promoted from the championship competing for players from let's say the Italians uh from the French league one with better teams in the Spanish La Liga you'll find that you know let's say let's assume that her city qualifies or wins the championship play final and they get the£100 million they'll be competing for the same player that Atlanta wants to sign and then the player will sign sometimes for a house city. Why? Because they can afford to pay the wages.
So it's it's something that I've always wanted to understand. Okay. Gladiator says I do not know how Milwall lost to Hal. I mean I did not watch that game but anything can happen in football really. Um that's why English premier English Premier Premiership is to dominate for for is to dominate for long. I mean yeah it it will continue to dominate in terms of um brand in terms of competition domestically and among other things. And when it comes to the other relative clubs that you would ideally want to be at the same level beyond the confines of English football, you know, you say that money comes from uh the deals signed for live coverage and the FA. I mean it's just a single game. Like I understand it can it can attract those finances but I mean a UF Champions League winner never takes that as prize money never never takes that as prize money.
Um a lot of elite leagues the winner does not get that amount of money when they clinch the league title in the form of prize money. Forget the money that comes through commercial revenue like uh you know advertising and broadcast revenue etc. CDC forget that but prize money because that is prize money £100 million for grabs.
So let me ask what is more valuable qualifying directly or playing and winning a championship final. I know I know it's a big bet for it's a huge gamble that you can you can easily risk missing out but when every time I hear that money I'm thinking to myself don't some teams want just to play this imagine if they had let's say the model that they have in German where is it the third team from the bottom plays a playoff game with the third team from the bottom Imagine what that would mean if let's say in this particular case were the ones going to play maybe city or Southampton in in in in a playoff sort of game and then you have a team like West Ham or Tottenham winning that game and they have to go away with 100 million pounds what it would mean for the their significance in terms of going into next season. So I mean football financing m I mean that money is it's huge huge money. I know it's it's the cost of one player eventually for big clubs like Arsenal, like Chelsea, but for those mid-table clubs, it really really tells you how a club like Nottingham Forest, you remember when they had just under their promotion, I think you have to go back in 2022 when they were still under Steve Cooper, how they bought they brought in about what 23 players in their debut season in the Premier League just to try and survive.
you know, so it's um it's quite quite interesting that way. Okay. You see actually um And goes all the way to bring Sunderland goes all the way to bring Gran Jaka of which of this world into a newly promoted Sunderland. Yes. like you I mean that transfer is what epitomizes this debate.
Grand Jaka is playing for a team like the starch of Bakusen who just yesterday were Bundesliga champions that are going to play in the Champions League and Sunderland come around and it does it feels like he does not have to think too hard about it you know because in in seasons gone by it's almost felt like a given that every team all the three teams that get promoted from the championship are the teams that are going to get relegated for some time.
But then he takes a bet on himself that I'm going to go to the Sunderland side and we'll try and push for Premier League stay. Yes, they've achieved it.
It's a huge gamble on his part. But also remember it's not because there wasn't interest from other bigger clubs. other clubs wanted to sign him but he chose sandal.
So that's quite very very telling.
Um tappen resten says hello. Hello hello vestappen.
So it's quite very very telling you know it's quite very telling when it comes to that.
So what's the prize money for a champions league winner?
Let let's because last I checked it had at the time in the old format it was about64 million pounds I think that's what it used to be now now that um things have changed I know I know I know that clubs they they improved the money when it comes to your winning bonuses For example, every game of match, every game you win in the Champions League, you get about, I think, €2.1 million.
And for every game you draw, you get about €750,000.
So, the winner earns about €25 million as in addition to everything that you've earned through.
So you can imagine and that's why Man United were desperate to or desperately wanted to get back in Champions League football because that means you'd be you can average making 100 million pounds from from um from the Champions League. And if you do that consistently over four to five seasons, that's almost um half a billion pounds and it can go a long way in helping you rebuild your squad.
It then takes me to the conversation I was having here with Jeff when he asked me a question. If doesn't win anything this season, should he be sacked?
And I said if you suck him who you bring but also if you want to part ways with him because he has not won the league title.
Is it all that matters to his bosses or the balance sheet also matters because they've played Champions League football for now three consecutive seasons and therefore there's revenue coming into the club. So his bosses, yes, they want the le the titles and that's the ultimate success, but there's also other forms of success and that's the financial bit of it because those guys are businessmen, the guys that own these football clubs. So that was in part my argument about um the case the curious case of Mikaleta if he doesn't win anything. Of course, my feeling is that he maybe gets he because you see competing and not winning takes a toll on you or drain can easily drain you or take so much from you. So maybe he sort of chooses to step down as opposed to being sacked. But as we speak, even before the season ends, his bosses have already initiated contract talks. However, he requested that they be shoved for now until the end of the season. Okay, let me get some of these comments. Um, Gladiator, you say, "Okay, no." Vasappen says, "Hello." Uh, you know, says, "Remember me?" Yes, I do.
Vasappen said, "Do what's that?" Milton said, "I think the stakes are high for a championship club to get promoted."
Okay. Clean thinking about quitting Madrid. That is not love after the 50 million signatures to leave the club. Wow. I mean, I do not want to believe that all people that have appended their signatures on that petition are Real Madrid fans. But nonetheless, the one thing we cannot dismiss or disqualify is that they are the even if it's just 10%.
Let's say um how many people by now have said you you site 50 million five only 10% of 50 million is what 5 million right that's huge.
So assume let's say the other 45 are let's say Barcelona fans other fans from elsewhere around around the world that do not wish Real Madrid well 5 million is too much for fans to say no we do not want here as fans and as a player when you sit back in isolation of yourself in your quiet place maybe in your bathroom moment or in your soul searching moment you cannot help ignore having that thought say looks like I'm not loved here or at least um I'm not appreciated enough here or people think I'm the problem but then the big question is if he leaves Real Madrid then where does he go because he's going to expensive. First of all, Real Madrid paid him expensively in sign on fees. He's on high, very high wages.
So, they would want to recoup some of that money.
And ordinarily for a player of his quality, he should be costing no less than 120 million. Actually, no less than £140 million. If Alexander is cost 125 last summer, so you're thinking 140 million the bare minimum meaning it could go to as high as 200 million. Let's forget not Neymar cost £220 million. That was his close I think from Barcelona to PSG. You remember when he was leaving Monaco to join PSG bought quite expensively. So he's worth that.
which club is going to cough that amount of money and does Real Madrid let's say if they were to bring themselves around to the idea of losing him for the very reasons that we are citing which club would want to touch him because who says that we do not 200 we do not spend 2000 million on him and a year down the road or two years down the road we find them we find ourselves in the same spot that Real Madrid found themselves in.
It becomes a a whole um Pandora box to think about.
You know, it becomes that it becomes very hard to think about in that respect and yet it's an unavoidable conversation that we ought to have.
You just cannot stomach that idea.
And maybe if you you you're willing to be hard skinned, maybe somebody that cares about you, maybe your parent or your partner is saying, I mean, I think we need to leave this place. The question would be, what's the next destination? Okay. Um, Milton says must win a trophy otherwise he will be under pressure. No doubt. Yeah, he's already under pressure. He's already under pressure. That is without a doubt. But um the question I was trying to answer at the time now if he doesn't win anything I've already said this should be his fi final season if he doesn't win anything but also I asked myself the question if not him who because when you look at elite managers are they they are there but are they readily available to make the switch a lot of people admire Louis Enrique I think PSG are going to be desperate to keep you'd admire Hans Fleek. He's just extended his contract with Barcelona um until June 2028 with an option to I think extend it no and with an option to extend it for a further year and he said Barcelona would be his last job in club football. Are you going to go for Jugen Crop?
If his words are anything to live by, he said he would never manage any other club in the Premier League other than Liverpool. you're not going to get a Pep Guardola. I mean, it's not impossible, but it doesn't feel like it's it can happen, especially for him to cross from Man City to, you know, to move an to an Arsenal.
Are you going to get a color Angelotti?
Does he feel like a good fit? I do not know. So, as you think of if he doesn't win, you need to get Apologies for the internet glitch. Um, I don't know. Um, I think my I don't know if my Wi-Fi just went out or expired, but yeah. Um, I don't know what just happened. I I'll need to cross check after the broadcast.
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My Wi-Fi has given up on me. Uh, so you'll indulge me if we wrap this one up. Okay. But before we do, I need to go through all those comments. Um, I feel for Mape. That was for Milton.
Then you said if Mape was up for grabs um up for grabs, I'd ask him. Kicha, who do you take? Wow, that's a hot take.
Yeah, I'm back. But um my I don't know.
For some reason, my Wi-Fi is off. I think Mchin is either having issues or they've decided to terminate me early.
But um to the best of my knowledge, my account should be expiring at least tomorrow. Uh it should be Yeah. No, th actually Thursday, but um they've done mid dirty, but they've done that before during the course of a broadcast. It's not the first time that's happened. Anyway, so if Mbappe was up for grab at Arsenal and him, who would I take?
Obviously, in terms of talent, in terms of pedigree, clear is the better player.
But for the health of your dressing room, you're better off with Kakra.
For the health of your dressing room, remember is the kind of guy of the non-negotiables.
He wants um people that are drilled into his ideas, into his discipline, his way of doing things. You let once, twice, thrice, he's not going to take it. He's going to want to push you out. He's going to want to freeze you out. Now, when you're dealing with a player like Clean Nebape with all his ego and all his stardom, the dynamics can sort of quickly shift and you do not want that sort of player that has that could have that level of influence on other players in the dressing room because of his talent at Stardom.
So talent wise I I acknowledge Kimbape will be the better player uh would be the better value for the for money would be because he's going to contribute to club merchandising and the overall club branding and etc and everything you would want to think about on the commercial side of the game for the club. He will contribute enormously to that. But then the question is what are the the implications of having him in the dressing room beyond what he gives you on the pitch. What he gives you on the pitch will never be without question.
But how about when things are not going right?
Is he going to influence your dressing room in a positive way or in a negative way? you know, so when you look at it in that context, you sort of feel that um it will be an easy choice to make to choose Kakraia over Kanbappe because the goals that you could get from Mbappe the individual you can collectively get from other talented players if you play a certain way. Okay. Milton says no.
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Okay. Good, good, good. Uh, Gladiator says we are getting you now. We can proceed with the conversation. So glad I don't know if you agree with me or disagree with me but um based on those reasons I'd go for Kakascalia because um clear would come with all the branding huge praise a lot of press coverage media coverage uh for people that do marketing know what that means for for a club uh or for a business uh you would come with a lot of play player sorry uh a lot of uh shut sales club merchandise and that kind of thing. he already has a following. You get all all everything that comes with with him. Of course, you also have to dig in deep in your own pockets in terms of buying him, but also uh putting him on significant wages, but also as you put him on significant wedges, um a year or two down the road, you're going to have players that think um of equal value or have been of um that have been more loyal to the club also demanding for higher wages. I think we've had that kind of conversation to when when it comes to Venicas Jr. at Real Madrid when it came to the wages um or his possible pending contract renewal apparently is demanding wages similar to those of Kanimbappe if not slightly more and the club and they're not in position to either give it to him or they're just not willing to bow to those kinds of demands and I remember saying that Fentino Perez is is the kind of president that wouldn't be afraid uh to c to cut off the arm or a leg to save the body if it would turn to be cancerous, you know. So, and I remember there was an offer from apparently the Saudi pro league from one of those clubs. I think it was Alal or I think it was Alal that was willing to offer about €350 million to buy Venice Junior with an option of letting him stay at Real Madrid for one extra season on loan.
So when you look when you consider all those dynamics when it comes to bringing a player like to Arsenal, they are good things but also they are bad things.
I think this I don't know who is going to help him whether it's Real Madrid or he himself but the the media coverage around him the PR around him needs to improve and it needs to happen fast.
As somebody with a background in digital communications and PR, I know um what bad press can do cause you because as great as he is a talent, if the media is not kind to him, he can soon be a story of yesterday.
The advantage for him is he's one French, two he's the holy grail or the star boy of the French national team and therefore he's going to get some good press coverage at least at home but elsewhere in Europe he needs to I don't know he either needs to handle it deliberately with his agent or his minders or Real Madrid need to help him but he needs some really really positive media coverage because this petition thing it may sound light but it could have farreaching consequences than the ones that we imagine in the immediate uh interim. Um okay.
Um Cavar Dona your UFC Madrid um I think R4G is of the view that he will takea to Arsenal as opposed to you know him.
Um Gladiator you say Kiche is your young is your is younger and future still ahead of him. However, Mape would immediately would immediately bring revenue and fear factor pedigree and experience to your team. That's all true. That's all true. And like I said, when it comes to his footballing talent and what he would bring to the club, I do not think that is without a doubt.
But also there's that adage that says um one rotten tomato can spoil an entire basket. So if he comes with that sort of reputation that he's a dressing room antagonizer when you look at this neat arsenal family of a squad you do not want to plug in a player that is going to antagonize that the kind remember you know Bukayasaka is as poster boy why because academic graduate hell end you know We think he's English, he's at home. But beyond that, when you look through the entire Arsenal squad, it's hard for you to pinpoint and say this is the other star boy of the team, the poster boy of the team. You know, you you almost find almost all players are within Apologies for the internet glitch.
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Unfortunately, it happened again. Um, I have zero control over that. I'm really really trying to have my other device on standby to help with that, but it is what it is. So, Gladiator, I completely understand where you're coming from with all that and I acknowledge it's true.
But when you have a player the size of Clean Neb with his ego, with his brand size, big as it is, being plugged into a dressing room where almost all players are all equal, it may not take long until you have that dressing room in disarray.
Now I would want to believe that is not entirely the problem at Real Madrid, but if it comes in with that rep sort of reputation, you the last thing you want is having divisions within your dressing room just because there's this player who thinks he's above everybody else with their ego, with their demands and things like that. And the last thing you would want is giving a player special treatment. We know players have signed such contracts where they get preferential treatment. You know the the name as having to go and celebrate their birthday, the birthday of their sister, things like that. You know, I've heard of contracts where a player is allowed to go back mid of the season to be allowed to go and see their family maybe and that kind of thing. But those are minors, but we we know what is, you know.
So, it's it's it's a it's it's sort of a difficult situation to digest all through. Like I said, there are pros and cons to to to it.
The question would be what are you more comfortable with? Are you comfortable with making the money in the interim and then perhaps risk losing your dressing room in the long run or you rather keep the dressing room intact and take a bet on Kakracalia? So, but for me with all factors considered I'd go with the Kichakalia.
Not in disqualification of clear talent but in acknowledgement of everything else that comes with him. Okay, Robert, I have a question please. Is there a stadium called Nachivo in Kala? Yes. Uh Nachivo War Memorial Stadium is Uganda's oldest stadium.
It's been there since is it 19 ether 1916?
I think 1916 it's undergone refurbishment and redevelopment but yeah it is there war memorial stadium says hello hello Vappen you know so yeah this clear story is going to rage on but I feel from a PR perspective he needs to find a way of cleansing his name he needs to find a way of taking some of the negative stories that are making the brands online taken down. Whoever put out that petition needs to put it down and he just needs to find he needs to do a bit of damage control when it comes to his personal brand.
Of course, he could easily go to the World Cup and he smashes it and then the world forgets that he's had his misgivings.
But once you have the media turned into a certain direction, it may be very difficult to bend them back into line.
So he wouldn't I do not think he would want to be in that situation. I do not think individually he's ready to go to play in the Saudi league. I think he still wants to be within Europe and the pool of clubs that would be able to afford him in Europe and not that many in France there's only PSG in the German bodesta it would be a stretch for even by a minute um in the Italian city at the moment there's no single club that can afford him in the Premier League is where you have more clubs that would possibly afford him Liverpool can afford him Arsenal can Manchester City can Man United can I'm not sure Chelsea can given their recent financial conundrums.
Uh Nachu Memorial Stadium was established in 1926 on land donated by Kabakov Ghana. Oh thanks thanks for the correction there on the year. Yeah 1926.
So it's 100 years you know 100 years in existence in existence. So, so out of those four Premier League teams, what would be the most ideal destination?
Man City, Arsenal, Manil, Liverpool, I do not know. But his talent is without question.
Okay, then what else? We've talked about the Ben White news. We talked about Sio Ramos.
Um meanwhile that game between Madrid and Osuna finished by two goals to one. Oasa pulled one back. Uh while the game between Southampton had a freeze, but it's still um it's in the very very final stages of of um extra time and it's still 1-1.
So you've not missed that much. You've not missed that much in as far as it is concerned.
Oh, come on.
Oh, South Africa reading 21 after extra time. Jesus Christ.
This internet on and off bits sort of froze my screen.
So, I was busy reading off the wrong script.
Okay. Yeah, I think I've read all the comments.
All right.
So, looks like South Southampton are heading to the finals.
It's finished 2-1 in favor of Southampton. So they will play H City in the finals.
H City, Southampton. Southampton was in the Premier League last season. I don't know. Would I rather have City come back or Southampton? I don't think I have any particular preference, but we'll wait and see. That game will be played on the 23rd of May uh at Wembley Stadium at about 5:00 p.m.
And then tomorrow, so tomorrow there's more action in the Spartans Liga. Um Barcelona are playing tomorrow. Then we also have a Premier League game that's between Manchester City at home to Crystal Palace. They'll be playing. It's um a very very important game in the context of the Premier League title race. Oliver Glassina said he does not collect paychecks from neither Man City or Arsenal. So he doesn't owe anybody anything in terms of favors because they were trying to persuade him into the idea that the Premier League title race is in his control. No, it is not. And he said if Man City win all their games, they can win it. If Arsenal win all their games, it's theirs to take. So it is what it is. Anyways, we'll digest the Manchester City Crystal Paris game in the in our morning broadcast. That's at 9:00 a.m. Then, um elsewhere in the Spanish Laiga, Espan will take on Atletic Bilba. That game will come at 8:00 p.m. as well as V Royale against Sevilla. Um, Sevilla are only three points above relegation because the team in 10th place on the spiritual table is still a candidate of relegation as is a team second from bottom.
I think this is the first time I'm experiencing something like that. Then at 10:30 p.m. you'll have Barcelona play away to Alves. Barcelona's objective is simply to try and chase that 100 point mark but they already been crowned champions following their two-nil victory against Real Madrid over the weekend. Then Maloka will take on Jafe Jafe remember Jose Bodas will be leaving at the end of the season. Um the guy known for epitomizing Haram football.
Then in the French League one breast will take on Strasburg. that game will come at 8:00 p.m. while um uh PSG will be playing away to our loons at um 1000 p.m. So that's the game in hand that both sides have otherwise the league will climax at the weekend. That's the French league one because remember for them they play 34 games. uh the same applies for the Jamaiga because they have 18 teams on their log as opposed to 38 games because of the 20 teams in the Premier League, in the Spanish Liga and in the Italian. So those are the few differences that you can take note of as far as things are concerned there.
So anyways guys, um Gladiator always a pleasure. Vasten I hope you've subscribed to the channel. Thank you so much R4 GXE1.
Thank you so much for having me in part of tonight's podcast. Ash, always a pleasure to see you around. Andre Mooney, um, good to see you. You know, L, it was a pleasure seeing you around, although you came briefly. Ze Zeu, it was a pleasure to see you around or to have you around. Then Sino Bueno, always a pleasure although you are heading out to work. hit the road. Jack, thank you so much. Um, Adash, always a pleasure to see you around. Rio Dandy, your love and support doesn't is not taken for granted. Um, then okay. Lash, always a pleasure. Wid, thank you so much. Rico, thank you so much. Reluctant Gamer, although you are with us briefly, thank you so much for having been part of tonight's broadcast.
So guys, uh, allow me quality nights and I wish you a blessed night. Let's do this again tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m.
We will be coming back live uh to discuss to do the preview for the Manchester City game uh to go through all the other news that we'll be making the ones from the world of football and we see where the conversation leads. Um like I said much of it was center around that match city game given its significancy in the Premier League title race among other things. You never know we could have new developments when it comes to the Nigerio person of Chelsea and other clubs. Real Madrid reports continue to affirm that um Jose Mourinho is in poor position to take on the role.
I do not know what you you your views are about the Okay, before we sign out guys, let's talk about this and and let's have the the topic discussed. Um, okay. Ash says good night. But before guys, we sign out, Jose Mourinho back to Real Madrid possibly if that were to be the case. What are your thoughts on his potential return to the Santiago Barabo?
We we all know his reputation. We know he's a winner, but he's not been at an elite club the size of Real Madrid in the last eight years. Ever since he left Manchester United in 2018, December 2018, he's not been to a club the size of Man United, the club the size of Chelsea, Real Madrid, that kind of thing. He's been to Roma. Roma is a big club. Yes, but um I would want to think these other ones are, you know, a category above. He's been to Fabach.
He's been to Mospas and President Benfica. So what what what are your views? Your honest opinion about Jose possibly making the return to the Santiago Barab. Do you think he's the right pick? And if he's not the right pick, who do you who would you ideally have at the helm of Real Madrid? Who do you think is capable of going in there and fixing that house of Real Madrid?
because no matter how much money Fentino Perez has, it will not it it will matter less if he keeps getting these managerial choices wrong. Um, Subie Subie Subday says, "Hey, a Messi or Ronaldo."
I'll say neither or or better even both. Incredible players. I've been privileged. I've been privileged to watch them play. It's been an opportunity. It's been a blessing to watch them play and dominate football for as long as they've done. Everybody, each of them strongly within their own rights. So to choose one would be to simplify the debate of the case of preference because sometimes preference has no reason. You just like the person.
So, in the objective sense of it, both great players and we've been blessed to watch them play. So, guys, let me know.
Let me know if somebody has a comment about that. Jose Mario possibly returning to Atletico, sorry, to Real Madrid, leave me the comments. If there's no comment about that, then we can sign out. I I want to assume that you're typing. If if this were WhatsApp, it would show me somebody's typing, but unfortunately, it isn't. So, I do not know. I don't know if you guys have dropped off. I don't know if you guys are thinking. Let's call it tonight.
I'll give it a minute um as I wait for your comments um regarding that. If not, we'll show the debate or the discussion about Mino and preserve it for the morning broadcast at 9:00 a.m. You know, waiting on you. waiting on you. Um, okay.
Um, Farooq aka Gladiator says, "I wouldn't fancy Morino to come back, but which manager should come then?"
Papu Papu says uh Papu says Jesus Jesus Mary matter. Okay. So Glad I understand that but the question is who?
Because we have discussed that basket before of elite managers that's the kind that Real Madrid are looking for in terms of proven winners and are well respected in the game and and have experience.
But remember, because it's Real Madrid, if you walk in and you've never won the Champions League, you're not going to be held in the same regard as a Kalaote, as a join. I know he never won it with Real Madrid, but you cannot be held in the same respect with a Pepola. They'll have an advantage over you. So in that basket there are those that they cannot get as Real Madrid they can't get Hans flick they can't get Pep Kadula I think it's premacure or it would be premacure to bring Kalani back. So you already have three options off of the table.
So in that market where you have managers that have won a league title and a Champions League title, you're then left with um Jose Mourinho, you're left with Jurgen Krop, you're left with Thomas Tuko.
Remind me if there's any other that I've I've not thought about has Champions League has a league title as well.
I'm I'm really really trying to think because even Thomas's league title was with Bay and PSG was it with Bayern? Yes.
And PSG and Champions League with Chelsea.
So you can see it's um such a small sample space of the kind of of managers that fit that description of experienced, respected, proven win.
If Champions League is a factor and as important as it is to a club like Real Madrid, I feel their hands are tied on this one.
The hands are tired on this one.
Jugen Klopp would have been a good guy, but I feel that Jugen Klopp would need some bit of time and Real Madrid and and time in the same sentence in terms of being patient with the manager and not very synonymous.
So you also have to think about it that way because time is very very important.
Can Real Madrid stomach another season without a without a trophy whatsoever?
Because Jugen Klopp will come, he'll fix the house. It is going to take him a year or two before he wins something.
That's my feeling about him.
He'll build you a team. He'll grind that team, but it may take a bit of time for him. So, I do not think we have an easy answer to it. I do not think we have an easy answer to it. But in terms of playing, massaging player egos, I do not think you get any manager any better than Jose Morio.
He he's good with those psychological games with players.
He's very good at it.
He's the He's the guy capable of coming up with words that would um put Clean to the G. Maybe you would ask him, "Have you ever won the ball?"
I do not know. Anyways guys, um okay, the question is about the timing of Mourinho coming coming in. Remember him at Chelsea round two? He ended up fighting with players. I know you know I I understand because okay round two he still won but still ended up being sat or because they part ways with him I think around December 2015 there about and then I think that's is that the time when solar takes on and then go comes in. So for the second spell I think so even at Real Madrid and and that's my partly my worry that in the interim or in the short term it may work but as time goes on it may crumble away because it's Jose Morino.
So the timing is not ideal. The timing is not ideal. The problem is Real Madrid are not willing to be patient as well.
That's the problem.
That's the problem.
And the last thing they would want is to see Barcelona win the Champions League again before they do because that's the only thing apart from the historical context of them having more league titles than Barcelona. what they've always been getting a number of Barcelona is to come out of a a season where they've won the Champions League and then they they make look the Spanisha title very simplistic when they're drawing comparisons in terms of their rivalry you know so and remember that's going to be Hanzik's objective they want to build a team that is capable of winning the Champions League you Yeah, he's still there for a year and possibly even another year. So, it depending on how it goes. And and the beauty about his Barcelona team is that many of those players are still young.
So, some some are are simply just getting better and better. And if you plug in the right pieces, they're going to continue to compete favorably.
remember they'll win all these other games and I mean they've been that young and beating you in the air classical. How about you know how about um when they you know improve and become better and become more experienced with age.
Morino would come with a chaotic game of course for the air classical but it will be classic Jose Morino. It will be class Jose.
Anyways guys, thank you so much. Let's uh wrap this one up to we'll continue the conversation tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.
It's been a pleasure doing this with you. Allow me wish you a blessed night.
Uh let me get to some other duties as I also engage with other forums. Uh before I call it tonight, it's been a pleasure.
Uh it's 8 minutes past 1:00 a.m. So have a blessed night until tomorrow. Bye-bye for now.
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