Boos at Old Trafford as Carrick says Man United have problems

Hello and welcome to the Resties Football with Michael Richards, Alan Shira and me, Gary Linnicka. We're recording this on Thursday after the Carabell Cup games and there was some interesting games I would say. Where are you, Alan? I'm in Marbaire at a friend's house playing golf, got absolutely battered, 7 and 5 in the first game. 7 and 5. 7 and 5, Alan Barrison's that. We played all right as well but they were just too good for us, one, they shot 16 under as a pair. So you've got no chance when they're that good at golf, it was great to see you, but it hurt. Michael, look, it's been used. What does 7 and 5 mean? You know, not everyone is a golf fan. Can you break it down in layman's terms, please? Seven up with five holes to play so you can match, play, you can't win. So basically they'd pretty much lost every hole almost. Yeah, they were miles better than us. Where are you? I'm in Ibiza for just a few days. Nice. I haven't had a break since the World Cup, so I'm a lot going on, so I didn't really want to go away in July, August because it's so busy everywhere, so just wait for September. And here I am. Did you be able to go to Urshuaia? Michael, Michael Shuaia Day is a long gone time. I'll be like, what's that granddad bloke doing here? Why is he there? Calvin's still on there. There's still time. I think he's a Friday night. His knee gets fried, a Tuesday, something like that. Get yourself there, guys. Come on. Alright, I'll be there. I'll be there. I'll be there. Regret on doing that. On a rave. On a rave. I went to Amnesia, but I've forgotten all about it. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. That is short. Please, please. Let's talk football. We'll start with Manchester United. I mean, two goals up. Obviously at home to Brighton who started the season very well. Brighton come back and win. Pressure mountain again on Manchester United. Yeah, without doubt. I mean, with the results that they've had, I still see that they should have backed in more on the summer. Michael Carrick. He did exceptionally well in getting them to where he did Champions League football finishing where they did last season. They should have backed in more on the summer, but they didn't haven't said that. No excuse for those performances. I mean, two nilup. And you could hear the noise. You could hear the fans and the booing and everything else. That's when they came off to lose that game and get dumped out the cup. We'll put more pressure on him without a doubt. Don't often feel sorry for managers, but I feel a little bit sorry for him. I don't know if you've seen his interview after the game. It's almost like he had things to say. Yeah. But he didn't want to save them. And they just looked like he was a little bit lost because the frustration, it was feeling inside. And he couldn't articulate the way he wanted to. He didn't want to throw anyone on the bus. And you know, his persona on screen is that he's very calm and very measured, but he could see yesterday was absolutely raging. I think the primary quote probably came was we have a number of problems. What problems did they have on the pitch for a start? Micah? It's difficult because if you look at the man city game, I'd say the first 20, 25 minutes of did okay. Yeah. Until Phil Fordham got sent off. Then after that, there was sort of a lack of ideas. When you're having your defenders in attacking positions. I remember McGuire was really at one point. Dallow gets into positions and then Dog who gets into position. But at times when it goes into the box, it's the real lack of quality. And then the decision happened to them sort of feeling sorry for themselves a little bit. So you go into this game, which both teams change players in fairness, they didn't have the strongest teams out. But he's still expected money knighted at home to win the game. And it's not clicking, it's not clicking at all. I agree with Alan terms of defensively, they need reinforcements, but it looks like it's a confidence thing. Again, a lot of players playing within themselves. Santos, I feel a little bit sorry for because he's coming to the squad. He got brought in for 50 million pounds. And everyone expected him to hit the ground running. It's not that at the moment. Teelamund is a very good player, but it's not the most mobile team. So when you actually look at them tactically, when they try to get the ball back, they find it very difficult. At times in the game, it was pressing really high. As soon as they got beyond the first press Brighton, it was all a bit unorganized. No one really knowing what they needed to do. And again, it's just confidence when Brighton got back into the game, the created free 4-5 chances to go and win it. So yeah, it just feels as though it's not clicking on the field and currently it's to get that right. Ace up. I think when you see the team that they put out, it wouldn't inspire me. To be honest, I think they're a good team, I don't think they're anything better than that. Defensively, miles off it. Forward positions. You're two in a look and you should never lose the game. When he say defensively though, well, what do you mean because your own is a good player. Yes, he's not had the matches required to get up to speed that he would like. Heavens are very good player as well. You put two young players together at the back that always going to find it difficult. Hello, it works so hard for the team, but he always seems to be at fault for a goal or when he's in offensive position, doesn't make the right pass and Missouri gives 100%. So I agree with you. Definitely. You look at the defense. However, they are young players at the back, two center halves. You expect them to make mistakes. It's just, it's scrutinized more when it's man United, especially with the run that Carrick's been on from the start of season. Would you say that's fair? Well, because of the size of the football club and because of what he did and achieved last year and did so well, getting them into Champions League football, then I think people expect with them to perhaps go again and step up this season, but no, they haven't been anywhere near good enough as yet. I said didn't I last week that they brought forwards midfielders this summer and maybe perhaps looking defensive, but I'm not convinced in forward positions of that, as top as what they could have been. How much is denied? Still one of the giants in the sense that now obviously they're a huge club massive sport around the world. It's not what I'm saying now is that it's a long time since they were consistently successful. I think they're always put in there with Real Madrid and Barcelona, but they're not really competed with those clubs for quite some considerable time. The expectancy levels I think have probably dropped a bit at Manchester United these days. You know, we say, oh, they made it to the Champions League, that was really good. Maybe it's representative of the fact that they can't even keep 15-year-olds happy. So you've got JJ Gabriel, who's a wonder kid by most metrics, they think he's very, very special and it seems that they've made it clear that they want to leave Manchester United at 15. Now, you couldn't ever have envisaged that sort of thing and I know the game's changed in that sense to a degree, but you couldn't really envisage that happening a number of years ago with a super talent that was coming through. It's so hard, isn't it, because we don't know all the details, and we've got to understand our reach of our podcast, because I totally agree with you guys in terms of this sort of thing doesn't normally get out, especially a player so young. Because loads of reports is to do with money and then opportunity, but 15, whoever's representing him is going about it the wrong way because all that's doing is putting more pressure on such a young kid. I don't know if you've seen these clips, I don't know if you've seen his play, he's outrageous, he's absolutely outrageous of this player. When you see opportunities, he's 15 years of age, does he, what does he feel as he should be playing first in football at 15, and when you say that? Well that's what I mean about whoever's representing him is obviously, he's pushing a narrative that if you look at the forward players at United's thinking, well, he should be in and around it more often than not even though he is 15, but I just, we've got to be careful with young players, he even carries as well in his interview yesterday when he got asked a question, he didn't really want to give it any thought because, again, it's a distraction of what's going on. I just feel sorry for the players being put in this position because of whoever's representing him. If he'd come out and said XYZ, then I'd be like, well, what are you doing at that age? All you need to be doing is concentrating on your football. Well, you mentioned whoever's looking after him, it does appear to be his father who was a former player, pretty good career player a couple of times through the Republic of Ireland. Joe O'Keeerl, I think you say I'm probably wrong. So he played for Arsenal and Brighton, two senior captors I've just said. So I think he's probably the person guiding him on this. I mean, even the fact that they changed JJ Gabriel's name to JJ Gabriel because they thought it would be more marketable. Well marketable. Bit early for that, I would suggest, but, you got to remember it's 15 years of age, man. It's like football is hard enough anyway. The scrutiny that's put upon you. So now, I mean, clearly it's been tacked up, hasn't it? so more. is clearly wanting him and trying to sign him. And it's inevitable that because of social media and everything else it is going to get out, maybe he wanted it to get out, but 15 years of age should be nothing, nothing, other than playing the game on his mind. That's it. Yeah, but we've been in situations where we've burst onto the scene quite young, you know what I mean? You have, you have. Well, I have, yeah, and in the moment, you sort of thinking, oh, I love this. I had all sorts of sponsors coming to me. I had all sorts of agents telling me this. I had all sorts of clubs ringing my dad's phone at the time, saying we can do this and we can do that. And as much as you don't think it is a distraction, it is, I'm telling you it is because it's on your mind and then it comes with a pressure and then when you're not performing, I remember playing for England at 18, I thought I'd made it. I actually thought I'd made it. I stopped doing all the things that got me to that place in the first, because everyone was telling me how good I was all the time. And then once you have a bad game, can you deal with that? I managed to get out of it, 'cause then I went on to, man, sitting on them, one of the league and all that sort of stuff. But I never became the player I, the hype suggested because I was in my own head constantly. It's a little bit different for him, because he's a, he's a wonder kid. Although I was a wonder kid, he's really, really special. He looks like he could do anything. There's a distinct difference between a wonder kid, defender and a wonder kid. Correct. Forward. But do you remember, do you remember Freddie do? America back in the day. Freddie do and everyone was talking about him. It was built bigger than anyone. It was scoring goals and all that sort of stuff. He went to the American team really early. And then I've heard him speak before. I said it was just too much pressure for him. Too much pressure for him. And by the end of it, now, what was his career? And up like it was just, he had a good career. He didn't have an amazing career. And I just, I feel sorry that the young lad has been put in this position. I would say, obviously we, we're, we're treading carefully here because we don't know the ins and outs of this. Correct. There might be something that we didn't know about. So we need to be relatively cautious, particularly speaking about a young man. Obviously, prodigiously talented. So we don't quite know the circumstances, but I don't see this as a good thing at this stage of anyone's career where you kind of thrust into the headlines before you've actually really played any adult football. I know he's been playing way beyond his years and he's a super special talent. But we have seen super special talents that have never quite realized their potential. Hopefully does. I've not seen him play for 90 minutes. I've seen him in lots of clips. He really does look very, very special. I'm going to move over a little bit here because I think it works in the way that Arsenal and Max Downman has been handled. And probably the way his representatives, and I believe it's his parents as well, he came in this week. He's only at what 16 now, isn't he? And he's called two goals. The first goal was so, so beautiful. I've read a lot of these stories around Max Downman that he's very grounded, he's very humble. He's also super confident, I saw Merino talking about and comparing it with Lamine Humal. And said he's very similar in the sense that he's very confident. He's also humble, which is a difficult balance to strike, particularly at such a premature age. Yeah, I know I get financially and contracts are huge nowadays, even at that age. But as a 15-year-old, it should be nothing other than football. I don't care what it is. If you've got that much ability and that much talent, it should just be about football. And unfortunately, this has gone out and we're talking about it. It's not a good thing, it's not at all. I think timing is key, though, isn't it? With Max Downman, it's a little bit different. Our tetas are cooking up something, and then it goes the winter league. You can bring him into the league club, you can score a couple of goals. We can say it all looks great. A little well-run football club. Yes, so if you take it back to the other situation at Man United, because things have not been great over the last five years, I don't know. Subconsciously, we think, oh, well, Man United's not being run, but by all accounts, he's been given everything that he wants. But players come and go. So if Man United were top of the league, or won a league last year, and the kid wanted to leave, what are we talking about it? It would be no problem. It's the fact that the way the club at the moment is perceived, or young player wants to get out of Man United because clubs not run very well. You said at the start, about it wouldn't maybe happen in the past. But now people are now doubting whether Man United are the place to play their football. And you know, it's like with Man United, when they brought through all the Neville brothers, et cetera, et cetera, it was a good place for young players to come and flourish. Maybe from there, from their side, they don't think Man United is the best place to do that now. And that's a reflection maybe on the club, rather than just young kid wants to leave and go somewhere else for money. That's the headline, isn't it? But really, we don't know the ins and outs, so we need to be careful. And that's why moving it onto Max Dalman's situation. It looks so good because the way the club is being run at the moment. Let's hope it resolves itself. And obviously, the well-being of the young players is always the most important thing, I would say. Before we move on to probably Arsenal, Brighton, I interviewed Fabian Herzler a few weeks ago before the start of the season. I was considerably impressed by the way he spoke. But I'm even more impressed by the way he's got his team playing. I mean, to go to down as well at Old Trafford and come back to win was really impressive. Could he be a special coach? - Micah. - Yeah, he's special. He is special. Yeah, he has to be. It's not normal. It's not not, you know when you did interview with him, I listened to most of the ball. Did you ask him how he does it? I know he had got the data. We know they've got the recruitment. But how does he manage to keep doing it? The team that he put out wasn't even his first time, but the old player away, they go to and all down and then they still know or that they stick to what the plan is within the game. He talked a lot and he mentioned it many times about non-negotiables. So you've got to play his way or it's the highway. So if you don't buy into it, you're not going to be part of it. Also, one of the other takes that I took from it was the recruitment process. It's not just about data. They go and find as many people as they possibly can that know the player wherever it is. You know, whether it's his parents, they look at his school, they look. So there was a lot of in-depth reporting. You can tell that he's even though he's an exceptionally young coach that is a leader. I talked to him about how it was to have the experience of players that are older than you in the squad. And he said, no, it's fine. I lent him to them when I first came. And I also think it's important to get opinions of players. But even they know, they're a certain non-negotiables, particularly in terms of, I think, the high, the press, the counter-press that he mentioned. I've found him fascinated. So if you haven't listened to that, by the way, it's obviously on our feed. So I'd encourage you to do so, particularly bright fans at the moment. They know you've said about the recruitment maker. You also have to give the owner because he's gone and recruited him. Very much like they go and get their players. They went to get him. They obviously saw massive talent in him. The way he conducted himself and spoke. And that's why he was-- that's why he's in the job and doing very, very well. And clearly, his players are buying into all his ideas because they're very good brighten. They'll cause some team's problems this year, I think. Again. Where do we have Brighton? Can I put-- can I change my list? Who can pull the higher? A bit higher, you know. A bit higher. You know, we could definitely go high with Brighton the way they've started this season. And do you know what they've planned to have today? Oh, so low. Oh, is that-- is it Brighton or-- That's Brighton. Brighton. Oh, that's a good game, nice. That's a biggie. That's a big game. Could test that on being for Arsenal. Another little world on a pastoral grow, again, please. Yeah. Oh, my-- is he 35 now? What a lovely finish, that was. What a-- Oh, the composure there, the little pretending to shoot. Little faint-- it wasn't a chop. It was a faint, wasn't it? It was a little faint. And then stroked it with his left arm. What a play. He needs to come into my fantasy now. Oh, yeah, he's coming into my fantasy football. He's running every game that I watch him. He's ridiculous. To think, though, he got him back from Dortmund. I mean, he was at Dortmund. He did OK. He did all right. But he didn't have the same impact. Yes, he's a little bit older. But to have this in the Premier League, you know, the league cop. Yeah, he's a very intelligent footballer, he is. There you go. Little quiz question for you, both. Go on. How many is a gross? [LAUGHS] Oh, I mean, I'm trying to drive here. [INAUDIBLE] No, no, no, no, that's not it. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's a gross. You know what, you've got a dozen. Oh, you've got, like, a gross. A gross? Do you know what a gross is? Is it-- what is it-- is it four? is 12.0. and which is 144. 12 doesn't doesn't doesn't, 12 12 12s. 12 12s that's a gross fucking hell you're having a great time in Ibiza by the way. You need to get out more. I'm out here in the sunshine. After we mentioned backstown and he was probably the star of the show with that gorgeous finish, the first one in particular, the second one wasn't bad either, but to come in and perform like that at his age, I think we are looking at a special talent there aren't we? And it'd be interesting to see how quickly, because if you are that good and if you teammates are comparing you with with Luminumau, we know how early he got in as a regular at Barcelona. I just wonder how Arsenal will kind of ease him into the team. He's obviously going to play carabell Cup games, he'll play FA Cup games, but I wonder if you're that good, how long they could keep him outside. He is that good. There's incredible talent. We also have to think of the design. I think he's as Micah said before when we were talking about the situation in mind, you know, is it a very, very good club with I think with a manager who understands him, but he's at the best club in terms of ability wise because of one the league and he's still shining. You know, he's still doing well. He tells you how special he is. Yeah, I would say it's going to be difficult for him, because if you look at the positions where he wants to play number 10 or off the right coming in, he's got soccer and older guards, you know, he's got captain advice, captain essentially. So he's already really going to play when they're injured on the last 10 minutes or 20 minutes. Again, Micah, I will say if he's if he's that good, that special LeMinew Malgood, if you end up being better than Sacka or better than Erdogard, you play. Or is that is this an English thing that we don't really trust our young kids that much? Yes, that's what we do. We build them up too much. He has got incredible talent. We know that. We've seen it with our own eyes, but how you nurture that talent is completely different, isn't it? Like, LeMinew Mal was doing crazy stuff at 13, 14. So is this so as Max Downman? But is he doing better stuff than Sacka would do? Is he doing better stuff than older guard would do in terms of the poor children? That's my point here. We don't know yet, but if he's that good, then he will be doing better stuff, because you put LeMinew in your mouth like resuming ahead of Sacka, wouldn't you? Oh, yes, I would, yeah. There you go. That's just the point I'm making that if he's a genuine possible superstar, then he will find himself inside much earlier than I think we anticipate. And also, where's his best position do you think? I mean, we've not seen him enough really in first place. But he'd play off the right, can't he? Or as a ten, he looks special. Could you play off the left as well? Probably anyway, but you don't want to be moving around too many different positions, I would say as well, but I think I think he'll be in. Let's listen to this little prediction. I think he'll be in as a regular before the end of the season. No, you know, no, I disagree only because not in terms of ability wise guys, I think on ability, really good point. I want to nurture him. Not just in nurture, the way Artetta wants his players to do the defensive side and that requires discipline. So to stick a 16 year old in to do that, I think it'd be very difficult. Okay, let's take a break there. We'll discuss some of the other Caravan Cup guys when we come back. This episode is brought to you by Guinness. Now that the Premier League is back, we've had a few weeks to settle into those familiar match day rituals. So what, what, do you have a plan at home, Alan? I do, yeah. It's a three o'clock kickoff, then I'll go with my pals at half 12, one o'clock to the pub in town. 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Palm Olive's most powerful formula removes up to 99.9% of grease, leaving your dishes sparkling clean and the new convenient pump makes cleaning even easier so you can spend less time tackling dishes and more time together. Shop now at Palm Olive dot com. Welcome back to the rest of this football with Alan Shearer and Michael Richards and me Gary Linnikart, two teams that were kind of having a nervy start to the season, Meta Amfield, Liverpool came out on top, Spurs did actually finally get a goal, Conne Gallagher scored their first goal of the domestic season. So I think I've wanted to talk about first with some personalized goal. There are not many players in world football strike, it's sweeter than him. As you see the angle from behind the goal, like the swathe and the bend on it. I mean, oh, what if what a what a volley. Brilliant. I was thinking about taking my fantasy because I needed more for him. I needed more for the ability that he has. And obviously he's been playing a little bit deeper. So he's not been really getting into the box like I wanted. But after he did that strike, he's not going nowhere. He's staying. I said at the weekend, didn't I? I thought he could probably play as the 10 there. He definitely can play the 10 and it's just what you do then with Verts, you know, because I got it. Verts is going to play. Verts is going to play for now. No matter what we all say, he's going to play it. I just feel so, because it's supposed like it's so versatile, come play center and can play a right back. He'll be the one who'll be sacrificed more than Verts. He waxed it like you are. You can hit it sweet. I mean, who were better strikers of the footballing around the world at the moment? Do you think of the moment? Pureness of strike. For pureness, he is really good. Hey, Grimaldo has got a pure strike. Grimaldo, he's left for his wicket. He can wobble him. He can wobble him. Big win for Liverpool, Lord. After what happened last weekend, they needed to get back to winning with Spurs, what a tough start they've had. They've had a dreadful start. I mean, it's I mean, yes, they've got two draws, but both goalless. Yeah, he needs to turn things around equitably. Huge. Can you imagine going, having to defeat it the weekend, on the going into the international break through weeks off on the back of that start? That's why they desperately need to win it the weekend, Spurs. I thought a lot of teams played stronger teams than we've seen possibly in the past. They weren't completely reserves or youth teams, I think. Is it not because of the size of the squad? Probably. It's a good chance for them to give decent players. I suppose the thing is now the squad is so much stronger that when you see a starting line, you go, oh, actually, that's a pretty good. Then you realise it's still a second string in some ways, but speaking of one of those players that came in, Tammy Abraham got yourself two goals for Villa. Coventry's tough start to season continues. What's going on at Coventry? All the metrics, the play world, the don't score, the concede. I think you've just described what's going on. I know, but you can't play that well and being games and then lose all the time. It's not great. I think the bad side of that, the bad side of that, apart from the obvious that you're losing games, is that if you lose in games when you feel like you're doing quite well, what happens when you stop doing quite well. I think they just need to dig in. They seem to be fairly easy to score against the present and that in the Premier League. It's a big jump. Obviously, the other two promoted clubs have had better starts. I think the Frank and Coventry's we call them in Leicester. They really need a result soon, I would say. I think that's one of the problems. When you look at Ipswich and you look at Hull and how they've won games and then you look at Coventry, that's why it's such a bad look on Frank and Coventry at the minute. It's because the other two that have come up and being getting results and doing well, Hull have been unbelievable and doing well, so that's the thing that will hurt in Frank as well. Just on that, can we try to explain to people the psychology behind it because what has been four games already and obviously Coventry have been struggling. But they still want 34 games left. Oh, it's a long, long way to go. You know, and it sort of looks like even as footballers, I don't know, so consciously think, oh, they're struggling now, but you have the same amount of games left that all the other teams. Hole and Ipswich, who commentary in my book was going to do better than this season. And that's why we talk about confidence so much, don't we? In football, because otherwise, we'd just say, well, there's so many games left to play and then there's pressure from the owners. It, I just love the psychological thing about football. Why people now think, oh, commentary had done that. Really four games in. It's, it's madness. Tell me, Abraham, I'd almost forgotten he'd gone to Ville. I mean, he scored one or two goals, obviously, when he joined last season, but he's not really had much of a looking. Obviously there was only what comes to the book Jackson as well now. So there is definitely a centre forward in there. We should see more of him. We should see more of him now because of, I wonder why we're not. Well, exactly that's what, that's what you'd think. I mean, maybe it was, I get it with only Watkins been there, him not getting too many opportunities. I know they've got Nicholas Jackson too, but you should see more of him now. And if you don't, then that, that tells it is an issue. No, he's not good enough if we don't because as you see, we've seen enough of him to suggest as definitely a player in there. But that has to be a reason why we haven't seen him. I was with him at Villa, I went down to the champ. And guys, he's got everything. He's got a good first touch for a big man. He holds it up. He can link play and he can shoot in training me. I think it's with with Tammy. What I noticed is sometimes it's the composure. So when he was in the championship, he was scoring goals for fun. And then he went to Chelsea. He did really well, didn't he? And then he ended up at Villa and then he went to Turkey, back to Villa. And I just want, not me telling, but he gets so many good opportunities. But he snatches at a lot of things. And if he would just have more composure, I mean, he's a really good player, top player, the top player. But he's always been sort of second fiddle, you know? It'd be nice if he, well, obviously he's got Jackson there. Villa now, so it's going to be difficult. But scoring goals, he can score goals all day, you can. You're saying there that he's got everything, but then you're saying he kind of flushes his lines a bit in front of the goal sometimes, not got the composure. So that is an element that he's missing. Yes, yes, that, yeah, you totally write that. But what a mean by that is got everything in terms of. So you know with the levels from, say, championship, then to Premier League, and then when you would go to a Champions League, your reaction time has to be better, doesn't it? Yeah. So the defenders are faster and stronger, and they read it a lot quicker. So the timing in which you take to let off a short, he's still taking that amount of time, sometimes like if he was in the championship or a lower half of the Premier League, where if he sharpens that bit up against a bet, he will score goals, and that's the bit, he's not got as much time against better players in the Premier League. Looking at the draw before we finish, tie the rounds, Fleetwood vs Arsenal. Really? Great draw for them. And then you've got Liverpool Chelsea, there's Javier Lanzo, Derby. Possibly you could call that one. Chelsea beat Leeds of course, didn't they? In a nine goal thriller earlier in the week. We've got Fulham against Palace, Bradford City, Peter Brown, Man City or Norwich vs Brighton. Could Brighton knock out both the Manchester clubs, Bournemouth vs Aston Villa. Everton, Newcastle, tough draw, all the way from home. I looked at that and I thought it was tough. It's tough when that is gone there. Much preferable to be in it, it's in gyms as well. There you are. Yeah, and Sonland against Brentford as well. And I think this in many ways, a little bit like the FA Cup, I think once you get towards maybe the quarterfinals, you start thinking you've got half a chance to win it, then it's one of those two. You don't mind too much, I shouldn't say this, but it's probably football, but you don't mind too much when you go out. It's about the big close possibly this competition early, because it does give you chance. But it is also an opportunity to play players that you want to give a game to, isn't it? But don't forget, even though this time of the season, it's still fitness, it's still not fit you out here. So you want to give as much fitness as possible. The players are after this week, they're going on an international break for three weeks, you know? Yeah, I swear. It's my madness, it's absolute madness. So, yeah, there's going to be a little bit break there, but it's just, I don't know. I feel as though the league cup over the years has become bigger, and especially he's been promoting it, being bigger, because they won it a couple of seasons ago, didn't you know? Soon as the Newcastle won it, that was it. It's a great competition. I love it. All right, if you're going to close about that, I'll tell me about Monday. Oh, dreadful. You can't have two millionals performances in the season. I mean, they just got battered, they got bullied. Leeds did to Newcastle. What Newcastle were doing a year or two ago in terms of the bullying teams and going after teams. And Leeds did that to Newcastle, and absolutely bad. So, yeah, you don't need too many of them. Big game again. You know, I keep saying about this international break. The big game of the weekend for Newcastle, home to whole. You do not want to go three weeks without getting the right result. After what's happened on Monday night. ♪ Mah, jinnah, together. ♪ What about you? He keeps sending those stupid messages after every Leeds goal. ♪ Leeds, leaves, leaves. ♪ Yacht, sir. Yacht, sir. Yacht, sir. All right, let's go before we fall out. That's it for this episode of The Resties Football. Goodbye from me. Goodbye from me. Goodbye from me. 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