Hello and welcome back to Serie A Spotlight Season 2 Episode 17, we're your host Jake and Matt. Been a while guys but we're looking forward to Serie A restarting on January 4th after the spectacle that was the World Cup so we can keep you guys updated and keep on doing what
we love. As you may have noticed we did not plug an intro into this episode as we would actually like to use an old one from Season 1 Episode 33 where we highlighted the career of the late Sinisa Mihailovic who sadly passed away after his second battle with leukemia last week and it's safe to say bro that I was devastated. I was still on holiday when I heard the news. Yeah it was devastating we know that Sinisa was like you mentioned battling with leukemia for the second
time round. We knew that obviously he had to leave his duties at Bologna because of that but I had no idea thankfully because that shows that media gave him some peace while he was going through devastating moments. Yeah it's weird because you see him you know week in week out on TV and you see him at his worst you know but then he kind of gets better and you're like okay you know he's
beating this and then it happens so suddenly man it's so sad. And that was his personality as well the last time I saw him on TV a journalist was asking questions and Sinisa was only cracking jokes. It seemed to me like that was definitely a massive part of his personality which is why everyone around the world loves Mihailovic even people that are outside of the Serie A scene even show him respect. Yeah and everyone said the same thing like leader, warrior, grave man, gentleman.
Exactly. Yeah we've lost a real character over here. We have and we hope you guys get to learn something new about the late Mihailovic through this clip and if not maybe you can reminisce on what was a sensational career. This goal was scored by Sinisa Mihailovic for Inter against Roma from a free kick back in- Stop! What the fuck is wrong with you? Why are we covering this one and not the free kick hat trick
against Sampdoria? I was looking for that one obviously but I couldn't find good commentary for it what do you want me to do? Okay fuck it we'll just pretend maybe they they won't realize. No they won't catch on. This goal was scored by Sinisa Mihailovic for Lazio against Sampdoria and a 5-2 win back in 1998 where he scored the hat trick of free kicks. Bro that one though like all jokes aside it was crazy because he had just joined Lazio from Samp that season so he joined them and they played
each other and he scored a hat trick all from free kicks. The level of disrespect. Four years there right? He spent four years at Sampdoria then he spent around four at Lazio as well. He actually holds the records for the most free kick goals in Serie A history he has about 28 I believe. Jesus Christ. It's super interesting because the man was a centre back but you could have easily mistaken
him for a centre midfielder with his style of play. And he probably could have played there as well he was known for his long range shooting his long range passing and that kind of caused him to push up into the midfield throughout the game. He scored a total of 66 goals from the centre back position. Like you said 28 goals of those were free kicks and he's played for clubs like Vojvodina, Red Star which are obviously Serbian and Yugoslavian clubs, Yugoslavian at the time
and in Italy he's played for Roma, Samp, Lazio and Inter. He's won pretty much everything there is to win in Italy. He has won the Serie A with Lazio, the Coppa Italia twice with Lazio, the Super Coppa Italiana twice with Lazio, the UEFA Cup winners cup and the UEFA Super Cup all with Lazio alone. Then with Inter he's also won the Serie A in 2006, the Coppa Italia on two separate occasions on the Super Coppa Italiana in 2005. His love for football didn't really allow him to step away from
the game after retirement. He joined Inter's management staff the season after he retired. He became their assistant manager. He also went on to coach Catania, Fiorentina, Serbia, Sampdoria, Milan, Torino, Sporting and two stints at Bologna who he is currently managing. I mean the guy has just had a glittering professional career and he's loved by millions across the world but his youth life wasn't exactly easy and it's probably even harder nowadays. Yes he came up from very humble
beginnings. His father Bogdan was a Serbian truck driver while his mother whose Croatian worked in a shoe factory. And his parents were Serbian and Croatian. This was all during the Croatian war of independence from Yugoslavia and his house was even destroyed by Croatian forces among whom was his childhood best friend who was part of the forces an ethnic Croat which forced his parents
to actually flee their homes obviously. Despite this he has since forgiven his childhood friend in a meeting in Zagreb prior to the crucial Euro 2000 qualification match between Yugoslavia and Croatia which as you can imagine was absolute fireworks. You can just imagine the political back and forth between the supporters. Nowadays unfortunately Mihailović is facing very different struggles as he's currently undergoing his second battle with leukemia which at least he seems very
confident of beating for a second time. Yes he said that leukemia has got quite the pair of balls to be challenging him once again and that he's confident he'll beat it quickly since he caught it early and has a great medical team with him basically. Yeah we wish Sunisa and his family all the best despite this message coming from two drunken idiots in Malta we genuinely hope to see him back on the touchline as soon as possible with a big big smile on his face some fresh kicks
obviously and lots of love from his loyal fan base in Bologna. And thank you for the 3-0 victory over Inter. Cheers! Rest in peace Mihailović thank you for the memories you certainly won't be forgotten. Our thoughts also go to Gianluca Vialli as he is battling pancreatic cancer for the second time running. His family and friends apparently just visited him in a London hospital as the situation seems to be worsening since he's taken a break from his duties with the Italian national team
to focus on his health. Sad news all around a little bit of a depressing start to the episode we apologize and we have one legend passing while the other is fighting for his life we wish them and their family strength and good fortune and a better 2023. Now bro I have a little tale about Vialli that many people don't probably don't know. In 1998 at the tender age of 33 he became the
first Italian manager in the Premier League with Chelsea. He took over from Gullit and he was actually a player manager being 33 he would manage and play that's not very common nowadays at all. He won the league cup and the cup winners cup he ended up winning basically five trophies in less than three years at Chelsea incredible. He was sacked five games into the 2000 season for a
mediocre start to the season and a falling out with De Champs and Zola. Oh my god. Yeah so that's why his manager and then I believe he went to Watford and then he took the helm at the well took the helm not the helm but he helped out with the Italian national team after that. That's a great story man I can't think of the last player manager who's had success and an Italian man doing it in England as well is always culturally such a big thing to accomplish for the Italians. Truly bro
truly is. Yeah but before we get into the return of Serie A guys we can't not address the dramatic ending to the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar where Argentina and France ended in a 3-3 draw after an inspiring comeback by France and Kylian Mbappe who became the first player since 1966 to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final to take the two countries to penalties. It was Leo Messi and Argentina who prevailed winning the shootout 4-2 thanks to Emiliano Martinez. What a final brother
tell us how did you see the final bro? So okay so I'm back of course as you may have noticed. By the way good job on the episode. Thank you. While I was missing I enjoyed listening to that while driving for fucking five hours straight on long highways that never end in South Africa. It was amazing it was a good episode it was a very good episode I enjoyed and Jamie and Theo thank you very much for stepping in and well done Matt for getting it done. Thank you man thank
you. For me bro I was on a safari while the World Cup final was being played. I went so obviously no internet no internet nothing we had 4G some had 4G but I put my phone on airplane mode do not disturb everything off like you know I didn't want to get anything and I had you send me a replay the second match for me. Yeah I sent Sarah a replay so that you won't be thrown because I knew that the length was going to be over 90 minutes so that would give something away so I sent it to Sarah.
I got a bit of a spoiler let me tell you so I was in this jeep right and it was fucking raining bro in the safari we're there you know like there was a driver there was the lookout there were there were a couple in front of us and a couple behind us and we're in the middle me and Sarah and we're driving through the jungle basically and it's fucking raining to the point I can't even see I can't see anything they're driving there are no animals in sight obviously because
it's fucking raining and they're all hiding like I'm in hell I'm like there's the final on right now and I'm here getting drenched and and bro we're getting pelted by the rain and bugs are flying at us hitting our clothes and our clothes are so wet they're getting stuck and they're dying on us so the two people in front of me I'm like looking at their hood at their hoods and they just have bugs dead all over them bro I look down on my t-shirt at one point and I have bugs squirming on
my t-shirt underneath my poncho bro I was in fucking hell dude I was in hell and I started to talk to the couple behind us they're like ah the game it looks like a good game and I'm like stop please don't don't say anything about the game I'm gonna watch it later they're like ah okay cool so you're gonna watch a replay I'm like yes yes yes and the fucking guy in front of us was totally oblivious to our conversation apparently just goes to his girlfriend
ah looks like a good game there too too no I'm like all right whatever so I knew I knew that they would come back exactly and that kind of ruined that for me but the extra time the penalties I had no idea what was gonna happen bro and I was on the edge of my seat what a final possibly the best game of football ever seen in my life in my opinion it is and that goes for multiple reasons that's how we can segue basically into the happenings of this in my opinion not only was
this the best world cup final history because at least I doubt there was a better world cup final than that before I was born yes like I remember some noteworthy ones was Italy France and the 1-1 that ended up in penalties so on so forth and with the Zidane headbutt so many iconic moments took place but a comeback like that Messi finally getting gold in his last world cup for his country and lifting the cup himself Mbappe scoring a hat-trick for the first time a player scored a
hat-trick since 1966 in a world cup final and it's 24 year old Kilian Mbappe. You know who it was? The guy who scored the other one I forgot his name is an Englishman against Germany 1966
Joff Hirst. Joff Hirst? Jeff, Jeff Hirst. Okay. Jeff not Joff. Yeah that was the the last time that England won the trophy right exactly so I hope Jamie and Theo are listening to this because let me tell you something had I been on that episode it would have gone a little bit differently I want to come to the England love but let's I don't think there was too much England oh I can tell you brother there was England love there was too much bro for me really yes man okay I mean you
had two England fans I feel like you had to let them have it a bit bro yeah you know I mean bro I don't kick don't kick your brothers when they're down you know you should have seen their faces when Harry's kind of penalty brothers they're shirtless with their arms around each other but it was not we're drinking Moscow mules from like 3 p.m. no it was it was wild in fact I'd like to apologize for how drunk I was on that episode I think I could tell from the second it started like hello
and welcome like oh my god that is fucking shit for this one they're not gonna make it like but yes to me this must have been the stage that it was on with all the the storylines with the comeback with the back and forwards between the teams to me the best football game ever played in history just legitimate football game I'm sure we've had some great football games in the tennis courts at St Martin's as well but nothing to compare with that it's such a shame of course the
the controversy surrounding the the World Cup that took place we're not going to get into it you know of course we always yeah we've talked about this a million times and basically this World Cup was played over the corpses of dead migrant workers essentially yeah terrible terrible fee for a corrupt institution it's fucking horrible and Fontino's a piece of shit but yeah when it comes to the football that was actually played it was a was a spectacle and we're talking about like
early upsets you know had the Japan Saudi Morocco you know all these guys with their meeting and likes of Argentina Germany yeah Spain Portugal crazy crazy and Robert Lewandowski made made a very good point he said that there was so much quality in the World Cup he reckons it's because it happened midway through a season and everyone was in full fitness in their form everyone was super sharp and he said when you watch any match that's played over 120 minutes
it is never the case that you see the quality go up towards the end of the game but the players were so fit even the five sub thing kind of helps as well that they were sharp after the 90th minute they were incredibly incredibly sharp that's not to mention all the additional minutes that were played we're talking eight minutes at the time at halftime 10 minutes in at the 90th to make it a a 100 minute game 110 minute game so yeah that's a it's a good point by Lewandowski but very
Argentina ended up winning were the winners to me a solid solid mentality throughout it we had them as our winners from day one if you want to go back to episodes like when the World Cup had just started they have just lost to Saudi Arabia we had them as our winners yeah so yeah we stayed you heard it here first exactly and obviously we're happy with the amount of Seria players that are that are in the team and former Seria players as well and there was Lautaro Di Maria Paredes and
Di Bala in the well not in the starting lineup Lautaro had a bit of a shocker. Lautaro is the 2022 version of Gonzalo Higuain when it comes to this Argentina it's messy trying to set them up and him just missing everything and panicking I can't believe as Milan fans we're so terrified of Lukaku and Lautaro they they just put them on the world stage and they seem to be two of the worst strikers and the competition man they did not have a good showing up of course it's always different
they're in their comfort zone there exactly Di Maria the Juventus winger scored in the World Cup final after he seemed to be playing in rotation a little bit probably because of his fitness as well but you put this guy on the biggest stage you put him in the finals this is the third final he scored in in a row brother and he knew he knew he texted his wife before the game he told her honey I'm gonna score in the in the World Cup final and we're gonna be the champions
it's my destiny it's written in the stars like yeah crazy the confidence and he did it man three three finals in a row scoring in three finals in a row that's that's absolute mayhem he is a big game player by definition and that's not to mention in the Champions League final in 2013 with Real against Atlético after in additional time he's skipping past players hitting the post like and he got man of the match in that in that final as well and he got an assist such a smart player
man yeah real joy to watch Paredes was coming on for Argentina late on in games kind of to add some solidity to the midfield and kind of make the their game a bit more defensive he was a bit hit or miss like he gave away that free kick that Holland equalized from for example he caused that stir on the touchline with Holland as well that riled them up to get back into the game and he had a good World Cup he had solid performances he scored his penalty which is like for people who
people were making claim about the bala and I saw some lots of fans saying that are the bala celebrating the trophy he did nothing the guy stepped up in a World Cup final his only task was scored his penalty and he scored that penalty sent it down the middle sent the keeper the right way do it the whole world is watching that's exactly it's not easy at all that was his destiny for the final he did that former players or papu gomez with the money machine the money machine that video
is we just posted on our tiktok um on the bus you know the argentina players celebrating the World Cup victory of course there's a Martinez the goalkeeper holding a baby with him but his face on it and in the meantime there's there's papu gomez which was he's wearing like an open shirt and he's flashy sunglasses he looks like connor McGregor bro it looks like he's just wearing Gucci i don't know what the brand was but he looks like he's wearing Gucci he grabs a wad of cash and he just
throws it into the crowd on below how good man yeah how good there was Molina as well and we all remember him from his Odinez days he was fantastic at Odinez he had a fantastic tournament one of the best right backs in the competition you see that his his work rate his the way he contributes to going forward that's the way he contributes defensively as well he's a very all-around right wing back and i think argentina have a slot over there and he has to take it man
yeah i mean we saw what he could do back in his Odinez days and it's nice to see that he's carried it on onto the biggest stage in the world and he has a trophy to show for it his former teammate Rodrigo de Paul was also there and had a fantastic tournament he's been nicknamed Messi's bodyguard and to be honest he seems to have embraced the role wholeheartedly he's always by his side he always seems to be pushing anyone who gets too close to Messi apart from salt bay of
course yeah exactly de paul even though Messi is the guy that they respect in the team he's the captain he's the guy everyone looks up to de paul still strikes me as a bit of a father figure to this team it seems like if anyone steps on someone's toes he's going to be the first one in the middle of that scuffle he's a real leader man he knows his place that's the beauty of it he's not trying to be flashy like for example with Odinez they very much played around him and he was
the guy and then he would pull the shit off but he understands his duties there's no need to go over the top he was fucking solid in that midfield man very solid there was a little German Petzla currently at Real Betis the former Fiorentina man you know he would come on and defend exactly thank you very well done Petzla but yeah that's that's Argentina's list obviously for France there was a Giroud, Rabiot on the starting 11, Manon didn't make it because of injury safe to say man
Manon would have started Hugo Lloris he had a good world cup and he's quite a decorated goalkeeper I believe he has the most caps for the French national team that could be I think there are way better goalkeepers out there doesn't mean he didn't have a good competition but I think sometimes his decision making when he has the ball at his feet and when the ball is a little bit in no man's land he struggles when it comes to committing to one decision and oftentimes you see
that his decision isn't made with full precision and full enthusiasm because he's caught between two minds and that probably comes as a result of playing with a team like Tottenham Hotspur one day are one of the best teams in England another day one of the worst teams in England so his form is kind of up and down and up and down up and down but I would have loved seeing Manon over there man I think there would have been an even stronger team and having Giroud up top for him to ping those
balls like they do with Milan and then lay it down to Teo Armbapa on the wing it would have been nice it would have been nice and don't worry we'll be seeing plenty of Manon in the future as long as he can stay healthy quite possibly the most injury prone goalkeeper I can remember and only since joining Milan by the way his history is quite clean before that classic Milanello training ground probably literally I also want to highlight bro that that goalkeeper of Argentina what they call
Debu Martinez what the fuck they call him Debu Martinez his name is Emiliano yeah Debu Martinez for you in your opinion his antics were they disgraceful or was it just you know a guy playing his role playing to his strengths no I don't think they're offensive it's a guy playing to his strengths it's part of any sport is mind games as long as you're facing an individual they do it in chess as well they do it in poker as well they do it in all these games it's shit talk yes he
at least from what I've heard and what I've seen it was never uncalled for shithousery to the point that he was talking about their their moms their dads their family we have no idea what he's whispering yeah I have no idea but but from from what I've seen it was harmless shithousery as a goalkeeper you constantly have people say that the guy taking the penalty has the upper hand because it's easier to score a penalty than to save a penalty that that's what is said
however the lack of pressure on a goalkeeper plays into the favor of the goalkeeper a lot and part of his job is just making the lives of the penalty kick taker as hard as possible man and that's exactly what he was doing and they won because of that look I love to see it quite frankly as well um you have in every story and then you put on put on your tv right now flick on a film you'll have a hero and you'll have a villain right exactly you have good guys you have bad guys
there's the story of when parto joined milan he walked into the the dressing room and he found ronaldo there like you know fucking seven kilos overweight sat there probably a beer in one hand the rothman's red in the other his locker open you know and he um he pointed at kaka and he said there you have two options over here young one he said you can either go join him you know and kaka's there with his glasses you know probably holding a bible definitely and then he points he
points at his locker he's like or you can join me and there's a picture of a naked woman on his locker and it's true those are the characters you have in the game right and it would be boring if everyone was an npc if everyone was boring you know if everyone was standard professional you know i i love that this guy chats shit i love that this guy wins he he has the most prestigious moment in his entire life this guy he's been given the golden glove right yeah hand handed to him he
might never win anything more prestigious than this in his fucking life what does he do he puts it down to his crotch and aims it at the french players honestly how can you not love that i can't get enough of it personally you have to man you have to love i think football needs more villains so far as there isn't the side of discrimination and offending people then i'm happy with that with that level of of shit housing that emiliano brought to the table and i would love to see him
in seria man and guess what it's possible his agent gustavo donnie told to tomercato web that there are a few clubs who could afford a goalkeeper like him and he said seria why not personally because he also said he wants to play in the champions league right yes i don't see any team in the top four in italy that do need a goalkeeper desperately like for example inter have just signed on ana right milan have money on well most sometimes you have schezny who's still a top
goalkeeper maybe napoli man napoli have meret who's developing quite nicely but i don't know if they have a chance to get maybe martinez for a good on a good deal it might be good but i can't see the lorrent is spending a substantial fee on a goalkeeper now they were rumored to be in for keiler navas a couple of times and i don't think that's dead yet yeah i think they're still exploring it however if within the same wage bracket and i don't think there'll be much of a
discrepancy over there they could go for emiliano martinez who's getting all right premier league wages but that's the villa wages so they could coop something nice i think man when you he's a world cup winner now yeah they can easily slap a ridiculous fee on him that's and the premier league team is more likely to play through than an italian team but we'll see we'll see about that it's interesting man it's very interesting i think he slots in very well at napoli i think inter as
well i think onana is a good goalkeeper i think it ends there i don't think he's a spectacular keeper by all by all means we now have this celebrity keeper in the game he's at the moment the biggest goalkeeper in the world so definitely someone will try snap him up he's just taking that trophy off of donna room after the euros i think yeah yeah man that's that's crazy um who was the best say a player in the tournament for you my brother for me it was amrabat without without a
doubt i think taking into consideration the level of the team and where he took them now obviously wasn't only him he was surrounded by players that that played very close to his level but he was the heartbeat of that team he had 120 minutes in him every game he didn't stop it's like watching him at ferrentina man definitely amrabat for me unfortunately for our listeners i agree with you amrabat for me had an incredible world cup it was what we expected to see from him and more quite
frankly and he has been this player since his verona days he had a bit of a rough start at ferrentina but he settled in nicely and has been this dominant player all season pinging the ball from midfield running it down tackling breaking down play keeping play moving he is tireless he's a rabid dog he's an animal and i'm so happy that the world got to see it i'm so happy that ferrentina will be you know making money from him but it'll be sad to see him leave the league that's it because
he will leave the league i so see him going to like a liverpool or a united or something like that would suit him perfectly yeah but they're also really looking at jude bellingham and he's quite expensive and his wages are going to be very high so reshuffling their midfield like that achbatendo's glue way yeah um we'll see we'll see what happens with him some honorable mentions obviously géroux he scored four goals in six matches and he's now france's leading all-time
top scorer ever in history that's géroux for you there was teo hernandez who got i believe uh was it a goal and two goals and two assists in in four or five games because before his brother was starting lucas hernandez on the wing and i'm sorry on the left wing back roll he was super he was super i think he gave away a few penalties he was a bit clumsy um that's that push that that thankfully kane sky the penalty kane actually saved his career i mean i mean that was an
interesting point you made at first i was like how ridiculous matthew is like saying you score that is because value would plummet now in technically no right because a club knows the value of a player not simply because of an isolated moment but but but but negative media might have an effect on the player's confidence and it might actually have an effect on the long run so yes you had the point thank you thank you very much so fuck you teo
no teo hernandez was brilliant i still think that he's a bay here not yes yes i know the previous guest by the way for those wondering why did he just say fuck you all yeah um to me teo hernandez having imbappe ahead of him um made him be a bit more not only being imbappe because even having a guy like leao in front of you you think that would make you a bit more defensive but leao cuts in holds the ball and teo does the overlap i don't think that france prepared
for having teo as a left back so they weren't playing fully to teo's strength sometimes imbappe running into the middle of the box allowing space down the flank for teo who could then ping in a cross for him would have been a nice kind of trick to have up their sleeves but they didn't incorporate him fully yet probably this this world cup paid as a lesson for that but uh he still had a very good world cup and remember that teo is quite quite young so what is he 24 years old i
think he's literally my age 24 which is very young you know granted his strength his main strength is his um his speed which might decrease with years but he has plenty of time and 25 years old yeah he's got five years of playing at this level for sure he's gonna improve easily easily at 33 with the with the shape that this guy is in and his attitude his mentality as well and you can tell that he'll kind of evolve into one of those streetwise players it's already happening you know
he wins fouls man he he even the way he like shrugs off players as the ball's rolling out you know he's a very smart player yeah and being in this area for as many years as he has been now and hopefully for more his tactical awareness is only going to get better and better we're talking about him being very disciplined when it comes to offside traps his positioning um covering for his teammates tackling has improved his tackling is incredible his tackling is incredible um shesney
shesney had a super world cup there's only so much he could have done for poland he's he saved the messi's penalty um he saved two penalties actually um but there's only so much he could do man there's only so much you can do when when you have camel glick playing in front of you you know just exhausted playing in sail for benevento this guy you know um no no but shesney had a fantastic um tournament he is a great shithauser as well quite frankly he's basically like the
the diluted version of emiliano martinez yeah a bit of a budget emiliano martinez but yeah he was also very great and that's not only from from the penalty spot he's a great all-around goalkeeper he's in fine form at the moment brosovic had a good world cup as well for croatia underrated obviously he's always under the radar he's just linking up play between the defense and the midfield he did a fantastic job at that in the beginning of the world cup there was a beautiful
nil nil draw everyone called it boring a beautiful to me nil nil draw between morocco and croatia it was just amrabat versus brosovic two registers and i was just loving it everyone's like this is so boring i'm like but look at the registers look at the individual battle is the one we want man that's crazy fun it was beautiful speaking of a guy speaking of world the world cup on the topic of the world cup and legends of the world cup and good performer someone who performs brilliantly
every world cup but we only get to see him once every four years is ochoa right yes mexico's legendary goalkeeper who disappears i don't even know who he plays with he played in spain for like malaga i know um not too much more than that man okay um yeah he he would just destroy every world cup right he means pull amazing saves left right and center he's brilliant like a god yeah the world cup he is off to salernitana yes he's having his medical today um that is fantastic news it must
be good for serp as well you know fuck it because typically when you bring in a goalkeeper it's awful news for for the starting goalkeeper right but sepe is young enough to for this to be good for exactly and serp is injured which is using they brought him in and you bring in a goalkeeper that's 37 or 38 years old something like that and it can't go wrong yeah because it's the same thing assigning zlatan so either they're gonna keep it up they're gonna roll the years back and they're
gonna be phenomenal and they're gonna stay in that starting and in that starting role or else they become a coach they become a motivator someone to learn from example now does ochoa have what it takes to become a mentor because his skill is very um he's a fantastic shot stopper his instinct is incredible and that's sometimes something you can't see but he can yes but he can teach how to calm yourself on the world stage and how to be the best you can be in front of so many
fans and when shit's not going your way so on so forth but it's going to be interesting to see how it affects serp and if he'll stay as the number one choice man morgan the sandries the sporting director of salientana pulling the strings yet again right i love that they can bring in these players they have some decent power and and they got him his salary was around four million a year and they brought him down and to salientana it's it's still undisclosed we don't know how much he's
earning but the top earner at salientana makes just a bit more than one million a year so it's like 1.2 1.3 so he's probably somewhere in that region no i would guess probably massive pay cut possibly yes massive pay cut but he's playing at the top level right and he's a starter in seria for a team that's mid table exactly he should have gone in my opinion to monza oh because i know they have cronio i know that the gregoire but you know they also have
a bus of prostitutes yes sir heading to their locker room every time they win a game no no it's if they beat a top like milan or juventus berlusconi promise them there's a video of this online it's it's almost like a parody like like a farce you know like i can't believe that this man first of all was the the president and prime minister of italy whatever the fuck he was um of milan milan yes and now he's just here he has a room full of people in front of a room
full of millionaires in front of an executives and journalists and cameras he comes up and he says something as ridiculous as if you guys give us a beautiful victory against milan or juventus you have a bus full of prostitutes waiting for and it's not like he said pull man detroit oh bro he said just like um like in english we're using we're using the word prostitutes which is technically they're sex workers it's what we're saying is politically incorrect and
i apologize on whatever but he said it he said it in the worst possible way he would have said you know the word that we're not saying right now the incredibly fucking demeaning one that's the word well done don't think listeners got the hint at all but yes naturally berlusconi is going through it at the moment but it's nothing he's not used to he probably this is the tiniest of things for him no um i mean yes he's he said way worse like this is this is nothing he's done much much
much worse but yeah that's berlusconi for you i'm what a character yeah but i'm glad that show was off to salernitana not monza monza have an entire roster of goalkeepers that they're utilizing anyway crown is probably out because of course they keep playing the gregorio and um cronius career is kind of stalling right now exactly probably 27 or 28 years old he needs to be fucking playing football man the technology that was used at the world cup of 2022 is going to be
adopted by the italian football league this is the offside technology um with the dedicated broadcast cameras around the stadium to give the exact position of the players on the pitch to the referee and offering you know information within seconds basically what what do you think of this i think it's great that they're implementing this in this area because um of course we saw a few we've had a few situations where where teams were done very unjustly for example eventos with the
candreva offside situation against salernitana where candreva was stood by the corner flag keeping everyone on side and somehow the var team didn't pick that up so it's great that this is going to be implemented why not i'm all for technology when it comes to offsides because this is something that is objective it's not subjective you know the referee's opinion does not matter in an offside call it's black and white so it's good that they've implemented this it is going to add to the amount
of harsh calls but at least those harsh calls we're talking fragments and and millimeters at least is going to be consistently the same decision no matter how harsh it is it's going to be called the arms don't count the shoulder doesn't count this and that but at least we're going to be seeing that um consistency there's also talks about the added time system the additional time system where basically it was the stop clock that was being used throughout the game every time there is you
know um a throw in every time there is a scuffle every time there's a sand that time is effectively added on and the exact amount of seconds is added on to that additional time and that makes us see more football basically and we see each half is 45 minutes of the ball in play and that's what football should be currently i believe i remember reading the the documents on the website and there are about like 42 minutes of play exactly 30 sometimes 30 something 38 minutes of play in an
entire football game and then say yeah um there are a lot of stoppages so that could be interesting it could also end up being a bit frustrating huh so many long games you know like imagine you have you have to play on wednesday and then you have to play on saturday you know and then the whole area playing that amount of time the whole the whole thing that they're doing to make football um you know more exciting for fans is they they keep on adding to the length of the game and they keep
on adding to fixtures that the players need to play so as much as it's glamorous to be a footballer and they're earning so much money and doing so and they're doing what they love you have to feel for the amount of pressure that's been added to them the amount of games that they're playing just had a break premier league players are playing in four days time yeah players like mccallister who just won the world cup like he's been fucking drunk for three days you know what
i mean i need to go back to brighton and play a number of fixtures in a row man and the players that play champions league football as well that's it's crazy we saw pedri of barcelona play for like three years non-stop now week in week out he looked he looked 50 by the end but he's had a nice break no thanks to morocco yeah uh should we delve into a little bit you know about uva's situation because it seems like everyone's forgetting about it and today or yesterday chiellini was
was questioned and he gave away a myriad of information basically was the middleman between anjeli and the board of directors and the players yeah so he was the messenger he was telling them look guys you're gonna be paid this amount we're gonna this is gonna say four months but it's not gonna be four months gonna be one maybe two and apparently there were solo negotiations between certain players and the management so if it was ronaldo and if it was chesney that'd be two
different sets of negotiations of the same pie for everyone basically but it's interesting man it's escalating it seems like with the involvement chiellini had he's gonna be in a world of trouble as well and it seems like man it doesn't look good for the players it doesn't look good for the club do you think that they get fucking relegated man um no i don't think they get relegated i don't think they'll get relegated at all i think that the players will be fined i think the management
has already left they will be charged criminally maybe fined maybe i don't know what else they can do maybe arrested you know um but i don't think there will be maybe a points deduction at most that's the worst case scenario i don't think they'll relegate it though um chiellini was was questioned as you said by the i was speaking to the tureen public prosecutor's office right um at first he was quite standoffish he was he took a bit of a you know he's playing it safe i don't know
i don't remember i don't recall right now and they were like you know you need to be honest i'm georgio um you're on the road this is very serious right now and it started you know he started escalating a little bit more he's like you know and when the pandemic broke out it was a bit of a difficult situation economically i was asked to go between the rest of the group and meet the extraordinary moment that had been created that's how he worded it um then he said in march i started
talking to my teammates to understand their willingness to meet the problems that existed in the club solving problems above all because the liquid income was lacking and then basically he went on to admit yes that he was the you know that actually happened it was the middleman they they were still paid under the table tax free and that's fraud right so we'll see how this develops it's definitely interesting to keep an eye on and you mentioned that in the beginning
he wasn't giving away too much um but what the guys he's dealing with he has no idea they're fucking professionals and they're like did you sign anything for this role you kind of took and he's like no it's like i don't remember signing anything and then they're like you're sure and he's like i might have signed something but i don't know where it is and they're like is it this georgia he's like fuck yeah yeah just to answer my own question i know remember answer my own question about
relegation i think there's a world where it happens i think there there is um i think it's being considered i think it's on the table bear in mind the point deduction in 06 took them to relegation last time and if it's not that it would be serious financial interventions that would lead to them not being able to play to pay players like kiesa vlauwege dimaria pogba shesney bremer all these fucking tanks in their team they're not going to afford them if there's certain financial
interventions and this could be a decline for yet another four or five years for uve let's see man um they have had i think the worst year for for any club in the league any club in europe probably i don't think there have been teams that have had a worse year than even this when it comes to these this kind of situation and they had just picked it up before the world cup break they were one of the only teams that that this world cup and didn't favor the break didn't
favor them because they were carrying such good momentum and it's interesting they carried out into the friendlies by the way bro they they played the friendly against arsenal who are top of the premier league right now they had one shot on target and won the game two nil and they had like 30 ball possession or something that's fucking hilarious it's classic this is the thing right an allegory genius or a terrorist who knows man we don't know here okay a genius terrorist let us
know what you think exactly um there are obviously uvers where they had that whole situation with the overspending controversy that came months before this situation so what goes around comes around i guess they also have the top five most expensive transfers in seria history they spent 101 million on cristiano ronaldo they spent 77 million on gonzalo iguain they spent 73.9 million on matias delict they spent 70.5 million on dusan vlaović and 65 million on artur melo now
what did they win with these players they won one scudetto with ronaldo they won a scudetto with iguaian signing was was phenomenal yes yes but other than that brother i mean okay vlaović just signed and he could do great things unless they there's a significant decrease arthur was a shit signing delict was a shit signing and ronaldo i mean sure they got shirt sales yeah but it was a bit of a flop because covid happened right yeah i mean exactly it became unsustainable they wouldn't
be in this situation had they not signed it was a goal though for anilie on the board to sign to sign a player of that caliber they had said i believe three years prior to that they wanted to they have a project in mind and they want to sign a big player long term so it was like a bucket list thing almost yeah yeah they're interested in carsdorp now apparently but hyacs are beating to carsdorp yeah i mean you know i can i can see rick carsdorp at eventless to be honest
i could i guess down that right i mean they're quite thin there they have quadrado but he's aging and he's getting worse and then they have the shilio you know i mean carsdorp might be a better fit and carsdorp on the right cost station on the left could be deadly that could be it could be um you were also linked to milan's massara the director malini's right-hand man but of course that probably is bogus news because if you're gonna hire someone a director you're gonna hire
the the head you know the sporting director the main guy and then he'll pick his stuff right you know just pick an executive exactly throw in a director and then pick the head after it doesn't make any sense like but yeah there's this news you know slow news days there's the whole del pierro rumor as well we'll see what happens with that i haven't heard any updates since it's gone quite quiet but he could be a a contender bro by the way have you heard of francesco camarda you mean
the guy i'm gonna be hopelessly in love with by the time i'm 30 hopefully yes i have heard of him he is the 14 year old milan youth team striker at youth level he scored 485 goals in 89 youth level matches that's crazy i've never done that on career mode like i've never done that i could play against children i wonder now this 14 year old boy has been promoted to the primavera where he's playing with essentially 18 year olds 19 year olds 20 year olds you know and on his debut
he scored two goals that's crazy so this guy can't be serious i just hope that there isn't a lot of pressure on him from the media there's already his face on like instagram and facebook tiktok whatever must do our vibes literally like i hate when you get a fucking 14 year old kid and you're putting his face everywhere and piling all this pressure on him it's unnecessary let him develop in peace hopefully he keeps it up we have seen players with crazy records with the primavera
cotrone had a crazy record with the milan primavera didn't quite live up to it or hasn't quite lived up to it there's still a bit of time for cotrone colombo had a mental record he was scoring every 30 minutes with the primavera he still looks great he he is developing nicely but he had less pressure he didn't have you know this guy you can tell it's sensationalist news right people are going to be talking about this yeah yeah and and what's what's interesting the thing
that scares me the most about that is at the age he's at right now 14 years old no um playing for the under 19 so essentially playing a bunch of 20 21 year olds this is and i don't blame him for putting i don't blame them for putting him on that stage because these are his key years for development the 14 to 18 mark that that turns you from being a good player and being a professional footballer these are the ages where you make that happen essentially so he needs to up it to that
level for the muscle memory for his instincts for his intelligence so on so forth he needs to be playing over there now this can go three ways the media can get to him and he can become hot-headed blah blah blah and he ruins his career because we know what the media is like his ego will inflate exactly on the other hand he could live up to it and he can become a hallowed of sorts or a lavovich of sorts for example um or else on on the other hand because he is playing at that level
and he's still so young there could be significant injuries in the time that is most crucial for a player to play games and and to learn the game um like imagine he tears his acl now that is let's say he has one year out now it's way more crucial having a year out when you're 15 16 to when you're 27 and you would have played for a while so we really need this guy to develop i pray that they look after him they give him a break when a break is necessary i hope that they don't depend on him
so much and it seems difficult considering he's scoring so many goals and they played they played against an adult team by the way the primavera side of milan played against um sol biateze is a club that plays in extra lensa which is the fifth division of the italian football period now this is a theme of adults there were 30 year olds playing this game and he scored two goals that's a joke man what the fuck that's an absolute joke i hope uh-huh look milan have
jurú right now but before that you know okay ebra gave milan a good six months a good year upon his return to milan but milan have struggled for a starting striker for a solid starting striker for a while before that there was the cotron age the bakka age the menes age so on so forth it would be good to kind of have someone come up through the ranks and even play at least 25 at milan 26 at milan just have that guy that you can rely on week in week out someone that
a tonali mentality up front would be delicious it would be i mean there was cotron you know with the with that kind of mentality but it proved to be a little bit lacking like it wasn't he's not the most modern striker in the world you know i thought piantec was that guy to be honest with you bro when piantec came in i'm like i was sorted for 10 years hey man he was turning cullibaly inside out scoring the pietas against napoli and in superb fashion but i had that that didn't last
very long did it no he faded out and unfortunately milan didn't give him time um and you know he the curse of the nine of course he took the number nine he said he doesn't believe in the curse and he stopped scoring exactly he just made it more more obvious um those are yeah that's pretty much it guys we we're out of talking points we've covered everything that we wanted to cover this episode january the fourth can't come any sooner i can't wait for seria to continue i am tired
i'm tired of international football now honestly it was a fantastic world cup but give me seria yeah i was very pleased with how the world cup turned out i always when international tournaments come about and this is probably from us seeing so many insignificant ones like the nation's legal of these international friendlies it almost took away from what the world cup is but now that came about it's a very joyous reminder of what the competition was but happy to move back into
where we left off and man i'm almost green in in what has happened this this season because it feels like it's been so much time um our nopoly is still gonna be that good our milan gonna be worthy our inter gonna bounce back what's gonna happen with you man i have no idea the one thing i'm sure that's gonna happen is that say our spotlight slips is gonna be a disaster because we have no idea the form of these teams what we can pretty much guarantee is the players who had
fewer guys at the world cup will surprise us for example the teams that had yeah sorry the teams yes that's time monza ampoli those guys sasual as well have been kind of there as well these guys have been training together this entire time like they're gonna be strong you know and then you have teams like uventus who had so many guys at the world cup to the end i'm going on holiday milan inter nopoly had their two best guys at home that ozzy man and gvarra probably
uh playing together man it's true so we'll see um i i expect it to to be tight um at the top and at the bottom i expect helas verona to start picking up and maybe some bedoria too at this point but we'll we'll see how it goes of course it's too early to make predictions and i personally can't wait no i can't wait either man we'll return like we said on january 4th there's a midweek showdown um at 12 30 between salernitana and milan great we're gonna be at work kind of thing
i can't believe it like 12 30 on a wednesday yeah at the same time on the same day there's sasual or san pedoria um just two hours later there's torino verona these are all games i want to watch man we need to see what we're gonna do about this bro hey that's gonna we might have to join them and do a double episode we use leave we take a day of to watch the games we might fucking want to use leave man why the fuck not we'll discuss we'll discuss roma bolonia
let's relax your fear and in a month sacrament is a uve or denise ampoli and shut the fuck up internautally wednesday night shut the fuck up i love it i love it guys thank you so much it's been a brilliant episode a short one hopefully you guys enjoy it as much as we did remember to follow us on instagram tiktok twitter rate us wherever you're listening we love you all thank you very much and have a good week you
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