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I'm back, baby. I'm back. I'm back. I'm sorry. I've been gone a long time been on holiday

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I've been doing lots of things a lot of pooing

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About a bad belly and then other things come up. So yeah, I'm back when you're as popular as we are on a on a

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personal standpoint and from just a

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Logistical standpoint of being the biggest UK gaming podcast there is sometimes

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The the schedule has to change

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It's true

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You would think that after a month of not being here. I'd have so much to talk about

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Relying on you, you know, I have one game to talk about one game only and no one's gonna be interested in it

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football manager

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Told you when I got that laptop, yeah, I have to stay away from football magic is one. Okay, I take it my life

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Yeah, I bought it last Friday and

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I've got over two days playing time

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I think

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What 48 hours? Yes. Yeah, seems like one day in 20 hours

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See if I can find it on what is this on the laptop? Is it? Yeah, that's all I've been doing

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They might you might see me on their PlayStation, but that's not me. That's the kids. Oh is it? Oh fair enough

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Seventy seven point eight hours. Well, that's more than two days. That's more two days. That's quite a bit more than two days worth

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I don't know when let me see when I bought it. The

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Because when the kids are like playing

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Because they play minecraft

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So when they're playing minecraft if they're just doing that i'll just play that laptop

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Yeah, so that's why I can play I can't put them sort of hours in on the playstation because you know

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I'm not gonna play play. Does it not get it on a steam deck? No, probably but it's a bit this

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It's a bit too much for the steam. There is it's too many

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I don't know it'd be uncomfortable. I think for 3rd of august at 10 past 12. I bought it

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Um, and what was that so that's

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Okay, so that was two weeks ago tomorrow

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Not a bad input it's a good haul and it's 77 hours. Um

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I also spent a lot of that saturday

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Like doing some crazy shit. You wouldn't expect me to be doing I was downloading face packs

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and I was downloading face packs

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club badges kits 3d kits

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And uh, I was transferring them. I was creating files putting them in there. I was unzipping them

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I was I was downloading applications. Yeah, I was torrenting a few things

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I was seeding for people

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It was a bit mental, right? Okay, so now i've got all the player faces and kits and stuff on there and uh,

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I started off unemployed

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I'm a sunday league level footballer. Um, I started off at dartford

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Oh, wait, you start off as the player or you start off as the manager manager

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So I started off as any manager a jobless manager because you're gonna have you're gonna have to

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Oh, you don't know anything about football manager. No, we'll

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We'll squeeze an hour out of this 45 to an hour. I think this is going to be possible, but I know

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Very little. I know nothing about football manager, but I find

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For myself this is going to be interesting because i've actually started to quite get into a little bit of football

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I was on fucking astroturf yesterday, my loud and fucking playing a bit of the old ping

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How people run on them pitches is beyond me

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I think that was the first time i've ever been on a proper pitch. They're fucking huge

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Those cunts are huge. Yeah, and I like to think my fitness is as much improved over the last couple of months

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And I was I was fucking

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I was fucking struggling with that shit, but it was so much fun. So

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Feel free to fucking give me the give me the the beginning to end of how the fuck football manager works

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Well, however, you want it to so if you want to you start you create your manager

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And then you can have a different

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Background so you can either be sunday league footballer semi-pro

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National footballer international footballer world-renowned footballer. Obviously the higher you put that

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The more respect you'll get from the players. Yeah, because you're you know, well known like a difficulty level essentially

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Yeah, uh, and then you can choose what coaching badge you start

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So obviously if you want to be a manager in real life, you have to coach your badges

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So it'd be like uh national c national d

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There's all different kinds of coaching badges up until you've completed them all obviously that'll make you more effective as well

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And then you can just pick whatever team you want. You can be any team you want in the whole world

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You can just choose who you want to be or you can do what I did

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And I set everything to nothing. So the lowest sunday league footballer zero badges

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So i'm literally just come out of working at asda's and i'm applying for manager jobs

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Is essentially how that would be

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So obviously with that in mind, you're not going to get a good job because you're not a manager. You're nobody

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Yeah, you got no rapport or so I had the uh

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So there's I was just looking at the job center and seeing all the jobs that were available

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I was just pinging my cv off to all of them

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Um a couple got back to me and only I had a couple of interviews put my glasses on try to be a professional

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Wait, wait, wait

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Wait, you you put your glasses on glasses on. Yeah

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Well, you attend the interview now. She's a lot of questions. What?

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What like an actual rundown interview? Yeah an actual interview. They ask you loads of questions and you have to like genuinely

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Yeah, yeah genuine questions like what makes you want to be the manager of dartford and then there'll be like loads of different things that you can say

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Um, I feel like I might be able to get into this and so

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And i'm just like, yeah, i'm just winging my way through and they're like, oh do you think you can manage a club?

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In and serious financial, you know problems and stuff and I was like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No way

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I just want a job. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, come on mate. I just want a job and that and then uh,

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Uh, go on carry on as like is there anything you want from us? Um,

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And I was like, well i'd like to go on like a coaching badge and there's like, yeah

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The club's not in a financial position to put you what's a coaching badge?

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Quickly give me a brief of that. Well, it's just it's just your level of ability

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So you so you can be like the maximum of like a five-star manager

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So then you're just like world class everyone you're like pep guardiola at that point. Yeah

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Yeah, so i'm like i'm half star because i'm nothing and that's a that's a real thing. Is it coaching badges? Yeah. Yeah

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You can't be a manager in every division. You have to have a certain level of coaching badges

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So even if mancy gave you a job you couldn't be them because you haven't got the badges

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It's like okay. It's like it's like pokemon badges in the gyms, you know, right? Yeah. Yeah

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It's kind of like just collecting what's a fantastic way to make me understand that it's like pokemon badges

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Anyway, I can just say really yeah fair play. All right

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So yeah, they say is there anything you want and I was like, that's one of the options you can pick

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I was like, yeah like coaching badges like we're not in a position financially to be able to offer you that

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Um and I was like, okay and there's I will get back to you in a few weeks

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Thanks for your time blah blah and then the press start getting involved little local newspapers

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What do you mean? It's football manager. Yeah. Yeah, it's a reason why football manager is like the game that all football fans play

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Yeah, this is fascinating. Um, so do you only local newspapers? Yeah. Yeah, but like so what you have to wait?

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Did you just run the time forwards for you just press continue and then the day will go and if you got news pop up

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You'll get new news in your inbox and stuff

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So yeah, dark for local newspapers asking me. Oh, did you have an interview?

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Uh, I attended the little phone call briefing. I was like, yeah hopeful blah blah blah because i'm no i'm new

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I'm trying to be like i'm keen. Yeah. Yeah, so

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Yeah, so eventually they got back to me and it was like, yeah what will offer you the job? I was like kusty i'm in

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So i've got in i've met the players. I've had to you know, you do your little meeting

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I'm sure you none of you have heard of me then you set your targets what your players you want

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I want you to hit the playoffs. I want you to win. So is this preset this dialogue?

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So so when they're asking you the questions i'd imagine so the responses are they is that a preset?

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There's like fallout. Yeah loads, but there's loads of them. Yeah

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And some of them will be promises and stuff like that

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So if you make a promise you're held to that promise if you break that promise you're fucked

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Yeah, it's not good. Yeah, careful if you're making promises. Yeah

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So ie I can work with financial restraint is a promise

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So if I fuck that up, they'll be like you promised us you weren't going to cripple the company

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Crippled us on its knees. Sorry about that. I'm leaving

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Best of luck. Uh

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so I met the players and I said yeah, I want to I want to push for playoffs and then they was like

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Yeah, let's do it. So I was like, yes exactly. So reaction I was like after

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Um, and you can when you pick one of these responses is also like templates of how you want to respond

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So you can respond say I want to say

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Say I want to say ah, that's exactly the reaction I was after you can do that by holding your arms out

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Banging a fist on the table. So a lot of my halftime team talks if they're not doing wrong, I'll kick water bottles

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Yeah, and you say she's terrible. What are you doing here?

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I do that by clicking the water bottle kick button so they know that i'm pissed

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Um rather than just being like arms outstretched. So the so is there any

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Football match like game play involved. Yeah, of course. Of course. Yeah. Yeah, so it's not it's not like fifa. You don't see

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Oh, yeah, you see you see them play football, but you're not but you're not playing no

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You're the manager so you can you can pause it or while they're doing it

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You can shout at them encourage them berate them

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Like um, remember, uh, was it battlefield four or something when you could you could be like the commander

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Rather than being an actual soldier. I never did that

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I clicked it a few times and you could just provide support to people rather than actually being on the ground and fucking killing

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Maybe but but i'm sure it's not the same. No, the premises but

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Yeah, ultimately, yeah, if you're it just depends how much you want to be into it

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I mean you can have all the stats up right the game's playing and then there'll be a highlight

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So then the game will switch to like fifa mode if you like you see stuff happening

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Um and and and and you can have like the match stats to be like, ah, they're attacking a lot down the left

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So I like double up i'll move some defenders over that way or i'll see that they've changed their formation

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I'll be like, oh they're going to be vulnerable if I go over the top of the last defenders now

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So I change his tactics for us to go long ball

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Yeah, I mean it's all like that and then you'll see it in play happen what you've been telling the players

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You know pass into space pass it slower pass it longer

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Attack down the flanks roll the ball out from kickoffs press them. There's millions of them

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There's millions millions of things you can do

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So when you when you implement them changes and then watch them happen, you feel like a genius

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Our tactical god, but anyway back to dartford

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I won my first guy why don't well because I couldn't get a good job could I it was all that was off for the best of a bad bunch

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Uh, so yeah, I went to dartford

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We won our first game. Yeah, everyone was buzzing always a good one. Yeah, then I lost my next nine

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And I got sacked before christmas

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Just before christmas. Yeah, just for christmas. They sacked me. So there I was jobless

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Embarrassed. Yeah, what was the do they do they do you like get to know your wage and shit?

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Or is that not a relevant? Yeah, you can negotiate your wage. What was you what was you on at dafod?

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100 quid a week or something 200 quid a week something shit

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What league was you in national? Yeah, that was uh

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Yeah national van ram and

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National south I think it is because there's the bottom league is north and south. Yeah. Yeah, so I was in the same league as chumpsford city

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Right on like 100 quid a week. Yeah on nothing basically and all the players ain't on contracts. They're all like part-time

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It's the hardest way to play the game what i'm doing. Yeah

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Um, because you have to worry about finances. You can't really scout players

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So you can't really tell their stats properly before you like try and you know

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Loan them or buy them or anything. You don't know their stats because you can't afford scouts

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If I want to scout a player be like it costs 150 quid i'll be looking at the finances be like

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It's not really viable. Well, the budget's that tight is it? It's got no money. Is that what it's like?

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Is that what it's like for genuine like um national league because because forgive me

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Um, I know people that are that are big football knowledge will probably like be cringing at half the shit that i'm going to say during this pod

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I'm right so far

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Is that right conference? Yeah, and then national underneath that van rammer north and south

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I don't think there is a conference anymore. I think it's just van rammer. Is it

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North and then south and then what's below that is just fucking it's just yeah, nothing nothing

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There's like the proper lower lower lower shit

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But the lower leagues are hard because only one team gets promoted

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Is what out what out of those leagues is only one?

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I think it's one team and then or it might be two teams in certain leagues out of north and south

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No, no one of each of them

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Oh, so only two teams. I think it might I think it might be two teams in each division and then four go down from

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league two

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Uh something like that. So your chances of going up are slim

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Whereas in the championship you can finish first or second for my promotion or then you go third to fourth third to third to sixth

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You get the playoffs. Yeah, another chance

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You just don't mean to get that chance in the lower league. So it's a slog

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But I lost my job anyway, so didn't matter

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So then I moved to china

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What was it called I went to shang what shangling ding long or something they were called

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Shangling ding long that's got to be on the precipice

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I swear was something called that

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I was te I was keeping clarky updated with my what was going on of all the

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The segues of that could have taken of all the fucking routes that we were about to go down

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I never would have predicted you going so I moved to china

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Whoopsie so who you being who you signing what's your budget?

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So starting unemployed zero badges seeing where the journey takes me one file until football manager 25 whatever happens happens

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But so this is this is football manager 24. Yeah, when does 25 come out november november. Okay, so

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How how do you go from?

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100 quid a match 100 quid a week

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Sacked before christmas. I'm now going to move to china. Well, I'll tell you when I

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Because I can't recall it but it'll be in these messages. I'm sure

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Uh, he said I put the fan in this what a proper file this is

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I said I'll interview acquired and that was at st. Albans st. Albans

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Yeah, that's what it looks like. Yeah, albans st. Albans board invited you to attend an interview with them as they wish to discuss

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The possibility of you becoming their new manager the board are impressed with your record

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Which is why they've identified you as one of their top

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top candidates

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Although the board are confident in your ability to perform they do have some concerns about your suitability to deliver the club somewhat

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Scaled back vision for the future. This is mainly a result of your as your slight lack of experience in leading teams to promotion

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The interview will give the board the opportunity to discuss their ambitions and plans with you in more detail

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So we can reinforce our belief in your suitability for this role

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That is fantastic. I am just searching football manager now to

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see

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So I said interview acquired and then I replied five minutes later after the interview it's fucking

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Or 18 quid on playstation. I paid 40 quid the other day that was on steam though

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But the playstation version is different. Is it it's just like scaled down version. Oh, is it not the same?

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So it's different

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Um, I said it was going really well. They seemed keen

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I like the look of the chairman call and this is for st. Albans

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Yeah, okay

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Like the look of the chairman to call guy until I asked for coaching badges as I haven't got any

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They said no, I'm not going to be able to do that

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I haven't got any they said no i'm adequate enough for the club as it is red flag

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They're not going to invest in invest in me. I won't invest in them pastures new

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So you

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There now comes dartford with the interview from nowhere dartford interview went great tough interview though awaiting response

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The royal antwerp under 23 job has become available

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But I don't want to upset dartford as they weren't happy because I'd applied for loads of jobs as is here

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We go look foot. Sorry football manager 2024 on steam is

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1799 I paid 40 quid the other day

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Fucking joke offer ends 21st of august. I might dependent on how this goes

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I am I may end up buying this prince's park the dartford stadium is called

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I said prince's park. Oh, baby. It was written in the stars. Let's go

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It's written in the stars up the darts. There I am signed

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And the dartford high harris prince eyebrows have been raised

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This is fantastic, okay, this is what a player looks like there's fidel ross lang

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He was my first signing right? Okay, so when you so when you become the manager

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I take it you just inherit the the team that's already in place and then you get to fuck around real life

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So all the teams would be the same as they are in real life. Wow

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First signing I don't have any scouts. So I didn't have a clue what his stats were

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They're all master stats had to take a punt on the fact that he came from city and south hampton

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Um from what man city south hampton because he played for them because he played for them clubs

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I was like he must be somewhat and then he ended up at dartford. He's at darford. Yeah on fucking what was he on?

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625 quid a week not more than me

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I needed him though. I needed a goal score. Yeah, look, there you go

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So I said setting new records some things never change

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Winless dartford hit new low dartford six games without winning from saturday the 12th of august 2023 is a new record

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Fuck yeah now you increased it by another three weeks after that

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Dartford helpless dartford well beaten 10 matches in a row without winning

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Dartford's runner games without a win in the vanorama south has risen to 10 following a three nil

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Will defeat against chippenham town although still early in the season the dartford faithful must be hugely disappointed with their start to the campaign

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Haven't expected to be competing in the top half recent disappointing results have led few to believe that a season struggle lies ahead

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Dartford have one of the leakiest defenses in the vanorama south conceding 23 goals in just 11 matches

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And then there you go. Well, that's how long was this at 23.05

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So

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I got the dartford job at

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half four

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And by five past 11, I sacked

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Fuck we regret to inform you we have taken the decision to terminate your contract at dartford

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After our recent emergency meeting we believe it is the best is the best interest of the club

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If we look for a new manager, paul would like to thank you for your service and wish you all the best in your future endeavors

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And then the next message I got I sent i've gone china

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Uh, I told you bro. Yeah, why be long ding? Why?

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Be long ding why be long ding hi harris prince why be long ding if today can find the appointment of ashley ash prince is the club's new manager

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Eyebrows have been raised in the yeah, but where did that come from? Where did that come from?

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How do you go from i've managed dartford to right? These are these are like the bottom league in china

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So they're just the equivalent. They're just in china. What are they doing looking for?

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They're not looking i'm looking i'm looking at all available manager jobs. Oh, i'm applying

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Oh, well, you've literally so you like gone on the football manager equivalent of indeed and just set the radius to unlimited

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Yeah, I go on the I go on the um job center essentially and I go

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Manager roles and then whatever comes out I go

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I'm not good enough to apply for any of them

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So i'll continue forward someone will get sacked and i'll go all right that job's available and then i'll apply for that job

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So the yb long ding job come up why have you china?

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Because no one else has given me a job

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Uh, they've confirmed the appointment of me as a manager

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Eyebrows have been raised in the world of football at the appointment of the 35 year old

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Who has recently spent time away from club football because obviously it took me a long time to get this job

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And he is sure to face plenty of questions when he faces the media for the first time at yanji ali people's sports center stadium

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The house prince struggled at dartford and was eventually sacked he will now be hoping for a better experience upon taking the yb long ding post

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He replaced his previous manager king bong gil

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Chow zhang dong was considered to be the favorite for the job

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But it's unclear whether the club favored harris prince all along yb long ding finished the season

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Third in the chinese national first division long ding have recorded three wins and one draw in their last five matches

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Is well, why was why were they looking for a new manager then it sounds like the manager they had at the time was decent

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they

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What why why why would that maybe maybe he maybe he went pastures new maybe he left and went somewhere else

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Okay, so you've okay. So you've now gone over to china the

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The the the wife the kids have been relocated. They've now had to come to china for how much per week?

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Did it do can you remember?

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Uh, I suppose it's in dong isn't it? I don't know dong are you getting

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I don't know

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It's not about money

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Don't do it for the money

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Are they gonna put you through your badges?

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Yeah, I think there's one of reasons and then look there's my my board review for the month

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I was untouchable to summarize the board for you were doing an unbelievable job and you're clearly the right manager for the job

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Why what was your win? What what was the matches looking like you?

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You're smashing it. You weren't containing. No, I was smashing it. I was

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At the point I text clarkie. I was like top or near the top of the table

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Unbeaten I was uh unbeaten third in the league. Oh still won't give me any fucking coachy badges though

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Also, there's a racist reporter in every press conference. I do it says he has deep hatred for me and i've no idea why

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Because obviously people different managers and reporters and all different people get opinions of it

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Yeah, every time this reporter comes up obviously it says, oh, you know snow indifferent to you or whatever. This is a deep hatred

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Why?

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Just a racist geezer. He's got a deep hatred. Yeah for me for ashley

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And yeah, this is this is this is where it got really shit. I remember now. Yeah, so I was smashing it

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I was I just showed you untouchable at the club. My job was couldn't have been more secure. Yeah, then I got this fucking message

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Why be long ding close to administration?

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The board would like to make it clear the serious financial state the club now finds itself in

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The club is 1.7 million in debt with losses of 122 000 last month. This is unsustainable financial position and

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Uh if extra funds

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Aren't required prospect to the club entering administration in the near future is a real possibility

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uh

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There you go. Then again, i'm untouchable set a club record of 11 undefeated dartford were fools to let me go

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Set a new club record

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You were you were 10

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10 matches down the hole

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At dot foot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's different

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Then but then I set a new I set a new league record

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Yeah league record. I set a new league record for unbeaten games. Yeah

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Yeah, I was oh, yeah top of the league. I'm beating in my whole tenure at the club

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Then I got a message saying that in administration has released all my highest earners

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Look at my fucking squad bro. They nicked my left winger my attacking midfielder my striker and my left back and my center midfielder

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Well, they sold off your players to get the money because of the wages. They're all because they couldn't pay them

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I I had I had to put like kids in the team like 15 year olds because I couldn't field a team

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Labor in this fucking chinese football team

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This game as well

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Because it pissed me off so much

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So I said I actually played that game by filling all them positions with my youth team and won

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And I was top of the table, but I ain't gonna stay now the disrespect to a manager of my caliber

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Yeah, but the team was gonna go the club was gonna go into administration

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Is it you that racked up that debt? No, I didn't do anything. I couldn't buy anyone

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Everything I had was free

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Um then then then it did this look

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Training facilities sold the decision has been made for the club to sell off the training facilities in a bid to help the current financial situation

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They sold the gym the board of directors only arrived at this decision after a great deal of discussion

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We rely on rented alternatives for the time being until the situation improves enough to acquire new facilities again

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They sold the gym. So I said i've resigned fucking pointless

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They released like eight more of my players and I could only make a start in 11 with four subs

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And all the subs were three defenders and one goalkeeper. Fuck it. I'm off to belgium

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So except so

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So you you can resign whenever you want yeah, and then are you allowed to look for other jobs in whilst you're still employed?

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Like real life. Yeah, someone can come to you. So I went from I went from uh, I went belgium happen then

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Well, I resigned from them. Yeah, yeah, because i'm doing really well

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I don't want to be because my thinking was

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Before this is why football manager is bad for me because I get signed up if I start writing stuff down

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I'm scouting players at work like i'm watching people play real life football

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Scouting them because the stats the people there's managers that use football manager as a guideline for the stats correspond to the even

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Sky Sports news will put football manager stats on players sometimes so this is what he looks like if you've never heard of them

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Because the stats are so accurate

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um

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So when I was doing so well with long ding

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I uh

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Obviously I was top of the league and unbeaten

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And now I can only put out 15 year olds. Yeah, I didn't want my

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My legacy to be tarnished because then people would look at me in a different light when I applied for jobs before if I leave on my

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Be half. Yeah, not my problem before you get sacked. Yeah, so I resigned them. There was uproar the fans were fuming

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Fans were fuming at the club. Well, you get fan reaction off course you do

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It's fans. Yeah, you get so okay. So what so you you resigned what what's then the immediate after that?

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You've then gone right. This is enough for me. I'm fucking i'm off. See you later down the job center

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No, but then what happened? So will you say fan reaction is our press conference?

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Yeah, yeah, you'll get like interviews newspapers will come up to you and say oh, why did you leave and i'll be like

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I'm not in your fucking business

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And sometimes I think I wrote one of them myself. You'll find out all in my book when I release it in my later life

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Some things are left best said unsaid and all that crap

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But yeah, no, I didn't it was just it's a selfish reason but I was out there

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So off to off to belgium I went I can't remember what the club was. I was running I was in the belgium

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belgium third division

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I'll tell you what the your poor families had to relocate fucking

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England to china to belgium

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Fucking hell. Yeah, and that's another problem is like

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they um

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Hold on belgium pro league is that they um

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I know all these clubs now, yeah, because i've been fucking playing but I can't remember the fucking

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The name of the the division

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belgium pro league is the that is down from that so uh

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Yeah, when you go to these different countries, they'll say, oh, but you can't speak the language

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What are you gonna do? So you have to go on like language courses to be able to you know communicate?

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um what

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Yeah

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What do you mean so you go you go on a language course no you have to otherwise you're not aha k a

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k a s open

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e u p e n k s open I went there so they're in like the

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Not the top division not the second division the third division of belgium football

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so

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Yeah, I went there the the the team was like pretty good to be fair and there was a few quid there, but not a lot

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Um, so I did what I could I was floating around relegation. I joined it was like near the end of season

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I got him up mid table second season or my first full season

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Pushed right to the top didn't I got him right up in the playoffs?

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I was I was fucking smashing it to be fair. I was just I was like belgium football. This is easy

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Easy peasy wheezy. Yeah

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Antwerp came calling antwerp you want it into normal terms go on i'm managing

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Fucking colchester. Yep

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West uh west amicam locking

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That a bigger difference. Yeah. Yeah, i'm in the third division in belgium football antwerp our top league

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And they they won all they wanted me while I was still there. Why approached me? They don't need badges

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Yeah, no, no. No. Yeah, i've got badges. I've got a couple of badges at this point. Not many

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um and and and and awkwardly um

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Youpan had put me through my latest coaching badges my life too

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And I felt bad. I said to jim. I was like, I don't I don't think I can do it. I don't think

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I don't think I can

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Don't know if I can uh, I don't know if I can do it to it. Yeah, it's been good to me

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Yeah, they've put me through two coaching badges, which no other club has yeah

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Um, I don't know if I can yeah, I don't know if I can do it to them when I was up

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You sat there around the table you've got

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Your beautiful family is there

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Jem's there the kids are there beans on toast or whatever the fuck you're eating at the moment

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whatever the the

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The meal of the day is turkey dinosaurs and fucking potato smiley is an absolute banger with some beans. All right

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All right, and everyone's enjoying themselves and there's a silence for about two minutes raw silence and then just you

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Head down just go slam the fucking knife and fork on the table. You go. I can't do this jim

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She's thinking the worst

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And then it's like I don't think I can do that. I can't go to antwerp

421
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:35,200
Football manager, right? She is invested in my journey. Okay, right scratch that then she takes it serious

422
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,280
You slam your fucking cutlery down and you go jim

423
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,520
I I can't fucking do this

424
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,400
She's in on it because no you can we need the money. Yeah, we need to do this

425
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:48,880
We're not we're not really i'm not relocating those children again. It's not happening

426
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,920
We've been to china now. We're in belgium. I'm not fucking doing anything else bearing in mind

427
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,000
I'm on still like 300 quid a week

428
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,000
Antwerp are coming offering me 2,800 a week. Oh, is that what they're offering?

429
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:06,960
Negotiated it to three grand to three grand and you're jim three grand. Yeah, she was all for it. She said fuck them

430
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,560
Use them as a stepping stone. Yeah, startford didn't look after you pretty selfish

431
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,800
Yeah, so I ling dong dong dong didn't fucking do anything. So I took the interview

432
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:16,640
and then

433
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,560
The media got whiff

434
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,440
And they come knocking. Yeah, and they was asking me about it

435
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:27,220
I was like can either confirm or deny if I met up with them. It was like how it's print spotted with fucking antwerp

436
00:31:27,220 --> 00:31:30,520
executive shit then my board

437
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:36,040
Youpun, oh, they've pulled you in are they they pulled me they're questioning. Yeah, that was like we've heard

438
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,920
We've heard yeah, we we know what's going on here. You you little cunt. They said no

439
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:46,200
No, they said what can we do to keep you in? Yeah. Oh a little bit of pressure

440
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,760
Leverage and you know what I said, go on i've outgrown you

441
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,640
Thanks for the badges

442
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,880
They've built you up from nothing. No, I built nothing. I nearly got them promoted

443
00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:05,560
They give you your badges. They fucking 300 big ones a week. They they fucking they put you

444
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:11,640
On the pathway to success. They are the reason why you're there. But i'm but you gotta look at it and then you've gone away

445
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,240
i've

446
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,600
i've outgrown you you've got to look at it from my point of view and and uh

447
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,240
Antwerp's point of view i'm an up-and-coming manager. I'm a young manager. I've got many years ahead of me

448
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,480
Yeah, yeah started off rocky. Yeah

449
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:31,240
Dartford didn't work out. I was happy to try out other things. I went to china. Yep didn't work out

450
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:36,520
But clearly not my fault. I was doing well my record speaks for itself. The record was good club was going to administration

451
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,840
I set a club record. I won manager of the month there as well. No, you sent a league record

452
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:47,960
Yeah, I sent both records and I got a manager of the month award and I left that club unbeaten

453
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:53,320
Unbeaten but you dropped you jumped shit before it sunk. Yeah. No, no, no, no, that wasn't my fault

454
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:59,560
The captain does not go down with his ship. I went no, I don't I went to I went to fucking belgium another country

455
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,720
By the way, I can speak english

456
00:33:02,260 --> 00:33:06,940
Partial chinese and now i'm fluent in belgium. Yeah, so I went to belgium

457
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,400
Fluent in belgium

458
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:14,200
I I that's what it says fluent. Yeah. Yeah decent. I went to belgium

459
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:20,520
I took a team that was battling relegation and got them up to the upper echelons of the league table pushing for promotion to the

460
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,920
Next division and to have a looking at this going hold on we're struggling bottom of the league

461
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:30,920
He's a young manager. He's got a fantastic record. We'll forget dartford. He's got a fantastic record

462
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:35,160
We could have this manager for the next 10 20 years. Who knows he could be like the next alex fergson

463
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,560
It could be the next pep. We've got nothing to lose. We can't spend massive money on a manager

464
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,320
Let's just take him. It won't cost a lot of compensation to get him out of the club

465
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:49,400
So therefore I attended the interview. I accepted the interview. I said, thank you. You've been by about growing your goodbye

466
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,320
I've gone to i've gone to antwerp. What was their response?

467
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,960
Well, the fans were devastated the board would devastate everyone was sad. Even I was a bit sad

468
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,160
You didn't try and negotiate anything. No, you just saw this as an opportunity

469
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,720
Wait, if it's premier league club comes knocking you go going simple as that. I've come from yeah

470
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,000
But have you outgrown that are you ready for prem? Well, let me tell you

471
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:16,040
Yeah, so here we are bottom of the league. I come in I came in bottom of the league. Yeah. What did I do?

472
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,520
Pushed them up till like eighth in the league before season ended. They were

473
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:26,360
Buzzing their tits off with me. They were like, what a guy. What a man. Yeah, what a man

474
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,480
Next season starts

475
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,480
We've got no money. We've got nothing

476
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:36,040
We've got nothing not a pot to piss in but the difference of what i'm doing now

477
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:42,120
I've gone from having players that are not even on contracts. They're on part-time contracts. Anyone can sign them at any point for free

478
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:47,080
Yeah, yeah, I've now got full-time contract with players on like thousands of pounds a week

479
00:34:47,240 --> 00:34:52,520
I've got a player that's worth 20 million pounds. I said you're fantastic, but you'll get it sold

480
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:58,120
Because I need to solve the club's financial issues. So I sold the striker the board

481
00:34:58,580 --> 00:35:02,040
Thankfully are letting me keep 100% of transfer revenue going out

482
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,200
So whatever I sell I keep for my transfer key. I didn't spunk all up the wall

483
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,800
I bought a few little players in key areas. I thought would push us forward they did

484
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:16,360
The first season full season was all right. I think I finished eighth again, but it's not good enough

485
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:21,080
It's not what I wanted. So the next season where I've sold more players invested in the youth

486
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:25,160
I bought the youth up. I've got a lot of youth players coming through. They're getting better of each game

487
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:31,320
I sold another big old boy. It was worth a lot of money. I've sorted all the club's financial problems out

488
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,920
We are now not in debt completely fine. Yeah, lovely old job

489
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:41,720
Then there's a takeover talks from a consortium thinking about investing billions. Basically the new new castle. Yeah

490
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,760
That hit the rocks didn't go through. I was devastated. I thought I'm gonna be in billions here

491
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,640
Didn't happen this next season

492
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:56,760
I bought a new striker and and a new winger and a new center back and I loaned a brazilian keeper called ivan

493
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,600
30 years old

494
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,600
What a guy

495
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,760
Bought a man. What a guy I looked at a couple of the players that I really liked at upan

496
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,400
But they just didn't cut the mustard so I left them where they was

497
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:11,880
This season

498
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,880
Which i've just finished

499
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:18,840
I finished and and this is this is why I like it so much because i've never done a save like this normally

500
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,840
I'm just west end and that's it. I'll just play. Yeah

501
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,400
So this is all new to me playing in different leagues. They all have different rules which are real life rules

502
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,880
Which I don't understand so in belgium what happens?

503
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:34,840
Is you'll play because the premier league season is 38 games, right? Yeah in belgium. What happens is you play 30 games?

504
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:41,480
And the tops because there's I think there's 18 teams in the league. Yeah, so they sit the top six

505
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:47,160
Go into their own league the the next six go into another league and then the bottom six go into another league

506
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,640
So the top six play for european spots

507
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:55,160
And it's just a it's just 10 games. So you play each team twice. I think it is or something like that

508
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,360
So you'll play the five other teams. Yeah, so you play the five other teams in the league twice

509
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,320
And then you'll finish where you finish they halve your points

510
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:07,080
Yeah for what you've earned and then you'll play in a separate league table the bottom six will battle for relegation

511
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:14,040
So I finished uh, no, I didn't finish six. I finished fourth. Sorry, which is fucking incredible by the way

512
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,520
Very good. Yeah, very fucking good. Thank you

513
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,320
I finished fourth. Yeah out when it splits into that

514
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,760
Separate league and it gives 50 of your points

515
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:31,880
Um the top four qualifier for european competitions. Yeah, the bottom two don't right right

516
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,840
So after them 10 games

517
00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:37,240
Came down to goal difference

518
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,200
I finished fourth

519
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,360
making us

520
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,240
Go on a pathway into europe. Oh

521
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,120
So not only him

522
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:53,320
So not only him third club in fourth club. Not only have I got us into the top four

523
00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:59,480
I've also got us into don't get me wrong. This is european qualification. I'm not fully into europe yet, right?

524
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,440
So we've made it into europe. The fans are going

525
00:38:03,140 --> 00:38:07,160
Ballistic absolutely insane. You're like, I can't believe these guys have delivered european football

526
00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:13,880
Mental little old antwerp. Yeah at the bottom straight into fucking european european football mate

527
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,840
and

528
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,440
Out of all the clubs that we could draw I looked at the the teams that we could draw in it

529
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,680
I mean we're talking like squally wally and but it would do it just nobody so you wouldn't even heard these teams

530
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,240
Who do I draw psv fucking eindhoven?

531
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,200
The big dutch giants so you're fucking taking the fucking piss out of me

532
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:37,660
Yeah, the one chance I get to do something good with this club. Yeah, and I draw psv eindhoven

533
00:38:37,660 --> 00:38:46,480
The last game I played last night was the first leg of the european journey the first step into proper european qualification

534
00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:49,580
We are the underdogs in every sense of the word

535
00:38:50,220 --> 00:38:56,060
Against these I meticulously planned the training before the game the days of rest

536
00:38:56,140 --> 00:38:58,460
How do you train? How do you do all of that?

537
00:38:59,020 --> 00:39:03,100
Well, it's called spreadsheet simulator for a reason you click on the training and you go

538
00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:07,980
I want you to practice on your passing. I want you to practice on your first touch. I want you to do this

539
00:39:08,460 --> 00:39:13,100
And you take the intensity levels and the game is the most it's the most in-depth game

540
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:16,620
You would ever play in your life. I mean everyone who has ever played it would say that

541
00:39:17,260 --> 00:39:18,220
um

542
00:39:18,220 --> 00:39:24,780
So yeah, I meticulously planned absolutely everything for this game. I i've watched their games from last season

543
00:39:24,860 --> 00:39:26,860
I was looking at some of the way they play

544
00:39:26,860 --> 00:39:30,140
I got my scout to give me like a they always give you a report

545
00:39:30,140 --> 00:39:34,620
I've gone to give me an in-depth report on how they played how they passed does the keeper rush out

546
00:39:34,620 --> 00:39:38,380
Does the keeper tend to stay in do the fullbacks bomb up do the fullbacks stay back?

547
00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:43,340
I found out they're vulnerable to like short passing that's where they can see most of their goals you go long

548
00:39:43,340 --> 00:39:49,660
They eat it up for breakfast. So I changed all my stat my tactics. I was like what we're going to do short short

549
00:39:50,220 --> 00:39:54,380
Quick passing that was the whole game plan. I said to the boys short quick passing

550
00:39:54,380 --> 00:39:58,460
Yeah with the underdogs the team talk was with the underdogs pressures all on them

551
00:39:58,460 --> 00:40:00,460
Just go out and do your best

552
00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:04,300
Five one

553
00:40:04,540 --> 00:40:06,540
To antwerp

554
00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:12,540
Five one five one and we went one nil down. I thought oh you thought here we go

555
00:40:12,780 --> 00:40:16,220
Five one five one five one back. So what does that mean for them?

556
00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:19,180
That means they've got to score four goals in the next leg

557
00:40:20,220 --> 00:40:21,820
Take it to the door

558
00:40:21,820 --> 00:40:25,180
So five one so i'm going to play the second leg tonight

559
00:40:25,180 --> 00:40:31,420
And if I fucking lose four nil because I don't know if away goals count if the away goal will count

560
00:40:32,220 --> 00:40:34,220
um

561
00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:38,700
Then five one, but yeah if they score if they beat us four nil, they'll probably go through

562
00:40:39,260 --> 00:40:41,660
But we just got to keep it defensive. We got to keep it together

563
00:40:42,860 --> 00:40:46,700
If you come out on top this second game what then happens then we'll be through

564
00:40:46,940 --> 00:40:49,600
I don't know because i've never seen this part of european competition

565
00:40:50,540 --> 00:40:54,140
um, because normally the west like england they go straight through unless you

566
00:40:54,140 --> 00:40:56,140
finish like seventh or something but

567
00:40:57,180 --> 00:40:58,220
um

568
00:40:58,220 --> 00:41:03,580
Well, I imagine we'll play another team in the next round of the qualifying for the europe because it's europe league

569
00:41:03,580 --> 00:41:07,740
It's not the conference league the west ham one. This is the europe league. This is one down from champions league

570
00:41:07,980 --> 00:41:12,380
So not only is this like amazing for the club. It's amazing for my reputation

571
00:41:12,460 --> 00:41:15,900
I've gotten up half a star just from getting into european football

572
00:41:16,540 --> 00:41:20,380
um, and it makes my reputation more like international as opposed to just

573
00:41:20,380 --> 00:41:25,100
Yeah, so it does great for me. It does great for antwerp in their rankings

574
00:41:25,420 --> 00:41:31,340
Does great for like how many fans you get in? Oh, actually fucking harris prince the manager of antwerp

575
00:41:31,580 --> 00:41:34,860
Yeah, yeah, and i'm and i'm and i want to take them to a european journey

576
00:41:35,020 --> 00:41:37,020
I don't think we're gonna I don't think don't get me wrong

577
00:41:37,020 --> 00:41:37,740
We're not going to win it

578
00:41:37,740 --> 00:41:42,140
But if you can just get into the group stages, that's a massive accomplishment for a little team

579
00:41:42,140 --> 00:41:46,140
Like you get more money come through from yeah, yeah, because you get more money because you're in europe

580
00:41:46,140 --> 00:41:48,860
So you're going to get you'll get televised television money

581
00:41:48,860 --> 00:41:54,060
You're going to get sponsorship money. You're going to get games for you're going to get money like big money

582
00:41:54,060 --> 00:41:56,060
Just for qualifying each round and stuff like that

583
00:41:56,060 --> 00:42:01,580
So it's massive. It's like if you're for example, if you're playing as dartford and you're in the cup

584
00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:06,860
Right, just say you're in uh, I don't know the league cup and you manage or fa cup and you manage to get through

585
00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:13,740
Like the preliminary rounds and you finally make it to the third round which is where the big teams come in dartford draw man united

586
00:42:13,740 --> 00:42:20,780
Uh away, which is what you want to do you because then dartford will get a percentage of the tickets

587
00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:24,940
That's why all the little clubs want to play away at the big stadium because you think

588
00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:29,900
You don't want to because you're going to lose but no because the club itself generates so much money you're going to a

589
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,100
80,000 seat a stadium where a club is

590
00:42:33,820 --> 00:42:39,180
What a fuck all they're going to get millions through the door, which is just going to change their whole club

591
00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:41,900
So that's why the little teams mean so much to go away

592
00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:47,980
So things like that just that that'll just do so much for for antwerp and the community as a whole

593
00:42:48,620 --> 00:42:50,060
um

594
00:42:50,060 --> 00:42:53,740
You know this game you can be you can get statues built here like you know

595
00:42:53,740 --> 00:42:57,740
You can be an icon in clubs. I've got so many players that i'm their favorite like they love me

596
00:42:58,380 --> 00:43:04,480
Literally i've had rows with people on there like proper barnies i've thrown i've stormed out of press conferences

597
00:43:05,420 --> 00:43:07,420
Harris goes berserk. It says yeah

598
00:43:07,420 --> 00:43:11,580
Yeah, it's great. Is that this is fantastic. It just gets you so in depth

599
00:43:11,740 --> 00:43:17,180
Yeah, i forgot to mention as well in the croaky cup, which is the only cup that gets played in there

600
00:43:17,180 --> 00:43:20,380
We've got the league cup every cup. They've got something called the croaky cup

601
00:43:22,060 --> 00:43:24,300
Drew youpon didn't I me old club?

602
00:43:24,940 --> 00:43:30,620
Oh youpon. Yeah, and what happened there then have you not played out yet? Four nil smashing

603
00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:36,620
Oh, I bet that fucking stung a little bit though, didn't it? I I felt bad. Oh imagine that I felt bad for him

604
00:43:36,620 --> 00:43:41,740
I didn't want to you know, I didn't want to go easy on him. But my law is law of antwerp now. Um, you know

605
00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:44,860
Do you know what hurts the most go on?

606
00:43:45,980 --> 00:43:48,300
I've been at antwerp two and a half years now

607
00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:51,820
They haven't put me on a single coaching badge and i've asked every time

608
00:43:52,380 --> 00:43:56,860
Every six months you get to why they're not putting you on badges. They say you know what they say go on

609
00:43:57,340 --> 00:44:01,900
But it's probably a bite in my own ass a little bit really it says uh, they say

610
00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:06,300
That we worry if we give you more coaching badges, you're going to become more attractive to bigger clubs

611
00:44:07,580 --> 00:44:09,580
So I kind of done it to myself

612
00:44:09,980 --> 00:44:11,980
Yeah, but that's

613
00:44:11,980 --> 00:44:15,500
That's food for thought though, isn't it? Well, this is what I mean. So what does that mean then?

614
00:44:15,500 --> 00:44:18,300
What the the the the more

615
00:44:18,940 --> 00:44:25,020
Reptile you're going to get what is that them saying that we aren't we aren't going to put you through badges because we don't want to make you more attractive

616
00:44:25,020 --> 00:44:28,860
Yeah, exactly what they're saying. All that's doing is pushing you away. Exactly

617
00:44:28,860 --> 00:44:31,340
Exactly because I had it in my head as well

618
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:37,820
When it come down to the last game of the season the very last game and I had to it didn't matter what I did

619
00:44:38,060 --> 00:44:40,060
But gank had to lose

620
00:44:41,020 --> 00:44:45,260
For me to stay in fourth position to to qualify for europe

621
00:44:45,980 --> 00:44:50,620
If I if gank didn't lose and I didn't and we didn't qualify for europe. I was going to resign

622
00:44:51,180 --> 00:44:53,180
So I was like you're not taking me anywhere

623
00:44:53,180 --> 00:44:57,340
I've played two two and a half seasons now and i'm that close to you

624
00:44:57,340 --> 00:44:59,980
If we don't quite make it i'm going to resign and try somewhere else

625
00:44:59,980 --> 00:45:02,700
Now we're in europe. I've got a push for europe. I'm gonna push for europe

626
00:45:02,700 --> 00:45:07,580
If I get into europe, there's going to be a massive coup for uh antwerp and

627
00:45:08,380 --> 00:45:10,380
I will be poached

628
00:45:10,380 --> 00:45:12,940
By a club and I just know it. I know there's i know there's european clubs

629
00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:16,140
Circling me like vultures. I know they want me

630
00:45:17,020 --> 00:45:22,860
Yeah, you're like a like a i'm getting whispers in the wind like a big fat juicy seal with sharks around

631
00:45:22,860 --> 00:45:29,260
Everyone wants to take a bite. I've signed I can't quite remember his name. I think his name's hayoshi

632
00:45:29,820 --> 00:45:35,420
Signed his japanese his japanese striker his japanese japanese Japanese striker

633
00:45:36,140 --> 00:45:43,740
This year got him on a freeze worth about 30 million the geezer is fucking mustard and i've made a promise to me and him

634
00:45:44,220 --> 00:45:47,900
Whatever club I go to he's coming with me. Don't care. He's coming

635
00:45:48,540 --> 00:45:50,940
And that's why it's great because you can do that in football matter

636
00:45:50,940 --> 00:45:54,620
You can build up fucking relationships with players. You can take them on journeys

637
00:45:55,180 --> 00:46:00,300
Um, and and and it's not necessarily you can have a player with the worst stats in the game

638
00:46:00,620 --> 00:46:05,340
But sometimes they're just the best players. You're like why is this geezer so consistently performing?

639
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:07,500
Why is this geezer with like 10 finishing?

640
00:46:08,220 --> 00:46:11,900
Outscoring early in harland. Why is this geezer scoring 30 goals a season?

641
00:46:11,900 --> 00:46:16,780
This geezer is scoring 10 this geezer is worth 100 million. This geezer is worth 200 grand doesn't make sense

642
00:46:17,100 --> 00:46:19,100
Sometimes you just get their magical

643
00:46:19,100 --> 00:46:23,980
You know them little things all the stories of like just about to go out a cup final and you know

644
00:46:23,980 --> 00:46:28,460
You're you're last fro the dice you chuck on a 16 year old youth player stick him up front

645
00:46:28,460 --> 00:46:32,620
He gets the fucking winner in the last minute. There's all these stories that stick with you

646
00:46:32,700 --> 00:46:34,700
I could go back and talk for years about

647
00:46:35,100 --> 00:46:40,780
Because me and clarky played these games for years and years and I remember he had a striker called laura for celtic

648
00:46:41,100 --> 00:46:46,780
He banged in like 400 goals. The geezer was insane. He wasn't called laura. He changed his name to laura because it was funny

649
00:46:46,780 --> 00:46:51,740
But yeah, we you know about the season that I played the whole season of aston villa

650
00:46:51,900 --> 00:46:57,420
Didn't win a single game and got relegated like all these players and stories you go back to that's why it's like

651
00:46:57,820 --> 00:47:03,340
It's it's a story man. The game is a story and I look back on my on my manager profile and

652
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:09,500
Go back to 2023 when I was at dartford and now managing in the top division of belgium

653
00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:12,140
Through my own

654
00:47:12,140 --> 00:47:14,060
actions decisions

655
00:47:14,060 --> 00:47:20,620
playing and job interviews and my tactics and winning certain games and finishing in positions and

656
00:47:21,260 --> 00:47:22,300
You know

657
00:47:22,300 --> 00:47:26,860
It feels like I I know I know it's silly but it feels like i'm achieving something even though it's just a game

658
00:47:26,860 --> 00:47:31,660
It feels like you're achieving so it gives you that feeling of i'm fucking progressing. Do you know what I mean?

659
00:47:31,740 --> 00:47:37,180
That is exactly why everyone fucking loves gaming man, because you have you have that sense of accomplishment there

660
00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:39,500
I feel like that the

661
00:47:39,500 --> 00:47:45,820
I feel like there's no real difference between real life and game and your accomplishments your accomplishments

662
00:47:46,220 --> 00:47:51,180
I go and fucking scale mount everest or I go and finish in the fucking top

663
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,460
0.1 of the pvp bracket on wow

664
00:47:55,980 --> 00:47:57,980
It's relevant to your person, isn't it?

665
00:47:58,620 --> 00:48:05,020
That for me on the wow spectrum is is one hell of a fucking achievement climbing mount everest would also be a very big achievement

666
00:48:05,340 --> 00:48:06,300
but

667
00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:08,300
The wow one would mean more to me

668
00:48:08,300 --> 00:48:12,140
You know that that's that's where your bread and butter is and um

669
00:48:13,180 --> 00:48:15,180
No, that's fantastic, man

670
00:48:15,260 --> 00:48:21,100
I love it. I feel invested now. I feel I want I want communication from from tonight

671
00:48:21,660 --> 00:48:23,820
As to how that game how that goes

672
00:48:24,300 --> 00:48:28,060
I'll let you know. I want to know yeah, i'm going in i've already sat i've been thinking about it all day

673
00:48:28,380 --> 00:48:31,420
Like I say i'm setting up what who's playing who's in the starting lineup?

674
00:48:31,420 --> 00:48:37,820
What my tactics are i'm going to i'm going to sit defensive i'm going to hit them on the counter, but if we get to half time

675
00:48:38,780 --> 00:48:42,620
And it's it's it's either if we get to half time and it's still nil nil

676
00:48:42,780 --> 00:48:48,140
Or we get to half time and they've scored one or two if we're not winning basically that i'm going to turn

677
00:48:48,620 --> 00:48:53,580
We're not counting we just ultimate defense because I don't need to score anymore. I just need them not to score

678
00:48:53,820 --> 00:48:58,540
So we don't need to open ourselves up because you got a four four real difference. Yeah, we're five one up

679
00:48:58,540 --> 00:49:03,500
So as long as they don't beat us four nil we're fine now what happens what happens if you go in?

680
00:49:04,140 --> 00:49:07,900
Two nil up half time two nil up. Oh, I still tactics. They're the same. Yeah

681
00:49:08,380 --> 00:49:12,380
Yeah, because it doesn't matter at that point this game over. They ain't fucking coming back

682
00:49:12,540 --> 00:49:17,020
I'll probably still i'll probably still i might stick another center back on take a striker off. So really

683
00:49:17,660 --> 00:49:22,240
You want you want to go one goal ahead and then you're pretty comfortable

684
00:49:22,780 --> 00:49:26,540
Yeah, I mean chances of i'm scoring four slim chances i'm scoring five are non-existent

685
00:49:26,540 --> 00:49:31,100
The fact that we scored five is mental. Well, they need to score six. They just they could not deal with us

686
00:49:31,180 --> 00:49:33,180
And i'm talking like they've got

687
00:49:33,180 --> 00:49:39,260
World-class players, they've got the psv eindhoven are a huge side huge side like champions league team

688
00:49:39,980 --> 00:49:46,940
We're beating them five one little old antwerp from belgium little old antwerp sell about google antwerp

689
00:49:47,180 --> 00:49:49,180
Yeah, little old antwerp mate

690
00:49:50,540 --> 00:49:51,640
Beating

691
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:58,460
European giants psv five one. This is no small feat. I was expecting to get spanked three or four nil in the first leg

692
00:49:58,700 --> 00:50:00,860
Royal antwerp fc. That's me

693
00:50:02,380 --> 00:50:04,300
That is you

694
00:50:04,300 --> 00:50:06,300
Where are they sitting currently? Oh, they're full

695
00:50:07,420 --> 00:50:10,380
Fulfill the table. I mean the season's probably just started

696
00:50:10,860 --> 00:50:16,540
Today because the premier league comes back today. Thank the lord for football. There's three matches played so far so far

697
00:50:17,340 --> 00:50:19,340
Who's come back today? Is it and the lect is it?

698
00:50:19,340 --> 00:50:21,340
um, westelow

699
00:50:21,420 --> 00:50:25,100
Yeah, the andelec to the best team by far westelow denda

700
00:50:26,060 --> 00:50:28,540
That apparently for some reason don't have a badge on here

701
00:50:29,500 --> 00:50:32,700
And then and elect where's gank? They're a good side

702
00:50:33,580 --> 00:50:37,660
gank is ninth at the moment it goes antwerp fourth and then

703
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:40,220
charleroy

704
00:50:40,220 --> 00:50:41,100
I don't know

705
00:50:41,100 --> 00:50:42,620
uh

706
00:50:42,620 --> 00:50:43,900
ood heavily

707
00:50:43,900 --> 00:50:45,180
something

708
00:50:45,180 --> 00:50:47,180
Then there's one called standard

709
00:50:47,180 --> 00:50:49,180
standard liage. Yeah

710
00:50:49,340 --> 00:50:51,980
Uh union saint something gank

711
00:50:53,420 --> 00:51:00,380
There's gent gank and gents. I like ganks badge ganks got like, uh indian chief for a badge. Yeah

712
00:51:00,940 --> 00:51:05,520
Then you got like bruise. Yeah, bruise. You're a good side stvv

713
00:51:06,460 --> 00:51:10,460
Yeah, they're fuckers. They're the team that I needed to lose. They're the thing I needed to lose

714
00:51:11,660 --> 00:51:12,780
Wow

715
00:51:12,780 --> 00:51:18,620
How interesting playing gank and I was uh, how crazy that um, because I didn't I didn't um, obviously

716
00:51:19,420 --> 00:51:21,900
I'm barely fucking versed in english football. Let alone

717
00:51:22,460 --> 00:51:25,020
football from entirely different countries I

718
00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:33,020
Find it so interesting how the leagues differ. Oh, there's so much in there. You have to have like in in uh china

719
00:51:33,820 --> 00:51:38,620
Um, because I look in the competition and I look in the rules because it's so different you have to have

720
00:51:39,340 --> 00:51:41,340
at least three

721
00:51:41,340 --> 00:51:43,180
uh

722
00:51:43,180 --> 00:51:47,980
At least three under 21 chinese players in your in your matchday squad

723
00:51:48,780 --> 00:51:53,020
And you can only sign chinese goalkeepers. I don't know why really that's the rule

724
00:51:53,100 --> 00:51:57,180
I don't know why that's the rule but whatever is in football manager is is reality

725
00:51:57,260 --> 00:52:01,180
Yeah, that's why it's so fantastic. That's why the player player base is so big

726
00:52:01,260 --> 00:52:05,660
So where's the where's the move that we're thinking here? Okay, so and 12 i'm already premier league man

727
00:52:05,660 --> 00:52:07,660
Of course, is that where you want to go?

728
00:52:07,660 --> 00:52:11,260
I want the west ham job. I mean who was west ham boss, uh,

729
00:52:11,900 --> 00:52:16,140
I can't remember who west ham boss was but he recently got sacked and sometimes you know

730
00:52:16,140 --> 00:52:20,220
You'll get linked with jobs and I was looking through it and I was thinking I don't see my name there

731
00:52:20,380 --> 00:52:24,060
I was hoping it'd be like oh and sdr's prince is on the radar because then you know

732
00:52:24,140 --> 00:52:28,860
You can you can like declare your interest in stuff, which isn't a good idea because you're publicly declaring

733
00:52:29,420 --> 00:52:34,380
I'm working for antoine, but i'll definitely be interested in the west ham job. That upsets a lot of people

734
00:52:34,380 --> 00:52:40,140
Yeah, but um me and antoine we're getting on really well and i'm hoping that the club goes far but that west ham though

735
00:52:40,140 --> 00:52:45,660
Yeah, that's west ham's nice, but you got like if you if you want to buy a player and the club don't want to sell him

736
00:52:45,660 --> 00:52:46,940
But you know

737
00:52:46,940 --> 00:52:50,460
Like that you can speak to the agent as well before you should be like

738
00:52:50,700 --> 00:52:55,660
You reckon your players interested in playing from it. It'll be like, oh, yeah. Yeah, he's interested

739
00:52:55,740 --> 00:53:00,620
This would probably be his wage demands and the club would probably expect between nine and 20 million something like that

740
00:53:00,620 --> 00:53:05,100
So you can get a gauge of being you bid and the club's like no, he's not for sale

741
00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:07,420
But you know that that player wants to play for you

742
00:53:07,420 --> 00:53:11,980
You can declare your interest in that player go to the press and be like I really want to sign

743
00:53:12,540 --> 00:53:14,780
mark noble and then it would be like

744
00:53:15,340 --> 00:53:17,660
Mark noble will now know that you want to sign him

745
00:53:17,820 --> 00:53:21,260
So he will be like no, I want to go hand in transfer request and then you're like

746
00:53:21,900 --> 00:53:25,500
Then you can't you fuck the club up because you'd be like, oh, he's got two years left on his contract

747
00:53:25,980 --> 00:53:28,860
If he don't if he wants to go he won't sign a new contract

748
00:53:28,860 --> 00:53:30,940
So we have to sell him now we're going to go for free

749
00:53:31,420 --> 00:53:36,860
Because if you get to end your contract if you get within the last six months of your contract someone can sign you for free

750
00:53:37,740 --> 00:53:38,540
so

751
00:53:38,540 --> 00:53:42,780
You kind of get is that down to the the the if the player wants to go?

752
00:53:43,180 --> 00:53:45,900
So I say i've got six months left in my contract i'm at

753
00:53:46,940 --> 00:53:48,460
i'm at fucking

754
00:53:48,460 --> 00:53:51,100
Manchester united and I want to go over to brighton

755
00:53:52,140 --> 00:53:56,300
I'm in the last six months brighton have been after me for the last fucking two seasons

756
00:53:56,860 --> 00:53:57,980
but

757
00:53:57,980 --> 00:54:02,460
Man, you're not everyone. Let me go. So last six months i can do them no more. Yeah, it's up to me

758
00:54:02,460 --> 00:54:05,420
Is it as me and as long as brighton still want me and I can go you?

759
00:54:06,460 --> 00:54:09,340
Fucking want me still want you and the best thing about that. That's why

760
00:54:09,980 --> 00:54:14,540
players they try not to let players get into within the last two years their contract is because

761
00:54:15,180 --> 00:54:16,540
You'll say you're on

762
00:54:16,540 --> 00:54:19,900
100 grand a week and brighton are willing to give you, you know

763
00:54:20,700 --> 00:54:22,700
100 grand a week

764
00:54:23,020 --> 00:54:27,420
If they get you for free, which they will you can be like, well, you've paid no transfer fee for me

765
00:54:27,420 --> 00:54:32,060
So I want 300 grand a week and that will work out that you've paid me paid 10 million for me

766
00:54:32,380 --> 00:54:33,820
Yeah, of course in my contract

767
00:54:33,820 --> 00:54:37,900
So that's why players like letting their contracts run out and then you've got buyout clauses and shit like that

768
00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:39,900
Yeah minimum fee release clauses. Yeah

769
00:54:41,100 --> 00:54:46,140
But yeah, if you get to within six months if it's the sixth of uh, june

770
00:54:47,980 --> 00:54:50,880
Your contract runs out in the sixth of december

771
00:54:51,900 --> 00:54:56,300
You you can sign the contract to play for brighton, but you still can't play for them until your contract's done

772
00:54:56,300 --> 00:55:01,260
Yeah, but you can sign for anyone but then the club the club that you're currently play for can also renegotiate another contract

773
00:55:01,260 --> 00:55:05,900
Is that if they like you as long as you don't sign that one first if you sign brighton's contract first?

774
00:55:05,980 --> 00:55:10,940
Yeah, yeah, but if yeah if you if they both offer your contract and man, you're like, oh no, please stay

775
00:55:11,180 --> 00:55:17,580
Please stay and we'll give you a bloody bloody blow. Exactly that. All right, i'll resign for but you've got all these things to think about

776
00:55:17,580 --> 00:55:20,380
You're managing the club you're managing the finance and you can make as hard as you want

777
00:55:20,380 --> 00:55:23,260
You can delegate a lot of stuff to your assistant manager if you've got one

778
00:55:23,260 --> 00:55:25,740
Or director of football. Have you got one?

779
00:55:26,460 --> 00:55:32,140
Assistant yeah, yeah, you've got a full team behind you. Yeah. I've got bob my assistant manager is called bob bob

780
00:55:32,300 --> 00:55:36,300
I've got a director of football. Oh ash ash and bob the management team for antoine

781
00:55:36,620 --> 00:55:41,180
It's cool because then when I go to the next club i'll sign bob to come with me to be my assistant

782
00:55:41,180 --> 00:55:44,460
He's my assistant man. Yeah, been with me for years. We've pushed a team into europe

783
00:55:44,700 --> 00:55:48,220
He has to be doing same right was he was he with you at um, no, no, no

784
00:55:48,620 --> 00:55:53,020
No, no, no, I started when he started job. They're like, oh do you want to bring any of your staff?

785
00:55:53,020 --> 00:55:59,180
I've uh, no i've got no relation with these bob. He's fine. He's done. Well, he's coming with me

786
00:55:59,180 --> 00:56:03,420
Yeah, exactly and they have they have their own stats. How how good are they at man motivating?

787
00:56:03,420 --> 00:56:07,660
How good are they at potential like working with youngsters? How good are they judging potential?

788
00:56:07,660 --> 00:56:10,380
How good are they at judging ability now? It is so

789
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,900
Incredibly in depth mate. It's the most in-depth game you'd ever play

790
00:56:14,460 --> 00:56:17,980
And all it is is to fucking boot a ball around a pitch like it's so crazy

791
00:56:18,300 --> 00:56:22,780
Spreadsheet simulators then again, what's the fucking what's the point of anything that we do when you when you think of the

792
00:56:22,780 --> 00:56:28,460
Nitty and gritty of it. Yeah gem gem loves it. She's so behind me. She's always like, how's it going? Mr. Manager?

793
00:56:29,020 --> 00:56:30,700
Not going well today

794
00:56:30,700 --> 00:56:36,860
It's a bad one. It's a struggle today. It's a struggle. I'm waiting for the fucking old shirt and tie there to come out

795
00:56:37,980 --> 00:56:42,140
Do you know what's really cool as well and why I love doing this save so much is that

796
00:56:42,940 --> 00:56:46,380
Like I I genuinely want to buy an antwerp shirt now

797
00:56:46,940 --> 00:56:51,980
Yeah, because you feel the part of it. I feel like and that's why this game is so good because it does that

798
00:56:51,980 --> 00:56:57,580
That's why you see so many like football youtubers like fifa football manager or just football in general

799
00:56:57,580 --> 00:57:00,460
They have so many different football shirts because they just get affiliated with different clubs

800
00:57:00,460 --> 00:57:07,420
You know, I don't want a fucking long ding shirt because they fucked me about sold my fucking training facilities

801
00:57:07,900 --> 00:57:10,460
I don't want dartford. They didn't even give me a chance to get going

802
00:57:11,020 --> 00:57:15,820
You know, uh, you put more good to me granted, but I didn't stay there long enough to build up an affinity

803
00:57:16,620 --> 00:57:18,940
Antwerp we've this is my first

804
00:57:18,940 --> 00:57:21,980
Top level job i've reached a european competition with

805
00:57:22,620 --> 00:57:28,620
It just feels right. You know what I mean? And I like that shirt. I love that red shirt. Lovely an affiliation with antwerp

806
00:57:28,700 --> 00:57:30,700
I've got affiliation with antwerp imagine that

807
00:57:31,500 --> 00:57:39,020
Years years down the line and fucking you're wearing an antwerp shirt in in fucking maidenhead or wherever the fuck

808
00:57:39,420 --> 00:57:41,420
random place in the uk

809
00:57:41,420 --> 00:57:45,180
And then people are like why you fucking wearing that and you go, you don't know the law

810
00:57:45,180 --> 00:57:49,280
You don't know the law. Yeah, however, if you listen to episode 106

811
00:57:51,020 --> 00:57:58,220
Of what's the buttons then you'll you'll find out why you'll know and probably 107 as well and probably 107 and then potentially 108

812
00:57:58,380 --> 00:58:02,380
I imagine 107. I imagine i'll be at pastures new by this time next week

813
00:58:02,700 --> 00:58:06,700
Oh, i'm all for it, man. I love this shit. I think it's great because it's

814
00:58:07,340 --> 00:58:09,340
I don't know anything about it

815
00:58:09,340 --> 00:58:10,140
but

816
00:58:10,140 --> 00:58:15,820
Just from the from the excitement in talking to you about it gets me excited for it

817
00:58:16,540 --> 00:58:21,260
Chances are I won't buy it because it sounds way more in depth. I I don't fuck it

818
00:58:21,660 --> 00:58:27,260
I was impressed with my mate j the other day. Um yesterday because he's he's massive into his football

819
00:58:27,660 --> 00:58:29,660
westam supporter and

820
00:58:30,460 --> 00:58:34,300
I was talking to him about um, he was the one that I was playing on the astroturf with

821
00:58:36,460 --> 00:58:38,460
And I was like

822
00:58:38,460 --> 00:58:44,780
giving him questions so he was able to like list off all the teams in the prem and the championship and so on and then

823
00:58:44,860 --> 00:58:47,020
All of their managers and then all of their fucking team

824
00:58:47,260 --> 00:58:54,700
But like not just last names first names and then their positions and everything and like the entire prem you're talking like they're

825
00:58:55,740 --> 00:59:02,700
Their managers their entire fucking squad and the positions they play but not just the the positions they play the positions

826
00:59:02,700 --> 00:59:04,700
They can play and i'm like

827
00:59:04,700 --> 00:59:08,780
I was like, how do you know all of this shit and he's like i just watch a lot of football

828
00:59:09,100 --> 00:59:12,540
That's not that's not a good enough answer for me. That is not good enough for me

829
00:59:12,620 --> 00:59:16,220
How the fuck do you know all of that? It's incredible. It's not just that

830
00:59:16,300 --> 00:59:20,700
It's the same me and clarkville has been the same with that. It's like, you know, their ages, you know their height

831
00:59:20,780 --> 00:59:25,580
I just find it but at the same time when I was when I was at my absolute peak of bmx in

832
00:59:26,140 --> 00:59:29,580
I suppose I was kind of the same with professional riders on that sense

833
00:59:29,980 --> 00:59:32,700
I knew the companies that they were sponsored by I knew the

834
00:59:32,700 --> 00:59:37,900
I suppose yeah, that explains it really I suppose if you're interested in something deeply then you do

835
00:59:38,140 --> 00:59:42,380
It's football manager and fifa and all them because they're it's all the same shit in reality

836
00:59:42,380 --> 00:59:46,620
But football manager's like obviously really in depth fifa's like bare bones. It's more about the game

837
00:59:47,260 --> 00:59:48,140
but

838
00:59:48,140 --> 00:59:53,900
Like you learn and you watch football and then you play football and then you play games about football and it's just your whole

839
00:59:54,380 --> 00:59:59,820
Is your whole thing like i'd say football manager is far too complicated for you because it's but because I love football

840
00:59:59,820 --> 01:00:03,020
And it's complicated for me. There's things that i'll just be like i'm not doing that

841
01:00:03,020 --> 01:00:05,420
I'll let the assistant deal with that so it's just giving my deck

842
01:00:05,980 --> 01:00:12,700
But the only way I could really understand how complicated you might find it is I was watching someone play f1 manager

843
01:00:13,340 --> 01:00:15,340
Because that's a new game that came out recently

844
01:00:15,420 --> 01:00:17,100
It's like I think it's the first of his kind

845
01:00:17,100 --> 01:00:21,500
So they're going into the management sim and I was like that's interesting. I'm not really a big formula one fan

846
01:00:21,820 --> 01:00:26,300
But I like the idea of these manager games. So I'll look at it and I was watching I was like, yeah, that's cool

847
01:00:26,300 --> 01:00:32,620
I understand you're signing a new driver and you're getting the contracts that that exchange goes over from football manager. I get that

848
01:00:33,260 --> 01:00:34,220
um

849
01:00:34,220 --> 01:00:36,780
And then there's like highlights of the race where they're going around stuff

850
01:00:37,020 --> 01:00:41,660
But then they're like, oh we need to lose this part and we we need to know when to pit and we need to know

851
01:00:41,660 --> 01:00:44,940
When to change the tires i'm like i'm out. Yeah, I don't know anything about

852
01:00:45,740 --> 01:00:50,780
Formula one once they get into the mechanical you're done. Yeah, so that was when I was like well i'm not doing that

853
01:00:50,780 --> 01:00:56,540
You know, but I like the idea of it and if I if I watched formula one and I used to but I was still

854
01:00:56,700 --> 01:01:02,140
Nowhere near this sort of level of knowledge, but if you're a formula one nerd, then you're all over it all over you

855
01:01:02,220 --> 01:01:06,700
Yeah, if there was a well, there's no way of doing a wow simulator like that

856
01:01:06,700 --> 01:01:11,980
But if it's if it's bmx manager and you knew all the stuff, yeah, it'd be the same shit man

857
01:01:12,300 --> 01:01:17,340
It's just whatever you're interested. But football manager is just absolutely huge in all countries and

858
01:01:17,340 --> 01:01:21,180
And yeah, it's a massive game. They're even making it a esport now

859
01:01:21,900 --> 01:01:26,700
Alongside fifa they're doing a football manager world cup. Yeah, because the next football manager 2025

860
01:01:27,580 --> 01:01:31,420
Is going to be they've like revamped it. So they've revamped the match engine

861
01:01:31,820 --> 01:01:34,860
They've changed this one's been in works for years apparently

862
01:01:35,340 --> 01:01:39,100
Um, they've took a lot of stuff out put a lot of stuff in and more importantly

863
01:01:39,180 --> 01:01:43,100
They've changed the way the whole game looks whereas these like shots i've shown you

864
01:01:43,100 --> 01:01:49,500
It's the same stuff with new words and stuff because we're much like dayz the game's about the story

865
01:01:49,580 --> 01:01:52,060
You know what story you can tell when you finish?

866
01:01:52,620 --> 01:01:53,500
um

867
01:01:53,500 --> 01:01:59,180
So it's going to be completely different and something that I always like about the last five or so football managers, which

868
01:01:59,820 --> 01:02:03,180
I haven't played but I know they've implemented is when you finish

869
01:02:03,900 --> 01:02:06,140
Like say I finished this football manager

870
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:11,100
24 is it yeah football manager 24. I finished this one when football

871
01:02:11,100 --> 01:02:13,500
I don't know if it'll be the same because this is like a new engine or whatever

872
01:02:13,820 --> 01:02:18,860
But you when football manager 25 comes out you can load your save into that and carry on the same

873
01:02:18,940 --> 01:02:23,900
Continue from the same. Yeah, so I think that's fucking sick. That'd be really cool. So you could just play the same save

874
01:02:24,380 --> 01:02:29,420
Until you die. Yeah, I don't know what age you die on football manager. I'm not reaching you do you die?

875
01:02:29,580 --> 01:02:32,700
I imagine you get you retire. I imagine you get to 100 and then retire

876
01:02:32,780 --> 01:02:37,020
But then you could just add a new manager and carry on as your son or something if you wanted to

877
01:02:37,020 --> 01:02:42,380
Uh for law reasons, but yeah, that's probably very boring for a lot of people

878
01:02:42,460 --> 01:02:47,900
I don't think it is man. I think I think if you you speak with you speak about something with enough passion and in in

879
01:02:48,460 --> 01:02:52,300
Enough enough depth. I think you tend to find anything interesting

880
01:02:52,380 --> 01:02:58,140
But that's also the whole premise of this fucking podcast is we're free to be able to talk to talk about anything

881
01:02:58,380 --> 01:03:00,380
well, I hope that

882
01:03:00,380 --> 01:03:07,100
Even if you don't like football and you don't really understand anything you said you're now invested in the story and i'll keep you updated

883
01:03:07,500 --> 01:03:11,260
For episode fucking 107 when that comes out

884
01:03:12,060 --> 01:03:16,540
Right. Well absolutely fantastic. I cannot wait to hear more. See you. Hello everyone

885
01:03:16,540 --> 01:03:30,540
See see you later everyone. Oh