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And welcome back to the P .D. Football Podcast.

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My name is Presh. My name is Darren. How are

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you doing today? I'm good. I'm fatigued again.

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Two weeks off the fatigue, but I think this time

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it's just because I didn't get enough sleep.

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How's everything on your end? I'm great. Avatar

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just came out on VOD, so I can watch it at home

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now. Oh. Another six times. I watched it five

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times. You know, don't slander me. Don't make

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it seem like I'm a... We're getting to double

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digits. Yeah, like I'm some sort of avatar addict

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that, you know, watches it six times in theaters.

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I only watched it four. I mean... And the fifth

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time was... I pirated it, okay? Okay. Alright.

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Anyway... So we're still on the international

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break. Therefore, we're doing another evergreen

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episode. That means you can listen to it at any

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time and it will still be largely how we feel

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as opposed to our regular episodes where opinions

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can change on a week to week basis. So the only

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rule this week is that the buying club was in

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the Premier League at the time of the transfer.

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So, for example, Jamie Vardy was bought when

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Leicester win the championship. Therefore, he

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can't be considered. The other thing is I didn't

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consider non -footballing reasons. So, for example,

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Benjamin Mendy was arrested on rape charges and

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said he had to terminate his contract. So I'm

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not going to consider instances like that where

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non -footballing reasons are the cause of the

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transfer not working out. So my rationale for

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both lists was number one thing is the impact

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that they made. So, for example, there's a player

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on a team that won a lot of trophies, but...

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that player didn't contribute to the trophies

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i'm not gonna like for example anderson do you

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go yeah yeah anderson for man united the number

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two thing i considered was trophies so you know

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you can come in be like a gunman for a team score

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100 goals but if you don't win any trophies you

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know it's very hard for me to consider you as

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one of the best transfers the third thing i looked

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at was the transfer fee paid so you know obviously

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i'm going to give better more preference to a

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lower fee than a higher fee even if the player

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is not as good yeah so yeah do you have a criteria

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that you use that you want to share or my criteria

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was mostly the price point versus the quality

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of the player i don't think i really paid much

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attention to how much they won obviously i mean

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the players on on my list would have won something

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but uh i looked at more I looked at more in terms

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of their impact as an individual footballer in

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relation to the price they were bought at and

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the time. All right, so similar things, just

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not trophies. Yeah. All right. So there's going

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to be a forward bias for me because goals and

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assists are measurable, whereas other positions

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are more subtle. And the last thing is all monetary

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values that I mentioned will be given in Great

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British Pound Sterling. Yeah, mine too. i've

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given the fee paid the fee paid at the time as

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well as the fee adjusted for inflation but something

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that i can't control for is football inflation

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so in the year 2000 the total fees paid by for

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players in the premier league was 320 million

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pounds in the year 2025 it was 3 .1 billion pounds

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roughly a 10 times increase and far outpacing

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monetary inflation so there's uh you know if

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i say oh well this guy was bought for 1 million

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in the 90s you know just uh uh i'll give you

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the adjusted inflation but realize that it's

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it's actually much higher than you would assume

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because of the transfer fees at the time yeah

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i mean i i guess that there would be in relation

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to what the football market was valued at yes

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that's what i'm saying football inflation yes

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which is something it's very difficult to account

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for and i don't think how yeah especially with

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the with regards to the premier league specifically

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in the last 10 years it's been most of the transfers

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in the premier league have been hyper inflated

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because people know premier league clubs have

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money or other teams know premier league clubs

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have money so i think generally we might consider

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a fee that might have sounded absurd in the early

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2000s to be the best transfer of all time in

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a modern context so yes so similarly to the previous

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evergreen episodes we're going to go from five

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to one uh you go with your five i'll go with

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my five i'm starting with best uh we started

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with best transfers of all time If we have the

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same transfer, like say, for example, mine is

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number two, but it's your number five. Because

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it's your number five, you're going to bring

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it up first. And I'm just going to join in on

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the conversation and mention everything I would

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have mentioned in the number two slot. So we

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have one conversation about the play instead

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of, you know, two different conversations. All

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right. So do you want to start with your number

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five best transfer of all time in the Premier

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League? My number five, I went with Mo Salah.

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36 .9 million, Roma to Liverpool. I think, again,

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it might sound higher than some of the other

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numbers on the list, but I think relative to

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what you paid in the modern market, especially

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post -2015, I guess, or post -Neymar, it was

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an inflated market already, especially for Premier

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League clubs. I think you got statistically,

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in terms of output, the best winger in the history

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of the league. I think, yeah, one of the best

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players in Premier League history, generally.

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So I think it was both him and Mane. I was considering

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it was a toss -up for either one. I didn't want

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to have too many signings from one team on the

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list, you know. So I think, yeah, it was a player,

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36 .9 million, half the price of what Arsenal

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paid for Nicolas Pepe. So I think in a similar

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sort of market, I think. Getting one of the best

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players. I mean, it's arguable. You will argue

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differently, of course. But at least in terms

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of output, one of the best players of his generation

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was a snip for me. Well, a lot of people consider

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him the best ever Premier League player. So that's

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a very good shout for the fee that we paid. So,

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decent shout. But he's not on my list. I didn't

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think he would be because you have your own personal

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opinions about Salah. But I think he put him

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in the... He's much like I think the other time

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I made the argument about what Alexis Sanchez

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could have been like in a better team. I think

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he could have been similar to Mo Salah. So I

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think if he had been in our team, Arsenal at

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the same time, we'd have probably seen him elevate

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us a bit more. His contribution would have been

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recognized a bit more as opposed to being in

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a team where I think most of the time Van Dijk

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was probably the standout player. The price point,

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I wish we had his contribution, a contribution

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like that at Arsenal from any player, I think.

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The only player in our history that comes close

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to that is Thierry Henry. So I think it's hard

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to say. Obviously, I thought he wouldn't make

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your list because you have your own personal

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opinions about him. But I think he's a player

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that elevates any team, I think, with just the

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fact that he can finish and create chances in

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the final third. I think, yeah. For me, one of

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the greatest, if not the greatest, Premier League

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winger of all time. So, 36 .9 million in the

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modern market is, for me, probably one of the,

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not just Premier League transfers, but one of

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the best transfers in modern history. Nice. My

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number five is N 'Golo Kante from Cayenne to

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Leicester. 5 .6 million. At the time, in modern

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day money, it would be 7 .8 million. Yeah, that

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for me was my number two. But I put him as a

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double from like... Kyan to Leicester and Leicester

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to Chelsea because I think he's impacted both

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of us well yes okay well for me just the one

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I could have also mentioned the Chelsea transfer

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because that was 32 million in the modern market

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yeah 32 million for like the greatest in the

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world the greatest defensive midfielder our league

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has ever seen arguably uh that's again another

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a snip But I just think that the Cayenne one

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was a much more impressive transfer. He only

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stayed there for one season, but in that one

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season, he took them from the relegation favourites

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to title winners. So they had finished just outside

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the relegation places the year before. They buy

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him and immediately win the league. To slander

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or trivialize anything Mahrez or Vardy did in

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that season. But I still think he was the most

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important player by a long way. The argument

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is that both Mahrez and Vardy were there the

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year before. And they didn't put up the same

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numbers. It's when Kante gave them the base to

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build off. That's when magic happened. I don't

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think a midfield with Danny Drinkwater and...

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Who was the number 10? They played 4 -4 -2, so

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I guess it would be like Albrighton on the left,

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Mahrez on the right, Drinkwater, Kante in the

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middle. Yeah, I mean, I don't think that's a

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Premier League winning midfield without Kante,

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you know. Absolutely not. And even when he signed

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for Chelsea again, because I think I put both

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transfers as number two. I think that's cheating.

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It is cheating a bit, but I couldn't decide which

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one was better because I think for a little while

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he turned... Chelsea into the best team in the

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world you know and I think that that in itself

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he was more important than any player there people

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will say Eden Hazard but I think by the time

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they'd won the Champions League Hazard had left

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and even when they won the Champions I mean they

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won the Premier League under Conte I think That

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was against you guys and Man City. No, it wasn't

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us. We were like a top four team. No, I'm saying

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it was still in the context of playing against

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it. Maybe it was one year in for Guardiola, two

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years in for Klopp. They hadn't developed their

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projects. But I'd say Chelsea's project was also

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not at a developed stage, even if they'd spent

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a lot of money. I think they had good management.

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They had a good squad. Kante came in and managed

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it well. I still think they probably, as they

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showed the next season when he struggled with

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injuries, they weren't a Premier League winning

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team without him. Absolutely, absolutely. Now,

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do you want to go for your number four? My number

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four was probably the... I said I think Alisson

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is the greatest goalkeeper in Premier League

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history, but in terms of price point, I think

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Pidichek from Rennes to Chelsea. 7 million I

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think in the modern market maybe it translates

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to about 10 million which is I think for who

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most people consider to be the greatest goalkeeper

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of his era I think it's a bit of a snip I think

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he was the some people would say Terry you know

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they had a good back four at all times but even

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when players were injured players moved on I

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think Peter Cech had a lot of clutch moments

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especially in the Champions League final 2012

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you know I think he was, I think the final performance

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in any other game, Bayern might have won it,

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you know. So I think, yeah, a lot of Premier

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League titles. He wasn't good at Arsenal, not

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his chance for Arsenal. I wouldn't consider a

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good one. But I think for Chelsea, the amount

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of clean sheets, I think broke the clean sheet

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record and then beat it. So, yeah, I think to

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get a goalkeeper of that quality for that price,

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when the market was starting to be inflated,

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I think it was a good signing for Chelsea. for

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me i put him at my number four yeah all right

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that's a good shout but the this i don't have

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a goalkeeper on my list for the same reason that

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i mentioned earlier that go attackers are the

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flashy signings you know whereas goalkeepers

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i just don't think a goalkeeper can impact a

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team in the way a striker can or any forward

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player you know even buying allison was not the

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What's the word? He didn't elevate us from one

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to another. He just took an already good team

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and made them better. I just don't think goalkeepers

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have the impact. But I think a lot of the times

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we see in modern football, not having an elite

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goalkeeper can sometimes prevent a team from

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competing at the top end. And I think it's hard

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to say, especially if you look at the semifinals.

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I mean, I know it's not related to the Premier

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League, but him being a signing for Chelsea in

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the 2012 winning campaign, I think maybe Drogba

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got the headlines, but the semifinals and the

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finals, I think the amount of shots on target,

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I think 24 or something by Bayern in the final,

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Barca had over 30 between both legs. I understand

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what you're saying, but just when I think of

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the 2012 Champions League winning campaign, I

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think of Torre scoring at the Bernabeu, was it?

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It was against Barcelona, and then I think of

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Drogba scoring in the final against Bayern Munich.

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Yeah, but a lot of Chelsea fans will also think

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of check saves, the penalty saves. Sure, but

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I'm saying I'm a Chelsea casual, meaning I don't

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watch every Chelsea game. So if that's what I

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remember, that's what I assume the general public

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sort of remembers. Yeah, I mean, I agree with

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what you're saying, but I think at the same time...

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He is one of the most impactful signings. I agree

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with that. Especially because I think he was

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one of the first signings of the Abramovich era.

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So I think he kind of made the push towards other

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big players going towards Chelsea, I guess, as

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well. Because he could have gone to a lot of

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clubs at the time. He was one of the most sought

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-after keepers, I think, in the world at the

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time. He chose Chelsea over a couple of other

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big clubs. I don't remember who it was. I think

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for me, I wanted to have a couple of different

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signings on the list. So I thought of Petr Cech

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and I thought of how many times he's probably

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been a difference maker. He's a bit like Courtois,

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you know, like a good price point and a good

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impact for me. Yeah. My number four is Cristiano

00:14:13.789 --> 00:14:16.429
Ronaldo from Sporting to Manchester United for

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12 .24 million. In current day money, that will

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be 22 .6 million. Is he on your list at all?

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No, he didn't make my list. Unfortunately, I

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just didn't think of it because it didn't cross

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my mind. All right. I just think he's so low

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on the list because you think he's the best ever

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player in the league, possibly. He would be the

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number one transfer for such a low fee. But I

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just don't think he made the biggest impact.

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And what do I mean by that? Man United were already

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a winning team. Kante took a relegation. threatened

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team to win the league. Ronaldo took, let's say,

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a top two team and made them a top one team.

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Yeah, and I mean, I think at Man United, until

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his last season, you couldn't really say, or

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his last two seasons, you couldn't really say

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he was a complete player. So I wouldn't say that...

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the signing from Sporting was directly impactful

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in the way that the other signings on my list

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are. But nevertheless, he's still one of the

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best ever Premier League players. He's definitely

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the greatest player the league's ever seen. yeah

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so uh do you think that's a good transfer yeah

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i think it's a great transfer obviously i mean

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there's no doubting it at least the only reason

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it didn't make my list was because of the time

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it took him to settle in you know yeah sure a

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lot of people say he was there for six years

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right so his first three years weren't as good

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and then the next three years were like world

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dominating best ever yeah the last two were sensational

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you know so that's why he's my number four your

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number My number three was Thierry Henry, Juventus

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to Arsenal. He's my number two. He's generally

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considered by the most amount of neutrals as

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the league's greatest ever player. I said in

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time, I think that will change, obviously, once

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the modern Man City team gets appreciated historically.

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For now, to this point, he's generally... the

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undisputed number one if you take a vote amongst

00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:28.799
premier league neutrals you know i think 11 million

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in 1998 was kind of heavy but i don't think it

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was like you had you had zidane going to juventus

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at the same time for like 30 40 million you had

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11 million in that time is 21 .4 million today

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yeah so i mean for tyrion we probably cheaper

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than ronaldo's fee and five years earlier so

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yeah I mean generally not less that I think outside

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of Ronaldinho and Ronaldo he's generally considered

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the next best player in that generation by most

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people you know so it's like I think yeah for

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me just his impact at Arsenal I think he transformed

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Arsenal more than anyone into a global force

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like I think even the fact that people to this

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day I don't think there's a number that's made

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more famous by one player in footballing terms,

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because the number 10 already had historic value,

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number 8 already had historic value, but most

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people who think of number 14, I know Cruyff

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used it before, but I don't think the game was

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that global at that time, and most people associate

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number 14 with Thierry Henry. I think he turned

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Arsenal into a brand more than anything because

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of the way he played. That's my number three.

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Just to add on to that, because I also had him

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on my list, he won two Premier League titles

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and a combined 249 goals and assists for him.

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And like I mentioned in the previous episode,

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of the players with 100 goals or more in the

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Premier League, he has the highest ratio of goals

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to games the league has ever seen. So, incredible

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player, incredible transfer for such a low fee.

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That's about it. I guess you got to give your

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number two because my number two was already

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revealed. No, my number two was Henri. Oh, okay.

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So my number three. Oh, yeah, your number three,

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sorry. My number three is Vincent Company from

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Hamburg to Manchester City. Six million, which

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would be 9 .9 million in today's money. That's

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a good shout. I didn't think of that, actually.

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yes uh well i did my research you know uh it's

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not that artist google best transfers and then

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select a few i mean i i i did the same but uh

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yeah a lot of the ones that are listed i just

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did not agree with like uh but yeah anyway vincent

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company Leader, legend. He won four titles with

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Manchester City and he was crucial in most of

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them. I just always remember it was a Monday

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night game and they were going up against United,

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like playing United, and they were going up against

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United in terms of the Premier League trophy

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and Kompany scored a header to win 1 -0 and that

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set them up to... I think that's the year they

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won it on goal difference. Yeah. Maybe. I cannot

00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:14.339
recall for the life of me, but... Against Leicester.

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No, no, no, against Man United. Oh, yes. I think

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that is the year they won it on goal difference,

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yes. Yeah, so just, yeah, Vincent Kompany, I

00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:27.019
think everyone knows how good he is in this era.

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If there's newer football fans that don't remember,

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he was pretty good. Yeah, I mean, like, one of

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the greatest centre -halves. I wouldn't say he

00:19:36.180 --> 00:19:37.660
was one of the greatest centre -halves, but in

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terms of, like... No, in the Premier League.

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No, no, even in the Premier League, I wouldn't

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say he was one of the... He'd be, like... I don't

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know if he'd make my top ten. I'd have to think

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about it. I'd put him in the top ten. But I'm

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just saying in terms of clutch, clutch and leadership

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and the impact he made, that's why he's on my

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list at number three. Yeah, and I mean, I guess

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he oversaw the different eras of the modern Manchester

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City, you know, because I guess now they have

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an identity, but they went from Mantrini to Pellegrini,

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who played more like Wenger, then they went from

00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:11.500
Pellegrini to Guardiola, and the company was

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a part of all of that, so, you know. I definitely

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agree with you. Probably one of the top transfers

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in Premier League history. Unfortunately, missed

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out on my list. All right. So, you've already

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given your number two. So, who's your number

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one? My number one? Obviously, I mean, the price

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point. It's arguable whether it's worth it or

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not. I mean, obviously, I think it's worth it.

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I just went off the basis that I think he's the

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best player the league's ever seen. So, I went

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with KDB Wolfsburg to Manchester City. I think

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55 million. In the modern market for possibly

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one of the top five players in the game at the

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time is to see it. I mean, he wasn't at the time.

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I guess Guardiola, I think he signed under Pellegrini,

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but it was in Guardiola's vision. He signed one

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year before Guardiola. Guardiola wanted to build

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his team around him. I guess that was the player

00:21:01.619 --> 00:21:04.420
he told Man City to sign. Well, it's very interesting,

00:21:04.539 --> 00:21:09.059
right? KDB, Sterling, and I think Gundogan, they

00:21:09.059 --> 00:21:11.980
were all linked with Bayern. And then suddenly

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they weren't linked with Bayern and they all

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went to Man City. Yeah, and I mean... So I think

00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:19.460
this conspiracy theory is that Pep phoned them

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up and said, hey, I'm going to City, don't come

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here. Yeah, so I mean it's kind of the same justification

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I use for Henry. I think, does the price point

00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:32.839
justify the quality of the player if the player

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is the greatest player the league's ever seen?

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I think... Like, let's just say you guys had

00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:40.880
won more titles against them, I would have given

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the spot to Virgil van Dijk because he would

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have had the same sort of impact, you know. So

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I think whatever he cost wouldn't have been in

00:21:49.940 --> 00:21:52.140
my thinking then. For me, it's just that he was

00:21:52.140 --> 00:21:54.539
the player that defined this generation of the

00:21:54.539 --> 00:21:57.480
Premier League for me. And possibly for a long

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time will be the best player the league has seen,

00:22:00.099 --> 00:22:04.559
you know. So any price is worth it in my mind

00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:07.319
for KDB, you know. fair enough that's a very

00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:09.619
good shout i didn't have him on my list because

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55 million is a bit like it's kind of like you're

00:22:12.859 --> 00:22:15.980
rated you know what i'm saying if if i'm buying

00:22:15.980 --> 00:22:18.700
you for 50 million plus you're like you're a

00:22:18.700 --> 00:22:22.670
name you know what i'm saying it's we expected

00:22:22.670 --> 00:22:24.750
him to come into the league and do a good job.

00:22:24.950 --> 00:22:29.109
Like, Henry was not a failure at Juventus, but

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he was seen as an underperforming player. Like,

00:22:32.349 --> 00:22:35.369
people didn't know about... Who else did I mention?

00:22:35.650 --> 00:22:37.990
Like, Ronaldo wasn't known. Kante wasn't known.

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Kompany wasn't known. I feel like KDB was a known

00:22:41.289 --> 00:22:43.670
element when... But I feel like there was still

00:22:43.670 --> 00:22:46.700
a risk factor in it, because... He didn't do

00:22:46.700 --> 00:22:49.019
well at Chelsea. He went to Wolfsburg. He did

00:22:49.019 --> 00:22:50.519
well, but there'd been a lot of players, you're

00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:52.240
seeing it with Wurz now, that have come from

00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:55.039
the Bundesliga. So I think Pep still took a bit

00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:57.859
of a risk on him. That's fair. Formed a team

00:22:57.859 --> 00:23:00.700
around him. He was already injury -prone at Wolfsburg,

00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:02.900
so you were taking a risk on building a team

00:23:02.900 --> 00:23:04.940
around a player who's injury -prone and relying

00:23:04.940 --> 00:23:07.779
on their clutch moments. And I think he came

00:23:07.779 --> 00:23:10.420
up with probably, we've said it before, more

00:23:10.420 --> 00:23:12.599
clutch moments than anyone in the history of

00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:17.509
the league. Right. My number one is Eric Cantona

00:23:17.509 --> 00:23:20.630
from Leeds to Manchester United for 1 .2 million.

00:23:20.829 --> 00:23:26.579
Now 2 .7 in today's... So this is one of the

00:23:26.579 --> 00:23:28.799
most legendary transfers in history. And when

00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:30.980
I was growing up in the early 2000s, people were

00:23:30.980 --> 00:23:33.660
still talking about it. The context for this

00:23:33.660 --> 00:23:35.539
being the best transfer in Premier League history

00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:38.680
is that Man United hadn't won the league in 26

00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:42.140
years. He came in and instantly transformed them

00:23:42.140 --> 00:23:46.920
from top four contenders to league winners. In

00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:49.980
his time, he won four titles in five years before

00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:52.279
leaving. I don't know where he went after that.

00:23:53.579 --> 00:23:55.579
Four titles in five years. That's incredible.

00:23:56.140 --> 00:23:58.400
Yeah, really good. T -List didn't make my list

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because I didn't watch him. He was the first

00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:04.960
name on my list because people, not to this day,

00:24:05.019 --> 00:24:06.720
but I guess because I'm talking about it, to

00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:09.779
this day, people talk about what an incredible

00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:12.279
transfer he was and how he changed United from...

00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:14.500
I mean, he was the first... I think people generally

00:24:14.500 --> 00:24:16.660
consider him the first superstar in the Premier

00:24:16.660 --> 00:24:21.480
League. So, I think... Yeah, definitely could

00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:23.259
be a shout for number one. I never watched him

00:24:23.259 --> 00:24:24.920
play, so I wouldn't have known what his impact

00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:26.819
was like exactly. I don't watch him either. I

00:24:26.819 --> 00:24:29.980
buy into the folklore. Yeah, based on reputation,

00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:33.359
that's why he's on this list. I love him as a

00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:37.619
person. I remember his UEFA speech. He was talking

00:24:37.619 --> 00:24:42.119
something about the flies. You got to go look

00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:44.240
at it. It's one of the funniest things, but I

00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:46.279
don't remember exactly what he said, but he was

00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:48.779
criticizing. He's a very big character. Yeah,

00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:50.640
he's funny. Sorry, he was criticizing what? He

00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:54.720
was criticizing UEFA, UEFA's classism. Oh. But

00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:56.720
you've got to go watch it. It's one of the funniest

00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:59.420
videos I've ever seen. I'll definitely look that

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up. Do you want to do some honorable mentions,

00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:04.000
or do you have any honorable mentions? I mean,

00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:08.309
obviously, we could, like, go to the B. Thousands

00:25:08.309 --> 00:25:10.150
of honorable mentions, Dennis. Well, I mean,

00:25:10.170 --> 00:25:12.710
I wrote down three honorable mentions, not like...

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Oh, yeah, I mean, for me, obviously, as an Arsenal

00:25:14.829 --> 00:25:19.130
fan, I think Dennis Bergkamp, I think 10 million

00:25:19.130 --> 00:25:21.450
around the same time as Thierry Henry, maybe

00:25:21.450 --> 00:25:24.109
a season before, probably would also translate

00:25:24.109 --> 00:25:27.490
to 20 million in the modern market. So I think,

00:25:27.490 --> 00:25:31.529
again, at that time, you were picking up a player

00:25:31.529 --> 00:25:35.170
who was already like... being described as one

00:25:35.170 --> 00:25:37.230
of the best players of his generation that had

00:25:37.230 --> 00:25:39.930
just become injury prone and fallen out of form.

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So I think to get a player who was by and large

00:25:43.650 --> 00:25:45.509
already one of the best players in the world

00:25:45.509 --> 00:25:48.150
for 10 million is also a snip, you know. I think

00:25:48.150 --> 00:25:51.289
if there's any other honourable mentions, I mentioned

00:25:51.289 --> 00:25:55.490
it earlier, Sadio Mane. I think both to Southampton

00:25:55.490 --> 00:25:57.950
and then to Liverpool, I think big impacts at

00:25:57.950 --> 00:26:01.500
both clubs. I think Southampton became... recognisably

00:26:01.500 --> 00:26:05.259
worse once he left, you know. So I think, yeah,

00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:09.059
probably a few more. I mentioned Werdlo van Dijk

00:26:09.059 --> 00:26:10.599
would have been number one even though he went

00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:13.599
for 77 million. I think he had a similar impact

00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:16.819
to KDB. He probably didn't play in as good a

00:26:16.819 --> 00:26:19.700
squad, you know. So yeah, I don't know. What

00:26:19.700 --> 00:26:23.500
about you? Well, just one thing you said. I totally

00:26:23.500 --> 00:26:25.539
disagree. I think we had a better squad than

00:26:25.539 --> 00:26:27.519
Man City. I think Guardiola is a better coach

00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:30.039
than Klopp. I mean, you could make that argument,

00:26:30.099 --> 00:26:33.359
but I think their depth was insane. All right.

00:26:33.660 --> 00:26:36.279
Anyway, my honorable mentions. Number one, Andy

00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:38.980
Robertson from Hull City to Liverpool, 8 million

00:26:38.980 --> 00:26:43.099
at the time, 10 .8 million now. That was the

00:26:43.099 --> 00:26:44.720
first name that came to my head when you said

00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:47.500
best transfers, because he's arguably the best

00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:51.160
left -back the league has ever seen, and he was

00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:53.599
8 million. Yeah, I mean, that's also a snip.

00:26:54.009 --> 00:26:55.690
That didn't cross my thinking. The thing is,

00:26:55.829 --> 00:26:58.849
again, I have this bias towards attackers. I

00:26:58.849 --> 00:27:01.670
just don't think a left -back is like... You

00:27:01.670 --> 00:27:03.490
don't buy a left -back to win the league, you

00:27:03.490 --> 00:27:08.869
know? Yeah. Yeah, that's just how it is. Not

00:27:08.869 --> 00:27:11.410
similarly, but my honourable mention number two

00:27:11.410 --> 00:27:15.049
is Patrick Vieira from AC Milan to Arsenal. 3

00:27:15.049 --> 00:27:18.029
.5 million, which would be 7 .1 million in today's

00:27:18.029 --> 00:27:21.029
money. Another absolute steal. Absolute steal,

00:27:21.029 --> 00:27:23.549
yeah. Won three league titles with Arsenal, two

00:27:23.549 --> 00:27:28.289
FA Cups. Captain, I mean, leader. Yes, captain,

00:27:28.390 --> 00:27:30.250
leader, legend, could be said for a lot of these

00:27:30.250 --> 00:27:31.589
players. Again, I just didn't want to have too

00:27:31.589 --> 00:27:34.289
many transfers from one club on the list, so

00:27:34.289 --> 00:27:37.210
I chose Henry. That was why Vieira didn't make

00:27:37.210 --> 00:27:40.299
my list. And my third honorable mention, similarly

00:27:40.299 --> 00:27:43.740
to Robertson, and similarly to Peter Cech, I

00:27:43.740 --> 00:27:46.180
have Peter Schmeichel, who went from Bromby to

00:27:46.180 --> 00:27:49.440
Manchester United for £500 ,000, which would

00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:53.220
be £1 .1 million today. So Alex Ferguson called

00:27:53.220 --> 00:27:56.160
him the bargain of the century. Could be. I mean,

00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.079
that's generally considered also. Before Petitric,

00:28:00.180 --> 00:28:02.559
or alongside Petitric, the greatest goalkeeper

00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:04.619
the league's ever seen, but I never watched him,

00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:06.460
so that's why he didn't make my list. But once

00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:08.920
again, I just can't give credit to a goalkeeper

00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:12.319
to say, okay, he impacted and turned this team

00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:14.099
into a league -winning team. I just can't do

00:28:14.099 --> 00:28:17.759
that. Sorry. I don't know what it is, but just

00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:20.980
call it a bias or whatever, but yeah, fuck goalkeepers.

00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:25.210
All right. Do you want to get into the worst

00:28:25.210 --> 00:28:27.349
transfers of all time or do you want to say anything

00:28:27.349 --> 00:28:29.809
else about the best transfers? I said everything

00:28:29.809 --> 00:28:32.250
I need unless you have anything to add. No, nothing

00:28:32.250 --> 00:28:34.730
at all. So I think this time I'll start with

00:28:34.730 --> 00:28:37.049
five and then you five and then we'll go on like

00:28:37.049 --> 00:28:40.410
that, right? So my number five worst transfer

00:28:40.410 --> 00:28:42.990
of all time in the Premier League, Nicolas Pepe

00:28:42.990 --> 00:28:46.069
from Lille to Arsenal, 72 million. Yeah, I mean

00:28:46.069 --> 00:28:49.529
that almost made my list as well. I think it

00:28:49.529 --> 00:28:53.180
didn't make my list purely because... I don't

00:28:53.180 --> 00:28:58.539
think he was that bad in terms of, I think, during

00:28:58.539 --> 00:29:00.819
his whole time there, he might have been the

00:29:00.819 --> 00:29:02.920
player with the most output in his time there

00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:05.279
after Aubameyang. So I think he just came into

00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:07.460
a really shit Arsenal team, so it's hard to see.

00:29:07.779 --> 00:29:10.059
But he didn't make them better. You know what

00:29:10.059 --> 00:29:12.740
I'm saying? If it's a bad team, you look better

00:29:12.740 --> 00:29:16.390
by comparison because you're good. Yeah, no,

00:29:16.450 --> 00:29:18.509
but I'm saying, like, I don't think his numbers

00:29:18.509 --> 00:29:20.869
were, like, where I'd say, oh, the only thing

00:29:20.869 --> 00:29:22.750
that would make him the worst transfer is the

00:29:22.750 --> 00:29:25.069
price point. Or one of the worst. Because I don't

00:29:25.069 --> 00:29:26.869
think his impact, like, he came into a team that

00:29:26.869 --> 00:29:29.859
was already crap and he... That team didn't produce

00:29:29.859 --> 00:29:32.059
any clutch moments. So you can't say, oh, okay,

00:29:32.099 --> 00:29:34.299
he didn't produce clutch moments because if there

00:29:34.299 --> 00:29:36.519
was any clutch moments coming from anyone outside

00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:38.920
of Aubameyang, it was usually Nicolas Pepe, you

00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:40.660
know. All right, you would know better than me.

00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:44.240
But just basically all I did was I checked the

00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.319
most expensive list of players and then I just

00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:49.180
picked off the ones that I thought. Definitely

00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:51.019
would have been a contender for my list. This

00:29:51.019 --> 00:29:53.339
guy didn't make any difference to, you know,

00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:55.519
the team that signed him. So I thought, okay,

00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:58.160
Nicolas Pepe, one of them. Anyway, your number

00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:02.140
5? My number 5 was Fernando Torres Liverpool

00:30:02.140 --> 00:30:05.900
to Chelsea Went from the best to worst striker

00:30:05.900 --> 00:30:09.720
in the league overnight i think um yeah at least

00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:13.119
the the controversy around it the fact that you

00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:15.099
guys were building a project around him at the

00:30:15.099 --> 00:30:17.079
time and it was a sneaky move i don't really

00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:20.059
like sneaky moves like that you know so i think

00:30:20.059 --> 00:30:24.079
uh also you guys ended up getting a crazy deal

00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:26.920
in the end because what he became at chelsea

00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:30.200
was was was terrible but A lot of people say

00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:32.140
it's a confidence issue. Would he have had the

00:30:32.140 --> 00:30:34.019
confidence if he stayed at Liverpool? Would his

00:30:34.019 --> 00:30:36.279
confidence have taken a knock? Who knows? But

00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:39.319
I think he picked up a lot of injuries at Chelsea

00:30:39.319 --> 00:30:41.759
as well. So hard to judge. I mean, obviously,

00:30:41.779 --> 00:30:44.440
he came up with the clutch moment in the Champions

00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:47.859
League semi -final, which I'm sure in the long

00:30:47.859 --> 00:30:50.960
run, all Chelsea fans will forgive the price

00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:52.779
point because they won the Champions League.

00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:55.740
But I think at the end of the day, they thought

00:30:55.740 --> 00:30:57.380
they were getting the best striker in the league.

00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:01.920
I'm going to have to disagree with what you said

00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:04.819
because at the time, and again, I would know

00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:06.960
better about a Liverpool team, Torres was totally

00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:10.960
washed. We were hoping he would get better, but

00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:14.180
the fact that he snaked us in hindsight was pretty

00:31:14.180 --> 00:31:18.160
funny because we didn't want him. But we were

00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:22.140
buying Luis Suarez to play with Torres, and Torres

00:31:22.140 --> 00:31:27.200
leaving made us sign Andy Carroll. I disagree

00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:29.039
with what you said about him being the best in

00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:31.220
the league at the time he was maybe the best

00:31:31.220 --> 00:31:33.140
in the league maybe two years earlier in 2008

00:31:33.140 --> 00:31:35.140
I wouldn't have followed Liverpool closely those

00:31:35.140 --> 00:31:37.859
times but at the time he just wasn't as good

00:31:37.859 --> 00:31:40.420
so we thought at the time 50 million we robbed

00:31:40.420 --> 00:31:43.640
him so there's that the second thing is as like

00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:46.539
you said he won the Champions League so and he

00:31:46.539 --> 00:31:49.480
contributed to it so I can't say you know this

00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:52.359
is a bad player because like he contributed to

00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:55.079
a Champions League win that's huge that's a yeah

00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:57.900
I mean I don't take that away from him. I just

00:31:57.900 --> 00:32:00.799
think what Chelsea thought they were signing

00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:04.240
in relation to what they got. I think for one

00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:06.220
clutch moment, again, if I was a Chelsea fan,

00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.140
I'd forgive him. But there's players on the best

00:32:09.140 --> 00:32:11.240
list that don't contribute to a Champions League

00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:14.240
win. Yeah, I know what you're saying. But again,

00:32:14.380 --> 00:32:17.759
I didn't necessarily consider trophies or winning

00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:20.200
things in my thinking. So I was like purely...

00:32:20.650 --> 00:32:23.089
The player. Chelsea thought they were signing

00:32:23.089 --> 00:32:28.670
the Tories that won Spain the Euro in 2008. Fair

00:32:28.670 --> 00:32:30.789
enough. They didn't get that. I think they got

00:32:30.789 --> 00:32:36.009
a player far off that. So much so that Drogba

00:32:36.009 --> 00:32:38.329
still had to continue to lead the line for the

00:32:38.329 --> 00:32:42.890
next four years. My number four. Tanguy Ndombele

00:32:42.890 --> 00:32:47.789
from Lyon to Spurs. 65 billion. He came in with

00:32:47.789 --> 00:32:50.460
a huge reputation. This is when I first started

00:32:50.460 --> 00:32:53.579
watching TIFO football and consuming internet

00:32:53.579 --> 00:32:56.440
football content. Everyone was talking about

00:32:56.440 --> 00:32:59.220
Ndombele and how press -resistant he was. He's

00:32:59.220 --> 00:33:01.599
going to come and dominate the league. He was

00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:05.359
just bad. Jose Mourinho criticized him for his

00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.640
work ethic. He used to walk around the pitch.

00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:11.619
I think almost every coach that he had at Tottenham

00:33:11.619 --> 00:33:17.859
criticized his shape or him coming back to...

00:33:18.650 --> 00:33:21.329
the season unfit consistently or consistently

00:33:21.329 --> 00:33:25.150
being out of shape you know so i think uh yeah

00:33:25.150 --> 00:33:27.549
probably a player maybe i didn't i didn't watch

00:33:27.549 --> 00:33:29.710
him much but the games where i saw he did seem

00:33:29.710 --> 00:33:31.650
to have a bit of technique on him you know but

00:33:31.650 --> 00:33:34.349
it just seemed like there was a fitness issue

00:33:34.349 --> 00:33:37.769
you know when i say worst transfer it's because

00:33:37.769 --> 00:33:39.450
he didn't do well here i'm not saying he's a

00:33:39.450 --> 00:33:42.049
bad player in fact he went to napoli and won

00:33:42.049 --> 00:33:46.589
the squadetto with the Antonio Conte a slower

00:33:46.589 --> 00:33:48.549
league suits him though yes that's the thing

00:33:48.549 --> 00:33:50.910
so I'm not saying he's a bad player I'm just

00:33:50.910 --> 00:33:54.230
saying his transfer didn't work out at all and

00:33:54.230 --> 00:33:58.170
the player he was at Spurs is not even perhaps

00:33:58.170 --> 00:34:00.410
even like a championship player that's the level

00:34:00.410 --> 00:34:02.809
he was playing at when he was here in the league

00:34:02.809 --> 00:34:07.650
yes your number four my number four was I mean

00:34:07.650 --> 00:34:09.570
obviously there was some personal bias in this

00:34:09.570 --> 00:34:13.039
one but I'm happy it didn't work out in the long

00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:17.500
run, but it was Alexis Sanchez to Manchester

00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:20.820
United from Arsenal. I think he himself said

00:34:20.820 --> 00:34:23.659
from his first training session he wished he'd

00:34:23.659 --> 00:34:27.340
been back with us. I think, again, at the time

00:34:27.340 --> 00:34:30.559
he was really one of the top two or three players

00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:32.460
in the league. He was carrying us by himself.

00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:36.440
I think maybe at different times it was a comparison

00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:39.389
between him and Hazard. People were saying who's

00:34:39.389 --> 00:34:41.329
the best winger in the league at the time. I

00:34:41.329 --> 00:34:44.210
think just before the Guardiola and Klopp era,

00:34:44.309 --> 00:34:47.070
I think Guardiola wanted to sign him as one of

00:34:47.070 --> 00:34:49.989
the first players in his Manchester City stint

00:34:49.989 --> 00:34:51.590
as well. I think he was going to be the player

00:34:51.590 --> 00:34:54.469
that was the person who produced the end product.

00:34:54.650 --> 00:34:56.730
I think he ended up having to settle for like,

00:34:56.809 --> 00:34:59.989
even though I think... he signed sterling before

00:34:59.989 --> 00:35:02.829
i think he didn't sign sterling with the intention

00:35:02.829 --> 00:35:04.949
of making him an output heavy player you know

00:35:04.949 --> 00:35:07.809
sterling was signed before guardiola yeah that's

00:35:07.809 --> 00:35:09.610
what i'm saying i think even i think i don't

00:35:09.610 --> 00:35:12.349
think i think when guardiola came in his idea

00:35:12.349 --> 00:35:15.030
was that probably to use sterling for his creative

00:35:15.030 --> 00:35:18.750
abilities as opposed to maybe his more for his

00:35:18.750 --> 00:35:21.429
dribbling and his ball carrying and then i think

00:35:21.429 --> 00:35:23.409
when he got there he said okay maybe i could

00:35:23.409 --> 00:35:26.500
use this guy for his output I think it still,

00:35:26.659 --> 00:35:29.159
at the start, wasn't working out. He came back

00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:31.099
and tried to sign Alexis Sanchez. I think at

00:35:31.099 --> 00:35:33.719
that stage, Alexis was delivering crazy numbers

00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:36.199
of goals and assists and almost single -handedly

00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:38.460
carrying Arsenal, you know. So I just think,

00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:41.239
yeah, terrible signing for all parties concerned.

00:35:41.380 --> 00:35:43.980
We didn't get a good deal on our end with Mkhitaryan.

00:35:44.019 --> 00:35:46.199
I think he did very little for us in his time

00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:49.460
there. So, yeah, just a terrible transfer all

00:35:49.460 --> 00:35:52.019
round. So this wasn't on my list, but it was

00:35:52.019 --> 00:35:54.639
in my honorable, I guess dishonorable mentions.

00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:59.099
I, and I've spoken about this before, Man United

00:35:59.099 --> 00:36:03.400
loved to do a spite siding. Yeah. Meaning Manchester

00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:07.139
City wanted Alexis Sanchez. Man United went in.

00:36:07.900 --> 00:36:10.860
Paid over the top. I understand it was a free.

00:36:11.260 --> 00:36:14.059
The wages were crazy. It was a swap transfer,

00:36:14.139 --> 00:36:17.039
but the wages, he was over 300 ,000 pounds per

00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:20.000
week. And he had like a bunch of extra signing

00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:23.019
bonuses. And like for the output that Alexis

00:36:23.019 --> 00:36:26.400
Sanchez gave them, not good enough. Not good

00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:30.440
enough at all. My number three. And we're seeing

00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:33.820
a pattern here, right? With the best transfers,

00:36:33.860 --> 00:36:35.840
a lot of Man United signings. But also in the

00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:38.000
worst transfers, a lot of Man United signings.

00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:42.079
Yeah, I guess that's our personal biases. My

00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:44.840
number three, Jadon Sancho. Borussia Dortmund

00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:48.340
to Manchester United, 73 million. He's done awfully

00:36:48.340 --> 00:36:51.500
for them. I know he did score one goal against

00:36:51.500 --> 00:36:54.039
Liverpool, which people love to share with me.

00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:59.320
Van Dijk fell over and Sancho scored. And yeah,

00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:03.559
that's... the entirety of his contributions at

00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:05.400
Man United. I mean, he would have probably been

00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:09.460
in my honourable mentions. I think maybe the

00:37:09.460 --> 00:37:12.199
only reason I didn't put him in my list was just

00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:16.420
purely because it's hard to gauge with Sancho

00:37:16.420 --> 00:37:19.400
exactly how he was managed at Manchester United,

00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:23.570
I think. The price point is crazy, but I think

00:37:23.570 --> 00:37:26.989
at the time, people were considering him as being

00:37:26.989 --> 00:37:29.210
one of the best young players in Europe, so you

00:37:29.210 --> 00:37:31.409
weren't going to be able to get him for cheap.

00:37:31.670 --> 00:37:34.070
I think it didn't work out, definitely made my

00:37:34.070 --> 00:37:36.269
honourable mentions. The reason I didn't put

00:37:36.269 --> 00:37:39.389
it on my list was purely because, like I said,

00:37:39.449 --> 00:37:41.170
I didn't want to have too many transfers from

00:37:41.170 --> 00:37:43.769
one team, and I think I already have two from

00:37:43.769 --> 00:37:46.510
Man United on my list, so he just missed out

00:37:46.510 --> 00:37:50.260
on that basis. All right, who's your number three?

00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:55.760
My number three was Anthony. My number two. Ajax

00:37:55.760 --> 00:38:00.079
to Manchester United for £85 million. Yeah, probably.

00:38:00.219 --> 00:38:02.900
I mean, generally spoken of as one of the worst

00:38:02.900 --> 00:38:05.559
signings in football history, not just Premier

00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:09.400
League history. I think he's not even doing that

00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:12.460
well at Betis, but the fact that people are praising

00:38:12.460 --> 00:38:16.619
him shows how much of a... of a bad signing he

00:38:16.619 --> 00:38:18.800
was how badly he was doing at Manchester United

00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:21.719
you know so I think or maybe La Liga is an easier

00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:25.719
league maybe maybe in your opinion that will

00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:28.579
never change my opinion alright I'm just I'm

00:38:28.579 --> 00:38:30.219
pointing out some stuff but again I do think

00:38:30.219 --> 00:38:31.780
the Premier League I've always said it has a

00:38:31.780 --> 00:38:34.860
physicality and an athleticism that no other

00:38:34.860 --> 00:38:38.059
league has where you know That's a separate point.

00:38:38.219 --> 00:38:42.079
But I think Anthony List, he came in, scored

00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:44.000
a winner against us, and then people thought

00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.440
that was going to be the... He scored three goals

00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:48.320
in his first three games. Yeah, and they were

00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:51.260
against Arsenal, Man City, and someone else,

00:38:51.300 --> 00:38:52.860
I think. I don't know who the games were against,

00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:56.280
but that's why United fans, especially in my

00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:58.739
WhatsApp group, my friends were going buck wild.

00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:00.920
They're like, oh my God, it was a lot of money,

00:39:00.980 --> 00:39:03.380
but we got somebody. We got the next Neymar.

00:39:03.699 --> 00:39:06.000
Yeah, okay, I didn't say that, but similarly.

00:39:06.250 --> 00:39:08.389
Similar stuff. I mean, obviously I'm exaggerating,

00:39:08.409 --> 00:39:09.849
but they were thinking... No, no, no, you're

00:39:09.849 --> 00:39:11.849
not exaggerating. They said similar stuff. Yeah,

00:39:11.869 --> 00:39:13.650
they said similar stuff. I mean, they were thinking

00:39:13.650 --> 00:39:16.849
of putting a... I don't know if they were saying

00:39:16.849 --> 00:39:19.030
they signed him with a ball -on -door clause

00:39:19.030 --> 00:39:22.849
or something similar to Martial, so... Anytime

00:39:22.849 --> 00:39:24.969
Man United signs a player and puts a ball -on

00:39:24.969 --> 00:39:26.969
-door clause in it, I don't think it's going

00:39:26.969 --> 00:39:30.269
to work out good for that player, you know. Another

00:39:30.269 --> 00:39:32.889
reason I think this is a horrific transfer is

00:39:32.889 --> 00:39:37.820
that nobody was... betting against, not betting

00:39:37.820 --> 00:39:40.639
against them, like, nobody else was bidding against

00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:43.500
them. Yeah, so how do you go close to £100 million?

00:39:44.179 --> 00:39:47.280
Nobody is fighting with you. I guess the thing

00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.460
at the time is Ajax didn't want to let him leave.

00:39:49.820 --> 00:39:51.880
So Ajax were like, no, we don't want to let him

00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:54.619
go. And then United just came with a dump truck

00:39:54.619 --> 00:39:57.659
full of money and said, no, we're taking him.

00:39:58.260 --> 00:40:01.480
But this is, it's just like, the whole deal is

00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:04.010
crazy because, I mean, I understand. you pay

00:40:04.010 --> 00:40:07.650
more for attackers. But I think when I was online,

00:40:07.750 --> 00:40:10.909
even looking at the response from Ajax fans at

00:40:10.909 --> 00:40:13.449
the time of the transfer, I think they were so

00:40:13.449 --> 00:40:17.829
happy. Yes, of course. Even at the time, people

00:40:17.829 --> 00:40:20.449
were like, yeah, this is a bad transfer. I mean,

00:40:20.530 --> 00:40:24.389
I'm not saying they wanted Drury and Timber as

00:40:24.389 --> 00:40:27.329
much as us. I feel like... he would have been

00:40:27.329 --> 00:40:30.889
better value for 85 million than anthony anthony

00:40:30.889 --> 00:40:32.690
if they had gone in at the same time you know

00:40:32.690 --> 00:40:35.510
that would have been a ridiculous fee but at

00:40:35.510 --> 00:40:37.190
least you're getting a defender who's consistent

00:40:37.190 --> 00:40:40.199
who's been one of the best in his position in

00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:42.300
the league for a little bit now, you know. I

00:40:42.300 --> 00:40:44.840
feel like, what did Anthony give you if you were

00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:47.119
going to go all out for an Ajax player? Just

00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:48.960
go all out for their best player. I mean, you

00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:50.860
paid for him to watch a game and he signed for

00:40:50.860 --> 00:40:53.260
us. That doesn't make sense, you know. But I

00:40:53.260 --> 00:40:57.159
think, yeah, just one of the most absurd signings

00:40:57.159 --> 00:40:59.280
in Premier League history, you know. Yeah, so

00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:01.579
your three was my number two. So what is your

00:41:01.579 --> 00:41:05.619
number two? My number two is Mikhailo Mudrik.

00:41:06.699 --> 00:41:10.719
Shakhtar to Chelsea. I think 75 million, they

00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:13.519
went over the odds to beat us to a signing. Again,

00:41:13.579 --> 00:41:16.219
another spite signing. A signing they didn't

00:41:16.219 --> 00:41:19.320
need and looks like he might never ever play

00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.840
a game in his career. So I think you've just

00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:25.559
spent close to 100 million because, I mean, it

00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:27.480
won't reach 100 million because I'm sure they're

00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:29.179
not going to have to pay the add -ons now. But

00:41:29.179 --> 00:41:32.420
75 million for a player who's probably played

00:41:32.420 --> 00:41:34.340
two or three games and never going to play again

00:41:34.340 --> 00:41:38.750
is also... A horrible signing, you know, I think

00:41:38.750 --> 00:41:41.949
probably will go down as one of the worst in

00:41:41.949 --> 00:41:43.969
football history, especially because I think

00:41:43.969 --> 00:41:45.590
by the time he comes back, he's not going to

00:41:45.590 --> 00:41:47.449
be able to play at a Premier League level, you

00:41:47.449 --> 00:41:51.750
know. I didn't consider him. I mean, excuse me.

00:41:51.829 --> 00:41:54.789
I considered him, but I didn't put him in this

00:41:54.789 --> 00:41:58.030
list because that's non -footballing reasons.

00:41:59.090 --> 00:42:01.730
Yeah, I mean, obviously you had your reasons,

00:42:01.789 --> 00:42:04.489
I had mine, but I think just based off of how

00:42:04.489 --> 00:42:07.480
much they paid for him. Yes. And the fact that

00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:10.119
they wanted to build their team around him, it's

00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:12.539
just been a horrible signing all round, you know.

00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:16.699
Fair enough. So my number one is Kepa Arizabalega

00:42:16.699 --> 00:42:19.760
from Let's Go Bilbao to Chelsea, 72 million.

00:42:20.619 --> 00:42:22.880
I've never seen an impressive performance from

00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:25.360
him. In fact, he's pretty awful a lot of the

00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:28.400
time. Most recently, I understand this is from

00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:31.760
Bilbao to Chelsea, but most recently he fumbled

00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:35.760
for Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final. He has

00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:39.760
not improved since the time that he was initially

00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:43.800
signed. He embarrassed Maurizio Sarri in the

00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:46.500
League Cup final by not coming off when he substituted

00:42:46.500 --> 00:42:51.559
him. Yeah, just an overall bad player. Still

00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:55.400
the current record for most expensive goalkeeper

00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:59.460
of all time. And, yeah. I mean, yeah, he would

00:42:59.460 --> 00:43:01.500
have also been in my honorable mentions. I think

00:43:01.500 --> 00:43:04.599
the only reason I really didn't put him in was

00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:09.380
because, again, I think it's hard to measure

00:43:09.380 --> 00:43:12.780
what his impact was or wasn't, again. Like, because

00:43:12.780 --> 00:43:15.610
I think... Chelsea couldn't have done much better

00:43:15.610 --> 00:43:17.909
or worse in that time period. I think you guys

00:43:17.909 --> 00:43:22.429
and Liverpool were way ahead of them. you know

00:43:22.429 --> 00:43:24.389
when he had the whole spat with Sarri they still

00:43:24.389 --> 00:43:26.409
finished third they still won the Europa League

00:43:26.409 --> 00:43:29.829
I think overall it just wasn't like I would have

00:43:29.829 --> 00:43:32.369
thought he was that bad where he like affected

00:43:32.369 --> 00:43:34.769
Chelsea or dragged them down the table it was

00:43:34.769 --> 00:43:37.389
like completely like I think it's more like okay

00:43:37.389 --> 00:43:40.329
his attitude it didn't work out and then you

00:43:40.329 --> 00:43:42.610
thought you were getting one of the best goalkeepers

00:43:42.610 --> 00:43:44.829
in the world but you didn't so I put him in my

00:43:44.829 --> 00:43:47.929
honorable mentions not Not on my list, though.

00:43:48.170 --> 00:43:49.989
All right, fair enough. What is your number one?

00:43:50.170 --> 00:43:54.849
My number one is, from unemployment to 53 minutes

00:43:54.849 --> 00:43:59.929
on the pitch for Southampton, Ali Dia. Surely

00:43:59.929 --> 00:44:02.750
has to be the worst. I forgot about that. I watched

00:44:02.750 --> 00:44:05.849
a documentary on him. Surely has to be the worst.

00:44:05.889 --> 00:44:08.210
All right, please give some context to the listeners

00:44:08.210 --> 00:44:11.110
on who Ali Dia is and what happened. Ali Dia

00:44:11.110 --> 00:44:14.619
is basically... An amateur. An amateur footballer.

00:44:14.619 --> 00:44:16.400
No different to someone playing five -a -side

00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:20.079
on the weekends. So, somehow, I don't know what

00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:21.980
the story is. I watched a documentary on it.

00:44:22.019 --> 00:44:25.280
He manages to organize a phone call between himself

00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:27.920
and Graeme Souness, who was the Southampton manager

00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:31.219
at the time. By some strange coincidence, he

00:44:31.219 --> 00:44:34.000
manages to convince him that he's George Weah.

00:44:34.409 --> 00:44:37.030
on the phone call i don't think he or he's related

00:44:37.030 --> 00:44:40.550
to something like that and he's been involved

00:44:40.550 --> 00:44:43.289
in football for a number of seasons so graham

00:44:43.289 --> 00:44:47.150
sunes for god knows what reason decides to sign

00:44:47.150 --> 00:44:50.030
him up on the spot and play him the next weekend

00:44:50.030 --> 00:44:53.349
after i think the southampton players said when

00:44:53.349 --> 00:44:56.170
he got to training they were like this guy can't

00:44:56.170 --> 00:45:02.889
control the ball how why is he here so i mean

00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:09.300
Kudos to Alidea though for managing to get a

00:45:09.300 --> 00:45:11.739
career as a Premier League footballer from the

00:45:11.739 --> 00:45:14.739
unemployment line. It's quite an achievement.

00:45:14.900 --> 00:45:18.360
I wish I could do it even for an hour. The fact

00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:21.460
that he played even 53 minutes is a sensational

00:45:21.460 --> 00:45:23.179
achievement. I don't know if this is the best

00:45:23.179 --> 00:45:25.800
or the worst transfer. We'll let people decide.

00:45:26.739 --> 00:45:31.030
From Alidea's perspective, it's the best. All

00:45:31.030 --> 00:45:34.110
right. Any honourable mentions you want to give

00:45:34.110 --> 00:45:36.530
up to? No, I think most of my honourable mentions

00:45:36.530 --> 00:45:39.289
were on your list. So it's like... Yeah. Yeah,

00:45:39.329 --> 00:45:41.730
we already discussed that. All right. And Alexis

00:45:41.730 --> 00:45:44.130
Sanchez was my only honourable mention that you

00:45:44.130 --> 00:45:47.409
gave already. So I think that's the end of our

00:45:47.409 --> 00:45:49.230
list. Is there anything else you want to say?

00:45:51.250 --> 00:45:55.989
No, I mean, I think just, you know, glad to have

00:45:55.989 --> 00:45:59.280
the Premier League back. We can stop doing these

00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.820
fucking evergreen episodes. Yeah, I mean, it's

00:46:01.820 --> 00:46:03.940
just also good to have some football to watch,

00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:08.000
you know, like at least that's back. I don't

00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:11.780
know. I guess a lot of the, we see Arsenal, Man

00:46:11.780 --> 00:46:14.039
City slowly now as well, Barcelona pulling their

00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:16.599
players out of the international break. I think

00:46:16.599 --> 00:46:19.179
that's the right thing to do, honestly. I don't

00:46:19.179 --> 00:46:21.440
think these international friendlies just before,

00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:24.969
maybe if you're in Sweden or Poland. circumstance

00:46:24.969 --> 00:46:27.469
where you have a competitive game to play I'd

00:46:27.469 --> 00:46:30.449
understand it but yeah I think that's just been

00:46:30.449 --> 00:46:32.230
doing the headlines I think Arsenal catching

00:46:32.230 --> 00:46:34.989
a lot of flack online for pulling our players

00:46:34.989 --> 00:46:37.530
out but I'm glad the Premier League's back and

00:46:37.530 --> 00:46:40.150
I'm glad we're prioritizing it you know I don't

00:46:40.150 --> 00:46:42.590
think players should need to play these games

00:46:42.590 --> 00:46:45.570
at all to be frank you know so we have about

00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:48.440
A couple minutes left over because we try to

00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:50.920
get to an hour, as close as to an hour as possible,

00:46:50.980 --> 00:46:52.739
right? So I'm just going to kind of fill up the

00:46:52.739 --> 00:46:55.239
time. And this is an evergreen episode, so I

00:46:55.239 --> 00:46:57.559
probably shouldn't do this, but I just want to

00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:00.239
talk about some recent news. Yeah. And that's

00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:04.380
Dezerby is back in the league. Oh, yes. Dezerby

00:47:04.380 --> 00:47:06.659
at Tottenham. Easily my favorite coach in the

00:47:06.659 --> 00:47:11.460
world. Just attacking madman. Plays just, you

00:47:11.460 --> 00:47:14.659
know, very intense, high -energy football, which

00:47:14.659 --> 00:47:16.960
I love to watch. The players are always very

00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:20.000
good on the ball. So, you know, watch out for

00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:22.840
Spurs next season. The only thing I could say

00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:27.000
is that maybe when he joined Brighton, he lost

00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:29.840
his first five games. Or not lost his first five

00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:33.780
games. He didn't win his first five games. So

00:47:33.780 --> 00:47:36.860
there were draws and losses, right? So Spurs

00:47:36.860 --> 00:47:40.039
desperately need one win right now. Just one.

00:47:40.500 --> 00:47:44.300
So I don't know. So, I mean, I'm interested to

00:47:44.300 --> 00:47:46.920
see. how he would develop some of their players,

00:47:47.019 --> 00:47:49.719
especially like Van der Veen or Bergwijn. But

00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:53.659
if he gets relegated, I don't think he's going

00:47:53.659 --> 00:47:55.179
to get that opportunity because he'll almost

00:47:55.179 --> 00:47:58.639
certainly be sold off. But I think if he was

00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:01.519
to get relegated, his brand of football, I think,

00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:03.940
would get them up very quickly if he agreed to

00:48:03.940 --> 00:48:06.360
stay. Also because they just have better players

00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:08.440
then. Yeah, but I think most of those players

00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:11.559
would be forced to sell them. I think if you

00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:14.519
look at when Juventus got relegated, Yeah, yeah,

00:48:14.539 --> 00:48:16.380
because they can't afford the wages. I understand

00:48:16.380 --> 00:48:18.880
that, but I'm saying they would hold on to a

00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:20.960
core of... Of players that were still better

00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:22.619
than what the championship had to offer. Yes,

00:48:22.619 --> 00:48:24.239
that's what I'm saying. Presumably, presumably.

00:48:24.500 --> 00:48:28.079
But, I mean, if you take out that core of top

00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:30.739
players, how good is the Tottenham squad actually?

00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:32.860
Because we've seen now two back -to -back seasons

00:48:32.860 --> 00:48:35.699
where they've been in the relegation in and amongst

00:48:35.699 --> 00:48:37.300
the bottom teams in the league. I think they're

00:48:37.300 --> 00:48:40.230
way better than their... league position indicates

00:48:40.230 --> 00:48:42.889
i just think they've been mismanaged to a nth

00:48:42.889 --> 00:48:46.090
degree i agree but i'm saying if you like let's

00:48:46.090 --> 00:48:48.329
just say now they go down if they lose van der

00:48:48.329 --> 00:48:51.829
finn if they lose bergweil if they lose udogi

00:48:51.829 --> 00:48:55.070
if they lose archie gray we linked with archie

00:48:55.070 --> 00:48:57.789
gray i love it i love archie gray if they lose

00:48:57.789 --> 00:49:00.590
archie gray kulishevsky when he comes back from

00:49:00.590 --> 00:49:03.170
injury how good is that team then relative to

00:49:03.170 --> 00:49:05.389
the championship teams i still think they're

00:49:05.389 --> 00:49:08.780
better sorry or also levy siemens will leave

00:49:08.780 --> 00:49:11.219
so it's like that's not a big loss he hasn't

00:49:11.219 --> 00:49:13.059
done anything he hasn't done anything he's come

00:49:13.059 --> 00:49:16.519
on a huge transfer fee he could be on this uh

00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:19.679
the only thing the only reason i didn't put in

00:49:19.679 --> 00:49:23.460
like florian wirtz alexander isaac is that they

00:49:23.460 --> 00:49:25.659
haven't you tried their new transfers they could

00:49:25.659 --> 00:49:28.400
still bang give it like three four years they

00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:31.380
would be on this list Yeah, but anyway, sorry,

00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:34.039
you were saying about Spurs? Yeah, so I mean,

00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:36.139
De Zerbi is also one of my favourite coaches.

00:49:36.780 --> 00:49:39.059
I would love him to save Tottenham. I've said

00:49:39.059 --> 00:49:41.860
I don't want them to get relegated. I would love

00:49:41.860 --> 00:49:43.860
to also see how a player like Bergwijn would

00:49:43.860 --> 00:49:48.000
develop under him. So I wish him the best. I

00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:49.820
still think he's got a bit of a tough job because

00:49:49.820 --> 00:49:51.820
I think Tottenham have the hardest fixture list

00:49:51.820 --> 00:49:54.460
out of any of the teams in the bottom there.

00:49:54.599 --> 00:49:57.260
And like you said... They have the best squad,

00:49:57.360 --> 00:49:59.199
though. That's what I think works in their fashion.

00:49:59.380 --> 00:50:02.219
And I think De Zerbe is the type of personality

00:50:02.219 --> 00:50:04.920
that in the immediate moment can get a tune out

00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:06.920
of them in a man -management sense. I think in

00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:09.699
the long run, that's something he still has to

00:50:09.699 --> 00:50:12.059
work on. I think he fights with his players a

00:50:12.059 --> 00:50:15.019
lot, but right now he could be the guy they need.

00:50:15.099 --> 00:50:18.099
I feel like he'll keep them up, you know. Last

00:50:18.099 --> 00:50:21.679
thing I want to end off with is a stat. De Zerbe

00:50:21.679 --> 00:50:24.579
has the highest win percentage of any Marseille

00:50:24.579 --> 00:50:27.760
manager ever. Oh, yes, yes, I did see that when

00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:30.139
I think someone tweeted it when he signed for

00:50:30.139 --> 00:50:33.260
Tottenham. Number one and number two was Igor

00:50:33.260 --> 00:50:38.420
Tudor. So, that's not saying much, is it? I mean,

00:50:38.420 --> 00:50:42.199
yeah, let's see. Igor Tudor, hopefully it works

00:50:42.199 --> 00:50:44.159
out better for Deserby. I'm pretty sure it will,

00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:46.699
though. Right, well, thank you for listening.

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