Hello and welcome back to another episode of Serie A Spotlight,
this is episode 84 and we are hosts Matt and Jake here to give you guys our 2022-2023 Serie A season
review. You bet your sweet ass we will, we've got our tops, we've got our flops, we've got our unsung
heroes, we've got our best wins and we've got our worst losses for each of the 20 Serie A teams in
the 2022-2023 season. Yes sir, we've got our sloppy topies, we've got our floppy topies as well,
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Andy's fucking hilarious but just tell them man. Tell them what? Oh yeah, Sandro. Sandro, yes all
right you're right and he's gone, the guy in our intro video, no you are not listening to the Sam
Premelan podcast, this is. Shout out to Sam Premelan podcast, you guys are amazing. They're great,
shout out to Wally, shout out to AJ, all amazing. Tonali to Newcastle for about 80 million euros,
90 million euros, 70 million euros, depends on who's reporting it. I think the latest figure
was about 80 million euros with bonuses. Now before we get into it bro, initial reaction.
Initial reaction, no devastated. Initial reaction, Sandro Tonali is my favorite player in the world.
I adore him, I adore everything about him, I adore his industry, I adore his passion, his work ethic,
his skill set, how much he's grown, I'm going to miss him tremendously. Now that the news has settled,
I understand that the markup is remarkable. I understand that if another Seria team probably
went in for Sandro Tonali, the price tag might have been 40 million euros at most. I understand
that Milan need the money and that with that money they can reinforce into other talent and if there's
one core member that you would remove for 90 million euros, don't let it be Layout, don't let
it be Mike, don't let it be Theo, unfortunately it has to be Sandro. Yes, when you look at the
players that Milan could sacrifice to make a markup, of course there aren't many because you've
either got your superstars who you shouldn't be selling like your Layouts, your Theos and
then you've got the ones who won't sell for that much, your Salamakers, your fucking
Calun, the early days, but then you've got certain players who are rated very highly,
certain players who are rated more than their actual value. They would have a certain profile
which is them being young, Italian, for example. For me there are two players that Milan could
choose to sacrifice to cash in on, Tonali and Tamori. Now people would say that okay,
Tonali was the future captain, he was a bandera for Milan, he would have stayed for life,
salary wasn't an issue with him. It's true, but you have to remember that. It's valid,
it's a valid argument. But again, football is a business. Again, and I don't want to go on about
how the soul is gone from the game because when you look at the past, the history of Milan,
the players that were always closest to the fans' hearts have always left apart from okay,
you've got the rare ones, you've got Maldini, you've got Barezzi, you've got all those,
you've got the legends. Although you've got those two absolute icons. Sure, and then you've got like
the likes of Nizag, you got Tuso, but they were only, they came to Milan at a time when Milan were
winning a lot. So there was a reason for them to stay and there was a reason for Milan to keep
them because they were the highest level and probably at the time offers above their wealth
didn't come in above their value. We must remember that we need to keep a cool head guys. People need
to keep a cool head. You can't freak out because of a decision like this. You know, you look at
Kaká, Shevchenko, these guys, all the great Milan players were always sold. And so it's nothing new,
football isn't dead, you know. The thing is as well that you need to remember that Tonali had
agreed personal terms with Inter before joining Milan. So when you think about the plastic,
artificial nature of football and Milan selling this guy who bleeds Milan, at the end of the day,
this guy who bleeds Milan was very close to joining Inter. Very close. Yeah, I remember that. To me,
now as much as obviously in a romantic world, we've got Locatelli, we've got Calabria, we've got
Tonali, we've got Colombo, Cutrone, all these youths that came through the rankings and would die for
Milan and they suddenly became the best team in the world. But that's not realistic, is it? At the
end of the day, football teams are not family, they are sports teams and sports teams must do what it
takes in order to stay ahead of the game. Continuity is good, shaking things up sometimes is even
better. Now, a weird decision considering that Milan never replaced Kessy and now they just remove
Tonali and it's like Benassar is injured and then he comes back and there's the African Cup of
Nations. It's like what's going on here? I trust that with improvement in mind, there are replacements
in mind and that maybe, I don't know, Frattesi, Seco, maybe some people will come in. I don't
care as long as the team improves. That's the important thing. That's all. And for us to see if
the team is going to improve, we're going to need to wait not until the end of the transfer window
but the end of next season. That's how long we need to wait, maybe even longer. Yeah, that's a
valid point bro. Yeah, if Thuram is brought in on a free for example and the Milan have 90 million
to splash on top of the allocated budget, we don't know how much that is and you need to bring in
Amit Fielder at Recuartista and the right winger. Let's say Thuram is a down deal for example,
which it isn't. Kamada is very close as well on a free as well. So that leaves right wing and
center mid and you've got 90 million on top of your budget. But they're going to need two
center mids man Milan. That's actually right. But again, it's good money. It's an offer you pass
it. But again, it's good money. It's an offer you can't refuse. It is. It is. It is. It's an offer
you can't refuse. Like I said, it's 50 more than any Italian team would have spent on them. Honestly,
if you have a player who's worth 50 million at most and an offer of 80 million comes in, you have
to set them man. It's as simple as that. And at the end of the day, Sonali had to give his go ahead to
leave anyway because Sonali could have put his foot down so that I'm not going anywhere and he would
have stayed. Yeah, I'm a total emotional mess because I'm going to miss Sandra and I'm going to
miss his industry, his passion, his professionalism, his maturity. But at the end of the day, like we
said, it's a sport. We move on. We get the money. Hopefully it gets invested in the right places.
Yes. Speaking of money, what do you make of the Saudi league, bro? And the Premier League pundits
Carragher and Neville saying the Premier League should boycott the Saudi league. What are they
talking about? What are they talking about? Now, salary caps should be put into place for these
financial powerhouses who get all their money from the oil industry. Salary caps should be
implemented. However, what's this? We say football is for everyone because players from the favelas
come, players from Africa come and they win trophies and they're accepted in Europe and
everywhere. It's a beautiful sport. But what? So they're not allowed to go and play in Saudi
Arabia. All of a sudden, I thought football was for everyone. The passion for football and the
love for football in the Middle East is massive. Look how well they did in the World Cup. They
were the only team in the World Cup to beat Argentina but got knocked out of the group stage.
Ronaldo joined and now top players are joining. Good for them, man. Good for them. And I hope the
Saudis get to enjoy these guys because they haven't gotten the opportunity to enjoy shit when it comes
to football and what a year they've had, man. Good for them. Yes. Honestly, why not? This is no
different to the MLS. This is no different to the Chinese Super League. This is no different to your
Premier League. Your Premier League is the Super League. Your Premier League poaches the best
players and the best talents from other leagues around the world overpaying and inflating fucking
prices to bring these guys in. And now you're saying to boycott a league that's going to compete
with you financially. Definitely not. That's not fair. Football again should be for everyone,
like you said. So come on Al Nassir. Come on Al Hilal. Come on Al Itihad. And come on Al Lahli.
And you know what? Come on Al Shabaab as well. Come on all you guys. All the Rs, bro. Al Shabaab.
You know what it is, bro? You know what it is? Racism? Question mark. Yes. I genuinely think
that it's straight up racism. Fuck you racists. Come on Saudi Arabia. Come on the fuck.
So let's keep going through the round-ups. We're never going to get to these thoughts on Flops
on the street. It's true. Dabala and Matich had an interesting back and forth on Instagram that was
entertaining. They were roasting each other. Matich was telling Dabala that he can't speak
Italian. And Dabala was telling Matich that he never gave him an assist. That was interesting
to see. You don't often see people that go back and forth on social media for so long, especially
celebrities of that caliber. So we know that Indica has joined Roma. Listener Francesco says
they would have been better off signing Sativa. He's so funny, bro. He's fucking good, man.
This guy, Cesco, whenever Milan scores, he sends a GIF of two dudes making out and he goes,
Jake and Matt right now. Not that Francesco. Oh, he's fucking funny as well. I fucking love
to call him Cesco. He's Chit Show dog. Francesco says Instagram name. He's Chit Show. Love you,
Chit Show. Thank you for listening, brother. I love him like that. But yeah, Vicario to Spurs
is a done deal for 19 million. We will miss you. The most underrated goalkeeper. Those are my two
favorite. If you listen to this podcast, you know, Todd Ali and Vicario are my two favorite
players in the league. No, and they're both fucking gone off to the prim. So Milan and Inter are
battling it out for Thuram Frattese and at one point even Lukaku. But Lukaku has pushed the idea
of signing of joining Milan away and has put pressure on Inter to actually out try to buy him.
Juve are in for way out, which is funny that Juve are in for way out and Milan are in for Thuram.
How bad? They only had one season where he got over 10 goals for Milan. How many does way out?
Way out has like three goals a season. But he's been to be fair to way out. He's been kind of
molded into a right back nowadays. Ananas agent has met Man United. Italy's under 21s were robbed.
They were two one down to France and Bellanova's header crossed the line, but there was no goal
line technology. There was no VAR and there wasn't even a person watching the line as there should be.
Madonna man. It was absolutely shambolic. Where's the consistency man? And the last thing we're
going to say, it's impossible to get into everything of course, is that patron Alan says Palermo's logo
looks like an airline company. It's true. Did you see Atalanta are playing Burnmouth? That's another
good one. And they yeah it's two women getting their hair down basically. It's a shampoo derby.
Exactly. All right. I love these episodes. So guys I know we told you were getting sloppy,
toppy, toppy loppy or whatever the hell we said in the intro. But what we're going to be doing is
going all the way from Napoli down to Sambdoria in 2022-2023 Serie A. And we're going to be naming
the team's tops, flops, their unsung heroes, their best wins and their best their worst losses sorry.
Me and Drake prepared these separately so we're going to be probably agreeing a lot but maybe
arguing a hell of a lot. So without further ado, let's go. Shall we get into it? Napoli top and I
hate that we probably agree on this. Three, two, one, Ozymen. You can't have a 26 goal season and you're not the top.
Gavara came in okay. He was the league well supposedly the league's MVP but Ozymen in my
opinion was league's MVP. He was one of the best players in the league, the most creative player in
the league. He got like 12 goals and 13 assists. He was the top assist this season. It was his debut
season. He's young, he's Georgian, he came out of nowhere. All that is impressive but Ozymen had 26
goals. They just flung the ball up whenever the fuck they wanted, wherever the fuck it went to
and Ozymen got the ball and scored. That's what happened. Exactly, exactly. You give Ozymen the
ball anywhere he's going to turn it into a shot at least. Exactly. At least and no matter the angle,
no matter how tight it is, he was a one man army up front and finally managed to get some consistency.
Granted he got injured when it really mattered the most for them when they were pushing for that
Champions League and that's actually why they probably got eliminated from the Champions League
because he would have definitely stretched me that open and don't say because he was back for the
second leg because Ozymen was most definitely not fit enough to play that second leg. Exactly and
he still scored. He played like 96 minutes and he still scored at the end. Give me a break. He's a
monster. Ozymen performed all season after Gvarackelia was put into Davide Calabria's
pocket. He didn't score a single goal after that so let's keep it Ozymen. Ozymen is the top,
Gvarackelia great player but Ozymen takes it at Serie A spotlight. Exactly. Flop. So I have
Hirving Lozano. Fair enough, didn't have much high expectations for him to be honest. I'll just say
he's yet to establish himself as a clear starter and it seemed like he was at a point favored
ahead of Poletano but I have to say they shared the spoils this season and I think when Poletano
came on he looked even more dangerous. Yes I agree. And Lozano, keep in mind the players that he was
around only got three goals and three assists in 32 matches and his goals came against Bologna,
Empoli and Cremona. Bologna was in the first half of the season when they were shite. Very good bro
and that's a very fair shout and apparently he's off to he's off to Saudi Arabia now.
Love that shit bro. Love it. Now for me it's Raspadouri. Raspadouri. It's a harsh one,
two goals two assists in the league and didn't really have much of a sniff but when you look
at the way Ozymen and Simeone exploded when they were on the pitch and you see Raspadouri how he
struggled to kind of cement himself. The fact that he kind of fits awkwardly into the team that he
like we've discussed if it's better in a two striker kind of formation. You see a left wing,
you see a striker, does he play behind the striker. Seemed kind of awkward, played well in Europe but in the league
failed to really establish himself. Now any flop you pick on the Snopoli team is going to be a harsh
one. I just picked him because I had to pick someone because in reality I would have put NA.
Exactly fair enough. Best twins bro now of course a new requirement. No Unsung. Unsung hero. This is a
new one I think it was a really nice start. It's a nice addition I think. Lobotka. Lobotka absolutely. Stanislav.
Yes, Napoli's strength this season was their tempo, possession and control of their matches and he was
pivotal in all of those things. He even broke down play phenomenally and the way that he connected
the defense to the attack was masterful. His forward passing, mamma mia what a player. What a player.
A proper metronome and he's come so far from the Gattusa days where Gattusa basically called him a
fat short guy with a big forehead and now all of a sudden he's killing it you know Lobotka.
Absolutely man. It's good to see the recovery. I think he's top three in his position easily in the
league. I think this season he was the best number six. I think he was the best regista. Very similar
industry to Banaser. Yes absolutely. Now when it comes to the best win of course you have what Napoli
didn't knew about. We're going to be focusing on Syria. I'm just going to tell you now they beat
Ax. You know we did mention I have some out of Syria. Really victories. I have some yeah
because they would have outshone everything else. You'll see. For example the Fiorentino ones.
You'll see. Six one against Ax, four one against Liverpool. These were all great results for Napoli.
I think domestically their three one win versus in the third match of the season was a massive
confidence boost and a massive. It set the tone no? Yeah man. It's a massive fuck you to all the
doubters. Everyone that doubted Napoli and that criticized their Mercato and the Deportures and
everything that was done there. Yes. I definitely understand the importance of that game. However
you can't look at their five one win against Juve after the World Cup break. I'll not say that
that's their best result. They had their first match of the season after the World Cup against
Inter and they lost right? Whilst Juve had just won eight matches in a row without conceding
including victories against Inter and Lazio. When they matched up we're like oh my god Napoli's
second loss of the season question mark? No. Five one against a team that had only conceded seven
goals that season. To be fair I forgot that game and they fucking dismantled. They absolutely
dismantled them fair enough bro. Their worst loss is an easy one I didn't even have to research it.
Yeah four nil. Four nil. And the the reason why isn't just because they beat Milan four nil but
because it had just been announced that they were going to play each other twice in the Champions
League quarter finals and that victory really really really set the tone for Milan and it really
put Napoli on the back foot. They were on the back foot by halftime with Spalletti losing
his mind at Laos. That is the only Milan match I missed this year. The four nil? The four nil.
You're joking. That was the only Milan match I missed that year. I woke up at four o'clock in
the morning to watch it. I was in Australia. We were in this shitty hotel to be honest in Cairns.
I hate how you say that. You have to because it's not Cairns and it's not Cairns it's not Cairns.
It's Cairns. That's it. You need a block nose to say it. Literally. And there was no wi-fi.
I didn't have my 4G on my phone because I was on my Australian sim and I couldn't get it to work
and then I woke up first thing in the morning to check the result and I was like what the fuck
happened man. Yeah bro. Terrible. What happens in Cairns stays in Cairns. Absolutely bro.
We forgot to mention the rundown. Kim Minjae is probably going to buy Munich. Yeah. But we can
move on to second place and it is Lazio. Number top for Lazio is quite difficult because they had
quite a few good performers. I thought the centre backs were very good this season. I thought that
Luis Alberto had a great season. Sergey was good too. I thought Sergey had a very good season
actually. Sergey was fantastic. And even when you look at the numbers and it's really come you come
to realize like he was still good this season Sergey. Absolutely. Not as good as last season
but he was still very good. Yeah because Immobile they formed that partnership and he suddenly
didn't have Immobile to put the ball into but still equally as effective man. Yeah. It was
fantastic. Bear in mind it's all just the contributions. For sure. There's also
Philipp Anderson who had a very good season but I'm just going to stick to Sergey Milyakovich.
Savage for my top super dependable super trustworthy played 30, 40, 36 games scored nine
goals and got eight assists and that for me is enough for him to be my top. When you watch Lazio
you can't help but notice the tall mustached man from Serbia. Yes I agree with how good Sergey was
this year. However what was the difference between the Lazio last year that finished around sixth
and the Lazio that finished second this year. It's the fact that Zakhani was brought in and his form
was magnificent. He out wide he added that flair that Lazio always always struggled with in previous
seasons. Ten goals and seven assists weren't too shabby either but it's more about how active he
was how he was moving the ball forward how direct he was and his 10 goals bro he had goals against
Napoli Milan Atalanta Lazio Roma and Juve. Super season. Give me a break like to me it's Zakhani.
Incredible season by Zakhani who played as well the vast majority of the games.
Honestly it could be either or could be Sergey it could be Zakhani depends on what you prioritize.
Fair enough flop now for me bro. I just got a glimpse of what you wrote. Bro 12 goals and five
assists should never be a flop right should never be a flop but when you look at the fact that this
guy last season had 36 goals and the season before 27 goals and it keeps going like 20 was the
benchmark right for Immobile for his for this recent career in Syria. This season not only
did he not get the numbers but he was wasteful he was invisible at times. I was very disappointed
with Immobile this season and I'm sure many Fanta Al Anatoly thank you thank you my god
Nazer Martini. We're disappointed as well bro because you know you want to see Immobile
banging them in. Yeah he did flop he did yes absolutely my flop is Luis Maximiano 100. Oh my
god it was comical. I can't believe that was last season. Six minutes into his debut he picked the
ball up outside his box got a red card and he didn't start another game in Syria that season.
And Providel. Six minutes one red card. Providel came in from fucking Spezia and he was insane for
them and he got the most clean sheets in the league and I think the fewest goals conceded.
And probably if Maximiano had not done that he might have had the most clean sheets as well
because Lazio were that impenetrable in the defense. I completely forgot about that guy.
It's too comical it's way too comical. God knows what happens to him I'm sure he's already gone
like I doubt he's in Rome. Yeah unsung hero. For me it was between Ciasale and Romagnoli.
Okay you would decide on one? Yes I put Ciasale because he gets less recognition of course Romagnoli
is very celebrated and very loved he has a good reputation. Ciasale for me had a fantastic season
partnering up with Romagnoli to form a very formidable defense. He came from Hellas Verona
and he held his own near his solid captain. Yes very very good and as an unsung hero I fancied
it quite a lot choosing Ciasale or Romagnoli especially Ciasale I agree with every single
point you made. However I went with Felipe Anderson because losing a capo canoniere and
leader like Immobile would be devastating for any team but Anderson showcased great versatility
and consistency for once. He played right wing he played attack he played as a false nine and you
know what sometimes Lazio looked even better with him on the pitch. Bro honestly very good shout
Felipe Anderson had a great season and as you mentioned a consistent season and that's
something that we're not used to seeing with Felipe Anderson consistency. Exactly okay good.
Best win three two one four nil against Milan obviously. Now it might have been a terrible
spell for Milan when Lazio beat them four nil because it was during that period that period
that all Milan fans know and all Serie A followers know. However there has been a battle between
Lazio and Milan over the past few years. We heard in that intro that Tonali goal against Lazio that
gave them bragging rights and that won them the league and they had all those battles between
Lazio and Milan over the years where they were both kind of flopping but both still fighting for
Europe wasn't going to be Europa League Champions League and I really think that that final victory
gave Lazio a lot and a lot of confidence man. Definitely definitely definitely it was that
win and I think another good win was a victory over Roma when they moved up the second that was
that was a good one for them as well. To be fair they had two massive victories over Roma
two massive victories over Roma this season. The worst loss of course we have the European ones
two one lost to AZ Alkmaar twice they had the five one lost to Mitaland I think domestically you
either look at the three and lost to Juve because they could have totally given Juve more of a
run for their money and the three one loss to Salernitana at home was also pretty bad. I agree
with the three one loss against Salernitana I also placed a note here saying getting knocked out of
the conference league after a double loss to AZ Alkmaar was devastating for the image of the club
but then it did help them gain Serial success so you can't really choose that no it was a bit of
a strategic one maybe by Salernitana. Sacrificing the Europa League for a Champions League finish
domestically is fair enough. More in your take notes. He would have poor guy he didn't know
the number of points. Inter top three two one Lautaro Martinez oh my god oh my god yes yes
you went for Lautaro of course I went Lautaro bro he scored 21 goals and got six assists fair enough
he was a monster like and when you look at Lukaku was misfiring for the vast majority of the season
apart from the end they really needed to look out for Lautaro to step up. DiMarco is actually
my unsung hero I might as well say it okay yeah he's my unsung hero because I thought that he kept
Gorsens out of the lineup he was brilliant at transitioning on the counter he's improved massively
in the final third and he's become a pretty fucking solid player DiMarco. When you consider
that last season Inter lost Perisic and and they showed faith in Gorsens and then Gorsens started
struggling obviously still carrying injuries so on so forth. Inter fans will all breathe a massive
sigh of relief to see someone like DiMarco stepping up they would have never expected it
they hated him in the beginning but what a player he proved to be his industry attacking prowess and
performances on the big stages in my opinion makes him interstop he did in the Serie A he did in the
Coppa and he did in the Champions League and if you go back to Serie A spotlights earlier episodes
you will find us praising DiMarco back when he was with Elas Verona and then saying that he would
bench Perisic. Little did we know that Perisic would have the season of his fucking life
but now he's only gone and benched Gorsens so there was some element of truth about his potential
because DiMarco for me is a fantastic talent. Now you said you're unsung hero so I'm going to step
in and say mine before we get to the vlog. Can I guess one guess I have one guess is it Artjeri B?
Yes it is. Oh yeah it was my second one. Obviously many thought he was finished as he was essentially
forced out of Lazio last year at the age of 35 Milan fans didn't want him as well and he was
being linked to Milan we actually spoke about that in the episode with Santi and Mintov but his
experience improved the defense significantly when he came in he was to me the key reason as to why
inter turn things around after their torrid start man after all those losses in a row and he came
in that he really gelled that defense. Yes bro he was meant to be a backup but he ended up being a
leader and that's always a good story when you look at Skriniar who was meant to be their best
defender proved to be a liability because of his personality and the fact that he wanted PSUG
you look at the person who was criticized for being signed he stepped up and he was the top
for Inter at the back over there so honestly mad respect to Artjeri B after all he's been through
beating cancer yeah coming back redemption season at Sassuolo and not only being scouted by Lazio
picked up by Lazio and picked up by Inter and then pocketing Holland in a Champions League final
that's quite massive. Massive he beat cancer twice by the way and he also earlier on in his career
something not many people know when he was at Milan actually struggled with alcoholism
oh yeah as well so wow just just an exemplary human being at Cherubi yeah shout out to Cherubi
you're the man at Cherubi. Now you mentioned him so I'm just going to say who my flop is immediately
Skriniar to me was the flop of the season for Inter he looked out of sorts in the beginning of
the season and then confirmed that he'll be leaving the club on a free at the end of the season
well sorry exactly leaving the club on a free at the end of the season and he was often left out
of the starting 11 now keeping in mind that he was the club's captain Artjeri B was straight up
better when he came in. Fair enough bro I don't know I went to Gorsens of course Skriniar is a
disappointment and a flop yeah obviously like but Gorsens I would have never guessed that Gorsens
you know wouldn't be able to get more minutes and rack up a few some numbers you know with Inter.
Fair enough. So I went for him because he was simply he was so good at Atalanta and then he
was a shadow of his former self and it's weird because when you see him with the national team
even with Germany recently he plays really well so there's something that's not clicking with
him and then there maybe he's not understanding some some things that Nizaghi wants him to do
maybe maybe I think he should get out to be to be honest especially with with Demarco there he's
not going to get much luck. Fair enough. Inter's best win. Now I went for the 3-0 victory against
Empoli. Their best win the 3-0 win against Empoli. Yes because it set off in the league of course
of course when you look at other competitions there's the super copa final where they beat
Milan 3-0 there's the semi-final of the Champions League where they knocked Milan out of course
but this 3-0 win against Empoli in the league was very underrated because it set off a chain
of victories for Inter. They beat Empoli 3-0 and then won one two three four five six seven eight
games in a row they lost to Napoli fair enough and then won another three so that Empoli victory
came at a very tough time for Inter they needed a win they had just fucking drawn to Benfica they
had lost to Monza it was going shit for them and not only fucking lost to Monza they had a few
terrible results at that point and this win gave them the confidence to push forward that's why I
put exactly keep in mind that's what kept them in the top four yeah that run of eight because it was
tight towards the end of the season and that that victory I agree with you would would have said
that all off I couldn't help but put the 3-0 win in the super copa italiana final and because that
they they just demolished absolutely demolished and destroyed Milan their local rivals sure they
beat them twice in the champions league but to me that super copa italiana final winning 3-0 was
devastating for Milan and what a party it must have been for Inter yeah most most definitely bro
I can't even imagine what that must have been like as Milan fans we are used to seeing devastating
score lines and finals yeah in recent years there was I'll never forget that time on the cruise bro
oh when Milan were in the super copa italiana again final against Juventus and Mehdi Benatio
scored two goals of two very dubious Donnarumma moments Donnarumma for four fucking nil man he
was that was so I have two of the worst goalkeeper performances I have in recent memory barring
Luis Maximiano but it's one of the best goalkeepers in history in my opinion Iker Casillas
against Holland in the 2014 world cup if I'm not mistaken or was it the 2010 world cup damn you know
one of those I can't really remember when Van Persie had that flying header little does anyone
know that Casillas always struggled with collecting loose balls and getting out to command his area
and he was well out of position over there and then Robin scored that goal and he had a bunch of
other mistakes and but the other one was that Milan Juve final Donnarumma was abysmal he was
responsible to me for three of the goals you've just reminded me by mentioning Casillas and my
brain went on a tangent so the king's cup had a crazy moment where Casillas was in goal and he
wasn't even moving yes and Aguero ran up to him they do like a MLS style pen back in the day
exactly you run from the halfway line for those who don't know you carry the ball from halfway
I believe you can take three touches and then you must shoot exactly this guy Casillas was like
hands on knees just looking down like and then all of a sudden he just springs to life and saves
saves yeah I was gonna say Aguero shot yes he stayed on his line it was beautiful that took
me to another point this is going to be a senior world cup ah yes I saw that that's going to be
super interesting apparently it's happening yes it's been confirmed and you'll be seeing the likes of
Pirlo you'll be seeing I think even certain players like Cambiasso that's crazy man that's
gonna be so much fun there are certain football players who probably stayed fit as well absolutely
if Zidane plays I watch some classic matches sometimes like there was once like El Clasico's
from from back in the day and they feel the same 11s that they would have fielded in certain
seasons I see the way Zidane plays he's still he's still magnificent and so it would be you know
very exciting to see some of our old heroes still playing man yeah definitely and it would be fun
to watch them yeah nostalgia worst loss worst loss for Inter 2-1 to Spezia it started it started a
winless run of six games yeah for Inter as well demoralized the shit out of them losing to Spezia
is always a disaster as Milan fans we know yeah I think Milan played Spezia three times six times
sorry they have three wins and three losses my god my god so yeah we'll move on to Milan the top
yes so top for Milan for Rafael Leal yes obviously yes yes yes yes yes for sure he's a one-man army
up front when he's on there's no stopping him he's absolutely unplayable last season's MVP
he's a very good player very very good player to me okay he went through a bad spell there were the
contract negotiations there were all there was all that Milan were going through a bad spell
he was adapting to a switch in formation of three four three and he was playing very very centrally
and very close to Giroud which isn't his strong suit especially after Piole got him used to playing
out wide enough for a 3-3 to me he's Milan's x factor clearly Milan could afford to be patient
in possession we used to see Milan when they didn't have the likes of a difference maker like
Liao rushing to get into the box because they don't get many chances Milan can now afford to
play patiently because they trust that when Liao is in a little bit of space they could exploit
the defense Milan spent an entire game waiting for those moments so Liao to me has to be the top
for sure yes agreed the flop for me is not Charles de Quattro I was I was considering the
Quattro because of course zero goals for a trequartista was brought in for 30 plus
million euros is not a good look but but Origi was meant to be that player to rotate with Giroud
yep Origi was meant to be a player that would start most games to be honest with you and he
did not show that he was of course injury prone very unlucky but when he did play he looked selfish
he looked heavy bro he looked heavy yeah yeah my flop is Origi as well he was signed for his
Champions League experience I for goal and for his youth quite quite frankly because Zlatan and Giroud
being the other options they needed someone in his prime which Origi physically is in his prime
but he often looked clueless he looked greedy and Giroud ended up playing two to three games a week
because he was so useless which takes us to our unsung hero yes and I have two that's cheating
it was it was yes but I had to make a decision it was between Giroud and it was between Krunich as
well now I ended up going for Krunich because when Krunich was out Milan suffered the worst losses
and Krunich brought a lot of balance to the midfield the lack of a trequartista so Benassir
pushing into that trequartista role and Krunich playing alongside Sandro Tonali in the middle and
actually being super useful over there respect to Giroud 13 goals and five assists in 25 starts this
season he was run to the ground by Piole of course because he had to be the player he was the only
option for most of the time and despite his old age he still managed to deliver yeah now to me
there are a lot that can be mentioned there's Benassir for his control, Cao for the improvements
he made to Milan's defense when he came in and Giroud for his surprising durability hold up play
and his big game goals because those are the most important but Leal was still the top scorer this
season however Krunich takes it for me Benassir and Tonali seemed to struggle to play together
for a long time in the season especially when Milan were going through that bad spell but when
Rade came in and Brahim moved to the wing the balance in the midfield was complete yes no
matter what he did he did for the benefit of the team which is something I love about him something
that like Igor could learn a thing or two from a player like Krunich I get why you said Giroud but
to me Krunich is just more unsung I went for Krunich at the end he was my oh okay he was my
to me he's more unsung than Giroud to me Giroud was Milan's second most important player this season
Giroud has a song Krunich doesn't exactly he's definitely Krunich should have a song though this
is this is our point like biggest win is very easy yes 4-0 against Napoli the only game I missed this
season yes biggest loss you have the 3-0 Coppa lost to winter sucks to lose a final against arrival
Milan went on to get trashed they also got trashed by Sassuolo and Lazio if you want to look at the
domestic games I'm not sure because there's the 3-0 lost to winter there's the 5-2 home lost to
Sassuolo there's the 4-0 lost to Lazio and Rome there's the 3-1 lost to Udinese there's the 2-0
lost to Spezia and there's the 5-0 aggregate loss to Chelsea we've had it tough Milan have really
had it tough I think the set off was that 3-0 but you can't look at like a 5-2 home lost to
Sassuolo and not say that's that's the most devastating loss this season fair enough fair enough
yeah I think Sassuolo would be the worst one yeah I think so for the conceding five to Sassuolo
moving on to Atalanta yes top coupe miners oh good shout good shout yours
Luckmann Luckmann okay I struggled with it but he kind of disappeared towards the end well he
struggled with injuries in q4 he was he was out injured essentially but he was insane for whenever
he was fit 13 goals and eight assists leaving Duván and Muriel rotting on the bench they were
terrible so having someone like Luckmann to me it was needed and he was the guy that got them back
into the Europa League essentially and he was what anyone would fear about Atalanta fair enough yes
for me coupe miners 10 goals for assists he's consistent he's dependable he's versatile he's
a great player coupe miners takes the cake for me um flop for me was Duván Zapata it was between
there no sorry I would say Muriel actually okay now they're both very similar how the
fuck are these guys so finished at 32 years old I don't know at least Zapata occupies defenders
in the box Muriel couldn't even do what he does best which is like hold the ball play a simple
pass that would open the defense he's known for his high IQ play Muriel and this season he just
simply did not have it now the only reason I didn't go for those two strikers that you mentioned
because obviously anyone would consider them is because they had it good with Hoyland and with
Luckmann up front so technically they were unaffected by how bad these guys were because
they found their replacements no even though they were so good in previous seasons Duván and Muriel
some of the best strikers in the league I was very disappointed by Musso this year and he's
he's my flop um a shadow of his former self in my opinion um if it weren't for the defensive
approach I would have conceded way more goals and he was even dropped for Sporty along the last eight
games of the season I don't think he made any remarkable saves I don't think he was confident
I think that's what it boils down to his confidence he really didn't seem up to the task for me and
for a top seven team they deserve a better shot stopper you see you watch Musso at Udinese and
Musso in his first season at Atalanta is a spectacular shot stopper a really really good
goalkeeper and because of that I would put him as my flop because he's typically so good and this
season it's not that he was shit but that he flopped yes yes yes it's true it's true he
definitely did flop um yeah fair enough yeah Unsung, Derun, good one, Scalvini okay I put Derun simply
because he's the powerhouse of the team he doesn't get enough recognition he's always there he's
always in the in the squad and he always delivers he always plays well he always gives it his all
he does a lot of dirty work for the team for me Derun is the unsung hero I think you don't mean
Derun I think you mean Derun but sure to me Scalvini is the perfect example of a modern
center back and he was massive when it comes to the way Atalanta played football this year with
their intricate style of play it typically started from Scalvini when it comes to a center back
playing the ball out from the back which if you watch Serie A you know that that's how 90 percent
of attacks are started it starts from the goalkeeper to the defense to the midfield to the
attack that's how most goals happen in Serie A it's very intricate and very tactical Scalvini
is the best in the league at doing that from the fence playing the ball out from fence Scalvini
is definitely the best one and he's really really dominant in the air and keep in mind this guy's
just 19 years old you know John Stones how he's being deployed in midfield for Manchester City
could be Scalvini could be Scalvini could definitely be Scalvini Scalvini is definitely
the most pep player in the league yeah I agree I agree yes bro it's also worth mentioning by the
way as a flop Gasparini could be seen as a flop as well yeah yeah there were certain players man
like Sopi and Ocoli I would really like to see more of them hey man Sopi looked good when he
played out Sopi looked decent is is he that guy that's going to be consistent is his industry
incredible is he a Gasparini wing back probably not but I think he had glimpses of goodness
I guess I think he fits the mold I think he just Gasparini opted for his preferred options now
his Hans Hattabers his Zappa Gustas yes best win for me 8-2 against Seller in the town you can't
score eight in a game and that's not your best win it was a fucking party for sure and if you
have to look at an opponent that they beat that was better than them it's a two-nil victory over
Latvia yeah agreed agreed worse loss is probably the one nil to Sasuolo because Mele and Muriel
both got a red card Lorienta scored and Atalanta just failed to show up for that one oh that was
your birthday though that was my birthday that was your birthday we're singing karaoke and
yeah baby for me their worst loss they got zero points in two matches against Lecce they lost to
one at home and they lost to one away to me though that's devastating getting zero points
against a newly promoted team fair enough bro good let us know who's doing better guys comment
on spotify we disagreeing a lot i like it fuck you man you're dumb you're an idiot you're dumb
man you're fucking stupid bro jesus i listened to some podcasts where when they disagree with each other they start fighting
all out on each other like all out yeah we should do that we definitely should bro
Roma Roma Roma top the ball easy he changed the team and there's a massive reason as to why
roma are scoring from open play this season because of the ball at 12 goals and seven assists in seya
in 25 games five goals and one assist in the europa league including a goal in the final
while he was carrying an injury he also had a goal in the coppa italia yes bro that's fair enough flop
three two one bellotti now easy tammy didn't have a great season but bellotti didn't score a single
goal in seya single goal in seya for a player who was a prolific goal scorer for so many seasons
yeah i think uh just to name this guy because he really didn't have a good season ebonyas
ebonyas because when you put him on the biggest stages he doesn't perform well
that's not does he not perform well but he'll cost you the game yeah exactly unsung hero chris
molly good good good i obviously thought about him dude i stumbled upon the clip and i posted
it recently on instagram follow follow follow and this fucking guy was going back in the united
days yeah i know and maguire was really rated he was going um we've just let score smalling go
three or million or something let me tell you something smalling is twice the player that
maguire is i never used it that zooms in on that guy in the background pulling a face at him
firstly fuck that guy in the background if the guy in the background's listening
fuck you bro but to me el sharawi was the unsung hero okay for roma with his numbers up
because he's a fantastic utility player he was versatile playing both as a left wing back and a
left winger especially with spinat sola struggling with injuries he really had to shift his weight
and even with the bala struggling with injuries doesn't matter if you're on the left side and
you're injured el sharawi stepped in and he got seven goals and three assists in the league two
goals and one assist in the coppa too el sharawi fair enough huh speaking of allahly now best win
for me was the two one away to inter yes i agree never easy winning at the san siro and they've
struggled against the top seven before and this season they got it done against inter that was a show for mori
yes yes west loss for me um of course is it was a mccabe high father there's all those of course
but for me it was the four three loss at home to sasuala um you score three and you lose yeah it's
horrible yeah and to concede four goals especially at home at the olympica that's ugly especially for
a morino team because they're so compact pardon me jesus they're so compact and they're so defensive
yes so to say they're more in your parking the bus and all that um to me it's the two losses against
lazio courtesy of ebonyas just the manner in which they lost those two games against lazio
devastating that has to be it for me there's also two one away to cremonezo by the way yes yes yes
that was massive you ventus yes top rubio bro i agree i went costa in the mid season tops and
flops but this time i'm gonna go for rubio simply because he played 32 games he got eight goals he
got four assists he had a great season he was instrumental in that midfield and they really
needed him because paredes flopped yes pogba was unavailable yes the entire time and this guy was
playing along the likes of youngsters i'd never even heard of before meretti you've got fai joly
berensia excuse my pronunciation yeah i think so i think so i think that's pretty bang on um i put
rubio as well not only because of his output his output has significantly improved from previous
seasons however his physicality his technicality and the fact that he was a goal scoring midfielder
it's super important for you especially when firstly he was starting on the wing a lot of
the time as well where they mentioning that to to showcase his versatility obviously and secondly
i leggy was shifting things around shifting the formation shifting player positions
and the common factor was rubio in midfield and if you don't consider the minus 10 points
they would have finished what second third in this year's i think i think third just ahead of inter
if i'm if i'm not mistaken obviously it's not accurate because you have to bar those last games
of the season and the monza loss and all those exactly the ampoli one as well um i think he was
instrumental for you in the middle breaking down play starting attacks always an option if someone
has the ball rubio is always available what a season he had man what a season flop harsh
harsh you're saying pog barn i'm saying but he only played 161 minutes okay i understand
i understand only because if you look at the manner of how he got injured you're going to say
because it's for the world cup and it's everyone's dream i know it's not fucking easy i don't know
but i can understand why it's not fucking easy but you can't just he might have screwed up his
entire career this season this season pugba might have fucked himself for the long term he's trying
to shortcut his injury recovery and he ended up doing an even more serious surgery that will
than what was initially required because he made it even worse because he tried to rush back
it's harsh but you can't you can't not say that pugba flopped this season his the expectations
were through the roof he was the solution for you but he was going to come back and he was going to
hit those curlers from outside the area for sure for sure but unfortunately he played 161 minutes
when he came on he looked decent sure but pugba okay fair enough i'm going to stick with paredes
he's left and he's already scored the world before argentina the classic he just had eight starts
all season that's a flop bro you brought him in and then you look at the fact that he ended up
playing youngsters in midfield and paredes was there the entire time available that's a flop to
me yeah i agree i agree unsung hero for me a player i'm enamored by a player i like danilo give him
the armband give him the arm give him the arm what a fantastic player he's solid he's versatile he
also managed three goals and three assists he's honestly yeah captain material super leader locker
room figure he's a favorite there's there's no there's no debate i thought of saying costage
initially but not really that unsung um so yeah i i have to have to go for danilo best win they
they got two victories over inter in the league winning one nil away from home and two nil at home
those take it for me getting a double against inter in the league is fucking different agreed agreed
there was also the three nil against latio finished second which was super yes yes yes worst loss i
would say five one away to nopoly there was the four one against ampoli the three nil against
that doesn't count that they don't count because they came after the terribly political situation
the new is the points deductions they came at bad time so for me the five one against nopoly was the
the worst one it's there i listed it but this was one of the situations where i had to go out of the
league okay to to to visit it two nil lost to makkabi haifa yeah when you look at uvs progression
over the past few years naturally they had those nine scudetti in in a row and after that they were
like okay champions league we need to establish ourselves as european powerhouses they got to two
champions league finals they signed cristiano ronaldo and they did everything in their power
to get them to be european powerhouses which was the obviously the natural next step for uva there
was nothing wrong with doing what they did all of that led to losing two nil to makkabi haifa yeah
enough said difficult season for you yes fiorantino fiorantina top berag i thought of berag is so hard
bro i thought i'm sorry so so so good a lot of people just say he's good from set pieces no he's
not he's not he's that he's a leader and he's fucking tough bro and he plays most of the time
33 games all season solid man hard working devastating at set pieces i had nico guanzales
as the other option he's yours he was mentally unavailable for half the season
redemption song not enough for me for a top of the season 42 appearances 28 starts 2663 minutes
played this is in all competitions yes 42 appearances in all competitions remember he was
nowhere to be seen at the start 14 goals but you have to mention all competitions when you look at
fiorantina season coppa italia seria so seria they finished eighth coppa italia they got to the final
and conference league they got to the final and because this nico guanzales couldn't get his
shit together for the start of the season they won't be featuring in europe next but fiorantina
were shit at the start of the season well sure but their best player was mentally unavailable
he came back he came back and he scored in the most important part of the season he got them to
all those finals that they were in not single-handedly of course italiano all that um 14 goals five
assists when you look at all competitions he was the star player six goals in seria and five in
the europa league and two in the coppa you look at all of their success he was there this for me
would be the equivalent of picking deo lefebvre as your top forudinese disagree that a few had two
goals all season no he didn't yes he did did he have two goals yes he had like yeah but he was
incredible at the start he did half the season and then he disappeared so for me that can't be the
top it just came good for nico because i understand he peaked at the second half of the season so it's
fresher in the memory it's fresher in the memory but the stakes are also higher bro there's there's
the later stages of the conference league the later stages of the coppa italia it's when the
the leagues get more competitive the competitions get more competitive the way he stepped up after
that he was easily their most influential player after that easily i understand however you're
a shout of biragi because he was there for the entire time he was solid and he was a leader i
understand i love the redemption of nico gonzalez though flop jovich whilst netting six in the league
and six in the europa league which is massive he was replacing dusan vlaović and he struggled to
keep his spot ahead of cabral that's fair enough yes um to be honest i i don't disagree with you
at all um you have a fair shout six goals six yes that's that's it you know it's harsh yes um
igor man i i think igor is a good player i think igor is not only is a good player okay i'm just
gonna say i think igor is a beast bro yeah i think igor when he's mentally focused when he switched
on is impossible to play against one v one against him and it's a nightmare you're up against a
gorilla essentially he's a fucking animal like um this season man he couldn't get into his rhythm
he really struggled igor yeah he couldn't he couldn't keep up the season in my opinion and
obviously what highlighted that obviously was that decision not to bring down bowen in the conference
leave oh my there was that which is just the cherry on the cake no i absolutely get that's
frustrating i get you because i've won a trophy yeah um yes there was also brek all over the
fields of batarsk because he's new unsung hero i went for christian kwame i went for jacomo
bonaventura no bias would you say he's unsung yes i would say so i would say yes i think kwame would
be more unsung you know kwame was the it's the same situation with philippe anderson for lazio
fair came in to replace cabral and jovich were shitting the bed um kwame was corner was shitting
the bed on the beginning and kwame came in there and he always played well man and he managed four
goals and four assists all season he was he was pretty good i mean no one expected anything out
of kwan people had even forgotten he existed because of his injuries he joined from general
and then kind of dipped for a while vanished off the face of the earth and then came back and looked
decently to be honest and was a good shout kwame is a very good shout to me it's bonaventura
because typically people judge bonaventura season based on his numbers now if you look at his
numbers this season he has seven goals and four assists which is good which is good but his
leadership qualities are immense he keeps fucking working for 90 minutes of every single game and
he had 39 appearances and 37 starts he was consistent he was constant to me he's the unsung
hero i don't think he gets raved about enough man bonaventura especially in his later years
there's also saponara four goals three assists another good season um a season where he featured
more often than nothing that's not something we can often say um he's been let go he's a free agent
right now let's hope he stays in the league yeah let's hope he stays in the league now hopefully
best victory he's kind of in his later years saponara so maybe but he's not that old 32 no
something like that that's not old at all you know another player bro by the way who comes across
as way older than he actually is is manolo gabbiadini how old do you think manolo i know
this 32 yes saponara is 31 how old is my god i just i just thought of one that um seems older
than he is i can't be at least 31 as well my god my god who i can't remember i can't remember i'll
randomly remember when we're in like 12th place or something don't worry cool and best win of
course one way to winter was a great win at home to milan was also good but one way to enter
is massive it's massive and i went for ferentina to roma one because they were both heading into
the european finals and they just the conference the finalists beat the europe the europa league
finalists fair enough and i think it's a massive statement that they made over there for entina
worst loss so basa keche three ferentina nil didn't really matter because they got to the
conference league final nonetheless but ferentina nil latio four had topped off a torrid start for
la viola and it seemed like it couldn't get worse for them at that point so i'd say that
fair enough yes i also put the four three away loss to inter simply because that game was not
as close as the scoreline suggests and there were massive lapses in concentration early on and they
really could have got something out of that game but the individual errors cost it and they they
got fucked up in fact many people won't remember inter were two minutes ahead in that game early
on yeah a few seconds in like barilla scored i think um ferentina were second best in that game
to me that like it's like they got merked inter made it way harder for themselves but they got
consolation goals but they got fucked up yeah balonia wow we're flying how long how what minute
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women split up my friend was a little bit nervous he was along with his girlfriends he went to the
women part um he went to the man party opened the door found himself in this massive hall full of
korean men everyone everyone there were about 50 people in there bro everyone had a bush except
him bro he stood out like a sore thumb okay then the west the west everyone in the west shaves
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like a lot of americans listen to podcasts podcast culture came from america i i believe with joe
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marketing domination yeah i'm not sure where this podcast episode is going right now
bolonja top bolonja top for solini 100 finally a consistent season for solini he typically performs
in the second half of the season only he had 11 goals he had four assists really got revived
thanks to the managerial change um of course
mata yeah mata thank you i was gonna call him gross so bro i've been mixing on you i don't like
that i don't like that mata has been super of course bolonja and apparently psug you want the
massive clubs have been looking at mata as a profile but he managed to revive what's the mata
who i just called minter will end up at inter he will he will ease the future like he'll spend
seven seasons eight seasons at inter i can see it bro i can see it i can see it um shout out
turn out of it yes or solina no debate for me the best italian attacking player this season in the
world was a canny um he contributed more or solini 11 goals four assists i believe in the league but
11 goals four assists zucconi had i have it i have it written control f zucconi enter
here 10 goals and seven assists so zucconi had more zucconi had more but okay or solina
still his corner is wow no but also no debate for me he can make a dangerous situation out of
nothing yes he has that chaotic play style i really enjoy watching yeah and flop harsh maybe no
oh he had his he had his opportunities to grab goals arnie was out injured a lot
and he only managed two and he played around 13 14 games so good he looked good but that is a
striker not a flop though petania is on my flop for from one's hand he is my score he is my
oh man's looking at the numbers but no it's not it's not only numbers it's it's roles for me
zerxay was very good at driving holding up the ball laying it off to the wingers he was fine
for me soriano started off well but only managed the season with 15 starts one goal three assists i
thought he started the season well and was going to be kind of a comeback season for him but in the
end he proved that he can't do it consistently for 38 games fair enough zerxay for me okay unsung
hero ferguson i could push fair enough to me ferguson um he kind of started performing under
motta out of nowhere he scored a shit ton for what did he end up scoring seven goals seven six
something like that something like that but he's an incredibly intelligent footballer once motta
came in and utilized him correctly he was the key outlet for them in midfield one of their most
important players the season if not the most important player yeah he was he was amazing
this season 23 years old lewis ferguson he's got seven goals this season that's super super super
unsung hero for me for me it was stefan posh who played as right back he got six goals and two
assists from right back he looked incredible in my opinion um i thought he at one point he was one
of the highest the best performing um defenders yeah in europe's top five leagues great player
unsung i'm just gonna argue with you for a second um because you said man's looking at the numbers
i think you have to consider them i don't think it's and you'll notice that a lot of the times
i think if you like if you look at a lot of the decisions i will make in my tops flops and whatever
i'll say regardless of these numbers he was influential he held the ball he controlled
that's that's zerg z did this did that i and i understand and i understand but you remove
iron out of itch you bring on zerg z he's got 14 to 15 matches to establish himself yes he moved
the ball around not as efficiently he was good but he wasn't insane in front of goal he shits himself
he still is improving he's only 22 years old he very very interesting player coming from bayern
munich however with iron out of itch out injured you bring on zerg z he's not getting you goals
and they ended up playing barrow up front so barrow can get them goals because the striker needs to
score he does fair enough um and i think i would consider my flop because he's so raved about
because he came from bayern munich the expectations were yes too high for where he is so the expectation
skewed the performances fair enough i never expected him to get many goals this season
every time i watch zerg's a passes the eye test with flying colors i think he's a super his
movement is brilliant brilliant player he glides i would not call him the flop this season fair fair
fair fair and best victory one nil at home to winter fair enough i agree okay there was a two
nil away to atalanta three nilters a swell on the derby which was a massive victory for them yeah
worst loss for me was six one away to winter yeah their best win and their worst loss were against
the same team yes and the six one came first the one came after exactly which makes it it makes it
better yeah yes torino tony sanabria finally we give it to someone who has always stepped up in
tough moments a man who has always played second fiddle a man who was not praised often enough but
who has always delivered when called upon tony sanabria finished the season with 12 goals and
four assists and hardly ever started the games tony sanabria for me is torino's best player this
season all the doubt about their lack of number nine but he is actually genuinely a great fucking
striker he scored some true number nine goals some goals that some true number nines wouldn't
score and he also has those creative qualities of a treco artista which actually brings a lot to
his game he's a phenomenal striker i would take him at milan i'll go so far as to say that tony
sabria had a magnificent season magnificent now the flop um three two one all right i'll die on
this hill bro and this was his chance he has been back in italy for a while now um torino had a gap
in the attack of course he had the chance to establish himself he managed two goals only
yeah four starts all season um he also scored for the under-21s against france yesterday
oh yeah yeah i saw a good header tonality system exactly exactly yes unsung samuel irici fair
enough i considered him okay i thought he was great in midfield kept everything ticking he's
young he's talented managed two worlds one assists was an amazing player i um had the question of
richie versus illich because when illich came in he was really good i had the thought of miran
chook versus vlasic as well they have a lot of really good key pieces to me the unsung hero very
unsung buongiorno buongiorno super his second in air challenges one ariel duil in the league yep
so that's 107 air challenges one all season he was in 181 air challenges which is seventh in seria
and he had 176 pass interceptions which is 16th in seria and he averaged around 5.43
pass interceptions per game which put him in the 85 percent percentile and just a fantastic season
by buongiorno super super player bro very good shout also buongiorno is a great word love the
way brad pitt says it in england's boston bonjourno bonjourno yeah great player good talent breaking
news for brits your romano has just tweeted that inter are in fact closer to the rom than milan are
we won't get into the discussion but i thought might as well make this podcast up to date no
devastating yes we have to record with twitter open nowadays because shit moves so quickly yeah
now best win for torino two one victory at home to milan who did you say for uh somewhere the richie
yes yeah two one um against me in the league and one nil away in the copa yeah they knocked me
out of the two massive wins and yeah against me they also had a four nil away victory against
the rat in a corner that were spezia on the penultimate day when they were battling
um they were fighting for their lives and then they beat them four that was fun good that's
probably their best victory come to think of it but but no you know two one against me now
yeah better now worst loss i would say four two away to uve because it was a derby and because
torino are better than that nowadays torino shouldn't be conceding for it to uve torino
i guess you're rich you're rich at the helm yeah so they should they shouldn't be conceding for
it you lose to spezia that's your worst loss of the season and torino lost to spezia one nil at
home okay fair enough moving on to monza yes um i know you can compare caprari's contributions to
carlos augusto who's a defender and tchuria as well who he is well behind but his impact is still the
strongest he's the best player on the pitch when monza play he's winning fouls he's taking shots
he's influencing the team and he's naughty so to me caprari takes it you see he is he's their star
player caprari is monza star player disagree disagree disagree didn't think he was consistent
enough but is he not monza star player yes i mean on paper in theory sure but i thought for example
what do you mean on paper on paper is the one that has the better stats yeah i mean you look
at mon you watch monza's games this season was the carlos augusto show bro he linked up brilliantly
with the with the midfield to to attack um you look at for example in tchuria as well out wide
he was incredible as well but i would say for example towards the end of the season caprari
was a menace even when he wasn't scoring or assisting which i understand didn't have as
many contributions as carlos and as tchuria um but he was that influence for monza he was
the player you look out for when you're playing against monza you put two men on him because he's
creating how many starts do you even have by the end of it caprari caprari i don't even know if he
started that many games bro caprari you're joking i swear to god bro joking 32 starts five goals to
assess okay 32 starts are a shit ton um forget the goals and assist because he was the most
influential player i know bro but i i still disagree with you whenever i watched monza it
wasn't caprari who stood out to me it was carlos augusto man carlos augusto was incredible in
moments yes carlos augusto stood out to me he was defensively sound and his output for a defender
was magnificent but again just the amount of fouls that that um caprari won the amount of times he
created space for his teammates is just super super dangerous to me he's the most influential
player in that team barring the numbers okay um i agree to disagree there um i'm going to stick
to carlos augusto incredible season um he's wanted all over europe even newcastle apparently are
after him him his mother and his dog as well um yeah flop i've praised petania for his holdup
play and seven assists i understand his industry but four goals is too little he's been regressing
in his career okay i put cronio this is fair fair fair fair one appearance marley closed second
for getting stabbed but um cronio is uh my my flop of the season fair enough it makes sense
yeah unsung hero it's a it's so yeah brings a lot to the game from center back and he's always on it
he's always on he's always in the mood to play football no it's all his balls he's tough but
he's elegant on the ball he hardly ever puts a foot wrong he contributes wonderfully to link up
play he oh he has the technique of a midfielder yes literally so he reminds me a lot no way near
the same quality but the kind of center back ramos is it's just very similar pinging balls from the
back good in the air tough motherfucker tattoo is all over can faint and drop the striker pressing
yeah he's very street smart as well he's a bit of a teo in that sense he knows who's where he knows
who's on a yellow all that love it so love it so i've always had them on my fanta i think three
pardon me three seasons in a row i think i had them on my fun so there we go best win for monza
for me was the two nil away to juventus um the one nil away to winter the two nil at home tonopoly
now you look at this okay you have the two nil away to juventus it came after the news of the
points deduction the two nil at home tonopoly was while napoli were hung over so that leaves the one
away to winter for me that's their best victory disagree um now not because it was their most
convincing victory but it will go down in history for being their first victory in syria it was a
one nil win over uva and the first of many pullman detroit this year very very good yeah to be fair
everyone has a victory over inter this year yeah the worst loss um three nil to salernitano yes
yes and then they and then monza three nil salernitano in the next game so they got their
revenge yeah agreed um great season by monza after they sacked stroppa and brought in paladino yep
they turned things around it's paladino yeah promoted actually right they um were the best
performing newly promoted team the top five leagues ever in history i would fucking say in
syria i don't know i don't know if the 20s or something for the season holds holds well
yeah fair enough yeah um i hate hudineza by the way i find it very hard despise hudineza man they're
that physical annoying team that doesn't really play well together man under that team that when
they're doing well it's almost like their president goes down to the changing room goes like whoa whoa
relax i don't want to do this well 10th is good but don't be anywhere near the top seven you know
roberto pereira yes 34 appearances five goals seven assists a tireless worker he's technically
superior to his teammates he is a player who's in this chair respect a lot and who just works
tirelessly yeah not not exactly because of his performances because he wasn't that great if
you compare him to the last seasons but he was versatile he was playing as a right wing back as
well as a center mid as an attacking mid and just his leadership qualities are exemplary for his
teammates who tend to be a little bit hot-headed not that he's not a hot head himself but he does
keep a cool head um beto also got 10 goals this season too and it's his second good season so
keep an eye on beto keep an eye on him he's kind of appreciating at a slow and steady pace yeah
flop and by the way also honorable shout out honorable mention to samard
yeah yeah yeah yeah flop for me was it was hard to choose because there wasn't a clear flop no
i thought sylvester did this season he did dip he did dip he did dip and i thought of sylvester
who's yours i put tovon oh yeah he was brought in and did nothing you know 541 minutes of play he
should have made more of an impact he didn't do anything bro nothing nothing and this is guy the
same guy that was linked to milan yeah for two seasons in a row like so i was a bit disappointed
when watching tovon play football not only not contributing but watching him play football i
was a bit disappointed next up is my favorite type of beach sandy lovray yeah i agree you're
an unsung hero sandy motherfucking lovray 37 appearances yes you only miss one game this
season five goals six assists workhorse in the midfield a great great season for him overall
and you hardly ever hear his name agree agree agree i think our best win and worst loss will be the
same best win was four nil to roma yep and the worst loss was three nil to within no to bolonia
yes i wrote to the nes i do that so much i'm dumb i do that so much but yeah i agree four nil to roma
and the opening games of the season were like oh the nes are seem pretty good this year then
they beat roma four nil you're like okay they seem amazing this year and then they just the dip they
had the tipping point was not the tipping point but the the epitome of their bad performances was
their three nil lost to bolonia because they should be they were fighting you know for eight
they were on par they were on par they were they should have lost three nil three nil is a fucking
they had opposite seasons they had opposite seasons sasuala now despite struggling with
with injuries and having a tough season overall i'm still going to give my top the memo 12 goals
and seven assists yes berard in 26 games you have to and his leadership as well and and the way he
turns nothing into something barardi barardi barardi barardi shout out obviously to laurelante
but he did dip in q4 and a little bit in q3 as well well i'm not familiar with this term
business terms quarter one quarter two quarters where are you using business terms on our fucking
podcast it makes sense though in the last quarter of the season in q4 it sounds sounds super
american algeria would like that oh jerry let him cook let him cook let him cook america fuck yeah
we're too optimistic man we're too optimistic let him cook so sasuala flop i have there are
too many to choose from you've got threshold you've got a red card every game yeah you got
by rami who i'm not even sure landed in fucking reggio amiliano you've got concili who looked like
he was both for a few games he kept masturbating in the shower all season but for me the flop of
the season is penamonte i agree because sasuala are a very attacking team very dynamic team
who a striker should be able to score way more than five goals on a team like this you know i
mean again like they score it's not only it's not only that he didn't score but it's hold up play
was everything he was on a different wavelength completed completely really out of place and they
would play him a great ball he wouldn't get it and then he'd point in front of him saying i wanted it
here but adapt to your teammates you're the new one exactly fucking idiots hi guys on this episode
we have penamonte yes imagine that my god one day huh one day maybe hopefully not i mean i don't
speak italian and i highly know this being a hero so i put fratezi i put maxim maxim was out quite
a bit this season though he was he was but he still got the numbers up if you give me 3.58 seconds i
will find it count count count one two three point five eight there we go so maxim lopez at 25 starts
five appearances of the banister still managed 30 appearances in a 38 game season and was always one
of the best players in the pitch when he played um similar industry to ben asser and lobotka for
example i think maxim lopez would be up there close to those guys not quite at that level but a very
underrated player a player whose name is not mentioned often enough and for me yeah yeah yeah
yeah he's great he's great and last season i believe i had him as my unsung for sasuala
far better season than they did this year last year and to me fratezi was a super important player
for the maybes not recognized enough and he had seven goals from midfield for a team that struggled
seven goals from seven goals from your midfielder is super super super important and just the way
he used to well he does carry the ball from midfield to attack is brilliant he's up and
down he's box to box i would take him at me down fratezi i think he's a brilliant player only 23
years old very young for a midfielder same age as tonali i believe and he is one of the next big
things for for italy agreed and he was actually with monza and say a bird scored a shit ton of
goals with them where there as well has been progressing very nicely that's where he made
his mark before the under 21 world cup if i'm not mistaken these guys no ball best man for sasuala
was their 5-2 victory away to milan or their five nil home victory to selenitana of course the milan
one is more more significant i didn't put the milan one because it's when milan were significantly
struggling like that was literally at the peak of milan struggles like we weren't hopeful for that
game kind of thing and but it's still massive yeah yeah yeah absolutely but i think they away from
home beating roma four three away from home when roma managed to put three plus sasuala and sasuala
managed to bite back and put four past them i think their heart their determination that that to me is
a top victory because they left everything in the pitch okay okay that's an interesting perspective
that's good fair enough where's loss um to who balonia in the derby there it's a derby i forgot
that's a derby man i tend to forget that's a day what's it called the al paponi
one of those the apennines the apennine derby yeah um you lose to some doria and you're a
doodoo fucking shit brain they lost at home to some doria to one that's fucking a massive loss
for them with caputo on the other end as well ampoli so yeah they say caputo on the other end
caputo is a temple you know what he's talking about was he at some doria caputo he was yes he was okay
so i'm i'm i'm i'm way behind ampoli top yugo kombiagui vicario
i'm gonna change vicario i agree no dude dude dude he can be i put kombiagui because he started
12 and came on 16 times but was their best goal score behind caputo who fair underperformed and
i thought kombiagui was as a young player who came on i'm really impressed vicario though you
are absolutely right there was no one better than fucking vicario on goal this season honestly like
best keeper in the league this year by far by far by just just simply fuck stats just look at him
watch him he's incredible he's a cat he's a cat bro and now he plays for spurs fuck my life out of
all teams as well in england spurs man spams okay flop spams is so good i never heard it before
they literally called spurs just add the m fucking hot sperms okay so so you guys their flop satriano
boom testro one of the strikers managed one goal you move you move from a big team to a small team
and you're supposed to be the shit like and and he went and and you know i had one of the reasons i
dislike satriano i have um fm on my phone um with ampoli right and i started satriano a lot of the
times and because he was great in the air and i did early crosses from midfield and he was scoring
a bunch and then i answered i i emailed inter i'm like listen i'd like to buy this guy what's your
quote for him 80 million bro 80 million he had 16 goals for him in the season i finished fifth
with ampoli crazy man fucking what bro 80 million there's nothing worse than playing any fifa or
manager manager mode or anything that isn't fm is annoying yeah fm is great i just wish i had the
time for it man because if i had known on the phone it's way simpler emails skip fucking through
them i don't afford to be addicted to video games because i would get addicted to it i'm not like
that i'm on a flight and i play it i'm in a cab and i'm playing it whatever like man but yeah
please satriano i had higher doing when you're not making snippets i'm not making snippets come on i'm
making fox pops outside san siro dog stop it do you want to count jake makes most of the snippets
guys well done to fucking jake well done jake everyone give him a big ass round of applause
well done thank you thank you you're way quicker way more efficient than me basically you're just
better than you're just way better than me unsung hero parisi akpac bro wait that's let me try that
again akpac bro sometimes what was it the he him she her akpac bro um yes bro to be honest with you
parisi is more rated yeah he's more sung yeah he's played 33 games instrumental
moves into midfield similarly to the hernandez in that aspect yeah yeah you're probably right again
bro you've outdone me with this ampoli prep i must say yes you've swayed me akpac pro was
incredible this season and i never thought he had it in him when he was with lazio and this year at
ampoli you know what he brought to ampoli man to me balance firstly balance yes they are beautiful
balance in midfield marin in the pocket him as the box to box but to me he didn't allow ampoli to
get bust around too often because he was that big motherfucker who'd break down play didn't shy away
from a yellow card when he needed to get one his leg was always extended ready to go man i really
enjoyed that back bro and you called him viera on one of the episodes bro he's he played there he had
a really good season a very good season very good season ampoli are very exciting yeah their best
win one little way to enter i mean so everyone how many are in the best win one against one against
everyone go on no to me it doesn't matter not much it doesn't matter not it doesn't matter but
um it's harsh to say that uva's worst loss was the one against ampoli for one but you can say it's
ampoli's best win no they had just confirmed survival they were all hung over they went out
partying and they beat uva four goes to one you put four past uva no matter what the situation is
bragging rights forever that goes down in ampoli's history forever yeah the problem was that game was
a bit redundant i know for i know it's harsh to be honest zanetti spoke after that game and was like
to be honest i was worried my boys were gonna get destroyed because we haven't stopped drinking
yeah they had just like confirmed survival yes yes yes yeah so fair enough okay the one little
game center was a during crunch time the season though it was at a time where everything was still
up was still to play for and they managed to beat inter who were solid so i think that that's the
best one but for one against uva of course that's the game they'll be telling their kids about
exactly exactly worst loss for me match day one one lost to spezia ampoli have much more quality
than spezia they should not be losing them especially in the opening and they were better
than spezia that game they were just wasteful they were just wasteful now obviously match day
one so you can't critique them too much on that but you lose to spezia and you're yeah much like
some doreira dodo shit salernitana so last season we couldn't imagine salernitana staying in seria
let alone dancing in seria dia a bulai dia fi qua e qua e qua il bomber dei granate che solo
contri sicura menta non ti lasceri ricordi he made them dance this season with 16 goals and six assists
who would have thought of seeing salernitana fans taunting the opposition as often as they did
putting those finger goggles in their eyes bro to imitate but that's it no it's exactly that
what a player what a player and if this thuram deal doesn't go through for milan or inter for me
if you go for dia yes anyway anyone of them yes because i think they'd be good at milan because
he is a high iq player i need to run that milan you don't understand bro you don't understand if
he goes to winter i'm gonna be whoa i might not do the podcast next year i'm joking mental for
example like that that's meme of dj callid it's not dj callid it just looks like him
is it fucking not dj callid bro you're joking it's so dj callid i don't think it is anyway who's your
flop for salernitana you should have walked into the starting 11 i didn't came to life a bit towards
the end of the season still my flop fair i put lovato because you'd think that leaving atalanta
for salernitana would make him an important player for them but at 26 years old his life is
still looked 19 this season lovatos 26 nowadays yep that's wrong google it just to make sure
that can't be right bro lovato he looked 19 for sure okay give me the age of demi lovato
if any of you are wondering demi lovato is 30 years old by the way how is she still only 30 by the way
but salernitana's lovatos 23 don't know where you're getting your information from my god what the
fuck transfer market bro no bro but still still you move from atalanta to go to salernitana and
you start bro you start yeah that's fair enough um yeah i'm gonna go for maljori still because he
was the captain of specia seemed like he was a better player than everyone else over there
came to salernitana cullibaly still managed to start over and maljori barely featured
unsung hero i put sepe sepe did brilliantly he had 17 appearances 17 great appearances until
ochoa was brought in and he was forgotten so that is the definition of an unsung hero a forgotten
hero sepe contributed greatly to salernitana's survival in seia the season fair enough um not
that unsung for me um but i put cantreva because he's typically judged for his contributions to
goals but he did far more than just seven goals and five assists this season with leadership
qualities and consistency for a 36 year old to play 35 matches in a season you judge him on his
numbers fuck you yeah honestly cantreva for me cantreva is great we love cantreva scored a few
brilliant goals my god amazing beautiful by the way we have some beautiful cantreva merch on our
website do you know that goal where he extended and he's wrong yeah yeah we have that in merch
on bucket hats as a sticker if you want a sticker as well if just over a euro yeah best win three
one away to lazio one at home to atalanta so i i wrote i would say their three one away win to lazio
um or their one nil at home to atalanta but i can't not say they're three to win against
odinesa that confirmed survival um who was it that grabbed the goal truce the kong truce the
home grab the goal at the end that to me fucking i watched a game with adam ryan yes i was showering
when the goal happened i watched the majority of the game though that was that's a fair shout
where's loss 82 to atalanta we move for sure we move let's share let's share oh my god i forgot
my god i don't want to do that real quick give me a second okay let me pause it we're back i'm
your host matt with the guy that thinks that there are 19 teams and say yeah
forgot lecture who i love by the way no offense i love watching you no no bro bro don't don't even
joke okay i know i know i know i love lecture i know but there are 19 teams all right top now this
was my debate that i had in these five minutes that we've been paused and so you look at the
two factors that kept lecture alive okay so in order to survive you must first not concede goals
but then you must also score goals to win games now what do you prioritize as a newly promoted
team scoring goals is important but not conceding is even more important now is it it's debatable
i think that um titty brought a certain defensive stability that was crucial the lectures that the
lectures survival um titty not only brought this defensive stability he also carried the ball
forward he drove well he played had an incredible season revitalized through this experience as well
so i would actually go for um titty over straffetta who i did goals and forces and in fact
um lecture never actually conceded more than two goals in a game until the very last game of the
season so and that's all thanks to um titty and bascaratos partnership and i'm gonna go for um
titty yes you i'm gonna go for straffetta because um obviously you have to take their defense into
account so well done to to all those four defenders the um titties the bascaratos the gendres all of
the gallows the gallows amazing back four that remained consistent throughout the entire season
straffetta to me looked like a seria player when they had just gotten promoted to seria
um he was that x factor for them eight goals and six assists this season he won a lot of fouls she
was constantly crossing the ball in having a pop from distance he's who you would fear when you go
up against lecce their strikers didn't have phenomenal seasons they had cc with six goals
and colombo with five goals and on the other side there was the francesco and banda battling it out
the francesco kind of took the cake over there banda you'll see but not quite tops bro they're
still quite far exactly yeah yeah yeah yeah straffetta stood out in that front three he stood
out in the entire team for me so he has to take the top flop pezzella for me former parma and
atalanta man who should have played way more than he did especially when you when you go from starting
most games with atalanta to barely featuring for lecce granted i think baroni had his
his four his back four laid out and he stuck with them all season but pezzella should have definitely
gone more of a sniff than yeah and when you consider that banda was brought in for four million when
they got promoted to seria and he failed to cement himself in the starting 11 because of the francesco
i would put him as my flop mainly because of the four million for a team that would be tight on
budget and that's the reason i put them i don't think he had that disgusting season don't get me
wrong but i think a lot of people would have been hyped about banda and i don't think he lived up to
that hype so flop i disagree but i respect your opinion bro okay i thought banda was extremely
technical skillful joy to watch granted raw extremely raw but i wouldn't i wouldn't call him
the flop okay unsung for me it was easy i think we might have the same answer three two one huelman
huelman is a player that you don't notice very much unless you watch very closely and you watch
how the team operates but he is the glue no huelman no lecce exactly another fantastic
player in his position same metronome kind of role yep that we're talking about i have the
fact that he is a metronome he's very street smart and he's very consistent and he linked the defense
to attack very well and broke down play very top clubs are all author huelman they signed him for
15 million let's just sign huelman for 15 million what they fucking balled out for him bro best win
for me to one against lots you have they beat atalanta to one twice this season so they got
bragging rights over a europa league team gasperini's men so to me that takes it i've lost
your second in the league that's also quite nice yeah um whereas loss was the verona no they lost
twice to them double lost to verona you lose once to verona and you're a do do shit they lost twice
to verona so do do shit lovely treads no verona oh because they you know of course beat them so
they did you do verona you're joking you didn't do verona either bro you're a mess man
i'm gonna pause it again so that jake can do his prep
okay we're back it's your host matt with the guy that thinks that there are 18 teams
and say yeah bro okay 18 some people think that that should be the case by the way
well idiots um doesn't make that much of a difference but it does hey gives more teams
why would every other league in the top five have 20 but it really has 18 what's italy lacking that
other team the other leagues fair enough fair enough have yeah who's verona's top for you
verona's top for me is docker lazovich who had four goals in six assists this season he was
versatile played in different roles wasn't only out on the wing i thought he created goal scoring
opportunities where the midfield couldn't and and scored chances that the strikers couldn't as well
so for me lazovich was the top he hit a new level this season lazovich um he was known as the left
wing back for verona but played as left wing played as attacking midfielder occasionally even as
fucking striker um lazovich for me easy uh flop checkerini was beaten a lot he was beaten a lot
i've got a couple of red cards if i'm not mistaken i thought k dog lazzy bro k dog lazzy my expectations
weren't high for him not that mine were for checkerini but if if you look at um their back
three verona it could be any one of those any one of those but to me checkerini looked poor
for the entire season i don't even think that what's his name not drago sin not dragovski what's his
name um what are you thinking about bro davidovic okay davidovic he wasn't great either like he was
beaten a lot for a paceman throughout the season okay i think lazania's time in seia is over
uh probably i think you should go yeah he's say right there are strikers in seia who are better
than kevin lazania and he plays on fifa 26 games for kevin lazania one goal one assist in 1577
minutes that is not good enough kevin lazania is my flop fair enough uh unsung hero mine is in gonj
um a lot of people wouldn't consider him to be one of the tops because he came in halfway through
the season and he was out injured for a lot of that time um but he saved them from relegation
quite frankly especially in the spezia play out he was on it bro he was on it in the most important
game of their season to me he's the unsung hero i wouldn't call him unsung though he scored two
goals in the playoff final um he he scored many goals to keep their fight for survival possible
i wouldn't call him unsung but you see that you see how you just instantly thought of the last game
when he came when he came in he changed he changed things he they went on that streak because of
everyone knows that it was because of engonj you ask the people of helas of verona why did helas
stay up that they would always say engonj was a massive factor to it i don't know i look at
monte po for example monte po i have understood as a monte po and verdi are very good shots not only
verdi hien the center back is really amazing player very good so yours is hien mine uh in the
end is monte po dude fair enough fair enough yes but he um saved the penalty in the play out so
okay um best win for them best win for helas verona there were not many um we've got the two
one against san pedoria we've got the two in the against cremoneze we've got the two in the
against lecce two one against sasua two one against bolonia one the bolonia one is mine
the one on your mind's the play out final victory man they were up to the time absolutely that's
obviously their best win because because they stayed insane because of it
yes let's let's go with that the worst loss has to be
um my god i have the six nil against verona what am i doing um six nil against inter bro against
inter yeah the while they were fighting relegation the worst one terrible i thought we both made them
mistake yeah the phoenix after verona we've got cremoneze no dog no don't worry i have them
prepared my top of the season is always also the flop of the play out it's in zola he's got 13
goals to assist in 32 games was by far their best player in the league disappointed them in the
play out but yes 13 goals for one of the worst teams in the league wow man you have to hand it
to in zola he stays in seria i really see him at atalanta especially if they offload huelm uh
hoiland for the money i think in zola is a very budget replacement for a relegated side turns out
manchester united are shocked by atalanta's demands of 80 million 80 millions i think i think they
forgot how much they paid for a little trow or whatever flop uh shumar adov joined from roma and
failed to insert himself agreed agreed i also have um i have someone different though caldara
yeah caldara wasn't great caldara isn't great in general has so much experience a great cv with
you van milan but really doesn't play like it unsung hero i have ampadu for his versatility and
his industry he was everywhere for them but he made a few mistakes he made a few mistakes he
was dribbled kind of easily at times i think his compatriot at the back dimitrios nikolaou
looked more solid for the majority of the season i put nikolaou fair i think ampadu would have
um impacted other areas more than nikolaou i just think nikolaou is more consistent yeah yeah
um best win two one over inter even though everyone got one two nil over milan towards the
end of the season milan where champions league semi-finals all that and spezia got it done over
fair enough that's a good shout where's loss uh four nil play out final play out final yeah
fucking day they weren't up to it like they also lost four nil at home to torino with two games to
go well they were fighting for their lives yes now that sucked torino were so good in that game but
spezia were so rubbish they were so shit they look destined for the drop literally literally
cremoneze top okay two uh okay seven goals to assist scored some fantastic goals and on his
day he was great there aren't many players you can look at cremoneze and say they were tops
it was between him and valeri yes yes but okay on his day still on his day because he's not
consistent was their top agree flop afanajan afanajan again joined from roma and he looked
he looked great at roma which is hilarious and then he failed to assert himself for such a
shite team 23 games zero goals one assist in the league there you go unsung hero daniel
shofani for me despite being 37 years old he managed to get eight league goals in 32 games
um yeah for me daniel shofani is the unsung hero fair enough um i have meite as the unsung hero
i love i think he was brilliant i think he was really good yes good player best win um two one
over moreno's roma agreed where's loss uh five one against bolonia okay i went for the one
against some of their the five one against bolonia it not because it was five one to bolonia because
orsalini was on it that game everyone was on it for bolonia that game but every single flaw they
had that i noticed throughout the entire season got exploited in that one game against bolonia
so yeah that was the game of the magnificent orsalini corner ah yes fantastic magnificent
corner there all right up next sampdoria top final one manolo gabiodini yes 35 games seven
goals three assists and finally finally finally a season without many injuries you don't often say
that gabiodini managed 35 games in a season so for me he performed very well this year and he was
the best player dare we say dare we say that he was also versatile after being played out on the
wing we could say that yes that's a fair shout yes he played many games out on the wing as well
poor flop sabiri hesa okay fair enough it's supposed to change i didn't know it was like
nani would have been the flop for venet but my expectations of hesa were less than my
expectations for sabir i didn't expect sabir to only have 18 appearances and two goals i thought
he would be better i thought it would be a constant 30 games minimum that's true i still say hesa
because still that was like that he was supposed to help them survive he hadn't even been playing
football bro yeah that's true yeah like retired they're taking like a gap year from football
unsung hero augello newy tink big bram big fucking bram they're both good shouts they're both good
augello played every single game except one of them 37 appearances two goals five assists solid
at the back good going forward looks dependable could be a vice anyone for the top teams yeah i
agree i think newy tink odineza let them go prematurely i think they could have still used
them for a couple more years um he joined sambdoria and for a while they actually looked decent
with big bram with newy tink in place he's good to me he's the unsung hero not that they have any
heroes after finishing last in seia but which of sambdoria's three victories was their best one
i'm gonna go for the three one victory over helos veron i thought that but veron uh finished in the
bottom four so i went for the two one away victory to sasualo okay because sasualo were actually
okay fair enough their worst loss four zero eight to serenitano oh fair enough i put five
nil for orientina simply because out of all their losses it was the worst one i put four nil to
serenitano because serenitano aren't as good as forientino yeah fair enough wow man that's that
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