Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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All of that down. Big news out of CAF. Oh, incredible. We have a new AFCON champion. Two months later, yeah. For now. For now. Because you can be sure there are going to be more appeals. We'll get into that. But I think we have to start with Chelsea. Chelsea hammered at home by Paris Saint-Germain 3-0. Obviously, they lost the first leg 5-2. So it was obviously always going to be uphill there.
Yeah. We're talking about the game. At the top, though, we need to know about the big news that came out Monday. They were punished by the Premier League. This is the old story about their 10 bazillion counts of illegal payments to agents that date back to the Abramovich era. They made a big deal like, oh, record fine. Like, yeah, it's not that much. It's like 10.75 million. Yeah.
A nine-month academy transfer ban, which I'm guessing does not apply to Strasbourg. And also a year-long first-team transfer ban, which is suspended. So I guess if they make illegal payments again. A lot of times it's because it was self-reported. We're going to look at this a little bit later. Because there's a lot going on at Chelsea. The other thing, I want to start with the stupid stuff.
But it was so stupid that I feel like I need to mention it. Rossignol is getting absolute pelters right now. There was a weird thing with the huddle and respecting the ball at the weekend, which I guess you and Natum talked about on Monday. Now, Was it 3-0 down or 2-0 down? He sends on Garnaccio and he gives Garnaccio detailed instructions. There's five minutes to go.
Yeah, they were 3-0 down, yeah. What's going on? I don't know. To give it to Tosin, he's on the shallow by injury. So, I mean, I was just behind him. I could not believe it either, to be fair. And Garnaccio, who then guessed a piece of paper, is walking towards Tosin to give him the instructions. And I guess of the reshuffling of the defense because Chalobah is coming off.
But it looks surreal that in that situation,
at that moment in time after pretty much everything that liam rossini tried in this game didn't work out failed um that he thinks it's a good idea at that time caught by all the cameras obviously but every even the chelsea fans who were not far from me could see and were like why is this what is going on here yeah uh we're gonna talk about him some more i you have to i'm all for you want to do new age stuff like like the huddle or or even you know the notes that's that's normal
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Chapter 2: What happened in Chelsea's 3-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain?
I mean, there was nothing against them in this game. Chelsea were horrendous. In the first leg, it was a bit different. In the second leg, there was nothing. So I want to see a better opposition, a team with more cohesion. I'm not sure if Liverpool will offer that in the quarterfinal, but certainly it's better from PSG. For me, it's still... far from what we saw in the second half of last season.
So for me, one of the fascinating aspects were over the two ties, Paris Saint-Germain's expected goals, depending how you count them, were around two. Chelsea actually had high expected goals. In both games, yeah. In both games. But it's too cumulative over the two legs, and yet Paris Saint-Germain scored eight goals.
I think this is why... I read an interesting comment about this, but this is when you have outstanding individual talent who... who can pull off shots and score goals that others cannot. Those bad chances become much more relevant. When you also consider that arguably on four of the eight goals that Paris Saint-Germain scored over the two legs, there were craven defensive errors from Chelsea.
Does this speak a little bit to why you say we're not at last year's level? Yeah, absolutely. But then there were still a lot of really good things that they did in this game. The rotations in midfield through the whole team tactically were incredible. Again, I think Luis Enrique just schooled Liam Rossini. But maybe it's just normal.
Rossini is a young coach, nowhere near as good as Luis Enrique, nowhere as experienced as Luis Enrique. So we learned a lot from it. But tactically, there was a... like a world apart, really. But you're right. It's still, the first leg is not a 5-2 game. We said that after it. The second leg is a little bit different, obviously.
But yeah, I want to see more of this PSG team against better opposition. All right, Jos, let's continue on Paris Saint-Germain for a second because we need to show respect to the Club World Cup runners-up. Yes, thank you. To the debate. All right. When we talk about the level that they're at, they had good points, bad points.
Is it just because last season, and it's not like, by the way, it's not like they were atrocious in the first half of last season. There's this narrative, yes, they struggled. You know, they had to go through the playoffs and whatnot. But they were still right up there in Ligue 1, right? In the first half of the season. We've seen that happen. Teams do go through the playoffs.
When we talk about how they're behind, for me, one obvious area where they're behind is the goalkeeper. But obviously, that doesn't have to do with the way they play. When you see the way they play, now that most of the injured guys other than Fabian Ries are back. And by the way, Fabian Ries gets replaced by Warren Zayer Emery, who's, you know, it's not like he's like some guy off the street.
He's a very good footballer. Young, but a good footballer. Who do you think is furthest behind the level that you expect them to be at? Or is it a collective thing? I think it's a bit of both, really. All right, let's deal with the individuals first. Doué, yeah?
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Chapter 3: Why is Liam Rosenior under scrutiny as Chelsea's manager?
by moments where he has those moments like when he came on in the first leg or even he was outstanding in the whole second leg but I think at times it kind of picks his games a little bit uh what was last season if he finished so strongly in every game then they got a lot of injuries he's coming back to is so important to this team collectively and individually but he's still coming back to that kind of
level vitinia is not as good as last season because he's played too many games and he he looks tired joe neves just coming back from an injury i think is also i know there's a lot of young players but i feel like what he did last season i don't know if you agree on this is what i'm asking like he's still, what is he, 20, 21?
I played 21 in central midfield, that when you're not just, when you don't just have one job, because in this system, right, there's a level of playmaking, there's a level of defending, there's a level of making runs and goal scoring. I mean, that is a really, really big ask. And so you're going to have maybe more highs and lows than another young player might.
There's a reason we don't often see people at that age, unless it's Pedri, starting in midfield, central midfield. You know, it's more likely if we went to with wingers or center backs or center forwards, right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, for him, it's more the injuries really that have slowed him down this season because I think the rest would not have changed compared to last season.
The job he did on Ko Palmer in the two legs is just incredible for somebody of... of his age, really. So I think it's more, again, the injuries which PSG, compared to last season, have obviously been impacted a lot by. Or if they haven't, like Paco and Vitinha, they've played so much for the last 18 months that they are showing it really.
So it's just that, but what was pleasing I think in the two games and especially to some extent the second leg more than the first leg was that collective strength that they've
they've showed again like last season the energy a bit more than what we saw like hakimi the first leg in the 90th minute when he gives the the cross for christ kelly at 94th minute keep still running at high intensity uh after 90 minutes of going up and down the pitch is is really good same in the second leg where fitness wise clearly phd were very strong and they didn't play at the weekend when chelsea played newcastle for example
So that would have been an advantage. And that won't be the case against Liverpool, because in between the two Liverpool games is the last PhD game. And Lance don't want that game postponed, unlike Nantes. So they will have to play that game on the Sunday. But their fitness is also, it looks like a much better level than anything we've seen this season. So that's encouraging.
You mentioned Lancer. This is one thing I sometimes wonder about, right? On paper, it should be better when you have the league title wrapped up, you have a big lead, so you can rest players and stuff like that. There's other schools of thought that say, actually, if you have some level of competitive tension, if you're still playing for something, you're more locked in.
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Chapter 4: What were the recent sanctions imposed on Chelsea?
Dempsey, all of that. Yeah, it's great. Manchester United will reportedly submit a planning application for the new £2 billion stadium in the next 12 to 18 months. Gab, your thoughts? My thoughts is this is some kind of joke, this story. I don't understand. We saw the mock-up. What is the joke? The joke is that, oh, in 12 to 18 months, we're going to submit a planning app.
You've been talking about the stadium for a year. How long does it freaking take to put in a planning application? By the way, when you put in a planning application, it's like this is what I would like to do, and then they come back to you and say, okay, have you thought about transportation? Have you thought about this? Have you thought about that?
You've already paid some architect to do that stupid thing.
mock-up that looks like a circus tent presumably they have a plan presumably you've thought about this maybe they want it to be the best plan that's why it would take a bit longer but that's even even just putting the planning up I mean Chelsea have a planning application to build a 60,000 seat stadium at Stamford Bridge which I'm pretty sure like start to finish took them less than a year this has been going on and on and two billion and the other thing too by the way
Where's our friend Ratcliffe in all this? In the sense, he might not be there in 12 to 18 months, and he's the public face of... Yeah, but the club needs a new stadium, whether Radcliffe is there or not. I would love to hear the Glazers' view on this. When I hear 12 to 18 months to put in an application, it's a freaking stadium. You're not building the space shuttle.
You've been working on this for a long time. These guys are architects and urban planners. Something's not right with this story. Wilson Isidore will represent Haiti at the World Cup. Jules, he's most definitely not Paris born and bred, but he is a former French youth international. Yeah, he's from Rennes. Rennes born and bred then.
Had no trouble going to play in Russia and violating the boycott and stuff like that. Yeah, clearly. Yeah. Clearly apolitical here. I like him a lot. And I think he obviously knew that he was never going to play for France as much as he dreamt about it when he was younger. And like you said, he played from under 16 to the under 21s. That was not going to happen for him, for the A team.
So he agreed to play for Haiti, which is his mum's side. And they're super happy to have him. He's super happy to go to the World Cup.
and uh there's two other players who are not at his level and as well known than him obviously who also agreed to um is he instantly his best player i think so yeah yeah i mean they've got no bella guard from oh yeah yeah wolves they would be the two leaders of that team for sure so i looked him up on because i wanted to see where he was from where he just played for ren or he was at monaco too if i'm not mistaken yeah after that he was just such a young talent
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