The Daily Zeitgeist - Player Of The Season: Divorce

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

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Look, the community shield happened and what a result. I feel good. I was looking at the optimism pessimism charts

and our sole supporters are not the most optimistic it seems like. We should be, we should be. But however, we are not.

Welcome to Ain't It Footy. The free season wrap-up slash beginning of this season prediction episode. Amaz. I'm joined by Jamel. What's up, Jamel? What's happening, man? What's going on? Chris? How about you?

What's happening, man? Somebody's been practicing. Hey, thanks. We've been working on it while you've been out the country. Next time you're going to have to hit us with an English. You're going to have little, we're going to need some London, South London. You guys have not challenged me to get into accents yet, which I do appreciate from both of y'all, but I know my time is coming. Yeah. Chris, why don't you do something? Give me like a real bloke core, you know,

greetings that Jamel can kind of chest pass right back at you the way you said what's happening. Chris, Chris, how's it going on, man? Decent, mate. Jamel, how about you? Decent mate. That's so good. That was decent.

That was decent. That was decent. That was decent. That was a decent. That was a decent proposal. I like that. So we just got to watch the community shield where obviously Arsenal faces off against Man City,

the FAA Cup winners. And going into it, I don't know how you guys felt, but I was like, I am really curious to see what a pepless city looks like because when you have a manager whose reputation creates just an entire aura around a club, and that manager leaves,

it takes a second for people to find their shit again. We saw it with Sir Alex Ferguson. We definitely saw that with Venger, although we were definitely on our way down for the longest time. But there was still something that Venger provided a glow about the club, even though we were really pretty far off of it.

And obviously, we had to go through some shit to get back where we are. But now with a pepless city, I was like, do I think this is, obviously it's going to be a rebuild. there is some continuity because Moreska worked with PEP and he's not a stranger to that whole setup. But I don't know, what were you guys thinking of like,

you know, how do you rank or how are you perceiving, predicting what a PEPLIS city was going like going into this one? I mean, for me, I was seeing it, I was seeing it through my own lens and I'm like, if I'm, if I'm Inzo Moreska, I'm scared shitless. Like, I'm two minutes late to every meeting. You know what I'm saying? like freaking out in the bathroom.

Just a mess. Right, right, right. Yeah. Whimpering a little. They also, it's not just pepless though. It's Rodry-less. Which is more...

Their midfields looked, it's crazy how much money they've already spent on some midfield and they still want two more midfielders. Like, it is mad this whole, how much money they've spent in the last couple of years.

And they still haven't... Still don't feel like they've... I'd be feeling bad for Coosinoff. I'd be feeling bad for Coosinoff because it just looks like it's his fault. He always looks like he's going to cry. He doesn't like he's going to cry. He's at that boy face. It's all right, little guy.

Yeah. Oh, man. And look, we got to see it. Like, off the kickoff, I was like, dude, I already have a pattern. I'm going to come right through your midfield, and I'll probably have a tap and at the other side of it. And that's what that goal was at 24 seconds it took was unbelievable. and that Miles Lewis Skeley ball,

that little reverse ball at California was, yes. I felt something in my loins when he did it. When I saw it, my shit moved a little. There's something about around the corner, round the quarter, round the corner,

perfectly weighted pass. It just is like, it's a beautiful thing to see. You're playing pool on the pitch, man. That's what it's like. Yeah. Right. And then,

I guess, I don't know, I mean, the goals, what was the favorite goal? It was probably the Odegaard one, I think. Right? They were pretty unanimous on that one. The Hesi, he made down the room and look dumb as hell.

It was so casual. I don't know if you've seen clips of when Zedan used to train with, like, Real Madrid just for, like, fun. And he was still kind of showing. He was like, bro, I still got this shit. Like, I will give you just a little dummy, a fake shot or something, sit your ass down, and then just kind of lifted.

It was so nice to see. I think that moment really felt like the polarity had fully switched. And it's like, no, now we're the team. Like, did you just see what we did to you? We are now fully occupying that top spot. And we'll take on all challenges. Speaking of the switcheroo is the goalies,

because two seasons ago, Donna Ruma was incredible for PSG. And as an Arsenal fan, you're like, can't score, but this guy's is ridiculous. Even though you know he's not great with the ballast feet, but then in this game, he's kind of far, just dived early for the first goal.

didn't stop Havertzes, which was not like easy, flapped at it, and then he fell on his ass. And then meanwhile, David Ryer's pinging 50-yard passes with his wrong foot down the middle of the field. I was like, wow.

He's grown his hair out, David Ryer, Donoroum's getting balder. I'm not saying it's necessarily all hair-based, but Donaruma looks, he looks, he looks, he's the oldest looking 27-year-old. You ever seen your life?

He looks just. He's 27? Yeah. On my life, I thought Donna Ruma was at least 36. Yeah, no. No, I had the same thing as well. I thought he'd been around for ages. And then I was like, this dude's like,

when he started playing with him. Damn. Like, he really was in that Milan set up by like 18. Yeah. Yeah, he was in a. Yeah, he was playing from a really young. So we've been seen, we've seen him for many years. But yeah, I've seen a lot of people like on the internet talk about like,

what was he doing with his hair? And then some people were like, I respect that. He's not going to Turkey or blah, blah, blah. And someone's like, if he puts in a transfer request to like Gallatin Sarai or one of them, you know, he will probably have the hairline glow up. But hey, man, I like a traditionally balding guy. You know what I mean?

That's a good look. Although when you are not, when you're putting it in performances like that at goalkeeper, you can't play like you're balding. Yeah. What happened to? Everyone froze at the same time. We're back.

I think it's just maybe the timing. Guys, I'll have to apologize. I should be up front about this. I'm currently in Costa Rica on vacation with some of the dodgiest internet. And I'm in one of the dodgiest Airbnbs, right? Lee Brown was in here for like three weeks straight or something. But that's a detail I will share with people down the road. So the internet is a little choppy.

We appreciate you trying to record from the Rick James Suite. Yeah. yeah I'm like oh something's poking me in the back I'm like wait is this a stem okay so someone was smoking crack in this bag your internet

your internet connection is much like Donna Ruma's performance there it is actually there we go and we're back thank you it's a weird game right because you

but going into the but yeah Elliot Anderson again he doesn't not add any preseason to be fair to him but you think about again like Roderie is like Ellie Anderson is decent

at certain things, but he's not as a player as Roderie, and then they want to get Fernandez, who sometimes is good, but have you seen like the win rate Fernandez when he plays for Chelsea? Their win rate when he's not playing is like 85% and when he plays it's like 42% or something.

If you get the stats up, it's really funny. I'm going to look this up. Oh, man. Love to see it. You love to see. You love to see it. I love to see it. I don't want to see Kepe anymore. I know we, I love to see.

it, but we can officially retire Kepa. I don't want any money for a transfer either. Just send him away. Just be like, hey man, if you want, there's the door, bro. Yeah. You can, yeah, take some shirts on the way out, man, some water or whatever, but yeah, feel free to help yourself to whatever you want.

When you're trying to keep a cat out of a room, and you got to quickly shut the door on them, just let them. You can't leave any room for re-entry. Yeah, I get that. we should also talk about Christos Solis, the sound of the Jolis, two assists in that match.

I don't know, are you, do you guys play fantasy? Should be. I don't, I don't play fantasy because I don't want to be cheering on, I don't want to be cheering on someone I hate. No, I always, my rule was I never had spurs players. Yeah, yeah, you just got to set your robsters, you know. But then when Kane was in the league, that was like, kind of makes you unable to actually compete properly.

But anyway, I've, like, his output footage has been so unreal now that I'm like this guy looks also so good he's I don't know if he's an upgrade on trossard but definitely when I see him play I'm like oh okay so I don't think we're losing anything with him although we'll see once the season actually starts and you know he's maybe getting the shit kicked out of him but his his abilities actually I mean I'm really looking forward to what that does for saka on the other side and just the way he plays but like just these passes like he's just really smart he's tidy he's a very tidy player when I saw him, he was like, he's not like super fast.

He's not super skillful, but he just does just that. It's very trussards, like analogous, just like slots in, can fill in in the middle. But yeah, like, just gets a half step and gets a nice passing. And yeah, I think he's going to do pretty well. It's funny that he failed at Norwich when he was like 19. Norwich fans are like, Norwich fans are like, Norwich fans like, you want this guy? but I think he's going to surprise me. I mean, he's going to start for Arsenal, I think, on Friday,

because, I mean, I don't see anyone else coming in left, and it does appear that they want to sell Martinelli, but they might end up keeping him. They tried to, they tried to offload Martinelli to Turkey, and he's like, I've got a lot of hair, and I'm actually good. Yeah, I'm good. Although, you know what I mean?

Check the temples, Gabrielle. You know, you never know, bro. You never know. You get into widows peep, you know, just maybe fill it out. Anyway, any, Jamel, do you look like you about to say something? No, I guess I was just going to say that Solis looks great, and I'm shocked that

there weren't more bids for him. Like, just the fact that he was at Brugge and it got relegated with Norwich? The reports were there were other teams asking about him, but once he heard, we came calling, he said, bro, fuck all that. Like, I know where I'm going. If Arsenal wants me, like, I don't need to hear anything else.

Like, I don't care. And again, the polarity, man, it's changing. Like, it really feels, even though the Vinny thing didn't work out and obviously,

and looking at his performances in preseason for Real Madrid, I'm like, you know what? It's probably better off that that didn't happen. Yeah, I don't even know what I was going to say.

I think I'm, I'm catching fumes off the toilet seat. Oh, no, no. Yeah, no, you're saying Solis is like, he wants to be there and he's just showing it and it's like, yeah, anyone that wants to come to your club is like, you're like,

You're already a fan favorite. And like, come on, welcome. There's plenty of room for you, sir. It would be, I guess,

it would be a bit harsh on him. Like, Vinny gets signed like three weeks later. It's like, well, you're never going to play. But, um, it does feel like,

I don't know, they've just, yeah, Arsenal are looking, it felt weird watching the preseason again. I don't know how good, but Arsenal, compared to all the other top teams,

have had the least change. Like, same manager, like, same call. They've added Bruno. They're going to add consa as a backup. because he's pretty going to play a lot. And he's mates of Saka, as I saw in the documentary.

But, yeah, no, Arsenal are looking pretty good. If Arsenal are going to add one, like, game-changing attacker. I think the league is done. Yeah. Genuinely, it's like, because it's also like, Oedegaard looks fit, Kai's fit, Sakha looks better. Like, if those guys are fit, that's already a massive upgrade on last season. So massively biased, but it does look pretty good right now.

And the middle of the middle of us is just stacked. We just got to ride it out. with these guys until what? Like, it's always that Christmas, it's always that winter period. That is the problem. Yeah. And I'm kind of, yeah.

Yeah, I'm like, maybe, you know, don't play soccer so much. Maybe give him a care about game every now and again. Like, I'm seriously like, keep that guy on ice until like Christmas. Yeah, he looked a little bit better. I'd imagine that obviously they're looking at his fitness and, you know, they're not going to play him early.

They're loving the braids. he looks great. Yeah. How long do you reckon he maintains the braids for? Is that just a whole season thing? Them shit's hurt too, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. It is a tough process.

I don't know. I mean, washing your hair's got to be a lot easier, right? It's got to be a lot quicker if it's braided, right? Yeah, true. You just kind of get in. More time on the training ground, less time in the shower. That's the fogging standards, guys.

Guys. I prefer bald guys. I prefer bald guys, but braids is fine, guys. if you have to do it. But I prefer bald guys, please. No, I mean, like, I wonder if it's like one of the summer hairdos because, you know, like, people always come into training with, like, their hair, their shit bleached.

And I'm like, are you doing that as long as, like, it grows out because you're not going to bleach it again. When it's time to rebate, you're like, you know what? I'm actually tender-headed. Rico Lewis had his hair bleached. Yeah. Did not look good. He looked goofy as fuck.

Listen, man, that's also, whenever's a black player gets their hair bleached, you know they're going through something mentally. World Cup wasn't great for him. World Cup was not great for him. No, no, no. Anyway, transfer stuff, you said, Cons is in. Bruno Guillermo Rai's in.

And now it looks like we're still open. The Aussie main thing looks like it's pretty much not realistic. And yeah, I'm still kind of thinking, I'm not sure if we're actually legitimately really in for a yield. is because it sounds like Juventus doesn't want to sell. And Alvarez is fully not going to Barcelona, but I don't think, or I don't know, I don't know if that's still on the table. What did we, what did we find out?

What do we read about Deco and Alvarez? They're considering marriage, some marriage. And I thought it wasn't like, I thought it was fully a joke, but it was like, I think it was on like a quite, it was on a Barcelona forum. I have to look this up. Considering all options to get Alvarez in the club, one option they discussed recently was Deco and Julian to become legally married. Under spouse's

law, Julian would legally be allowed to relocate to Barcelona to live with his husband, Deco. And I was like, is that bullshit? But it's from an account of 480,000 followers, so it must be true. I mean, that's so crazy. I don't think it's true, but also that's so funny.

Spain has a Chuck and Larry clause. Yeah. Sounds like an 80s movie, doesn't it, right there? Fellas, is it gay to marry a player to make sure? I do it if we Just purely for the important bit If we just had to kiss in front of it

You know what I'm saying? Whatever like Who's in charge of that? Is that an immigration issue? You have to kiss. You have to kiss it. Oh, you're just saying the person who's going to look at this

Fousal visa? I would go as far as maybe like one single one single genital touch. But you got to touch my meat though. You offer the TSA agent. I'll friskin.

I'll friskin. We're married, so I love his junk called Friskin for you. Yeah. Oh, man. I got this. Oh, shit. All right, but other words, so we're talking about city. Things aren't looking great.

This is definitely a transitional year. But we also, we're getting this Pet Guardiola documentary. I think it's out, but I've just been, people have been clipping it out and sharing stuff. And my God, but this, this. This documentary looks wild. Like, all or nothing, but, like, about a man's, like, emotional state. It's so crazy that he, like, up the ante, like,

we watched Mikhail Artetta, like, like, just screaming at a bunch of players in a club that just, like, do better, try harder. And now he, like, now we can just see Pep do it to himself. Yep, yep, yep. There's just, there was one that was a clip with, like, him and Kyle Walker arguing. Kyle Walker is a fucking dick, bro.

He's like, why will he say him on? Why do you say him on? Because he's like, he's like, because you missed him off. I said, I said, I said, your school's name. I said his name. I say whoever name. It doesn't matter. And he's like, he's just like, they get in these open, like this open shouting match.

I'm like, oh, shit. Whoa. This is truly like, you know, when you're like seeing some shit like that, I'm like, bro, they're not going to have you back on the next season. If this is how you're acting in the writer's room, bro. If this is how you're behaving, they're not going to have you back on this shit. And that's how Kyle Walker was like, you could see the other players just like cringing, like, as he's uncomfortable with Pep. Yeah.

And then Pep started getting emotional. Like, guys, I'm just trying to pick the best team. Like, it was a lot. Oh, great, Kyle. You've made Pep cry. That's fucking nuts. They sent his ass to Burnley so fast. Yeah.

He said, hold that shit. And then the other thing we talked about, obviously last season, we said, will this divorce is his divorce? And then Chris, you brought it up that you're like, the divorce probably shouldn't be overlooked. And as we dug deeper and read more and more, the details were like, dude, pep Guardiola might be broken, man, because of this divorce. And we have now, we have a quote where after they lost the Juventis in December, what he said to the main city team in the dressing room, we said, guys, I want to confess something. I'm fucking divorced from the most beautiful woman in your planet. Oh.

In your planet? This dude is... I love her. But we lost the passion. I love her? Absolutely. She loved me? Yeah.

But we lost the passion. I don't know. I'm assuming that then led into, and I'm worried that this team is losing the passion. Is he described an EB? Baby. He just ends up going. Kuzinov is the most beautiful man I've ever seen in my life.

He looks like a baby, but he's shaped like a man. Something. Look at his body. So bad. So so bad. He's a bad guy, huh? Guys, look at him. Pat, which is weird.

I'm really looking forward to this. documentary because I mean like the cameras were fucking everywhere they do documentaries different overseas man they real y'all shits be for real first off oh why what we shouldn't you do over you don't they don't

really film all the time everywhere no we do the type of documentaries where Michael Jordan is executive producing his own story just lying about telling two quarters of this fucking story right and I took it and then I took it personally and

I won the game for the whole team. I said, all right. This one is like, Pep is just crying. I wish I had creative control guys. Bro, I want to give us all credit for being on the Pep story, by the way.

I think we all sensed it. I saw the other fucking thing to say in the locker room. Yeah. Again, his wife's player the season for me. Truly. I don't know. What you did, you broke him. I hope he finds it.

And now that he's gone, I'm like, Ben, bro, I really hope you. I hope maybe you can rekindle it, man. I really, I wish that for you. Odegaard, season before last, was particularly bad, and he just had a baby, which, as people, I mean, Miles will know, is like, it's hard to function when you're not having sleep with a child.

So it is a factor. And you can imagine he's very, like, Scandinavian, where he's like, that's so, he's like, I want to do my part and stuff, and he's not going to just leave it to the nanny. What we should do is get the wags and children break down of every squad. And look at that and be like, who's going to have their personal life locked on lockdown

so they can concentrate on winning the league because of divorce like Trossard last season they'd have gone through some marriage and stuff and he had a dip in the other side. So, you know. Yeah. Who just, yeah, I don't know. Who else?

Who do you think's going to, who's, whose relationship's going to cause them to have a dip in form? And then, I mean, Saka looks pretty, sack looks pretty locked in with his girl. He looks like they're going to. I feel like they got to have a baby soon. I feel like I'm going to have a baby soon. Deck's not going nowhere.

Yeah, listen, Deck, he's homely. He liked to stay at the crib. He'd be playing PlayStation. Mm-hmm. I'll tell you what about soccer though. I ain't like that they had him hanging out with Tim's. Hey, get him away from Tim's.

Tim's too hot for this right now. We need, yeah, his wife, you cannot have soccer, like, soccer's wife should be the hottest woman he interacts with for the next 10 years. I don't want to see him near any other baddies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotta keep him focus. I think he's okay.

He's okay. He's a good boy. He's a good boy. Yeah, he's a good Christian boy. Yeah, he's a good Christian boy. He'll be all right. He'll be all right. He'll be all right. You've heard the chaos.

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we'll change our threads bio to whatever the top comment says. That top, that top comment came from Rel the singer, and it was re-Palestine. period. And then after that, they acted like this shit wasn't even happening. They deleted the post.

Like they never, ever made this offer and never said pop comment changes the bio. Then a few days later, they just posted with a clapping emoji. Admins don't control when signings are announced.

And then it's me, Maude Holly replied, but they do control when bios get updated to free Palestine. ratio on that one. Still quiet. Then Amanda Touch posted

calling out the account with the trademark Chris Martin attack. Cower! Hitting them with that. And then they got a community note for the women's team for their preseason because I think a bunch of people

were posting out. There's a community note that said, sport account claims they will put top comment in bio, deletes post after free. Palestine gets most likes Scum account, free Palestine. Oh, damn, the women's account too,

that's tough. Yeah. Is the women's team even, are they even sponsored by the same AI bullshit? I don't know. I think they're still called Chelsea, they're still called Chelsea at least, because did you see how they're changing the name to the U-19s

and the U-21s for Chelsea? They're going to be called Cobham Next Gen. Excuse me. They're not even be Chelsea's their own thing called Cobham Next Gen because that's their training ground but like that is some esports ass shit

like what the fuck is that name? That is no one has ever done anything like that like you have to come from outside of the sport to think that's a good idea. The amount of like books on thinking outside the box that like Bowley and Egg Barley and all that must have read to think you just got to hey you just got to flip the script but every idea they've come up with is absolutely awful.

It's like, what do we call the U19s? I don't know, call them the U19s, man, there's still Chelsea, this is our program. What a problem next gen? What if instead of a kit, we just played topless, we just played skins. We'd be the Chelsea skins. You know, I'm talking with that. Yeah, every kit is an NFT that gets raffled off at the end. I'm just thinking about how, like, once again, like, the people in charge of stuff just showing

that they're idiots, if Chelsea actually said free Palestine, that would probably make them a ton of money and just they would gain so much goodwill. Maybe they would fucking know how to keep a midfielder from getting a red card all the

fucking time. I just don't think you're going to see any team with that much public exposure ever like get political like that, unfortunately. Because I mean like even when people try and being flags and stuff. They're like, they'll be like,

no, no, no, no, no, take that down. Take that down. Take that down. Which is a shame because because this is a global sport and most of the supporters would probably be like, yeah, yeah, we don't need to opt to skate here and hide around what's happening, but it is what it is.

Let's take a break. Let's come back. And I think it's time we need to do some predictions because the season is about to start. And I think we need to, we need to, we need to, we need to, we need put our wizard caps on and look into the future and see what we see come roughly May 29th-ish, 2027, and we'll do that right after the break. And we're back.

It's time for us to do the thing that every sports show will do before the season starts. Predictions. Top four? What do you do? What do you do? Top four, top five, top six? I think, should we redefine who the next big six is? Or just top top four.

Top four. Okay, yeah, and now that's Let's do it. Hey, that's some egg barley thinking. What if we just did four and a half, guys? And then also as a bonus, we will ask where does Totten finish? Oh, yeah, that's true.

This is a good one. Tottenham of Portwell. Although the way they're spending, I mean, they're spending like you think about being top four. They're about to buy... They're talking about doing a double deal for Sauvino and Marmouche. Yeah.

That's fucked up. I'm trying to work out. who I think's going to... They probably saw their own highlights from the last two seasons. I know. All right, so... What are you on do?

Top six or top four? Let's do top four. And if we wanted, we can just kind of... Because I feel like it's going to be really tight. For me, I feel like the ones I'm kind of clear on are maybe one to three. Oh, and what's your one to three? Do we all think Arsenal are going to win again?

I think we are going to retain. Yeah. I think we're going to retain the title. I think the cons of signing's really big because he's like no one really is as good as Sileber in that position, but I think he gives a lot of what was missing there, as much as they kept a clean sheet and Cherry Shield, community shield, sorry,

but I think that, and if they can have one more attacker, it's going to be a very easy league win, but I think it'll be Arsenal will win it. Yes, I agree. I didn't think so, honestly, before the community shield, preseason was so wobbly. I'm like, what the fuck?

I mean, it's a World Cup though. Yeah, so it's going to look a little. We do actually look ready to play. We look ready to play. We're so deep in the positions that like really matter. And the other thing, wasn't it you that said, who sent the thing that said, like, Artetta had to do his little linguistic sort of trick here where he was like, we're not the defending Premier League champions. We're the attacking premier. Yeah.

He's bat, baby. He and there should have a trophy. I mean, I have, you know, like, we all, I know we all know some. cynical Arsenal supporters who were like and our Tedda's a bum and even like when we won they're like yeah we'll see about next season like bro we just won. One of my most cynical friends who supports Arsenal

was like okay we look real good in that one. We look real good at that one. I'm like okay. Yeah. We finally we're not just we're not parking the bus blah blah blah but I'm like dude that was never the case like and I know don't feed into that dumb shit that as if we were the team parking

to the bus we always we played the highest line and also so, we're also, like, going against the most low blocks of any other team. So, like, yeah, shit looked crazy a lot of the time. So anyway, okay, so we all agree number one. Arsenal.

Number two. Chris, who's your number two? It's really hard. I think it might be Chelsea. Okay. It was them and Villa, I think, am I, I think it's,

I mean, it's hard to know who's city. You're going to buy, but I do think it'll, Harlan, Harlan's hard to look past, like not just getting you into top three. Let's go Chelsea second, and I'm going to go City third.

Because Chelsea don't have midweek games, which I think is massive. Yeah, yeah, for this period. And they've also, obviously got Jordan Henderson, which is going to tip him over. It's the big signing. I think Chelsea second and city third, I think. All right, and do you want to just go ahead and hit us before?

Oh, yeah. I think Villa will be top four. I think Unai again, consistency is going to be a thing. I mean, he might even... It's weird. I kind of want to put them in the top three, but I just think like the nomid week is just a giant... But if Enzo goes to city, that changes it.

But for now, I'll go Chelsea, second, city, third, villa fourth. All right, what about you, Tom? I'm going to go Villa second... Oh. City, third, man, United, fourth. Sorry, just one thing on Villa. can we talk about, you know, he said Dona Ruma looks old.

Can we talk about the striker for Villa that I shared of you guys? I mean, he had this crazy game if he wouldn't see it. And it's the Europe League winners versus the Champions League winners. And the guy who's absolutely bossing the PSG defense. He had a bounce. I need to get his name. Brian Madjo from. England via Luxembourg, I believe.

He's technically, mate, he just, he missed, he missed so many chances, but he was just at beat. It was crazy. One of the most physically dominant performances ever seen from playing in 17. So that's a big help for them because, because, is he close to their starting? Is he close to those first? I reckon, I read that they were like,

they managed to get him in January 17 and because of some work permit rules because he's been, you know, the UK's not in the EU anymore. They, like, went to a court of law to get him to play for them. And, like, really? Why? And he's like, oh, it's because you've got, like, this crazy phenomenon. They went to a country where you could marry 17-year-old? I was going to say, yeah, yeah. Un-I married him.

Yeah. Yeah. He wouldn't, he didn't shake his hand at the wedding night. He refused to shake his hand. He saw Brian Madjo come out in the dress and he did that Unite thing where he just touches the corners of his mouth. Just staring at him like a fucking freak. Wait, but they did sign my boy Zion Suzuki.

So I'm looking forward to that. Although I'm curious what happens. Zion Suzuki had a decent World Cup with Japan. And I'm like, if that's backup, that's pretty solid backup. I think, although we've never seen him playing the prom. He's just been playing Sariab. No, they're trying to sell Martin's, right? I mean, they should.

He backed out of a deal. Where did he, where did that move fail to? Oh, I think they've been trying to get rid of him. I mean, he already said his goodbye is two seasons ago. Yeah. Martiners. Yeah, they're going to transcend. But no, so anyway, sorry, we're going.

But me and me and Jamel, similar logic. I think Villa are going to be pretty good. I don't know. And weirdly Tottenham with the same logic as Chelsea, I think will be annoyingly good. I think they can get top ten. I think they'll get top ten. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'll get the top half.

But yeah, so you had, you had Villas second, Jamel, who was third? And then Manchester Derby back, the three-fourth. A city and the United. I'm applying the one game a week theory to United. Wait, do they have Champions League this year? They were Champions League. That's why I'm not putting them in top four. Okay, you know what, though?

I'm still rolling. Something about, I'm just, I don't know. I'm actually still worried about them. Their fans are very upset by how little they've done any shopping. Miles, you shared that thing. They've spent less money than like... Then both, like, two promoted teams have spent more. Let's see.

Ipswich, as of like four days ago, had spent 109 million pounds on incoming signings. Coventry, 92 million, United 83 million. And, you know, Andre Santos, Tlimins, those are good players for that midfield. So for me, I'm going Arsenal one. city a not so close second because I just think there's still enough momentum in that team with a manager that kind of is speaking a similar language to kind of keep it moving in the right direction

then Chelsea third United 4th I see United getting the top 4 I think they're going to have a really strong start to the season just with the continuity that they have from last year going into this one but I don't know they're just getting Belieba which is a interesting signing because he looked really good the season before last

dropped off last season but they got Tilemans who's physically not great but is good. Smart plan though, yeah. Yeah, smart. We'll see. I don't know. I think they're going to struggle with the midweek. That's my theory. Got to see the draw

first because what if they get that what if they get a sweet-ass draw? Yeah. Yeah. You never know. You've never know. Eight games now. What do you guys see Liverpool? Like just outside the top five, like top four, because I feel like they are, but the depth. I mean, the Europe spots this year are going to be fucking.

Who's coming in, really? I'm like, is going to. Yeah, I'm worried for them. I'm not really worries. I'm not up all night worried about Liverpool, but I think they've not, I don't think they've addressed a lot of their, they've bought some young players. They've got their defense is a lot of injuries already. But Jeremy Jacket looks good.

I was watching some of their preseason. Yeah, he looks really good. He looks like a good player. So I don't know. But yeah, like there's still a lot of, you know, like people talk about the defense. People talk about just in their front three. How does it all?

Who's playing where? Who's been properly replaced? Curtis Jones just left for intern. Not that he was really going to be starting. But I think that may no long, there's no more scousers now playing for Liverpool. With Cattis leaving for, into Milan.

Yeah. I mean, the interest to see EZAC, EZAC gets a full pre-season. Like, it'd be like a new signing to quote the great man, Orson Venga,

but, yeah, yeah. The interesting, he does. So if anyone, play just doesn't play for a year, almost,

you're like, oh, are you going to, he also just started so badly the season when he was technically not injured, but he hadn't had a pre-season. So he has a lot to prove for how much he costs. I wonder if there's just,

like, a hangover from the way he left Newcastle that just kind of carried in when he was like, kind of an ugly bad juju yeah yeah yeah like you kind of shake it yeah

shout out that song I'm more interested in like five through seven or I mean what Premier League is going to end up with eight Europe spots I think so

yeah like Bournemouth are gonna I mean Sunland coach that's Sunland there's a lot of it's gonna be the same again it's gonna be a lot of

down the top 10 are going to be good teams yeah yeah it's gonna be a great I mean there's gonna like there'll be a lot of fun matches to watch

for the neutrals. But for those of us who are very invested, I will be glad to see. I'm going to end up with a hernia. Watching fucking leads and fucking Ipswich one day. Anything else?

I mean, we're keeping this one short because my internet is running out as I speak. I have to be pedaling a bicycle to keep it. Your internet has a very clear meter, like old school. That's what the cocaine's for. That's what the cocaine's for. It gives you energy to cycle and power the internet.

Yeah, yeah. Wait, so how do you use the internet here? Okay, so there's a, you see that eight ball by the recumbent, the little stationary bike? So you just keep sniffing that and peddling. And for every three miles you do, that's about 15 minutes of internet. And I'll just try not to post any videos or watch any long form stuff. Oh, but it was early.

It was so messed up. Like somebody was trying to watch something. They were watching the, the, Mystics game. And I streamed something on my phone. She was just like completely falling apart. It was like, nah. Nah, now we're not doing this.

Yo, streaming the Mystics game in Costa Rica, though, you're doing the Lord's work? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, my friends are, they're season ticket holders. So I was like, this Toronto team is nonsense. Although shout out my girl, Kiki Rice. She was doing her thing. Anyway, season starting,

pretty much the day after you guys, people hear this Friday. Well, how are you thinking? What's the feeling for that Coventry match before we take off? Obviously, this is a mostly Arsenal podcast, personally. But we like to talk about everything. But Coventry is definitely top of mind. And especially after that Community Shield performance,

I'm really, really looking forward to it. Got to assume they'll actually give us a tougher game than City did. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Arsenal are going to win that not easily, mate. At home, it's going to be a welcome to the Premier League of Coventry. I mean, that's going to be another 3-0. And no, I'm psyched.

Like, it's funny because obviously the World Cup and then I was like, oh, I'm like a functional human being on the weekends, but now I'm like, as soon as it starts, I'm like to my wife and child. I'm like, no, I'm not. I'm going to, I'm going to be just dipping out on our family quite frequently and I'm excited about it. Just come back with like baskets of goods. Oh, yeah.

That's how you circumvent that. No, that's, you order it online and then it arrives why. you're watching it, so you don't even have to stop watching it. Biggest man, City, Bournemouth, man. That's going to be a big old game after the, how the last season ended. And where's Crupy? Is he still on Portman? No, he's injured, man. He's injured

for three. I think because he's injured, Arsenal haven't pulled a trigger on him. But I think he, him, I wonder Arsenal won't buy a left side of and in January they might buy Cropie, but Newcastle, Liverpool, obviously looks like a big game. Brentford Tottenham.

and yeah that's all right man there's a lot of exciting I'll be I don't know if you noticed that was gone by internet just went out yeah

so we got to the end we got to the end man we got to the end yeah yeah we nailed to the end yeah gave up the game of the week

the games of the week we're fucking talking about shout out to everybody listening this is this this uh yes Yes, yes.

Well, hopefully my internet it will be better because I'll be back home for this shit. Is my shit just choppy as fuck? Jamel or Chris, do that outro. I'm going to have you go. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Signing off for Miles, yes. The season's starting Friday. Thank you for listening, guys. You're awesome. Bye from me. Jamel, do you have anything to plug? Hey, come to pub key in D.C. Tonight is tonight, okay.

Okay, there we go. I'm just going to give a shout out to the Costa Rican internet as well. shout out Costa Rica. Thank you. Costa Rica. It's decent, mate. We love y'all.

We love y'all. Bye. Yeah, we'll see you for the game match week one because why the fuck am I can talking? Peace. Peace. Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host the podcast, Hollywood Handbook.

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