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Clint Dempsey and The Tractor Boys

• Season 1 • Episode 11

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Everton is down bad, Brighton stock is high, and the transfer window is almost over. We cover all that and more in this week's episode.

Jerrell:

All right episode 11 guys, we made it episode 11 of football fellas i'm jerel i've been joined with christian and will I have a special shout out to phoenix, arizona. We got it. We got our first listen from phoenix

Will:

Our first Venetian,

Jerrell:

first venetian we'll bring football to arizona We're gonna go ahead and kick things off with transfer news I think we're almost done right this will be the last time you report on the transfer portal will transfer portal jesus christ You

Will:

college football in the mud,

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

outside of probably whatever it's finalized next week, but I won't have anything pending. No. Usually the last couple of days are stressful, so I'll still keep notes, but yeah, for the most part, this is it until January 1st. So yeah,

Jerrell:

Until January.

Will:

I'm finally going to get to leave my room.

Christian:

shots.

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

Yeah, I'm fucking shaking right now as we talk about it. I'm fucking nervous, man.

Jerrell:

But

Will:

oh,

Jerrell:

before we jump into that, yeah. Before we jump into that the Champions League draw is August 29th, 12:00 PM Eastern time. Swiss format. Swiss format. You have you guys read about that and you understand how it works. It's a little different from years. Years gone by

Will:

I feel like I have a good grasp on it. Outside of the coefficient nonsense to me is just like something that I'll just accept year by year for the seating. But yeah, I feel like I have a decent grasp at this point after trying to understand it for I don't know, I guess the last six months.

Christian:

Yeah, after reading a million articles just trying to catch up to what the heck they're trying to do this year. new format, should be interesting. Ooh, first thumb of the day, baby. Okay.

Will:

So nine pots, what? No, four pots of nine and then they seed each one based off like one, two, three, and four with Champions League winner will always be in pot one and then it's just based off your FIFA coefficient and your performance in Europe over the previous five years and Then

Jerrell:

what the fuck?

Will:

Yeah, they have a computer draw. So everyone's gonna play two teams out of each pot a total to play a total of eight games in your league phase and then depending on your position because everyone's all 36 teams are in one table right depending on your

Jerrell:

Okay,

Will:

play football so only 12 teams after those first eight games are eliminated they get no football there's no europe there's no european league anymore and then your top eight teams get an automatic buy you So you don't play the next phase, which is, I think, in February. Teams from 9 to 24 play a home and away leg to see who makes it to the round of 16 to play those other 8 teams. just really basic elementary stuff at this point. Exciting.

Jerrell:

Yeah. I can't believe I didn't see it.

Will:

Yeah, so they were gonna, they're removing the manual draws, which was a lot of fun because they said it would take over a thousand balls, like ping pong balls that they pull from and over three hours for them to do it. So it's just gonna be like an Excel where you hit enter, some AI bullshit, but it's two hours. Enter, and then some pageantry tomorrow, 12 p. m. Eastern, I believe, unless That up in my notes,

Jerrell:

watch the finger go down onto the inner button. Boom. Groups.

Will:

me

Jerrell:

done.

Will:

office. Run the numbers again!

Jerrell:

Crunch, crunch the numbers.

Will:

Yeah so yeah, fun stuff.

Jerrell:

I don't know. Would you sit for,

Christian:

man.

Jerrell:

would you sit for three hours to watch the ping pong balls drop and see the draw? We do it for the NFL draft.

Will:

I'd let it run in

Jerrell:

Do you have, Let her in the background?

Christian:

down and fully watches an NFL draft. It's more just on the background, or you just get the updates for your team, and then you just stop caring after the first round.

Jerrell:

The first round in itself is how long?

Christian:

Too long, actually.

Jerrell:

Too long. Yeah,

Will:

cancels our

Jerrell:

the whole thing.

Will:

Seated.

Jerrell:

Yeah

Christian:

There's nothing worse than first round pick take the very number one pick taking the full length. You've had all this time to decide who you want, why wait the full three minutes. But,

Jerrell:

you could you feel that you're fielding offers. Yeah, we are I would watch it the first go around. I'd watch a three hour Champions League draw the first go around just to be like, what are they cooking up after that? I don't think I would just because I'm interested because then they'll also pad the three hours with explaining like what the fuck is actually going on. So I

Will:

think

Jerrell:

Feel like I'll be beat into me

Will:

there's gonna be more of those bigger fixtures. So you'll see like a City, Bayern early on. It, I think since the fact that only like 12 teams are gonna be out, you can probably pick most of them from like your pot four, likely. So I think a little bit of the game to game magic is going to be lost a little bit but at the end It should still have a lot of people like look jockeying for positions we'll see it'll be fun to watch over the next a couple months

Jerrell:

And where can we catch that paramount plus?

Will:

paramount plus in americas, so

Jerrell:

right, Cut the check. All right. Do we have any other news before we jump into the transfer?

Will:

I just wanted to shout out wojtek czesny retired, at age 34 he goalkeeper for arslan juventus. So he announced his official retirement so shout out wojtek

Jerrell:

All right, Christian you have anything

Christian:

No, just here. Just

Jerrell:

Just here for the vibes,

Christian:

bro.

Jerrell:

right? Yeah, we're getting there. We're getting there.

Will:

me add it. Let me go. Miss me with this admin.

Jerrell:

the NFL. I want to talk about Premiere.

Will:

the football fellas on IG. Is it drill? What is it?

Jerrell:

Yep, the football fellas on Instagram. Give us a follow. You follow our pickums and challenge us. Make your picks too. See if you're better than us. We'll give you a shout out. We'll give you a shout out on the pod if you can beat all three of us.

Will:

we been posting those that link?

Jerrell:

I post the you post in the comment section. Just run in the comment section.

Will:

Okay. Yeah, we'll add the link on the Spotify descript. So if you want to jump in, it's just quick. What, 30 seconds?

Christian:

one to Dave. Dave was really interested in doing the pickups.

Jerrell:

Oh For sure. Yeah,

Will:

needs.

Jerrell:

I need to send him the pod too because I tell him about it and I always forget he's not on Instagram So I had to send it to him. So

Will:

Put it

Jerrell:

yeah, all right Transferred transfer news. We're almost there. We're almost done

Will:

Yo! I'm gonna try to go roughly in order until I start straying off topic because of the attention span of a squirrel. Last week we talked about Chelsea and Letico, they're finished again, they're Connor Gallagher deal over the line Samuel Morodin shortly after the pod, he could finish a move from Atletico over the Porto Porto. Also, they received Fabio Vieira from Arsenal on loan. Right now it's also looking like Eddie Nguentia, like he's finally gonna find a line, landing spot where it's looking like he might be headed to Crystal Palace for 25 million pounds and then 5 million pounds in add ons. He completed medicals I think they're just filing up, Finishing up the final touches for his contract currently additionally, it appears that Aaron Ramsdale, we finally have movement from him from the arsenal front. It looks like he's looking at a move to Southampton 18 million pound deal with a 7 million pounds and add ons for his deal. They were looking for 30 million pounds, but looks like they're moving forward on him. I'd expect shortly after that to see Joan Garcia. Arsenal has been looking at him all summer from Espanol to be bought into be second keeper behind David Araya other end Luke Haku. He finally completed his deal to Napoli for 30 million euros. He's on a three year deal. Matt O'Reilly, he finished completed a deal that was rumored to Bryden from Celtic and then was injured nine minutes into his debut in a Carabao Cup game against third tier Crawley Town It was a terrible challenge. I added a link for you guys so you can check it out, but just literally late challenge hate to see it. So it's looking like I Don't think they confirmed anything, but he couldn't put any weight on the leg that he was challenged on and the player didn't receive a card in that game. So that was a tense 4 0 win what ended up being for Bryden. But. Just poor handling of of the game by the refs in that one. Other end, Manchester United, they finished and moved over for Manuel Garcet. They were able to get him for 42 million pounds with eight in add ons from PSG. He'll be shoring up their midfield. Chelsea was able to bring in a backup goalkeeper from Genk, 17 million pounds. They sent him right back to Genk so he can get some more league time. Kepa's loan to Burnmouth. And his contract extended a year. He's on, was on the last year of his deal just so he can protect his transfer value at this time. Outside of that news on the Colombia front, James he has completed a transfer over to Rio Vallecano. He was in the VIP boxes watching the Barcelona Rio game yesterday. Tightly contested to one Bahamas to Rio. I think that's a great deal for them. Someone to free up and be able to be a connector between their back and front ends on what's a smaller pitch typically La Liga news mamar dashaville. He finally confirmed his deal to liverpool. So they were able to pick him up keeper for the future. They were able to get him for relatively cheap 23 year old georgian. Keeper over there. Outside of that. We also saw You He finally, he's going to get his move from Liverpool. I thought that was great business from Liverpool. They get him for 10 million euros and 3 million in add ons for a guy who was dominating in the euros in 2020 injuries. So if they can recapture anything from him. That'd be great. Gonzalo. He's out to Al Hillel for man city. going to be getting 15 million a year. They paid 25 million euros for him outside of that. Things to watch out for. Currently, Chelsea is interested still in getting a nine, whether it's Ivan Tony or Victor Oseman Sancho, it looks like Jaden Sancho. It looks like he's either going to be headed to Juventus. He's keen on that deal or there's potential swap, some machinations for Sterling and Jaden Sloncho, the switch teams between ManU and Chelsea that's also been rumored. Outside of that, Arsenal, they're rumored also to get a nine as Gabriel Jesus, we'll cover a little bit more later. He picked up an injury, but they're looking like they might be in on Ademola Lookman. Pay attention to that over the last three days. And then also, my heart goes out to Marc Bernal. 17 year old. He ruptured ACL yesterday. And so Barcelona was looking to Hijack a loan from to he was headed to RB Salzburg They're trying to get it on him for a loan for Stefan Bacevic out of Liverpool who's also dealt with injuries during his young career, outside of That's all I got in my transfer corner guys. It was a thicker one. It's one of the last ones

Jerrell:

But not THE last one.

Christian:

that popped up for, as far

Will:

Unfortunately, no

Christian:

in my feed today, which was very interesting was it's loud. Talks about Arsenal potentially going after Darwin Nunez. There's been a few links, a few headlines that one out. As fellow Arsenal fans, how do we feel about having Darwin as our potential No. 9? Now, granted, this is a far fetched possibility here, but we always have, we say Arsenal does need a stronger 9. We can be way more competitive with a better 9. How do we feel about this fun little transfer rumor here?

Jerrell:

I like it, go get him. As long as he doesn't fight people in the stands. You

Will:

I don't know. I like, I've been, I've grown to like really Havertz kind of playing in our nine role. How they had him connecting. I think if we bring in a nine, Darwin Nunez at the end of the day is just you can bring him in. I think he's a great striker. I do worry he's not clinical sometimes. And is a little bit wasteful with his chances, I guess for the right price, I wouldn't mind, but I would, I'd rather, I think right now with how Kai's been playing in that position, I'd rather have him, does Nunez, is he able to play on a wing as well?

Christian:

I would have put

Will:

No?

Christian:

I haven't seen him, I'm not entirely sure, but with that size, it's somebody you want to have right there at nine. Like a big demanding body.

Jerrell:

know Sokka doesn't come off the field, that's Arsenal's brand. What

Will:

being able to play like some nine some wing as well So they can have some get more rotation. But we'll see there's three days left, which is like a lifetime and transfer But I wonder what Liverpool would want for that. That's sorry that wasn't on my radar at all, but I wonder what Liverpool would want from him realistically

Jerrell:

is the source for the Darwin Nunez rumor?

Will:

His feeds

Christian:

com

Jerrell:

Nice. Alright, cool.

Will:

Oh, Liverpool. com I

Christian:

That I absolutely,

Will:

that's fucking wild. Yeah, they're just like, yeah, they really want to get rid of him if they're putting it on the main club website. That's wild, oh, something interesting to watch.

Jerrell:

Yeah, that's exciting. Let's see what happens in the next three days. Like you said, it could be a good upgrade. I'm not going to say no to it

Will:

Is undeniably talented. Yeah, no, I can't argue, you're right.

Jerrell:

match day two is done. We're going to go through the results. Exciting. I caught a couple more games, got to watch Arsenal play, caught a couple more games than I did the week before. But to kick it off Brighton Man United. Brayton wins! Brayton beats Man United 2 1 with a stoppage time winner by Jao Pedro. Crystal Palace gets blinked against West Ham. Fulham tops the Foxes 2 1. Ipswich went up early but ended up falling to Man City 4 1. Holland gets a hat trick in that one. Southampton falls to Nottingham Forest 1 0. And Forest gets their first one in the season. Shout out to Forest. Spurs destroy Everton 4 0. Villa, the Is blanked by arsenal gets their win over villa something they couldn't do last season born with a new castle draw wolf. Oh my god. Is that correct? Chelsea scores six over the wolves To two. Oh jesus

Will:

yeah, we'll go into that in a second.

Christian:

You get a

Jerrell:

And I did not I didn't know I missed that one, I don't know how I missed that one and then liverpool Beats the bees to zero. All right. Christian who's your winner from this past match day?

Christian:

I'm just glad everybody had fun. No I'd say my winner is probably going to be Brian. It really put, we have, we talked about it last week, 31 year old head coach. There's about 3 or 4 players that are older than the coach. for them to come out and beat Man U team, that's, they have a lot of pressure against them. So I'm going to put Brighton as my winner for pulling off that win. And as far as my loser, I'm going to keep it on the same game. I'm going to

Will:

Hey, slow down. Spoilers.

Jerrell:

gotta save it for the next one.

Will:

the games. We're gonna go through the games. We're gonna do winners and losers this week. So we're gonna have, we're gonna go through based off our finishing of the slot. And then we're gonna do losers. We're gonna take turns. Christian, damn.

Jerrell:

Yeah,

Christian:

just

Jerrell:

He's going to winners now, right?

Will:

If you, if y'all want to jump into winners a little bit, I wanted to talk about these games a little bit, that's fine. But definitely can't hit.

Christian:

were going to, I thought we were going to talk about the games and then I just get, I just add a left

Jerrell:

I was just gonna be like, oh yeah, get put the winners out and then losers and talk about the game. I don't know.

Christian:

We'll fix

Will:

to the brain trust. Leave a, leave comments on how you prefer Do you want us to hit winners and match day same time? Winners first? More transfer news? Let us know what you want But

Jerrell:

Yeah I mean let's we'll continue the winners thing then we'll do the all the matches then we'll do losers it's unorthodox, but that's what that's where we're at right now.

Will:

Okay

Jerrell:

Yeah so for Yeah, you're right. Yeah, this is our world the viewers just living in it my winner Oh Jesus. My winner for match day two is our super sub Trosser. Just stepping on first touch, putting Arsenal ahead, giving them that sweet one Oh lead. He's going to be my winner cause it was just a big win. big momentum swing to have that. Not taking away from Raya's heroic save just before that, that probably swung the momentum, but Trosser being able to come on and get Arsenal that lead then put them in a position to take away points and Arsenal closing out the game with their insurance goal Later, so I have Chaucer does my winner from match day two

Will:

Alright I was going to say Ipswich because they got out of first two brutal games of their schedule, but since you guys didn't hit it I'm going to say Noni Madoike and Cole Palmer's link up in the 15 minutes of the second half. So that Wolves Chelsea game was 2 2 at half and Wolves, dare I say, played better. And then 15 minutes after it was just moments of badness. I don't know if you guys heard Noni Madoike also. Posted on his wrong Instagram account that Wilbur Hampton is boring as shit, and it's trash, and it's terrible, and if I am the wolves social media account team, I was praying for another Chelsea meltdown. But Madueke from three assists from Colt Palmer he got a hat trick and was able to back it up, so they're gonna be my winners, I think, after the game. He said, yeah what is it, Colt Palmer, you already know he's cold. And I'm fire, so we gotta fire a nice thing. I don't know if I like the branding, but I do love a hat trick in a game where you probably had to win because if not, you're about to get endlessly fucking roasted by socials. My winners you won't hear this too often the Chelsea Tandem, Cole Palmer, and Noni Mudueke.

Jerrell:

Nice Is there any other game? Is there any games that we want to go in and dissect and any shoutouts from any of these games that we've gone? over

Will:

Christian touched on the Man U game, I just wanted to say shoutout to Bryden getting that result, and also, the defending Went on the last cross for the header from pedro watching it manchester united looked like shit and it I think one one of the things that I was like masked in my loser I'm, not gonna spend too much time on it. It's just That really kills momentum for them. I felt like they were like, you're rebuilding the squad You get a solid win like your first, game of the season but just seeing not even just losing just the disorganization late and giving up another late goal to lose a game and I don't know you expect more from a tenhawk team but that I did want to shout out. Erinwombisaka. I sent you guys a clip He left Manchester United and he had a run that led directly to Suchak's first goal against Crystal Palace. It was a tight game. His run was amazing with the right sideline, so if anyone gets a chance to catch it, I'd definitely watch that Aaron Wan Bissaka run because watching it in real time was special.

Christian:

Yeah, that was pretty warped. Wanna give a quick sad shoutout to There's still a couple teams, Ipswich, Wolves, Crystal Palace, and And South Hampton just can't really get on the board. Saints and Toffees are the only teams to have not been able to score in the first half so far this season. So sad news for them. If switched down, like we like you stated earlier it's tough that they had a Liverpool as their second matchup, but hopefully moving forward. They don't necessarily look like they're completely trash. Like they just came out of the championship. So it should be interesting to see. Maybe they can get some going against their fate, in their

Will:

Yeah, because they played really well against Liverpool and then, 60 minutes in, you give up the goal, you give up another one and the life left them. They scored first. city and

Jerrell:

Yeah

Will:

fault because I sent the

Jerrell:

Seven. Yeah. Seven minutes in.

Will:

And then

Jerrell:

is a podcast Curse

Will:

it

Jerrell:

And then Man City said, what'd you say?

Will:

He said say it again say it's like the equivalent of if you see someone get their ass beat in public and like they It's over, like it's fine and they keep going and you don't want to get in between it Because you're not trying to catch it straight, but it definitely gave the energy to just like yo, he's good. He's good. Hey chill I

Jerrell:

Stop.

Will:

boy. Yeah, hey, we

Jerrell:

What

Will:

We get it. So

Jerrell:

city scored like three goals in five minutes.

Will:

It was like 12 It was like holland kdb holland and then holland finishes hattie and like the 88th or some shit So

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

Moment, hey, they got shook You know, but hey, defending champs I, Ipswich has been looking good

Jerrell:

but it's a tough ask to go Liverpool man City and just be like, yo, we just got here,

Will:

It's can't what, why fuck me though?

Jerrell:

It's definitely tough. I think if switches they're going to be pretty good. They're going to be pretty decent, right? They're gonna they got their welcome to premier league

Will:

Yeah,

Jerrell:

of thing. And they'll be more competitive against teams lower on the table. I hope I wish success for them.

Will:

yeah, I think Southampton might be dead in the water two games and not to.

Christian:

the Tractor Boys?

Jerrell:

That's amazing.

Christian:

I love that.

Will:

I love that's amazing.

Christian:

Yeah.

Jerrell:

Is that the show title?

Christian:

The Tractor

Jerrell:

Are we doing entrance twice?

Will:

tractor boys back at it. Yeah, any other games that you guys found interesting? Shout out to Spurs also. You won't hear that often from me, but I was talking a

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

believing in them at the end of last game. So I was just like surprised. if you ever need a reset, play Everton apparently.

Jerrell:

Yeah, apparently yeah Spurs, I don't know what's up with Everton Do we want to get into our losers now since I want to

Will:

for it. I'm ready for

Jerrell:

I'll lead it off But yeah, my losers definitely Everton they haven't scored yet and they have a negative seven goal differential it's not looking great for them, especially for a team that I had Middle of the pack not sitting 20th. I know we're only two games into the season, but like Ipswich has scored already Leicester has scored, and Southampton's not getting blown out, but Everton is sitting here at the bottom with negative seven, no goals to their name.

Will:

I

Jerrell:

in my book.

Will:

found a stat when you were on duck. I was like reading about it. Only seven teams in Europe's big five leagues have begun the season with two losses by a combined seven goals or more, including this team.

Jerrell:

Wow.

Will:

the lat, only one team's ever survived relegation. Bremen in 11 12.

Jerrell:

That's tough.

Will:

six down. The last three have been down. Let's see. I'm feeling better about my rankings. I just wish I full sense on them finishing 18th But I think I had them 17 coming into the year. So yeah, cuz their dial

Christian:

fully past the potential of getting docked points again?

Jerrell:

Oh no.

Will:

I mean they're dealing with financial I mean at this point how they've looked only them and Southampton have looked the worst to me to start the season where I'm just

Jerrell:

Also, the only team's without goals.

Will:

Yeah, and at least like Everton you can say hey first game of the season you get done up a little bit okay, and then but I don't even fucking know. Yeah, they're those two teams I was just like i'm not looking forward to watching their games over the next couple of weeks if i'm

Jerrell:

Yo,

Will:

So

Jerrell:

where are we watching Southampton Everton?

Will:

they lose and they only lost 1 0 But they should probably lost by two or three realistically with how that game was going So and then their first game they lost to newcastle 1 0, but they gave up the goal after they went a man up They got the red 28, Newcastle just held on, but they couldn't score that whole game. So I'm just kinda know where the relief comes from.

Christian:

that game versus Newcastle's 3.

Jerrell:

Good lord.

Will:

got their goal and the 45th and they said go ahead good luck yeah, we'll see how I was nervous after they didn't get their first result and then after this week I'm, just like I don't know and now they got to play the bees next so and

Jerrell:

Buzz.

Will:

Jarrell's ready to die for that hive. So we'll see how it goes christian. You got a loser

Christian:

Ten Hag.

Jerrell:

Oh,

Christian:

been on the

Will:

Oh christian's doing it. Hey

Christian:

man's been on the chopping block for it feels like three seasons. This should have been a game they should have won. And you just let go Tenhai is two games in and there's already pressure on him.

Jerrell:

no maybe Brighton's that good.

Christian:

We'll find out next week but yeah, Tenhai has to put something together. He needs to figure it out what's going on with his team They're just not able to pull off, wins and this might be too early to call but this might be his last season with with Manyu

Jerrell:

He did get an extension, right? Like a multi year extension or? Okay,

Will:

they rubber banded straight across. They said, we're going to keep him and also extend them. It's like that LeBron, this is like more years or whatnot. We'll see, because they finished eight last year. The whole idea is just Hey, this is the consolidation of what you're trying to do. We'll,

Christian:

less If they go trophyless and they don't make it to any European championship what's the benefit of having 10 hack?

Will:

So yeah, top, if you're outside, top four. And you don't win a trophy like any of them then like odds are he's out just from expectation standpoint, but Yeah we'll monitor throughout the year, because they did lose. It wasn't like they were terrible. They lost a late game to Bryden, who's, we all had him in our top four, right? Only four

Jerrell:

Oh, for sure. Yeah.

Christian:

a fucked

Will:

Man City, Arsenal, and them now. So we'll see. That be one. Or one of those teams are going to drop Arsenal and Bryant this week, but we'll see, but The contract extension was curious for sure Considering it took them two months to finally be like Yeah, we're not firing him, so Alright my loser, I jumped ahead, yeah

Jerrell:

us your loser

Will:

yeah, I jumped the gun I'm a flex Southampton actually, I'm gonna go with Arsenal City Boys right now. Two seasons ago they bring in Gabriel Jesus, they bring in Zinchenko, they were key to propelling them to their impromptu finish, second place finish. Two seasons ago Gabriel Jesus picks up another groin injury. We were excited to see him back on the field and, getting regular playing time. His injuries right now appear to be derailing his Arsenal career. And Zinchenko, barring injuries, it, I just don't see where he's playing right now unless it's like playing in playing with backers. They bring in Kyle Flory over the summer, Timber's back healthy. And there was a couple of drops in concentration, he was gutted defensively the back half of their season last year. That's contributed to them reshoring up. So he started the game, he looked pissed as fuck that he was not on the field. I don't know if you guys saw the clip of him just sitting on the bench, brows furrowed, looking like very upset. But two key guys for us early on and it looks like they might just be falling back into the pecking order through combinations of injuries and just things outside of their control. Are going to be my losers currently because I already shit on Southampton,

Jerrell:

all right. Good deal.

Will:

I know.

Jerrell:

I'm shocked. I'm just

Will:

for Arsenal right now

Jerrell:

That's crazy.

Will:

it

Jerrell:

That's hot. Take

Will:

they're It's not a hot, it's just, realistically, it's just Jesus was supposed to be like our 9, he wanted to come here, and I was excited to see him play 9 and rotate out wing with Sokka some hopefully the growing injury is not something serious, but We saw Smith Rowe his Arsenal career get derailed and he scored his first goal for for Fulham shout to him this weekend, but get derailed because growing injuries are also very tricky to recover from. So that and Zenchenko, the writing is just a little bit on the wall. There was a lot of Tomiyasu last year. Timbers and he can play right and left and then Califori's coming in who's supposed to be probably like your new left back Unless he's playing in the middle. So Yeah,

Jerrell:

All right. Sounds good. Christian. Can I ask you,

Christian:

up?

Jerrell:

can I ask you to run us down on match day three preview match day three for us?

Christian:

For sure. Match day three. We have Arsenal, Brighton, Bees.

Jerrell:

Top of the table.

Christian:

I

Will:

that's it. That's a top four clash bees in the trap

Christian:

De Bees versus Southampton. got Everton versus Burnmouth. Then Ipswich versus Fulham. Foxes versus Aston Villa. Yeah. Nogginham Forest vs. Wolves, West Ham Man City, Chelsea Crystal Palace, Newcastle Spurs, and Man U Liverpool. I don't know about you guys. As always, Arsenal Bryant is going to be a top game for me, obviously as

Will:

four clash That's a top four clash,

Jerrell:

Top four clash.

Will:

clash and Headed

Christian:

Bryan. This is going to be a true test for Bryan. See if they just run out of steam early or if they're a real deal. If they're a real contender. Got a 31 year old coach there. See what they can bring against Arsenal. Another game I'm interested in is going to be the Man U Liverpool game. Tough for Ten Hag, again, just lost Week 2 and Week 1. So a tough matchup against Liverpool. This can turn a lot of doubters into believers if they pull off even a tie against a strong Liverpool team.

Will:

you won week one.

Christian:

Oh, they lost in my heart.

Will:

Oh Shit, that's crazy You

Christian:

I was like a late game winner, right?

Will:

Yeah, I forgot. I forgot Xerxe got it like in like the 88th or some shit like that. but so it's

Jerrell:

Yeah. Man, man, United does have a win. They do have a win.

Will:

Christian is just it's not to me.

Christian:

Not

Will:

Yeah, I like, I respect it. How about you DroboGames? Are you looking forward to this week?

Jerrell:

I'm looking forward towards the Ipswich Willem game. I'm gonna Ipswich is my championship team that I want to see do if I had to pick of the three That's gonna be my team. So that's my secondary team.

Will:

Succeeding

Jerrell:

be watching

Will:

Gluten.

Christian:

Was

Jerrell:

Yeah, basically they've been yeah

Christian:

they were the Tractor Boys?

Jerrell:

That was before no when I found out Ed Sheeran is a minority

Will:

excited

Jerrell:

minority

Will:

the

Jerrell:

Steak the

Will:

it with

Jerrell:

tractor boys just adds to it

Will:

Yeah

Jerrell:

But yeah, I know if switches mine is my team from championship Hope they you know, I hope they stay if Everton stays the course it might look that way That's so that's gonna be an exciting one. And I want to see the Newcastle Spurs game I think that won't be a good like middle currently as it stands Middle top middle of the table matchup see what each team is made out of both win both the draw So I want to see how five and six are able to compete against each other

Will:

Yeah, I had Newcastle Spurs as my Newcastle playing at home. Newcastle escaped both of their games so far this season. So they haven't, I feel like they haven't really put their foot down, but they also haven't they're hard to score on. So 1 0 is enough for them. So that's one that I had circled after Spurs were able to get a 4 0 against Everton after drawing their first game. That was a game I was looking forward to. Don't want to really say it out loud because I don't want to jinx it, but West Ham I think could be a trap game for City. West Ham at home coming off of a solid performance this week had a close tie, their first game of the season odds are, obviously City, odds on favorite, but West Ham, I think, is a team good enough at home that could get a result, so that's a, that's another game that I'm looking forward to watching as well personally, coming into the week,

Jerrell:

speaking of Fulham a little trivia. Who is Fulham's all time leading goal scorer?

Will:

It's not Mitrovich, right?

Jerrell:

No

Christian:

Who?

Jerrell:

Christian without typing it a Clint Dempsey, Clint.

Christian:

Clint

Jerrell:

Clint

Will:

demon

Jerrell:

is You

Will:

I don't know.

Jerrell:

Is the all time leading goal scorer for Fulham,

Christian:

With

Jerrell:

Dempsey. I don't think it's a lot, but I found that out a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was really interesting. Oh,

Will:

bro But and like I like clint dempsey, but you really just ruined that for me. So

Jerrell:

I'm sorry.

Will:

No, that's cool. Go tractor boys this week

Jerrell:

Tractor boys.

Will:

I actually liked fulham. I had played like a fifa with them I was like, I want to play with the premier league team, whatever I got really invested into fulham like five years ago or something like that, but now

Jerrell:

does that kill that for you?

Will:

I like Clint Dempsey but I don't want him to be an all time anything on my team.

Jerrell:

That's okay.

Will:

I said what I

Jerrell:

All time U. S. men's team leading scorer too.

Christian:

Wait,

Jerrell:

Tied with Landon Donovan.

Will:

that's totally different in the US That's fine, but I don't want my EPL team to be Best Strik3r to be Clint Dempsey, respectfully.

Christian:

I, where'd you get that? Cause I, I Googled it and no Google results says Clint Dempsey.

Will:

Oh no, did you get it from your true social app, bro?

Christian:

Clint texted him. It's hey, bro. Give me a shout out on the pod. It doesn't have to be true.

Will:

You got, we're welcome to FootballFellas where we do live Googles on air because we don't trust each other. Joel, you're muted.

Christian:

Jarell, yeah, you're muted. Fix it in post.

Jerrell:

Nah my I'm gonna have to recant. I found it somewhere, oh my god.

Will:

Oh,

Jerrell:

Alright. It was on Wikipedia, I saw it on, I saw that shit on Wikipedia.

Will:

Oh,

Jerrell:

Don't do this to me no.

Will:

like, all time

Jerrell:

Recto.

Will:

is because

Jerrell:

Records and statistics. Hang on. Records and statistics. Transfers.

Christian:

Ham?

Jerrell:

Fulham. I

Will:

podcast. We're a podcast. Gordon Davies. With 178.

Christian:

Clint Dempsey, still not on this list though.

Will:

Mitrovich

Jerrell:

know where I saw it from!

Will:

Clint

Jerrell:

What the?

Will:

play for fucking Fulham?

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

Don't know, bro. I'm starting to think it was a fever dream. You dreamt that shit up. American hero, Clint Dempsey himself. Oh yeah, he

Jerrell:

He played for Fulham 07 12! The fuck? Where did I see this shit, man?

Will:

yeah. How many goals did he score with them?

Jerrell:

He had 50. He had 50 goals.

Will:

Not even half of my guess. Mitrovich had 111, so

Jerrell:

Where? Was it in a single, was it in a single season? Where the fuck did I see this?

Will:

But this is how you know we keep ourselves accountable.

Jerrell:

Oh yeah, for sure.

Will:

one of us at least. That's why there's three of us. It's a good checks and balances system. Cause I'm over here just being like, Fulham's trash, I take it, but I take it back. Good shit Christian. Good shit. You saved Jero. We had

Jerrell:

Yeah, he did.

Will:

screaming

Jerrell:

NOOOOO!

Will:

Unsubscribed, unfollowed,

Jerrell:

to shut the fuck up.

Will:

Ha! Clint fucking Dempsey, bro.

Christian:

so hard to believe, I'm just

Jerrell:

Yeah, I know. I didn't I Bro.

Will:

go to London and we go, we're like, Oh yeah, let's go to fucking Craven Cottage, bro. And just a Clint Dempsey statue just outside doing like an American, No, dude, that's fucking crazy. Oh, thank God. Yeah, we should have we should have two truths and a lie on a couple of pods to discover like the winner's loser order, where it's just which one of these things are non factual? And it's me Clint Dempsey played for Fulham, I might've doubted you, which that's on me,

Jerrell:

Yo, hang on.

Will:

Now we need to find your source and we need to, we, I don't

Jerrell:

No, the source is Wikipedia.

Will:

that's crazy.

Jerrell:

Yeah, it is. Hang on, look at this.

Will:

Not Jarrell proving

Jerrell:

Make it make sense.

Will:

okay, my follow up question though, my,

Christian:

Premier League goal scorer.

Will:

oh, okay. But my follow up, my, my Jarrell, were you like Googling Clint Dempsey late, late one night?

Jerrell:

It was I was watching Copa America and I was just like, yo, what has Klump Dempsey contributed to US soccer and beyond? What was his international career like? Just cause, yeah, I was curious. Cause I looked up Alexi Lawless too. I was like, what did he do on the field? And it wasn't a lot. So I was just going, I was going down the list.

Will:

Also, I feel if alexi lawless in 1990 what like 4 98 could see alexi lawless now he'd be really disappointed He didn't have the hair still

Jerrell:

True.

Will:

Because I feel like that's alexi lawless's like greatest contribution to american sport. This is

Jerrell:

Dempsey is Fulham's all time leading Premier League goal scorer.

Will:

Okay, so

Christian:

it. Yeah. He has 50. Runner up is Brian McBride with 32. Tied with Steve Malbranc.

Jerrell:

So the other leaders then that's just like through the ladder through

Will:

sucks because I think mitrovich if he hadn't left he would have broken it because he was pretty prolific. They had just with relegation for two of the seasons he was there,

Jerrell:

so if anyone is still listening and stuck around through that fucking whirlwind Clint Dempsey is foams all time leading scorer in the Premier League

Will:

get the

Jerrell:

confirmed I

Will:

Davey, shoutout to you, bro. A

Jerrell:

Just forgot I forgot a word I forgot Premier League

Will:

Very important.

Jerrell:

Resolved. I'm not, yeah. I'm not completely lost.

Will:

Alright, so outside of that what, so we have of the shameless plug on socials, follow us on insta, do or pick em.

Christian:

a website. Grazie. Bye.

Jerrell:

No, we don't. It's not out yet. No.

Will:

worked on. Websites take time.

Christian:

construction.

Will:

We don't have a

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

budget. We just have goodwill.

Jerrell:

Yeah. It's when I have time.

Will:

champions league draw tomorrow at noon. So we'll discuss that maybe a little bit next week. We are about to hit an international break. So where are we thinking pod next week, we might take the following week off and then we'll be back for what match day for review is it?

Christian:

your meme, bro? I think our next game international break is Columbia, Argentina, bro. In Columbia.

Will:

That's fucking insane. Okay, so we'll discuss that more. Champions League draw, we can discuss it next week. Match Day 3 review, we'll hit you next week with it. Jorrell, you're muted again somehow. And then a way too early Match Day 4 primer, unless Christian convinces us to cover that Colombia Argentina friendly

Jerrell:

It could be a quick pod for that. I don't mind just have, yeah.

Will:

with

Jerrell:

'cause I think the US is also playing with their new manager.

Will:

Yeah. Okay, if you guys wanna, if you guys wanna get into the mud of some friendlies, I'm always down. I think we

Jerrell:

Sure.

Will:

break, but we gotta give the people what they want. By the people, my co hosts. I'm here for it.

Jerrell:

And our 10 listeners slash followers appreciate you guys

Will:

Shout out to Phoenix, shout out to San Antonio. Ah. Fulham fans, hold on

Jerrell:

Canada

Will:

to the

Jerrell:

shout out to Canada.

Will:

If you're listening to this in the future, as we have more people listening, this episode. I don't know why you'd start at the end. Skip that Fulham part. Skip minute 30 to 40. Pretty much

Jerrell:

listen to it. Listen to it.

Will:

Listen

Jerrell:

Oh, listen to how we problem solve I

Will:

goal scorer?

Jerrell:

don't know. I forgot

Will:

You still remember Clint Dempsey over Gordon Davies, a Fulham

Jerrell:

U. S. A.

Will:

Jesus Christ. Outside of that, Christian, Jarrell, you guys got anything else we want to add?

Jerrell:

No, but I think Clem Dempsey, I think Clem Dempsey's goal scorer is definitely show title.

Will:

Nah, bro, not Tractor Boys.

Christian:

Tractor boys. That's

Jerrell:

in a row, but yeah Clem Dempsey tractor boys.

Will:

Clint Dempsey and the Tractor Boys. I want it to sound like a acapella. Clint

Jerrell:

that's all I have

Will:

Yeah. Shout out Clint Dempsey. Thanks everyone for listening. We'll catch you next week. Count out

Jerrell:

All right,

Christian:

tough.

Jerrell:

see you guys later

Christian:

Peace.

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