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Gentlemen Start Your Season

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Will:

Hit the button. Oh.

Christian:

I was

Jerrell:

The button's pressed.

Christian:

That's

Will:

Welcome

Jerrell:

it?

Will:

to the football fellas. This is episode two of the second season. Christian finishing up

Jerrell:

What's today's date? Will,

Will:

is August 13th, 2023. Happy birthday, Jose Bora request. We are here, the football fellows. I'm joined by Christian. Silence. Okay, cool. Andrew,

Jerrell:

Yeah,

Will:

guys doing?

Jerrell:

pretty good. Coming off my my hat trick plus two performance yesterday.

Christian:

That's

Jerrell:

Yeah. Isn't it?

Christian:

That's crazy.

Will:

Yeah,

Jerrell:

three assist. Plus a little defensive effort too.

Will:

I, I'll give it to

Jerrell:

Feeling good. Too much.

Will:

you.

Jerrell:

Too much ra, too tired. I almost smashed out last night.

Will:

great when we left you, but

Jerrell:

Yeah. I was not,

Christian:

was crazy.

Jerrell:

yeah.

Will:

So yeah. For this week's episode we're going to touch base on a little bit of transfer news. We're gonna review the FA Community Shield review, spoil alert, and we nailed it. And also look into the Super Cup. And then we'll go ahead and give you our preseason elevens that nobody asked for, and then we'll do a quick match day one preview as the Premier League season gets come, gets going this Friday. We are three days away. Today's Wednesday, two days away. From the start of the season. Exciting stuff. That being said, anything you guys wanna shout out before we jump into it?

Jerrell:

I did my shout out. All me.

Will:

baby. That's wild. And Christian, I will go ahead and give you some time. We'll create some time for you as you finish your homework real quick. You're, you're doing God's work over there, bud. So I'll lead off, I'll go ahead and lead off with transfer news. James Madison. Literally probably within 20 same day of the posting of our video he tore his a CO in preseason. This has led Spurs to be pushing for names such as Reci as a out of crystal palaces creating, some competition for his signature

Jerrell:

To hijack.

Will:

They also made a interest in Nico Paz, the Royal Madrid graduate from Cuomo, that was Rebuff. They were offering about 40 million euros, but right now it looks like they're in the market for a 10 and a Ford and a Wing as well. So the left wing as a is one of the players that, really in the arsenal lens that's being offi. Fuck it. Anyway, so yeah, spurs looking to spend more money over the next couple of days. We can go ahead and skip that. That's not Premier League Manchester United. They get Benjamin Sesco for a deal that's worth about 85 million pounds, euros. One of those, it's gonna be 76 and a half fixed and eight and a half in add-ons, Manchester United get a nine. As they look to move off. I'm still looking to move off of SMUs Hoylan and Gar Nacho leading into the season. Just some quick news. We're also looking at Esoc Esoc. Of really saying he's done at Newcastle. He let them know last season and also before the Carrabelle Cup final that this was gonna be his last season. Willing to sit on the bench as he's looking for, to move. Still looking for Liverpool. Liverpool. Also, I had a signing for Leone. Winger out of, that's bad homework on my side. Give me two seconds while I final. Get his team par teenager Leone. He's a 18-year-old defender. I'm sorry. He has purchased for 26 million pounds as well. They're also in the market for Mark Gay, who's running down his contract for Crystal Palace within the last 12 months. They're looking to get him at a cut rate of 30 million pounds for someone who's one of the top center backs in the Premier League that has been your transfer corner.

Jerrell:

Woo. Almost done. Almost done. One more, two more weeks of that,

Will:

Yeah. Yeah. But

Jerrell:

it'll, it'll start to slow down even more.

Will:

it's, I feel like, I feel like it just started, they should just keep it just year round. Fuck it.

Jerrell:

Yeah. Keep Yep. Year round. Sure. Premier League kicked off with the fa a Community Shield on Sunday.

Christian:

We all

Jerrell:

Never worried. I watched the first five minutes of that game and then I watched the penalties'cause I had to step out. But Liverpool struck first and I was like, oh, here we go, Liverpool.

Will:

I could take a, he scores a goal off a pass from

Jerrell:

Very nice pass.

Will:

Short pass there. And then with a good finish. As he gets, hits the ground running for them. on drill. Sorry.

Jerrell:

No I mean I have nothing really more to offer to that one besides,

Will:

fault.

Jerrell:

besides the game going level two, two and into penalties.

Christian:

The game or

Will:

Caught it actually, I, I did a, I watched it after the fact on Monday. I was just like, I'm gonna do this right. Matea was able to get a goal off of a pen. Virgil Van Dyke, I believe, was caught. Gets a f Matee with a great finish. Four minutes later, later another signing. Jeremy Fong, he gets his first Liverpool goal. As well. And then late Isma Lasar in the 77th minute he's able to equalize and send it over to penalties, A game that was up and down. Dean Henderson, great game as Christian. Alluded to shouting out later. But penalties mo, collect, they

Jerrell:

hide it.

Will:

they said, oh, he just got one against athletic goal. Bill Bell over the weekend. Let's see how it goes. And then did the same thing again. A couple bad penalties taken, but Dean Henderson decisive extras as yeah, Eagles win. Lift another

Jerrell:

As long as the sun.

Will:

Yeah. Lot Eagles are, looks like they're gonna be dealing with a lot of, I don't imagine, Mark Gay And we'll see if ZA stays. Looks, looks like a lot of flux with the squad, but hey, you can cap it off with two trophies over the last few months. So good for them.

Jerrell:

And we had Super Cup.

Christian:

it was a good shining from the, the signings for Liverpool. Check word scout. Was involved with an assist on the first goal. And the two goals were scored by the signings. Frim pongs goal was fucking crazy. Was it a shot? Was it a cross? Only frim Pong knows. Honestly, I don't even think frim pong knows it. It

Will:

A

Jerrell:

It was a wonky goal. Yeah,

Christian:

yeah. Bucket's a bucket.

Jerrell:

saw it. I did see the replay on that one and I was just like, I think he was trying to cross, but hey, whatever.

Will:

A bucket's a bucket.

Christian:

not a great showing from Van Dyke. Van Dyke was led up to the two goals against them. You alluded to earlier the, the, the penalty he caused in the box. And the second goal, he was also out of position, which allowed and to just go to go up behind him and, and get that goal. And I believe he is also one of the ones that miss the one of the three pens so bad

Jerrell:

You won't find him.

Christian:

Yeah. Tough, tough show out for, for Van Dyke. But he's, he's been, he's been the man for, for way too long.

Will:

It very much gave preseason game almost, where obviously Liverpool with their flux of signings and. Guys just adjusting over there and then you have a crystal palace. This probably like one of their best chance to win a trophy this season. It very much gave just herky jerky. I expect if this game were played in January, it would look radically different, but Crystal Palace did a great job showing resiliency. They come back two times are able, able to equalize and, hold their own during penalties. So good, good result for them.

Jerrell:

And another trophy, super Cup, PSG versus Spurs. So I didn't know this was a thing. So this is the Champions League winners versus the Europa

Christian:

Mm-hmm.

Will:

Mm-hmm.

Jerrell:

Very odd. Okay. PSG still won. Still beating every Premier team except for Chelsea.

Will:

Yeah.

Jerrell:

one went to penalties. Did you guys catch it?

Will:

So no, this one was a little bit earlier today, so I was keeping track. Spurs were up two oh early goals for Mickey Van Devan and Christian Romero and PSG. Lately Lee can in and Gonzalo Ramos in the 90th and fourth minute pushes it to Pence where, yeah, PSG able to eek it out. PSG in the middle of some drama with their goalkeeper position, currently down room. It looks like he's headed to the Manchester City. they were able to pick up new Keeper and PSG, which was wild kind of development. But yeah, tough, tough loss for Spurs. Blowing, blowing the lead over like 10 minutes late.

Jerrell:

If Pasta Calu was there, they might've won. He likes doing trophies. But in his third year too, did he actually get picked up?

Will:

Did.

Jerrell:

Pasta Calu? Is he co? Is he managing anywhere?

Will:

not sure actually. I, I,

Jerrell:

That's okay.

Will:

you took some time off, but I can, I can look

Jerrell:

That's an answer for another day. The car about cup will kick off. Yesterday. It actually kicked off yesterday the first round. So once the Premier League team start entering that tournament, we'll be paying a little bit more attention. But, hey, the race for the caribou is on no

Christian:

bow, bow.

Jerrell:

interest.

Will:

I

Jerrell:

I get that.

Will:

the energy you bring to it. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna tell you anyone's playing in the first round, but

Jerrell:

Nope, absolutely couldn't tell you either.

Will:

That's awesome though. Thanks for bringing the energy on that. I know that care about this season, they're gonna be having like a teams wearing like a patch showing like how many times the team's won. I think. Top wins was, if I'm not mistaken, Manchester United has won six times, if I'm not mistaken. But yeah, each team is just gonna show how many times they've won it. And I think Newcastle's is gonna have one that says that they're like the holder of the current current rating champions of it.

Jerrell:

It's gonna be gold and shiny.

Will:

I think it's green, but yeah.

Jerrell:

Hey, whatever. Yeah, so they did the first round. It started the second round. The first round will end on the 19th and then it'll continue towards the end of August.

Will:

good source of

Jerrell:

I think it's,

Will:

top down for teams. Just usually the matchups are, can be a little topsy turvy, obviously.

Jerrell:

oh yeah, I think it's, it's a knockout all the way through. I don't think that's a group stage

Will:

No, yeah. It's knockouts all

Jerrell:

mistaken.

Will:

through and then it's I think believe like through the second league, which is like the fourth division up. That's why we see those Cinderella teams and it's a good revenue for those teams also. Just getting Hey, Manchester United's in town, we're gonna sell out. Sell out the fixture. And that can be good money for a team. But as far as like Premier League, obviously it's just not, it's on the back burner as far as competitions go for most teams.

Jerrell:

For sure. A couple from League Teams will enter in the second round.

Will:

Who is it?

Jerrell:

Wolves, Westham, and Fullham is the ones I Oh, Leeds is there. Oh, Brentford ISS there too. There's a couple. Good Handful. And United as well. That's funny. We'll get more into that. The closer we get though, I'll pay attention.

Will:

Christian. You ready? Over there?

Jerrell:

Are you right for your preseason elevens? You got your elevens?

Will:

Damn.

Christian:

my own Olympics.

Will:

Oh shit.

Jerrell:

He.

Will:

Hell yeah.

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

gonna do preseason elevens. The 11 can be whatever you like. I don't know if you guys did shapes. If you have a shape, you can do it. If you wanna have a coach there, fuck it. Do that too. Considering I cut, we cut off the picks like mid-season. Drell, you came in first. You wanna go first?

Jerrell:

Oh wow. Okay. How are we starting? Are we like like listing what we have at position or am I just giving you my 11? Just like off.

Will:

can go position. Do you wanna start formation? Did you guys have a formation you had in mind?

Jerrell:

I don't really have a formation in mind. I did have two strikers, but

Christian:

I just did a, a basic 4,

Jerrell:

if

Will:

There's

Jerrell:

mine's a four, two. Two. Mine's a four. Two. Two, two.

Will:

two. Two, two is crazy.

Christian:

That's crazy. All down the middle.

Will:

Straight up the

Jerrell:

Yep.

Will:

width. Red

Jerrell:

There's no width. The long ball.

Christian:

off the Won the game.

Jerrell:

I'll start with my strikers then. We'll start from the top. My two strikers were. The cheat code Erling Holland of Man City and Esau of Newcastle. They both had strong seasons. There's not like I, I limited my list. I did limit my list to one player per team. So when I got to that point, I was just like it's always gonna be Holland and Esau's pretty solid. So those are who I put up top

Christian:

Who is your striker?

Will:

So I did a

Jerrell:

or strikers.

Will:

I'm gonna go from the back. so I picked one player from each position with me in the middle. So my goalkeeper in my four through three formation is gonna be Matt Sells of Nottingham Forest. Great season last year, and he is gonna be my number one. And given my fullbacks and they're attacking flow he'll, he'll get some work, he'll get some work for, for share in my setup.

Christian:

I was looking at like pretty much the entire defense, I'm just like. Every position of Nottingham's defense came to mind when you just don't think of like the top six teams, like they

Will:

Hmm.

Christian:

mojo is pretty solid for the trees. They have a right back that I can't remember his name off the top. Oh ina Ola Ina, had a pretty solid season. But yeah, I guess I'll start it with my goalkeeper just because he

Jerrell:

That's wild.

Christian:

game. And that's going to be Dean Henderson specifically when he's wearing a hat. So he

Jerrell:

If you wanted to start with goalkeepers, why didn't you guys tell me?

Will:

Oh, I don't know, bro. I just,

Christian:

I usually people start with goalkeepers when

Jerrell:

I asked

Christian:

you said, I'm going with my strikers,

Jerrell:

y'all were just like, yeah, do your thing. We're just gonna start with keeper.

Will:

I like, I

Jerrell:

Okay. Whatever

Will:

from the back

Jerrell:

doesn't make sense.

Will:

a good foundation in your team,

Jerrell:

it doesn't make sense for the flow. Why

Will:

make sense in the, we

Jerrell:

start with my

Will:

we

Jerrell:

then?

Will:

off screen. I don't know, bro. We'll do better next time.

Jerrell:

I asked, should I start with strikers or start from the keeper? And you're like,

Will:

post, bro. I dunno. Do you wanna give us your keeper now?

Jerrell:

yeah, man, United is my keeper.

Christian:

Just Man United.

Will:

Okay, Jerome.

Christian:

Man United is your keeper, which is funny.

Will:

Oh.

Christian:

yeah, Dean Henderson had a really good game against Liverpool. Dean Henderson had a really good game against Liverpool a few days ago. The two goals that they scored against him weren't really his fault. Just one was just like a crazy shot off Ong. The other one was nicely tucked in black three penalties. If he keeps that up, I feel like Dean Henderson's gonna have a, a solid, solid season.

Will:

I think he's gonna have to, for Crystal Ballas to find any joy. But yeah, Dean Henderson really good. And to Christian I don't know if you said, he just said Manchester United. He said, oh, Nana for Manchester United. Just to clarify.

Christian:

I thought he said, and my goalkeeper is Manchester United. I was like, okay.

Jerrell:

The entire squad, they just line up on the

Christian:

as your

Jerrell:

Yeah,

Will:

Oh, Nana. Yes. He has a name.

Jerrell:

yeah,

Will:

He, he, he believes in the bounce back. He saw the, he saw the vision and

Jerrell:

I really do. There's a slump and

Christian:

back comes after two, three years.

Will:

Yeah. Yeah.

Jerrell:

Yep.

Will:

all right.

Jerrell:

Emery's been there for a while now. He's ready. He's ready. The vision is gonna be complete.

Will:

Christian, do you want to give me I guess you can. I dunno, if you wanna do a forward, if you wanna do your back line, whatever you want, bro.

Jerrell:

Yeah,

Christian:

gonna

Jerrell:

wherever the fuck you guys are going.

Christian:

No I'm gonna start off, or continue with my left back. I got Old Man City. young, he's fast. He's, he's just a beast. There's, there's not much that's needed to be said about Bario. He's a solid player. I think he's gonna continue having a solid, solid season.

Will:

Cool. So my left back full and represent, we have Anton Robinson. Yeah Maring left back filling out my, my sheet. More attack minded, but he can get, get up and down that off that flank. So gonna be in my left back. Do we wanna do full one? Do we want no position by position? I wanna see what Drill does next. So we have the top of his formation, we have the bottom of his formation drill. You can do whatever you'd bro. This is crazy.

Christian:

Hey before we continue, Jera, I think your mic's kind of low, or, or is it just me?'cause

Will:

I,

Christian:

We'll, fine.

Will:

I it might be, I hear Darrell fine personally.

Christian:

Gotcha. Okay. All right. All right. Just all. Alright. Alright, continue, continue guys.

Jerrell:

All right. Sure. So my two cbs,'cause this is what's the point, but my two cbs, Christian Romero of Spurs and Louis Dunk, I picked Louis Dunk just because the name,

Will:

Okay.

Jerrell:

I don't know to the field, but I was just like, I like the name,

Will:

you just got a

Jerrell:

I like the name.

Will:

appreciate

Jerrell:

Yeah, just, I know Christian Romero was injured a lot last season, but I, I, I'm here for the bounce back story. I'm here for the, for the comeback. And he scored, he scored against PSG earlier today, so

Will:

There you go.

Jerrell:

he's gonna have a great year.

Will:

Gerald just called it.

Jerrell:

Just stay healthy.

Will:

dunk.

Jerrell:

Just stay healthy.

Will:

Christian, you wanna give your center back here?

Christian:

Yeah, sure. I, my centerback pairing. Is gonna be Conte from Liverpool and Modi from the Tricky Trees. Looks like we're we're tricky Trees fans. Yeah, Conte, I think he's gonna, he's like taking the reins over from Van Dyke. Van Dyke is 34 years old. He can't be amazing forever. Conte I think is like 25, 26.

Will:

Christian's, Christian's getting ready for that free signing at the end of the year.

Christian:

yeah.

Will:

I, I can see you, I can see through you. Christian, you piece of shit.

Christian:

Yeah, so I think Conte is a strong center back. He's, he's paired up well with Van Dyke, and I think this is, this is a year where he might, might just outshine Van Dyke a little bit, just, age difference. He's a little bit younger, solid player and mojo from the tricky trees. Honestly, both center backs from Forest, our, our solid picks, honestly, their entire back line is solid is fairly solid. Yeah, those are my center backs. I'm trying to not repeat teams, I did repeat two teams.

Will:

Wow.

Jerrell:

It's not good enough.

Will:

some subscriptions.

Jerrell:

Yep.

Will:

we have a little bit of synergy in all of our pairings. So I have Christian Romero. Starting as well as Virgil Van Dyke, despite Christian's ageism I think he still has it. I know he made some mistakes again in the community shield, but he pretty much was commanding that back line throughout the entirety of the season in his entirety of the time with Liverpool. So until the rules fall off, I'm gonna stick with it. I picked him over most solid. That was tough for me to decide on. I think Vert was in there at some point as well. I decided I wanted a Van Dyke and Romero. I struggled at some point. I had a Celi Cebo, Virgil Van Dyke parent, which I think would just make all my dreams come true. But given the format, it was a little bit more difficult. So I have Christian Romero from Spurs and Virgil Van Dyke on Liverpool.

Jerrell:

Christian, you wanna give us your right back?

Christian:

Yeah, sure. My right back is Jed Spence from spurs. He had a

Will:

What the fuck, Christian? Wait, what the fuck, bro? Carry on. I'm sorry. Hold it up. Sorry bro. Carry on. Carry on,

Christian:

Oh no. What just happened?

Will:

No, no. That's what we said. Yeah, we were just, you really surprised us.

Christian:

What just happened?

Will:

I think you're about to find down in the second,'cause I think me and Delle are here. So he tried to, he gave you an AlleyOOP pretty much, and you pretty much threw it off the backboard and started to transition the other way. But Jed Spence is a quality rate that carry on.

Christian:

Yeah, so last year he pretty much, he, he was one of the top right backs of last year. He's, he's quick, he's off the ball. It's hard to get past him. He has really outside the foot passes. I think yes, fans continues having a phenomenal year. This this year, despite playing for the Spurs.

Jerrell:

All right. You wanna say that at the same time? Count of three?

Will:

do first name and I'll say last name or something

Jerrell:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Will:

cool. Right back. Who do we have? Drew

Jerrell:

Daniel.

Will:

Crystal palaces right back.

Christian:

crazy.

Will:

Re really was trying to serve it to you. Dan Munoz Sam, crystal Palaces, we'll see. But great season last year. He had some decisive goals down the stretch, also contributed to them winning their trophy. Pride of Columbia.

Christian:

for Crystal

Jerrell:

Yeah, super consistent.

Will:

I mean, like that's, is that, is that, is that you saying that or is that a real thing?

Christian:

voted Crystal Palace player of the season.

Will:

That's crazy. Respectfully.

Christian:

Palace posted it.

Jerrell:

And that's why he is on our preseason 11.

Will:

Mm-hmm.

Christian:

reason I didn't put Munoz was because I was trying to not dupe up on players, and I already have Dean Henderson with a hat

Jerrell:

Oh, that's true.

Will:

But he did

Jerrell:

I thought this was gonna be, I thought this was gonna be one. The two teams

Christian:

I was, I was

Will:

I,

Christian:

at a time.

Will:

I thought you said, you said, no, it's

Jerrell:

I thought first name the first.

Will:

All right. Drill. You wanna give us your next player from wherever you want then I guess.

Jerrell:

Yeah, my, my center mids, I went with an attacking. I went with the defensive one, so my attacking one is Declan Rice. Obvious reasons. Also felon nominee such a good season on all levels of play. Declan Rice just feels, to me, more essential than like auto guard. In a sense just'cause of his availability and his ability to score and make passes. My defensive midfielder was cyto from Chelsea. No reasons. I was just running out of time. I was just like, I need a, I need a name to put here. So yeah, those are my two.

Will:

Oh yeah.'cause you have that 4 2, 2 2 going on

Jerrell:

are,

Will:

what do you need you to do? That's crazy.

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

you wanna give us a peek at your mid?

Christian:

Yeah, so my midfield is gonna be Cole Palmer. Not much to say there. He's, he's, he's a Cole fellow. He's really good at

Jerrell:

I thought about Cole Palmer,

Christian:

really good at

Jerrell:

but.

Christian:

the field while he has the ball. Before he gets the ball. He knows where everything's at, where everybody's at. Following up with Bruno from Manchester United in a season field of. Just what the fuck's going on in menu. Bruno always seemed to be like a good, like a solid player. For them it was one of those, one of those guys that you don't really question what's going on with Bruno. He's a solid player. And then I had to throw in a Colombian on there, new number 10 for the wolves.

Will:

Christian's running three tens. I love your for the chaos. Christian went three tens.

Christian:

I have a strong backline. And I'm gonna go with three tens. Yeah, for sure.

Will:

I respect it.

Christian:

John Adia, so you can put him as a cam, you can put him out on the wing. He, he's nickname from Zo is like the little engine'cause Manz just does not stop running. He's pretty solid. I hate Columbia playing him out of position and don't really know how to use him properly. But I think John is gonna have a really good standout season for the wolves. And the wolves definitely need it.

Will:

Nice. Good. Good stuff. Good stuff. I, I was waiting for the full chaos to break the, the three 10 shout. I love it. It's just, it's cont perpetual emotion. I'm gonna go ahead and give my, yeah.

Christian:

my, my lineup's actually 4 0 6.

Will:

just, just, just stay high and just pray in the back. Dean Henderson, tight in your cap. I'll go ahead and give my midfield. At my 10 I have Bruno Fernand from Manchester United. He a consistent, bright spot on that team over the years. I have midfield got really weird for me. I think this was like the most worked part of my team. When I was trying to do this format but I had Sandro to starting as my center defensive mill midfield coming in from Italy last year. I think he had a great season with Newcastle. I was stuck between him and Es, but I wanted a true six kind of back there. And then at my eight I had a Yuri Tillmans great, great season for Aston Villa last year. Part of the engine that kind of got them pushing deep into deeper into the Champions League and all their competitions. we have to tillmans and rnj, a little bit more balance in the field, but maybe missing some pace. But, I, I, I like the structure. Okay.

Christian:

Nice. Nice.

Jerrell:

All right, left winger.

Christian:

off? With your top three.

Will:

I am waiting to see what Darrell's two is. I'm really, just like,

Jerrell:

Oh my other two.

Will:

is it a

Jerrell:

Yeah,

Will:

like four deal or

Jerrell:

I do have two wingers. Yeah, I got,

Will:

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Jerrell:

so I got Kevin Shade of Brentford 13 goal contributions across all competitions in a season where everybody was scoring up top for Brentford

Will:

the y erasure.

Jerrell:

and. He is, he's a center forward. But I already gave you my two center forwards and then right wing, it was tough'cause I was just like, ah, do you put, do you puts here? Do you put Socca here? Do you put. Bomo here. It's just too many names. I put Moala just because he is just felt so inevitable last season and just his ability to score his availability on the field. Saka had his hamstring injury that kept him out for a couple months. But yeah, Moala incredible season probably will continue that with the talent he's been surrounded with. Go ahead guys. Mm-hmm.

Christian:

Yeah.

Will:

No. Yeah. You can't go wrong. You can't go wrong. Sorry. I was just just what, what should I, what should I unveil next? Actually I'll just do my front three. Just'cause Yeah. My front three, I have Erling Holland from Manchester City. I was considering Esau, but I figured Esau might not be playing four Newcastle this season. So I didn't want to play him.'cause then it would be, if you goes to Liverpool, I didn't want to double up. So I have Erling Holland. Prolific goal score since pretty much his whole career. And he's gonna be fed by Baka, my star boy from Arsenal. Couple cuts made around my field just so I can make sure he's in my 11. And then I left wing this, I took a little bit of liberties. I think he's solid enough to do it. I have Cole Palmer playing off that wing. He can cut inside. When Auntie Robinson gets upfield and then he still got coverage in the back from Tillman's and Ali on the side. So I took a liberty there. I was like, he's gonna learn left wing secondary

Jerrell:

Hmm.

Will:

position there. It's all good.

Christian:

All right. And then to finish off my attacking three, this is where I doubled up just doing quick research on them. It's, it's tough to get wingers that's not out of the top six. And you, us starting 11 isn't a starting 11 without sala. So that's just an amazing player. Yeah, he's just an amazing player. Also, just to, not to get too into it, shout out for his actions off the field as well for calling out ufa on their posts when they did farewell to the Palestinian Pele. out to Sala on that one as well. At right wing I have my first Arsenal player and Starboy himself, aka he's. Left SALA and AKA on the wings. What more do you want? What more do you need from this team? Other than probably a CDM, and up top,

Will:

Dean,

Christian:

goals

Will:

Dean Henderson's just what the fuck?

Christian:

And then up top I also doubled up because I didn't want to give man City another starter.'cause walk Man. City. I just want, yo, this man, this, this, we've been asking

Will:

That's.

Christian:

We've been asking for a nine.

Jerrell:

A rollercoaster with you.

Christian:

Keeps y'all on your toes. We've been asking for a nine. We finally got a nine and he's gonna, he's gonna show up just like, just 90. Our, our first, our, not our first one. Our cup win in 2002. were second place in 99, 2000, 2001. So

Jerrell:

You saw the same, you saw the same Instagram post I did. Huh?

Christian:

we

Will:

Christians, Christian's gone from one end and from that 13 minute cameo in the preseason, now he is back on the other side of it,

Jerrell:

The header, he can't. I'm, this is all we needed.

Will:

of fan base. But I love it. So wait, so to rehash real quick, we have Dean Henderson, Murillo Ante. Jed Spence back One more time.

Christian:

Ordeal.

Will:

Cut out. Oh, Varrio. And then all 10 midfield of Palmer Joan. and then Cole. Palmer. And then your wings. You have solid flip sides to play Left wing. I'm assuming you don't have him and Saco on the same wing. And

Jerrell:

They are.

Will:

And then, and then up top we have yo Kadesh.

Christian:

Yes.

Will:

Okay. Nice. All right we're, we're finishing up, or

Jerrell:

No, I already, I already named my strikers at the start of this.

Will:

the tens, honestly. I'm not gonna lie. right, Joe, give us your full team line up one more time.

Jerrell:

Oh yeah. So from the start and from the back, Ana Robinson Romero, dunk Munoz Rice, Sato Shade, Sala. And Es

Will:

Okay. Okay. Okay.

Jerrell:

and the tactics might not be there, but those are, that's my 11 We.

Will:

the Anana shout was the only shout shout to me that I was like, oh shit. Oh. Oh, hell yeah. I'm coaching on the side, but I'm, I'm suiting up for it. I'd be like, Hey, hey. And then my team, I'm gonna go top to bottom in honor drill, Erling Holland, Cole Palmer. So up top. Bruno Fernand, Yuri Tillman. Sonali. In the midfield we have Anthony Robinson Romero, Virg of Van Dyke Munoz in our back line, and Matt sells from Nine Force as goalkeeper. And that 4, 3 3 elevens. You could talk shit to us about'em on our socials, we

Jerrell:

Please

Will:

we are the football fellows on x, on Twitter, on Blue Sky where we send our skeets. You can hit us up on Gmail. We have a website. What's the website drew?

Jerrell:

football fellas.com.

Will:

And

Jerrell:

Plain and simple.

Will:

point, yeah, we'll stream those elevens. We'll set up, we'll set up on FC 26 when it comes out and we'll go ahead and stream that 11 with custom tactics. Anything else we wanna touch on with these pre-season elevens? Guys,

Jerrell:

It was fun. It was stressful. I'll be better next year.

Christian:

good time.

Will:

I enjoyed it. I

Jerrell:

Oh, nana's gonna go crazy. Watch.

Will:

will see how it pans out end of the season. We'll see if there's any, we'll do a mid-season checkup just to see if there's anything we, we feel like we got wrong or got right. And then end of the season, we'll have our post-season or our end of season awards for real this year. We'll have it in front of the camera and not just

Jerrell:

yeah,

Will:

mental space.

Jerrell:

Category for best preseason.

Will:

and with that being said, it's been a long road back, guys. Match day one. We're so bad. Christian, you wanna give us the preview?

Christian:

Oh yeah, for sure. Match day one. We got Liverpool at Bemo, Aston Villa I'm sorry, Liverpool versus Bern moh. Aston Villa versus Newcastle. We got Fullham at Brighton. Sutherland versus Westham. Tottenham verse Burnley. The wanderers versus Man city. That's a tough start. Chelsea v. Crystal Palace Trick of trees ver versus the bees. Brickie Bees, no

Jerrell:

Ricky.

Christian:

versus brickie Bees

Jerrell:

What.

Will:

Ooh. Coming in hot. Coming in hot.

Christian:

up bees,

Will:

They're.

Christian:

Singers out my guy.

Will:

Off a gas station pill. That's crazy. Stingers out is good though for as bad as bricked up bees were. Stingers out was good. Yeah.

Christian:

We got a, a Battle of the Reds here, Manu Arsenal, and.

Jerrell:

Battles. Give me all the promoted team matches.

Will:

I like great headset. So of course, wants that. Spurs Burnley. See if the Spurs can keep up live seasons for him Sooner than Westham. My catfish is no

Jerrell:

Keep up. Last season for what? Spur Season. Form 17th again.

Will:

And then Leeds United. Everton and so yeah, yeah, I'm going Manchester United Arsenal because no matter what happens, one of these teams are spiraling.

Jerrell:

I thought you said you're going for Manchester United against Arsenal.

Will:

That's not within my character. That's not what I'm about. But I think that should be an interesting matchup as we alluded to Arsenal. I mean if you've heard this before, this is their year. It looks like they have the signing depth that they were looking for.

Jerrell:

Instagram post it is.

Will:

Gotta get better sources than IG guys. But Arsenal, they're looking to, they have lofty aspirations it feels like if this isn't the year, does that road kind of belief in the project firmly with some guys in the locker room with deals with saliva, it's still yet to be done with interest from abroad and whatnot. So I think this year it's important that Arsenal brings home to the trophy in Manchester United, get a full preseason under Ruben Aram. He's starting to get, he gets more time with the outside of the season to put his team together. They've had some signings, they look like they're trying to compete. And it is at Manchester United. So I think this will be a big result, and no matter what happens, someone's gonna be very

Jerrell:

Which game is on upset? Alert.

Will:

I wish Game is on. Upset, alert,

Jerrell:

Yeah. Wow.

Christian:

gonna ride

Will:

he said the audio strain.

Christian:

as definitely riding the

Jerrell:

Hmm.

Christian:

Yes. Train.

Jerrell:

Cherries over a Liverpool, if there's to be an upset, the giant killers, they could do it.

Will:

Hmm.

Jerrell:

Hmm.

Will:

I, it hurts to say, but I was just like, maybe that Manchester United Arsenal game,

Jerrell:

Oof.

Will:

I think, Manchester United are at home.

Christian:

man,

Will:

I'm just, if I had to, if I,

Christian:

him with the Ohana pig

Jerrell:

If he had to pick, if he was a man.

Will:

Just a lot of these other games are even Villa may be over Newcastle, United Villas at home though, so I'm just kinda I think. Manchester United has a chance to maybe start to season outright. I don't think it happens, but if I had to pick one, I think that's like the most glare. I don't believe wolves are beating man city at all but yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I think it should be fun. Anything else you guys are looking forward to as the week starts?

Jerrell:

Yeah. I hope crystal Palace wears their gold jerseys. That will be cool. Y'all seen them? Yeah. So they've, they've actually made a Gold jersey

Will:

alluding

Jerrell:

in honor of wearing the FA Cup. Yep. Yep.

Will:

one of us have our kits ready.

Jerrell:

But the Crystal Palace Gold Jerseys really nice. Yeah. Super cool. This is their away kit. Are they away this week? Yes.

Will:

yes. Yes.

Jerrell:

Yeah, we're gonna see it against Chelsea. I'm tuning into that one.

Will:

Okay.

Jerrell:

I just wanna see the kit.

Will:

What, what,

Jerrell:

wanna see the person,

Will:

can least afford to lose to start the season?

Jerrell:

Arsenal.

Christian:

Nah, I mean

Will:

Hmm.

Christian:

the big six games are the ones that you, you really wanna win the games outside of the Big six. If you're consistent with those, you can give away a few big six matchups. Granted, not all of them. So I, I don't think a loss for Arsenal is gonna make or break the season. Mostly

Will:

the alarm bells would go loudest.

Jerrell:

Yeah, there's gonna be,

Christian:

If

Jerrell:

yeah.

Christian:

over leads and we lose two leads, then alarm bells all the way. But being match day one against what's on paper is a tough opponent. I, I don't think it's.

Jerrell:

I think the expectation is three points.

Will:

I think with those second point, second place finishes over the last three years starting, starting with the loss in Manchester United, who we've dominated over the last three years, out of all the matchups. I'm not saying oh God, but I think that would be the loudest alarm bells if they were to take a loss first year.'cause Liverpool, they're playing with house money. Manchester City, maybe against Wanderers, but at the same time they're transitory a little bit. Chelsea's kind of working through the, like an ascendancy. They're not necessarily they're trying to show like they can do it again over the season then everyone else who's outside of the top six that finish. I think they're in a place where it's like, Hey, maybe we move up where if not, we can point to the fact that our squad got bought out by a lot of teams, I think, I think it's a little tricky matchup. I'm not saying I just I think if a te, if Arsenal were to lose versus any other team, I think that would you'd hear a lot of noise in the background, the loudest. So just oh shit, the yo Kadesh came in and we're not, we're still not decisive, so we'll see.

Jerrell:

We still couldn't score.

Christian:

to me it would be worse like Liverpool losing to the Cheries or man sitting, listen to the wolves. I think that would be a, a bigger impact than Arsenal losing to an actual top six team on paper.

Will:

15th last year, 16th last year, 14th.

Jerrell:

Six 15th, I think.

Christian:

gonna be the keeper of the season now.

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

don't think I like your sarcasm. He gets Ana, you get John Art in your three 10 midfield, world winning.

Christian:

One

Jerrell:

be a statement game for,

Christian:

for the past three years, the other one has not.

Jerrell:

I blame the defensive line

Will:

like,

Jerrell:

one's great.

Will:

were playing in the Premier League the last three years. One of them has not.

Christian:

You talking shit about the Brazil League

Will:

Yeah, but you were just talking shit like,

Christian:

five league in the world. I think

Will:

yeah.

Christian:

rather watch a Brazil league than like a a, a

Jerrell:

Premier League.

Christian:

No, no,

Will:

We'll see. We'll see.

Christian:

just for like, how fun the games are definitely Premier League LA Liga, just because the Madrid, Barcelona Connect. I'd probably put Brazil, Brazil League up there. Those games are fun to

Will:

Fuck you Italy. Damn.

Jerrell:

Yeah. He said it.

Will:

down on it, Sue. All right,

Jerrell:

The silence volumes.

Will:

I'm gonna clip that. I'm gonna put it on socials. Anything else you guys wanna cover for match day one, guys.

Jerrell:

No. I'm excited for the season to officially, officially start. I'm ready to feel emotions and have 11 players on the field

Will:

of AI

Jerrell:

affect the

Will:

that

Jerrell:

affect the way I feel for the rest of the week.

Will:

might be a bot. Oh, crazy.

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Will:

I'm ready to feel, ready to see 11 players on the field and to feel.

Jerrell:

teleprompter.

Will:

alive to live. Oh shit. Okay, we're gonna talk about that off camera. We already plugged the socials. Next week we'll do a review of match day one, and then we'll do a preview of match Day two. Christian will go ahead and,

Jerrell:

We're gonna Our favorite kits.

Will:

Drill. Do you wanna hit those kits real quick?

Jerrell:

Nope,

Will:

Maybe

Jerrell:

we're at our time.

Will:

that'll be a bullish content that we can post on socials this week. We'll put some, we'll put drill's, favorite five kits, and next week we'll do Christians.

Jerrell:

Chris's gonna forget.

Will:

Does that look like a man look of a man

Jerrell:

Yeah.

Christian:

No, the kit one's easy. I've already scoped out a few kits. I already like,

Jerrell:

Are they, are they in Premiere league only or are they across all the leagues?

Will:

Come on. Come on man.

Christian:

of them.

Will:

Give us, give us freedom.

Christian:

Adidas has

Jerrell:

That's why I said Honorable mentions for other leagues. It's a Premier League podcast. Guys,

Will:

podcast, but yeah, it's Premier League lens.

Jerrell:

you read the banner I sent you.

Will:

I did read the banner. I just, it's fine. Outside of that, you can find us as on socials. Send us a message, let us know what you think about us. A bit about our pre-season elevens. Let us know if you have pre-season elevens. Anything else we want to hit this week, guys,

Jerrell:

Yeah, my internal note to the team is gonna go crazy after this episode.

Will:

What internal? I'll share it on socials. I'm a, this will be our first Blue sky skeet going.

Jerrell:

NDA.

Will:

gonna be, I, I'm not citing shit, bro. But that being said, thank you Christian. Thank you. this has been the Football Fellows. Thanks for hanging out with us. We'll be back next week after a long weekend in Miami. Good luck boys. Dos forever.

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