5 Things Going RIGHT for Real Madrid This Season

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2:29Wonderful. That's it to a great job there. For the reading of about that man there, I believe that's the man who's the rest of it. So I've ended up almost looking like a 6-3-1. It's a very good one. Think about that, on the Managing Magidire website. That's great podcast as well. For the meeting about that day was a huge fond of the equation. What's up, Managing Magidire podcast listeners and what's up, Leah Rebell? Leah, how are you? I'm doing wonderful. How are you? Fantastic, I guess, until Realme Junroon my mood this weekend. For the next 72 hours? No, 24. You've been putting out some banger-oriented content. Hilarious stuff. Thank you. What's your favorite one? Tell me. I think it was the one that went really viral a few days ago.

3:31And I think it had to do with how... When I was laying on my front yard. Wait, the one I think after the athletic loss was pretty funny. And I think it was... That one, that one. Yeah. When I'm on my kitchen table, my dining table. Yeah. I had to, for some behind the scenes, exclusives. I went to my front porch and my front yard to record that. And I'm sure my neighbors, I live in a townhouse. So I'm sure my neighbors were like, what's going on up here? The influences are added again. Yeah, influences in the wild. Things for people. Yeah. So they're great. Everyone should go follow Leah Revella on Instagram. That's where you primarily post them, I guess. Leah Revella also has a YouTube channel. What is going to be linked here once this stream is done. Listen, if you are here with us live on YouTube, hit like and hit subscribe. Say hello in the chat. What's up?

4:32We are going to bring some positivity today. That's the goal. We are going to talk about five positive things about Reamjord this season. Leah, I have to be really honest with you. Last night, I started this exercise and I got to two. And my brain just stopped working. I felt like it's kind of how I was doing homework with my son last night. He's at the math homework stage. He was doing math and after two questions, he was like, I don't want to do this anymore. This is boring. And I sympathized with him. I was like, I don't blame you for this. But then like after two positive things that I came up with, I was like, I'm going to bed now. This is too much brain power. I can't think of more than two positives right now. I'll think about it tomorrow morning. Maybe Leah will just save the day and bring like some extra for me to hike. I can like take some from her.

5:32I don't know. Do you want to know the worst part? Is our positives are probably the same? I'm sure they are. And we push two of them are in the thumbnail spoiler alert. I have a few extras that are like fringe positives. Okay, we can we can make do with that. So we'll go back and forth. You go you have one. I have one. If you're in the chat, you can also give us your positives as well. You start. Okay, should I start with one of the fringe ones or should I start with one of the ones that I know that you have? That's not for me to decide. That's what we really decide. Okay, let's get the ones that we think, well, that I think both of us have out of the way. Number one has to be, due belling on my think, is like a 100% back at his best. You name it missly the best in the world right now. He's playing I think where he should be playing, where he is the best and can contribute the most. And it's no coincidence that he's our best player. He's England's best player and he's the best player in the world.

6:34So yeah, I I have him. Number one, I didn't necessarily think too hard about it. Like this is the most positive thing necessarily, but it was in the order I thought of them. And Jude Bellingham has been arguing with the best player in the world for the last. Like I would take it back to the beginning of the World Cup until now. When you factor in his performances with the international team and at the club level. And he's been on a couple of these games. He's been on the losing end. Obviously he lost Argentina. He lost the Derby. Just in the vacuum, he's just been so good and so elite. And like, closer to like the best player in the world than like, you know, what I think the form. I would say like there was so his initial season with Rheumdru was like objectively unbelievable, right? He was a ballendor contender, you know, in that season that

7:34Rodri won. There were like four players who were deserving over him and they were all Rheumdru players. It was Vinesius. It was Cruz. It was Carvajal and it was Bellingham. And Bellingham was just unbelievable that year. The second season, it was like, you know, so much that happened, whether it was in Bapé's arrival, it was Bellingham's shoulder. And then he had the surgery, the following season and then it took some time to get back and the team was a mess. The World Cup until now, he's been. I would even dare say, I don't know if this is a hot take, it might be. He might even be better now than he was in that first Rheumdru season. But you to come to that conclusion, you almost have to separate the stats a little bit. You can't say, he's scoring less than he was at first season. I think you just watch him play. You're like, this guy is the best player on the field right now in any circumstance. I think there's variables to that too.

8:36I would agree with you that he's better now, which is first of all, that's a hard thing to beat his daily season. I think that the variables that are different now, that lead us to that conclusion are some of, he no longer has a midfield of Krusev-Modrich. He has really like settled into his role and his play style and just like exudes confidence now, which he always has, but just more so. And then with the forum that we've been in, to like, I don't know, I just feel like, yeah, I agree with you. He's probably better now. I, it's like, it's like, I just so look forward to this is crazy. I never thought I would say that I look forward to England matches. I look forward to the international break only because I get to see Jude play alongside

9:36like Harry Kane and Anthony Gordon and like, it just looks so good. And he just looks so good and he's been so good for a way I'm good too. I don't really know what else necessarily add to that other than he's just so dominant on the ball, so great defensively, so physically imposing. His finishing has, has returned this season and his playmaking also looks really good. So he's just everything right now, everything. Great. Can I guess your next one? It's going to be the same as it's the easiest guess, but yeah, go for it. Does it rhyme with Shmard Shmurlare? Say that again. It does, but like, where did you even come up with that? To my head. It's 11 a.m. in the morning. Yeah. Shmard Shmurlare. It does. Yeah. Shock. Yeah. That was mine too. Yeah. These were the two that like I came up with like out of thin air. Like I just snap my fingers like, oh, like these two.

10:37Like I think, so there's a few things about this. One is that statistically speaking and you can see it. Like, first of all, like statistics be damned. If you didn't have any access to any stats, you just watch and play like this. This guy I think is the best creator in Europe and then the stats back it up. I wrote about this I think last week, Leah, that like among the highest chance creators in the continent in Europe, the top five, Arda has the least amount of minutes of all of them and he has the most key passes of all of them. And if you like, dice it up by per 90, he is creating double the amount of chances as Lameeniamal. His big chance creation is insane. He creates a big chance every 43 minutes. He creates a chance every 12 minutes. Crazy. He's just basically walking and like he just starts creating chances on the field. Like it's crazy. He's he's creating chances out of out of thin air right now.

11:39And finally, he's getting the minutes to be able to do that too. Yeah. I love that for him. Yeah. You know, like there's this debate, the debate really exists among just this insufferable player FC thing. But among people who actually just love Real Madrid as a whole, don't care about that stuff. Like it's never to be been Arda versus Jude. It's always been like it's a shame if we cannot build around these two. Oh, yeah. Yeah. These guys are so special. Like shame on us if we can't find the right pieces around them because they played well together. That was a big question mark that people had like, oh, like, you know, who's the best 10 Jude or Arda? Like they can't play together. One of them has to be on the bench. No, they've proven this season that they're playing well together. And they can play well together. And like, imagine if like you told, like fans 10 years ago or whatever, that like, hey, no,

12:41Bruce and Mortar can't play together or, or like Kevin De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva and Davi Silva can't play together. Like, what are you talking about? Like we have to maximize the talent we have. These guys can play together. It's a travesty if we don't figure that out. And I think we have figured it out. I think the surrounding pieces are more problematic than those two who are from a creative and like, you want like to talk about like the best 10s and the best creators in the world. We have two of them right here in the team. Yeah. Agreed. I think that like can't play together situation. Although relevant in some circumstances, I think it's a narrative that's been like ingrained in us because of this whole Vinyanboppe saga. Like as a top, top footballer, like, there should be a level of like cohesion and I don't know, like, ability, I guess to be able to make it work with whoever, regardless of, you know, where you're playing. So I think they're an exemplary example.

13:45That's redundant, huh? I got you. Of like cohesion and dynamism. Yeah. So does the podcast just fall off a cliff after this? Where do we go from here? Okay, I have a couple. And let me know what you think. Okay. Okay. So, positive number three, the squad finally has more depth. That's a positive. We've already had some injuries and we haven't been switching people's positions or playing midfielders as defenders. We actually have the depth to be able to replace them while they're recovering. And that in turn is like a good thing for player development. We have like probably at least one extra player in every position. I think we do. The squad is deep, you're right. I think we have like, Mordini always wants to be too deep in every position. He has that this year.

14:45I think we can like argue like, okay, like we're very deep in like, ex position. But maybe a little bit thin, like we don't like, we don't have an abundance of like, deep-lying playmakers, for example, right? We have an abundance of box to box midfielders. Yeah. And I think in some way, like it is a positive. I'm not going to argue with you on that at all. And like I think like the additions this summer were objectively good additions. Like, Cucurea, Home Run, Dump Freeze now is like whatever you think of, what is performance is this season and you look good with Netherlands, by the way. But whatever you think of as performance is the season, how good you rate them. I mean, like to have that as a body, and you know, insurance policy and have two right backs there. It's great news. And then you have the Konate addition and then you have SB is a profile we haven't had since Jose Louraft. I have to, man, one of my biggest struggles this season,

15:49apart from watching Real Madrid play in suffering is literally just that because Jose Moreno is here. I have to like be cognizant of like when we speak about the Portuguese J, it's Jose. But then you got to switch it to Jose Loura. So anyways, where was I? Yeah, SB, great addition. But I think it's also like the question is, is there too much depth? Is that problematic? Is it problematic that Brahim Diaz has only played 99 minutes? Is it problematic that Hendrick will not play unless there's like a apocalypse and the zombies? Some zombies fight like half of our team so that he can get playing time. Is that too much depth? What happens to these guys when Rodrigo comes back? I don't. It's true. I have an opinion on that actually. I think that for players like Brahim Diaz and Hendrick, yeah, whatever you want to say, they're like they know

16:52the role in the team as like French players. You know, maybe one day miraculously they can work their way in, but when you have a front free of what we have at the moment, like they already know what's happening, you know. I think it does get problematic when you have world-class players being replaced. When you have a player like Trent that's being replaced by Dumfries, it's a good thing in the sense that if Dumfries or Trent gets injured, there's like another world-class player to replace them, but I think it creates this like dynamic for each of these players that like they probably know that if they were elsewhere, they would be starting. There is I think some mentality to that too for them that, you know, they're playing for the best club in the world. They're playing at like the epitome of, you know, of football players dream or career or whatever. So a lot of players are willing to wait that out, but I don't know,

17:55I think that that for me, that was an interesting one especially with Trent because he like, you know, whatever you want to say about his defending, like I think that his playmaking and his attacking abilities like far outweigh that. So that's I think when it gets problematic. When you're looking at French players that are like comfortable with their role and they know their position, I think Perhiem is just chilling. Like I think he loves to be at Real Madrid. He knows he'll play, he'll come on, he'll be an impact sub and like he's cool with that. Otherwise, if he wasn't, I think he's been in that role for what three years now, four years, I think he would have left already if that was an issue. Well, I mean, yeah, I think he's cool with that, but like is he like deep down? You think he's cool with that? I don't know. Like if you ask me, like it's really interesting. Like, Perhiem is an interesting example because he is like if you watch him play with Morocco, he's the fulcrum of that team. Like everything goes through him and he's he loves life and he's great at that role. He comes to Real Madrid. He

19:00and he had that role at Milan, like more or less to before he came to Real Madrid. And I think he's just like an incredibly underrated squad player to have. Like every team needs a brachim off the bench and like he can, he's good enough to start, he's good enough to come up the bench in any situation. But like I mean, just like he 99 minutes is crazy to me. I feel like given Vinicius's form and like the amount of how he could bring on that side, both defensively and also as just the more efficient offensive player, I look at sub like that. I'm like, this doesn't add up to me. Also in the in the endric case, my my guess is if I had a gun to my head right now is I think endric will be sold permanently at some point. Because it doesn't there's no there's no path that I can look at with endric and see like, oh yeah, in two years and Bappy will retire. Or like next year, you know, we won't have this issue. Like

20:00he's just going to keep on going out on low. And I think you look at other players who chose a different path and decided not to be like the bench player. Like you look at Niko Paa's in the success he's having. Yeah. And it's like or like or or a guard like or a guard. Or a guard was in that situation that Niko Paa's was. Niko Paa's may very well be in that situation in one year from now where he's like the buyback's gone, the rights are gone. He's just not ours anymore. And like people look at that success of like, yeah, he's at a smaller team. But part of like something really special like as a collective and he's the star of that. Like and I think like endric would look at stuff like that and be like, well, is this the best career path? I mean, it's because he's like he's young. Yeah, but like careers can flash by getting an instant. Yeah. You like fast-forward like all of a sudden it's been five years. Like, oh, I just been sat sitting on the bench for five years. Doesn't make any sense. So it's this is a really tricky one to juggle.

21:04I my personal opinion is like, we need to find minutes with these guys and it would come the way to do it is like you have to kind of tear everything down and disregard the names on the back of the shirts and like allocate like playing time based on actual like what would be tactically successful. It's just an impossible task to do. And um, actually think like endrix profile is fine to happen to squad. The one I actually think is more important than him is SP that we need to figure out how to get more involved. Funny you say that one of my next ones is him. Nice. I know. Good segue, huh? Yeah, I think you said it yourself. Great profile. One that we haven't had since Ophalu. Yeah. Yeah. And like also he's so young and he like exudes confidence. And I love that especially like. Yeah, he's just a hard worker and a good profile and scores goals. So we love that for him.

22:10He's so he has a goal every 13 minutes. Yeah, crazy. He took that to another level when he scored five goals against San Marino International Break, which was just hilarious. And look up beyond that silly game, which you and I probably could have scored a few goals in that game. But is it's not like just a profile thing. I think this kid is like he has something in terms of like hunger. He has technical ability. He's so strong on the ball. He makes good runs off the ball. He can finish the only reason like he's not like leading the league in his this. And I know this is a crazy take is because like last year he was at Levante. Now he has some of the world's best creators around him who could just pump him with goals. And he would I think he this is the type of player who literally could potentially lead the league and score. Yeah, totally. But again, I'm not asking him to a bench in Bapet, but I'm asking for more flexibility from Jose Mordyn, you have to

23:11find minutes for these guys because anytime Sb's appeared so far, it's only been in emergency scenario in the 88th minute. Yeah. Like he waits until the last second, like a hell marry, break in case of emergency, break glass in case of emergency situation, bring on Sb. And through some sheer luck, Sb will actually score in those 30 seconds. Yeah, but you can't like leave it to that. Like you have to get more minutes, I think. I think that's just been like a general sentiment in the last several years is that whether it's merino, whether it's enchilati, whoever, I think just like French players, young players, bench players, whoever, they all just need minutes because then you run into situations where you need them and they're not fit or they're, you know, they have no chemistry or what have you. Yeah. Before the season, even kick soft soccer fans are already making predictions. Who wins the league? Who qualifies for Europe and who's lifting the trophy at seasons end? On Kalshi America's number one prediction market platform, your trading against peers in a live market, meaning there's no house. And as

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25:29I sell. Yeah. I have similar, like, okay, I didn't write defense as a whole as a positive, but I think like we've gotten good performances from housing and Konate. Look, we can, I get that house and got our red card against Athletico. I think he's been great outside that for what it's worth. Yeah. You can argue with me about like, okay, well, that red card he raises this and that. I'll hear you to an extent. I think there's way bigger problems than housing. I think housing's been great, which I might as well just spoil that. That was my third positive was Dean House. I think Dean House, there's houses back on that trajectory that when we signed him initially, he was one of the most promising progressive passers in World Football

26:30from a defensive standpoint. One of the things that I think is underrated with him, his clearance numbers continue to be off the charts, which is massive for a team that cannot for life of, like, we cannot prevent Crossin from coming in. We're just so bad at that. And so we're generally also like our midfielders are really poor in their tracking runners in the box. So like have someone like Housein who's so good at clearing those crosses has been huge for us. So Dean Housein was my positive. Yeah, I think Courtawe has been good, obviously, but he hasn't needed to be, like, you know, God level. I think that will wait till the classic I think he'll. Yeah, we're going to back back to like Courtawe being our best player. And it's like we lost five nil. And he was still our best player, but the last one I have is about Fetabel Verde. I think last season we saw him kind of full dip if you will significantly inform. I don't know if he's back

27:36to his best, but there's been a lot of improvement in my opinions since last year, last season. Interesting. I think he's been okay. I mean, I don't I don't know if I would have him as like one of the standouts, but I will pull in that straws here for positives. That's true. My thing with Fetabel is that I really don't think there's double pivot suits him or any of our midfielders at all. And I I will take this to my grave. I don't think we'll ever see it because I don't think any coach sees it this way. Unfortunately, apart from Carlo Ancielotti like four years ago, but I would stick Fetty on the right wing. If he's not if he's if we don't have a four through three and he's not like alongside Cruz or Mortar, or anyone of that ilk, put him on the right wing. He's an unstoppable attacking player on the right wing. He is like nobody can stop him in that position. Yeah. Till get to score goals, he'll get to put dangerous balls across the face of goal. He can help the wing backs defend. I don't think we've maximized Fetty. I think we've maxed I think the one player

28:39were really we've been really good at maximizing this season is the same same thing that Tuckel has done a great job of is like both Mortar and you and Tuckel have found this secret sauce of like it's a very obvious thing. They know how to maximize Jude Bellinger right now. Mortar and you said like we no longer want more one one, Bellinger, like playing as the teams lap back defending. We want in a situation where he's getting the ball in the final third turning and setting up his teammates and scoring and attacking the box and playing with verticality and we and Tuckel has done wonders at that too at the national team level. I don't think we've maxed I think but I think like there's players we haven't maximized one of them is Fetty. I just don't think this this suits Fetty. I think he's been fine. I mean I don't have necessarily a huge issue with the performance as I just don't think we've maximized it either. I agree I would agree with that. Do you think there's a situation where he ends up leaving? I don't know. If for example if Arda and Jude are playing

29:44together and he's not playing in the double pivot. There's a lot of I don't know I don't know if do you think we're in your season as an irreplaceable player or no? Well I mean he's he is definitely a more in your type player in the sense that like he's going to give you effort he's going to I mean I think it's tracking could be better at times no question. I think he is a more in your type player in a lot of ways. I just think that the Val Verde trajectory is very clear to me like what's happened to him. He's basically he had his ideal role in a 4-3-3 yet Cruz or Morders next to him yet Casimiro behind him for a period cleaning stuff up. Sometimes we would play with four midfielders so he had all three of those guys plus him and we would play in a 4-4-2 and he could just bomb up and down the right half space. Bob progression was delegated to Cruz or Morders. Cleaning up was Casimiro and it's like he no longer now like he has to be a lot of those things himself.

30:47This is the prop this is just an entire round of problem in general like the transition from Casimiro Cruz Morders and then it kind of like we lost one by one the leaders and stuff like we removed the layer of pain every year we're in the situation now like these younger players were playing alongside them are now being asked to take on those roles and they just they can't do it they're not like though they're not it's going to sound harsh but they're not the midfielders we thought that they could be when we first signed them and we saw they we saw promising signs from these guys and they just never lived up to it and I think this is really a testament to the greatness of Cruz and Morders and Casimiro more than it is necessarily a knockout in new generation but those guys were just holding hands holding these guys's hands they weren't like now now I think like there are clear players and who are ready to me to take the mantle and be those leaders I think Jude can do it, Arda can do it the rest I don't think can be relied upon as

31:49those main guys but they're good complimentary pieces I just don't think that they are the the players that can be Morders or Cruz who was it the other day was it I can't remember who said it I think it was Davida and Chalotti had an interview where he's like you can't replace Cruz yeah he just can't he's this Cruz there's no replacing him and I've always said that too I've always believed that that being the case because if they were replaceable then they wouldn't be great you can't you don't replace great players you just don't and I think we Chalotti would say like when Cruz left well look we have to play differently now we have different players and I just don't think that ever actually worked in principle you know great so it's been a challenge for us to figure out totally um sidebar that just came to my mind when you were talking about that um where do you think or what do you think Camo Vingo's role is in this squad moving forward because he was kind of

32:53sidelineed if you will but then looks to have had a relatively good international break um I think it's bittersweet don't you think it's it must it drives us nuts doesn't it Leah like it this is what we see during the international break we see Brahim being like the main guy in Morocco and then we see Bellingham being main guy in England. Articular is literally Turkey like he is Turkey yeah it's him it's him and ten others yeah and he's incredible but his team sucks um Dio Monde with Ivory Coast uh what am I missing you know SB scoring a million goals with the Spain U21 team uh down freeze playing well under Chavvy, Cookoreia in like a systems based team

33:53with Spain lockdown defender he doesn't have a chaotic team around him you see all these like it's like and then they come back like okay these are great players yeah the one guy I I excluded from that list as a vinesiist doesn't matter if he's with Brazil or you've seen the discourse huh I'm yeah what's your take Lucas and I talked about someone asked us on the mailbag yesterday for our members we answered I'm curious to know what you answered the question was verbatim what is your thought on the conspiracy yeah I don't know I mean like the logical brain of mine the logical side of my brain is like of course not but then I start seeing all these things I'm really gullible unfortunately so I start seeing all these things online about like tattoos and like they're like going as deep as like his dimples and like all of this shit and I'm like oh my god but like it can't be right no it's obviously can't be but my take to my take was that of all of the

34:56most ridiculous conspiracies you could possibly make up yeah this is the most you know this is the most believable one like I'm I'm I'm 95% joking but it's it's just believe it's listen one of the funniest things was Miguel or my friend our friend global maradista he put out a video and the caption was vinesiist is not a lizard but I was like I can't believe that you even like had to like write that that's a hilarious thing that this is where the discourse is my point is this like among all the things like that are floated out there that I vehemently reject and I'm and I want these people to like check into an asylum flat earth lizards living on living on Antarctica all that stuff this one of like vinesiist is not where is he it's like it's somehow believable because like what is I don't understand what I'm watching on the football field like that's not

35:58that's not the ballon door vinesiist it's where is this is not why don't understand what's happening here yeah anyways that wasn't a side uh the final point I was making with like all these international players playing well apart from Vinnie um the one remaining team that I didn't mention was France come Avinga with France against Belgium played really well but he was saying in a single pivot in a role that doesn't exist that rheometry it's so it's like what do you even do with that information yeah I don't because I personally don't believe you put him in this double pivot alongside fadeva verted that he's gonna look as good for a couple of reasons one is that you know in France he really didn't have many much ball progression duties and but part of that was also because Belgium didn't press him at all so he could just he got the ball turned and he could just he was he had so much space to distribute so like against like any elite team whether it's a barza or

37:06even like Atlético who are going to press the hell out of you and make you uncomfortable and get under your skin like I don't I don't think you can replicate that come out you get performance in rheometry in given morignos rigid 4231 hmm at what point though as a manager do you think do you start wondering like wow if so many of my players are playing so well in other systems or other positions or other roles or other formations at what point do you think he should start being well maybe I should stop being so rigid now yeah in my yeah like hi you know what I mean I just I don't know I understand there's some like stubbornness with like you know he's done this he's a well-seasoned veteran when it comes to you know management but like when you see your players playing well for your national teams you have to start wondering okay well where are they playing how are they playing what do they have around them like and why shouldn't I replicate this with my squad oh

38:09no how well how much is he willing to adapt like we have a boys WhatsApp group and one of the messages that I got this morning in the group chat was Eki on when is morning you're gonna kick some ass literally or whoops a mass and I was like I honestly don't know look it's a it's a metaphor I I'm not asking him to go in and start poking eyeballs out again like he used to when start fighting with the players of course not these are all like these are all metaphors and it's a hyperbole but what we mean by that is that like and also by the way I don't care what he says publicly um I don't care that he defends his player publicly I think he should do that I I 100% what I care more is but what's happening internally I don't care that he spent the entire athletic press conference post game talking about the referees and not how bad his players were and how bad he was I don't care that he doesn't do that publicly what I care more about is what he does privately and what adjustments he's he is he making but like this has to happen now it's gonna be too late soon yeah yeah

39:12like again like it may be in any other ordinary season where Barcelona is not that good maybe it would be like more tolerable but six points is not just six points and then like this is not just six points it's it's more because you're going up against arrival who is probably going to win every game it's gonna circle the classical wanting to murder us because they hate us um there's sick of this negrairo talk they're gonna you know they're gonna come up and they're gonna like this is what I mean we know what to expect from them from a intensity standpoint um we're look very realistically looking at nine points and it's an instrumentable like just there like if you look at the numbers statistically again they've created I mentioned this in the pastly but they've created an x-sheet of 25 they've outpaste that and they scored 27 both of those

40:13numbers make no sense they're on course to be statistically greater than pepsparza whether that sustainable or not is a different question it may very well not be sustainable they haven't had a difficult game on the calendar yet so take that information with the grain or salt if you want but one thing that has sustained is that we've sucked for over two years we wanted to perform our x-sheet all of last year that sustained itself we're still having problems finishing we had seven big chances that we missed against real bettes um and we're like there's there's two problems like one is like we have an arrival that doesn't look like it's gonna slow down and then we have ourselves like we just keep shooting ourselves in the foot over and over again we don't have room for these margins of errors like we just don't it has to be nearly perfect unfortunately and it's not even close to that yeah and that's the challenge um it's also frustrating frustrating as a fan or as a viewer as a whomever like watching from the outside and I don't know we've had this conversation

41:17before about Vinny especially um or anyone frankly like if you're it's one thing to like be off on a day or like have a dip in form Cristiano had dips in form Messia dips in form that's fine but now when we start talking about years like when we start talking about consecutive seasons where he's not at his best and that this is not just like limited to Vinny's use this is like any player big name player like at some point you have to like put what's best for the team ahead of individual players and if he's just like not cutting it right now as you mentioned earlier like do you not I think anything might be better any kind of experiment or any kind of you know ruffling of the feathers would be better than what's happening right now because we're on track for three seasons no trophies 100 percent agree with you 100 percent agree with you like someone asked me uh this morning what do you think about mori you're asking for patients for

42:19Vinny that he'll come back and my thing is like we don't have time for that we don't I'm sorry like we said we're now treating this guy like how much listen by the time if he ever comes back to form by the time he does it's going to be too late right you can't be patient with this anymore you've been patient for a long time you have to go back to like what are the other options we have and by the way I think it's actually counter intuitive at this point to let him play through it because I think it's making it worse I think he needs a break I think he needs to hit the bench and maybe that'll help him mentally and just maybe actually take some pressure off him because maybe he can come in the second half and enter a game state that's more open maybe we're up a couple goals and maybe he can come in with there's more space and build his confidence back I think that would be way better right right you could just force them in these situations and asking him to like okay let's try it

43:21again let's try it again try it again try it again try it again try it again try it again I don't I don't see where it's going I just put in players who right now are offensively better than him whether that's um Diomande or Brahim or shift the formation around and that's what I think and maybe put him up on the left S.P. or Jude up top and give out of the 10 there are so many options other than the one we're bashing our head against the wall agree now I agree I agree and it's frustrating to watch like it's so obvious I feel but yeah I don't know college football is back so Hilton called him me the superstition concierge to make your fan rituals a reality need a room to match your lucky number we got you want to make sure our team doesn't wash your lucky jersey oh that smells lucky Hilton's unmatched hospitality can keep up with any superstition even a marching band wake up call it 555 and 55 seconds hit it when you need a team that will do

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45:26you can get 20% off if you're managing major podcasts listening to by simply adding the code green 20 you can see it on screen there as well moji-mates.com use code green 20 I'm brawler's fire. Umbrella's fire the green is fire the suitcases fire the kids are fire everything green is fire go to moji-mates.com and use code green 20. Moji mates by the way at some point you're gonna have to start getting working on next year's leaked kit. Do you see that purple? yes yeah it looks pretty good yeah I know I love purple. weren't you in Lucas um dunking on me at the beginning of the season or something about my that a fact that I actually liked this year's kit was that you or was it like this you still feel that way you know what no it's growing on me thank you it has grown on me thank you I you were right I have other favorites like it's definitely not my favorite but I'm not like at the beginning of the

46:28season when it was first leaked like when I first saw it I was like a pulled I was like this is so bad away and and third are incredible but I was like what is this no I has definitely grown on me so thank you you're welcome apology accepted okay I have two more so my fifth my fourth one sorry is is Konate I was skeptical of Konate just because of what we saw in the past year and again to be clear and I said it's my time I don't blame him for that I think what he went through mentally was unimaginable with his father and Diego Jota um I just was worried that we might not get the old Konate back because we hadn't seen him a long time yet so I had injured history so far I thought I've been really impressed with him great um and I you know this goes back to your point about defense I think Konate and House and they both look good um my last one and it's like I don't

47:33just part of me that feels like I shouldn't say this I feel like I'm going to get struck by like thing or something but so far squad's been healthy ish yeah actually I thought of that marinho said today that like hey this is the first time I don't know if you made this that up but like I think he said something like this is the first time ever in October that are players have been healthy I don't know like if that was like based on data or he would just like exaggerate or what it what it was but I feel though like don't you feel in past seasons we've like reached the end of the year and like our entire backline was injured oh yeah I feel like the last I got three seasons it has been like every year in my life yeah yeah yeah so now like now we have I believe we have like virtually everyone right now do we know not a zindred I think Konate yeah but it's not I had a knock but I think he's back there are players who are not in the match a squad yet like roger we go who will who are like training and well tau too right or

48:37AC I didn't see me let's how I think is is he in the squad but he's me let's how was training at full capacity nice that's that's huge the last couple days I don't know let me check if he's in the squad go to managing with your calm the best source of news he is not in the squad okay that but yeah go patarches back oh yeah I think is Konate there Konate is oh nice okay so that is so fed a recovered quicker than we thought after his that Kangin Lee tackle this backs up Lucas's conspiracy that he was it was like the whole thing was a PR stunt till like to exaggerate how love listen I don't think that's the case I think he genuinely got hurt to that horrendous it was like not a great tackle to be fair and also I don't know if you I'm sure you have or anyone else a sprained ankle is like not a fun injury like it's not a big injury oh it's horrendous

49:40oh my god if you roll your ankle you can't even walk on it like it's so bad I mean it's not like but but also the yeah ankle Jody says in the chat as Sancio is injured where are you gonna see the way also like that tackle hit that that could have been so bad yeah yeah really bad there's no question that that was severely painful for FedEx right regardless of how high has he bounced back or whatever sometimes you just will play through the adrenaline yeah I've had something similar happened to me but it ended up for me being a ACL tear oh yeah and it was horrendous like it could have been so bad what else was I gonna say yeah just on injuries I guess I mean touch one touch wood yeah touch wood um it takes to get a few super chats

50:45how are you doing for time I'm good okay baby's happened congratulations to our new youtube member fq 6403 you get a ton of bonus content including yesterday's mailbag with Lucas Navarrete it was actually with maybe the most fun mailbag I've recorded a long time it was it was a great episode so congratulations and welcome to the family fq if you guys want access to that and a ton more go to patreon.com slash managing grid alternatively hit the membership tab of this youtube channel tajud says life wins my club loses life loses my club wins and I gotta do some math on this life wins my club loses life loses my club wins so where are you at right now something's always winning yeah where are you at in your life right now are you life winning or life losing because what does that mean for us put it together because his club is losing so his life is life is winning that's true your life must be winning good for you this is good this is actually a good thing that means you always have something winning do she vibes only says I'm tired of this

51:52notion that giving Vinny more minutes will make him better Vinny is better when he has something to prove he's emotional supporting him isn't working try making him angry for results do she I agree with this take I think this is actually what we kind of said early on right I mean I I just think like we've tried getting him to play through it and hasn't worked and it just hasn't worked for like you know a season half a season it's been years of this so yeah I mean I think to it to an extent where you could somewhat you could debate how bad it's been in the last two years because statistically speaking he's been okay I've just always said like I think that his numbers have massed how bad he's been yeah but what we're seeing this year is unfathomable unfathomable bad like it's yeah we've tried eight games now and it just hasn't worked and it and I think it

52:56would be different like you had no other options but as we outline like one of your key points was one of the positives was depth so we got to use that depth right we have hungry Dio Monday right now yeah agreed yeah okay so Leah you have to make me a promise okay from this day fourth you will be more active on YouTube yes yeah oh yes I know I really need to be doing that the the the Instagram is blowing up thanks that's great go to Leah Revelle's Instagram follow her you'll piss yourself laughing it's worth it she puts out some fire stuff all Realme Judd content as well go follow her and her YouTube channel will be linked here as well you can just click on it and subscribe to her channel this ball and we're gonna try to have Leah on more it's pretty embarrassing we have I think this is your first time this season that's mostly my fault not your fault but we'll fix that moving forward and anything else for wrap up here okay cool thanks guys

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