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Totally football show, European edition. Today, nice to met Cher. Borussia Dortmund's free-scoring Felix has them join top of the table. We hear from Italy. There's Cess, Catalan explaining at coma and the old lady vanishing. Spain, where La Mazeera is rolling out yet another teenage star. France and we get into the wide open ballon door and it's very crowded lobby. It's the totally football show. I feel even more serious. Monday, the 14th of September, it's a brand-new, totally football show, European edition. James Horncastle is with us. Hi, James. Hello, James. So is Tom Williams. Hello, James. And we're joined from The Continent by Paul Ballouse. Paul, hello, James. And Seb Stafford Blore. Hello, James. Hi. Tom, you were just saying about when you were a kid, you begged your parents to buy you a Heinz baked pizza. We were talking about how annoying it is when you temporarily lose your sense of taste. Taste, taste, some would argue that with one turn on such a yesterday. I wasn't going to say. Some would argue that wanting such a picture in the first place was perhaps an indication that I had already lost my sense of taste. But I beg you, my parents, they get it for me. It was an official Heinz baked pizza. Oh, it was official then. It was official. It was legit. It had the logo on. And they were really into the storm. Was it a pizza with baked beans on? As basic as it sounds, and I'm like, oh, can we please get the baked bean pizza? No, it looks disgusting. And then I fell ill and I think to try and cheer me up, they, they relented and they bought the Heinz baked bean pizza. But because I was ill, I couldn't taste it properly. Or maybe that's just how it tasted. Or perhaps, perhaps it is. But I remember having a very full-on experience sitting there, sobbing into my beanie, beanie pizza. Wow. I'm so glad the beanie pizza hasn't reached Italy. Because given how they react about pineapple, I mean, do they think, well, they do performatively. Yeah. Yeah. Who else is intrigued by the notion of a flatbread with Heinz official Heinz baked beans on top? Just me? Yes. Thank you, Seb. Paul too. And if we'll come on then, with... I mean, baked beans, I left seven years in the UK, but it was one of the things that I could not get into. I mean, there's just no way that I'm just having this. And just the thought of having a baked beans pizza, I've tried to think like the worst thing that I've had in my mouth. But that should be on top of it. That will be on top of it. Well? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Wow. Can we rank the other things? Yeah. Are you putting your mouth, which is at worst? Yeah, for... Can you do a tooth-a-tangling, actually? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good, good job. Good job. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Okay. But yes, thank you, Tom, for that. Oh, Tom, by the way, Tom was joining us on our live show on Sunday, in which he... Who was shoppers? It was at Lewis Dunn. Lewis Dunn. Lewis Dunn, Lewis Dunn's Marvel School, which you described as a Sontag Shus. Yeah. A Sontag Shus, Seb, eh? I ask him what that meant. And Tom opened a copy of his book, Do You Speak Football? What did you say, Tom? Well, so in the book, I explain the... I talk about the existence of the phrase, but I don't explain where it comes from. And I think I thought when I was writing the book that it was kind of self-explanatory, like it's kind of a Sunday thing. As it turns out... A Sunday goal is Sontag Shus. A Sunday shot. And this expression exists in both Dutch and German. And as it turns out, and thanks to commenters on last night's pod, Odraki, OdraDek and 99. And there's a few others as well. Well, there are. Really stood the hornet's nest with this. It's because there is this idea in Germany, and I guess, also in the Netherlands, that there's something lucky about Sunday. So a lucky person might be described as a Sunday child. Sunday child. And so a Sunday shot, a shot that sails in from 35 yards from the big lumix of a centreback is therefore a Sunday shot. Isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting? Seb, did you know about the Sontag Shus? Yeah, I did. I would have probably used tram tour for that one. Because... Where'd the goal? Well, yeah, it translates literally as dream goal. But it's also... It's intended to mean like one of a kind, like once in a lifetime goal. And that's probably better for Dung's finish. Because it's just a kind of... I'm going to go forward and I can't be bothered to do anything with the ball other than shoot. So I'm just going to have a go. And in it flies, which felt kind of once in a lifetime. Brilliant. Well, why don't we have a moment of the week see if anyone's been doing any tram tours around the continent this weekend? Seb, you go first. I'm going to pick Noah Attabolo's penalty save from Nadymi Miri. So Frankfurt played Mines in Mines on Saturday. And a 1-0 Frankfurt, a Miri had the... have the opportunity to score from the spot saved by Attabolo. That is his sixth straight penalty save. And I looked it up. And nobody, nobody in the Bundesliga has scored a penalty against him. Says January 2024. And if you include European competition, he saved seven of his last eight penalties faced. I think Olivier Jarrou scored one against him in the Europa League earlier in the season. Right at the beginning of the year, sorry. But yeah, it's an incredible record. An incredible record. Six days in or in the Bundesliga, is that right? Six days in the Bundesliga. And that's a Bundesliga record. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah. Wow. All right, Paul, what's your moment of the week? So I'm going to soon day afternoon, which I don't know what were you doing by then. But I'm sure that you had a quieter activity than Valencia club, the football, because the club employed it, basically. And in one statement, they got rid of their CEO of football, which was the squad man, Rangoule, and their manager Carlos Corberan. Valencia had lost on Friday against Sevilla, one Neil and their bottom off LaLiga, with one point after five games, which is pretty bad. Situation was difficult to sustain at this point. And I think that we spoke about what happened the previous week in Barcelona, when all this tension at the stadium with the visit of the ownership. Well, one of the most incredible things is that what happened in that statement when, basically, Valencia restarted their whole project. Is that all the decisions were taken because of Broderie Hernandez? I don't know if you're aware that in Monday last week, there was footage that emerged from the game by the Spanish broadcasters, Maui Stark, with Broderie being sucked off from a style that he goes to the bench, and he started speaking with Pao Kubarci, who is on the bench. And like he started saying, Jesus, how bad are Valencia? How bad are they? They are so bad they have not even managed to go beyond the halfway line. Jesus, but how did they finish the last season? So he was basically amazed by how bad Valencia looked. This all blew up in social media. It went wild to the point that Broderie had to apologize to the Valencia captain José Raya, and she also spoke, I think it was on Wednesday after the Champions League opener, apologizing, basically saying that he was not right on this and that he was not aware of, that he was being thrown, and that he had to be a bit more respectful towards Valencia, but basically, if you read to all the local reporting Valencia, they said that the owner felt so humiliated by that, that they decided that, okay, that's time just to pull the trigger. And after the loss, after the defeat on Friday, it was like the perfect moment or excuse, you'll call it how you want. Just to pull the trigger, we start the whole project. Now the sporting director is Braulio, who has done a very good job at, Osasuna over the past nine years, and the temporary manager is the beating manager Oscar Sanchez. So let's see how Valencia moved forward from this, but yeah, Broderie will be fondly remembered by all the fanbases. What? Crack it. Tom, what about you? What's been your moment of the week? We've already spoken on this part about Paris Bruner, a young German center forward, who Monaco have turned to in the anticipation that following Balagun was on his way out as it turns out. He was not, but Bruner is still starting matches for Monaco. Still doing the business scored a lovely goal away at Strasbourg on Saturday. He was a Bruner stunner. It was indeed, um, stunner. Um, Monaco won nil down. He has the ball played into his feet just inside the Strasbourg half, rolls his marker, drives towards the box, and hits his glorious shot into the top left corner, hits the top of the post and canons into the net. And then he runs off to celebrate in front of the Strasbourg Ultras, uh, and the UB90, the coat, the most hardcore Strasbourg fans. They're behind the goal that he scored into. And he kind of runs over. He's giving it, you know, giving it a bit of that. Anyway, his teammates come over and like, come on, mate, let's get, you know, back into your own half. Uh, and he kind of like, you know, calms down the celebration a little bit. But just before he's about to go and turn back and head back to get ready for kickoff, he does like it. Cutthroat gesture. Which he's since apologized for. I said he was being, you know, kind of insulted by the Strasbourg fans. But I would be very surprised if he didn't end up with some kind of suspension for that, because they take a dim view of cutthroat gestures. Of cutthroat gestures in Liga. Oh, rightly so. Well, really so. Good Lord, James. Well, it's definitely not Ruben Ammerim giving a press conference on the 25th anniversary of 9-11 and deciding to use a plain crash analogy to describe modern management. But so I will go to what happened in Venice on Friday night. Okay. Yeah. Where Fiorentina having got rid of their coach Fabio Grosso after three defeats in three, finally got their first win. And they did it with Franco Mastuantorno scoring a hat trick and becoming, you know, as a 19-year-old, the youngest player to score a hat trick for Fiorentina since, well, ever. But I think he's the, I think he's the youngest since Messi to do it in the top five leagues. Well, that's certainly what Fiorentina are. And Camiso Social was kind of putting out there. He has been putting himself at as well, hasn't he, Camiso? He went before the traveling fans and was sort of telling them how much he loves them. Right. The best fans, the greatest. So, so, you know, delighted for Jess, Jess FBB, Camiso that he finally gets the win that he has been looking for. Make Fiorentina great again. We're on the way. Yeah. So good, so good. And yeah, what a win. As soon as Vanoli comes in, boom. Big victory in that, to bottom of the table, battle, crikey. Alrighty. Well, loads to talk about today. Let's get into the stuff. And let's start off with a quick look at, oh, the Europa League. The Europa League. You're excited, Tom. I'm excited. Wednesday Thursday this week. The bookies have the favorites to win it as Juventus and Milan. Bookies don't watch much city, huh? Well, I mean, Ruben Ammerham has taken a team to a Europa League final. It was one of the most memorable Europa League final. It certainly was. And you know, to top them. So who's to say that you can't do it again. But I, I looked at those betting odds with some surprise. Yes. Juventus and Milan at the top, followed by by Levy, because in Bournemouth, Celtaviga, Real Sociedad, must say, Palace, Sunderland and Benfica. This week, Benfica began that campaign away at Milan. That's on Wednesday, Milan, who will subsequently be taking on Sunderland at San Ciro. Sunderland and Wednesday are in action against Elkmar. That's their third European game. They're 53 years. Of course, the Milan Benfica game is Ruben Ammerham against Marco Silva. So that's, yeah, obviously, the United against Fulham. They've come up against each other. Ammerham played for Benfica as well. Good. Lois Coringon. Lois Coringon. Look, I mean, Milan came back at the weekend from 2-0 down against Latzia, scored a couple of goals. And if they play like they did in the second half against Latzia, then it should be a fun game, because finally, you got to see some of their better attacking players on the pitch that have been weirdly sort of sidelined so far by Ammerham. All right. For example, Diego Morrino, well, Marrera played against Juventus and obviously came on at halftime, sort of triple substitution. First time in a long time, that Luca Modric has been subbed off at an interval without an injury. It was kind of like, oh, you're just not having it today. I, Luca, you're giving the ball away. It's not a possession-based game. You're being asked to run around. Not your strength at 41. So brought on Yunus Musa, brought on Diego Morrera, brought on Christine Pusik. Pusik could not play the tall so far this season. And all of them had an impact. And Morrera took both of his goals, really well, from kind of acute angles, one on the volley, one from outside the box. And given how much money that Milan have invested in him, how much, sort of, minimum 50 million. Then they need him to be the difference make it as he was when he came on against Lazio the weekend. But it was also encouraging to see Pusik play very well because he was in the match they scored for their first game against Torino, having not done any preseason, not played any friendlies. And he didn't get on, he didn't figure in any of their other games. And then he comes on the weekend and, you know, he was the boy who put the ball at the back post from Morrera to finish. So I think gave the team a different look. Okay, you could say, Milan were 2-0 down. Their pride was stinging. There was a sense of urgency. They had to get back into that game. But I think with those attacking players on the pitch, hopefully it points to, you know, what Milan will look like in the future. Hopefully that is the Milan will see more than the one in the first half. All right, well, they'll be up against Benfica on Wednesday. All sorts of games coming up on Thursday. Celtic are up against French Varras. French Varras, not a French team. French Varras. French Varras. They knocked out Trabson's ball. Most Salas Trabson's ball. So it's 2-5-0. So this has been interesting one. Celtic got beat 3-0 by Rangers in the Scottish league cup at the weekend. Real sausage either up against Bournemouth. That's going to be a game, eh, Paul? That's going to be a massive game. In a big week for the Alfa Thierab, we just have to battle it for that, because they lost against Alfa Thierab. But perhaps Alfa Thierab, for me, that best Spanish team, possibly, in that competition. So let's see how they can handle this. Excellent. Marseille, listed as one of the favourites, will hope to turn their dismal start to the season around when they visit Besiktas, who had a three-year win over the weekend. One of the goals scored by Leandro Trossard. His first full Besiktas, that's where he is now. Yeah, hard to have too much faith in Marseille this season in the after several years of just frantically buying and selling players hand over fist in every transfer window. They're now embracing this age of austerity. Didn't qualify for the Champions League. They've racked up some fairly significant debts. Their finances are being very closely scrutinised by both UEFA and the DNCG, French football's financial watchdog. And so they went through the entire summer without signing a single player, which hasn't happened at Marseille for a long time. The squad is very thin. They managed to hold on to Egor Pyshau, Brazilian left-winger who was being linked with Sunderland. That was sort of the one kind of very sellable asset that they managed to hold on to. But their domestic form has been poor. They've lost their last three on the spin, lost one nil away, it ran on Friday. There is obviously a European pedigree at Marseille, which they were openly final in 2018. And if you can get everyone on board, and the team are playing well, and the fans are all on side, it's a fantastic place to play and watch football. But it does feel like the club is at a bit of a low-ab at the moment. It's hard to imagine they're making a massive impact in Europe. They're already down in 13th in Liga, and I just think, as ridiculous as it sounds, qualifying for Europe again next season will be a bigger priority than doing well in Europe this season, I imagine. All right, what are the German prospects in Europe set? Well, I suppose you probably favor Lavercuisin, although I'm not sure really what I think of Cosmotinus' side yet. They're growing. They still have a few familiar names from the past. Patrick Shekker's in good form, Eben Mazer, the Algerian playmaker, as he started the season pretty well. But they look very ropey at the back. You get a chance, Jimbo. Have a look at their tour draw with Augsburg over the weekend. And take note of the goal they conceded, or they allowed Michael Grigorich to score from a corner. It's as bad set-piece defending as you could possibly imagine. And this has been an issue for Lavercuisin for a couple of years. And it's very difficult to imagine them going through Europe and facing some of the teams that are left in that competition and being able to survive, at least they're not away lag against them. So let's see, don't write off Hoffenheim. Hoffenheim, they're not going to be explosive. They're not going to be, they're not a hugely attractive side, but they're very functional. They're very objuret. They're going to be a pain to play against. And actually, there's some interesting storylines. Do you remember Adam Hosek from a few years ago, one of the great hopes from Chekia? He obviously moved to Germany, joined Lavercuisin. Didn't really work for him. Went Hoffenheim on loan, then got injured, is now permanently there. He started the season really well. He's now 24, so he's not really a vondakin anymore. But scored twice the weekend against Stuttgart, played very, very well. Falte Berger, the former stoke player, has emerged as a like a credible Bunzliga force. Leone Avedulo is an excellent midfielder too. So there's some interesting things there. They're very physical, they're very hardworking. Chris Neuser has built a unit in capital letters and with next-limation marks. So you don't really want to face them. All right, Finer's going to be in Frankfurt. Great stadium. Great, great stadium. Loud, like a furnace. Walk through a fowled obverseasin as in Forrest. So Val Stadium, you walk through Forrest to get there. Very atmospheric. Oh, beautiful. That's a nice touch, isn't it? A forest. Forrest Walk. Yeah. Frankfurt Forrest. Yeah. You also, you get to go past the Tony Uboa House on the way to it. You know about Tony Uboa? What the what? The Tony Uboa House. I will wrap it up in my social. Yeah, there's a big mural of Tony Uboa on the train out to the stop where you get off to go to the stadium. So if you're going there as an away fan, make sure you look to your right about 10 minutes outside of Frankfurt Central Station. And you'll see Tony Uboa. Brilliant. I wonder which sets of fans will be enjoying that spectacle come may? I don't think it's going to be Lavercuisine. I heard the odds. I don't really, as with James Reservations about UV and AC Milan. I'm not quite sure. Lavercose and deserve that billing. But we'll see. All right. We're doing a great job with ruling teams out. No one is in contention for the Europa League as it happens. At all. I've only seen one Italian team win that competition this century, which was Atalanta in Dublin against Champions Lenses by Lavercuisine. And from what I've seen so far, if you've been Milan, I kind of don't put them on the same level as that Gasparina Atalanta. We'll see. Do you put them on the same level as Sunsland, for example, who they'll be facing? See, I would back Premier League teams all over the city. Our team is just because of the amount of investment, how far they are along in their projects, compared with UV. This is Spaletti's first full season. Had quite an incomplete transfer window. Got loads of injuries. And then with Milan, this is still, I think, the beginning of whatever the Rubin Amerin era becomes. All right. There you go. It begins Wednesday, Benfica Milan, one of the first fixtures looking forward to seeing that one. Seb, I know you've got places to be. So let's move on next to a quick word on a key game from the weekend in Germany. I wanted to add the headlines as well. Your chosen game is Berisha Dortmund's 3-0 victory over. Padabon. Padabon. Pretty interesting, because obviously, over the last couple of weeks, Dortmund have suffered a series of catastrophes. They lost Constantellius to injury. Koskuretsis had a circulation problem last week and had to come off. We're still kind of waiting to see what this sort of the way forward is with that. And that is the crux of all their summer spending and the kind of great hope of new creativity within the side. So Nika Kobach has been forced into a bit of a rethink. It's brought Fabius Silver into the side. Silver who has been sort of having a little bit of an internal rivalry with Sarah Garcia. It's been one of the other for Kobach. And Kobach made a clearing pre-season. A, Garcia is my first choice, number nine. Fabio is the sort of the contender. And Fabio has not taken it all that well. He hasn't enjoyed being a second choice. There were some noises about him potentially leaving during the summer. But he's come in. He's playing as sort of a, almost kind of a number 10 role behind Garcia alongside Ethan Nguéry, who's on loan from Arsenal. And it's working. Dortmund are five wins from five games. They played pretty well against Paddeborn. Might have been three goals up by a half time. Were it not for the off-site flag? Ended up winning three no. Two brilliant goals from Felix Meccio. And the second one, just absolutely perfect, bicycle kick. Reminiscent of their, do you remember the Van Basten bicycle kick for Milan all those years ago, that the perfect motion at the top of the arc? On the Champions League. Exactly, that. It was very, very similar. And I think what's interesting about Dortmund, this season is the depth. So, okay, it's not kind of a two-call clock style of play. But in midfield, look at the options. In the match, Joe Firman, who was signed from PSV over the summer. He's in there. Marcel Savitz, who is still at the club. Joe Bellingham is still there. Like, there are some options. And you can, Schlottterback made his return from Injury at the weekends. So he's back in the back three. Shan Guido, who they signed from Salzburg, looks like a phenomenal prospect as a centre-back. And yes, all roads eventually lead to Allianz Arena and Bayern Munich, of course they do. But this is a Dortmund who, probably for the first time in the cup of liars, look like they might have a bit of resilience to them. And hopefully no one plays this clip back to me in like six months' time when Bayern have a 40-point lead. But it's interesting. It's interesting. And at the moment, Bayern have ever so slightly offered, not quite sure why a few competing theories might just be a World Cup hangover. But this might be one of those situations where a slightly less than excellent Bayern makes for a slightly more interesting Bundesliga. We shall see. Bayern, who took on the... At the Sparrow, the opening rounds, Elvis Borg, and were... They won for quite a while by the new boys. Yeah, I mean, Elvis Borg are going to be a problem at home for a lot of clubs. Because they're a good side. Like, you know, the humble origins of side, there's been a decent amount of money spent on their infrastructure. They've got some good players there and they're well coached. So they're going to be difficult and factor in this slightly under-par Bayern at the moment. And there was a contest for a long period. It was ultimately settled by Harry Kane, brilliant, brilliant, really well taken goal to win it to one. Leonard Karl got himself into a bit of trouble, Jimbo. So he scored the first goal of the game at the back post and then kind of ran off to the Elvis Borg fans and shushed them, I don't know why. But anyway, it's kind of one of those things. Like, it's a young person celebration, right? It's something you do without really thinking about it. Anyway, Lenny Karl had to apologise afterwards. He didn't mean anything by it. Sorry. Very, very strange moment. But yeah, a great game, good goals. And we'll see. But Bayern, not quite there. Yeah, which is interesting because they've got a few new parts. So we talked about Nathaniel Brown. He's been used in a few different ways. Even though there's a fallback. Is Miles Sabari created the first goal of the game for Karl? He's still finding a role. So, company might take a little bit of time to kind of weld all these different new parts together as exciting as they all are. So we're not quite there. So interesting, interesting times. Okay. Harry Kane with the with the winning goal. His first goal of the season in the league for Bayern Munich. Very similar to the one he scored against DR Congo in the World Cup in the way that he was able to bend it round the very close marking of a Elvesburg player. Dortmund's 50th Bayern goal, wasn't it, probably? 150th Bayern goal. Is that right? 150th. It's already, I think he's already 7th in the all-time Bayern scoring at Milan, which is incredible. First madness. Dortmund, with their perfect start of the season of one of two teams to be on maximum points, the other one of Freiburg who beat Munich Galapag 5-0 on Saturday. They scored 10 goals and considered just one so far, Freiburg. Galapag, who are second from bottom, subsequently saw their manager resign. Yeah, Anna, I rightly so, because I think the winners have been blowing in this direction for some time. Eugen Plancki did a good job last season of studying a really, really uncertain club who were going through enormous difficulties and looked like they were heading for relegation, actually. But in terms of where their future lay with him in charge, I don't think it was terribly convincing. And this was so poor, Jimbo. The quality of the goals they conceded to take nothing away from the Freiburg's performance, which was excellent. Eagom, a ton of it, in particular, played ever so well. But is there nowhere near good enough for a club of Galapag size in the historical standing? And they're in ability to compete in the small areas of the game. It was the shambles. And I think there was really only one outcome and better to do it now, better to do it now, at least you have more more season left to rectify the issues. Sounds like they'll be glad to see the back of him. Oh, glad back. Can't even respond to that. Nice. I see that RB Leipzig who got absolutely taut beside Lake Coma on Thursday night responded with a 5-0 win over Hamburg. What a result that was. I know it's not, I mean, it's Bundesliga related. Just want to say, it happened since I last show. Coma's debut in the Champions League had good with them. And how upset were they back in Germany? What happened to Leipzig there? What was it? 4-1, 4-0, 4-1. 4-1, 4-1, 4-1. Yeah, I mean, didn't really come as a surprise to me on the back of what we've seen from Coma for the last two years. I think they are one of the best run and best coached clubs on the continent at the moment. Very striking, how easy they made that game a look. Because I think some of their compatriots would maybe have not made as lighter work as they did with RB Leipzig, which just I think goes to show how cutting edge Coma are. It was quite funny because Sassfabricus has come up against quite a lot of cultural resistance over the last couple of years. In some of the comments he's made, which have been sort of misinterpreted to be sort of Catalan-splaining football to Italians. So after that win, there were a lot of the old headlines that this upstart Fabricus, you know, he's so arrogant trying to tell us how we should do our football and it's just like, well, I don't know, maybe you should take a leaf out of Sesskin Coma as well. Yeah, the only Italian Champions League side to win. Yeah, and the biggest win of a Italian team making their debut in that competition since Samp beat Rosenborg, five nil at the beginning of the 90s. Samp are currently on the bottom of City of B, by the way. But yeah, it was, that is in its own right, James, quite a tragic story. But quite a lot of people were remarking on, oh, look, Coma, no Italians in that team, that smashed Arby Leipzig. Isn't this a shame? But you know, it's a far greater shame that event has failed, no outfield Italians in their team against Sassfabricus and then lose to Sassfabricus. I think you just look at the fact that Coma do a lot better job when it comes to putting teams together, um, regards whether the Italians are not in it. Well, that can at least keep the, the trickle or flag flying high in Europe. Absolutely. All right. So just for you, Levis, was that a bit of a shock for Leipzig? Yeah, I think so. It was also unhelpful because Leipzig are now coached by Martin Demicheleus, who got the job with really no coach, a record whatsoever in, in Europe. And it was seen as young clubs appointment, which, you know, um, Marcel Schafer, who's the MD for sport at Leipzig. He was very loyal to, to Elevona before Elevona left the club. Demicheleus replaces him. And yeah, that wasn't a particularly good look, but things have improved because as you mentioned, Leipzig thumped Hasfabricus on Sunday, really, really good comprehensive five-nil win. Not quite sure how much it means though, because that's back-to-back five-nil losses for Hamburg, um, who are yet to score a goal this season, and I've now conceded, uh, 13 goals in three games. So, turns out Luke of the Squitch was a much better plan than any of us realised. Wow. Making minced meat of the hamburgers, Thomas, you would know. Nice, nice. Anyway, all right. Well, Seb, listen, you enjoy as much as possible, whatever it is you're heading off to do. I mean, Paul, let's hear a bit more from you next. Pablo's, let's do a little more Catalan explaining. Barcelona continue their rip-roaring start to the season, putting four goals, possibly Vanty on Sunday. That's now five wins from five. The top of the league, of course, that a massive win in the Champions League as well. And they've got yet another bright young thing coming out of La Mazeera. Tell us all about Chavi Espart. Yes, that was one of the main intentions they had at picking these games. Just to speak about Chavi Espart, which is the last gem that Barcelona got from the academy, a lovely player. He's one of the places in midfielder that back in the day he was, um, replay, like, requisitioned to a right back because of the necessities in this team. And now he's playing as a left back at FC Barcelona in the first team. And he's taken the spot by store, basically. Marles Tandovalde doesn't understand the chant, and Joe Cancelo is his backup at this point, because he's playing so good. He scored the first goal, his first goal in a Barcelona shirt with the first team. You could see in his face how happy he was in the moment. So yeah, and he's part of that generation of the 2007 Bourne generation, which includes the lives of La Mietenaru, Paukuwashi, and Marc Bernal. So this has the numbers and the potential to be one of the most prolific generations ever sent out in La Mazeera since the 871, which had Lionel Messier, Gerard Pique, and Seth Favreles. You'd call it an extraordinary stroke of luck, except that they keep doing this. And players from this generation contributing three of the four goals on Sunday because La Mietenaru got his third brace of the season remarkable. That's another good point and a fun point. La Mietenaru said recently that when he ended the work up, he was not fully happy because he believed that his performance was not good enough in the workup and that he could be better. If he couldn't wait for the season to start, then he's sort of proving that. He scored two goals again against Levante, basically on the pitch. When he was taken off alongside Peter, he basically Levante revived, and they managed to score two goals and put a bit of emotion into the game, then on the late stages Karimada Yemi as a super sub basically killed the game. But yeah, La Mietenaru, one of the names of the weekend here in Spain. Even more, I don't know if you've seen this, but there's an interview coming up with Kim and Jorge Ballano, which is a household name as a commentator here in Spain, in which basically Yamal is robbing for himself to win the ball on tour, which is the saying that we mentioned about Killian and Bappi a week before. And there's this tendency in Spanish football of the biggest names, in this case La Mietenaru and Killian and Bappi, seeing the Ballundo race wide open and trying to lobby and make a campaign for themselves. Basically, La Mietenaru said that he believes that he's one of the best players in the world, possibly among the top two, and that next to him, that's Killian and Bappi. But that did you do? You said possibly, I think he just flat out said there's only two of us to can win this. He's meaning Bappi and if you compare the two of us, what we've done this year, to be fair, he's not wrong about. In those terms, the award should be his. I don't know. Is that a new thing? Players coming out and saying I should win the ball on Dora? I think Ronaldo changed this. Real Madrid, I think at the height of the rivalry with Messi, it became important to lobby. And now it's almost become normal. I do think it feels more accentuated this time around because it feels like the ball on Dora race is wide open. Or it's more open than it has been in other years. I don't think there's a consensus for one player. But it seems particularly Spanish. Actually, no, it doesn't exist with that. I don't think it's Spanish because I mean, to give our listeners an input, we had a triple interview with PSG players last week, one of which was with Kavara. So all of this is putting players in front of the media at a time when you probably wouldn't ordinarily have access to them. And it's keeping their profiles high, keeping them in the spotlight, presumably with a view to some of the people voting for the ball and door. It's not an open vote, you know. Jimbo doesn't have a vote. Tom doesn't have a vote. Paul doesn't have a vote. Oh, disgrace. So if you did out of the vote, Tom, let's have our own ball and door right now. Spoilt ballets, too hard. I like it when there's a really obvious one. You just put, yeah, he's won everything. He's the best in the world. You kind of want to give it to the best player in the world, but it'd be helpful if the best player in the world had won all the trophies. Who's the best player in the world, don't you? I think it's probably killing them up, hey? But Harry Kane, I'll be able to bet a season, but then neither of them won the World Cup, although both did great things at the World Cup in particular. It's a head squad chair. Who'd you vote for, James? Well, we did this on the athletic last week. We all had to choose a player and I chose Kavara. Yeah. But I chose Kavara because he kind of stood up in the biggest Champions League games. And the game of the season for me was that first leg in the semi-final against Bayern Munich, and he was the best player on the pitch. But it's not a convincing compelling, yes, we almost go for Kavara. It's just very hard to pick one this year. I don't think it's as obvious as LeMini Mal makes out that it's between him and Killian. And I think one of the things that Killian suffers for is he left to go to Real Madrid, the team that always wins things and always wins the Champions League. And in the meantime, the club he left has won the Champions League twice. And his team has last year came out of it winning nothing. Yes. And so he had a great World Cup. As Marinho says in every press conference, this guy's stratospheric when I was not a translator for Louis Van Halen, Bobby Robson, I was Ronaldo at Barcelona. He reminds me of Ronaldo. He's unbelievable. Bellingham is great, but Mbappe's made history and all these things. It's like, yeah, over what, seven games, Mbappe was fantastic for France, but are we condensing it to seven games in the way that I'm condensing my Kavara vote to one four or five games? You know, that's what it feels. And that's maybe why Kane is perhaps the more compelling argument because it's you're taking into effect the season he had with Bayern and going to a semi-final with England where he often doggers out of a hole. So it's very hard. So you can understand why people are lobbying. You know, Kane really tried to get to Seb Stafford Blore and Umir from the BBC. As part of his subliminal lobbying. They're all at it. All at it. Trying to come on the show. Timber said no. There's again. We can't. If we have to, if we have one on, we've got to have the other one. Yeah. It's not in a space in this in this studio. Paris, not a good talker. Yeah. Paul, so how has Mbappe responded to the pressure coming out of Catalonia? He's got to brace himself this weekend in the Ramadrid's four-one-one-one-one-one-one-one-one-one-one-one. Has Mbappe been similarly vocal? Have his people been moving in the shadows? Well, I mean, he's been given interviews. I think he spoke to the keep if I'm not wrong. I think there were more interviews planned. I'm not sure if, yeah, if I can disclose something in that regard. But I think that there were more like interviews planned in that direction. But yeah, I mean, I think that he was pretty clean in his pre-match of a press conference before the Champions League and then in that interview, in the keep. And then, yeah, on the pitch, I go on and visit Mbappe, for example, like leaving any penalty to Vinny, which is something that happened last season at some point. I don't think that is that time of the year now. And just starting up to what Jen was saying about the loving and seeing a wide open price. I also think that there's a financial element, maybe in that sort of intention to win the ball, as in a lot of plays, having a lot of bonuses attached to this award. I know for a fact that Laminja Malinsky's salary has a big part attached to sort of individual awards. So, I guess that this place is a big part of what? With that bankrupt Barcelona, if you wins it. Well, I mean, will they deliberately lobby against their own players to stop the clause? Hansi, stop playing him. I'm gonna draw the port next time again. That's like a good question. Well, those two with good weekends. Elsewhere, let's go Madrid. I had a victory three in elegance, real sociadad, where Julian Alvar is not available because he had muscular overload in training. Ha. Now, if you feature in the Champions League in the defeat at Amfield. Yeah. Well, but this game was away from form as well. So, I see that it was really crazy to call in Alvar as to the Amfield game as insane that he did almost the perfect game, that he did everything that he asked for, that he carving the whole front line. Apparently, the overload is true, and the aim at letico half is that he's available to play the Madrid Derby, which is after the break, after the international break. So, he's potentially gonna miss the next game. And yeah, I just wanted to highlight that a good friend of James Hornkastel, a score of his first goal. I tried to go to the Madrid player, which is Jonathan David. He came in from the bench, and yeah, his score in a really composed finish, was it, was it something that he didn't have the look to see quite often in the Serie A, I guess, last term. Yeah, and Yves, their goalscores are not scoring goals. And so, incredibly last night, they were like, do you think Yves may regret sending Jonathan David on the loan? And two sound live, it's just scoring goals as well. Bishik Das, yeah, Colin Moani. Colin Moani is struggling big time. I've seen some terrible memes on the internet. Really? Because that's just saying that he was hiding in the game, which is strong. But let's, well, I suppose he said that they couldn't find him in the game. Right. And that they, they should have played the ball up to him more. So this, I know we're slightly interrupting your, your Spanish roundup, Paul, but this was the quite remarkable game between Sassuolo and Yves, which was I think goalless until about the 65th minute. Sassuolo, take the lead. And then it under Grover, who's one of the bright prospects of the Yves squad, equalize once. And then you have a Kiran Bawi putting Sassuolo back in front, and then there's a Grover answers again. And this is in, what minute was that? That's in the 91st minute. So it looks like it's going to be point shared. But no, no, because Sassuolo went up the other end with a player that they have on loan from Yves. Another player that you've been like, yes. And, and adds it seems to be caught in two minds of like, this is a really good opportunity. Do I want to do this? And he's like waiting and waiting and waiting to take the shot. So the point where Yves Defender has a chance to block it. But summing up Yves Defender's evening, so inept, can't get the block in and adds it takes the shot and scores. And Sassuolo went, but that final 10 minutes, James, it felt like it was May 13th rather than September 13th, because it felt like everything was on the line in that game. The way they threw everything at it at the end, it was, it was very, I think anyone who was tuning into that game with a stereotypes about what Italian football is supposed to be about would be like, what am I watching here? Because both benches were spilling out onto the pitch. You had that kind of classic cage where coaching staff and substitutes are like kind of walking up the sidelines following the play as it's happening and sort of encouraging and stuff like that. And there was no desire to sort of defend and see it. There's that kind of old adage that if you can't win a game, don't lose it. And neither of them seemed to think about that. And it made for a chaotic and very fun ending, particularly if you're a Sassuolo fan, but it didn't leave you looking at your interest thinking, oh my god, what is happening here? And some of the defending on the goals was horrendous by, I mean, they have an injury crisis at your interest, but their defense is not really hit by that injury crisis. They've got their best centre backs were playing us today. Bremer and Lukumi, Kaluulu was playing and both Bremer and Kaluulu made mistakes that you would look at and think, you're supposed to be the leaders on this team. What are you doing? And then in a game in which they look like they could score more than the two goals that they did, their strike, a random column one, he looked like he couldn't score any goal. Zegrova scored twice, but Zegrova in 14 months at the club has never scored for the team, and has been this kind of unfulfilled promise that fans kind of love Zegrova because of the idea of Zegrova, it's kind of socks down kind of cost of an Albanian player and he's never delivered. You didn't have Alash Begavitch, they're big signing from Bialebacus and in the summer. Alash Begavitch does all the right things, beats these Sasswola defenders was tremendous bit of skill, lays the ball right across goal and Kaluuluani doesn't do what a striker is supposed to do. He hangs back rather than sort of attacking the far post to get the tap in. And so, the events have lots and lots of injuries, yieldees out, kefir and taram out, manwear locker telly out, a lot of their sort of big names which in the context of your events history are not big names, but for this team are important, but still kind of no excuse really for for that defeat. Right, we'll come at this because there are some interesting questions as well about Colomwani and Yvonne's decisions regarding him, but Paul, sorry, what was he saying about LaLiga? Yeah, no, I mean, I don't remember. I wanted to highlight a couple more things at least. Just one of them is that Pyram Riko won my young scored again, five game in a row. Have you seen the start that he's the first player to scoring the first five LaLiga games of a season since 2009? And that's my question to you. Can you guess the footballer who scored in the first five LaLiga games in 2009? Is it a little messy? It's not a little messy, it's not David Villa. Was it a removage? It was a removage, a slight removage. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's one of the only things that passed. Yeah, he started really well. Or a removage. Or a removage. Yeah, exactly. And then the last thing I wanted to mention, and that's a bit to Tom if he can develop that, but one of the biggest names of the start of the season, beyond Obamian, is the russing, the Santander of Striker, Yesil Zavidi, who's scored against Alavés. He's a scored five goals in five games, and he's alone from brands. He is 21, and he's branded right now as one of the great hope for the future, and a player that a lot of teams are monitoring. And yeah, russing fans are just loving him, a newly promoted theme, who is enjoying the nice start of the season, or funding towards as well, and a fun striker, which deserves a mention here in my opinion. So Yassir, another Moroccan, 21 years old. Yeah. He's Moroccan, they keep producing players. Yes, incredible. And he barely played it, right? Yeah. So he joined, just looked him up now, because his name didn't ring any bells. He joined from formalical. I'm guessing midway through last season, six appearances, no goals. So yeah, I can't claim that he really made much of an impact that roars on park, but, you know, clearly finding Santander more to his, more to his liking. Love like Mr. Gold, by the way. All right. All right. Well, next up, let's finish off James's bit, and hear about Liga. So Column Mawani, we're just retracing the steps here. How long ago was it that he had that brilliant start at UV? Well, he joined in the January two seasons ago. Yes. And he did start well. They wanted to sign him on a permanent basis. He wanted to stay, but they couldn't get a deal done with PSG. And so they waited and waited and waited. And they thought PSG would blink and come down on their valuation. It didn't happen. And so he ended up going to top them. In the meantime, you've been to sign Jonathan David on a on a free transfer from Lila. But you have this kind of curious case, and it's not just at your interest, of players that Italian clubs have sent on loan somewhere else, usually to the Premier League. And they have crossed their fingers and hoped the Premier League clubs would buy those players. And it hasn't happened. So you've got loads of players who have presumably in their heads thought their careers at these Italian clubs have finished. And they're back here. And yeah, that's true of yeah, people at Milan like Chuck Waze. It's true of Pavard at Inter. At UV, you can go back to McKenny going on loan at Leeds and then coming back and being their best player for the first half of last season, signing a new deal. And yeah, there are lots and lots of examples, which kind of show that. I think one of the reasons why some of these leagues are suffering is not only because the Premier League is so much richer than they are. It's because this summer feels like it's different in that Premier League clubs bought from each other rather than buying from from these clubs. So they're like, yeah, we're just going to we've we've we've all did these players from you. We haven't liked what we've seen. And we're returning to sender. But Column Wani, you know, at Tottenham, I mean, Spiletti kind of buried him on match day one after the game against Frosty in only way. He said, yeah, if this guy hasn't scored or done well for the last two years, there must be a reason. Right. Well, this is what I'm curious about. What was it this summer that made you think, we're not just going to take him on loan. We'll actually buy him out right from Parisage Man. Well, I mean, Spiletti said he was produced. He was given a list of players that the club decided to target. Right. And he was like, OK, then whatever. And I think you may have been quite limited in what they could do because of these financial fair play parameters that have been put on put on them. But at the same time, it's quite expensive deal for them to do to sign a play that their coach doesn't seem entirely convinced about. A lot of the players that they've signed for that position over the last few years just haven't worked out. So, you know, Vlyavitch was the end of the annual year where they spent 70 going on to 90 million for him when you include bonuses and agent commissions. Kamoli came in last year. What did he do? He signed Lois Appender from Reel from Lips. Oh, no, from France on loan. From Lonson Loan. He's now back in France, I think, Leon. Leon. Having them. No, so he didn't come straight from Lonson, because he had, you're right, he went to Lipsake. Yes. Yeah. So they, but they had David as another one. Josh and David is another one. And now they've gone back to Colomawani. And it's just, it seems at this moment to be quite a big waste of resources. And I suppose he's had to walk back those comments that you made after the frozen honor game. So look, there's a Colomawani bandwagon and I'm still on it. And then he's sort of here are all the things I've said that have been nice about Colomawani in preseason. You should focus on them as much as you focused on that comment that I made after frozen honor game. And he was quite defensive over him after the Sassuolo match as well. But overall, there's this sense that even just cannot and have not got that position right for for some time. And look, there would have been a time where they would have invested in the best young Italian player in that position and built around that player. The problem is is that outside of Pio Esposito and the dare I say Francesco Camarda, both of these talents who have seen as the future Italy goalscores already play for Inter Milan, Italy's struggle to produce strikers for the last 10 years. In a way that Germany's struggle to produce strikers and other Spain's even, you know, struggle to produce strikers, even a Ferran Torres keeps scoring for PSG at the moment. With Bobby. Yeah. And the best young talents in Italy now, they go to the Premier League before you enter an Inter and Milan can get hold of them. So they're in a, yeah, the top Italian teams are in a position at that. I don't think they've ever found themselves in the moments. Well, let's try to be works out for Colomani, Colomani and Juventus. He wasn't the striker having the worst weekend in Italy, a shout for Danieli Maldini, who started the weekend. I think it was Friday, wasn't it? That calorie be Atlanta, his former side with a goal from the penalty spot by Maldini himself. Subsequently, he was involved in a car crash and also to stories going out about tests that the police may or may not have done. Is he all right? This seems to be James. I mean, calorie put out a statement saying that he was going to train as he would be expected to. Right. Because initial reports were that he'd failed various tests that the police given him, which I imagine would involve then a lengthy ban. There were initial reports claiming he'd failed a breathalyzer. But then calorie put out a statement on Monday morning saying that the toxicology tests came back negative. So some conflicting reporting. All right. Well, he'd had quite a good start to the season. I mean, calorie had been a bit of a revelation. There are two revelations in City of the season, Latia, who again finished this weekend at least going into Monday night. We're recording before the Monday night games, but that's your top of the table. Look like they were going to win their fourth consecutive game against Milan when they were two and a half. And then this calorie, calorie of one three of their first four games for the first time since the great teams of the 1970s with Gigi Riva. They've done it even though they've sold some of their best young Italian players. They Daniel Maldini scored in their last two wins. And they've got this other kid from Roma, Romano, who's Swiss. Who's Swiss, but he's Italian. Right. And the Swiss were trying to call him up and make him a Swiss international. But Roberto Mancini has got their first. Yeah. And so it looks like he will be in this first new look Italy squad from Roberto Mancini for this upcoming marathon of nation's league games, which I'm sure will creep up on all listeners to this podcast who don't realize that this international break is essentially half a half the time of the World Cup. Yeah, it's a long one. We'll be there with you throughout. So okay, very good. Very good. Shall we move on to Liga to wrap up today's Tony Folt was show? Absolutely. All right, Tom. So Paris and your man went and got a win. 1-0. Hold the back page. I'll wait a break. How convinced would you win a league game? Not convinced at all. And Lewis and Rika said afterwards, we've won. But it's the day when I've been the most annoyed at all. PSG went ahead early on. Ferran Torres scoring again. That's six goals in five games and all competitions. Best start in goal scoring terms by a new PSG player. Since it's not only rheumovic. There he is again. Really nicely taken goal. And this is off the back of him scoring a hat trick against Slovon Brutislava in the Champions League on Wednesday. Yeah, five minutes in, Borgets played into Dembele's feet. And he backheels the ball into Torres's path. And he kind of strides onto it just outside the penalty area and curls it first time, lovely shape on the shot with the inside of his foot into the bottom right corner. And you thought, okay, here we go, PSG up and running. But despite pressing with a bit more intensity, they gave rest a lot of opportunities. And Matt Vesuffanov, who's been in the crosshairs of late, ended up being PSG Saviour. I think he made six saves in total. A couple of which were really impressive. There was one after about an hour. Cross goes into the box from the PSG right and Kamari Dumbia, Marley International. Attacking with Fielder, who's playing in the number 10 position for Brazos at the really good start of the season. Plants this header towards the bottom right corner from his perspective. And Saviour leaves to his left, sticks out of hand, turns it behind. So PSG finally get their first win on the board, which I think moves them up to seventh, seventh in the standing, five points off the lead. Yes, but not all that convincing. And then some interesting comments post-game. There was Lewis Enrique saying how annoyed he'd been watching his team and how unimpressed he'd been by their performance. I mean, invariably, he has talked them up quite a lot when they haven't been winning. And on this occasion, even though they had, he was not pleased with what he'd seen. Usman Dambale gave quite an interesting interview to Liga and Ploust, the in-house TV channel. And this is off the back of the Killian and Bappé interview with Frostfootball that we've already mentioned. And towards the end of that interview, it's quite a long interview. And basically, and Bappé making his case to win the ball on door. Right towards the end of the interview, he was asked about about the fact that Usman Dambale has won it before he has. And how if you told people that 10 years ago or five years ago, people would have struggled to believe it. And Bappé said something slightly curious. He said, you know, Usman's always been like a really talented player. But, you know, I've always been the chosen one. Lelou. And basically saying, I've had all this pressure on me, all this time, people have been waiting for me to get there. And I've been kind of at the top level all this time. And it just hasn't quite happened. Whereas Usman, who you know, has been on this real journey, you know, door mender than Barcelona and all the injuries. And then finally arrives at PSG Lewis and Ricky comes in and the planets align. And Dambale speaks after the game at Brest on Sunday. And he said, I can't remember what the question was. It's been interviewed by former PSG striker Gilm Wauho. But he just basically comes out with, you know, I've always been, you know, working hard at the back of the classroom, had down, not making any noise, you know, I've never been the chosen one. But I've kind of got here. And it just seemed very pointy that he had chosen to use that expression. Lelou, the same word that Ambappe had used. So that has raised eyebrows. I mean, the context to this is that Ambappe and Dambale are really close and have been for ages. You know, they came through the French youth ranks together. They're paid in the national team for nearly 10 years now. They're very close. There was that footage that emerged over over the World Cup of Dambale referring to Ambappe as Mubut short for Mubutu, a reference to the Killian Ambappe dictator me. And Dambale is at the only guy who can get away with that kind of thing. So I don't think there's any suggestion that this is the beginning of a riff. But it was interesting that Dambale chose, because he knows himself that he's not really in the running to win the ball on door again. I think if he's honest with himself. But it was just interesting that he, you know, sees that opportunity just to kind of, you know, put out a little, a little comment. There you go. PSG with a win then, albeit not a convincing one, a game which began with a lovely tribute to the departing breast manager at Royal. Yeah, it was lovely actually. I mean, there've been a lot of tributes and a lot of armages to him. But this was the real kind of set piece moment. And before the game, Marquinhos and Luis Enrique and Luis Campos laid wreaths at the side of the pitch. Eric Guwaz's daughter addressed the crowd, really moving speech before the game and talked about, you know, the miracle that had happened to Eric Guwaz when he became head coach at breast, a guy who's not had a coaching role for 11 years, plucked from obscurity by this kind of like, you know, ailing team. Would you say he enhanced breast? He certainly did enhance breast. He leads them into the Champions League. Incredible. And yeah, and, you know, I think Luis and Reacon Eric Guwaz, they were always quite close to seem to get on well. I've seen like various images of, you know, sort of pretty much cuddles prior to games between the teams over the last couple of seasons. And then in the 58th minutes, he died at the age of 58. All the fans were so excited. I mean, he didn't tell anyone. So it was known within, you know, sort of French football circles. And there were times last season when he appeared on the touch line and he looked quite unwell. But he'd never publicly, you know, spoke out about his diagnosis. It was pancreatic cancer. And he was diagnosed with it about I think three and a half years before he died. And his daughter, Victoria Rose, she gave an interview to the keep this morning and talked about that. And he was basically told at the time, this is a very aggressive form of cancer. You're looking at six months, basically. And he held on for three and a half years. Wow. During which time he takes this club from the most remote corner of Northwest France, who've never achieved anything of note in their entire history and takes them into the Champions League and gives them these incredible moments. And the interview was actually very moving. And she talked about, you know, when they said goodbye to him. And, you know, he was at home, surrounded by loved ones. And he, you know, he wasn't in pain and it wasn't traumatic. And she said, we all said everything that we wanted to say to each other before he left. And then that was that. And so this, I mean, I just, you know, despite breast losing that it matters all that much, but this felt like, you know, the kind of very fitting, for very fitting send off. There you go. There you go. Very nice stuff, Tom. Elsewhere, you mentioned some of the stories that have happened. Paris Bruneur in that one would draw between Strasbourg and Monaco, who are now in a three-way tie on top of the table with Lille and a Ren, Renbeet, Marseille, Lille, defeated, Tu Nille. Oh, Paris FC are a couple of points off the top. Still up there, they had a Nille Nille draw with Leon. Still unbeaten under Liam Rossignia. Loved the images of him, emerging, doing his pimp roll onto the field. He's living his best life. He is, yeah. And for all that he was quite widely derided during his blink and miss it. These pictures are going to change. I'll see, coach. He really impressed people at Strasbourg with the quality of the football that he played and the buy-in that he got from all those young players. So I think when Paris FC brought him in, it was widely seen as a real coup. And, you know, as we've said before on this pod, Paris FC have more financial muscle than the majority of clubs in the French top flight. And at a time when traditional heavyweights like Marseille and Leon and Monaco are having to really count the son team, they're able to spend a little bit more freely. And, yeah, they've got a really interesting group of players there. And it looks like they are, you know, they're going to be in the mix for European qualification. Crackey, early doors, of course, we should see how it all pans out, but we'll done to him. And Paris FC in the meantime, excellent. So we've got another round of league actually coming up before the international break next weekend. Subscribe to that. The European show will return. Turn around the ball of that. Polo forward to seeing you for that. It's going to be a pleasure. Excellent. Tom, thank you so much for today. I'm Mr. Horncastle as well. Many thanks to producer Shavvy and to you as well. Do join us next week for more European fun and games for now from all of us here. It's a deer. The Toley Football Show podcast is available three times a week. Bring to you all the football news you can reasonably be expected to care about. We've got views. We've got stats. We've got analysis. We've got some of the best football writers around. And the whole thing is absolutely free. So have a listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or all the usual places by clicking on the link below.
