 Welcome to the footy show here on Patreon, mewn pedd. Ready to get into all things footy. Have you been? Just footy. I've been. I'm starting your eye. I didn't see yesterday. Oh okay. So I know you've done the waterline. You've done the waterline on your own. I did boss. I was just like talking to all the blues through the screen. The medium of the screen. It's weird, but it's funny at the same time. I watched it and it did look a bit weird but then you kind of got into it and then you just looked like you were sat in your bills and yours. Yeah, to be honest I could have just done that. But you know what I mean. I could have just. It's like yeah. The way I think about it was because I was on my own. I couldn't just get up and go and get a drink. I was like, I've got to wait until it. Till the break. Well done mate. Well done. Well done. I'm sure. All about Python. And everybody else loved it. I just loved the comments when you see people like people are actually watching. Aim, watching the match. It's like. Yeah. I wouldn't have been the other one mate. No it doesn't bother me. It makes me laugh. It's like saying people watch you talking about 40. Not being funny but people do it every single Saturday. Do you want to show us that? On Sky. Every week. Every single week. Watching people who have no interest in everything. Yeah. Talk about 40. So what's the difference. At least we've got a passion and we want to, you know. So there you go. All right. All right. Let's get on then. Let's tell it to my face. There you go. Terrible. Terrible. Although I don't sell all of these. I can't say it yet. All of these. It's the page. You're going to have to go back all the way round. The number was wrong. Oh 329. No. No. Anyway, let's go on. Let's move on. First story once about Alvaro Marate. Okay. He's landed in England. He's landed in Heathrow. We thought he was coming to England. Yeah. One of the two centre boards on sale this summer. Exactly. It's absolutely mad, isn't it? If you're a conci. Just on the Lukaku thing. Yeah. Cos it's come out. I don't know how accurate this is cos obviously I don't. But there was some sort of day they wanted Emanala wanted Lukaku and Conti wanted Marate. That's what has been kicked around. I don't know how to do this. It looked like Lukaku was going to be the number one. But now it's played out. It now looks like Conti's actually got the fella he wanted all along. But to me they're two different players. And actually Marate is more of what Chelsea needs. Lukaku is not what Chelsea needs. I've been saying this. We've been saying this for months. And it wasn't like a thing like oh Chelsea don't look at Lukaku. He's not a Chelsea player. He doesn't play in the style. Unless they were going to completely change the style. Which would be mad? Which would be mad cos you're just done in the league. Okay you can have two kinds of styles but they're losing cost there. So what you do is you say well we're losing that asset. We need to replace that asset and then maybe look for someone else. Marate will fit Chelsea a lot better than Lukaku will. Lukaku fits more into Man United's style. Because of the runners. Because Man United actually are very good at getting players wide. They have done for years. And getting the ball in front of a centre forward. And that's where Lukaku is at it's very best. And that's why he'll score a lot of goals. Because the ball's in front of him. He's the best around. But Chelsea love having a player who drops into midfield. But back to goal, holds it up, gets it into a hazard. Spins and then gets back into the box. That's what you get. So it's worked out perfectly for both clubs. But the weird thing is just the power thing it's a Chelsea. Now Conti signed the contract this week. And he hasn't signed an extension. He has not signed an extension. It was like pushters. All those problems were over. He's just been given more money. The contract is exactly the same length. He's just been given more money. Exactly. So that basically says to him. Basically says to me. Listen, just shut up and do your job. And he's more money for doing it. But that doesn't mean he's staying any longer. It's important to them though, isn't it? Because if they get rid of him, where did he go then? He started looking around and going. Because he was the next shiny thing after Conti. Allegory. But it's kind of like... That's Chelsea though, isn't it? We sit here. And we worry as Evertonians about losing Cooman and who's next. But I suppose for a long time we worried about losing players and who's next. And we've sort of forgotten about that now. So you're a Chelsea fan. And you've been used to this for 10, 15 years. You know there's a structure in place. You've had what we are suddenly starting to see at Everton. A structure that goes behind the manager. And you know you've got an owner who although 15 years ago we were getting told by Allam Sundry. Them next door, them next door. Or he'll leave and he'll leave you as debt ridden and all that. Well he hasn't left number one. And number two he's put a structure in place. That if he does not leave but if the day his money stops being pumped into Chelsea. He's got a viable way of surviving on their own. Cos they have to be honest. No-one says that. Chelsea don't exactly go out there and spend loads of money just like through his checkbook now. It all comes through a big cycle of how they do business. And I suppose the key thing that he's done is their brand, isn't it? Their brand now from when he took over to now is incredible. Exactly. So they're self-sufficient now. They're rebuilding Stanford Bridge into this new meche of a stadium. And they can live. They don't have to worry. Cos I think what the thing is is that they can't take leave. And I think he'll leave when his contract finishes. I don't think he really wants to be in this country. I think he wants to be. Italians, I mean, we've seen Benucco to AC Milan today, right? And everyone's saying why hasn't he come to England or why hasn't he? Because they're happy in their country. And I think Conti will be happy going back to it. Like our players are here, a lot of our players don't go anywhere really. They don't bounce between a team. They don't go anywhere. So I think when his contract's up, they'll just go, well who's the new shiny one at the moment? Is that Allegri? Is it... It might be... Ben Rogers? Possibly. By then it might be... It might be Water's Name at Palisangiman. Emily. Emily might be... Might be the next one. Might be the next one. This, like Palisangiman, might be a sort of stepping stone. I mean, they've got a structure. It seems to work and they don't seem to lose any sleep over it. Back on Maratad, eh? Go on. He's a good player, isn't he? Conti's had them before. Think he'll do well, eh? I think he'll do well. A lot better at Chelsea than he would have done at Man United. Okay. Because I don't think, and this will sound stupid, I don't think his goals will be as important to Chelsea as he will be to Man United. I think... Right. I think he'll score goals. Don't get me wrong. I think the fact that the way he plays helps other people. I think he'll get more goals in this country because the fencers are not as tight as he's not used to. But he scored a lot of goals when he was at Juventus. Didn't get the chances at Milan. Madrid, sorry, obviously, the way they are, but he still scored goals. He will score goals. I just don't think his goals will be as important, even though Costa scored what, like, he scored 19 goals. He could see him getting 15-17 goals. I just think that the way he plays will be more important to bringing other players in. And I suppose, in some respect, where you know Costa's on his way out at the party in an athletic home, Madrid, she's first and foremost, but it's not professional behaviour, is it? But I think he probably feels... Well, he's got to go back there, doesn't he? Let's be honest. So, it's a bit mad. But I think it might improve Chelsea not having the distraction of Costa in a game because you know that he plays on the edge, Costa doesn't. He's so wonder if having someone who'll just get on with his game might help the team. But it is, I think there's always a time and a place for a little bit of snarkness, though, isn't it? I mean, there is always a time and a place and if he keeps defending, he's occupied. I think that's what's so good about Costa. He's horrible. And he, before last, that bubbled over in every game, he was getting into trouble and the list season he sort of came down and started, but he's still got a bit of devilment in it and I like that, I like that about centre forward. Surprise, no Premier League club went for him or has gone for him rather? No, because football is a village and they'll all, number one, they'll all know where he wants to go. And number two, they'll all probably think... OK, well that seamlessly brings me on to the village of Barcelona. It looks like a report saying that they're going to, Barcelona's going to accept a £196 million hand. Well, the report going on today are the fed up with Neymar and his party and his bad boy humans and everything else. And they're going to replace him with Cateniel. And Bapi. OK, bye. That's the thing, that's the big stone. Wouldn't that upset, wouldn't that upset Messi and Suarez if they lose somebody they love playing football with and also seem to have a really good relationship? Well I suppose to flip side to it because of this argument this week as well about Neymar coming to the stage where he's never going to be the number one figure at Bartlett because... But why old is he? 24. So he'll outlast the other two? Yeah, but it's out. He's at 24 now, isn't he? He's playing second fiddle to a Brazilian on the Uruguayan. Cateniel on the Uruguayan. So, you know, we could go to PSG and be the big... He will be the main man. Would you rather be... He's not a small fish, but would you rather be part of Barcelona or be the big fish at a Paris Saint-Germain? Well, me personally, I think I'd rather play with the other two because you want to play with good players, don't you? But some people might be thinking, well, I can go and be the flag bearer here. Do you want to get ridiculous amounts of money? Not that he needs it, but he's... Well, I mean, I've had Barcelona nor in a good place by the sound of it. If you listen to people who used to run the club, they feel like the club is getting run in a really bad way. Like it's gone away from... Like it used to be about running the club. I mean, don't forget this is a club that didn't have a share sponsor until about five years ago. And they've gone from being a club that was about the community that was bringing money in because it was Barcelona and now it's leaving the community behind and it's all about making money and it's happening very, very quickly. Now, a lot of people say, well, you have to do that because you have to keep up with the world. But they were doing things quite well. They were community-based first and the money was coming anyway. And the world was struggling to keep up with them. And so a lot of people were... So a lot of people... I don't know if it's bitter or so, but these were people who were running the club but when it was sort of... When it was the... You know, around 2000 and 10, 11... When they were just the greatest... For me, the greatest, probably the greatest team ever. That team was... Well, for me, I think it's the greatest team ever, with Javi and Messi and Iniesta. And, you know... It was just unbelievable. It was just, you know... It was just fantastic. It was just unbelievable. And it's gone away from me. It's gone away from me. It's gone away from me. And it's gone away from that. And I think that's the worry. So I look at the manager's situation the way it's gone as well. They've got someone who's pretty much an unknown in Wales football. I mean, I don't know whether that... How much that means, but... It's an interesting one, but... For Neymar himself, or certainly Palasangema, I think it's really interesting, Palasangema need to buy an absolute star. So that time was like Palasangema, version one of the new machine. And it was working brilliantly. Last year, he didn't win the league. He stumbled a little bit without him. And they fought lots of good players. Don't get me wrong. And they're sort of trying to build that team up again. But I think the Champions League showed for them beating Barcelona 4-0 and then getting that, you know, humiliating defeat to go out and start the day the way encapsulate where Palasangema are. And they do need a big player to take them to the next level. I mean, don't get me wrong, they're very, very close. But they're sort of in... At the moment, I'd say they're in like a tier two of the teams in the world. And if they want to break into that top tier and be a Champions League semi-finalist, and a Champions League finalist, they need someone like Neymar. And he would be loved. And his skills would be appreciated in the French League. And, you know, it's funny because I've been to Paris and I've been to see Palasangema and I went to see Palasangema before the money arrived and when they were struggling for relegation. And the fans were amazing, like the real, this was real, the real fans were there and they were absolutely amazing. So it was all there. They're not a team that had been made because of the money. They've got the potential palace to be anything they want. Because the reason why the owners bought it is because they've got no teams. They're one of the biggest clubs, biggest cities in the world. They haven't got any other teams near them. They've got, apparently they've got the ability to attract 10 million fans. And it's funny because if you go to Paris and you go on a sport shop, you can get like Marseitops and things like that because for a long time, in Palasangema, we've just seen this small provisional club. OK, they won leagues and stuff but they only really came into being in the 70s. Where is Marseit? Like the national, like the Man United or the Juventus. They are the national and the national club. So Paris have still got a long way to go to convince people in Paris that they are the club. So bringing in something like Neymar would automatically and we felt the effects in the last week. You know what, right? It's dead way because we felt the effects in the last week of bringing in Rooney and suddenly you think of your own club and you think we're in the Premier League so automatically, we're a big club and all that. But if you've got a player that brings in fans that don't support your club then suddenly you go to the next level automatically. So for Paris and German it would be an absolute worthy of a move, absolute. And funny enough it's not saying this is the reason because it's not the reason. But Paris and German have got a long tradition of having Brazilian players. And they've already got Tiago Silva there. This brings you on to my next point. This I'm getting deeper here. You'll appreciate this. This year, Paris and German's are all yellow and it's a tribute to their Brazilian players, right? Right? Maybe at night, of course who sponsors Neymar the next big shining boy after Ronaldo. It's Neymar. Can you imagine Neymar? All yellow Paris and German kit playing the Champions League for PSG all falls into place. So when I threw it out there first, you went yeah, not happening. Now you've convinced everyone. I'm just saying that's the Paris and German angle. Well that's the thing and the Neymar angle and there has been and there's reports here that PSG own a confidence of landing Neymar on a star of shoulder clubs vision and a chance to step out and mess his shadow and that's the thing that every time he goes back to Brazil, messies the main player Der Ardinting and fellers the main player at your club. Do you know what I mean? He's the boy, 24, he's done it, he's being great he can go there. The other interesting question is for the last three years Paris and German have been linked with Ronaldo like if he goes anywhere they'll go there because they can afford them and their lifestyle will suit them you know, it's all great but it's funny if they've decided now that Ronaldo being more 32 is maybe commercially still a massive thing obviously the Nike thing helps it's sad but it's true but maybe bringing in someone who's 24 who's still got eight years at the highest level that now they're maybe starting to think long term about not only on the pitch but off the pitch The other thing as well if you can attack Neymar it's okay, it's great to attack them Ronaldo at 32 it's a bit like us at track them Rooney at 31 if we could have attacked Rooney at 26 have your mother gone, oh my god attacking them at 31 them attacking Ronaldo at 32 when he's had a few problems in Spain and he's making noises Tax laws are not any better in Paris No, no, but I'm saying it's not quite the same thing but you can pull Neymar out of the bar at age 24, people don't start going these are serious, don't forget Monaco won the league last season and the other thing isn't it sometimes it works like this, sometimes it doesn't but if they are to get Neymar because Barcelona are getting them back then they're strengthening themselves and weakening Monaco at the same time Of course, and the other thing about it going back to what we've just been saying there as I said I went to see Paris and German and I think the big star then was Palette exactly who, he scored a hat-tik in the game he didn't have any big stars, he was struggling and then he got to Latin and suddenly he was like, these mean business and when they did that I phraise it, I kept on saying it I need to go back and watch them and I've been back to Paris loads of times I just never went back to watch them and it was funny the minute Latin left I was like, I'm not that bothered about going to see them again now because that draw wasn't there to go and see them and they've both gone plays they're both like the Draxler and people like that but they're not the Paul Hardy so as soon as you've got a Neymar then suddenly you'll be like yeah, I want to go back and watch them and that's the point if you're in Paris for a weekend then you just happen to go you think well there's a game on sadly, Neymar's playing you can go walk up the Chandeliers and buy tickets in the shop you'll go, you know what I mean it's not, you'll probably go and get to watching Neymar they're pulling, they'll be pulling where is it the minute and it might even be off the cuff it might be I want to go to Paris to see Paris and Neymar to watch Neymar and the dates it was as we called me I mean a part of it, when you're going and you're watching Suarez and you're watching Essie and you're watching all of that big move, big money, big move it's a big move twice that's how much of a move it is it's an absolutely massive move this is a little bit sad we can't let this go without obviously Bradley Lowry passed away few numbers last week unbelievable for the few more people went from everywhere you know we made such an impact did we on on everyone in football certainly in this country but there was messages from all over the world really but we had to obviously it was an unbelievable story just a kid who confronted death basically because he obviously, I know he was only six but he obviously knew that he wasn't very well and you know but I suppose the fact that when he was mascot of Sunday and when he was mascot of Evan he was always smiling and he always felt like he was always his mum was always right that he was always in a lot of pain and you think I don't stone under that kind of thing very well so a kid and it was nice that sort of the funeral didn't seem to be like a sad occasion you know it must have been the saddest occasion ever but it's the fact seeing all the superheroes everyone in football kits that sort of give a little bit of amazing remember that he was a child not just sort of I don't know it's hard to describe but you know what I mean people want to hold people up as you know visions of something and how to deal with things but he was just a little boy in the end wasn't he so no really sad fantastic turn obviously he's been amazing let's move on to happy things that will make you smile John Joe Shelby has come out and said England crying out for midfiel players like him no he's shite I'm sorry but he's absolute garbage of a player he thinks he should be playing for England he went to Liverpool and didn't do anything he's not alright this is what happens when you get stuck in Newcastle for too long you get delusions of grand jet honestly that is the whole Newcastle thing topped the bottom delusions of grand jet they stayed there for long enough and people keep on telling them how great they are because he's been playing in the championship for a year where he has been better than anyone else don't forget this is a lad who played three or four seasons in the premiership and made no impact he plays in the championship for one year and suddenly he thinks he's amazing get over yourself lad that's Joe Shelby he was good in Harry Potter if you went down to like Harry Potter you could make a kill him stand up side it's just with the kids new career for you new career he's about to join Leicester what do you have had a nibble on? a bit cannibalism I don't know I don't know because he's a good player but and he always looks he always looks good coming off the bench but he's one of those players he's just like a Sky Sports player he's just someone on a match of the day he's just someone that looks good when you're only seeing him for a little bit on the highlights I don't know I don't know what he really offers you know as an Evertonian we've bought Sandra we don't really know what he's going to offer us yet and when we do need another centre forward but for me do we need his kind of centre forward so it's a good move for Leicester because they can sell his body you know but I don't know for me I'm not saying it's desperate from Leicester it's probably the kind of play they should be after but I don't see too many other people scambling around for them and there's a bar back close and I'm not massively into bar back causes when you're a club where they're level way trying to get to because that just screams lone it just screams lone doesn't it because even if he does have it if he has a good season sit up by him back and probably sell him on again so fair enough what do you think about these pre-season friendlies where Premier League teams are playing Premier League I know it's happened but like today we've got Manchester Dabi in New York in all we saw in Houston I'm not reading it I'm not reading it I think I think we'll have to get used to them right I remember Maisie side Dabi in 2007 was it 2007 there was one at Godderson wasn't it it was 00 2008 2007 was it on field anyway I'm just I'm thinking it happened and what we're going to find is right what was that to both the reference of the Dabi what I'm saying is that Maisie Dabi was a friendly pre-season friendly we played like one of these stupid tournaments and we ended up playing it was a 00 Joe it was around 1997 1998 yeah when we played was it 2007 no no 97 97 mobile so it's happened before we did it with Leicester two years ago but the odd one these are in if you were a fan of Manchester United you're in you live in the States you've just watched the battle of the galaxy nice one good luck to you you know why don't those people deserve to see a game like that why do they only deserve to see Man United playing someone no that's great for the fan I'm talking about from a team what difference does it make if you go on to the swallows to play Liverpool from a business point of view I don't understand why it's good if you're involved in think about it if you're involved in another sport in America baseball American football they're playing pre-season friendly they only play the older teams well MLS they've got no one else to play so they play each other now the teams will know pre-season don't go nuts but that trophy that we were lucky to be in a couple of years ago is becoming the world's pre-elitist and it is elitist but it's elitist for the reason because they want the best and I suppose you've got to break into that bracket if you want to be part of it but if you're a fan you want to see your team or not even if you're a fan if you're a football fan and someone says Man City but you're Man United tonight in Houston I'm going I'm there you know what I mean I don't support them you go with me if someone said to us Real Madrid are playing Barcelona at Gunderson tonight of course you're going I went to watch Brazil versus Japan at Gunderson exactly there you go so there you go you know what I mean you want to see high class football and as two Evertonians that are always moaning about everything becoming a global brand and trying to sell shades I would want to see I don't want to play Liverpool but I'd be happy to play in Man United on a Man City or Chelsea I think pre-season is taking on more of a more importance than ever before is this going to replace the 39th game idea but I've just got a feeling I've had this idea for ages and I just don't understand why the Premier League haven't jumped all over my idea but look at this they're doing this thing at the moment with the Premier League Cup they always take it to Asia don't they now if the Premier League just said we're taking eight teams to the States and we're having our own into pre-season Cup it would be huge it would be huge and I don't understand why they haven't already jumped on it I really don't just pick the front the ideas are here all day but I just don't understand why the Premier League is a brand having jumped on they've got four teams of Asia at the moment they could have another six teams or whatever in America right now doing a tournament that goes all over and could be just smashing it to death it strikes me as short team thinking that they haven't done that because they've won in Asia and won in America and that takes care of the teams are going because there's Liverpool West Brom Crystal Palace and obviously Liverpool are the big draw over there so you go to America and if you've got like you can have I don't know you can have like swans here there at the moment but you can have like but who's to say you get the top eight so anyone who knows and it'll sound stupid but have you finished in the top eight you're in this tournament and then obviously say we were in it we could say this somewhere like we don't want to be in it because we've got UEFA commitments so we can't and they go to the next one and you get a wedge for it you get a wedge for it you go on FIFA pre-season but imagine you went over imagine you went over Premier League you set up in let's say you set up in like one city for a day and then you go somewhere else three or four cities as well and for those two days that you're there there's open training sessions there's coaching training sessions with coaches from the clubs there's like meet and greets with players or ex players there's like a Premier League roadshow thing which we've seen in other countries at different times you've got all the mating dice in there as well come on it would be huge event and I'm very surprised that the Premier League haven't jumped over there's no another brand the UEFA Champions League brand grab six teams who are going to be in the Champions League and go right we're going to go I don't understand whether I'm not doing this whether they don't want to be involved or whether the the Champions League one might be a little bit too far but the Premier League one because all the clubs would be like most of them anyway some of them might say no we want to do our own thing and we'll make more money but you can't tell me if you didn't take any eight Premier League teams to America in an organised tour that it wouldn't do very very well finally before we wrap it up Pep Guardiola has come out basically said what we've said many times about the transfer window shutting before the first game of the season in favour should be if the season starts on start on a Friday this year then it should be shut on the Wednesday and as far as I'm concerned then everyone knows where they are there's no missing about there's no unrest for the couple of weeks so that'll be like the 9th of August with shut yeah I think it should everyone knows the 9th of August then it's deadline then that sky it'll get the city little yellow tide and all that but we need to still get all of the hype and everything around it but then you know them when that shuts it midnight that you're squattled but you know them for the next four months that's our team on day one but in three weeks he might be there it's really uncertain I don't understand why unless it's just because the rest of Europe won't fall in line with it but then some windows are open when I'll shut anyway do you know what I mean some still open even though I was a shuffer I don't know I just think the more it's starting to pick up a little bit of momentum I think the more people that talk about it the more likely it is to come in but it's a no brain to me I think it should be shut and then everyone can go right with the player and me I suppose the only reason is because and it's only a small reason if you're in the Champions League or the Europe League qualifiers and you don't make it into the Champions League and you feel like then you need to sell somebody to compensate but then that's life isn't it you could have that player and need to sell him in January because you've gone out in the creeps I just think for the sake of because we always say the season doesn't really start until September because then you know what your squad is get into the international weekend the windows are shut and you know what your squad is when they come back and that's when the league really starts picking up so fully in favour of it Let us know in the comments section below any of the stories we've talked about today give us your opinion you normally do and we love it Thanks for watching the footage I'll see you soon on Toffy TV