 It is the touch line here on Y2 for 400. It is that time for the fans on your fan favourites where we talk about some of the biggest matches that are coming up and joining me to discuss that is Ken Andrews who is here with me for the touch line and also after some time Eric Aganya is also back. Eric, we start with you. How you doing my brother? I'm good, I'm good my brother. How about you? I'm doing great. You can see man, you are a bit growing fat brother. Life is good. We thank God. The big question will be what has been your highlight of the week when it comes to sports? I don't think it has been a highlight as such. It has been a trolling of the week through the week after Manchester United were hit by Man City 63. Yes, I think it has been a tough week for me as a Manchester United fan because online the boys have drawn all over. But basically in the week we have been working also in the community in Kaha West with the MCA Dr. Clement Kamaru who is really working so hard to improve sports in Kaha West. And for the youth activities and to highlight the talents of young people in Kaha West. So that is basically what I have been doing throughout the week and we are committed to that course. That is a big improvement for us and we will see how we will be going to work. We need to talk to him. Yes, actually we need to bring him here because he is a guy who is really passionate about the young people. He is a guy who really wants to support the people of Kaha West and we want to bring in a leadership whereby the community, together with the leaders, they forge a way forward to create employment opportunities for young people. There is a field there we want to convert it into a camp-toilet style because I think that will attract so many sponsors and improve the economy of the area. So through Dr. Clement Kamaru I think Kaha West are in good hands and I think we should bring him here one of these fine days. We will work on that and we will talk about this new leadership and what they are going to do. We will talk about leadership and what are your thoughts when it comes to the CS nominee for sports Ababuna Muamba. What are your thoughts about him if he gets that chance to be the next Cabinet Secretary for Sports? I think if he gets the chance to do it, I think he will do a better job than his predecessor because I want to say his predecessor may be had no interest, so much interest in sports. But Ababu being young and being optimistic, him being young and him being passionate about sports, I think he will love to do some policy changes and also to inject new blood into sports industry in this country. So I am really optimistic unless now he disappoints us. I am optimistic that he will do better than his predecessor. Yes. Well a big one for sports. The vetting now will be coming away soon. The public has also been invited to send in their views considering the vetting and hopefully we will get a new CS from next month. We will be working on in the sports docket. Let's come back to Fanzon. Before we go international we have to talk about our very own John Obimikel coming on to his retirement. One of the greatest African players. Where do you rate John Obimikel? I think especially under Mourinho. His second stint from 2014 I think. Obimikel was really really good at that time. And also for Nigeria in the World Cups he's been a really really crucial part of the midfield because he had the tenacity. He was really a Mourinho style midfielder. He's African and he wanted to get the ball and to quickly switch it and play. So I think he's had a great career. He's won the Premier League, he's had appearances at AFKON, he's had appearances in the World Cups. So it's a deserved retirement. He gave it all out there and I wish him all the best as he retires. A story goes that John Obimikel signed for Manchester United, then after some talk he ended up at Chelsea. Is it true? I think he was eject on the way because I remember that story very well. It left some bitter taste in our mouth as Manchester United fans because he was at that particular time on top of his game and Manchester United needed a defensive midfielder. I don't know what really happened because he came at Carrington Training Center. He looked at everything, he was happy. He went back to his hotel for the documents to be signed. The next morning he's been announced by Chelsea. I think he was eject on the way but I think he could have been a really good acquisition for Manchester United because at that particular time Roy Keen was exiting. We needed to fill up that midfield. You see up to now Manchester United haven't had a good defensive midfielder up to now. That is a position that is still having problems on the field. He has done well. He's retired at an early age. If you look at Nigerian greats and African greats, for him being a midfielder you want to think the Olympics title, you want the youth silver medal in the World Cup I think at the under 17 level. What do you rate him in the African context when you look at the greats of JJ Okocha, Roger Miller, Obimikel. Where do you put him? If we put him now in Africa in general I think maybe we'll make the top 10 or top 20 because we have the likes of Samuel Leto, we have the likes of Didi Drogba who've done a lot, won more accolades than him both for country and club level. Maybe I'll put him in the around number 9, number 10 because we also have even in Nigeria itself he may be on the top 5 because we have the likes of Karnan Wangko, the likes of JJ Okocha, the likes of Sunday Ulise, Kachi. Great score. One of the best scores that Nigeria ever assembled takes me back to 96 and when they made the World Cup 98 in France, you look at that score with the likes of Taribu West, Emmanuel Amunike, Sunday Ulise. I remember the game against Spain. I sat to my mum and I told her, this is what we are watching. I remember that goal by Sunday Ulise from almost the midfield, the middle of the park. One thunderous shot goal, 3-2. Evatun at the moment and they are going to be playing Manchester United this weekend and it seems Lampard is making a good team out of Evatun because so far since he took over Evatun this season they have not been considering goals. They are centre backers communicating well. It seems to be the engine in that team. Now they will be going against Manchester United. Will they put a halt to Manchester United's momentum the way CT did? I think they can because if you look at Manchester United they haven't been scoring a lot of goals and look at Evatun, what they did in their transfer window. They brought in two really good English centre backs in James Takoski and Konakodi and they also brought in Onana in the midfield to try and stiffen that area of the park. Plus also their full back especially Paterson and Miko Lenko they have been really good in defending more than attacking. So I think Evatun can stop Man United but Man United right now it's never in a good place especially after they lose like that at Man City. So if they lose this game it's another crisis at Man United, the last ten hug. United have to perform well in that game but it will not be easy against an Evatun team which is looking really good this season. Eric, off camera before we came on set you were talking about Manchester United needs to trust the process. They need to trust the process. You look at Arsenal what they have been doing since Mikaela Cheta came in and also watching an interview of Jürgen Klopp this morning and they were saying that Arsenal is lucky to have got a coach who has been given time but I think given Klopp has been given time. Is that what also Manchester United needs when you talk about trusting the process? Oh yes, oh yes. I think off camera we are saying that Manchester United fans I myself included we need to lower our expectations and we look at Jürgen Klopp before he won anything he had for almost four years before he won anything. In his first season, what position did they finish? Look at Pep, in his first season did he win a trophy? No. You have to take time to change the mentality of the squad and personally I think ten hug requires at least two transfer windows. Maybe the January one and the summer one. He will have cleared out the people who don't fit his philosophy and brought in people who fit his philosophy. You look at the current squad that Manchester United have. Maybe there are three or four players that ten hug trusts. Yes. Three or four maybe. The rest he is gambling and that's why you are finding that they are blowing off cold and warm, hot and cold. If you look at the game against Man City, they weren't really overpowered but they made careless mistakes. Is it a case of like I also Maruina used to say respecting the opposition too much. Is it what United did because you look at the players like Sancho, Anthony. I think to me it's just lack of experience in the Premier League because if you look at Tyrell myself, some of him to be hooked off at half time he made some careless mistakes that he couldn't have made. Manchester United is not a team that is caught on the counter. Man City caught us on the counter I think twice that resulted in two goals. Manchester United is a team that catches people off guard on the counter. So I think it is just mistakes of lack of experience on the wing back and that's when you saw him bringing in Luke Shaw. Luke Shaw as much as he may not be on form but he has some experience in the Premier League. He knows that this ball will be placed this way. I have to mark this person because I saw one of the goals that Haaland scored. He was being marked by the whole of Manchester United team. And then there's nobody who has particularly been assigned to him because you don't assign Martinez to him. Look at the height. You need Varane. You see there's that aspect. Well Manchester United really the troubles that they are having but you look at Manchester United, you look at the place where they are then you look at Manchester City, you look at the level where they are. And one player for Manchester City was coming to that team and let's say changed the team or added some impetus into that thing has got to be Haaland. What a player he is for Manchester City. I think he is a totally amazing player because you know in the past I saw I read something somewhere that Pepl taught people in the Premier League that playing without a striker was just a tapping match and it wasn't the way to go but he bought Haaland was just always in the box. You can score all types of goals in the box and you see what he is doing and you know you have to give credit to the guys assisting him because everything that they brought into the box right now it just looks like Haaland will get on to it and score. Even Mahrez is on the bench this season a lot but imagine if he starts the game and he just calls everything in this left foot Haaland is there to finish and I think he already has 19 goals so what assigning for City. My question will be is this now the best unstoppable team for Pepl for Champions League football because in the Premier League you know it's a marathon, stops will come here and there but they look to go there and master the art of winning the Premier League. The thing will be now when it comes to knockout football in the Champions League with Haaland is that the team to beat. If he doesn't do it with Haaland this season then he forgets. There will be no other season because in the past you look at two seasons since Aguero left. He has not been having a number nine striker. Now he has a better version of Aguero in Haaland who is good in air, who is good with tapins. He is also good with his left foot he can shoot from a distance and I saw the other day he has the capability to pick the ball from the midfield. You see that is something that most number nine don't do and he has now feel for them who is now hitting top form. So if he doesn't do it I think he will have no excuse whatsoever because he has a balanced team. Last season he didn't have a number nine so you say maybe it cost him the season. And then the team now as Ken was saying they are playing to Haaland's strength and Pepl has now reorganized his team to play to Haaland's strength. And if Haaland is able to remain fit he will score a lot of goals. Narona can be sure but the problem now is is he able to remain fit? Look at his weight, look at his height. Is he able to remain injury free? When now they start playing three, four games, two games in a week the effect kicks in and everything. We will be able to remain injury free because if he remains injury free we will take care of his body properly. Then we will surpass the record that the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have set. Well talk about records and that's where the kid is because he has been scoring left, right and said I think 17 goals now he has in all competitions and he is going to look at that. But they will be kicking off again Southampton this afternoon at five after they are playing Southampton. And not a game that you will expect Haaland to perform at the top level for Man City. Yeah I think he will get a couple of goals but also you know Southampton have the new centre back Belakochap which will be a great battle to see between him and Haaland. But I expect City to comfortably win that game. Well this conversation about Haaland will not come to an end Eric because I know the way he is playing braces, heart tricks and the way they are going. But let's look ahead at some of the matches that will be coming away this afternoon. We have got Bournemouth, Aguiness Leicester, Chelsea versus Wolves, Man City, Southampton, Newcastle versus Brentford and then a big game there for us this evening will be bright on half versus Tottenham. But before we talk about that we are going to talk about Chelsea Wolves and Gary Potter taking over Chelsea. I have not heard about you because you have been missing in action. How do you know about Gary? Graham Potter is a wonderful coach and look at what he is being able to do at Brighton. Brighton they play nice football, they knock around, look at the way they are confident. What confidence for a middle team is unexpected. That is the confidence you expect with Man City. The only unfortunate thing about Graham Potter is that I know Chelsea will not be patient with him. But if they could have given him time and they give him resources he will have an amazing kind of football at Chelsea. They dominated everything. We have not seen that in a Chelsea game. They could defend and win one meal but they dominated everything and the Milan is not a pushover. Graham Potter is one great coach. Graham Potter for Chelsea and seems that Abu Mayang is starting to pick up his form in the Chelsea outfit. I think if you look at how he played against AC Milan he got an assistant goal. It was brilliant in that game. It is still early days because it is a new manager for him also. But I think he is just there. He looks like he wants to score a lot of goals to prove some points to maybe to Barcelona for letting him go and also in the Premier League. I think he will come good this season for Chelsea. Graham Potter is actually a coach for Chelsea. I think if he wins this one there will be three matches for him now that he is leading Chelsea who are likely to be called London Cowboys starting the 2024 season. But we will be waiting for that one. What is not performing well with Bruno Large and speculation that he might be fired from Wolves? Wolves are in trouble. In the last two years they have had three or four coaches. Since Nuno left they have had struggles. This is the third coach after Nuno left. That one now breaks the consistency because each coach and each technical bench when they come in they come in with their new methods. Coaching is just like teaching. When you have a change of teachers in school you are affected especially for crucial subjects like mathematics. The same applies to coaching. A coach will come in with his rules. A coach will come in with his methods. And then you are coming in to a team that doesn't have a big budget to buy. So the coach wants to use the available resources in the players. And the players will take a lot of time to adapt. And after adapting now there is another change again. So there is another adaption. So you see they will struggle the whole season. They will struggle the whole season. And then there will be another game. All these games will be actually coming at 5 pm. We will be following them up to talk about them. One game that we have to go to talk about is a big one. It will be a very good rivalry there between young managers Leicester going away to FC Bournemouth. That team that they actually fired the Scott Parker now. Bournemouth against Leicester. Two teams that are actually in the relegation zone there. Leicester managed to get their first win last weekend. But Brandon Rogers, can he steer the ship out of relegation even come back to the top ten for Leicester? I think he can. Because this is definitely a good fixture for him after getting the moral boosting win on Mandi. And for him to do it, Mandi Sonu will be key because the type of form is hit in the season. The whole team hasn't been performing well but he has been doing well personally. And I think them playing against Bournemouth that has also had its own troubles at the start of the season. It's a really good fixture for Leicester and I'd expect Leicester to get the win in that game. What about you Eric Leicester Bournemouth? Big one. But I think Leicester are starting to redefine themselves. Mandi Sonu is doing amazing. I was looking at his stats and I was wondering why is he not in the England team? He needs to be there because if you look at his stats you compare with the likes of the people like Grilish Mount is way way miles ahead. So I think Leicester will take the day today. Let me put that talking point for later because England is another team for work after this. But is that came from Borussia Dortmund? Jude Bellingham. You can enjoy the way that kid is playing. At such a young age and also captain in Borussia Dortmund, the future is bright for him. I think not even looking at the kid, let us look at Borussia Dortmund and what Dortmund is able to produce in these kids. Haaland Borussia Dortmund. Look at the confidence they give to these kids because when Haaland was living more there to Borussia Dortmund it was not as good as it is today. He left Borussia Dortmund having scored 85 goals in 87 matches. Look at that. Look at now Jude Bellingham. He went to Borussia at the age of 17. He is now in the English team. The confidence this kid has. I think Borussia Dortmund are doing some wonderful job. Let's finish off the touch line with one game that will be happening at 7.30. That will be Tottenham vs Brighton. Bad outing for Tottenham last weekend against Arsenal but they got a bounce back against Brighton. Yes, they have to and it's a tricky fixture for them because Brighton also brought in a manager Robato Dejabi because manager who knows how to create a playing style he did it at Sassuolo and also at Shakta so it's a bad time for Tottenham to be playing them. Even though the manager switched Brighton already had a groove of playing so it would be a tough for them. If you look at Tottenham they were blunt against Arsenal and also during the Champions League game against Frankfurt they were also blunt. They want to score. It looks like it's really defensively set up. They are not being let off the leash for them to go at teams despite having players who can tear defences apart. So it's a big one for Conte because now the criticism will be on him if they cannot score the number of goals people expect them to score with that attack. Well for you Eric let's very briefly finish off the segment Brighton Tottenham. What will you be putting in your mind? I'm banking on Brighton on this one. Tottenham are still rediscovering themselves when they're blowing hot and cold and I think Brighton are playing some good football and the confidence is there. If they have other kids scoring three goals in the next game the confidence there, the groove is there. So they'll cause Tottenham problems. But the highlight will be Liverpool Arsenal 12. We have forgotten about that one. Okay tell me if I put you on the spot to give a prediction on that one between Arsenal and Liverpool which one will you go for? As much as I would hate to give it to Arsenal statistically they are going to win tomorrow. I hate to say this but they are playing good football. For you? I will say it but I want Liverpool to win. Liverpool Arsenal will come back next weekend with these two to talk about that one because time is not on our side. We also have another interview with also the chairman of the Kenya Beach Volleyball Commission Mr. Moses in Bude is here in studio with us. Let's finish up there for the fans until next time and Robert Russell when we come back it will be all about beach volleyball.