 Welcome to Toffy TV and it's the footy show daily we are here to talk about footy and guess what from tonight there's just footy it's just everywhere, it's like that sketch football, football, football it's like there's the Spanish football tonight there's German football over the weekend more Spanish football next week the Premier League returns I think the Copper Italia, it is football, football, football now so it's in the next seven days it's all back, well we've got the latest Covid test for the Premier League and we've retained one positive test across players and staff so I think there's been 13 positive tests since six rounds of tests and 6,200 tests 61 negative tests so in the Premier League I'm delighted with those results that there's only been 13 returned and whoever the person is who's tested will self actually leave for seven days now but obviously it's coming right at the start isn't it so they haven't said that it's a player yet if it is they missed the start of the season you know that but they'll be delighted with that you know those tests and the results they've had back from it especially you know cos let's be honest we've all trained as they've gone away the players are getting tested then they're going back home to the families and then they're coming back into training and then they're going back you know as they've gone away but so far it seems to have worked so far so good isn't it they've obviously been taking all the precautions and obviously we are still in that phase aren't we we're still I know life seems like it's getting a lot back to normal and Monday we'll feel even more so with the opening of shops and stuff but a lot of people are still working from home there's less people on public transport and if you're not coming into contact with people that's good though isn't it because it's given it's given like the NHS and having a real like bit of a breed and now they're still in it and there's lots of people but it's allowing them to stay you know in control almost they've got the right way but we're still in the first wave aren't we but just at the tail end of the first wave I mean that doesn't mean there's not going to be a second wave but when people go back and obviously they'll have to monitor it then kids are not going to go back, the kids are not going back no already so they've done well but they've brought out the protocols of what's going to happen this is obviously what goes on at the stadium we aired this four weeks ago when Germany come back of all the things so they've decided that 300 people is the maximum allowed at the stadium that's obviously both the teams and the officials and then you've got scouts that are allowed in you've got media some written and stuff and then you've got obviously the medical staff and cameras and you know when you add all those people up it doesn't take much to get to 300 really which you know with the players and everything especially with the more subs and everything else like that so they've all come out those things so they cover every aspect they've done a ton of pitch conduct, a ton of areas, red zones where only the players are the only ones allowed to go so I mean they seem to be doing everything that they can which is good because obviously what we want is it's coming back we want it to come back as safely as it possibly can and again we said this the other week using Germany is almost like the roadmap you know we've seen we've both watched the game of football reading around it it seems to the problem seems to be okay with it there's not been positive tests and everything people haven't been popping up with it since and everything seems to have gone okay and that's close contact and all of the things that were worrying and concerned and people so I think the Premier League will be confident and players will be a bit more confident a given the result and be seeing all of the protocols but it will feel weird for those players going back and getting your mind flipped to game mode again I think only now when I watch the German football you can see the intent as he's gone up a little bit from even though the quality was decent in the first weekend I think the intent as he's better now from the players obviously fitness. Match fitness isn't that supposed and I think probably confidence as well as like we can go on and what we are seeing the first week it was all that when he's gone out of like Robin Edds and doing all that they soon slipped but one thing the Premier League I've said which was out there's not going to be any buttons are spitting and they did say that immediately they would be so I think they kind of realised that at times players do forget don't you and you forget and you will forget so and you know it's things like that you just say to people can you if you can try not to but booking them just seems like a really sort of tisiously they can like you know booking just seems like a really strange step but you know we've seen Gwlyshin parks being getting covering on all the gates and stuff today to make sure you can't see into so obviously clubs all over the country will be following that same kind of protocol make the stadium as private as possible I mean you know don't give anyone any excuse to try and turn up at the stadium because that'll be the first thing won't it. I believe in terms of neutral grounds there's only one in the first three now which is the Manchester City vs Liverpool game and I imagine that decision again probably won't be taking so close at the time where there you know if Liverpool are the champions by then then maybe they'll decide to play at the Etude maybe if Liverpool can win at that night then maybe it'll be at a neutral venue but then I don't know would you imagine I don't know Manchester City probably will play this anywhere I suppose but you don't know do you really don't they still think there's a chance. If you're a city fan and Liverpool can win at the Etude, would you be bothered going to the Etude because if I was a city fan I'd be thinking we've won it the last two years we're brilliant but we'll probably win it next year because we won't dip as much as we have this year. It'll be tight obviously because Liverpool will be up there but I'll be confident we'll win it next year. I'm just going to stay out the way. Is it the city fans they're worried about? Listen I don't want to cast a space on anyone and predict what anybody will do but I mean Liverpool are they really going to travel to the Etude? I could see more Liverpool fans coming to Anfield and that's a celebrate. I've already said it this week I think it's a bit late in the game now I think as a country we've already shot our balls and you know in terms of I mean let's be honest Liverpool will have won it by then. You'd imagine so. You'd expect at the moment you'd expect them to probably beat Evan and they will be Christopher Palace of Anfield again you'd expect it I mean you know what you might say. Surely as a Liverpool fan that's the night they'd want to win it at Anfield home. That makes the most sense. That makes the most sense out of everything in life ever. No I think they would want to win it at Anfield if it was Everton going for it. Where would you rather? You'd probably say Anfield now but if Everton could win it at Anfield or win it back it good. I think I'd rather win it at home. Because especially the first one after 30 years for them I think they'd want to win it at the home. I mean it's set up to be that isn't it. Therefore City of Liverpool is an exhibition game then isn't it because Liverpool have already won it. City and the Champions League it's irrelevant where they're going to finish runners up so that would then negate any neutral. But as we said before though it's really fun tonight. It ain't going to stop for about a month now. There's going to be so much football in three, four different countries now. You're going to be taking out any of the league or the stuff you're going to have a look at and say you're my boss. I'm like yeah I mean I'll probably put on for the educational purposes of this show just to see what, what, what. It's fascinating to see how different countries deal with it. Germany has an efficiency about that. The Premier League have also got that kind of efficiency but also they will look to do with all the bells and whistles. I did see a thing the other day. It was from the Spanish football and they were some I had been developing with FIFA about the crowd noises. See what the league are trying to do, I've noticed this. Most people who follow football probably will have noticed it. Is the league really trying to improve their brand but away from Barcelona and Real Madrid. And we've seen this when they're trying to take games to America. They're trying to improve their brand completely. They've got the likes and laughter to come with it in there as well and they've got now sort of, as much as people talk about Real Madrid and Barcelona, they've got healthy competition for the top four. You've got Seville. You've had smaller teams. Catafe have had a good season. You've got, you know, they've had teams continually challenging for the Europa League as well. I think they're trying to improve that brand so it'll be interesting to see how they start and it's little things as well by the way which people don't always see is things like the Premier League have done for years. So we have like uniform like names and numbers on the back of the shirt so it's not like just a free-for-all and the badges. This is something like the league have brought in and now the French leagues are bringing that in next year. You can't just have your own name and number. You can only have one of three, I think, fonts. And it's all these little branding things and this is where Spanish football have been trying to get better. So that's where I'll be really intrigued to see how they come back to uniform at the league because I think when you look at a league and you see almost each club doing their own thing and it feels like there's not that organisational strength at the top, it goes against the league. It'll be interesting to see how the league have come back and whether it's not just Barcelona and Real Madrid just doing everything brilliantly and everyone else is a bit wishy-washy. I think that'll be interesting as well and just seeing how different leagues do it as they come back. The strength and the handling as a league, the Premier League is 80% high, let's be honest, but it's marked brilliantly by people who've built this brand up, get the most money out of all the countries despite the technical ability of other countries being much better than the Premier League in games and stuff. It'll be interesting to see whether the league can catch up. But what you take on, the league are coming back even before the Premier League and with Serie A, because obviously Spain were hit really hard with Covid. I know we've had the most, but so did Italy as well. What Spain and Italy did though is they went hard on the lockdown and we spoke to Kevin Ratcliffe and I know speaking to, we spoke to Simon Hart last week, we spoke to different people and it's just like we couldn't leave our houses for any reason, whereas this country still felt like there was a bit of a jovial sort of, stay in your house. We've noticed in the last few weeks that the minute that fell apart, it really has fallen apart, whereas in Spain and Italy, they didn't allow that to fall apart. The strictness meant that people knew and it was almost like you've gone from being massively strict to not almost back to normal, but because you've had it really bad for so long, we will bring Italy, you've got the cafes and restaurants coming back and stuff like that. So they've had proper prevention and now life's getting back to normal quicker and I think that's the same, that'll be the same with football. It's like you've had it hard so now we're coming back, whereas it seems to us like we've just been dripped and dripped and dripped and dripped and it's all fell apart now. We haven't had it anywhere near as hard as these other countries have and you can see that in the depths as they are now. So I think they're ready for it. Portugals are ready back, isn't it? We've seen Porto fans travelling to familiar car last week and being on the roof and being on the roof of the stand in this week's game and all of that. So I think people are ready and now a lot of people disagreed with football coming back, but a lot of people are ready for it, want to see it and want the distraction of it, I guess, because I think what it does is it makes people feel, some people feel like things are normal again, even though they're not. But that little bit of normality and it's okay for, we've been lucky. Our job allows us to come in and we've been together for the whole thing through this and we've gone home and we've come back in here. But a lot of people, some people have been just stuck in their house. People are still now, still having to shield that can't go out. And for people who have maybe haven't been able to go to work, it's work from home, being stuck in their houses or even go out and exercise, walk around and come back home, but there's no real normal. You can't go to pub and have a pint. People can't even do that. Can't go to a restaurant and have a meal. So what's one of the things that helps them feel is though things are back to normal and that is putting the telly on and watching football and you just said there's a lot of football coming back now and I think for a lot of people, morale and stuff like that will be picked up a little bit and people will start to think things are, because I've noticed a lot of people as well on social media struggle with mental health because of all this. I'm not saying football is the big, it solves everything of course, it doesn't and there'll be people who still disagree with that and I know they do, but there'll be a large number of people who are absolutely delighted that it's coming back. It's a background distraction isn't it? It's something there that signals to people even if they're not watching it, that life is getting back to normal. It's the same with when other things open, people don't feel, it sounds stupid but we've heard that zoos and safari parks are opening. You might go to a zoo or a safari park. Why wasn't a safari park open just out of no idea? Because if you go in your car, say like you and your missus went in your car, you went in your car and you had to get out. I don't know what just went because it's outside isn't it? But even stuff like that at times should be you might not go to those things but I just think that the idea that they're open means that to people like life is getting back to normal a little bit and certainly getting better than what it has been. That's it and it feels like, and I don't know, if there's more zoos and safari parks open and the beaches might be a little bit more, do you know what I mean? No, it sounds stupid but if there's more things for people to do, then those places might be less. The things like the beaches is, as long as you take your rubbish by the way, don't leave your rubbish like a lot of people have. If you go to a beach and sat away from people, if you go socially distanced and you have a disabled part though isn't it? That's the difference. If there's more things to do, then there's more people who will go more diverse places and maybe that makes people feel a little bit easier. If someone who's been stuck in the house might say, listen I want to go to a park for a nice walk and then they go for the get there and find it's absolutely chocolate because that's the only place everyone can go. Just before we get back onto football, with this break from football, as it made you realise that football is more important to you or less important to you than what you thought probably in February. I can't honestly say I've missed it that much. But just on the back of that, football hasn't been taken away from me. No one came and said football's never coming back. They just said it was on hold. So we've been prepared if it's a comeback. So it's just felt like, to me it's just felt like pre-season. So it's not like, I'm not missing it because I knew it was coming back. If that makes sense, it's the same with anything. It's just how you think about things and the way I've looked at it was a thing that needed to happen and football was going to come back. But if someone had said football's never coming back then obviously you have a different sense then. It's something that's taken off. To me it's just been like, it'll be back, it'll be back and it's coming back now. That's the way I've been thinking about it. Obviously it's step by step because the next thing will be the stadium stuff and that's not going to be for a while. So it is going to be interesting seeing how the other leagues do though. That is like what's it like, how's it looking. Even from a visual perspective isn't it what Spain looking like? And they're going to try to do what Germany have done and put flags on. I mean I know it's just brightening my cell in those, the car book of 2020 and people are buying them so they're going to try and have them in the stadium. I think there's the league that's staggered on all their games as well. So individual kick-offs as well. So that's what the Premier League should do really. Well the Premier League aren't they? When you look at some of the games though, like on a Saturday, some of the free play. I haven't looked at all of them but that's in the first part of the thing anyway. Just before we move on, a couple of more stories. Delhi Ali has been suspended for one game. He's going to miss Tottenham vs Manchester United due to something he put on Snapchat in February or March. It was when Covid had just been people were riding in the bus. It was a derogatory towards Asian. He made some comments all of an impression. But it clearly shows the climate we're in that the Premier League have just gone your band mate. I think the more that that happens. Premier League footballers, people in general, but Premier League footballers because they're role models. Whether people like that or not, they are role models. They need to have responsibility for their actions. They need to be accountable for their actions. And that then has to filter down onto social media for normal people. But the thing about that is that that kind of thing might be funny to him for about two minutes. But he has to live with the consequences for the rest of his life. And for him, I'm glad the FA have took that stance. And I think we need more of this now in football to say listen, we spoke about it with Kevin Campbell last week. It's time now where football associations national and international have to start really coming down now and saying enough's enough for if there's any races in them or anything you do that brings the game into dispute. Or it's derogatory to other humans. No, financially, it doesn't really matter anymore. Start hating them where it really matters, which is don't let them play football. It's as simple as that. They won't do it again. And you know what, they'll start thinking twice about what they put down on social media. And maybe they'll start to realise that social media is a tool that can be used for good. And you do see that, but listen, Marcus Rashford, Jesus Christ, he's absolutely smashing life at the moment when it comes to helping people. And trying to make things happen. Trying to get in touch with the government to get things going on, like helping people. 21 or so. He's got a social consciousness, he understands, but he understands the power of social media when it comes to that. Where his mate Lingard has used it very, very differently. And you've seen different characteristics of people. Listen, that happens in football. No, I'm not. One uses it to show how much he enjoys life. And the other one's using it because he's obviously being brought up. His parents have probably brought him up that way, or his friends, the group he's in, his friends. They've probably got that command, and he's using it absolutely. But I think what they've all got to realise, and so my delias got to realise, is that social media is still relatively new tool. And it's always evolving, whether it be Twitter one minute, Snapchat the next, TikTok the next. I think the people who work for the FN stuff, they probably find it hard to keep up with all this different stuff coming from. And it's... Some young people in there. But I just think that it's a case of start leaning the less, use it for good and don't, because it'll last. But I think the more that those people do use it more responsibly, then that will filter down to other people. Not everyone, obviously, in people who use it for different things. But you know, you make an example of... If you find them, things. That's where you're at now. Let's move on. Last story, Leroy Sarnay. Obviously, by and me they've been chasing them for over a year now. Obviously, his injury looked like it had paid to him going. But City apparently wants 62 million for him. By and offered 40 million euros, which is a lot for them, really. Especially in these times. City have turned it down. They want closer to 70 million euros for him. He's a fantastic player. I mean... Guardiola doesn't play me enough for me when he's fit. And now he's had the injury that we had in the charity show last season against Liverpool. I'm just being out since, but he's fit again, I think. He wants to apparently go back to Germany and play for By and me. And they've got to come up with a fee, but... I mean... We're talking about a time when a lot of clubs have... Struck not. Struggling is right. We've said this before. They bring in a lot of money for both clubs, but they do run close to the line with it. A lot comes in, a lot comes out. A lot of the clubs... Big deals that they have are dependent on full stadiums and other things, kickers that they get from it. And so, at a time when people are saying transfer fees need to be come down with the waste and too much money on... Transfer fees are paying players too much money machine. Clubs take wigs, the ferals and Tottenham taking 170 million... 105 million pound loan to get through this period. City are obviously very cash rich, cash rich. I want 62 million for them and that. Listen, it's day of play, they don't want to sell them, they'll do this. No, he's under control. He hasn't a long left though. No, I thought he had a year left, but I can't because there's no way buying an offer. Maybe he's got two left on his deal. But I just think in this climate now... I think we have to be as football clubs. We have to be more realistic. We've seen Liverpool going to be the champions pulling away from a deal because it was £49 million. Surely those city will be thinking we're going to have to replace him. We've also got FFP worries. And also, if this European ban does happen, they're going to have to replace a brilliant player with someone who won't be able to win Euro for two years. Then just say he's not going. It's all very well saying. We want him to stay because of this, this and this. But if you give us 60 million... But don't you almost have to, for the player, be like, well listen, this is how much we value. They clearly don't... It's that thing again though, isn't it? It's that imagine the day again. And I've said this before, until something changes in terms of... See, I would actually think he was waved more than 62 million. A he's a fantastic footballer, but then the same players have pulled Pogbaer apart and he's valued at £36 million, when he was valued at £90 million in January. Maybe people are getting a bit more realistic about how... I don't know, I don't know, let us know your thoughts, what's on and where. I mean, I can't think of how good Bayern Munich would have become if they brought him. But they don't even need him. They've got Nabri and Alfonso Davies. They'd be like the fastest team in the world if they brought him. If they brought him, they could. Yeah, that would take them. Then potentially they would go into the Bracharawin and Champions League, I think, because they've got how you turn a team round in two years, or a year, or even a year. I mean, half the man has to do that because they haven't sold massively out. I think all they did was, they just got rid of all the old plays and started playing all the young plays, and that's it. That's all it was, the young plays were coming through, and they didn't quite get that crossover. You've got like Alfonso Davies from Vancouver Whitecaps and didn't cost a lot, and they've got Kingsley Coleman as theirs anyway, wasn't it? They have came, it's just gone into midfield. Do you know your thoughts on Sana? Are you excited for the return of the league tonight as well, and anything else you spoke about? Don't forget you can watch this show live if you join us over on the page and the link is in the description. Give this video a like, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already, and we will catch you tomorrow on The Footie Show Daily. We've got a bit of a special. See you later.