 It is the fan-favourite segment, the fans on the touchline, where we are speaking about international football with regards to what is happening, international friendlies, Eurocup qualifiers, UEFA Nations League, unfortunately England didn't qualify through to the final, of course Portugal and Holland meeting in the final after, of course, they cruised through beating both Switzerland and England respectively and joining me on this particular platform is the panelist to take us through the same Josaina, is equally an England fan like myself and going through plenty of predicaments, man United not performing very well, lying six will be playing Thursday night football, England at the same time it's not coming home man, what's happening to the mighty three Lions, are they three kittens? No, no, no, at least now we have the women's World Cup which started yesterday and we are hoping for a positive view from that, obviously there's a lot to talk about that game, it was a disappointing game. Disappointing game, Jijomondi asports generalist also joining us, it's been a while man, have you been? I've been good. Everything is kukankari, right? Yeah, I can't complain that much. And Osor Robert is also still with us, Eden Hazard with regards to Matas transfer is already officially joined Los Blancos of Real Madrid, big blow to Chelsea football club or they anticipated that to happen? It's not a big blow, this is something that they expected, it was premeditated because he announced after the last year's World Cup that he wanted to move to Madrid which has been his long time dream for Makidia. And you see the Madrid and Barcelona train only passes once, so it goes and you don't get on board to migrate in future, these are the biggest clubs in the world with the biggest history, so with him going to Spain is going for a new adventure and maybe he wants to win new stuff because there's nothing new at Chelsea he needs to win, maybe the champions will go on. In the past to end up was associated with a move to Man United, it was such a privilege but nowadays it's not. Well, the performance of the last couple of seasons can determine a lot in terms of transfer windows at one to also the qualification for continental football. So if you look at Barcelona, Real Madrid, PSG, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, if you look at now Man City, look at Liverpool in this continental football, this prestige that comes with that move, so obviously it's going to be a big deal. But unfortunately for the likes of Manchester United, likes of Arsenal, Marseille, you're looking at the lower tier of hybrid clubs, likes of AC Milan. It's going to be a problem to attract this big time players. Is that the same reason Man United has already netted the services of a little known Daniel James from Swansea? I think Manchester United can still attract whoever player that they want. It is that these players now at the moment like Joe Saino said they don't have the ambition to come to Manchester United because Manchester does not give them the caliber of football that they want. But for those of this club like Manchester United, AC Milan, Arsenal, they are still living in the past. You see like Manchester United all the time that they fail, everybody is up and saying that we don't play like this, we need to be playing like this, we need to go back to the fagason kind of football, the best kind of football we watched was fagason. But now it has changed. You need to have a manager who comes in and places his own brand of football that will guarantee you success. If Liverpool were still saying that we need the Kenny Douglas kind of football, we need the Robbie Fowler kind of football, they cannot have won the Champions League. They brought in a coach who just came in and said, these I want my team to play, these are the kind of players I want and look at where they are. If Manchester goes on doing that, they are going to fail. For Real Madrid and Barcelona, when they say, Joe, are you coming to Banabo? It's now or never. It's done. They are not going to wait for you. George said that for you to come in next time and say, last time is not work, I need it now. The moment they say it's jam, you ask how high. George, you read from the same script with them? We have suffered a lot since Faji left. He is a guy who had a philosophy of nurturing kids from the academy and maybe buying some not so big names and nurturing them into big players. But since he left, they have fumbled a lot with new coaches, coming up with new ideas that don't really work from Van Gogh to Mourinho to Ryan Giggs also tried and now Socia. You see, Socia has to come up with his own plan and a system just like Robata said. They have to suffer more because it will take maybe 2 to 3 more years to maybe come back at par with the likes of Madrid and even Man City. We know about them, the likes of Madrid, Barcelona and other big sides. So it will take time but they have to take one line and then just like Klopp did with Liverpool, it took long, he lost two major finals but in the long run he made it. And right now he lost only the league via a single point and I'm sure next season he'll be garnering for it. That's the biggest thing he's going for right now after the over 20 years spell. After the conclusion of Yofa Champions League football, that's final between Liverpool and Spas of which the latter won by 2-0. There has been huge build up as far as transfer window is concerned. Teams getting associated with whom they prefer signing and even the actual signings happening like that of Eden Hazard from Chelsea football club to Santiago. Banabu Daniel James from Swansea to Man United but overall what do you make of the bigger up? I think it's going to become bigger. Obviously right now you're getting the smaller clubs making those first transfers a bit cheaper so that you can get over and down with before the pre-seasons. But for these major clubs like Manchester United yesterday released 18 players. Out of the 18 players only two were senior players. That being Anda Herrera and Atoni Valencia. So you'd see them now going for those smaller sort of transfers but if you look at people like Real Madrid, Jovic and Hazard. If you look at Bruce Hedokmond again making the two signings. Toga and Hazard. Yes. If you're a manager you'd want to settle this quick and fast so that by the time the pre-season starts obviously you have a team that you can gel with. However media comes into the play. The board also comes into the play when they need to sign the player that they want to sign. Also managers like now Muruchisari having this talks with juventus, a possible juventus managerial position. So again it varies. But for the smaller teams definitely they get it done quicker. Are you going to speak about something that happened in midweek? I watched both games in Portugal again in Switzerland. Of course Cristiano Ronaldo doing what he knows doing better. Replicating his club and glittering format juventus for the national side. Of course that sparking, eliciting that debate that has existed before with regards to who between Ronaldo and Messi is better. Because when it comes to national team performance Messi doesn't do better for Argentina and like Ronaldo as he did for Portugal as far as UEFA Nations league is concerned. Holland against England. Holland talking about the orange. Of course they missed out in 2018 World Cup and even at some Euro Cup tournament. But the rebuilding looks like it's been splendid because they raised the occasion and performed very better. Ahead of the final set for tomorrow. Portugal against Netherlands. Where do you put your money? Well it's a tough one there because Portugal you've got Netherlands, a young team that is coming up with great young players playing good football, the total football that everybody used to talk about and it's a good one for them. But Portugal comes in with the experience of playing at a final at a Calibra tournament. The last time Netherlands on a big final was back in 2010 when they lost to Spain in the World Cup in South Africa. But now they have been out of the game, they have been out of two Euro championships, they have been out of two World Cup championships. Now they are coming back. The good thing is they have rebuilt and they have a team but this team still has a long way to go. For Portugal they won their Euro, the current Euro that everybody is talking about is in the hands of Portugal. They have got experienced players who raised to the occasion and above it all they have got Cristiano Ronaldo. So with those kind of factors that they have at them I'll go for Portugal in this European fight. Can we say this is the best ever Portugal squad? Of course we had the likes of Anderson, Deco, Luis Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo then Luis Nani. But we have the likes of Young Taxi Jawa Felix, we have William Cavallo at the mid Bruno Fernandez. The experienced Bruno Menes is also at the back, Pepe. Can we say this is the best ever squad for Portugal? Well I might not be in a position to say about that because I have not watched a lot of Portugal's past games but I can say they have done their best. They have brought Portugal to the map because back in the day Portugal played in this. I think 74 World Cup with likes of Yusebio. That was the best export that Portugal ever had up until now that we have Cristiano Ronaldo. But then again it is a good group of players that have done their best to bring Portugal to where it is at the moment. Gigi your thoughts with regards to UEFA Nations League. Englands fielded a completely different squad from whom they played during the World Cup. Guarded Southgate, where did he go wrong? Well this is a game that England played so well. The only blunder they did is in the defence. Only two blunders they were punished terribly. Because they played so well, they were holding on. I think they were either headed to penalties or even maybe winning it in extra time. But the kind of goals they considered leaves a lot to desire. And then another blunder that ensured the Dutch got a 3-1 win. What has that been said? Inglanda have not reached any major finals since 1966. So they have to fight more harder and avoid such blunders. Because when it comes to the semifinals and the finals there is no rehearsal. It is what you do in the 90 minutes that will lead you to the title. So they didn't play that but it's only the blunders that can be rectified. And maybe they have a better chance in the next season. I'm sure they'll do better. And talking about Portugal and Holland, the Dutch are coming up so well. I look at a delete at the back with Van Dijk. A very experienced defender who was just on the Champions League and a very young coming budding defender who reached the same ease. So apart from that they have better players like Dijon and former Manchester man Deliblinde. And Memphis De Pye. De Pye who is coming up so well. So the Dutch are also good and it's going to be a very good final. Because with the Dutch having a strong defense and a better midfield. Up front and maybe the younger player Jua Felix. But the biggest blunder for Portugal is their defense. They are main and doing. Paper is 35 and Rebedo is 34. If you give them the younger players maybe one on one, maybe coming up. They may be good in experience but when it comes to pace and maybe creativity, their means have reached them. So maybe a formist temporary class is permanent and experience still remains. Because we saw yesterday when Spain played fairer islands they beat them forward and one man was on the scoresheet as well is Sergio Ramos the Real Madrid defender. So we can as well say experience is also key when it comes to even national football assignments. It does because if you look at it from hindsight England failed because of the same reason you just mentioned right now. Experience in the midfield. We had figure and death, we had Rose Buckley and we had Declan Rice. Declan Rice has been brilliant for Western United. But if you look at the same setup that Holland had made with De Jong and with Jijiwan Adam who just won the Champions League if you look at the defense, the late and then again Virgil van Dijk. What Garret Southgate was trying to play was trying to play from the back. There's only been one English team that has done that successfully this season and its success has been shown which is Manchester City. Pep Guardiola has formed that basis of playing from the back the same way he's been doing it with Bayern Munich the same way he's been doing it with Barcelona. Garret Southgate is getting an English team that is used to the English way of playing. Long ball defend and counter and now to play from the back. And that was the undoing. That's why John Stones had those two errors. That was the undoing. You cannot play from the back if you're not used to it. John Stones has been playing from the back with the likes of Otamendi with the likes of Vincent Company but has not been playing from the back with Harry Maguire because Harry Maguire has been playing a long ball with Leicester City. So the difference is big and that was the undoing in that game. The question I had when I saw that with Garret Southgate is you are going on to a critical stage of the competition and you are allowing players to go home because Nikola Stump is ground with Henderson the captain of Liverpool. Yes, you have won the UEFA Champions League. You are going to celebrate with your team but I need you in camp because you are my best player in Euros and there is no way I'm going to let you out. Eric Dyer, where was he? He should have made it to the team so in selection might be a problem because you brought in players who have not played together for a long time and the success of your team was with other players who are not in the team. Because if you look at the game they played against Croatia that they won at Wembley if you look at the same team that played in the semifinals of the World Cup again against Croatia 3 at the back, there was that unity. This time obviously the selection process was a bit absurd I have to say not disregarding that these players are brilliant they are brilliant is just that the selection was a bit absurd because having Henderson and Ruben Loftestik in the midfield at least you have some security in that but Declan Rice, Fabian Delph yes Delph won the Premier League with Man City but do you see him as a defensive midfield? I don't. Yesterday FIFA Women's World Cup kicked off though low key but it did and France of course beating Korea Republic and today several fixtures are on card as we speak of course our African counterparts South Africa will be playing against Spain and German against China Republic another fixture of course will beat between Norway and Nigeria but how come women's world cup can't match the standards of what we witnessed in Russia a few months ago come on, come on people need to know that as much as we talk about equality and I want to apologize that I may not be quoted out of context as much as we talk about feminism we talk about equality between men and women the women football has come a long way but it's still got a long way to go the level of investment in the men's game is a lot and the men's game is not where it is today because it started yesterday it started a long time ago so the women's game is just catching up to what the men's game has been sports all over the world has majorly been male dominated but now we are getting women coming into sport yes we embrace them yes we accept them yes they should be there but it will take time for them to get to where they are actually one of the teams that we have to be proud of has got to be Banyana Banyana of South Africa because it is the first time that they are making it women's world cup so that's a big plus for African teams a team like Starlitz when they look at Banyana Banyana they say that's where we are supposed to be that's our caliber that's the class where we are supposed to be so Banyana Banyana is a big plus for Africa and for South Africa to making to women football and actually to the FIFA World Cup you realize the teams that usually are in the women's FIFA World Cup the traditional suspects France, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Korea so for Africa with Banyana Banyana we have to say we are trying Nigeria, they are there, Cameroon, they are there but we still have got a lot of work to do to get them there is it high time the Rambe Starlitz also emulate on the African women counterparts in Nigeria and Banyana Banyana of South Africa and qualify to these global showpieces because they are on the verge of qualifying to African cup of nations the women's version but during the last minute Guinea Bissau, their petition going through and therefore Kenya couldn't make it to the African showpiece is it high time now they also qualify to the World Cup Starlitz have the pay degree of making it all the way but we have to look at the kind of support we are giving them now if to look at the women's league it's in shambles because most of the matches are postponed because the players decided not to play the FIFA cash has not been reimbursed into their accounts the players are suffering they are not being paid, they are just playing for passion this is something that we only look at the KPL but we live along the women's KPL which has suffered a lot but let's hope Nick Mwendo and these guys will ensure the cash is reimbursed into their accounts the league is giving a better backup we can even get more support because when you looked at the France matches it was sold out completely which means the French are supporting the women talking about Banyana Banyana they have all the support and that's why they've made their first encounter into the World Cup this they've made in showpiece so talking about we have to first look at how we build our league because we can't go to the World Cup having a stronger league and because we don't have many players playing outside the country so we have to rely on our local business to groom them and make them better players for the showpiece then talking about continentally the likes of Nigeria have been there all along Nigeria has played in all the seven major tournaments but they have never gone past their quarters no past the second round they have only been soaking goals time and again so which means that as a country we also have to fight hard because they did so well in the Afghan they finished position 2 and Nigeria won it but we have to pull up our socks to win anything in the major tournament just like our men in the men's World Cup our women are also not doing good so it's high time they fought harder they got more support and the women's football will grow bigger day by day and talking about African football in general of course there are predicaments facing the same kuf president Ahmad was arrested on Thursday morning and he was released yesterday several scandals roking kuf office since he got into power replacing the long-serving Isa he and Infantino Ahmad got re-elected as FIFA president saying that integrity has to prevail as far as governance and administration of football is concerned and he hoped for law taking its course and the culprits investigated and found you culpable you faced the full force of the law is that going a long way in termising the reputation of African football even as we seek at some point winning FIFA World Cup definitely you can't be the president of CAF and then you are arrested ok, interactions investigations, allegations of you being corrupt, allegations of you bribing here and there you can't do that as a leader the football fraternity will suffer the football fraternity will suffer when FIFA thinking about hosting another World Cup in Africa the football fraternity will suffer when we are busy trying to push the elite African clubs to even compete in the club World Cup competitions, it will definitely as Kenya we will suffer, why? because by the time we are putting our best foot forward the Harambe stars by the time we are putting our best foot forward we are ready for continental football something else will arise the worst part is it's a corruption allegation it's not even certain things will not happen it's a corruption allegation anything with corruption anything with misappropriations of funds or just blatantly not being a profession in the office will make the football fraternity suffer it is what it is there will be a replay after the shambles that was witnessed during that particular clash how come Kaaf Champions League is home and away how come it can't be one of just like UEFA Champions League football overseas that's just a modality of Kaaf how they decided how they want to get their winner and they went for the final to be home and away that one we've got no problem with it whatsoever you can play home and away and this time around the games the thing was the caliber and level of officiating that was on that game tells you that it was not good enough when you see players walking off the pitch an hour before the game comes to an end tells you something was wrong in this game who is this person that is influencing such kind of decisions we've got the VAR that with the video assistant that was allowed into that game it is going to be brought into the Africa Cup of Nation where was the referee not following that now they are saying that the final will be played in a neutral ground probably in South Africa but it's already said that African football is really tanish it's not that clean as everybody expected to be when you see a caliber final like that being thrown into shambles the way it did then you see our own president being caught up because of tax evasion issues in France and being questioned by authorities tells you the level of football in Africa worldwide it's 30 years but also in Africa the game is really on its knees Jojo Monde is that the same reason from the journalistic point of view is that the same reason we've written several African football lovers supporting over his football at the expense of their own and they are being accused of lack of patriotism we've had even long-saving administrators in Nikola Smusoni when Kasekafa is being staged at home for example again Pete in Kenya and Rwanda played at Nyanyu National Stadium then at the nearby joint in Nairobi West people are in pubs watching Arsenal against Newcastle United is that partly the cause? sure to some extent that is because Africa is in shambles just like a bustle and let me clarify one thing during the finals between Esperance and Raigad the guys were responsible for the VAR they came up with a statement saying that the VAR had issues it was in the working so in this case what the players were crying for was why do you have this thing here why it's not working they were asking the ref just make a clear decision talk to your management we will waste time here and at the end of the day we won't come to work so that was a big blanda I hope it doesn't happen any time again because if you have VAR and it's not working what is the function of it being there so then again we are headed to the Afghan it's only a week before the drama kicks off the official Umbro ball has not reached the participating teams and countries right now what does that mean we don't have an official website running ready right now we should be having an official website of Kaf and Afrikan Afghan running and that shows that we are ready we are ready for this tournament but right now if you look at the balls being used by Kinaanyama, Kina Egypt not yet we have not gotten the official ball despite being launched a month ago so Africa is still down we need to catch up we need to pull up our socks our president being caught up in cases in Paris with suspicions tells you a lot football is dirty but in Africa I think it's more pathetic because even look at there's a time I talked to Dylan Kark during his tenure at Gore he said there are much against experience in Tunisia because the dirtiest much is ever witnessed in his life because referees are doing whatever they want Afriki is given to an opposing player while the Arab players kicked the Kenyan player he was telling me it was so bad that he felt like football has gone to the dogs but we still have a lot to do by ensuring the by ensuring the final will be replayed after AFKON it's another big plan because at least 8 players from experience will have their contracts done by then what does that mean if they don't renew their contracts maybe temporarily to play the finals we will get the best out of the finals but the same thing happens to why the players who have contracts are running out by the time AFKON is done so Africa we need to work hard from local to continental everywhere we need to pull up our socks we are still very down Joe you are patting short your final submissions European leagues are over now we are looking forward to African cup of nations even there is an American tournament that is about to kick off which one will you be following I think Africa cup of nations definitely it's really sad listening to my brother Zane studio aggrieving to what is happening in African football you always attacking me when I am watching international football and I usually keep quiet but some of these things are there when the structures are not in place what happens to the great game of football ok they come from the rest of the world they come into South Africa they host a world cup brilliant last two nights ago they use VAR England vs Holland it works very well they say obviously a goal should have stood again when it comes to Africa it's not working you get all this inconsistency all these consistencies are not right so African cup of nations definitely would be something I will obviously look into and there is this French team the French team the ladies world cup they are forced to be reckoned with I watched this today's game and the counter attack was brilliant they have a defender who looks like Vajal van Dijk I think her name is Renado Bernardo yes she is brilliant yes she has got your attention I am telling you it's going to be a very very interesting women's world cup Rafael Nadal and Roger Federa did you watch that particular clash a long one but an upset again you see as a football fan you are used to 90 minutes not used to a whole day it's like asking me about the cricket world cup Osoro you are final thoughts man it's been a great show a great weekend but we pray that everything will be alright promise on a live television what you are going to do for me after here I promise you must see that and let's say happy birthday happy birthday big man nowadays we don't listen to words from mouth it's actions get you a return ticket to go watch nothing on forest play 2 times we offer champions league winners and of course they are not coming back to English Premier League it's hard it's really hard I am really sympathizing with the teams I went back down you see what happened to Aston Villa at least Aston Villa back look what happened to Debbie County after all that Frank Lampard has done the championship is one of the hardest if not the hardest league in the world the championship which reminds me of Shijia who was almost going down once you go down coming back is very difficult the same way Tika United has been relegated from the national supernik it's terrible you find people who have been there they have been trying to fight all year long what means you think they will come and overtake them they have been going so close to the Hong Kong servants trying to catch up then you come and think you will just go through I thank Shijia for fighting hard the likes of Amondi because he was in the DHL best players ranking the likes of Bush, Mali, Jacob they did splendidly well they did apart on the back just like you said we need to invert in sports let's not give players 24,000 per month yet they are fighting the bleeding for their country out there doesn't make sense let's ensure we have cash even if the government if we don't have corporates coming let the government help so we don't need excuse every now and then let's give these guys what they deserve let them perform but they are getting a good cash at the end of the day splendid show it's been every Saturday 1 to 3 we talking about sporting disciplines both locally and beyond every exciting world of sports of course you don't wanna miss this let's again do this next Saturday same place my name is Max Olazika alongside Robert Osoro wish you are fantastic we can't enjoy but let the conversation keep flowing at Osoro but such a touchline Y25 National Super League coming to a culmination tomorrow mouthwatering clashes expected to happen Thika United against Kisumul Stas Wazito FC playing at home at Kamptoa Agenest descent Joseph then another clash would be in Eldorette where Eldorette Youth play host to Nairobi steamer both three looking forward to be crown champion of the second tier football and get promoted to Kiam Premier League we gonna be keeping an eye on that particular development it's been a pleasure doing this let's meet next time have a fantastic weekend and enjoy bless