 Welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. A beautiful Friday. We love Fridays because we get to catch up on all the latest updates in the world of sports. Joining us this morning is our sports anchor and correspondent Wally Scott. Good morning. Good morning. Ah, the European League resumes. Give us all the, yes, give us all the gist. I don't know. I don't know the fact that Messi has taken away all of the saga and Lionel Messi was able, conveniently able to actually sell almost 200,000 jerseys in seven minutes. I have never seen that happen before. Say that again. He sold almost 200,000 jerseys in seven minutes. And you have haters like the saga? I don't know. No, I don't, but Messi either. Wow. I don't like him, but he was able to do that. And I think what Pauli Saint-Germain, what he was able to do was look at the business angle of it. When you buy a player like Messi, a player like Ronaldo, you are sure of making a large amount of the money you spent on him. Especially how, especially how you go about commercializing that. Yes, it's normal. You know, and you find out that a player like Messi, who has gone to PSG now, you will see is Nike, Jesse. You will see is Nica, Jesse too, Nica. But go to the EPL. Go to the EPL, you know, and the English Premier League has conveniently been able to do something that most other leagues haven't done. They give you a blank check. They don't price. They don't price you anymore. You tell them you're 100 million. And we saw the difference in what they were doing when Manchester City and Chelsea got to the Champions League finals. Two English clubs in the Champions League finals. One English club in the Europa League finals, lost to Villarreal. So which means basically that they had made something right. Now they've gone to the market again today. And they've bought everybody that matters. The only person that matters right now in the leagues across the world, who has not been bought by the English Premier League right now as we speak, is Erlin Harland. Everybody else has been bought. You know, as in Jadon Sancho, the miracle of three, two years ago is in Manchester United right now, Varan, veterinary legendary walk-up winner is in Manchester United with Paul Pauber. Another walk-up winner with Antony Marchial, another walk-up winner. You know, we're looking at Romelu Lukaku, who was going like he was going out of fashion when he was in Inter Milan. He's not in Chelsea. You know, and these clubs are giving players blank checks as in, just come. How much you want to collect? Collect them. You know, and I think it's making the difference. So the IPL, we'll resume today. The only notable person Arsenal has bought is Whites. We're still contemplating why Whites, it was worth 50 million pounds, really. Why couldn't they make big purchases over the transfer window? Arsenal never make big purchases. They have their pockets not deep. And they cost their coats according to their size. They have their respect when they say. So really, they only have Whites and they play Brentford. Brentford is a team that is just coming from a relegation to the Premier League. So they shouldn't have a problem. You know, we've always known Arsenal to be a team that is very wasteful. But the good thing is, on my show later, plus sports, we're having Miquela Teta, the coach, talking about the fact that he has a full squad. The captain is back. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is back. Lacazette is in the team. White will play today. So what would you say are your, because every time the season is about to start this, people will always say, OK, it looks like it's going to be Chelsea's season. It looks like going to be Liverpool's season or Manchester City's season. Are there two teams that you can point to as it stands, seeing the way the transfer window went, that would have a really, really good season? Manchester, I've always been a fan of people playing together as a team. So Man City would scurn you again this season, because everybody's still there, except for just one or two additions, Jack Grealish and all that. So they will scurn me. But Manchester United will scurn anyone too, because they have everybody intact. And they've got players trying to impress the coach. They've got Danny van der Beek, who actually went to... I remember vividly, when Robin van Persie came to Manchester United, Saar Alex Ferguson said he wasn't looking big enough. He had to go to the gym. So he went to the gym and the jersey fitted him more and then he was looking better and then he was stronger on the ball. And Danny van der Beek and other players have gone to the gym, trying to impress Ole Gunnar Solkjaer. So that will scare you too. Manchester and Chelsea really, really scares me, because I saw something on Facebook recently where they put 22 players of Chelsea, 22, 11 on one side, 11 on one side, and they were all fantastic players, all 11. That scares you. So I'm not going to place my bet on anyone right now, because everybody has... Liverpool, honestly, this is not a joke. Honestly, Liverpool will not win the league in the next 15 years, really. Wow. They won't. Some people will be very... Some guys, some guys are going to the drawing board. They're actually working on their team. They're actually buying players and Liverpool is just not doing that. They're also depending on their players who are injured to come back from injury and come and play and all that. When people have pain, they're not buying anyone but you. They're not working for the other players who are injured to come back. When the players are injured, what do they do? So come on. I don't see that happening. Interesting. So let's talk about one of the most prolific strikers in European football, Romelu Lukaku, the transfer news to Chelsea. What about that? What do you think? Expectations? Honestly, I don't think the average Chelsea fan is going to like me right now. Because the truth is, I go to see Lukaku going to Chelsea and flop. What Abramovich wants is another didio-dropper. And of course, physically, Lukaku fits that. On the ball, he fits that. But will he be able to score the way Dropper scores? I don't think so. I don't know why I feel like that. I don't think so. But what Abramovich wants is, he sees everything in Dropper. And don't forget that Lukaku is going back to Chelsea. He used to be in Chelsea. I think Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea just has this funny feeling that I lost to Dropper. Let me get my Dropper back. He just might not be the Dropper. He has the physical presence, he has the strength on the ball, he has the speed. He's been in the Premiership all his life, his career, so yes, he is used to it. What would you say was the key to his success at Inter Milan? I have no idea. But I know for one that in Inter Milan, the Italian Serie A, the league, they are more defensive. So you can catch them on the counter. And because Lukaku is coming from the English Premier League, he can run. And he has the physique, he can hold on to the ball and run. And then he leads us, that depends on the defence. And somebody who comes with a counter all the time with you, he will always score. But you are going back to the English Premier League where they ordinarily know you can come on the counter. So they are waiting for you already. You just might not make it happen there. Interesting. So finally, I'm going to ask you if you've heard the transfer remarks that PSG wants Ronaldo to replace Mbappe in 2022? Yes, I have that. I want to believe it's just gossip because I don't see PSG. Obviously, what PSG is trying to do now is now more of business than football. They are not looking technically on the field of play. But you've always advocated for the business side, haven't you? Yes, but we all want to make money. We are all here this morning because we want to make money really. But you know, to bring a Ronaldo, to bring a Lionel Messi, to bring a Neymar, to have a Mauro Icardi and Galdimaria in your team and make so much money. Obviously that's... But talking about the playing together, what do you see ahead? If Ronaldo comes to Paris on Jermain, Neymar is there, Kylian and Mbappe is there, they will win everything. They can play in gels. So you think there will be no... There will be no thrill. There will be conflict, don't you think? There will be conflict. That's the way... Out of football, in the dressing room, I can imagine Ronaldo respecting the Messi or a Messi respecting Ronaldo or even a Neymar respecting any of them. So the problem will not be on the field of play. They will play good football in the dressing room. There will be an ego problem. It's all normal. Everybody's going to eat the train. Does it have to be that way? This is a Ronaldo who looked at Ike Casillas, the goalkeeper of Real Madrid and told him, I will never respect him. Unfortunately, the coach then was Portuguese, Jose Mourinho. Ronaldo was Portuguese and Ike Casillas left Real Madrid. This is Ileona Messi. When he was in Barcelona, who was telling the coach what players to buy? There will be ego problems. We are big players. All right, let's talk COVID-19 as a league start. In the last few weeks or months, we've seen more fans gain entry into the stadium. So does that also give a breather with regards to the new season? You are the news guys. You and Anneta are the news guys. Are you guys have read consistently on the news that there's a new Delta variant? Not even now. That in the US, in the UK, that a large amount of people have been able to get their vaccines. Some have even gotten their second vaccines already. So and COVID-19 protocols have been taken at the stadiums across the world. And most people who are going to be there will have to get there either with their certificates that they have taken their COVID-19 second vaccines or to prove that they don't have COVID-19. But regardless, we know that the COVID-19, the Olympic related COVID-19 infections that we saw at the Olympics was was about over 400. So you don't think that will have any impact on this new league starting? I don't think so. I think the protocols have been observed. They have tested the waters during the Europa League Finals, Champions League Finals during the Olympics. They even did a few tests during the Olympics in some events, cycling, indoor cycling. They did some tests. So tests have been done like on a constant basis. Hopefully we will not have any break out of COVID-19 or the Delta variant again. Hopefully. But if that happens, of course, the crowd leaves the events again. But for now, they will have a crowd. But like tomorrow to this match, this evening's match is 8pm Nigerian time Arsenal, Brentford. They're only going to have, I think, 18,000 fans there. So who are you pitching for? Spaced. Who? Who are you pitching for? Arsenal against Brentford. Let's stick to Arsenal. Let's stick to Arsenal. If I was somebody who bets, I would stick to Arsenal. Anyway, it's interesting. I think a lot of people are excited about the news and starting, including the fans. The French champion now started last week. The Bundesliga, the German Bundesliga, was started this weekend too. Almost all the leagues. What about the Nigerian league? The Nigerian league just ended and we played the ITO Cup. Records were broken. Biosha united the Biosha Queens for the first time in the history of Nigeria, won the Cup at the same time. The female and the male. The female and the male won that Biosha and the governor actually has promised them lots of things. When the league will start, I cannot say it. But the ITO Cup has just finished. We appreciate all the sports updates. You got it. Thank you very much. You just heard all the details, all the juicy details regarding the football from the home front. You heard about the English Premier League, all the transfer news, transfer rumours. Stick with Oale Scott at 9.30am today when he gives you more details about sports. But on the breakfast, I am Vanessa Felix saying thank you for watching.