Gervinho

Uh, but they didn't cheat with the starting 11.

Almunia, Jenkinson, Mustafi, Senderos, Kolasinac, Mkhitaryan, Denilson, Torreira, Gervinho, Chamakh, and Bentner.

Woof.

Uh, I'm surprised that Vivas has not made it in.

Um, there you go.

Um, [laughs] Gervinho, yeah, get the Ivorian in there.

Um, [laughs] competing with Kolo Touré or the, um, Gabon striker that is, uh, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Adams would be captain, yeah, of course.

Yeah.

Uh, Yao Kouassi even sitting on the bench for me, brought in his little enabler, which I'm happy with that because that's gonna hold some value for me for a little while if people wanna stick in a 4.5. That's probably where they're going.

Despite the fact I will tell you that his place in the team is at risk in the very near future.

Yes.

Suddenly you're watching, like, barren years, and the team lost its way.

You were suddenly watching Squillaci, Gervinho, Chamakh.

Uh-huh.

[laughs] Sure.

And today we're going to talk about another club, which in some ways is similar to Troyes, right? Also kind of formed in the 1980s, also had a brilliant campaign in Ligue 2 last season when they finished runners-up.

And also, as our introduction suggests, very much a club that has plunged the depths of French football, really being relegated administratively in the kind of 2010s, I think it was, just after that period, probably the greatest period of the club's history in the mid-2000s, you know, 2006, 2007, and of course, I don't need to quote the names to you, you know them, Julio de Melo, Gervinho, Romerick, Matsue, so many great kind of Ligue 1 names that we recognize.

But it's fair to say that I think, Bapo, in our preview episode with Jonathan Johnson, one of your kind of hot takes were that both promoted sides would stay up, which sort of goes against, I think, lots of people's previews who see these two sides as the favorites for relegation.

But I know that one big thing that you talk about is positive momentum, positive vibes.