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Um, and he's came out and said that they've got the, the well-equipped, the younger players, they've got to come through.

Um, and he feels as if that they're still in the right trajectory and that they're gonna be, be playing in the Champions League.

They're not gonna win the Champions League.

In fact, they'll do well to get to the knockout stages of the Champions League.

Given the situation they're in right now, this is what no fan would say if you, if you support Villa, but that could well be something that is, it makes things a little bit more difficult there.

Because if you're getting to a situation where you've only got 10 points from your 12 games or something like that-

In Senegal's second match against Norway on June twenty-second, Mendy was substituted in the second half after suffering a knee injury and failed to make another appearance at the tournament.

At Chelsea, Mendy produced a remarkable debut season and helped the English giants win the UEFA Champions League in two thousand twenty-one.

In his first season at Stamford Bridge, Mendy broke into the starting lineup, becoming the first African goalkeeper to play for the club's senior team and kept sixteen clean sheets in the Premier League.

Mendy further equaled the record for the most clean sheets in a UEFA Champions League season with nine and kept another clean sheet in the final to help Chelsea win their second title.

He was awarded both the UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year and the Best FIFA Goalkeeper of two thousand twenty-one, becoming the first African goalkeeper in football's history to win both awards.

He later continued his career in Saudi Arabia with Al-Ahli, adding another chapter to an already decorated football journey.

Don't sack me.

No. Um, but when we did a preview for CBS, it's who I work for in the US, um, I tipped Celta to get into the Champions League, which is looking absolutely-

Did you? Wow, that was very bold

... ridiculous.

Yeah, I agree.

That Manchester United squad, Dalot, actually, that back four, Dalot, Maguire, Martinez, Dargill, I mean, that's not a back four that's screaming Champions League football next season.

I mean, I think a lot of Premier League teams would look at that back four and think, we can get at them.

Dargill in 1v1 situations, I mean...

I know Lou Shaw, I don't know whether he was fit enough to play yesterday or there's a whole host of games this season, it's going to be a marathon not a sprint so they need to preserve him.

That Manchester United starting XI against Manchester City doesn't exactly fill you with confidence.

And when you think they're going to be playing a game every three days with the Champions League and cup competitions, the levels go down when you start emptying the bench as well.

So I don't know.

No, I think that glamour never dies.

And I think it's tricky when you're not one of the best ones in the competition, so you don't have that... realistic chance of lifting that trophy though anything's possible in football but Arsenal also shouldn't be getting eliminated in this league face typically Dutch sides now with this new set up of the three competitions they're able to make the playoffs of each competition they get into And sometimes you might see a run such as what Ajax did in the Champions League when they had Allaire and Tadic and they won all six of their group stage games, for example, and won a great run.

Yeah, I said the glamour never dies, like I say, of fans wanting those really nice trips.

But then from a player's point of view, the turnover of young players at Dutch teams is quite high.

It's four games gone.

Four games in the league season, one in the Champions League, yeah.

We've got Brighton in the League Cup midweek and then we've got Fulham next weekend.

The patience for managers is crazy.

is here, the way it is, Daniel, it's when your club hasn't had the...

Obviously, Chelsea were, at one point, probably the most successful club in England.

um like they'll change managers and still be good i'm trying to say so when you see your club like basically since two calls left you have like kind of drifted further and further from the level of challenging for champions leagues challenging for league titles your patience gets thinner and thinner and thinner and thinner and thinner because you've been watching guys give them chances they're dead watch another guy give him chances they're dead now you're just like i know at the same time what how it is, it's not usually like, okay, Chelsea aren't doing good now and it's Newcastle winning the league.

Chelsea aren't doing, Man Utd ain't doing good now.

think it's like a character like Robin Williams or like Jack Black or someone like that that has like from a film that's that was like demonstrating a story that goes like there's the beginning there's the middle there's the twist and the twist is like what like it kind of ties it all together it kind of like it's that moment where it's suddenly like yes

you can be up by 30 points at half time and as far as probability is concerned you probably won the game but crazier things have happened I think about was it Liverpool's Champions League win in 2005 they were down 3-0 at half time or something like that and it's seen as one of the greatest comebacks in European football history that the proof was only at the pudding that You know what I mean? Halfway through, you would say one thing.

You would say that the game has gone one way, but you only really know until the end.

So maybe how we'll conclude this is say, in certain contexts, this holds completely true, and I think sports is one of them.

Don't play the kids now.

Play the kids later if we progress, because I do not want anything getting in the way of trying to achieve what we want to achieve this season, which is going back to back and first ever Champions League.

And with the Champions League thing, don't forget who we're competing with.

We are competing with the part timers of Paris Saint-Germain, who only play about seven games a year.

And when we get to that stage of the season, they've wrapped up their league.

I don't think you can.

Can you? I don't think you can.

uh yeah wood pit still haven't seen anyone cancel a corner before half time either strange it's only us yeah happened in the champions league final as well didn't it because the referee bought the narrative that we were wasting time that really that still pisses me off still pisses me off alex is back welcome back alex good evening from california good evening to you sir thank you for joining us i can see i can see what can i can see a bx gunner Yeah.

Yeah, huge, huge.

You know, if you listened to our last episode, about the birth of the football association um out of that comes the FA Cup and I said the FA Cup comes everything else that matters including the World Cup including um you know the Champions League eventually and all those other things that we see and love now the FA Cup was the game the big match um And of course, that's got to start somewhere in terms of broadcasting that for the world to watch and listen to.

And in 1927, the FA Cup final became the first FA Cup final to be broadcast live on the radio.

And of course, that means you're reaching now not just the 100,000 or so that used to go to the FA Cup finals back at Wembley.