“I Wouldn’t PAY £10m For Rashford!” & Is Isak Better Than Haaland?

[@gkill1994]

Best comparison i have seen between Isak and Haaland is, when Manchester City is fully functional, Haaland is a better striker, he scores out of nothing, but Isak is a better all rounder, especially for someone with his height and frame and he is more involved in build up play and can play on the wing if needed

[@jsh6322]

Deary me another season, another comparison. Haaland is generational. Isak is just good.

[@Cooki3Munster]

haaland just incredibly boring to watch, will out score anyone with half decent players to feed him but aguero was a far more exciting player

[@ZeekoRamen]

​@@jsh6322 Doesn't change the fact that without service city practically are down to 10 men. Isaak is more than just a goalscorer like he said. Can play on the wing and can drop in midfield and build up play.

[@bhvillaman4401]

Isak is a better player than haaland but haaland is clearly one of the best finishers in world football.​@@jsh6322If I want someone to pick the ball up and drive through defences I'm taking isak all day. Goals win games but that doesn't make you a better player. That's like saying sterling is better than Henry

[@TheKernal96_]

but Gyokeres for Sweden does more. so explain that

[@toonarmy8524]

Isak is a better footballer period. Haarland is a goal scorer thats it . Isak does everything, dribbles, holds up play, scores goals, can play passes he has it all.

[@howbani]

@Cristobal_2012 me too, he is the best finisher.. he need someone to serve him. ❤

[@madness8053]

U just start watching football 😂😂😂

[@sneakerjuice1856]

Haaland would have been a good footballer if Pep didnt destroy his progress.

[@Nhleko9303]

@@sneakerjuice1856 lmao what? Pep destroyed him? Yeah you’re clueless.

[@sneakerjuice1856]

@@Nhleko9303 Haaland was better when he was allowed to do more things. Pep has removed almost everything from his game now.

[@iBunZz360]

Isak a far more complete player, not as clinical but offers way more to the team. Anyone thinking NUFC would even consider selling him for anything less than £120m are dreamers in a world where Declan Rice went for £105m. The lad is absolutely phenomenal.

[@Mickey-s09]

And has 3.5 year left on his contract so Newcastle can wait another season at least if he doesn’t sign a new contract. By then arsenal would have bought a striker.

[@dennisnielsen4289]

120? That should get you one of his boots, signed, maximum. In today's market, anything under 150m is a pure insult.

[@athayphom3551]

Declan rice is also worth almost 100mil for his age and quality

[@davidsmithy123]

​@@dennisnielsen4289 what? 150 is peanuts in todays market. 300 mil minimum.

[@dennisnielsen4289]

@davidsmithy123 I do agree. I meant at least 150m, as the starting bid, to even make Newcastle consider selling him for more.

[@ZeekoRamen]

Ben, nobody is saying Bradley is as good as Trent. Out of the 3 contracts running out, Trent is most likely the player you can replace if one was to go because Salah is the best RW in the world and Virgil is the best defender. Trent is more replaceable in that position than Mo and Virgil. Us Liverpool fans want all 3 contracts signed obviously.

[@jamesgrannum3736]

Bradley, imo, is a bit different to Trent, I think he’s the same as Robertson. But I agree, Bradley is amazing and he’s also free because he’s from the academy

[@paulie-g]

@@jamesgrannum3736 Of course he's different, there's no RB that has TAA's profile in world football. The thing is, it does look like Slot's playstyle might, on balance, benefit from a more defensively reliable RB. Yes, no one else passes like that from rightback, but you can absolutely sign a midfielder who can pass, and even have him do it from the positions TAA inverts into, if that's what you want (which I'm not sure Slot does most of the time). You're also selling Bradley a bit short - he's much more direct than Robbo and capable of scoring. I've long felt our fullbacks don't score enough. Thing is, we're not short on creativity, and when we are, eg against low blocks, TAA doesn't necessarily unlock that either, but every team targets him and our whole defence gets pulled one over covering for him, we constantly concede from crosses he's nowhere near close enough to preventing or putting pressure on, and it's exposing whoever is at our far post, which is usually a non aerially dominant LB in Robbo or Tsimikas. He's the #1 source of our positional tension, and Gravenberch isn't defensively-minded enough to help him. We could sign a bonafide DM to play the 6, but out of Gravenberch and TAA, Gravenberch is much more key to how Slot wants to play and our success with it. TAA does a hollywood ball that comes off once or twice each game, Grav turns his man and carries the ball taking out the entire front press of the opposition many, many times each game.

[@darkbydesign1031]

Isak, Tonali, Bruno, JoeLinton, Gordon, Lewis Hall, Botman, lets hope none of these are sold

[@oitoitoi1]

definitely not going to bottlers fc lol. those pathetic entitled plastic arsenal fans are delusional.

[@gameforalaugh5743]

You're right Ben, we are sorted for left back, because Lewis Hall will be England's Left Back for 10+ years.

[@thecyclinggk]

Good shout 😝❤️ cracking player

[@geekylove3603]

I think there is an issue with English fans and coaches when we proclaim one player will be in the England team for that amount a time without having the thought or hope than we can find better.

[@SirMonkeySuit]

The disrespect for Lewis Hall is disgustin

[@jpimbuido2043]

Halland needs the entire system built to suit him. Isaak will find a way to be effective in any system.

[@Hhammer]

24:50 it’s easy to say “I want players who don’t want Instagram followers” but the problem lies in the fact that Manchester United is a brand rather than a football club, and the brand/company pushes players to do all this crap

[@paulie-g]

But there are clearly players who do it because they have to, and players who love it and hire their own PR teams and camera crews to follow them round. Rashford is very much the latter.

[@alexjmurphy2145]

I'm taking Isak over Haaland at Liverpool all day long.

[@paulburnett3490]

Isak is the better all-round player, Haarland the better goalscorer. Happy Christmas to you all.

[@jun3078]

Skelly doesnt even lace Lewis Hall's boots at left back, sorry to say he will be backup to Hall for England in years to come.

[@paulstones1451]

Isak is better he's a more rounded player and if he was in that city squad when they were flying isak would out score harland and plus isak scores better goals

[@STVG8-X6m]

YES ABSOLUTELY ISAAK IS BETTER THAN ERLING HAALAND'

[@easy8237]

TBH. No team will take Rashford on loan for 325k a week. Barcelona definitely dun have the $$$ to do so. PSG? They are done with giving out crazy wages to players.

[@paulie-g]

even if PSG weren't, Rashford isn't a big enough name in world football to do that for *and* they'd have to bench their star academy product in Barcola. I just don't see where he goes without taking a massive pay cut, and I don't think he's the type of person to do that

[@Bogaldinho]

Jamie is the MVP of these, forever in Ben's head

[@thecyclinggk]

😂😂😂 not sure it’s intentional

[@lewiscarvell6521]

Gotta love a Cycling GK upload in the morning to watch at work!

[@wizardofozzie83]

Gr8 pod I normally only watch the arsenal bits on pods like this but the relax chat like a chat down the rubber dub with the little banter makes it a enjoyable ,easy watch . Merry Christmas and happy New year

[@DavidVeitch54]

I would not buy Rashford for a tenner never mind £10m

[@DELUSIONALDANNYG]

Isak over Haaland for me. I feel like Haaland is a bit of a tap in merchant. Isak scores screamers from outside the box

[@DELUSIONALDANNYG]

@ go watch his goals from last season aswell. He’s scored some unreal goals. Haaland has never scored anything that’s not a tap in. He’s the most over rated footballer in existence. There’s a reason dortmund fans weren’t bothered about loosing him. He does nothing for 89 mins then gets a tap in on the 90th min. Haaland also couldn’t lace Isaks boots when it comes to build up play.

[@TonyODOnnell-tt8gh]

Totally agree, it's like comparing a Porche to old bmw. 🧊 Cold, Isak...

[@paulie-g]

That's nonsense, Haaland scores screamers - the one thing he's deffo got is a shot. It's just that he's dependent on service and doesn't contribute to build-up much. Incidentally, I think he would shine at Newcastle the way they play. The big advantage he has over Isak is availability.

[@House0fHoot]

44:24 Toon Army! 🖤🤍

[@jarlardo]

Why do people suggest Isak to Arsenal? He would cost £150m. Newcastle wont sell, and Arsenal cannot afford him

[@Andy-tq3om]

It isn't just about what Rashford can or can't do but what he takes away from the rest of the team with his selfish and lazy performances. He gives away possession so many times with crazy shots and blind alley dribbles he can be more trouble than he is worth. I would gladly give him away for free and be rid of his wages and the circus that surrounds him

[@paulie-g]

The circus is the real problem. No manager is going to want to be undermined by a player briefing journos all the time, certainly not a player of Rashford's dubious value.

[@SwagMastaAidz]

If the ref on the field didn't give a red you should be more annoyed at him than var. Also var has the same abysmal refs

[@Stealthycarper-h1z]

"We need to give villa some credit though" Anyway back to city

[@akashkop]

trent missed a lot of games this season and liverpool still won.they find a way to make it work even when trent is not on the pitch.you can't stop liverpool by man marking trent ,they find a different way .

[@Gadeberg90]

Yes and if they mark him, then Liverpool just change it up and either go through Virg, Gravenberch, Mac Alister or play a whole other tactic. Trent is phenomenal, but not everything goes through him.

[@paulie-g]

@@Gadeberg90 In fact, I would argue the base Slot build-up doesn't involve Trent hitting low percentage hollywood balls at all, and Salah has been picking up the assists from crossing high up the pitch. You'll happily take his assists from time to time, obviously, but in no way are they key to how Liverpool play now, as opposed to in some seasons under Klopp (but not last season, we had massively more points per game when Bradley played). VVD, Gomez and Konate (in that order) are capable of playing big, splitting forward passes from the back. Yes, doing it from RB/inverted is a neat way to create danger that teams rarely face and often don't know how to handle (and there isn't a great way to handle it anyway), but that's not valuable enough to give up our newfound defensive solidity, which we will need if we want to win CL.

[@ArkaneRogue]

Can we move on from the Rashford talk in 2025? He's one player out of about 200 who gets 15mins talk time every week... 🤷‍♂️

[@paulie-g]

The amount of airtime dedicated to a team in lower mid-table overall is excessive (as fun as ManU's banter era is for me as a Liverpool supporter), but Rashford was discussed at length every week when he was benched and not playing for them, now he's not even in the squad he's talked about even more. He's had one good season 3 years ago. He's more famous for taking a camera crew with him when he does charity work than he is for playing football. No one is interested, not even for banter purposes at this point

[@edwinpreston8159]

From a toon fan…great pod lads! 👏

[@thecyclinggk]

Thanks mate

[@hssIceland]

Pep has killed off Villa's Jack, doesn't exist anymore. 3 participation trophies.

[@michael6401]

Every media muppet has to follow saying Alexander Isak by saying Arsenal, to say it’s boring and monotonous would be an understatement ! Howay lads start being original, no way the toon are now a selling club, get used to it,

[@yogihightower]

The way the media go on its as if Arsenal and the greedy 6 have never slighted Newcastle, never tried to change the rules and never tried to get the takeover bloked even though it was none of their business. I will be livid if Newcastle sell any player to any of them never mind our best ones. The cartel 6 and the Premier league admin are corrupt.

[@TonyODOnnell-tt8gh]

He's happy with us, still has 3 years left on his contract, give or take. Then, crack on with his new one. Pay him what he wants, & ultimately deserves

[@paulie-g]

If Toon weren't a selling club, you'd still have Anderson. PSR is a thing (a bit unfairly in your case as your revenues are depressed by years of Ashley ownership). Besides, if a player has his heart set on a move, you can't really stop them - just get the biggest fee you can. I understand why you're p-ssed off, besides his availability issues Isak is top class, would be very difficult to replace, and Arsenal isn't even that much of a step up except that they play CL football more or less regularly now

[@flysi01]

I don't think Jack would get a start at Villa now, unless he somehow managed to recapture the player he was before Pep ruined him

[@paulie-g]

Not even then, I don't think, Rogers just looks irrepressible and Villa aren't going to want to channel all play through a single player at this point, they've developed well past that with Emery. Grealish looks content collecting his paycheque, living in a castle and passing sideways

[@dv4092]

The ''merry'' decoration behind toze has got my OCD going, please change the r's around 😆

[@thecyclinggk]

😂😂😂 too late now Geez

[@dv4092]

@@thecyclinggk 😅

[@dv4092]

@Cristobal_2012 sorry 😂

[@jossytm6814]

Isak is a better player.

[@Ewerboweski]

great episode, and a good dog appearance, well done. merry Christmas y'all.

[@thecyclinggk]

Darcy the doggo ❤️❤️❤️

[@Jordanlee862]

The Way Too Word It Is , Would Man City Be A Better Team With Isak And Would Newcastle Be Better With Halland , I Wouldnt Swap Isak With Haaland But Would Man City Fans Swap Haaland With Isak?

[@danielpunt7]

Merry Christmas Ben, Watto, Tom & Jamie - and all the guests too

[@vegardlaukeland1888]

Merry Christmas from Norway!

[@thecyclinggk]

Merry Christmas!!

[@freddyoutdoors]

Brill watch lads love it keep up the great work

[@estata12]

Dream on Arsenal , you can’t afford Isak.

[@jb1987uk]

When you're playing every 3 to 4 days and with a complete b team, how is Ange supposed to go hold up chaps, were going to throw everything we've been working on for the past 18 months and shut up shop. Spence has only started 2 games in the prem, forster something like 5 games in 2 years, archie gray completely out of position at 18 and dragusin leading the line at 22... and they're playing twice a week... they're knackered

[@paulie-g]

No one is arguing they should turn to Pulisball. There are easy positioning and pressing trigger adjustments you can make. Very easy to tell fullbacks not to jump to press Liverpool's fullbacks unless they're a couple seconds away for example. Slot makes similar adjustments *within games*. Ange had a full pre-season to train tactical variability that would let him twist a knob to go from full aggression to slightly more conservative with a better rest defence. Not doing that is on him, he says he thinks it's not necessary. Reality begs to differ.

[@jossytm6814]

If Isak gets top-class players around his unstoppable

[@FairusAGOmar]

Best christmas present back in late 80s n early 90s is Subbuteo…

[@thecyclinggk]

What a shout

[@stephenbell8349]

Grealish is nearly 30. He was our "go to" player at one stage. We have evolved beyond him. He plays in the same position as Rogers, and I'd start Rogers every time.

[@geraldbutler5484]

Pep has turned Grealish into a white line hugging zombie. He’s nothing like the player he was at Villa, when he was creative and making things happen for others.

[@paulie-g]

@@geraldbutler5484 Indeed. Signed Grealish, robotised all of the creativity, directness and endeavour out of him to the point he doesn't or can't go past players, then signed Doku because he.. goes past players. Very sad, although I have limited sympathy for Grealish as a person and think Villa deserve to have players who want to play for them and achieve with them (that said, I wouldn't mind Rogers at Liverpool ;).

[@geraldbutler5484]

@@paulie-g You don’t need him, you have more than enough.

[@paulie-g]

@@geraldbutler5484 Enough for what? Win a PL? Maybe, but we've only got one top-class MF on the bench. CL? I think we might need a bit more and Bellingham went to RM. Rogers would compliment what our midfield currently does well with his carries and I love his press resistance. Rest easy though, I have exactly 0 pull to actually make this happen and I suspect Edwards would want to find the next Rogers rather than sign this one. I also have a feeling Villa wouldn't sell for a reasonable fee, nor is it a given he'd want to come since he wouldn't be guaranteed to start and Villa have every chance to play CL footy next season as well (which I wish you the best of luck with, Villa doing well is nice to see, nature might be healing - always have had a lot of time for proper, historic clubs with real support).

[@geraldbutler5484]

@@paulie-g Liverpool have enough top class players already. Villa, Newcastle and several others want to break up the so-called ‘big 6’. We need to keep our best players to do this and have a more even playing field. I’ve always had a soft spot for Liverpool since watching them a lot in the Paisley days. I think it is the culture of the club that impresses me, especially in comparison to Man U. Good luck for the title.

[@tobiasthorne4644]

52:10 As a Newcastle fan, 100% agree with the rest of the boys, I’d put my life on the line for a trophy for this club *But* , the only thing that makes me hesitant is that we’ve got a few big players, extremely talented players who deserve European football And if the club doesn’t get that revenue from the extra games I don’t know if we’ll be able to keep the likes of Isak, Bruno, Tonali, Gordon

[@hamdiobied7034]

Ben Foster love and respect

[@dallasknight4854]

Dickford should have gone for that. Could have ended Gusto's career.

[@paulie-g]

Given it's his second time doing this, clearly he hasn't learned anything from nearly ending Van Dijk's career. If the Chelsea player's foot was planted, it would have been horrific. Absolute disgrace. Respect to the only lad who called this out. "Didn't intend to injure him" my arse. If you, as a person of good moral character, do what he did to Van Dijk once, you swear to yourself you will never do it again to a fellow professional. He's done it again, then celebrated doing it. Either he's a complete c-nt, or he's so stupid and irresponsible he's a danger to everyone else and shouldn't be left free walking around.

[@cjf96]

Such a poor take on haaland or isak hahah, haaland cant score any goals that isak scores simply because he doesnt have the touch or skill, yes haaland is unreal at scoring goals but the eye test and common sense test proves isak is the better all round footballer, isak in my team all day over viking boy

[@thecyclinggk]

The beauty of opinions

[@whatmatters683]

Pep is wishing he could have left how Klopp did.

[@thecyclinggk]

Perhaps that’s the case

[@paulie-g]

@@thecyclinggk Otoh, if you recall, Liverpool's midfield aged out all at the same time and fell through the floor two seasons ago resulting in a terrible season (Klopp just managed it much better and his side didn't completely implode/down tools once teams started having a real go at them). Klopp pulled himself together, forced himself to let go of some of his favourite people, rebuilt the midfield, and only then announced he was leaving once he was sure everything was in proper order again. So you could say Pep is intending to do the same - he's quoted as saying he wouldn't leave his team in this state - but failing atm because he can't even get his lavishly compensated players to at least match the opposition's workrate. Having a billion pounds worth of players underperform Southampton under Russell "Poundland Pep" Martin (who clearly prioritised his reputation for playing 'progressive' football over keeping the club that pay his wages up) is an achievement of which few managers in world football are capable.

[@anshtewari3528]

Where’s goldbridge these days?

[@Shadystev]

What is it with ex english footballers wanting managers to be pragmatic? They want 11 men behind the ball, low block football. There's plenty of teams around Europe that have success with attacking football but then you have these guys repeating the same rubbish every week. Saying you "have" to play a certain way. No wonder we have no good English managers when this is the mentality

[@mitchaelhollingsworth1698]

An if they do go with a defensive 442, then the managers are labelled boring and negative like everton with sean dyche.

[@paulie-g]

I don't think they're saying to abandon his style and play Pulisball, but there are moments in games - like when you've just clawed back 2-1 despite being comprehensively battered and have a few minutes to go to half time, and moments in seasons - like when you're missing 4 of your first choice back 5 and are playing two kids out of position in it, when it is wise to make some adjustments. Telling your fullbacks to tuck in for a few minutes instead of executing an ineffective high press is hardly too conservative to be tolerated. Having a game model that's nuanced enough to take game state into account is not weakness or evidence you're not convinced of your principles. These are pros who understand game state and momentum viscerally. And then you have the counterexample of Slot - an attacking coach - who has injected a massive amount of control, stability, in-game management and rest defence at Liverpool without losing attacking impetus and, in fact, adding another string to Liverpool's bow in clever, technical build-up through the centre, and is benefitting from it. Liverpool are now a textbook example that you can play expressive, attacking football without being suicidally open, ie play attractive football with maturity, balance, resting in the game when possible, and with tactical variability and adaptability that a) allows them to exploit the opposition's weaknesses on a game by game basis, and b) prevents the opposing manager from being able to tell how they're going to play with 100% confidence well ahead of the game. I distinctly recall Ancelotti saying he knew exactly what Klopp and Liverpool were going to do in a post-match presser after one of the CL finals they won. At the absolute top level, having a coach who's got more than one tactical idea in his head is an advantage.

[@John-zs5nw]

On Rashford, he needs a coach/manager like Eddie or Unai though would reqire a major pay cut and don't feel either team has a need for him (so would be a luxury buy) so he won't go there but those are the types of coaches he needs as the team cultures there and the play style would suit him better.

[@Lemaaa09]

8:08 this argument is so naïve! That is the loudest stadium now, both sets of fans are leaving ecstatic it's an entertainment businesses. They have watched rubbish for years in hopes of top 4, I would take this every day of the week! If they invest in defenders over time they'll have their moment.

[@paulie-g]

They did, they bought Van De Ven with a hamstring injury history for a playstyle that is guaranteed to blow out hamstrings

[@DJYunkHank]

Spurs are playing like 22/23 Liverpool but instead of having experienced champions league winning midfielders who are old eo cant run and cover as much they have young players that dont want to cover . When our midfield was practically non existence we scored freely but conceded so much and i see that in spurs but way worse because their players arent on the same level as Liverpool's of 22/23

[@paulie-g]

The thing is, Liverpool still had a solid tactical structure, they just no longer had players who could execute the playstyle reliably. Spurs without the ball are just an incoherent mess - their press is very active and high energy, but it's not actually that effective, the team loses all shape and structure when running back towards their own goal, no one knows where to be etc. This is just bad coaching. Very big difference between everyone knowing what to do and where to be but the system failing because a few players are a second late, and no one knowing where to be and 'what to do' = 'run a lot and look like you're trying hard'. It's a bit like that luxury car Geely built in the 2010s that looked like someone who saw a Rolls Royce once described it to them over the phone, badly, in broken Chinese. Spurs look like that wrt Klopp's early Liverpool sides. They push their fullbacks high, but it's clear they don't know why they're doing it, because if they did, they would either already be there in the high press or fall back, instead they try to get there even if there's 0 chance they'll get there in time, vacating space behind them. Their front press is disjointed because they don't have a reliable system of pressing triggers everyone knows. And so on.

[@lloyd0006]

The truth is with that Liverpool squad VS that injury depleted Spurs squad they were never going to win. So should they have parked the bus for 90 minutes and end up losing 0-3? Or do you give it a right go and lose 3-6? To Dare Is To Do? To Dare Is To Park The Bus? These are the same England fans screaming at Southgate to attack, attack attack and stop sitting back so much, dare to win! Southgate said NO and preferred defence over attack. But of all of sudden Ange is a joke of a manager for wanting to dare and attack?

[@legoc3po450]

There’s a difference between parking the bus and having a defensive structure. Spurs got back into that game at 2-1 (albeit a bit luckily), and should’ve looked to keep that score line into half time, where ange could talk to them, make some tweaks and let them know they had 45 minutes to get at least 1 more back. Instead they kept that high line which allowed that little szoboszlai sink header to so easily find salah and pretty much kill any hope spurs had going into the half. And southgates criticism lay heavily in the fact that they had and still have one of the most talented line ups of individual players in world football but can’t/choose not to score goals, relying on 1-0 victories. Imagine if guardiolas man city played like southgates England team? You’d call for change. Sean Dyche’s Everton though, you can understand it, because they don’t have the players to play like a man city. Personnel makes a big difference when it comes to tactics, but ange sticks to his guns regardless of personnel available. Yes he had injuries, but work around them. If you’re going to lose, don’t let 6 go past you. Slot, for example, in the league cup played loads of the academy boys. The overall game plan was still very controlled, but you could see (especially in the midfield) that he wasn’t expecting nyoni or Morton to fill the gravenberch or szobo role. Shoe horning players into roles they’re not fit for, or setting up your team in a way that you’re not experienced enough for , is a recipe for disaster, even MORE so when that game plan disregards defense.

[@geraldbutler5484]

I remember Villa having McLeish as manager. We had 8 draws out of 9 playing low block and it was so boring people were being carried out on stretchers having died of botedom.

[@TR4zest]

No-one is saying Ange is a joke. The job of a manager is to nullify the strengths of the opposition and make the most of the ways your team can hurt them. Spurs are the equivalent of a boxer that comes out of his corner swinging haymakers only,

[@lloyd0006]

@@TR4zest no one is saying Ange is a joke? Are you sure? 30% of Spurs fans are saying that and 70% of neutral fans say that.

[@paulie-g]

No, he's a joke because his game model has 0 nuance. You can make subtle tweaks to positioning, rest defence, pressing triggers, distances between players etc to give you more or slightly less risk without compromising your approach. Liverpool, despite being top of the league and comfortably better than Spurs, didn't think it was cowardly or below them to tailor their approach to exploit Spurs' weaknesses, because they have a coach who trained that tactical variability in preseason and can call on it at will now, even tweaking mid-game. It's not rocket science, these are professional footballers at the top of their profession, they can absolutely handle being told to tweak this or that from game to game

[@kurtcobain.20]

The title is so apt. Happy holidays lads ❤

[@thecyclinggk]

Happy Christmas

[@robturner4895]

Whats Ben Foster on about, he'd choose Johnstone over Sa because Sa's age is catching up with him...... they're both 31 😂😂

[@tonypang83]

Lots of Christmas cheer on show today 😄. Nothing like ranting and raving to get you into the holiday spirit 😂

[@Bobby_sprinkles]

Why would Villa want Grealish back? At this point he's a Temu version of Rogers.

[@paulie-g]

Not even that, a completely different player who doesn't fit the way Villa play now, couldn't play Rogers' position and appears to have been thoroughly ruined by Pep (and possibly a bit too satisfied with living in a castle on 300+k pw).

[@xT1nz0]

Typical Arsenal fans they can’t shut up about thier team even in every sigment

[@derrencoles5051]

Their fans crack me up All they go on about is not spent money and injuries -pull the other one.

[@garykilvington9417]

Wrong newcastles last hatrick was 2019 Perez against Southampton get your facts right

[@House0fHoot]

He did say “at Portman Road”.

[@thecyclinggk]

Wrong; listen again

[@justsomeguy2743]

Trust me we understand Bradley isn’t the next Trent however, if we could only give two new contracts Salah and VVD are literally irreplaceable

[@madness8053]

Bradley is a baller and does bits when trent is injured or needs a rest

[@paulie-g]

@madness8053 Well, last season our points per game was much better with Bradley than TAA, goals and xG minus goals allowed and xGA were much better with Bradley on as well. TAA has improved this season (presumably as he understands he won't get scouse discount on sh-t defending at Madrid), but Bradley is more than just a capable understudy and probably suits Slot's playstyle more. You never want to let a player go when they have some world-class attributes (as TAA's passing sometimes/often is), but I dare say we could find a midfielder with a high quality long passing profile if we wanted to and play a fullback who can actually defend reliably when he goes.

[@wordsmithmofo]

Do we think that injury stricken spurs first 11 gets battered by that Liverpool team regardless of what tactics Ange goes with

[@warrenthornton7582]

Best comment here

[@mathias2410]

Players are overpaid today. I can't believe what I'm hearing from top leagues around the world. Players not playing for the glory, fans and the happines for being a top player. Hearing the same from the NBA and MLB. Players being paid tens of millions and can't be bothered to play in every game.

[@Dr_Lindan]

Haaland was a very versatile striker at Dortmund. Guardiola has turned him one dimensional and as the system fails around him he is starved of service.

[@og87]

One man yes in Rodri but it’s also the half or less behind him. That kovacic is bad and always has been I don’t care what people say he’s done in games or in a part seasons. And NUNES is even worse. Get rid of both. 38:59

[@mitchaelhollingsworth1698]

Spurs play a high risk high reward style. They also have their starting goalkeeper, both starting centrebacks and starting left back out. Whatever style they play, defensive solidity is going to be a problem. Imagine arsenal with saliba, gabriel, califiori and raya gone. They would conceed a lot more goals too.

[@Gunjack1440]

Not really because the tactics shift. The high line of ange only works if van de wen is fit. He’s a great CB, but he’s injury prone.

[@paulie-g]

But Arteta did tweak things to adapt when they had players out or were down a man. Ange seems to think being brainless and having a game model with 0 nuance or variability is a badge of honour

[@Leenufc]

If halland was at Newcastle would he score the same amout of goals as isak does NOT a chance . If isak was at man city would he score the same amount of goals as halland YES

[@thecyclinggk]

Interesting debate

[@woodyforest2334]

Aye up Ben. If Forest beat Spurs tomorrow, I’m hoping to see you in a Forest top. I’ll be glad to send you one mate..

[@olliehaskell6236]

Merry xmas everyone watching today 🎄🥳🎁

[@kevinmcnicoll8649]

So Spurs are just shit even though they have their whole defence out, yet all Man Citys problems are just because of one player😂

[@SirMonkeySuit]

Enough. Got some Wolfey fan watching his team fight relegation and fighting people, elbowing and snatching glasses one week calling them embarrassing. This week bigging Cunha up because he wasn't banned (why wasn't he?). Constantly hoping for Isak to signing for Arsenal? Sorry, what affiliation does he have to Arsenal to want that? Or let's big up Myles Lewis-Skelly who has played a few games and he is apparently first choice LB for England for the next 10 years and yet Lewis Hall has been cementing that for the whole season.

[@madness8053]

Thank you for the heart ben would have loved you at Liverpool merry Xmas to u and your family ❤

[@facesbookses2044]

Like it or not if you are the best goalscorer in the world you are the most valuable football asset in the world. In football nothing is more important than scoring goals and thats just a fact.

[@darrenmcgovern4719]

Being competitive is one thing but try not take the quiz so seriously ben my god most weeks he's either jumping in to early or giving out about the questions 😂

[@MM-1990-6]

Jose Sa and Sam Johnstone are the same age. Both are 31

[@waggna469]

IF Nunez will leave Liverpool, they should get Isak immediately!!!

[@kylelaffar4484]

33:40 “merry Christmas” is set up wrong.

[@24Argie]

You guys always get so carried away. You just know that the next time Liverpool drop points they’ll be saying Chelsea or Arsenal are gonna win it 🤣

[@paulie-g]

They might, but this impression (at least for me) isn't really about the score or the result - Liverpool have been winning without hitting top gear and playing 9/10 or 10/10, you could see they were looking for another gear to get into, this game it just clicked. Their play (forget them exploiting Spurs with balls over the top or the fast breaks they were always capable of since early Klopp) through the middle in build-up was just a complete joy to watch. The only remaining question is if they can now shift into that gear reliably (in other words, that it wasn't a one-off) when they need to.

[@Jermays173]

I think Manchester City know the result of the charges against them already, they know what's going to happen so they don't care about this season.

[@philipnapier3585]

Could be

[@yajwells6153]

rashford to the mls at 27.... that would be sad tbh.

[@ScottyT24]

That’s the first time this season forest played a back 3 bare that in mind lads

[@G.Singh7]

This should be renamed the anti Manchester United podcast

[@jamesmurray1045]

Why what’s good to say about Man U at the moment

[@INSPIRAT01N]

Does anyone actually know why Goldbridge doesn’t come on anymore????

[@Feisar777]

I seen enough under Carsley to see if you give love to Grealish, you will have a totally different player, he needs to leave city, the quicker the better

[@davidfreeman6753]

No liverpool fan thinks Bradley can replace TAA.

[@worldmedic3187]

I got it! Rashford should come to the Chicago fire to reignite the 🔥 he needs! Plus we need him so bad lol.

[@Andy-tq3om]

You are welcome to him as he is one of the most overrated players out there.

[@FHR_GAMING-jv1fs]

Hey ben Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩😜❤️❤️ Your friend ... Fahim ...

[@cathalcathal6043]

Customary Hermanson Glaze ☝🏻

[@neiljones8302]

Jamie stop dropping that laptop screen in the quiz so that Ben can see it.

[@RobinHood-us7sg]

Where’s Tubes? 😂

[@samphillips141]

City are lost with out Rodri. Deserved Balon d'or. Most important player for his team's success by far.

[@Andy-tq3om]

And De Bruyne has dropped off too. They need a rebuild

[@Gunjack1440]

@@Andy-tq3omyeah but KDB has been on and off the pitch with several injuries for the last 3 years. Don’t get me wrong he’s an excellent visionary, but they’ve had trouble lately with the low block and counter attacks. KDB seems like he doesn’t have the legs anymore. He needs to adapt his play style or he’s done at the top level.

[@madness8053]

Haaland by far is the best striker in the prem

[@imnottellingyoumyname3050]

So bored of the Rashford talk. He's in the bottom half of effective forwards and has been for a while. We only talk about him because his PR company work overtime on him.

[@howbani]

Isak or Haland? This is a joke!! Haland all the day 😂

[@og87]

53:54 Bens team won then if he liked the questions…

[@michaelmcdonagh3218]

I think Rashford will go to Chelsea

[@johngibson4341]

This is the best ex-player podcast

[@Luis-bx4dt]

Does anyone know why mark doesn’t go on anymore

[@stephenbell8349]

KDB can't stay fit either

[@leightonwaugh8713]

Haaland is only as good as whats behind him.... you can say that about bloody dion dublin hahaha

[@romanoonamor7690]

Haaland doesn't score much in 5-6 games and everybody is better than him 😂😂 today's medias and society in a nutshell. And it's funny how when City doesn't win, it's ALWAYS Haaland's fault. Always. It's crazy. He guy is the finisher. If there's nothing behind, he doesn't score. That's it. Van Nistlerooy wouldn't score if there was nothing behind him. Same with any finisher.

[@IndigoEagle78]

It’s been 12 games and he’s scored twice

[@Hokage-Alpha]

As a overall player isak is better dribbling, agility, technique etc but an out and out goalscorer hallaand takes it

[@owencooke3022]

Haaland is the better target man, isak is the better all round player

[@thepeakyblinder5999]

It's been 12 games, not 6.. Today's fans on social media in a nutshell 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣 PS, no one said it's Haaland's fault. Stop creating false narratives in your head, it's only making you look stupid 🤣🤣

[@edrahimovic]

If you have a great team, you want Halaand to finish, if you don't have a good team, you want Izak to make your WHOLE team better