Welcome to the total soccer show and the first part of our 24-25 Premier League previews.

Yes, the league kicks off on Friday when Man United hosts Fulham and the TSS gang is here to tell you everything.

You need to know about all 20 clubs over the next two episodes.

My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, it's your friend of mine, Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan Bailey. I'm excited to be here to tell you about two different Premier League teams and very excited to only have the two instead of the three. Yes, in episode two, Taylor and I have three teams to cover. It's the way the math works out. But Taylor has been telling us before we recorded about

his deep research, listening to club-specific podcasts and everything. I didn't know other soccer

podcasts existed, but here we are. I tend to believe that they don't. And I was watching them on

YouTube, and I enjoyed that no matter what, even if they seemed informative, the comments immediately

disagreed and then fell into disarray in chaos and screaming pretty quickly. Amazing. Joe Larry's also here. Hello, Joe. Hey, should I scream in chaotic fashion just to make Taylor feel red at home with the rest of his research? No. By all means. Very old. Ra! Oh, that was tragic. Even the ones that were like calm and rational, like, here's what the data said and therefore we're extrapolating this I don't care about data he's good at dribbling it's just like okay well

the data says otherwise but that's fine that's fine whatever Joe I know it hurts you personally

whenever data is rejected so I will try not to do that on this episode I was going to say this

feels like a real role reversal here to be honest I'm into this newfound love for data that you have, Taylor. I don't care about data. He's good at dribbling. That sounds like something I would say. Here we are. Wonderful stuff. Graham Rutherland's also there. Hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan Bailey. How deep was our research meant to be? Is that what you guys were last week? Taylor was actually away in visiting Brentford.

He was away to Everton. Joe was at Fulham. Was that, is that what you guys were doing?

Yeah, I was briefly involved in the potential Everton takeover. They didn't know who I was. I told

them I had several hundred million dollars and then when they saw my actual bank account,

they were very angry. See, the thing is, you could be telling the truth, knowing Everton as a club and how that's going. And also knowing Taylor Rockwell, the most interesting man in the world that we consistently find more and more nuggets out and about. Yeah, Graham, while Taylor was off buying Everton, I was getting my pockets picked by Mikkelarteta personally. So, yeah, we were all doing some serious research. And Tim Riem was on your flight home, serious. Correct. Yeah, Graham, I've just finished with Bournemouth's company accounts for the last three years. So that's what I was doing. On the flight back from Bournemouth, I should say, that was for me. On the jet ski back from Bournemouth. Indeed, yeah, Callan Wilson's jet ski. It wrote it all the way back. Wonderful stuff. Patreon.com slash Total Soccer Show is where you'll find our bonus content, bonus episodes, bonus videos, including but not limited to Joe, Joe, but not limited to Joe. It's a video log, if you will, Joe. It is. I'm still just stuck on the image of like a pilgrim

watching someone ride a jet ski across the Atlantic Ocean, or maybe that's just how the pilgrims

got here in the first place. Oh, man, what a picture. Yeah. As a slight off, there was a podcast

called The Bugle with John Oliver on it many years ago. And they said the most American thing they've ever seen was, I think it was in the harbour in Charleston. It was baseball's being hit off an aircraft carrier and being collected out of the water by jet skis. That was the most American thing you possibly have. That would be an Olympic sport in early 28, I think. Yeah, amazing. Amazing stuff. Anyway, Patreon.com slash total soccer show for all our bonus content. By the way, we're also on threads now. Come and visit us on the threads. We're doing threads and threading stuff together on there. Let's get on with our Premier League preview. So plenty to get through. We're going to 10 teams on this episode. Arsenal through It Switch and all who reside

within them alphabetically. Joe Lowry, it falls upon you to kick us off with Arsenal.

And as you mentioned there, you mentioned the pickpocketing. The preseason for Arsenal has

consisted of, let me get this right, Mikhail Artetta hiring a professional

pickpocket to pickpocket the team during a team event to show them the importance of being alert. What is a professional pickpocketer? Like, where do you hire a professional pick not pickpocketer? They're not on Craigslist, are they? Jail, I believe, is that. Yeah, Arteta took a spin down to the county jail. Yeah, just to skip ahead a little bit to the managerial section. That is one of my

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