Hello, hello, everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show, a listener questions spectacular episode of The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

On this episode, we're doing a lot of consulting for a few different American interests.

We're talking about bench personnel.

We're pondering why David DeHia remains unemployed. And we're clearing out to give Graham Ruffman between 10 and 30 minutes to passionally advocate for the merits of Big Ang at Tottenham to do so. I'm joined by two gentlemen. Up first is the man I just mentioned. It's the lover of all things pie and Big Ange. It's Graham Ruffin. Hello, Graham. Hello, Taylor Rockwell, quite the

billing. That is pretty much a standard episode for me. You guys clear now for me to have 30 minutes to defend Big Ange, right? How is that different from Monday's weekend review? It's not much. We just thought maybe with even more time, Graham might go into even more detail. So I'm excited to hear about that. I'm excited to be joined by our friend and yours, Mr. Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe.

Hello, Taylor. Yeah, I'm excited to see what Rational Graham pulls out of his butt. This time, I'm just really looking forward to this entire process. Joe, is there anything for you that comes close to Graham's love of pies and Big Ange? Is it Tacos and the manager of Phoenix

Rising? What is it for you? I was going to say it's better that I pull rationale out my butt than a pie at my butt. That's hopefully... Correct. Correct, Graham. We'll get to that. True. Wow. Manager of... That's a start. Manager of Columbus crew. Hello. Wilf Renanse was just sitting there waiting for you, Taylor. That's the correct answer. I also, I'm happy to let Graham carry the pie mantle forward. I come from a pie family. Like, I love pie as well. So I am here to do nothing else but prop up Graham's pie agenda because it is the correct agenda. So I'm rowing in the same boat as you, Graham. Thanks, Joe. I've never had food poisoning from a pie, easy for me to see.

Oh, why did I have to say that? That's now going to happen, isn't it? I've just jinx myself. Jinks in a number of ways. It is only the three of us today. Ryan Bailey is not with us. He is at a sports betting convention. The key topic, as I understand it, is how much is the value of a kidney

worth when it comes to betting and can you bet a soul? I'm not a big fan of sports betting. But I look

forward to hearing from Ryan Bailey when he returns. For now, many questions to get to. Let's start

with this one. I'm going to come to Graham for this one first because I feel like Joe might

maybe have a little bit of bias already.

From Richard Rolson.

If the Total Soccer Show consultants were hired to sit down with Brendan Aronson and help him chart a course to get his career back on track,

what would your advice be for where he should be playing next season?

Which league do you think would be the right one to both highlight his skills,

but still challenging enough to help him improve aspects of his game that need to be tightened up. Graham, thoughts?

So first of all, I'm envisaging the TSS consultants actually sitting down with Brendan Aronson,

and how that would go with Joe in the room? Is it like good cop, bad cop, and Joe is doubly bad cop in this in this scenario? Brendan, can you snag packs and bring him on him here and then you can head up the other door? That'd be great. It does, Grandma, to your point, I do feel like it would be Joe sort of like, like with a slightly condescending smile on his face as Brendan Erickson talks about like what he thinks he did well this season for Union Berlin, where he has to improve, and then Joe just pulling out stats to completely eradicate

both confidence and that entire position. But before we let Joe eradicate all things Brendan Aronson,

Graham, do you have thoughts on either where he should be playing or what he could do to maybe

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