Hello, hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

I went very high-pitched there for today's Bundesliga preview episode.

My name is Taylor Rockwell joining me.

It's been very too long since last he was on the show,

so much so that I've forgotten how to speak properly.

It's Manuel Vait of TransferMarch.

Manuel, thank you for being here. Good to have you back, buddy. Oh, thanks for having me on. It's always a pleasure. Yeah, so how has the summer been? How was rooting for Germany? Were you rooting for Germany? Were you sad with the way things played out? Oh, that's a loaded question right to the beginning.

Yeah, I was okay with it.

I didn't have any expectations.

And I'm just glad it's over and we have a proper head coach again.

There we go.

You've got a proper head coach.

Hansi Flick is now in charge of the German national team. And we've had many other managerial changes.

We're going to talk about those and many other things as we preview the start of the Bundesliga season. Before we started recording, I asked Manuel which team he thought was most interesting, which was the one he had the most interest in discussing. And it's going to be Leipzig. Manuel, why is it Leipzig? Well, because it's Jesse Marsh time.

That's my man. That's what I wanted to hear you say. It is Jesse Marsh time.

It's really excited to see what he's going to do with this team. I think it's going to be a return to more of a Red Bull brand kind of football.

You know, a lot of vertical play rather than horizontal play, a lot more high press,

a lot more attacking.

I think when you look at what they did in the market, it's very interesting.

They brought an unresilver, right?

I don't think anyone expected Andreselvo to stay in Germany.

We all had him to go to Spain or England.

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