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We're live in Chicago on a Friday. It is a summer version of the Hd. Great show ahead The six The super six and one hour from now, the top six World Cup goals from this week. JayMac has heardline today, headlines today. So we got we got a pack show on a Friday. So Jalen Brown traded to the sixers. Push shocy What is going on That is historic. Take a deep breath. Four things to remember. Number one Everybody has a boss Even Elon Musk, it's called the IRS. And u But a year ago, Trump Everybody's got a boss Brad Stevens is a general manager, not an owner. The Celtics are owned by an investment group that does not also own TD garden So they're not swimming in cash. It's not very profitable They've got two guys Tatum and Brown playing together for nine years. That's longer than Sack and Kobe Nine years, one title clearly falling behind San Antonio and Oklahoma City So the investment group Yeah, that's who owns the Celtics, the investment group that doesn't own the arena said We're going to move off one of these guys. We couldn't beat the good teams last year. We're falling behind Brad Stevens has a boss. and I think he also realized it. Number two is Trading super Max players in twenty twenty six It's hard Cost control is everything Not stacking rosters. it's not the eighty Lakers. Think about this The Milwaukee Bx were're offered Jayalen Brown and two first round picks Shayen Brown, all NBA two first round picks The Milwaukee buck said Nah, We'll take Tyler Ho rotational players and more picks What to hell That's the new NBA Number three, Analytics run baseball and basketball, not football. They run it. You're a hack. you're a dinosaur, you're Jurassic If you're in a front office in the NBA and baseball and you don't go all in on analytics. The first thing the new lakor owners did build an analytics department. Why are the Dodgers the best run team in sports? Analytics departments Analytically, I'm sorry, Jalen Brown, not a number one And he's a fifty seven million dollars player annually. There's a great article today by Sam Amk, exxcellent reporting in the athletic. The Celtics are unbeatable Tatum has thirty three percent usage rates Jayln Brown got to be number one last year He didn't want to go back to being a number two. It's in the story and Tatum can't get to that usage rate because Jamalen Brown wants shots Jalen Brown got a taste it. he likes. I don' blame But with Jalen Brown as a one, they weren't beating good teams last year So number three is analytics run this sport, analytically The Celtics believe Derek White was a better player last year And that was leaked Heayton Pritchard eightight million Shayen Brown, fifty seven million Is Jalen is he seven times better than Peyton Brichard? He's better The way the Celtics look at it is Pyton Pichard at eight million fits our formula. I'm looking at it this morning. Jayalen Brown's career. I'm sorry Analytics Don't blame the messenger The Celtics for his entire tenure with the team are better when he's off the floor That's what they say So he's making fifty seven million a year. He doesn't want to move back to a number two according to the athletic And guess what? The market forum wasn't very big They wanted Mil Walket. No. It wasn't very big. Heel for Yonis it wasn't even huge. and he's a better player And number four is every NBA team Nobody is more formula driven and analytic driven Then the Celtics. We've been talking about this for years. They have a formula. The Nick don't. You can say they're too driven by formula and analytics But to them They look at Payton Pritchard and think eight million do to fifty seven million. Pold George, by the way, analytically in his career is up there with LeBron James and Coi Leonard Jayalen Brown analytically in his career is right up next to Westbrook Okay. So Take a deep breath. fourour things are true Brad Stehvens saw the future, OKC San Antonio pulling away and Brad Stevens has a boss. Number two, there wasn't that big of a market Super Max players are hard to trade. Number three, analytically, say what you want. Jayen Brown It's not a one. He's a two. I don't care about all NBA, Analytics. Number four, nobody's more analytically driven than the Celtics and by the way Nine years is a long time together. nine years one title Kolbe Shaack, eight years three. Like when you get a great tandem and you're payingem top of the market in a league now where you can't stack it and it's all about chemistry newew owners are like, we don't own the, we don't own the Ky Garden We're not profitable Not very. We got two guys nine years together, one starting to have Durability issues. We gott to move one Here's Jalen Brown last night live streaming. He does that on the trade. At one point, it was fine and out of nowhere it just went left. I definitely think it's more to it It definitely is more to it. I know Brad is getting a lot of the criticism But You know I just wish that more to it could have been explained. I just wish that they had the respect to just tell me what exactly what it was And I would I would have understood and I would have respected that. man, they packed me up Dan he roll me up, pack me up S andar, buddy Um Read the Athletic, the Sam Amic article says a lot Okay, so this was interesting. LeBron James, who, according to Rich Paul, Would be willing to play now for the veteran minimum three point nine million. But he now has the greatest value in the history of American sports if that's what he's willing to pay for I mean, that's like walking into a car lot, seeing A little older, Bentley, it's a used Bentley, but you're like it's Bentley.' give away for tw thousand two hundred dollars. I'll take it. I don't need it. I don't even have a garage space. I'll take it. ind Rich Paul. I think he's talking to Max Kelleran There's a there's a board and on the board are all the teams listed? And for the radio audience, I'll try to explain this. Clearly LeBron is is considering everything. Under the Dallas Mavericks, you see the world The word oil Golf. and a GM's name Under the Denver nuggets, you see Stan Cronky's name owner of the team under the Celtics Jason Tatum Brad Stevenens Under Cleveland its's relationships, Kobe Altan and Dan Gilbert seeventy sixers Miami, it's just players But there's players and owners, GM, lifestyle, investments, oil, LeBron is considering everything. And I've said this before. I've moved cross country now when I moved to Chicago five times Taxes. Airports, location, family whether You consider everything. and LeBron James is I come back to two things. T teams, Golden State Drayon Steph play a high IQ, high functioning basketball I mean, Draymon and urry are in just a symmetry that is historically Special I think LeBron fits. I think LeBron also has always appreciated veteran players who are really, really smart. And Stehan Draymon are going a thousand miles an hour, that ecosystem is not for young players. It's close to LA He's got a great coach who he respects and it's a winning culture Number two is Cleveland. He's got a house there It's almost a museum Um He's got relationships. he's been there twice. I do think he would be embraced. They didn't they didn't they weren't hard on the Brom we left Cleveland second time They said, thank you, we got them a title. they weren't harsh. So a golden state in Cleveland worked for me, but it does show you that LeBron is a businessman And and when Tom Brady, remember when we broke the story, Tom Brady going to Tampa. on anonymous source, by the way. When I broke that would not have broken it without it. When I broke that story One of the things Tom thought about. he wanted to go to Miami first Right? Like No state tax, weather, division. There was a lot of things. Tom wanted to face the Patriots again He didn't get that, but he chose Tampa. But a lot of what he chose in Tampa was Bruce Aryans and wide receivers because in New England they couldn't draft wide receivers So guys like LeBron and Brady They consider everything. I mean, Messi chose the MLS in Miami. Why didn't he choose he had many options You know, when you get up to the billionaire status and you're as an entrepreneurial as Rich Paul and LeBron James, you're considering oil G off Ownership, general manager, relationships Golden State, Cleveland feel like one and two to me or maybe Cleveland one Golden state two.ere's Rich Pa and why the warriors would be attractive to bron golf would be tremendous with those guys. What about playing basketball with those? Oh, I mean, come on, Max You turn back What you tell me Stehan Drake. What I will say to you is Sefendre obviously, you get F time champions like you are, you get some of the highest IQ basketball. You get a guy in Joe Lakeup who told you this the whole time wants to win. He's not. he wants to win with int a great business mind at that I think it makes sense And I'll ad Jason Timp in one hour at three point nine million, call me crazy, but could he go back to the Lakers? I'm serious I mean, good great play initiator now that they got rim protection M which it sounds crazy But I mean, Kevin Durant went to the Warriors at one point You know, Jayen Brown just got traded for thirty five year old Paul George in division against the rival That That is fascinating, by the way. the whole part of the Jayalen Brown trade that's not being discussed. I'm going to talk about it around the corner I cannot believe it's not being discussed There are four players for the Sixers who view themselves as number one Mbed Maxi Brown. and if you don't think VJ Edgecombe doesn't, he averaged fifteen shots as a rookie. first game in the NBA, thirty six points, twenty four shots. You think he's now going to go to a four Hey, go ahead guys, I'll shoot nine times VJ Edgecombe is a stud They got four ones Do yourself a favor everyverybody send Nick nurse a Christmas present because that is going to be I mean, that is going to be wild. Jay Mac brought this up at the end of yesterday's show. it's a great point Who's callsing games Who's the number one? Hell, who's the number three? And in the NBA, that matters. It's just like NFL wide receivers. likeike, hey guys, I don't mind Be a number two. I don't want to be a number three Like it matters. theseese guys and I've always backed NBA players on this Your careers are short. I can do this forever, A lawyer can do it forever, a nurse can do it forever You know, if you're a great athlete, you're like, bro I got to buy eight years of prime wide receiver prrime guy. Philadelphia now has four guys who view themselves as one, and I think three of them have a great argument It's going to be tough. Listen. they're going to win fifty plus games. We know that. There's too much talent to not win fifty. But when it comes to the playoffs, a tough series against the Nicks. The Nicks have defined roles, right? It's Brunson's team. He's the son. They operate around him.. I don't know how that works for Nick Nurse. By the way, I will say I saw a report that the Celtics did ask for Edgecb initially Yeah in the trade and Philly was like not happening guys. Okay. sorry That's a great point. It's not like Brad Stevens made two calls Yeah. He called the league They couldn't move they couldn't move Jalen Brown because again, analytics run the sport and everybody in the league like fifty seven million For that player, the league views Jalen as a two analytically. and the league is run by analytics. Don't you think Ee Udoka in Houston who coached Brown to a title would have been interested? He I mean, he knows Jalen Brown as well as anybody. He was with the Celtics And the rocket showed zero interest in Jayalen Brown. To me, that's a little surprising, Colin. I don't think the market was as robust as he thought. Okay, there's a saying that went around forever and you can no longer say it, That's next. It's the herd Be sure to catch live editions of the Heard weeekdays in Non Eastern nine AM Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS one and the iHard Radio app Hey guys, it's Dasha here. The World Cup brings cities to life. Streets buzzing, crowds gathering, every goal sparking celebration. Moments like this are impossible to miss, but some moments are so quiet They slip right past us. Human trafficking affects real people across the US, and it often looks different from what we think. Some survivors cannot simply walk away or ask for help. so learn the signs. Break the silence. Visit bluecampaign d. gov slash World Cup Every goal starts with insist. 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Nobody cares about soca Nobody cares about you Merch attendance ratings. numumbers are in And we haven't gotten to the biggest games yet The last USA game got twenty four and a half million viewers. It is now beating NFL playoff games one, nothing else is on. Yeah, except for the heart of the baseball season with the All Star game two weeks out in the trade deadline Also, it's the summer. You wouldn't choose to put anything on in the summer Because having been in television for thirty five years, the summer's Death Valley Pople on the water. They're on a golf course. They don't watch television in the summer. I mean, my my summer viewing Plumets And yet in the summer The World Cup overlapped the NBA finals. It overlapped the Stanley Cup finals The Wimbbleton's on. US Open is on, the baseball season' on. And it is now beating NFL playoff games. Nobody cares about soccer It's over And we don't need Galileo We don't need a telescope Be loud Be proud Put your chest out It's twenty twenty six Merch Economy Ratings Revenue. and oh by the way, this may sting a little. Nobody cares about soccer guy But according to our research at Fox, Michael Molihill, you know who watches soccer Cool kids and people that make money for people making over one hundred thousand dollars They watch soccer And I can tell you to advertisers that's really attractive. So it's not that the United States Men's National team has viewers They have the right viewers Lettu us. money, buy things It's here. It's not going anywhere Malicio Pochatino onn the locker room after the win on Wednesday. We favorite scen of unity that is the most important Because Who was inside play play from the bench, didn't play the stuff everything that we are have family and that is tr's not the empty world to say we are a family Every soone is possible guys, Every soone is possible. We were talking from the beginning We have will be more close Okay, we were talking about to touch the moon, Touch the moon. Guys, take me home. takeake me home, takeake me home bye good is that. Jay Mac with the news. No no, no, no Third line news. let's dive right into the World Cup yesterday. an absolute thriller between Croatia and Portugal Collin. onene of the wildest second halves I've ever seen. I mean, this was tootal bonkers. So Portugal takes the lead very late in the game Feels like it's over Colin, Croatia scores an unbelievable goal Massive celebration. everyverybody goes crazy and then VAR steps in and rules There's a chip in the ball and a sensor went off that there was contact thus The Croatitian player was off sides. I'm just I'm just gonna say, I know you watch this and you have a lot of thoughts. There is a cottage industry right now of people going online Criticizing this and saying FIFA still got it wrong. I don't know. I'm dubious. There's a lot of Ronaldo. conspiracy theories. Listen Denver Broncos Buffalo Bill. I watch thirty replays. I still think the replay got it wrong. But replay doesn't guarantee you get it right. It increases the chances that you do. But you know, this is another example. Did they get it right? You go back, watch Brandon Cooks in that interception I've seen a hundred angles. I still think it's a catch. Yeah. I still think it's a catch. So Saints Rams Pass interferentnce You know, so they overhaul their entire replay. It just reepplay. I think sometimes fans think replay proves you'll get it right. No, youll have a higher percentage of getting it right, but it's not perfect. Yeah. It was Listen, Ronaldo converted PK and he will advance If you're Croatia, you just gutted. I mean, Loko Madrich his World Cup Magical World Cup career comes to an end. There he is the legend. I don't know Portugal Spain is a potential match upp down the road. Portugal's a dangerous team colin You know, they got some dudes And of course Ronaldo got subed off. Did you see his reaction when he got subed off the game? He was not thrilled to be going to the sideline, but obviously quite a scene there celebrating the Portugal victory. All right let's stick with team USA Colin. and we're going to go to a Landon Donovan take here on Flow Balligan. that's just amazing irst of all, I saw Landon Donovan here in the building today. He's what a great guy. One of the great US g great ambassador He's a wonderful guy. But if you're the referee for the Bosnia U.S game, you don't want to listen to his podcast. He shredded this guy for a brutal red card. Here it is, Colin And my first thought, Tim was Yeah. okay, obbviously what it means for the game Yeah If we advance what it means, but he just ruin Flow's World Cups Like one referee moreor wrong decision my world cup Yeah, ye, maybe. Like that might tip the scales between winning or m versus Belgium And I'm just like this poor guy just got his worldld cup ruined by this idiot who has no business being in this game. So you don't bring this game? No I me It's a ridiculous red card Yeah I know there's, you know, we talked about this. You have to consider stakes When you're a parent Birthays between eight years old, nine, ten, eleven, twelve they're really meaningful for kids. makeake your kids feel special If you're a guy that still celebrates your birthday at thirty five, you probably need to grow up. Okay. Red cards that are inappropriate are fine and friendlies. and I would argue even in a group stage You get to a knockout stage at a World Cup every four years You better have a swing. I mean, somebody, it has got to be so outraged and not only It has to be called immediately. This wasn't even given a yellow And it then pivoted to a suspension This stage matters. There're just sudden things. you go into a church on Sunday. You could say them outside the church in the parking lot. You don't see them in the church There are things at the World Cup knockout stage, group stage and even knockout stage. That's two different levels of World Cup play And I mean, we talk about the penalty kicks. You can have a draw in the group stage. You can't in the knockout stage. The stakes are bigger So it's just egregious to me. So you remember the Zidon head butt in the World Cup final Listen, that's egregious. Okaykay, everybody who's watching this sport agrees, holy cow, you can't head butt somebody in the chest. I don't care what he said about your mom. We got that This I mean, Clin, I haven't seen one person who said, you've gott toss him for that. It makes sense. It's just It's brutal and u, you know, landon. Now, we can use Landed Donovan up frront against Belgium. I still think we are going to win that game. I'll just h that hope and we face Spain and so far I think that would that would be in the quarterfinals. That would be amazing. But All right, Conle, let's go to the final story here. back to Rich Paul talking about LeBron. interestnteresting take on the Kicks So the Nicks, of course just won the title colin. You think that impacts LeBron's decision to here's Rich Paul on the Kns and LeBron the last thing you want to do. is Mess up something like that, right? D Nickix has a good thing going That'll be If the Kicks hadn't a won This wouldn't there would be no board. He'd be going to the next. He'd be going to the next. When the brron comes ono your team. I don't care if you just won a championship. I don't care if you've been the best player. It's different man. his his enterprise vound and what he just carries It's different. bre my brown knows this. It's very interesting. yearsars ago, David Falk, a super agent thought to himself Hey, what if Michael and Magic played a one on one game. and I don't remember all the particulars to it, but Mike and M David Falk was a brilliant guy And Michael Jordan said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I'm seen as the great individual player. Magic is the great team guy If by chance I lost a magic, he'd have both And so my point is This is perfect. LeBron gets the situation If the Knicks don't win Perfect But if LeBron goes to the Kicks, even if they're a better team and they lose, Terrible for LeBronzs brand. It's Whoa. You screwed up the chemistry on it because the truth is the Nicks probably aren't going to win because they lose Mitchell Robinson. now. boy, you better have Cat be healthy You lose Kat You are small. Oh jeez, you're big. Josh Hart is playing key roles with physicality So this is a classic brand play, which I think once you become an icon, you have to consider that which is I'm not going to a team that just won a title Even if I made them better if we don't lose, it's like, LeBron screwed that. I remember his last year in the NBA. So I think Rich Paul nailed it. If they hadn't won, it's perfect But let me ask you, LeBron going to the Ns Colen, he would come off the bench. Im sorry, you're not bench you're putting Josh Hart on the bench for. Here's why. Josh Hart's a low usage guy. All of a sudden, if you put LeBron in for, say bridges or heart. You lose a plus defender, you lose your energy rebatter. I see you scoffing. tell he would be soaking up the ball a lot of time. That's not what you're. Deep breath. LeBron wouldn't go to a team to come off the bench. It would be negotiated before. I mean of these some of these landing spots people are talking about Again, it's I don't think it's going to work in Colin. I'll ask you what I asked you yesterday Does LeBron put any of those teams in this circle over the top? I dont I just don't know that he does. I will tell you he puts San Antonio over the top Qestion. Guy LeBron is one of the top ten players in the league. And he's also I mean, he's also One of the smartest players of all the time. LeBron always made the right basketball play. So the spurs are built with Weby and four shooters, right? Four guards If you pull off one of those shooters, LeBron is what the point forward you have totally rejigger your offense. I don't know that you want to do that if you're the sppur They're not going to do that. LeBron's gonna make your teams better. Let's not outthink the room here. The Lakers would be better if he was on it.. That's why Lakers becausecause we have proof of concept. If you're just thrusting LeBron into a potential contender with a bunch I don't know that it's gonna be that seamless Detroit abbsolutely lookon's going to make them better. I can see that because they don't have any dudes. They got Cave Cunningham and The reason the Spurs lost in the finals, they couldn't organize their half court offense in the forth. And I think LeBron would solve that Kay back to the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The hed lie. Okays. This gets a laugh emoji. I'm not mad about this. I'm not bitter about this. at this point. I think it's funny You know, some things you can get frustrated with And after a while, you're like Okay, I just gott to take a deep breath and laugh Okay Kaln Clark on a vote by W NBA players was voted the eleventh best guard in the sport Fans rank her second, media ranked her third WNBA players voted her as the eleventh best guard Indiana scoring ninety four a game. It's the highest in sixteen years. She's the number one shooter, distributor, play initiator, playmaker. She's eleven She's fourth in the league and scoring, second in the assist And she's the eleventh best guard. I don't know, shooting, playmaking and assists feel big for a guard The team is the highest scoring average in sixteen years I mean, the animosity toward Caitlin Clark I'm not angry about. I mean a lot of people getting very angry on the internet. it's just, it's so petty. at this point, you just have to I mean, the officiating they they bring out a thirty year anniversary poster knowing apparently they can't put Caitlin on it because of some contractual deal and they still go with it knowing they're going to get crucified for doing it post her out. if you knew going in, you couldn't use her likeness. likeike don't do it I mean, it it's I respect You know, people are saying, you know, you guys in the media don't respect the league. No no, I respect the players. I think the quality of play is excellent I respect the women, I respect the W ethic. I respect the coaching. I think the officiating is bad, but I can't respect the league. I think it's petty. I don't think management's very good I can respect the players. I can respect your work ethic. I can respect. I mean, these gols play hard. It's a physical sport But I mean, come on now, eleventh best guard I look at it I'm looking this season twenty one a game, eight assists Three three pointers made top three in the league, ninety four a game for the team and she's the eleventh best. Gard Again, sometimes you just have to kind of laugh at stuff A because people online I stay offline mostly. peopleeople online are they don't like it. There is some. they people get worked up They are getting really worked up The Stu Holden's around the corner, it's the hurt Be sure to catch live editions of the Hed weeekdays in Non Eastern nine AM Pacific Hey guys, it's Dasha here. The World Cup brings cities to life. Streets buzzing, crowds gathering, every goal sparking celebration. Moments like this are impossible to miss, but some moments are so quiet They slip right past us. Human trafficking affects real people across the U, and it often looks different from what we think. Some survivors cannot simply walk away or ask for help. 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Then Monday Following the United States win over Bosnia They head to Seattle to take on Belgium at eight Eastern. Catch all the action on Fox You know, you have to be very delicate. You can be upset with the red card given to Flow Balligan But you don't want to I was told this years ago by a football coach. You never want one loss to become two You've seen this in college football. you know, a team will get a bowl bid years ago and they're not happy with the bowl bid And all of their coach does is complain about it and they get to the bowl game and they get run out of the arena by a lesser team Let's bring on Stu Holden leadead match analyst Foxports. He's called everybody in Miami, Argentina game with Kate Verdie tonight Listen, you can be simultaneously infuriated by the red card. And then you can also not let it go. I feel like guys, it happened. We have depth at the nine. Let's get over it. That's what worries me is that it becomes, you get paralyzed by it. You start talking about it. It's every discussion at lunch, at practice doeses that worry you Hey you been hanging out with Marisa Poatino or what? Con? I look that's I think that's the perfect attitude and I would imagine that's the way this team is going to approach this game. You can't ever in in a competitive situation dwell on something that you can't change now. you focus on the four. Does it suck? Absolutely. Has he been one of our best players? Absolutely. H he been the best striker, one of the best strikers in the tournament? for sure. And I think that's why everybody's upset because it's like, wow, we have a number nine that has been scoring goals and not just the goals. He's been looking physically dominant omin But I take you back a year's time. peopleople were saying around this team, including me, who's going to start up Fort front? Is it going to be Peppy? Is it going to be Baligan? Is it going to be Hogie Wright Boligan has performed and exceeded expectations. He's shown he's a different level, but let's not act like the replacements that we have aren't guys that aren't capable of producing moments. And then the other thing I'll kick back to How much did we talk about Christian Pelisic coming into this tournament? How big a tournament did he need to have He beforefore the last match, he had only played seventy seven minutes. It has been the team and yet he hasn't even really had a signature moment or game. Well, now's your time. if you're Christian Pulistic. Baligananss out. everyone's going to be talking about the fact that we're missing him. but let's hope we get a game from our superstar player that is worthy of a superstar because all the other stars in the tournament have really turned up Yeah. For me, that's over to you, Christian Palisi U I said of all the sports in the NFL now because of advancements in technology in the helmet, homefield advantages maybe a point point a half. I feel like watching Mexico at Azteecca And the United States in Seattle, I honestly think it's worth a goal. I really do. I think the environment, the aggressiveness, how does it land for you? So we have been in LA for two games for the US. The opening game, the atmosphere was absolutely incredible. We were in San Francisco the other night and then Seattle was game two Seattle was, I will say it here,, they were by far and away the best of all of those environments. This This is a sports town that has supported their soccer team in the Seattle Sounders. They've got the women's team in the rain. They love and and breathe and live for soccer. That national anthem was the loudest I heard. The country roads after the game was just incredible They are going to bring it in such a big way that I'm with you. I think this gives the team more than the average home field advantage. And I've heard some English friends of mine talking about, you know, you we're going to Mexico and N Tuca stadium and no big deal Yeah, right. that place is a fortress, altitude, heat environment. That Mexican team, you see the way they run for the shirt in that home environment is another level. So I'm absolutely with you and that the crowd and the environment can influence the play on the field. Yeah, they haven't lost that As Teca since twenty thirteen. That's the last I mean, that's just insane It looks different and say the air quality, the environment, the fans, the passion So Belgium's interesting So back in twenty eighteen or twenty fourteen, when all their star players were either right before their prime or in it, it's different I tend to believe the longer this tournament goes, it benefits teams with more players in their athletic prime, the United States I think it's tougher as it goes for a Belgium I do think Ricardo Pppi. if he plays the number nine, I do think we match up still well with Belgium, even without Balligan. Do you