Why Don't English Clubs Dominate In Europe?

The Premier League is the biggest and richest league in world football and it's not even close. Premier League revenues amount to €6.5 billion per season and Rising is now worth more than the next most lucrative leagues in world football, La Liga and the Bundesliga Premier League

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combined now spend €4,300 million euros per season in salaries, compared to La Liga's €2.4 billion, Seria's €2 billion and the Bundesliga's €1.9 billion in terms of gross transfer spending. Premier League

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spent a combined €3.1 billion. EUR last season, compared to only EUR 882 million in Sera, EUR 74 million in Le gun and around EUR 550 million in La Liga and the Bundesliga, so, more than in the other four leagues combined, The gap is even greater when it comes to net spending with the rest. of Europe, except for a small handful of clubs who now rely on the sales of Premier League teams only to finance their own signings and day-to-day operations, we now live in a world in which Bournemouth, in a rickety old stadium in 11,000 CA, can receive players from as many Roma Newcastle United can steal players from AC Milan or they could end up suspended for the next 10 months and Aston Villa can casually select top players such as Vial Seevilla and Blusen in the Delight Football Money League 2024 that classifies clubs, based on the annual income they generate, there are six English clubs among the 10 richest teams in the world and 14 among the 30 best led by United, which is currently in the championship no less than a French Gigantes León and far behind last season's Europa.

Sevilla, winner of the league, the financial imbalance that exists within European football, which is one of the main reasons why some European giants were and, indeed, still are so interested in the idea of ​​some kind of Super League European, is absolutely enormous, to the point that, as I said recently. If the case is presented on this same channel, it could be argued that the Premier League is already a Super League, only that all the clubs play their games in England, for now at least the Premier League has been the largest and richest league in the world More than 20 years have passed and the gap between this and all other leagues only grows with each passing season and yet, since 2000, English clubs have won only six of the 24 possible league titles. the Champions League and just four Europa Leagues, losing each of them.

Final in which they have faced a Spanish rival for more than 20 years this season, half of the four English representatives of the Champions League, Manchester United and Newcastle United, not only failed to advance from the group stage, but who finished last in their groups without even being relegated. Meanwhile, Arsenal have just lost the first leg of their round of 16 tie against Porto, whose income is less than that of the team that finishes last in the Premier League each season. It is for this reason that they recently asked me with different expletives. by four different people, both online and in real life, very occasionally I talk to people who are not on the Internet why English clubs are not more dominant in Europe.

Surely they told me, given the financial situation of the Premier League, the League teams should do it. Not only are they doing well in Europe, winning the odd trophy here and there, they should be a relentless winning machine, annihilating all those who dare to follow their path to an all-English semi-final. Well, I'm not. One to take on a challenge, as long as that challenge is a football-based query that you can monetize for content and get a job and that doesn't actually require physical bravery or even the possibility of any personal sacrifice, so today I'm going to Try answer that question, so sit back, relax and join me on a trip to England, the home of the Lollipop ladies. 99 screams, a deep-seated hatred towards young people and a burning desire to see their lives get even worse as we take a look.

Why are English football clubs, despite seemingly having every financial advantage imaginable, not all conquering Jugger Two in Europe? When talking about the success of English clubs in Europe or lack thereof, the past and present can often be conflated, you may have even noticed I did. In the introduction I mentioned that Manchester United and Newcastle finished bottom of their groups this season alongside English clubs who have only won the Champions League six times in the 21st century, across 24 editions of the competition. It's a smart board if I do say so myself. create a clear and orderly narrative about English clubs in Europe, but the reality is that the reason Newcastle failed to reach the knockout stage of this season's Champions League is that English clubs have won far fewer leagues. of Champions than the Spanish clubs in recent years. 35 years, at best, barely related when Manchester United won the treble in 1999 beating Bayern Munich, scoring two goals in injury time, becoming the first English club to be crowned European champions in 15 years, but there were good reasons for that.

Following the stadium disaster in the 1985 European Cup final, in which Liverpool lost 1-0 to Juventus, UEFA banned English clubs from all European competitions indefinitely. The ban was lifted in the 19991 season after 5 years for all English clubs except Liverpool, who were only allowed to return the season after the one before the ban which occurred as a result of the deaths of 39 people, more than 600 injured and 14 Liverpool fans found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six years behind bars, it would be a serious understatement to describe the Englishman. The clubs were simply dominant in Europe in the European Cup, at least the English clubs were practically hegemonic between 1975 and the UAFA ban in 1985.

Of 11 European Cup finals, nine featured an English club. Every final between 1977 and 1982 featured an English club. won six European Cups in a row and, after Hamburg's success in 1983, normal service resumed when Liverpool were crowned European champions in 1984 against Roma, a year before their final against Juventus, leading to suspension of the English clubs, taking into account that during this entire period only one club from each country, that is, the national champions of the previous season, qualified for the European Cup and it was a direct knockout format without a group stage, so with a single slip you were out.

The consistency of English clubs for more than a decade was practically non-existent. precedent, with the exception perhaps of Real Madrid's early domination of the competition when they won five crowns in a row in slightly different circumstances, the UEFA ban changed everything, not only in the most fundamental sense, of course, it prevented the clubs English win European competitions in the next As you know, for 5 years, the fact of not being able to play in them isolated English football from the rest of the continent, while in the 1982 World Cup only one member of the England team played the football of his club outside of England, namely the substitute striker Tony Woodcock, who played in Cologne and even joined Arsenal that same summer, after English clubs were excluded from European competitions, even when the famous Travelers were poor, some Some of England's best players left the top flight, such as Mark Hatley, Ray Wilkins and David Plat, all joining teams in Siia.

Like Paul Gasco at Des Walker a little later, Glenn Huddle tried to improve himself by joining Monaco. Gary Liner couldn't turn down the opportunity to play for Barcelona and Chris Waddles signed for Marseille, which is even more common as in the case of Gary Stevens Terry Butcher and Trevor Steven were English players heading north of the border and they were joining Scottish clubs that could still compete in Europe during this period in Italian NY, in fact when England reached the semi-finals of the World Cup there. There were more Rangers players in Bobby Robson's team than players representing any other club.

It is more important than pure capital flight in terms of losing talent to the rest of Europe and possibly more important than simply not being able to compete in Europe for 5 years. years was the tactical, technical and professional isolation of English clubs this was a period of rapid innovation in football the same year that English clubs were exiled from European competitions Johan C took the reins as coach of his former Club Ajax in 1987 Ajax won the European Championship Winners' Cup with an all-Dutch starting 11 that included players such as Frank Reichard Marco van Baston and a young Denis bur Camp honed in on the principles of total football and playing the game how C felt it should be played in 1988 C was appointed as the new head coach at Barcelona where his impact would be even more important in his first season at Barcelona with Gary Liner playing on the right wing.

C won the European Cup once again and in 1992, by which time he had renewed the Barcelona team. C won the treble with a 1-nil victory against Sdor in the European Cup final, vindicating their tactical revolution along with successive La Liga titles, a Barcelona team that featured the likes of Pep Guardiola , Michael lrp and Aristo stov, who would later be joined by ramario. became known as C's Dream Team The C application depended on Barcelona implementing root and branch reforms immediately after the infamous Asparia mutiny and reshaping the club in its own image. It wasn't just the first team.

C was obsessed with the youth teams of Lamazia Barcelona. demand that they play and train in the same way as the first team say that they were tactically and technically equipped to play the way he wanted and could seamlessly transition to the first team at any time without being expected to do anything different C is Just an example from the same era when former shoe salesman Origo Saki was implementing an equally radical set of new ideas at AC Milan with even greater success. Sven gar and Ericson did wonders in Italy and Portugal while belonging to a completely different school of thought and there they were equally interesting innovations and ideas that reached foreign Eastern Europe, as both Bucharest and Red Star Belgrade defeated the Elite of Western Europe to be crowned European Champions.

Just as important as any tactical innovation was the modernization of training, diet and nutrition, while all this was something of a football earthquake taking place. English clubs and English football watched from the sidelines, semi-aware of what was happening, although much less so than they would have been today, when the world is much smaller and everything is broadcast in ultra high definition. but always a grade or two lower, while AC Milan's Sid's revolutionary trap of Bar's Dream Team and Stow's lack of defensive ability and discipline within a 4222 formation presented a new challenge for the rest of Europe and one that had to overcome if they wanted to win anything English football was inevitable, if you think about it, it became very Ina, it was no use for Arsenal to contemplate what would be the best way to defeat Sven Benfica or match the energy and professionalism of latex Bayern , where all they had to do was get past Middlesboro and Luton.

Town to be crowned top division champions it's not that English football has terminally declined for 5 years outside of Europe, the national team's fortunes actually improved, they just fell behind and out of the loop when it came to ways to succeed in Europe . Despite being then dominant to an unprecedented and almost tediously predictable extent before the ban, English clubs would not return to Europe and win again until Manchester United beat Bayern Munich in injury time in Barcelona in 1999. , 14 years after Heisel and 9 years. After English clubs were readmitted to Europe, did an English club even reach the European Cup or Champions League final, as it later emerged?

Although English clubs were readmitted in the 19991 season by virtue of Liverpool winning the league the previous season and being suspended for a further season, there were no English clubs in the 19991 edition of the competition, meaning that English clubs were de facto banned from Europe's premier competition for six years instead of five, the first English club to compete in the European Cup after the ban in the 1991-92 season was Arsenal, who lost 4 -2 in two games against Benfica in the second round; Over the next four seasons, Leeds United and Manchester United were eliminated by Rangers and Galatasarayalso in the second round before a change in Champions League format that saw both Manchester United and Blackburn Rovers eliminated in the GRE group stage, instead saying English clubs were disappointed in Europe after his return would be an understatement, it was not until Manchester United reached the semi-finals in 1997, where they lost 2-0 against the eventual winners, Bruscia Dortmund, that some pride was restored even after the Red Devils won the Champions League in 1999, the first English club to do so since Liverpool in 1984, didn't exactly mark a turning point, the next five finals did not.

With only one English club, the 20203 season was particularly disappointing, as Liverpool were eliminated in the first group stage and finished below Valencia, and Barzel Newcastle and Arsenal were eliminated in the second group stage and Manchester United was eliminated in the quarterfinals. The English team reached the quarter-finals compared to three from Italy and Spain, and none reached the semi-finals, which was an exclusively Italian and Spanish affair, a vital context for understanding why between the mid-1980s and the mid-1980s the 2000s, English clubs performed so poorly in Europe, or indeed did not perform at all, is less relevant, although not entirely irrelevant, to understanding why Liverpool lost the 2022 Champions League final. against Real Madrid, Newcastle and Manchester United was eliminated in this season's group stage and Arsenal despite scoring between four and six goals. outperformed all the Premier League teams they are facing at the moment, only losing 1-n against Porto without registering a single shot. objective, it is not entirely irrelevant because there are still tactical differences between the Premier League teams League and those on the continent and, indeed, between the different teams on the continent, mainly the Premier League is still played at a faster pace and with more physicality than most of the major leagues in Europe.

Tactically and professionally, the league has changed enormously since the early 1990s, the separation of the Premier League from the rest of the football league and the European Cup becoming the burning of the Champions League. Wenger was the catalyst for many of those changes after he was appointed by Arsenal in 1996, especially in terms of diet and nutrition, the drinking culture in English football was still huge when Wenger arrived, something that was foreign to games in the rest of Europe and Wenger proposed to change him at Arsenal as soon as the results were known. Of those reforms became evident and made a big difference for Arsenal, everyone else had to follow suit or fall behind In Wenger's first full season in charge of Arsenal, the Gunners won a Premier League Cup double FA and over the next eight seasons never finished lower than second place, the results were quite emphatic and it didn't take long for the rest of the league to catch up.

Now diet, nutrition, training, conditioning and sports science are as good in England as anywhere else in the world. marginally higher given the resources at the disposal of Premier League clubs at Academy level, likewise, professional or other English clubs have made leaps and bounds even in the last decade in terms of introducing small-sided games, goals small, two or three touch matches. and generally putting a much greater emphasis on technical ability and honing a player's skills rather than simply who is the fastest and strongest and most likely to win a match before they are fully developed in the teams The English, however, are often less patient in possession than their European counterparts, Manchester City, the current European champions, are an obvious exception to this, but if you look at Newcastle or Manchester United in the group stage of Champions League this season, both teams struggled to

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possession and control games even in their most impressive performance in the Champions League. and the result was a 4-1 home win against PSG.

Newcastle only maintained 20.6% possession, which is less than Luton Town maintained against Man City in the Premier League this season, as well as the 27% Newcastle had in their only draw in Paris. The situation was even worse for Manchester United despite having much more recent pedigree and experience than Newcastle in Europe, who only maintained more than 50% possession at home against Copenhagen and Galatasaray in their six group games and Even so, he barely managed to survive with 51 and 55% possession at Galatasaray, United only saw 42% of the ball and in both games against Bayern they never exceeded 40%. It is a similar problem that we have seen on occasion with the England team, especially in the big tournaments where the matches are played.

They come thick and fast and conditions can be hot and humid where they start to lose the Jing midfield battle. The knockout stage, talking about games coming thick and fast, it's hard to imagine the Premier League's intention being the number of games in English football. and the strength of the league as a whole does not hurt English teams competing in Europe. I briefly mentioned at the beginning of this video some of the financial disparities between the Premier League and the other European leagues that one could imagine would lead to the English league. clubs that routinely win the continent's biggest prizes, that's not an entirely unreasonable assumption, but the real disparity when it comes to the Premier League compared to any other league is not so much about the rich six or seven, although they do. have definite advantages, but in terms of the rest, let me explain what I mean by all the Woe Is Me words of the real president M, Florentino Pérez, and the murmur of discontent between him and his acolytes about Premier League revenues and income growth that far exceeds In other leagues in Europe, the reality is that Real Madrid can still compete financially with any other team in world football, for now at least Los Blancos took TBO ctoa Antonio Rudiger and Eden Hazard of Chelsea, one of the Premier League's rich six, and they routinely beat Chelsea and others.

Six rich clubs for transfer targets widely identified as vidicus Jr Eduardo kavinga aelian shui Jude Bellingham and Lely soon Killian Mbappé that almost all clubs are or would be desperate to sign, consequently Radd's wage bill is higher than that of any Premier League team, as it is the psgs that has been the highest in Europe in recent years, while the salary expenses of Barcelona and Bayern Munich are higher than those of Arsenal or Tottenham and Inter de Milan, Juventus and Atlético Madrid all maintain significantly higher wage bills than Newcastle again for now at least this graph from the excellent Swiss Ramble who I hope doesn't mind me borrowing it as I've included their watermark.

I pay for his substack and would recommend subscribing as well to anyone interested in football. Finance is a perfect example of what I'm talking about with the graph illustrating the distribution of salaries in each of Europe's big five leagues, from the highest clubs to the lowest, as you can see above, both Lian and La Liga are ahead of the Premier League and neither San nor the Bundes Liga. They are far behind as soon as you get past the top two, three or, in the case of the UN League, at least one team, the drop is surprising.

Salaries at the third-highest spending team in the G League are already lower than all but last. three in the Premier League, a mid-table club in England's top flight pays its players at least twice as much as a mid-table club in any other league; It is probably for this reason that we see English teams performing especially well in recent editions of the Europa League and UEFA Conference League, as the disparities between Premier League clubs and their competition are much greater than between the Premier League clubs and the European Uber Elite in the Champions League. West Ham, for example, who won the Conference League last season, have a higher salary.

Bill than European regulars like Europa League winners Sevilla and current Bundesliga leaders B. leusen, and almost exactly twice the size of their actual Conference League final opponents Fiorentina Brighton and Liverpool, who top their groups in the Europa League this season along with West Ham. They have the biggest budget in the competition by far in the case of Liverpool and are among the biggest of West Ham and even Brighton, despite the latter being seen as a plucky underdog and such clever operators in England that, although Brighton It has the lower half of the wage bill in the Premier.

League emphasizes how well they did by finishing sixth last season and currently sitting in seventh place. Their wage bill is actually the same size as that of the second highest spending club in France, i.e. their Europa League group stage opponents Marsel and higher than Vale IR. trk Frankfurt and even last season's Seria title winners Napoli, Aston Villa, England's only representative in this season's Conference League keeping the light blue flame alive, perhaps punches above its weight to be fourth in the Premier League this season, but in the Conference League they are in a world of their own, only one Trak Frankfurt and the two Turkish giants have budgets that can compete with theirs and most Conference League teams They have wage bills that would seem low in the Championship, the second division of English football, let alone in the Premier League, perhaps.

The best example of the disparity in distribution is a comparison between the 10th-place team, exactly in the middle of the table in each of Europe's five major leagues. The GFE team, which ranks tenth in the league, has a salary of 42 million. The team that occupies tenth place in Serat is Torino, whose wage bill is £65 million in the League and León, who actually have the fourth highest wage bill in the League at £84 million, but in the Premier League the team in tenth place is Chelsea, whose wage bill is £340. million, which is much more than the other four clubs combined and ranks seventh among the largest wage expenditures in Europe, tied with Barcelona for the last two seasons.

Chelsea are literally the highest spending football team of all time during that period, even when adjusted for football-specific inflation, which begs the question of why English clubs haven't historically

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d Europe. League having had this financial advantage, although not to the same extent for much of the last two decades, to which the response largely, unsatisfactory as it may be, may seem that for a long time English clubs did not have the same interest in the Europa League and, in particular, the UEFA Cup, as clubs from almost all parts of Europe were previously known, before foreign coaches had a better feel and affinity for the competition reached the Premier League and, above all, before winning the Conference League and the Europa League, the qualification for the Europa League and the Champions League came, the following year the Europa League or the Uafa Cup were seen more as an inconvenience by anyone. of the six rich teams fell into that situation after failing to qualify for the Champions League, while many European teams rested their players in domestic matches to keep them fresh for a UEFA Cup match.

Liverpool or Spurs could do exactly the opposite by resting in games. Europe before a Premier League match, the Europa League and the Conference League are big sources of income for many European clubs, but for Premier League teams it is a drop in the ocean. My own club, Hall City, after qualifying for the Europa League, is unforgivable in my opinion. We rested the players for a trip to Lockran because we were playing Stoke City in the Premier League at the weekend and ended up being knocked out of Europe for supposedly drawing a home game against Stoke for the fans, the idea of ​​sacrificing once in a A lifetime running Europe, especially for a club like tiny Hall City for one point in the battle for survival, is a travesty, but for the club it was just a simple business decision, even reaching the depths of the The Europa League wouldn't make up for a fraction of the lost revenue with relegation from the Premier League, naturally of course we ended up being knocked out of the Europa League early and relegated.

That season, well it was really the worst of all worlds. I mean, we might as well have tried Europe. after all, now thatAttitude towards the Europa League has changed, although four of the last eight Europa League finals have featured an English club, including an all-English final between Chelsea and Arsenal in 2019, and all three English clubs in the competition this season, everyone figures among the five favorites to win it all, by the same token I would personally be surprised if English clubs didn't start routinely reaching the conference league final and winning the competition following in West Ham's footsteps, at this point probably worth addressing the elephant in the room, which is that although I received numerous requests to make a video about why English clubs are not more dominant in Europe, English clubs have not historically been dominant in Europe and English clubs certainly They have not been dominant in the Champions League so far this season.

In a way, and this might seem strange to say in this of all videos, English clubs are actually quite dominant in Europe, just six wins from the last 24 champion leagues is one way to put it, but half of those six wins have come over the last 5 years and three out of five paint a quite different picture: 6 out of 24 England come first in the UEFA League car efficiency rankings, which is based solely on club performance from every country in Europe and, by far, there have been five English finalists in the last eight Europa Leagues, the current Conference League champions are English and seven English clubs have participated in the last six Champions League finals.

Spain is the only other country to have had multiple finalists, but by multiple I mean two, compared to England's seven and They were both the same team, Real Madrid, while England have had four different finalists in the last few years alone. five years. It could be argued that English clubs could still be more dominant and there is no doubt that they have an abysmal record against foreigners and especially against Spaniards. opponent in the finals, but overall not bad, there are many reasons why English clubs may face additional obstacles in Europe, in addition to all the ones I have already mentioned, the point I was trying to make earlier about the speed, the intensity and relentlessness. of the Premier League before being blindly derailed by salary comparisons was that Premier League teams rarely take their foot off the accelerator because the elite of the other major European leagues have budgets commensurate with or sometimes even larger than those of the big six teams. of the Premier League While the rest of those leagues have lower budgets than the teams in the top half of the championship, it is much easier for teams like Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and PSG, in a typical season, to less rest and rotate players or at least for those players avoid burnout. and relax in games where they have significantly greater control and dominance than Premier League teams, combined with the lack of a proper winter break and the fact that England have not won, like most other countries , but two national Cup competitions.

The cup and efl cup create an even more compact and demanding schedule at times and it is not difficult to see why, especially in the latter stages of a season, top division clubs could be at a disadvantage, Pep Guardiola's great team Barcelona, ​​for example, when they won the Champions League in 2009 they had such a comfortable margin at the top of the La Liga table that they were able to rest and rotate all their big hitters, failing to win any of their last four games. of the League, in fact, they even lost against the likes of Mayorca and Osasuna in To be at maximum capacity for the semi-finals and final of the Champions League against Chelsea and Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester United, on the other hand, were still in the league at the time and they couldn't afford to take any L games with the exception of Manchester United's last game of the year that season because the title had already been secured and furthermore they shouldn't because it's only 11 players against 11 players rather than the badge on the shirt or the trophies on the The museum's European pedigree really seems to matter in competitions like the Champions League and Europa League when we look at the sense of confidence that Real Madrid or Sevilla always possess in those respective competitions.

Make no mistake, I think this is a secondary consideration at best, but some English teams lack that pedigree and find it much harder to develop, while Europe's big hitters from other countries, be it Barça , Bayern, Real Madrid or PSG, tend to qualify for the Champions League every season and have done so for so long. As anyone can remember, in the Premier League, the representatives of the country's Champions League and the Europa League are often changing and changing. Newcastle, for example, may have been handicapped by a lack of Champions League pedigree this season, but having amassed some minor experience they are unlikely to do so. take advantage of that in the immediate future next season currently eighth in the Premier League table what makes the Premier League unique in some ways is that Liverpool, for example, won the Champions League during the same season in which finished fifth in the Premier League in 2005 Chelsea won it despite finishing sixth in the league in 2012 and the Blues won it again in 2021 in a season in which they finished fourth just one point behind Leicester City it is unimaginable that that could passing in any other league is also illustrative.

I think in the nature of knockout football and cup competitions, the reality is that the so-called best team does not always necessarily win, even if it were the case that, by virtue of the financial supremacy of the league , Premier League clubs were automatically better than teams in Europe's other major leagues. Which, as we have already established, is not necessarily true and that financial advantage does not even exist at the highest level, but if we imagined that it did, it would not be true that an English club would win all the European championships. trophy every season knockout football is random the Liverpool team in 2005 was not in a position to lace up the boots of the AC Milan team how is it possible that Chelsea have been the best team in Europe when they finished sixth in the Premier League below of Allan Puu's Newcastle when he won?

In 2021, by beating Man City in the final, they did so during the same season in which they finished 19 points behind Man City in the league to assume, so why aren't England clubs more dominant in Europe? Well, basically, they are quite dominant, although Historically, for many reasons, they were not a European ban and The Hangover of that exile boss, among them, are becoming more and more dominant as the League's financial advantage grows and now the axis of Messi Ronaldo and the bastion of Barcel Madrid have ended and in the secondary school of Ufa and recently. they introduced tertiary competitions now that they are taking them seriously, at least where they have a much bigger advantage and when they don't win we shouldn't be so surprised because the European elite have budgets as big, if not bigger, than them and also knockout football.

It is random and unpredictable and the best team does not necessarily always win, but mostly, and this should not be overlooked. The English clubs are quite dominant. Manchester United were rubbish this season. Champions League Newcastle had a tough group and injury crisis, and also "Not that good, and Arsenal will probably still beat Porto at home and progress despite losing the first leg, and even if they don't , they probably will next time because they most likely just lost because knockout football is random and unpredictable. Anyway, I really don't see what's so hard to understand about all of this.

I hope the people who asked the questions. answers, although I adequately answered your question, I'm not sure what else there is to say about it other than I hope you all enjoyed it and I think I might need my inhaler now Thank you all so much, as I always say, for watching. , hit the like button. If you enjoyed it, I obviously hope that was the case. Let me know your thoughts below in the comments and it goes without saying at this point what you're doing if you're not already subscribed and you have notifications turned on both. for this channel as well as for c7s and also for my second channel Alfie pots haror, both of which should be about to appear on your screens now. along with a couple of videos you might want to watch after this one, you can also find me on Twitter, Instagram or in threads via username @hit c7s on all three and all those links and many more should be in the description of the video. below greetings