Can Jurgen Klopp fix the German National Team? | The Bulletin

**Ryan Bailey** (0:22)
This is The Bulletin, our news roundup of all the biggest stories in the beautiful game. Today, we're talking about what's happening at Liverpool right now. We discuss one of their former employees, Mr Jurgen Klopp, and his new job. And we look at who's next in line for the Italy national team gig. And so, so much more. So, so much more. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, Taylor Rockwell's here. Hi Taylor, how are you?

**Taylor Rockwell** (0:45)
I'm doing well, Ryan Bailey. Have you thrown your hat in the ring? I know you're missing Italy. I know you'd love to go back. Italy national team manager, Ryan Bailey, a match made in heaven.

**Ryan Bailey** (0:53)
Sorry, I'm affiliated with a Russian betting site. Taylor, I can't do it. I'm sorry.

**Graham Ruthman** (0:58)
Sorry, soft cuts. Just one? Just one?

**Ryan Bailey** (1:00)
That you know about, yeah.

**Graham Ruthman** (1:01)
Yeah. The press conference would be only slightly less combative than Jurgen Klopp's first press conference as Germany manager. Here's everything you're doing wrong. Coffee, pizza. It'd go great. Actually, I'd like to see it. Let's make it happen.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:14)
I have already written that speech, Graham Ruslan. Hello, how are you?

**Graham Ruthman** (1:17)
I'm good, Ryan Bailey. Good to be back. I believe you were off last week as well. We're still pretending to Taylor and Joe that we weren't sitting in the woodland sauna at Interbatch together last week. We'll keep that going for a little bit longer.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:28)
That's right. Dear listener, Graham and I both went to a holiday park called Centre Parks last week, but we went to different ones.
Graham loves it very much there. Graham's family love going to Centre Parks. He can slight England all he likes, but he still likes coming down over the border to use our holiday parks, don't you, Graham? Hypocrisy.

**Graham Ruthman** (1:46)
Yeah, that's because there's not one in Scotland, so I don't really have much of a choice.

**Ryan Bailey** (1:52)
Very good. Taylor, I think we've covered this before, but Centre Parks is kind of like a Great Wolf Lodge kind of situation. Family in the forest, that kind of deal. Rabbits, deer. It's cool.

**Taylor Rockwell** (2:01)
But you're actually in the forest, right? Great Wolf Lodge feels very enclosed, so Centre Parks, you're actually outdoors, even if you two don't want to be outdoors?

**Graham Ruthman** (2:09)
So on the car journey down to Centre Parks, we were talking in the car, it's a five-hour journey, so you do all kinds of nonsense.
What was each of us looking forward to? I said a barbecue, got to Centre Parks, and because it is the middle of a heat wave right now in England and the UK, got to the forest, big signs, no barbecues. So that was terrific. But yes, it is very much outdoors.

**Taylor Rockwell** (2:32)
A lot of ceviche for you then? What did you do instead?

**Graham Ruthman** (2:37)
Just ramen noodles. No, there's restaurants and stuff there. There's a Starbucks there, that's why Ryan likes it. There's actually multiple Starbucks. There's a Starbucks in the pool, which is insane.

**Ryan Bailey** (2:48)
Yeah, the best kind, the best kind. Blackjack in the pool, Starbucks in the pool, my favourite pool activity, Scrab. I do love that you say that you do all kinds of crazy things on a car journey, like talking to each other. That's quite out there for you, I imagine.

**Graham Ruthman** (3:01)
I know, in between tablet time. Watch this, there's SpongeBob.

**Ryan Bailey** (3:05)
Very good. All right, listener, listen to this. We've got a Bulletin episode coming up. As we mentioned at the top, we're going to talk about Jurgen Klopp and his new role as Germany manager. We're going to see what's going on at Liverpool. Lots of moving and shaking happening there. And the Italy job. Who wants it? Nobody? Let's find out later on in this episode. Before we get there, patreon.com/totalsoccershow is our bonus feed. It is the very best way to support our endeavour. You'll get bonus episodes. I think we're going to do some AMAs a little later on on the bonus feed. We're going to do some bonus video, of course, and the crown jewel of our bonus feed, the access to our Discord server where all the cool kids are hanging out. Do come and check it out. Thank you to everybody who's there already. patreon.com/totalsoccershow. And of course, listener, plenty going on on the main feed this week as well. Mr. Joseph Lowry, it's his turn to have a little vacay this week, but the threesome here will be with you for the most part with transfer talk, listener questions, all that good stuff coming later down the pipeline this week.