Summary: As world football enters its last international break for 2014, three guests join us for a supershow dedicated to exploring what has been happening to the Premier League as some big names in the English game are showing more flaws than promise, Asia reloads for one last tune-up before the Asian Cup rounds into view and two Milan giants have yet to turn the tide. Up first, Anto is joined with his regular co-host Phil Brown from SiriusXM to take a deep dive look into some troubling statistics from the top Premier League teams at the break and what they seem to reflect both in terms of approach and their transfer market blind spots. While it still an entertaining product and several silver linings exist in the shape of West Ham, Swansea and Southampton, many of the top teams continue to struggle with a transition awash in TV money will no sense that football clubs with real balance and European muscle are being built as the wages and transfer fees continue to escalate. Then in part two, John Duerden joins us from South Korean to give us the view from Asia where a surprise package in Western Sydney Wanderers took the spoils in the AFC Champions League while a big move occurred behind the scenes at AFC giant Guangzhou Evergrande and its big name coach, Japan seems poised for yet another title chase that will go down to the wire between Urawa Red Diamonds and Gamba Osaka, and what many of the big Asian superpowers are facing as they head to the AFC Asian Cup in January. Then we make one final turn to Serie A with David Amoyal of GianlucaDiMarzio.com as two Milanese giants continue to deliver uneven results and fail to make headwind in their chase for Champions League football, particular at Inter where manager Walter Mazzarri has become a lightning rod and perhaps a symbol of a leadership team torn in two over production versus financials for Erick Thohir. We also explore the fortunes for Juventus in search of European success, ongoing trouble for Roberto Donadoni at Parma, and the reappearance of Mario Balotelli on an Italy squad under its own transformation under Antonio Conte and why he reached for the disgruntled Azzurri superstar who continues with his own struggles at Liverpool where his move has not yet proved to be effective.
