On today's Across The Continent, we're taking a look at clubs who have had surprising starts to their league campaigns and asking the question, are we BUYING or SELLING their position?

We debate the bright falls of Brighton, Lazio, Cagliari, Augsburg, Elversberg, Alavés, and Paris FC, then bring a couple of smaller-league teams to your attention, including Belgium's Sporting Charerloi, Turkey's Amed SK, Hungary's Vasas SC, and Albania's FK Teuta Durrës.

We also highlight a couple of struggling clubs in Tottenham, Fiorentina, and Marseille.

Then, Maxwell discusses the insane parity in La Liga's midtable – a featured carried over from last season – with 8 clubs all level on 8 points through 8 rounds of fixtures. What's real and what's not in this group, and who is likely to separate?

And finally, David tells us about Australian cup winners South Melbourne FC, a historic club, controversially cut off from the Aussie A League. How did they upset first division clubs en route to their triumphant victory in the final? And why are they joining the new Oceanic division?

Cheers to Sinisa Cohadzic!

Chapters:

00:00 – the start

01:39 – teams we're buying & selling

18:50 – clubs outside the top 5 leagues

23:30 – clubs off to terrible starts

30:58 – Maxwell's topic | La Liga midtable parity

34:09 – David's topic | South Melbourne FC's cup triumph