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> 俺はさ、お前らにお友達になれって言ってんじゃないのね‌。中学のときにネットを挟んだ敵同士だったとしても‌、今はネットのこっち側同士だってことを自覚しなさいって‌
> **言ってんのね** 。

Official translation: Do you get it?

The source is from Haikyuu season 1 episode 2 (around the 10 minute mark). The
line is said by the club's captain, who is generally patient, responsible and
understanding but could be scary when he gets angry (like in this moment).
Does this info affect his choice of words and fit into the image of a typical
male captain?

When I read the translation at first, I was a bit taken aback by how much it
differed with my own interpretation. But after thinking it through, I wonder
if the translation provided above is not a literal one. Could it be that the
sentence also means "...is what I am saying" (lecture about rules and such)
and the translator tweaked it a bit in a way that still fit the context?
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Problem with translation of 言ってんのね
言ってんのね is just a contraction of 言っているのね, and って right before it is a quotation
marker. So the literal translation of ～って言ってんのね is "It's that I'm saying ～".
The captain's line contains nothing that directly corresponds to "Do you get
it?"

After watching the actual episode (available on Amazon Prime Video in Japan),
I kind of understand why the translator chose "Do you get it" even though it's
grammatically a mistranslation. There is a long pause between 自覚しなさいって and
言ってんのね, and 言ってんのね comes with a scary zoomed-in view of the caption, so "Do
you get it?" fits well here. If we translated this literally into English, the
last part of his line would be something like "the same side of the net", but
uttering it with this visual effect might look a little unnatural. Anime
translations are full of examples like this.
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I have watched the relevant part of the video in question, and gotten the
impression that he fits well into the male captain image.

The translation is definitely not literal and maybe too much a leap from the
original. But I don't think it is a particularly bad translation since anime
translation might be geared toward entertainment so that English subtitles can
synchronize with characters speaking Japanese. (I have no idea how
professional translators would evaluate this translation.)

言ってんのね here can be understood as a variant of 言っている that puts an emotional
emphasis on what he's saying. The translation _" Do you get it?"_ apparently
derives from this emphasis: what he has just said is extremely important.

As for the sentence in question:

> 中学のときにネットを挟んだ敵同士だったとしても‌、今はネットのこっち側同士だってことを自覚しなさいって‌ **言ってんのね** 。

I personally think that as you suggested, "what I am saying" is more true to
the original. The following is a roughly corresponding English sentence.

What I want you to understand is that even if you were opponents on different
sides separated by the net in junior high school, you must realize that you
are now on the same side of the net.
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