Speaker 1: Welcome inn. It's time for another edition of The Morning Espresso,
Speaker 1: presented by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and
Speaker 1: soccer powerhouse. I'm Jason Longshore. Here's some of the soccer
Speaker 1: news you need to know for Friday, July eleventh. Let's
Speaker 1: get caught up around Major League soccer. D C United
Speaker 1: have agreed to terms with Swiss manager Renee Wheeler to
Speaker 1: become the club's next head coach. This is according to
Speaker 1: give Me Sport and quite a few others. DC fired
Speaker 1: Troy Lasain on Wednesday night. That was after a five
Speaker 1: to two loss in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup.
Speaker 1: Two nail lead turned into a five to two loss.
Speaker 1: This was after the scoreless draw against Atlanta United on Saturday.
Speaker 1: The club had been planning for a change for a while,
Speaker 1: according to give Me Sport, and I think you could
Speaker 1: kind of see that by the way that they didn't
Speaker 1: really give Lessane a whole lot of talent to work
Speaker 1: with this season. Viler was previously sporting director at Swiss
Speaker 1: club Cervett. He's got a long list of experience. He
Speaker 1: was at Anderlecht for a long period of time, won
Speaker 1: the Belgian League. During his time there. He also managed
Speaker 1: Egyptian giants a La Lee for a little more than
Speaker 1: a year. He won the league title there as well.
Speaker 1: Brandon Vasquez of Austin FC, it's been announced that he
Speaker 1: suffered a season ending ACL tear in his right knee,
Speaker 1: gonna need surgery. That happened in the Open Cup win
Speaker 1: against San Jose on Tuesday night. He struggled at Austin
Speaker 1: this year. He's got five goals in nineteen games, four
Speaker 1: more in three Open Cup games, where he's always had success.
Speaker 1: He's always been the Open Cup hero, Brandon Vasquez. But
Speaker 1: this is a big loss for Austin FC. They have
Speaker 1: the worst offense in MLS with fifteen goals in twenty games.
Speaker 1: Very similar to it Atlanta in that they spent a
Speaker 1: lot on their attack and the goals have not been
Speaker 1: coming from that group. We'll see what they do to
Speaker 1: try to replace Brandon Vasquez and we'll see if he
Speaker 1: can get back in time to push for a World
Speaker 1: Cup spot. But a poor start to this season plus
Speaker 1: very limited time before the World Cup, it's going to
Speaker 1: be extremely difficult for him to be in that mix.
Speaker 1: Atlanta United will be in Toronto on Saturday tomorrow, we
Speaker 1: make in the trip up there later today. Game will
Speaker 1: kick off at seven forty. Our pregame coverage on ninety
Speaker 1: two nine. The game and the Odyssey app will start
Speaker 1: at six point thirty. Madison Cruise and Ape Gordon will
Speaker 1: get you started. Mike Contiy and I will get things rolling.
Speaker 1: After that. We'll talk to Atlanta United Sporting director Chris
Speaker 1: Henderson as well at about six fifty five if you
Speaker 1: want to join us for that. News came out yesterday
Speaker 1: that Atlanta United President and CEO Garth Loggerway has taken
Speaker 1: an indefinite leave of absence after recently being diagnosed with
Speaker 1: can sure. In the statement, the club said that the
Speaker 1: prognosis of a complete recovery by the fifty two year
Speaker 1: old Loggerway is encouraging. He said he would be back.
Speaker 1: It's really hard for us, we've gotten to know Garth
Speaker 1: over the years to hear about this, and we all
Speaker 1: are thinking about Garth and about his family and hoping
Speaker 1: for a complete recovery and getting him back here in
Speaker 1: Atlanta and getting him back with the club where he
Speaker 1: has worked so hard to get this club where he
Speaker 1: wants to get it and can't wait for him to
Speaker 1: resume that work. We're all thinking about Garth loger Way
Speaker 1: right now, and not just in Atlanta United circles, but
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer circles. You've seen statements from many
Speaker 1: many clubs around the league, many many people around the league.
Speaker 1: Just a pretty strong representation of how well thought of
Speaker 1: Garth Logerway is around United States soccer circles. And we're
Speaker 1: all thinking about him as he continues to recover from cancer.
Speaker 1: NWSL updates the Seattle Reign. They have signed a twenty
Speaker 1: four year old forward me official contract through the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty nine season. Former UCLA All Americans, she started her
Speaker 1: pro career at Tige Grace in Mexico, went to Chelsea
Speaker 1: for the last two years, but a knee injury limited
Speaker 1: her to just fourteen matches in those two seasons. Evelyn
Speaker 1: shores United States U twenty three players. She's signed a
Speaker 1: contract through twenty twenty eight. After two seasons at the
Speaker 1: University of North Carolina, was part of their championship team
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. She scored the winning goal for
Speaker 1: the US women's team at the soccer tournament TST one
Speaker 1: million dollar prize that her winning goal captured for that
Speaker 1: group of players. Not a surprise, but officially announced yesterday
Speaker 1: Tobin Heath she has retired. Hasn't played for the last
Speaker 1: three years due to injury. Thirty six goals and forty
Speaker 1: two assists in one hundred and eighty one appearances for
Speaker 1: the US women's national team, two World Cup titles, two
Speaker 1: Olympic gold medals. This came as part of an announcement
Speaker 1: yesterday that our friends at Odyssey have acquired The Recap Show.
Speaker 1: It's the weekly video podcast that Tobin hosts with her
Speaker 1: partner and former teammate Kristin Press. She said, I never
Speaker 1: played to be famous or for people to care about me.
Speaker 1: I just played because I loved it. You could see
Speaker 1: that in the way that she played. She's one of
Speaker 1: the most technical players to ever come from the United States.
Speaker 1: She was that good. Her skills are just unbelievable, and
Speaker 1: she never lost that joy with the ball in her career.
Speaker 1: An incredible player who I think at times sometimes gets
Speaker 1: overlooked because of injuries and because of being a player
Speaker 1: who was different because of that skill set. Tobin Heath,
Speaker 1: one of the all time greats for the US women's
Speaker 1: national team, announced her retirement at thirty seven years old.
Speaker 1: USL North Jersey Pro Soccer maybe not the sexiest name
Speaker 1: for a new team in USL League One, so they
Speaker 1: went out and acquired one that has a little bit
Speaker 1: of sex appeal, The Cosmos. They purchased the primary ownership
Speaker 1: of the name, logo and other intellectual property from Rocko Camiso,
Speaker 1: the billionaire who revived the Cosmos well really kept them
Speaker 1: going after they almost folded after the twenty sixteen season.
Speaker 1: There's beent some revisionist history on how all that went.
Speaker 1: The second version of the North American Soccer League. The
Speaker 1: Cosmos came in for the twenty thirteen season. They almost
Speaker 1: folded after the twenty sixteen season, players had left and
Speaker 1: signed contracts elsewhere. Camiso saved them put them back into
Speaker 1: functioning order. They got to the championship match in twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen and lost, and that was the last match played
Speaker 1: in the old North American Soccer League. So Camiso sold
Speaker 1: primary ownership of the club to the North Jersey Pro
Speaker 1: Soccer group. He reached a small steak. Eric Stover, who
Speaker 1: was the Cosmos two point zero chief operating officer. He
Speaker 1: is the co founder of North Jersey Pro Soccer and
Speaker 1: the CEO. He was involved in signing raul Marco Senna
Speaker 1: for the Cosmos. He signed a kit sponsorship deal with Emirates.
Speaker 1: He signed Giovanni Savaresi as the head coach. The team's
Speaker 1: going to play in USL League One third Division in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six at Hinchcliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: seventy eight hundred seat venue originally built nineteen thirty two,
Speaker 1: recently upgraded courtesy of a two point five million dollar
Speaker 1: contribution from North Jersey Pro Soccer. They will be the Cosmos,
Speaker 1: not the New York Cosmos. They will just be the
Speaker 1: Cosmos like they were I think it was seventy seven
Speaker 1: through eighty three in the first version of the North
Speaker 1: American Soccer League, where they dropped the New York part
Speaker 1: of the name because they were global. This is more
Speaker 1: about being a North Jersey team as opposed to a
Speaker 1: New York team. Speaking of Jersey, the Club World Cup
Speaker 1: final will be in New Jersey on Sunday, PSG versus
Speaker 1: Chelsea three pm kickoff Chelsea. They've been handed a major
Speaker 1: boost Moys' caseto. He has returned to training before the final.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll be able to play. He's been one of
Speaker 1: the best players in the midfield in the tournament, really
Speaker 1: starting to get into that conversation of why his transfer
Speaker 1: fee has been was so large, and maybe being one
Speaker 1: of the best midfielders in the world. He says he's
Speaker 1: not quite there yet, but a good performance against the
Speaker 1: best team in the world in PSG that could change
Speaker 1: some of that conversation a little bit. Now there's a
Speaker 1: lot of debate about kickoff times right now and a
Speaker 1: lot of people looking ahead to the World Cup next
Speaker 1: summer and looking at games played in this summer's Club
Speaker 1: World Cup and how the heat has affected them, and
Speaker 1: it has there's no way around that. I think some
Speaker 1: of the conversation earlier on in the tournament was overblown,
Speaker 1: maybe anticipating what it would look like later in the
Speaker 1: tournament where we've seen some very very very hot days
Speaker 1: and games being played in it. Games are being played
Speaker 1: at three o'clock strictly for European television convenience. Let's make
Speaker 1: that understood, because I think there's some people twisting this
Speaker 1: into different directions, and most of them are not based
Speaker 1: in the United States. You don't see in the middle
Speaker 1: of the summer matches being played in Major League Soccer
Speaker 1: at three o'clock in the afternoon. Do you no, you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't see many matches games. What have you played
Speaker 1: at in the afternoon? In Major League Baseball, for example,
Speaker 1: occasionally you will get a businessman special, and that's a
Speaker 1: very random thing. They also play one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: two games. If you skip one because it's too hot,
Speaker 1: that's fine. You don't play games in the middle of
Speaker 1: the afternoon in the summer in the United States because
Speaker 1: we know that it's hot. The only times that these
Speaker 1: competitions are played in the middle of the afternoon is
Speaker 1: when people aren't thinking about the players safety, or it's
Speaker 1: for television purposes, or it's a youth tournament and they're
Speaker 1: probably not thinking enough about player safety. Thief Pro General
Speaker 1: Secretary Alex Phillips. He said, we will use common sense arguments.
Speaker 1: We can use the MLS protocols. They don't play matches
Speaker 1: at midday and Florida, for example, and haven't done for
Speaker 1: a number of years. Yes, most games in the United
Speaker 1: States start after seven pm. They did the early kickoffs
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four, again for European television convenience. That
Speaker 1: is the only reason why you had noon and three
Speaker 1: o'clock kickoffs. It's the only reason why you had it
Speaker 1: in the Club World Cup. Maybe don't do that. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it's not that hard to understand. It's only
Speaker 1: going to be worse than twenty twenty six. You also
Speaker 1: have more thunderstorm potential with afternoon kickoffs as well. It's
Speaker 1: an easy fix. Have later start times. The only three
Speaker 1: o'clock early kickoff should be an indoor venues. This isn't difficult.
Speaker 1: Can you maybe have games in Seattle that start at
Speaker 1: three o'clock Eastern time? That's a noon kickoff there? We
Speaker 1: saw some decent success temperature wise with those games in
Speaker 1: the Club World Cup. Could you have some games further north?
Speaker 1: I mean maybe, but I don't know how much that's
Speaker 1: actually going to help you. In some of these venues
Speaker 1: play their earlier games in indoor venues. If you have
Speaker 1: to allocate more games to indoor venues, well you might
Speaker 1: have to do that, and maybe you should have thought
Speaker 1: of that before when you were allocating the games in total. Also,
Speaker 1: look if it means some games start at the same
Speaker 1: time in the group stage before you get to that point,
Speaker 1: so be it if that's what's better for the tournament,
Speaker 1: better for the soccer, better for the players. But the
Speaker 1: only people who it's not better for is European television. Sorry,
Speaker 1: like this isn't this isn't that difficult. Stop being beholden
Speaker 1: to European television. Don't let them have the power over
Speaker 1: making the games not be as good, affecting player safety.
Speaker 1: Make the games be better games. People will watch games
Speaker 1: at different times. We've seen that now with other sports.
Speaker 1: Watch the NFL. The NFL games when they're played in
Speaker 1: Europe and not scheduled around the idea of US television.
Speaker 1: By the way, they are in the morning in the US.
Speaker 1: Those games draw just fine. It will be fine. It's
Speaker 1: the World Cup. People will watch if they have to
Speaker 1: stay up late, if they have to get up early,
Speaker 1: they will do it. Play games at better times because
Speaker 1: of that reason. Don't play games at bad times because
Speaker 1: of European television. This is not a difficult conversation. Stop
Speaker 1: making it so difficult. League matches being played abroad as
Speaker 1: another topic that is an interesting one. The Italian Federation
Speaker 1: is given the green light for a Seria match between
Speaker 1: Milan and Como to be played in Perth, Australia first
Speaker 1: major European domestic fixture played outside of its home country.
Speaker 1: This one's a little more of a logistical necessary. The
Speaker 1: San Sero will be unavailable on the weekend of the
Speaker 1: scheduled matchup. It will be hosting the opening ceremony of
Speaker 1: the Alano Cortino Winter Olympics. FIFA used to forbid having
Speaker 1: league matches played in other countries, but they've changed their stance.
Speaker 1: They had to settle a six year lawsuit with relevant
Speaker 1: sports based here in the US. Silly season updates. Tottenham Hotspur,
Speaker 1: they've been busy. Mohammed Kudus from west Ham United. That's done.
Speaker 1: That's a fifty five million pound transfer. They are chasing
Speaker 1: Morgan gibbs White of Nottingham Forest for sixty million pounds.
Speaker 1: Manchester City we're interested as well. David Ornstein broke the
Speaker 1: exclusive that Gibbs White was booked in for a medical today. However,
Speaker 1: Nottingham Forest have made a complaint to the Premier League
Speaker 1: and are exploring taking legal action because they believe Spurs's
Speaker 1: approach for gibbs White may have been illegal. Good luck,
Speaker 1: this is going to be an interesting one. Arsenal's bid
Speaker 1: for Chelsea's Noni Madaweke. Looks like it's on. Fifty two
Speaker 1: million pounds is what it's looking like it's going to
Speaker 1: cost to get him to arsenal Ordan Henderson he is
Speaker 1: returning to the Premier League with Brentford, a two year
Speaker 1: contract for the thirty five year old midfielder after his
Speaker 1: contract at Ias was mutually terminated Real Madrid. They tried
Speaker 1: to get it done before the Club World Cup. They
Speaker 1: really should have gotten it done before the Club World
Speaker 1: Cup helped that back line they didn't. It looks like
Speaker 1: it is going to happen now. Benfica left back Alvaro Carreras,
Speaker 1: the former Real Madrid player former Manchester United player as well,
Speaker 1: looks like he's going to head back to Madrid Byron.
Speaker 1: According to build In, Germany have submitted a fifty two
Speaker 1: million euro bid for Luis Diaz of Liverpool. Liverpool are
Speaker 1: ready to open talks for Eintrach Frankfurt's French striker Hugo Ekitik,
Speaker 1: the twenty three year old. You'd have some money if
Speaker 1: you'd do the Luis Diaz deal, but there's also talk
Speaker 1: about Liverpool wanting to move Darwin Unyez first before bringing
Speaker 1: in Ekitik So stay tuned a lot of dominoes to fall.
Speaker 1: There maybe a weird domino falling in port and with Arsenal,
Speaker 1: their pursuit of the twenty seven year old striker Victor
Speaker 1: Jolkies is at risk of collapse because Arsenal has had
Speaker 1: no communication with Sporting in Lisbon for three days. According
Speaker 1: to Abolo in Portugal, pick up the phone, answer the email,
Speaker 1: I don't know, check your spam folder. Leandro Parerez. He
Speaker 1: has returned to his boyhood club at Boca Junior's. He
Speaker 1: ended his time at Roma recently presented to the fans yesterday.
Speaker 1: Fifty thousand fans turned up to welcome him home to
Speaker 1: La Bonbonera Mionardios. They have officially introduced Edwin Musquerra yesterday,
Speaker 1: maybe earlier than they should have. That has not been
Speaker 1: announced on the Atlanta United side. He's joining on loan
Speaker 1: with an option to buy. Edwin has just struggled to
Speaker 1: stay healthy and it makes sense for him to go
Speaker 1: somewhere where he might be able to get more playing time.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that happens at Mionardios, who lost in
Speaker 1: the final in Columbia last season. Olivia Smith. She is
Speaker 1: poised to become the first women's player to break the
Speaker 1: one million million pound transfer barrier after Liverpool accepted a
Speaker 1: world record offer from Arsenal for the twenty year old
Speaker 1: Canadian forward. The fee agreed between Arsenal and Liverpool, according
Speaker 1: to sources, exceeds the one point one million dollars paid
Speaker 1: by Chelsea for Naomi Germa back in January. Barcelona are
Speaker 1: talking again. That's always dangerous. They remain confident and they're
Speaker 1: talking about being confident, which is also dangerous. That their
Speaker 1: salary limit issues will be resolved for the first time
Speaker 1: in three years now. This is after Niko Williams said
Speaker 1: I don't trust you guys and getting me registered, so
Speaker 1: I'm not coming. I'm going to sign a new deal
Speaker 1: with Athletic Klobe and Bill Boo. Barcelona have gone to
Speaker 1: extreme lengths. They have pulled all kinds of levers to
Speaker 1: try to get this done. They've sold off numerous assets.
Speaker 1: They feel that they will be back in the so
Speaker 1: called one to one spending rule this summer. So clubs
Speaker 1: in the top two divisions in Spain they have a
Speaker 1: salary limit calculated if their wage bill ex seeds that amount.
Speaker 1: They're only permitted to spend sixty percent of what they
Speaker 1: save or earn on registering new players until they get
Speaker 1: back to that amount that limit. Barcelona appeared to solve
Speaker 1: that issue in January when they leased four hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five VIP seats for the next thirty years for
Speaker 1: one hundred million euro. However, they're auditors. After you had
Speaker 1: an auditor and then a four day auditor work period
Speaker 1: of time I don't know, and then somebody knew it
Speaker 1: was not included by the third one. It was included
Speaker 1: by the second one right before the end of the
Speaker 1: calendar year. But Crow who is the auditor now, they
Speaker 1: decided not to include one hundred million euro in their
Speaker 1: accounts until the product is in use. So somehow they
Speaker 1: were able to get through the court system. Doniolmo and
Speaker 1: pow Victor registered even though they shouldn't have because it
Speaker 1: was hinging on that hundred million euro coming in. It
Speaker 1: still hasn't come in because it's still not in use.
Speaker 1: This is a mess at the moment. Corporate director Monel
Speaker 1: del Rio told the audio as that they are working,
Speaker 1: they are calm and they will be in the one
Speaker 1: to one rule in August. Now, this is also with
Speaker 1: a new contract for La Migna Mal going to be
Speaker 1: signed that's going to increase their wage bill. What del
Speaker 1: Rio says is Barcelona need the auditor to include the
Speaker 1: lease of the VIP seats in their accounts that hinges
Speaker 1: on hosting the Jolan Gomper Trophy in August, which as
Speaker 1: of now is not going to happen at the Camp
Speaker 1: new because they don't have the safety permits to do that.
Speaker 1: If that happens, it would lead to La Liga giving
Speaker 1: the green light because then you could include that money
Speaker 1: in there because they have been used. YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: The City of Barcelona was upset at Barcelona saying they
Speaker 1: were going to have sixty thousand seats available for the
Speaker 1: Joe On Gamper Trophy because they don't have the safety permits.
Speaker 1: They felt like Barcelona was putting pressure on them. That
Speaker 1: part has not been resolved as far as I know.
Speaker 1: Even if they do that, this is the thing, this
Speaker 1: is when Barcelona starts talking against dangerous. Even if they
Speaker 1: do that, they got to sign a new deal with
Speaker 1: reduced wages for Frankie Diyong. They've got to agree to
Speaker 1: an exit with marc Andre Tterstagen and probably make another sale,
Speaker 1: probably sell one of their center backs. Well, Terstagan has
Speaker 1: said he's not leaving. DeJong probably you can get him
Speaker 1: to signing a longer deal for less money. All of
Speaker 1: Barcelona's center backs have said clearly they're not leaving. So
Speaker 1: you're trying to sign a deal to get this stuff
Speaker 1: done and you got to move somebody, and everybody says
Speaker 1: we're not leaving. Good luck, I guess. Barcelona have also
Speaker 1: not made any friends by reaching an agreement with the
Speaker 1: Tourism Board of the Democratic Republic of Congo for the
Speaker 1: country to appear on their shirt sleeve ten million euro
Speaker 1: per season over the next three years. Some other clubs
Speaker 1: have done this as well, but there are some major
Speaker 1: issues with dr Congo's humanitarian stances and things that the
Speaker 1: government has done that are not exactly on the good
Speaker 1: side of human rights. So Barcelona have said as part
Speaker 1: of this deal, the Barca Foundation would collaborate on humanitarian
Speaker 1: projects with the DRC an attempt to collaborate with schools too.
Speaker 1: This is where Barcelona is right now, and it's not
Speaker 1: pretty all. That's a lot of talk. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: John Texter, somebody who also likes to talk, somebody who
Speaker 1: also likes to engage in shenanigans. He did. He did
Speaker 1: a radio interview on Talk Sport and said some things
Speaker 1: that are in intriguing. He believes that Crystal Palace will
Speaker 1: compete in the Europa League. UEFA's looking at the conflict
Speaker 1: with Leone. Crystal Palace is owned forty three percent by
Speaker 1: Eagle Football Group and John Texter. UEFA rules prevent clubs
Speaker 1: with mutual owners who have quote decisive influence from competing
Speaker 1: in the same tournament. Pallace's four general partners Texter chairman
Speaker 1: Steve Parrish, fellow American businessman David Blitzer and Josh Harris,
Speaker 1: they all have a twenty five percent say in running
Speaker 1: the club, Parish effectively being the executive chairman and ultimate
Speaker 1: decision maker. So Texter agreed to sell the stake that
Speaker 1: they have in the club to Woody Johnson of the
Speaker 1: New York Jets. That's still subject to the Premier League
Speaker 1: Owner and Director's test. But the UEFA deal for complying
Speaker 1: on the multi club ownership situation was March first, so
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. So all the reporting about that fixing
Speaker 1: it incorrect. Palace's four principal owners met with U fan
Speaker 1: club financial control body last month. They argued that Texter
Speaker 1: did not have decisive influence at palace. Looks like they
Speaker 1: thought they had it done. Now they they're not so sure.
Speaker 1: Texture told Talk Sport he thinks they will be admitted.
Speaker 1: He said, we sat in front of the UEFA panel
Speaker 1: and we're all consistent about the lack of decisive influence.
Speaker 1: I was asked a question by a senior guy at UEFA,
Speaker 1: and he said, casually in the lunch room, everyone knows
Speaker 1: you made this glassner higher happen the crystal Palace manager.
Speaker 1: Texter said, but that's not true at all. I tried
Speaker 1: to get him at leone, if he spoke French, he'd
Speaker 1: be there. I told YUEFA that a suggestion is not
Speaker 1: decisive influence. Nobody tells Steve what to do. He's as
Speaker 1: stubborn as anybody. If that's your argument, really somebody stubborn?
Speaker 1: Come on, YUEFA, like, come on, why is this even
Speaker 1: still an issue? Uh. Texter also said the reasons about
Speaker 1: why he's confident quote are in documents that the public
Speaker 1: hasn't seen. Of course, they are. We shouldn't talk about
Speaker 1: whether or not at forty three percent vote or whether
Speaker 1: I have a twenty five percent vote. We could talk
Speaker 1: about zero. Said. The document that I signed when I
Speaker 1: bought the shares says clearly I'm not entitled to have
Speaker 1: any role in management decisions. I sat there in the
Speaker 1: room at Yuefa and said, let's stop talking about the
Speaker 1: twenty five percent. Texter said he would have put his
Speaker 1: shares into a blind trust if necessary. He didn't. He said,
Speaker 1: there's no question about the decisive influence part. He said
Speaker 1: there was little prospect a Palace qualifying when they got
Speaker 1: the correspondence from Yuefa in February about the March first deadline. Now,
Speaker 1: he said, when he bought into Palace, this is another
Speaker 1: interesting aside. I was negotiating for seventy five percent in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. They the other owners came to me
Speaker 1: at the eleventh hour before the transfer window and said, hey,
Speaker 1: we can get you approved faster if you just buy
Speaker 1: a minority. Before the FA cup, I thought we were
Speaker 1: finally going to be the majority owner. But I went
Speaker 1: from thinking that I was really going to be able
Speaker 1: to express my love for Crystal Palace more functionally to
Speaker 1: realizing that I knew I had to leave after they
Speaker 1: won the FA Cup in an attempt to satisfy you
Speaker 1: A for rules. Look, we've seen UEFA decisions involving smaller clubs,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about draw how to United and others
Speaker 1: this season. Those have been easily resolved, and the smaller
Speaker 1: clubs who have had any kind of multi club ownership situations,
Speaker 1: they have not been allowed to participate in the competition.
Speaker 1: So Palace should be booted from the Europa League. There's
Speaker 1: there's no way around it. However, bigger clubs have been
Speaker 1: playing by a different set of rules for a long time.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I think the arguments here are ludicrous. Somebody
Speaker 1: being stubborn doesn't actually mean that you don't have influence,
Speaker 1: decisive influence. How do you decide that it's a mess.
Speaker 1: We'll see what UFA ends up doing with it. Sorry
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace fans, but the rules are the rules, and
Speaker 1: other clubs are being held to the rules, and that
Speaker 1: should be the rule. I've said many times, and I
Speaker 1: will stand by this, and I'll end it with this.
Speaker 1: You've got so many changes to the game right now,
Speaker 1: and clubs in multi club ownership groups. It's only going
Speaker 1: to become more common. This should not be something to
Speaker 1: keep teams out of a competition. Teams should be put
Speaker 1: into separate groups, separate sides of the bracket, not able
Speaker 1: to be drawn against one another until the final, to
Speaker 1: where they're not going to affect the competition. You're only
Speaker 1: going to get more teams in these situations. It's going
Speaker 1: to increase, not decrease. Be realistic about how you deal
Speaker 1: with it as opposed to this sort of situation where
Speaker 1: you're talking about decisive influence and people being stubborn. It's
Speaker 1: time to update the rules. It's time to modernize. Hopefully FIFA,
Speaker 1: UEFA and other governing bodies can do that. We'll see
Speaker 1: headed to Toronto today. There will be a pregame show
Speaker 1: starting at six point thirty tomorrow in ninety to ninety
Speaker 1: game and the Odyssey app kick off at seven forty
Speaker 1: Atlanta United and Toronto FC. The unified match will take
Speaker 1: place at ten am. Myself and Joe Freihoffer will be
Speaker 1: on the call. You can watch at atlutd dot com.
Speaker 1: Slash Live Training Ground Dispatch is up for you to
Speaker 1: watch as well. That is on our YouTube channel YouTube
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Speaker 1: for being a part of the SDCH network this week
Speaker 1: a very busy one. Next week will continue as well.
Speaker 1: Don't forget Sunday Night on ninety two nine the game.
Speaker 1: You can listen to it Lanty United to You and Columbus.
Speaker 1: That will be a seven to twenty five broadcast start
Speaker 1: kickoff just after seven point thirty. Pregame show will start
Speaker 1: on the SDH network on our mix Flur channel. Click
Speaker 1: listen at soccerdown here dot net and you can catch
Speaker 1: up with that one. But the game will be broadcast
Speaker 1: on the Game on ninety two nine in the Game
Speaker 1: on radio and you can listen on the Odyssey app
Speaker 1: as well. And I'll be back on Monday to recap
Speaker 1: all of the stuff in a new edition of The
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