Speaker 1: Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso on
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Speaker 1: We are less than a week away from the FIFA
Speaker 1: Club World Cup. We are in World Cup qualifying. There
Speaker 1: are all kinds of things happening right now. We got
Speaker 1: tst finals tonight as well. I hope you've enjoyed that
Speaker 1: tournament as we've been going. Spain did not enjoy how
Speaker 1: things turned out yesterday. Portugal, they became the first nation
Speaker 1: to win the UEPHA Nations League twice. They lifted the
Speaker 1: trophy back in twenty nineteen and Cristiano Ronaldo pulled Portugal
Speaker 1: level at two two. Very fortunate ball found him and
Speaker 1: it's a great finish that made it two to two
Speaker 1: in the sixty first his one hundred and thirty eighth
Speaker 1: goal with Portugal, his nine hundred and thirty eighth goal
Speaker 1: in total. You know, Mendez was the player of the match.
Speaker 1: He scored. He really made it difficult for La Mignamal
Speaker 1: to influence the match. On the attacking side. Yamal seemed
Speaker 1: a step off Mendes was brilliant. Spain have not been
Speaker 1: great defensively as of late. They have conceded fifteen goals
Speaker 1: in their last six games. They end up losing on
Speaker 1: penalties to Portugal. Christiano Ronaldo also said that he does
Speaker 1: not plan to play at the Club World Cup this month.
Speaker 1: He received quote quite a few unquote offers from participating clubs.
Speaker 1: He did leave the match yesterday before the end of
Speaker 1: the ninety minutes. Speaking of Club World Cup, the transferred
Speaker 1: deadline for deals to get done and rosters to be
Speaker 1: submitted is tomorrow. Tournament starts on Saturday. I likely playing
Speaker 1: Inter Miami down in South Florida, BRUSA. Dortman. They have
Speaker 1: agreed a thirty eight million euro deal with Sunderland to
Speaker 1: sign job Bellingham. They might sound familiar. I will see
Speaker 1: if that one is ahead of Club World Cup or not.
Speaker 1: And that's one of the confusing elements here is not
Speaker 1: every deal that is being talked about or getting finalized
Speaker 1: is going to impact the Club World Cup rosters for
Speaker 1: these teams. We'll just have to wait and see a
Speaker 1: little bit. Victor Osieman he rejected Al Hilal's contract proposal
Speaker 1: over thirty million euro per year. Napoli had agreed to
Speaker 1: the transfer fee of seventy five million, but Osiman does
Speaker 1: not want to go to Alhilal. Galatasarai is going to
Speaker 1: try to sign him on a permanent basis. Mike Magnon
Speaker 1: he wants to complete a move to Chelsea and he
Speaker 1: wants to do it ahead of the Club World Cup.
Speaker 1: According to let Keep, Magnon has told Milan he's not
Speaker 1: going to sign a new contract, so he's got one
Speaker 1: year left on his deal. Brizzio Romano has said there's
Speaker 1: a big gap between the two clubs on his valuation.
Speaker 1: Chelsea say that he's worth ten million euro because he
Speaker 1: only has one year left on his deal. Milan rate
Speaker 1: him at thirty million euro. That's a pretty big gap.
Speaker 1: Italian journalists have said that a fifteen million euro offer
Speaker 1: was submitted. Some reports in Italy say that an agreement
Speaker 1: has been reached. Lakeip says that's not the case, but
Speaker 1: everybody says that the deal is moving forward and they
Speaker 1: want to get it done for him to play for
Speaker 1: Chelsea in the Club World Cup. Chelsea also added Mama
Speaker 1: Dusar from Strasbourg, of course, owned by the consortium led
Speaker 1: by Todd Bowley and clear Lake Capital that bought Chelsea
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. The nineteen year old saw He
Speaker 1: is a France U twenty international, was a regular last
Speaker 1: season for Strasbourg. He was previously at Lynn and Leon.
Speaker 1: He is expected to be coming in for Club World Cup.
Speaker 1: Manchester City they are trying to get the deal over
Speaker 1: the line for Ryan Cherokee and according to reports literally
Speaker 1: within the last hour from li Keep, the agreement has
Speaker 1: been reached a five year contract. He will be playing
Speaker 1: for City at the Club World Cup. Somewhere between twenty
Speaker 1: three million euro and forty million euros the final price tag.
Speaker 1: The initial valuation was in the thirty five to forty
Speaker 1: million euro range from Leone reports initially where that Manchester
Speaker 1: City offered twenty three, so somewhere in between. They found
Speaker 1: a way to get the deal done. According to LIKEEP
Speaker 1: and pretty much everybody else in the world, in the
Speaker 1: last hour, Manchester City are also preparing an offer for
Speaker 1: Chelsea goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli ahead of the Club World Cups.
Speaker 1: Got Carson, the long time number three at City, is
Speaker 1: leaving the club. According to new reports in Spain. Interesting
Speaker 1: moves right now with an Arsenal target that could affect
Speaker 1: Club World Cup Martin Zubimindi. He is a associodod Arsenal
Speaker 1: have wanted to get him for the last six months.
Speaker 1: They've thought a deal was all but done, but according
Speaker 1: to the words of Marca, nothing is closed and according
Speaker 1: to them, Zubimindi has halted his move to Arsenal. Real
Speaker 1: Madrid is interested. His idol is Shabi Alonzo. Alonzo wants
Speaker 1: to bring in Zubimindi for his midfield at Real Madrid,
Speaker 1: so this could get very interesting and will it get
Speaker 1: done ahead of the time for Club World Cup. Madrid
Speaker 1: have also struck out, at least for now, according to reports,
Speaker 1: on getting Alvaro Carreras, the left back from Benfica. He's
Speaker 1: been named to Benfica's roster for the tournament. Now that
Speaker 1: list isn't final and nothing is closed right, but it's
Speaker 1: looking more unlikely that Carreras would play for Madrid in
Speaker 1: the Club World Cup. Byron, they have agreed to pay
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million euro or two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand euro. Sorry, two hundred and fifty million will
Speaker 1: be wild two hundred and fifty thousand euro to Haffe
Speaker 1: for Tom Bischoff to be able to play in the
Speaker 1: Club World Cup. There could be more in bonus payments
Speaker 1: as well, so Byron's gonna pay his full salary during
Speaker 1: this period of time. Earlier reports suggested that Bischoff would
Speaker 1: join Byron only after the contract with Hoffenheim expires. He's
Speaker 1: joining Byron on a free, but it looks like Byron said,
Speaker 1: you know what, we'll cut a check. We'll get him
Speaker 1: in now because we could use that extra central midfielder.
Speaker 1: He's nineteen. He made his German national team debut against
Speaker 1: France over the weekend. He's been at Hoffenheim since twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: a product of the academy. But they're only getting two
Speaker 1: hundred fifty thousand for him as he leaves on a free.
Speaker 1: Botha Fogo even though they haven't paid Atlanta United yet
Speaker 1: for Thiago Almada, and that's from a FIFA tribunal decision
Speaker 1: that came out last week. They have brought in three
Speaker 1: reinforcements somehow, Arthur Cabral for fifteen million euro from Benfica,
Speaker 1: Alvaro Montro for eight million euro from Velez and Joaquin
Speaker 1: Correa on a free from Inter Ah just smile a nod.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe we're talking monopoly money at this point,
Speaker 1: a layin. They are going to play Manchester City in
Speaker 1: Atlanta on June twenty second. The Abu Dhabi club is
Speaker 1: adding Facundo Zabala on loan from Olympia in Paraguay for
Speaker 1: the Club World Cup. Looks like Inter is gonna get
Speaker 1: it done and announce it today of Christian Chivu to
Speaker 1: be their new manager. He has set his goodbyes to
Speaker 1: Parma after terminating his contract there. Inter are also pushing
Speaker 1: to make a last minute deal to sign striker Angjon
Speaker 1: Bonnie ahead of the start of the Club World Cup.
Speaker 1: He has been with Parma and Parma won twenty five
Speaker 1: million euro for the Frenchman. This is according to Gazetta
Speaker 1: Dello Sport. We'll see if this one gets done in time.
Speaker 1: Chivu coming over from Parma to Inter might help everything there.
Speaker 1: They are coming to the United States and the Club
Speaker 1: World Cup Inter with Petar Shusch and Luis Henrique. Those
Speaker 1: deals are done now. The discussions This came out over
Speaker 1: the weekend. The discussions between the Major League Soccer hierarchy
Speaker 1: and the MLS Players Association over club World Cup prize
Speaker 1: money are still ongoing. They have not agreed to terms
Speaker 1: yet on a newly revised section of the CBA. The
Speaker 1: original CBA stated that players received fifty percent of money
Speaker 1: from outside tournaments, and this was I believe the phrasing
Speaker 1: is known tournaments or established tournaments. The Club World Cup
Speaker 1: was not when the CBA was done, so the cap
Speaker 1: of that fifty percent is one million dollars. A source
Speaker 1: with knowledge of the discussions told ESPN that a revised
Speaker 1: proposal from MLS committed to grant players on the three
Speaker 1: participating teams twenty percent of the performance related payments for wins, draws,
Speaker 1: and round advancement. Players collectively would receive one million for participation,
Speaker 1: in addition to money earned for victory's, draws or round
Speaker 1: qualification throughout the tournament, and there's escalators in terms of
Speaker 1: how far you go. LAFC received two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand collectively for the win against Club America in the
Speaker 1: playoff to get into the tournament. That will go on
Speaker 1: top of their one million to be split up amongst
Speaker 1: the roster. The MLSPA received the proposal on Friday. They
Speaker 1: demanded a larger percentage. They have not formally responded to
Speaker 1: the league's proposal, but they responded in the media to it.
Speaker 1: The organization said that MLS introduced quote back end compensation
Speaker 1: of twenty percent, an amount that remains below the international standard.
Speaker 1: Now they don't define what the international standard is and
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot of news out there to
Speaker 1: talk about the international standard. Will come back to that
Speaker 1: in a second. The MLSPA said that the league quote
Speaker 1: did not add a single dollar for players from the
Speaker 1: twenty eight, six hundred and fifty or twenty million, six
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand windfall that MLS will be paid
Speaker 1: by FIFA, so still saying that they should get more
Speaker 1: than the one million for participating. According to the MLSPA,
Speaker 1: the player's share of that amount remains at barely ten percent. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: there were reports last month that Real Madrid would give
Speaker 1: its players one million dollars each if they won the
Speaker 1: Club World Cup. That would result in a prize of
Speaker 1: over one hundred and forty million dollars for the club.
Speaker 1: That's around twenty percent of the entire prize that would
Speaker 1: go to the players, depending on how many players share
Speaker 1: in that. I don't know what the international standard is
Speaker 1: it's being defined here, And I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: quibbling over twenty percent of or around twenty percent of
Speaker 1: the entire prize money or if the because the league
Speaker 1: is saying they'll do twenty percent of stuff that's earned
Speaker 1: past the initial fee, the one million for participating that
Speaker 1: the players will get the nine point five that the
Speaker 1: club will get. I feel like we're getting into semantics
Speaker 1: here and I feel like there's a lot of finger
Speaker 1: pointing and people are just yelling without understanding that issue
Speaker 1: from Real Madrid, and I think that's a really important
Speaker 1: talking point here. If they win the World Cup, the
Speaker 1: Club World Cup, then their players would get around twenty
Speaker 1: percent of the entire prize that the club would get,
Speaker 1: if that's the international standard, and that's to win the thing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes normally the further you go, the bigger cut of
Speaker 1: the tournament that you get. I don't know if what
Speaker 1: MLS players are going to get is that far off
Speaker 1: of the initial money. I don't know, and nobody's really
Speaker 1: trying to find that. There's just a lot of yelling.
Speaker 1: It's very frustrating. It's frustrating on both sides that we're
Speaker 1: even sitting here to have in this conversation. This should
Speaker 1: have gotten resolved Again, both sides should have gotten this
Speaker 1: resolved well ahead of this, because they've known what the
Speaker 1: prize money would be. I think they've known what this
Speaker 1: would be. It should not be played out in the
Speaker 1: way that it is. It doesn't help anybody, and it's
Speaker 1: extremely frustrating that we're seeing this consistently in these negotiations.
Speaker 1: Both sides need to get to the table and when
Speaker 1: this is done, both sides need to sit down and
Speaker 1: chill out and have a drink and talk. So next
Speaker 1: issue that comes up, it doesn't result in this because
Speaker 1: it does nothing to help the league, It does nothing
Speaker 1: to help the players, It does nothing to help the
Speaker 1: game in this country. For this to be the conversation
Speaker 1: right now, both sides should have gotten this done ahead
Speaker 1: of time. Both sides should be more professional and react
Speaker 1: properly and get this done and move on. This is
Speaker 1: a giant distraction and it's not solving anything. And the
Speaker 1: idea about the international standard aspect of it, all we
Speaker 1: know right now, in terms of what I've been able
Speaker 1: to find is real. Madrid reportedly saying that the players
Speaker 1: would get around twenty percent of the entire prize if
Speaker 1: they win the entire thing. So if that's the international standard,
Speaker 1: this isn't that far off, and they need to figure
Speaker 1: it out and get this done because this is getting ridiculous.
Speaker 1: What's also ridiculous is the US men's national team right now.
Speaker 1: Maritzio po Chattino. He became the first coach to lose
Speaker 1: three straight games since Jurgen Klinsman in twenty fifteen two
Speaker 1: to one loss to Turkey on Saturday. This follows the
Speaker 1: losses in the Nations League in March. Pochattino is five
Speaker 1: oho four with the US men's national team. They play
Speaker 1: Switzerland on Tuesday. Gold Cup starts on June fifteenth. No
Speaker 1: Christian Polisic, no westn McKenny, no Anthony Robinson, no Tim Weea,
Speaker 1: no Gi Arena part of that Gold Cup squad. We
Speaker 1: will see how things look. But that was a very
Speaker 1: frustrating one because it started well and then the team
Speaker 1: absolutely lost it with a bad goal and a Johnny
Speaker 1: Cardoso pass it was deflected in, and then they lost
Speaker 1: their heads and they gave up another goal quickly and
Speaker 1: they never got going again. USL Super League Tampa Bay Sun.
Speaker 1: They will host the fort Lauderdale United FC in Saturday's
Speaker 1: USL Super League Final. Both teams had to come from
Speaker 1: behind to win their semi final match. That will be
Speaker 1: the inaugural title match for the USL Super League, a
Speaker 1: D one women's professional league. Here in the US, let's
Speaker 1: get into World Cup qualifying quickly. Luciano Spalletti will not
Speaker 1: be in charge of Italy past tomorrow. He was let go.
Speaker 1: He announced it at his press conference yesterday to say
Speaker 1: that he had been fired. He did say that he
Speaker 1: will take charge of the game against Moldova. First. They
Speaker 1: lost three zil to Norway. As we talked about all
Speaker 1: last week, they're missing a bunch of people. Francesco at Cherbe,
Speaker 1: the inter center back. He declined the call up. He
Speaker 1: said that Spiletti was disrespecting him. It Spaletti's predecessor, Roberto Mancini,
Speaker 1: who left the Italian national team to go to Saudi
Speaker 1: Arabia and lost that job pretty quickly. He liked the
Speaker 1: post by a Cherbe explaining his reasoning on Instagram. So
Speaker 1: we have high school drama here. Spaletti was asked by
Speaker 1: the media if he felt betrayed and reacted to the
Speaker 1: question by storming out of his briefing again, high school
Speaker 1: drama with the Italian national team and the road to
Speaker 1: get qualified for the World Cup after missing the last
Speaker 1: two is not a easy one. At the moment, the
Speaker 1: Italian Federation is going to continue to try to convince
Speaker 1: Claudio Ranieri to take on the job. He has said
Speaker 1: he wants to continue working in his new role at Roma.
Speaker 1: They got to get this done with Ranieri or Stefano Pioli,
Speaker 1: who is the other candidate to take over. Reports in
Speaker 1: Italy claimed that Pioli is the more viable option, but
Speaker 1: Spiletti is the first choice of the federation president Gabriella Gravina.
Speaker 1: Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski as we continue with high school drama,
Speaker 1: he has said he's not going to play for the
Speaker 1: Polish national team anymore as long as Mikael Probier's is
Speaker 1: in charge. Lewandowski thirty six years old. He cited physical
Speaker 1: and mental tiredness at the end of a long season
Speaker 1: with Barcelona as the reason for making himself unavailable for
Speaker 1: his country during this window. Probierres opted to replace Lewandowski
Speaker 1: as the Poland captain with enters. Peter Zielinski handed the
Speaker 1: role Lewandowski then announced away from international football, although he's
Speaker 1: left the window open to return good times Asian World
Speaker 1: Cup qualifying. Just to give you the reset of where
Speaker 1: things stand right now, Saudi Arabia, who has only scored
Speaker 1: six goals through nine qualifying games, they need to beat
Speaker 1: Australia by five goals to earn direct qualification tomorrow for
Speaker 1: the World Cup. Asia's got eight spots. The top two
Speaker 1: teams in each of the three groups in this round
Speaker 1: advanced directly. That's six. The third and the fourth place
Speaker 1: teams in each group go into another round, buying for
Speaker 1: two more places, and then there's one playoff spot. If
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia doesn't win by five, which is extremely unlikely,
Speaker 1: they will join the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Indonesia, and
Speaker 1: Iraq in the next stage of qualifying in October. Oman
Speaker 1: right now is fourth in Group B. They are one
Speaker 1: point ahead of Palestine in fifth place. Those two teams
Speaker 1: meet in Aman on Tuesday. If Palestine wins, they go
Speaker 1: into the next round of qualifying. If Oman draws or wins,
Speaker 1: they do it going to be interesting tomorrow as we
Speaker 1: watch the Asian World Cup qualifying cycle. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: everything else tomorrow in terms of Europe and South America
Speaker 1: and CONCA CALF other news before we go MLS Vancouver,
Speaker 1: they took the lead in the supporter Shield race three
Speaker 1: zero win over Seattle, first game since losing in the
Speaker 1: CONCA CAFF champions Cup final, eleven games unbeaten in MLS
Speaker 1: for the white Caps. Seattle had two red cards in
Speaker 1: quick succession, Knew Who and John Bell in the fifty
Speaker 1: first and fifty fifth minutes Seattle. They'll start their play
Speaker 1: in the Club World Cup on Sunday against both the Fogo.
Speaker 1: Tom Barlow he had his first MLS hat trick. Chicago
Speaker 1: beat DC seven one. A Toddler ran onto the field
Speaker 1: to try to help DC to no avail. The Chicago
Speaker 1: Fire are now back into playoff spots in MLS. Tottenham,
Speaker 1: they've sacked AND's post to Cooglo after he wins their
Speaker 1: first trophy in seventeen years. The regular season in the
Speaker 1: Premier League was not good. They were once ahead of relegation,
Speaker 1: so I somewhat get it. I don't know why it
Speaker 1: took this long. It's all high school drama. Reports are
Speaker 1: suggesting that Brentford's Thomas Frank has asked to leave Brentford
Speaker 1: and will join Tottenham Crystal Palace. They're waiting to find
Speaker 1: out if they're going to get to play in the
Speaker 1: Europa League. They did state their case to UEFA last year.
Speaker 1: It all revolves around John Texter and this is not
Speaker 1: related to him not paying Atlanta United for Thiago Almada
Speaker 1: with both the Fogo. This is about Eagle Football, which
Speaker 1: holds a stake in Crystal Palace and Leone. Palace presented
Speaker 1: their argument to UEFA. They said that UEFA's regulations are
Speaker 1: in place to prevent collusion between clubs. Crystal Palace is
Speaker 1: entirely independent, not within the structure of the multi club
Speaker 1: model of Eagle Football. Palace argued that chairman Steve Parrish
Speaker 1: runs Crystal Palace while John Texter has a minority stake
Speaker 1: and lacks influence at Selhurst Park. The club is also
Speaker 1: accepted that a fine or temporary oversight measures such as
Speaker 1: monitoring transfers would be in appropriate punishment. They don't want
Speaker 1: to see Crystal Palace banned kicked out of the Europa League.
Speaker 1: It'd be their first Crystal Palace has never played in
Speaker 1: European competition. This would be really harsh. I think to
Speaker 1: kick them out, and FIFA and UEFA and everybody's going
Speaker 1: to have to come to grips with the multi club
Speaker 1: ownership models because they're only going to continue at this point.
Speaker 1: There needs to be better structures in place to make
Speaker 1: this work. Bayer Levercusan they have rejected a one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirteen million pound bid from Liverpool for Florian Verts.
Speaker 1: They want one hundred and twenty six million pounds that
Speaker 1: would be a British transfer record and Liverpool it sounds
Speaker 1: like it is getting a little antsy in terms of
Speaker 1: this is our final offer. So we'll see if it
Speaker 1: actually is. Aaron Ramsey, former Arsenal midfielder. He's played all
Speaker 1: over the place. Actually he is set to join Lega
Speaker 1: MX club, who mus be an interesting signing. And we'll
Speaker 1: end on a positive note since we've had a lot
Speaker 1: of griping in this edition of The Morning Espresso. Revenues
Speaker 1: for the Women's Super Clubs sored by thirty four percent
Speaker 1: during a record breaking twenty twenty three to twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four season. As these numbers have come into focus now
Speaker 1: a year later, the twelve teams in the league amassed
Speaker 1: a combined revenue of sixty five million pounds. Each club
Speaker 1: generated more than a million pounds for the first time ever.
Speaker 1: Revenues grew from forty eight million in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three season to sixty five million the following campaign, driven
Speaker 1: by growth and commercial revenue, which increased by fifty three
Speaker 1: percent from the previous season and now the commercial revenue
Speaker 1: accounts for forty percent of the Women's Super League clubs
Speaker 1: in England. Their total revenue revenue increase is largely driven
Speaker 1: by Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City. That's two
Speaker 1: thirds of the money made from across the club. Match
Speaker 1: Day revenue increased by seventy three percent as well. That
Speaker 1: was driven by a thirty one percent increase in average
Speaker 1: league attendance. We'll see if that continues in the next season.
Speaker 1: We'll see if the nw UL and USL Super League
Speaker 1: see that kind of growth as well. We'll see if
Speaker 1: the MLS players in the league can get to a table,
Speaker 1: get on a call and get things sorted out so
Speaker 1: we can stop talking about the griping back and forth.
Speaker 1: The international standard part of it is an interesting one
Speaker 1: to site when the only one that we have is
Speaker 1: around twenty percent. There we go. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: start griping about it again. That's your Morning Espresso today
Speaker 1: on the SDACH Network. Hopefully everybody can have a nice
Speaker 1: cup of espresso and get things sorted out. You got
Speaker 1: a lot of Club World Cup teams that got a
Speaker 1: lot to sort out today. They might need a couple
Speaker 1: extra espressos. As the transfer deadline for Club World Cup
Speaker 1: is tomorrow now. I don't know if there is a
Speaker 1: set time or if it varies depending on the country.
Speaker 1: We'll get you spelled out with all of that in
Speaker 1: the morning, along with anything else that happens over the
Speaker 1: next twenty four hours. That'll be tomorrow a new edition
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