Speaker 1: Welcome to Wallpass Wednesday. Here an sdh am, John, here
Speaker 1: are you there, Thanks for dropping byes you always do.
Speaker 1: And here is the rundown for the morning. It is.
Speaker 1: We got a little bit of a care package for
Speaker 1: opening kickoff. We'll get into that coming up in a sect.
Speaker 1: Tyler Pilgrim is going to join us from Scarves and
Speaker 1: Spikes and that'll be our number one. Our number two's
Speaker 1: whatever you guys want to talk about, whatever's on the table.
Speaker 1: This is a Wall Pass Wednesday. So we've got transfer stuff.
Speaker 1: We've got that to catch up on. We've got reports,
Speaker 1: especially from our friends out in Colorado they might be
Speaker 1: at We've got all the transfer ideas and reports and
Speaker 1: possibilities and stadium news and front office news and all
Speaker 1: the things coming up in our number two to get
Speaker 1: us ready for the day. And once again, remember tomorrow
Speaker 1: it is Power Hour a Nino and Nico. Tomorrow with Nino,
Speaker 1: we're probably going to have to discuss an interview that
Speaker 1: happened on seeing in Portugal and the race for the
Speaker 1: presidency of Benfica and Luis Philippe Vieira did a bombshell
Speaker 1: interview on seeing in Portugal and I'm chasing after all
Speaker 1: the information. But there was a lot of discussion having
Speaker 1: to do with this gentleman who was the president in
Speaker 1: Fica for almost two decades and the massive amount of
Speaker 1: player acquisitions and loans and flips for lack.
Speaker 2: Of a better term.
Speaker 1: And it was a big interview that was done seen
Speaker 1: in Portugal, and so he admitted to admitted to some
Speaker 1: things and didn't answer some questions there as well. But
Speaker 1: that's kind of a tease for tomorrow and we'll let
Speaker 1: you know what the what the rundown is there. I
Speaker 1: imagine that that's going to be one of the topics
Speaker 1: for Nino and his segment when we go fully loaded tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and then obviously Nikom Modeano joining us in our number
Speaker 1: two in the final half hour morning Sharif, and we'll
Speaker 1: discuss everything going on in Major League Soccer and from
Speaker 1: the Pacific perspective. Gets you ready. League's Cup is tonight,
Speaker 1: so we'll get into previews of that. We'll get into
Speaker 1: juice boxes if you missed Roberta Doris and Suit Americana.
Speaker 1: We got that to get into from last night, and
Speaker 1: that is our plug for Finates FNTZ dot slash socker
Speaker 1: down here so.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that.
Speaker 1: It was Bonker's bat ish in all the above, and
Speaker 1: so we'll get into that. We'll get into those discussions
Speaker 1: to an Hour number two. But yeah, Lbertadors and Sudamericana
Speaker 1: had all of us changing channels last night trying to
Speaker 1: go from one match to the other, especially with chaos
Speaker 1: going on at the end and on I think it
Speaker 1: was on Jason's two hundred and eighty character app there's
Speaker 1: a late ball that created an incredible header, an incredible moment.
Speaker 1: I think it was on the Rossing Match. And so
Speaker 1: we'll get into that and once again an Hour number two. Okay,
Speaker 1: Tyler's coming up in just a little bit, So now
Speaker 1: it's time for opening Kickoff. Then we got everything else
Speaker 1: going on as well. So morning David, and here we go.
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Speaker 1: dot com. Okay, occasionally here at the studio space we
Speaker 1: get care packages and there are times where you go,
Speaker 1: you know, you just you want to figure out ways
Speaker 1: to kind of further the sport and give recognition and
Speaker 1: things like that. And so when teams send stuff to
Speaker 1: any of our studio spaces, obviously we flash it and
Speaker 1: we sit there and we you know, we add it
Speaker 1: to the stacks. You know, our friends from from Sporting Jacks,
Speaker 1: they've been really good when new stuff comes out. And
Speaker 1: then you know, when we have all the clubs and
Speaker 1: things and all the competitions that we add to the stacks.
Speaker 1: Our friends from El Fadolito, they they reached out to
Speaker 1: us and it was part of the you know the
Speaker 1: conversations of covering the the NPSL season and having coach
Speaker 1: head coach Santiago Lopez on the show. So what we
Speaker 1: wanted to do was try and find ways to show
Speaker 1: support for El Fadalito, and I would recommend taking you know,
Speaker 1: taking a couple of minutes, but then you'll go down
Speaker 1: a rabbit hole and we'll be more in a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes learning their story out in the San Francisco
Speaker 1: area and about their continued success in the NPSL.
Speaker 2: Year over year over year as they continued.
Speaker 1: They were in the championship game and lost to Hickory
Speaker 1: FC this past time out, and it was a game
Speaker 1: that was played at Keysar Stadium in San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: it was great to catch up with coach Lopez. So,
Speaker 1: Coach Lopez, you know when we were talking offline, there
Speaker 1: were some things that you know, it's like, hey, we
Speaker 1: wanted to show your support for El Fadalito and things
Speaker 1: like that. And so today are you not today? If
Speaker 1: it was today, that would be really interesting. Yesterday care
Speaker 1: package showed up. Of course, it was left out in
Speaker 1: the rain, and here is the care package that was
Speaker 1: sent to us by our friends at El Fadlito and
Speaker 1: we cannot thank them enough for this and it is
Speaker 1: first and foremost the the uh, the road white, the
Speaker 1: road white with the where's the the NPSL sticker, there's
Speaker 1: the there's the NPSSEL sticker. So right there there's you
Speaker 1: and it's and it's not the it's not like a
Speaker 1: flat sticker either. It's like the raised lettering and everything.
Speaker 1: And so we have the the road white that got.
Speaker 2: Sent to us.
Speaker 1: And because you know, in the interest of fair play,
Speaker 1: when you're doing the the road you have to send
Speaker 1: the home jersey. And and of course I'm making the
Speaker 1: the jump and logic that you know, since it's since
Speaker 1: these days a lot of folks have flipped their home.
Speaker 1: Instead of going home white, they go home dark. And
Speaker 1: so here is the the home Navy jersey once again
Speaker 1: with the raised NPSL sticker here and so that is
Speaker 1: that is there from our friends at El fad Alito.
Speaker 2: But we're not done.
Speaker 1: There was a conversation that we were having when you know,
Speaker 1: before we started the interview, and he was wondering, you
Speaker 1: know how in matches where you have the captains, you know,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of a match, the captain comes by,
Speaker 1: you know, the captains they'll have you know, handshakes and
Speaker 1: things like that, and in some matches you'll have the
Speaker 1: banner exchange. Other times you'll just have handshakes and other
Speaker 1: things going on. Coach lopezels like, you know, I wish
Speaker 1: that there were more matches that had the banner exchange
Speaker 1: because of his history and his upbringing.
Speaker 2: So and I have to go back here to get this.
Speaker 2: So what he did as a part of the the care.
Speaker 1: Package, and I had to cut and you know, there's
Speaker 1: only a limited amount of space that you have in
Speaker 1: those envelopes. So what he did is he brought as
Speaker 1: a part of the care package one of the El
Speaker 1: Faight Alito banners. And so it's dual sided, so it
Speaker 1: you know, either way you hang it. If you hang
Speaker 1: it from a central point, then you get to see
Speaker 1: both sides. But as an elf Faight Alito banner that
Speaker 1: you're supposed to hand out during the pregame handshakes with
Speaker 1: the captains and everything. And so there is the the
Speaker 1: El Faight Alito banner, and that's going to be here
Speaker 1: for the moment until I can figure out how to
Speaker 1: suspend things. I thought about. I legitimately thought about hanging
Speaker 1: it from the underside of the bell back here, but
Speaker 1: then you're kind of getting in there, and there's the
Speaker 1: idea of maybe you know, bashing your head or something
Speaker 1: and with the with the banner as you're walking by.
Speaker 1: So I'm probably going to try and find something. Maybe
Speaker 1: you'll suspend a nail or somewhere in here and kind
Speaker 1: of just hang it from the top. But I have
Speaker 1: yet to figure out an equitable solution that.
Speaker 2: Would make me happy for the moment.
Speaker 1: But in the interim, the El fight Alito banner is
Speaker 1: here and it is representing a perpetual power in the
Speaker 1: NPSL and we cannot thank them enough for the care
Speaker 1: package that they sent this yesterday to add to the
Speaker 1: stacks here in in Office HD. And uh so El
Speaker 1: Fadalito class acts all the way around and the the
Speaker 1: banner and the jerseys made it and so they will
Speaker 1: be they will be housed and appreciated here in Office HD,
Speaker 1: as as all of the other elements are that are
Speaker 1: sent to us that we will either wear on the
Speaker 1: air or you know, wear out in public or you know,
Speaker 1: put in frames and things like that if we think
Speaker 1: that it's it's too uh too valuable to actually wear.
Speaker 1: But no El fad Alto class acts across the board.
Speaker 1: So the homework assignment today, when you have, when you have,
Speaker 1: when you have a few minutes, is just look up
Speaker 1: El Faalito on your your favorite search engine on the
Speaker 1: Google machine and learn a little bit about their story.
Speaker 1: It's more than just about the chain of Mexican restaurants
Speaker 1: in the San Francisco area, says in the NPSL. So
Speaker 1: that that's your homework assignment for today. Do your search
Speaker 1: and learn about El Faddalito and our friends out there
Speaker 1: as they have now officially added to the stacks here
Speaker 1: in off his HD. So very very cool stuff once
Speaker 1: again from our friends Santia head coach Santiago Lopez and
Speaker 1: our friends out at El Fadalito as they are adding
Speaker 1: to the stacks. And so Abby is recommending a screw
Speaker 1: in hook from the ceiling so it can be next
Speaker 1: to the bell. Okay, so we have that as an idea. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll bring in Tyler and we'll talk about internal decorating.
Speaker 2: Interior decorating.
Speaker 1: It's interior decorating, not internal decorating, but internal decorating. People
Speaker 1: are thinking that you're having some kind of periatric surgery
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's two different things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So when it comes to assembling your studio space, yes, uh,
Speaker 1: like I said, our friends from El Faderlito sent us
Speaker 1: a banner, and so we have to figure out where
Speaker 1: to hang it. And so Abby is thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: get a screw inhook or something from up here so
Speaker 1: it can be along the bell or somewhere in there.
Speaker 1: When you're a when you've assembled your studio space, how
Speaker 1: much how much thought has gone into this? How much
Speaker 1: how much serious thought are you thinking and all these
Speaker 1: kinds of things when it comes to piecing that together,
Speaker 1: and how many iterations have you had with that studio
Speaker 1: space trying to figure out how to make it, how
Speaker 1: to make it its own I.
Speaker 3: Guess quite a bit, probably way more than I should.
Speaker 3: And actually, like right now I've got to cycle through
Speaker 3: some some scarves. I have my ones from Portugal that
Speaker 3: they're not shown right now all here, but and then
Speaker 3: I got a Chattanoogle one the other day when I
Speaker 3: was up there, and so then that's just the scarves,
Speaker 3: and then like there's other stuff in here that you
Speaker 3: can't really see that I've put a lot of thought
Speaker 3: into as well. Of course, my hats are over there
Speaker 3: and that's just in here. Like in the old house,
Speaker 3: in the old studio, it was a bigger space, so
Speaker 3: that required much more effort and thought. So yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's a little bit of an obsession, I think so.
Speaker 1: So it has evolved into an obsession trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how to rotate things now.
Speaker 3: Well a little bit, Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1: Because well because I mean we when we get all
Speaker 1: of these things from all these different places that we cover,
Speaker 1: you know, you want to be fair about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you want to you want to sit there and
Speaker 1: give an homage to every place that you've been, but
Speaker 1: you don't want to slide them if it was a
Speaker 1: long time ago, and you've got new stuff that you
Speaker 1: want to put over the top, and you want don't
Speaker 1: want to sit there and make it look like that
Speaker 1: you're that you're ignoring the old stuff with the new stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And like for example, I'm in this this room now,
Speaker 3: which works out perfectly for what it is like as
Speaker 3: an actual studio. My other one was like in office
Speaker 3: and room and everything together. Right, this one pretty much
Speaker 3: has one sole purpose and that is to be the studio.
Speaker 3: The problem is I can't fit everything that I want
Speaker 3: to fit and like to your point, I have I
Speaker 3: have the Munich scarves, both both Munich teams are in here.
Speaker 1: I have to kind of swap, I'll tell you that
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: I know, right, but I've gotta I've got to fit
Speaker 3: in the the Benfica ones and then of course Chattanooga
Speaker 3: and I was just gonna cycle through it. I also
Speaker 3: have some Atlanta Ninim ones, like the Marta scarf that's
Speaker 3: that's sitting here, and then in my garage. I'm setting
Speaker 3: up the garage with a TV as well, and I
Speaker 3: have so like in my old studio, I had the
Speaker 3: big flag that the stripes when you look at it closely,
Speaker 3: it has all the cities in Georgia and it's like
Speaker 3: my favorite flag. I love this one and the and
Speaker 3: so I have that at landing and out of one,
Speaker 3: and then I have two other ones. And obviously I
Speaker 3: can't fit them in here because I would be covered
Speaker 3: in flags. But I'm like, I have to show them
Speaker 3: respect somewhere, even if they're never on camera, they have
Speaker 3: to be displayed. So yeah, it's a it's a bit
Speaker 3: of a struggle.
Speaker 1: And so of course Dell is in this morning. He
Speaker 1: goes Tyler does John I know that you're in his closet.
Speaker 4: No, he never knows.
Speaker 3: I sneak in right before while he's busy doing the
Speaker 3: morning like the opening intro. Yes, then I sneak out
Speaker 3: when he's busy bringing on the next game.
Speaker 1: Yes. Absolutely, he's got his own little he's got his
Speaker 1: own little underground tunnel that he kind of there and
Speaker 1: goes in and out of. And that's all those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. But yeah, so it literally is for those
Speaker 1: that may not know, this is the train track that
Speaker 1: got put in. Is about two hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: hats and it's on three of the four walls here
Speaker 1: at the office. And the scarves, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: have no idea how many. But you have to reinforce
Speaker 1: the rods, the curtain rods. You use more winter scarves,
Speaker 1: and we found that out the hard way, and then
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure it all out.
Speaker 2: So because I mean, if you look at this, it
Speaker 2: is let me see here real quick.
Speaker 1: So it's Copa and Rhode Island and Bucky's and Club
Speaker 1: World Cup, and in there is also the inaugural seasons
Speaker 1: for South Georgia Tormento, so that's in there. You had
Speaker 1: Auckland City and all the others that that are here
Speaker 1: as a part of It's like with She Believes and
Speaker 1: National Team Duty and all this kind of stuff that
Speaker 1: and then you have all the locals with the Marta
Speaker 1: and you know, the resurgeons and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Here here's one for you.
Speaker 1: MLS for the lou the independent campaign that they started
Speaker 1: when they were trying to get a club there to
Speaker 1: uh to Saint Louis before our our friends there at
Speaker 1: Purina helped them out and Enterprise Rental Carps. So MLS
Speaker 1: for the lou Is the initial campaign there. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: you got like I've got like all my shack tar
Speaker 1: scarves and hearing everything and all the All Star Game
Speaker 1: stuff and all of that. But yeah, it is a
Speaker 1: delicate dance trying to figure out what to put where
Speaker 1: and not have it sit there and act like it's favoritism.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, it's like the Atlanta United stuff. Yes,
Speaker 1: but then all the other places that people said to go, oh,
Speaker 1: look at that instant conversation piece and no the jersey
Speaker 1: and Abby is yes and yes, AFC, Wimbledon, Yes Dale
Speaker 1: As a member of the Dons, trust, I feel compelled
Speaker 1: that I have to have the AFC Wimbledon scarf when
Speaker 1: they were first promoted when they beat Plymouth argyleand penalties.
Speaker 1: I have to have that one because I was screaming
Speaker 1: here in the office when that did happen, and the
Speaker 1: boss was like, what the hell happened? And I said, oh,
Speaker 1: we just wanted penalties, that's all. Yeah, when when when
Speaker 1: I can Fenway hit the last p K to assure
Speaker 1: promotion for the first time And it was screaming here
Speaker 1: in the office and the boss was all freaked out
Speaker 1: and everything.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the.
Speaker 1: Frames for uh, the boss has done some yeoman work
Speaker 1: trying to find the frames for jerseys and things, and
Speaker 1: so we have one, two, three, four, five, six, We
Speaker 1: have six that are somewhat off camera. And then you've
Speaker 1: got that sought off quarterback Glance mckelhenny from The Pony
Speaker 1: Express that that one, that one was a no brainer.
Speaker 1: When that came up for auction, Patty was like, you
Speaker 1: you gotta get that. You know, when the when the
Speaker 1: SMU quarterback was the it's like, here's your job. Hand
Speaker 1: off to Eric Dickerson and Craig James. That's your job.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: And so you gotta do.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, he has Lance McIlhaney has lived that
Speaker 1: for a lifetime. And so when he had that jersey there,
Speaker 1: it was all signed and she's like, you're getting that
Speaker 1: arch I said, you're britten on that.
Speaker 3: So you mentioned auctions. Funny story this week.
Speaker 2: Oh how much money did you spend?
Speaker 3: I didn't spend any I was I was going to
Speaker 3: spend a grand total of two dollars.
Speaker 1: Two dollars.
Speaker 3: So it was a we went to put it in perspective.
Speaker 3: I wasn't just randomly there, but uh, we had a
Speaker 3: baptism for a family member for my niece this weekend
Speaker 3: and it was up on the North side, and so
Speaker 3: we stayed up there for the weekend, and a lot
Speaker 3: of the family was in town. This the first time
Speaker 3: the whole family like this has been together in quite
Speaker 3: some time. So we all went out to eat and
Speaker 3: they chose, of all places, Miller's Ale House, okay, and
Speaker 3: which I love, by the way, I love Miller's. The
Speaker 3: Zingers the Mountain melt like a whole bunch of chicken
Speaker 3: and fries together with sauce. It's it's hard to beat.
Speaker 3: It's so simple. Anyway, got there on the way out,
Speaker 3: and I know they've done these before. But on the
Speaker 3: way out, I see they have like these little those
Speaker 3: little like auction things where you like ride in your mountain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: So I saw a whole bunch of Atlanta stuff, and
Speaker 3: then I see none other than our good friend Lee Alman,
Speaker 3: and I was like, are you kidding me? And he's
Speaker 3: right above a Theodore Roosevelt quote, which is funny. But
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm gonna be funny. Nobody up here
Speaker 3: knowsley and I'm messy. I was gonna put it two dollars,
Speaker 3: and then I looked down at the thing and it
Speaker 3: said the minimum BIB was one hundred and ninety five. Oh,
Speaker 3: you can have that. You can have it. I don't care.
Speaker 3: I don't even like him that much. I like him,
Speaker 3: but I'm kind of sick and tired of hearing about him.
Speaker 3: Not one hundred and ninety five dollars.
Speaker 2: No, so that is not happening.
Speaker 3: Nope, I'm a picture of it. It was his first.
Speaker 1: Game, okay, Mozeltov one hundred and ninety five dollars not happening, Nope, No,
Speaker 1: give me some give me something that's a bargain.
Speaker 2: I can put in in a frame or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so since you since you mentioned Messi and Friends,
Speaker 1: they're back to being healthy and Rodrigue de Paul has
Speaker 1: stepped in and now it looks like they're bringing in
Speaker 1: another defender.
Speaker 2: They're trying to get the POV deal done from krusos Sewel.
Speaker 1: Looks like it's seven million, but I think they're But
Speaker 1: and this is something I think that gets lost on
Speaker 1: folks is that that figure can be spread out over
Speaker 1: the life of a deal. So your yearly hit isn't
Speaker 1: as bad. People sit there and go seven million, but
Speaker 1: if it's a five year deal, then you're only hit
Speaker 1: at one point four against your your figures all season long.
Speaker 1: So POV they goodness gracious, you know they need help
Speaker 1: at the back. Don't tell them that because you know
Speaker 1: then they might go chasing after folks. But uh, the
Speaker 1: the uh how do we the sieve that can be
Speaker 1: the back line for Messi and Friends. It looks like
Speaker 1: they're getting close to POV now to to try and
Speaker 1: help things out. You're you're sending you're sending folks to
Speaker 1: Spain and now you're bringing more folks in. So they're
Speaker 1: trying to with the three matches in hand that they
Speaker 1: have right now. If they win those, obviously they would
Speaker 1: be the top seed in the East. How did that
Speaker 1: work out for you the last time that happened? Uh,
Speaker 1: he said, tongue firmly planted in cheek. So is there's
Speaker 1: still we still have until Thursday to figure things out
Speaker 1: when it comes to Major League Soccer, and we do
Speaker 1: have a couple of other names to look into. But yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: Messi and friends not messing around, No, I mean I was.
Speaker 3: I was actually interested that Messi came back as quickly
Speaker 3: as he did, and of course he steps up back
Speaker 3: into it. I think the most interesting story to me
Speaker 3: out of this whole week of the soap opera that
Speaker 3: is inter Miami, Yes, was benin Muskie and his comments
Speaker 3: and things. And I guess it's been going on for
Speaker 3: a little longer than a week now, But you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know. It just feels like you're down there
Speaker 3: playing alongside literally some of the best in the world.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying like, don't be bothered that you're
Speaker 3: maybe not playing the position you want to play, but hey,
Speaker 3: if you're going to learn anything from any group of
Speaker 3: soccer players in the world. Uh huh, that's probably the
Speaker 3: place you want to be. Maybe just go learn something new.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it might be a novel concept. But anyway,
Speaker 3: that was interesting. And then of course we had to
Speaker 3: discuss for a minute on the Monday Show about Messi's
Speaker 3: rapid exodus from the field the other night, which was
Speaker 3: I think, I don't know, I think a big nothing burger,
Speaker 3: but yeah.
Speaker 1: Kind of odd. I mean, look with Kromowsky, I look
Speaker 1: at it this way for me. Well, and we'll get
Speaker 1: to Dell's question here in a sect because it kind
Speaker 1: of wraps into all this stuff. Kramowski is a youngin
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the idea that he wants to play,
Speaker 1: and that has to be balanced into the idea of
Speaker 1: what does Javier Mascherano see in Ben Humming Kramowski. On
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday or Sunday through whenever, maybe they get
Speaker 1: Sundays off if they don't, you know, if they play
Speaker 1: on Saturday, maybe they get Sunday off, sleep in a
Speaker 1: little bit and come in and condition or whatever. But
Speaker 1: the Monday through Friday, Ben Huming Kramowski plays into the
Speaker 1: notion for Javier Mascherano as to how he wants to
Speaker 1: be used how much and where during any given week.
Speaker 1: And you know, if the the vision is that, you
Speaker 1: know that he's still got some he's still got some
Speaker 1: stuff to work on, and you know, he's not in
Speaker 1: my idea of a starting lineup for a team that
Speaker 1: their number one goal is to win fancy, shiny things
Speaker 1: when as many of them as humanly possible, and be
Speaker 1: out there on the world stage as much as humanly possible.
Speaker 1: I get the idea, you know, And look, we all
Speaker 1: have our own elements and levels of self confidence. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Ben Huming Kromowski's level of self confidence is very, very high,
Speaker 1: and you'll like to see that. But you're going up
Speaker 1: against folks that have a mission in hand, and it's
Speaker 1: up to you to also to learn and evolve and
Speaker 1: advance your game as well. And they're also not gonna
Speaker 1: rush you. So just you know, it's like, just you know,
Speaker 1: everything's cool. Just just keep learning and you'll be fine,
Speaker 1: and you'll win shiny things. And guess what your value will.
Speaker 3: Increase immensely, immensely strange how that might be, Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I guess, And then it kind of touches on what
Speaker 3: like Delle was just saying, I think, you know Hibyer
Speaker 3: marshal Oo's response, and I will covey out by saying this,
Speaker 3: and I've said it all season. I don't think Hobber
Speaker 3: Marshaono is a good coach. I'm just gonna throw that
Speaker 3: out there. Maybe those are fighting words for some people, probably,
Speaker 3: but I just don't think he's proven it at this point.
Speaker 3: I think he's been handed literally the golden goose of
Speaker 3: a roster, like it's really hard to screw this up.
Speaker 3: But his response about how you know, when he went
Speaker 3: to play alongside some of these guys, he was moved
Speaker 3: out of what he considered his best and favorite position,
Speaker 3: and he kind of just went with it because he
Speaker 3: knew that that would be the only way to get
Speaker 3: playing time. And I think this is maybe one of
Speaker 3: those situations like it might not be where young Ben
Speaker 3: would like to play, but young Ben might just need
Speaker 3: to go into it and say, like, hey, look, I'm
Speaker 3: still young enough to learn any of these positions. Honestly,
Speaker 3: it's not like you're you're thirty two years old, like
Speaker 3: you're kind of coming up on the end of your
Speaker 3: career here at the beginning, dude, just go and and learn.
Speaker 3: And I think by that, you'll get the more playing time.
Speaker 3: And if if whatever whatever is in his future that
Speaker 3: he visualizes, whether it is like a trad like a
Speaker 3: now team camp or a move, or just more playing
Speaker 3: time with Miami alongside these guys, I think it'll happen
Speaker 3: if he kind of goes along with learning different things.
Speaker 3: And now I'm not saying be the guy that just
Speaker 3: rolls over and takes whatever you're you're told to take,
Speaker 3: but in that position, the best players in the world
Speaker 3: literally alongside you, You're gonna You're gonna learn stuff even
Speaker 3: if you don't want to. Just by osmosis, you're being
Speaker 3: around them. And so I don't know, you can't say
Speaker 3: that about every team. And I've been on another team
Speaker 3: in MLS, I might have something different to say, But
Speaker 3: at Miami, I'm like, man, just go learn, go enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dell with the counter with the with the pointer
Speaker 1: count chance to be in USA camps leading up to
Speaker 1: the World Cup, maybe playing time and position would better
Speaker 1: than what he can learn from these players. Are they
Speaker 1: really teaching him? That goes back to your point about
Speaker 1: osmosis and learning from folks like DePaul and Messi and
Speaker 1: Suarez and Mascherano and all of that. And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: This has to be balanced. Right now, would Kromowski be better,
Speaker 1: you know, to go to another team. The thing is
Speaker 1: that price tag to get Krimaski away from Messian friends
Speaker 1: is not going to be small, and there's only going
Speaker 1: to be a certain number of clubs that would be
Speaker 1: interested in a player that has the growth curve of
Speaker 1: Ben Humming Kromowski. If you send him overseas as an example,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you send him like if
Speaker 1: you if you dial up today, if roll Sun Leahy
Speaker 1: is in that corner office with the shiny glass and
Speaker 1: the long table and the you know, the long carpet
Speaker 1: and the phone that has unlimited international minutes, and he's
Speaker 1: trying to figure out something today in Major League Soccer
Speaker 1: because you know, deadlines tomorrow. So if we say he's
Speaker 1: trying to figure out something for Kremaski in the next
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, let's just say then, okay, he's hitting
Speaker 1: the phones. Kromowski's man, you know, Okay, so we're tired,
Speaker 1: we're done with it, and we're gonna call We're gonna
Speaker 1: call folks up. Knowing the public quotes all of the
Speaker 1: clubs that are worth their salt that might be interested
Speaker 1: in Ben Humming Kroumowski. They are going to sit there
Speaker 1: and not give the bid that Messi and friends would want.
Speaker 2: That's just how this works.
Speaker 1: It's going to be, uh, you know, suddenly he calls,
Speaker 1: you know, suddenly he calls somebody up. Hello, mister GM
Speaker 1: nebulous GM franchise, Major League Soccer. Hello, So what's he
Speaker 1: worth to you? You know, I don't know it just
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I like the idea of having
Speaker 1: him here. But but you know, how about you know,
Speaker 1: how about a twelve pack of Campbell's soup, some romy noodles,
Speaker 1: and maybe some you know, maybe some local gluten free bread.
Speaker 2: I'll get back to you.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what you're going to be getting here
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer for the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: If you try to send him overseas, overseas director of football, Hello,
Speaker 1: long distance phone call, international minutes Hello, you might have
Speaker 1: a club that would sit there and go, sure, we'll
Speaker 1: pay what you want, because you know, you're dealing with
Speaker 1: Messi and friends and it might be something down the
Speaker 1: line where it could help you in the world football
Speaker 1: landscape of relationships, but would Kromowski play wherever he is
Speaker 1: sent that would be the hook for me.
Speaker 2: Or is he just gonna.
Speaker 1: Well, he's here in the Premier League, or he's here
Speaker 1: in the first division of you know, Uzbekistan, and you
Speaker 1: know he's sitting on a bench. You know, he's like
Speaker 1: with Carabag or something in Kazakhstan, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench. Is it better to sit on
Speaker 1: the bench in Europe because it's Europe and we're better
Speaker 1: and all of that. Yeah, we're a better league and
Speaker 1: he can learn by sitting on the bench or play
Speaker 1: minutes in Major League Soccer, learning that environment and figure it's.
Speaker 2: Like, look, just by your time.
Speaker 1: Cool. You know, everything's going to be cool, kid, Just
Speaker 1: bide your time. I mean, I mean, am I am
Speaker 1: I looking at this the wrong way?
Speaker 3: No, I think, because here's the thing you could gone.
Speaker 3: Are the days of MLS sending a young player out
Speaker 3: to name a random league and club here just because hey,
Speaker 3: they're going to get experienced. MLS has actually now grown
Speaker 3: to the point where it is better than many many
Speaker 3: leagues in the world, not all obviously, but you know
Speaker 3: you're talking about sending him to the random club in
Speaker 3: you know that part of Asia that's Asia and partially Europe,
Speaker 3: And yeah, he might get playing time there, but he
Speaker 3: could get that are playing time more more effective and
Speaker 3: intentional minutes playing for Inter Miami two.
Speaker 1: And and loose to Atlanta United two.
Speaker 3: Exactly, And it's like, is that really what you want?
Speaker 3: Like he's gonna travel Like cool, he gets the travel,
Speaker 3: gets that experience, but like, you're gonna get more as
Speaker 3: a player, And I think from an investment perspective to
Speaker 3: be there training alongside lin O Messi every day. Who
Speaker 3: wouldn't want that? Just like literally the best in the
Speaker 3: world and then alongside some of the other best in
Speaker 3: the world insert like five of them here. That is
Speaker 3: invaluable experience. And it doesn't I don't care if you
Speaker 3: do go to the Premier League and you play twenty
Speaker 3: minutes at the end of every game, like cool, that's great.
Speaker 3: You're still not getting the training week in and week
Speaker 3: out that you're gonna get from Leonel Messi and all
Speaker 3: those guys. Now, would it be effective, yes, But I
Speaker 3: think that you need to take advantage of what you
Speaker 3: You have a golden opportunity right there in front of you.
Speaker 3: You're there, accept it, learn from it, and I guarantee,
Speaker 3: come four years from now, when when Messi and all
Speaker 3: this other stuff is gone, Kromowski wherever he ends up,
Speaker 3: will be a much much better player if he stays
Speaker 3: at Miami right now and and like enjoys it and
Speaker 3: takes it and takes it all in.
Speaker 1: Top ten in minutes, and this is and this is,
Speaker 1: and I was like, when you were breaking down your
Speaker 1: your kromaskyism, I went and checked his stats, and I've
Speaker 1: got his stats here. Top ten in the team in minutes. Yep,
Speaker 1: he's top ten in minutes right now, Uh twenty one matches,
Speaker 1: fifteen starts, and so I mean you're you're playing six
Speaker 1: and it is uh six times in as a sub.
Speaker 1: He's got the one goal for assist passing percentage at
Speaker 1: eighty six percent, conversion rate at fourteen, So it's like
Speaker 1: one out of every seven shots and one out of
Speaker 1: two out of every seven shots. It's total attacking assists thirteen,
Speaker 1: which puts him obviously top six on the club in
Speaker 1: literally in total attacking assists registered by Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: Messi Suarez, Albabusquets Segovia Kromaski six right now in total
Speaker 1: attacking assists on target scoring attempts. He is seventh, Messi Suarez, Agendi, Segovia, Pico, Jeordia,
Speaker 1: Alba Kramoski. He's tied with cell Awaygan. But nevertheless, and
Speaker 1: when you look at obviously with XG, it's going to
Speaker 1: be very very low considering the number of opportunities that
Speaker 1: you have there. But the numbers, the numbers give you
Speaker 1: a top seven to top ten guy on this roster
Speaker 1: who's upset at a logjam, Sir Kama, it's gonna be okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's the biggest thing here. It's like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be okay. I know that.
Speaker 2: I mean, look when.
Speaker 3: When definition of a first world problem.
Speaker 2: It's just like, no, I want to play.
Speaker 1: Well you are, and then you do better Monday through Friday,
Speaker 1: and then hey, guess what your first one off the
Speaker 1: bench on a Saturday or a Sunday. Everything's everything will
Speaker 1: be fine. I know that you're naturally impatient. We are
Speaker 1: all naturally impatient human beings as we are young. Because
Speaker 1: we are we are bulletproof and impenetrable. Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: so I understand I understand this.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: Just patience, grasshopper, Patience, patience Grasshopper.
Speaker 3: Or you can go play at Grasshopper, true, and then
Speaker 3: you could be Matthew Schwanier and and come back and
Speaker 3: go to and play at l afc SO and then
Speaker 3: the other one of the other big stories that has
Speaker 3: worked its way through it appears so of course, uh
Speaker 3: Atlanta United finishes playing color and they're headed back this
Speaker 3: way and Colorado after you know, having to replace their DMS.
Speaker 2: Now I don't know how they communicate, but.
Speaker 1: Advanced talks to sign Paxton Aronson from Eintrach Frankfurt. Final
Speaker 1: details now for Colorado. European clubs trying hard to get
Speaker 1: him potentially a club record deal. So well, I mean,
Speaker 1: when you get what is it, eight million from Toronto FC,
Speaker 1: then you have the possibility to flip that to bring
Speaker 1: in Paxton and Aaronson Colorado not wasting any time here
Speaker 1: at the tail end of the window. And that would
Speaker 1: be another intriguing signing where you now have US M
Speaker 1: and T players coming back to play Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: Instead of going abroad, they're now coming back the other
Speaker 1: way to play in MLS as opposed to going worldwide
Speaker 1: and playing wherever they're going to play first division, second
Speaker 1: Division wherever. You're now seeing these these M and T
Speaker 1: players coming back into the league, which I think is
Speaker 1: another important step for Major League Soccer as a league
Speaker 1: on the whole.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, we kind of talked about like,
Speaker 3: how would well not not how what is Colorado thinking?
Speaker 3: And you talk about like this Mahalovich trade, and I
Speaker 3: mean it's not necessarily alike for like, but you kind
Speaker 3: of hoped that if you're a Colorado fan, they were
Speaker 3: going to go and do something to make up for
Speaker 3: getting rid of essentially their best player. Pax Aarons is
Speaker 3: a good shout. I think that's definitely like one who
Speaker 3: comes in and instantly makes the squad better. And then yeah,
Speaker 3: it is kind of this this phenomenon, I guess where
Speaker 3: we're seeing a lot of players, whether they have started here,
Speaker 3: gone to Europe and now are coming back as better
Speaker 3: players legitimately most of them, or in some cases you're
Speaker 3: seeing MLS kind of snagging folks that maybe would be
Speaker 3: going to one of those top five leagues at some
Speaker 3: point and Molests' is getting them first. But I mean,
Speaker 3: in this case, I think it does nothing but make
Speaker 3: Colorado better. And I don't know, I think It's kind
Speaker 3: of a toss up on whether or not it's the
Speaker 3: best thing for Paxton, But I don't see it as
Speaker 3: a bad move at all for him necessarily. I mean,
Speaker 3: I just think it's like where he's got the talent
Speaker 3: to play in a lot of places, and if Colorado
Speaker 3: is willing to step up their game, which it kind
Speaker 3: of seems like they're doing to a degree, then I'm
Speaker 3: all for it. I Mean, it does nothing but make
Speaker 3: the league better at this point, so I'm here for it.
Speaker 1: The projected lineup, if that happens, stephanin that and this
Speaker 1: is playing armisses three four three. This is just laying
Speaker 1: it out there in a graphic. Then you blow the
Speaker 1: whistle and everything goes wherever it goes. Stepan back line
Speaker 1: of Murphy, Cobbin, Maksu midfield four left to right, Vines Bassett,
Speaker 1: Olivia laz and Reggie Cannon, who I am thankful is
Speaker 1: getting a regular paycheck instead of his time at Bola Vista,
Speaker 1: where he is literally Reggie Cannon loses a lawsuit he lost.
Speaker 1: He lost the lawsuit on appeal where Boavista wasn't paying him,
Speaker 1: and so he's like, well I'm out, so bola Vista
Speaker 1: takes Reggie Cannon to I think it was the Court
Speaker 1: of Arbitration for Sport and I think it was cast
Speaker 1: whichever whichever governing body was overseeing this this case, gave
Speaker 1: a judgment to bola Vista because Cannon left while his
Speaker 1: contract was still active. And so it's like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: owe seven figures to Bolavista because you jetted, and the
Speaker 1: entire world is like what And so it was appealed
Speaker 1: and then I think it's back to where everything should be.
Speaker 2: That nothing.
Speaker 1: It's like, you owe Reggie Cannon money. Reggie Cannon doesn't
Speaker 1: owe you a thing, but the fact that during that
Speaker 1: process at Boavista, he literally was given a judgment against
Speaker 1: him to pay his club that didn't pay him, and
Speaker 1: he decided to go sidebarb Wall Pass Wednesday. So your
Speaker 1: front line Aaronson, Navajo and Yappie, that would be your
Speaker 1: front line. That would be your attack projected if Aaronson comes.
Speaker 1: So Aeronson Navajo, Yappy Vine's Bassett, Laura's Cannon, Murphy Cobb,
Speaker 1: Masu Stefan that you're starting eleven in Colorado, yep, which
Speaker 1: ain't bad.
Speaker 3: Now, it's all bad at all.
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of front loaded because of I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously it's like, okay, you three go and the midfield
Speaker 1: will help, you know, Cole Bassett, Sam Vines, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And then you've got folks drifting back to help out
Speaker 1: a Noah Maksu Murphy lineup. So there is some there's
Speaker 1: some offense in then their pieces.
Speaker 3: Perhaps, Yeah, I think it's still rely is maybe heavily.
Speaker 3: I think we're maybe starting to see that that tide
Speaker 3: turn a little bit though. But Navarro, Look, most clubs
Speaker 3: are gonna live and die by their striker, and that's
Speaker 3: just how it is. If your striker's on, it's a
Speaker 3: good day. If he's not, it's a bad day. Sask
Speaker 3: Atlanta United, it's kind of where they're at right now.
Speaker 3: But I mean, the easiest switch to flip is your
Speaker 3: striker getting it and the rest of the team doing
Speaker 3: what do they need to do to get your striker
Speaker 3: to get it. And to be fair, Colorado has gotten
Speaker 3: Navarro where he needs to be, I think at this point,
Speaker 3: and now it's a matter of now is he going
Speaker 3: to be like the long term solution, I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I think every player that you bring in from
Speaker 3: now on should kind of fit the style that they're
Speaker 3: trying to play now and just make it better. Because
Speaker 3: the style that they're playing now is it's no frills.
Speaker 3: It's basic. But they're doing it pretty well. I mean
Speaker 3: they're seventh in the West right now, but like it's
Speaker 3: they're right there, you know what, three four, four points
Speaker 3: out of fifth, six out of four. I mean like
Speaker 3: they're they're doing the job and they're getting results where
Speaker 3: they need to. So you bring in a guy like Paxton,
Speaker 3: I think that takes what you are already doing okay,
Speaker 3: and you just make it better.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you mentioned it being no frills. I
Speaker 1: mean and Walton Kronkie is married to Stan Kronki and
Speaker 1: she is an heiress to the Walmart fortune. So I
Speaker 1: mean the whole no frills thing. I think I think
Speaker 1: people people in the ksc Umbrella Kronky Sports Entertainment, they
Speaker 1: kind of know the no frills kind of deal.
Speaker 3: Why have we not made a bigger deal about this?
Speaker 3: I feel like, whis this like the whole Walmart thing
Speaker 3: in Colorado? Well, this should be like a thing like
Speaker 3: like what is their special? Is it like the blue
Speaker 3: Blue now that was.
Speaker 2: Special?
Speaker 3: What is what does Walmart do?
Speaker 1: Walmart just does things inexpensively. I don't think that does
Speaker 1: Walmart have like a name for their specials. I thought
Speaker 1: they used to hang on Walmart special hang on Walmart specials.
Speaker 1: Let me see you see if they have the name
Speaker 1: uh Walmart uh flash Deals savings. It's like flash Deals weekly.
Speaker 4: And roll roll back, roll back?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Okay, So so so you're you're suggesting that the that
Speaker 1: the rapids of the rapids approach on the field is
Speaker 1: a roll back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they can made the Colorado rollbacks.
Speaker 1: You see now and then that and they have to
Speaker 1: but then you have to change the color scheme.
Speaker 2: To blue instead of burgundy.
Speaker 1: I guess you'd have to go to blue, blue and
Speaker 1: yellow with the Colorado rollbacks.
Speaker 3: It can be their alternate kid, their third kit.
Speaker 2: Now, that would be pretty strong.
Speaker 1: It would be pretty deep actually, if you if you
Speaker 1: did something like that.
Speaker 3: And with Walmart now having a partnership see with las Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that there's things to be done here.
Speaker 1: The Colorado rollbacks. Okay, coming out of the match in Colorado,
Speaker 1: Alexi Midonchuk is literally if I'm gonna if I'm at
Speaker 1: a poker table and I'm seeing what Alexi Madonchuk has
Speaker 1: done in the last six weeks. I'm looking over my
Speaker 1: right shoulder and I'm seeing how he's playing his hands,
Speaker 1: whether it's blackjack or something like that, and I'm staring
Speaker 1: at him and I'm going, Okay, he's he's on a
Speaker 1: heater right now, and I'm just going to keep riding
Speaker 1: what I see from him. I'm not going to encourage
Speaker 1: teams in Major League Soccer to come out and mark
Speaker 1: Alexi outside the eighteen. I'm not going to mention anything
Speaker 1: like that. I'm just going to continue to let Alexi
Speaker 1: have the ball from about twenty to twenty two out
Speaker 1: and just launch. It happens, Yeah, I mean most of
Speaker 1: the time it ends up in the back of the net.
Speaker 1: Got another one against Colorado. He is he is in
Speaker 1: absolute rhythm right now and it's a fun watch to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've said I say it all the time. I
Speaker 3: feel like, but like, you gotta let the praise be
Speaker 3: as lot as a criticism. And in all fairness, there
Speaker 3: is still a lot of making up to do. But
Speaker 3: he is right now by far, and it's not even close.
Speaker 3: The best dplanning and has on the roster in terms
Speaker 3: of output and like what he's doing in terms of
Speaker 3: goals and assists. Now, I do think there's still something
Speaker 3: to be said, and people might not necessarily like it,
Speaker 3: but I do think Miggi is providing more in like
Speaker 3: creativity in getting into the final third, but then once
Speaker 3: he gets into the final third, it's becoming very ineffective.
Speaker 3: Moran Chuck is doing what he needs to do. He's
Speaker 3: finally hitting the back of the net. Of course, he's
Speaker 3: also blocking trist to me from the back of the
Speaker 3: debt too, but that's a different story. But no, I
Speaker 3: think going back months, it feels like like screaming, whether
Speaker 3: it's in the press box or at the TV, for
Speaker 3: Alexi to just take shots from that weird little sweet
Speaker 3: spot that he has right there about twenty yards just
Speaker 3: outside the box on the right side, with his left
Speaker 3: foot because he has it in his pocket. The times
Speaker 3: that he's missed this season, they've all hit the bar
Speaker 3: or they've just skimmed past the bar. But he's hitting
Speaker 3: them more often than he's missing them, which is wild.
Speaker 3: So I want to see more of that. I want
Speaker 3: to see more of him getting involved. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: making more, he's making more kind of intentional runs as well,
Speaker 3: maybe again joking around about the Miyamba thing to kind
Speaker 3: of his own detriment at that point. But like, the
Speaker 3: thing is that he's there, He's getting into the attack
Speaker 3: a lot more. He's not just kind of sitting up,
Speaker 3: you know, forty yards back and kind of watching things
Speaker 3: progress in front of him. He's getting in So I
Speaker 3: like it. I think that he's kind of evolving a
Speaker 3: little bit to fit maybe more of either a what
Speaker 3: Dila wants or B what the team has given him
Speaker 3: at this point in its current iteration. So I mean,
Speaker 3: if he can continue to do what he's doing, be
Speaker 3: involved in the attack in all aspects of it, and
Speaker 3: then MIGGI and late Loft can get going, this is
Speaker 3: an entirely different team at that point. I mean, we're
Speaker 3: having a totally different conversation if all of your dps
Speaker 3: are even just marginally better than they are right now.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of giving a bit of a tease to
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Speaker 1: and the PM is one of the topics, and I
Speaker 1: went back and looked at the last five matches for Alexi,
Speaker 1: and he has registered in I mean outside of the goals.
Speaker 1: Outside of the goals. He has registered in nine categories,
Speaker 1: nine separate categories over the last five matches in one way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, passing it about eighty four percent, and
Speaker 1: he has eight fourteen out of fourteen for twenty two.
Speaker 1: On duels he's registered either a block a tackle. He
Speaker 1: has eight key passes in the last five games. Technically
Speaker 1: it's eight in the last four registered on a couple
Speaker 1: of crosses. He has connected on thirteen long balls over
Speaker 1: the last five matches, a couple of dribbles passed, couple
Speaker 1: of clearances, and a couple of picks defensively, So nine
Speaker 1: different categories and passing it about eighty four percent over
Speaker 1: the last five matches. So that statistical breakdown will appear
Speaker 1: on the Halo board on Saturday. But yeah, when you
Speaker 1: see that Sunday Sunday, sorry good, its gracious, yeah, because
Speaker 1: it's it's the twos at OCB on Saturday. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: Twoes and OCB on the network on Saturday Sunday at
Speaker 1: four ten is the kick for Atlanta and Toronto. But yeah,
Speaker 1: nine separate categories in passing eighty four percent plus the
Speaker 1: goals he has scored in the last handful of matches,
Speaker 1: like the last six matches. So feed the man, that's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. Just feed him and let him run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean because there is a tendency I
Speaker 3: think where he maybe tries to get a little bit
Speaker 3: too involved in the build up, which to a degree
Speaker 3: is working with Miggie and Ronald Hernandez over there. I
Speaker 3: think that that trio has kind of developed a little
Speaker 3: bit of chemistry.
Speaker 1: I think I think Miggi, miton Chuck and Ronnie has
Speaker 1: been a good triangle over there on that right hand sower.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've kind of figured it out. Then it's just
Speaker 3: a matter of can you use you know, the run
Speaker 3: to unlock the pa as vice versa. You've got to
Speaker 3: get the left hand side more involved to take a
Speaker 3: little bit of the pressure off of them, because if
Speaker 3: you can continue to have them absolutely tearing up the
Speaker 3: right because they can almost move the ball down the
Speaker 3: right side at will, They're they're that good at this point.
Speaker 3: But then it's a matter of and Slish drops in
Speaker 3: there as well. I gotta give Slish a lot of
Speaker 3: credit because he just kind of is playing the best
Speaker 3: ball of his heat. Land You're not a career right now.
Speaker 3: You've got to get the left side really, really involved
Speaker 3: a lot more, just so that they can and they,
Speaker 3: being the opposition defense, have something else to think about
Speaker 3: because it does get very crowded on that right side.
Speaker 3: Because you're a fool if you don't guard Maggie. You're
Speaker 3: definitely a fool now in the past two months, if
Speaker 3: you don't guard Morancho, especially in that spot you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Right side, that does is it creates we talk about
Speaker 1: positional gravity. Okay, two guys go to am then that
Speaker 1: means somebody's open, and it's the key is to find
Speaker 1: that open guy and have the switch and go to
Speaker 1: the left hand side and have it be clinical.
Speaker 3: And then if because then what you have is let's
Speaker 3: just say Luke Brennan as an example. Sure, Luke Brennan
Speaker 3: is incredibly confident, and I love that about him. That's
Speaker 3: why I've always loved watching him play, because he is confident,
Speaker 3: and it's sometimes and I mean this with all due
Speaker 3: respect because I love it, it's almost like that stupid
Speaker 3: confidence at times where he's just like, I'm gonna take
Speaker 3: this guy on one v one. I don't even care.
Speaker 3: I don't care, but he's really good at it. He's
Speaker 3: getting into the box and you see the opportunities that
Speaker 3: he's created, whether he got credit for them or not,
Speaker 3: he's it comes from taking guys on one v one,
Speaker 3: making good passes and when you have that positional gravity
Speaker 3: like you're talking about. On the right hand side, with
Speaker 3: everybody over there, Miggy Moran, Chuck Ronald will make a
Speaker 3: run occasionally, Slish will make a run occasionally. It leaves
Speaker 3: Luke Brennan over on that left hand side to be
Speaker 3: able to just do what he needs to do, which
Speaker 3: is take on guys and get into the box. And
Speaker 3: then from that point on it's just making either the
Speaker 3: right pass or taking the shot just a half step early,
Speaker 3: and I think it opens up a lot. And then
Speaker 3: all of that combined with if late Lof can just
Speaker 3: get his confidence in his mojo back, I really do think,
Speaker 3: and I know, I know like this season has been crap.
Speaker 3: We're being honest, like it's been rough, but I don't
Speaker 3: think that this team is as far down in the
Speaker 3: dumps as we all like to think they are, and
Speaker 3: we feel like they are right now because where they're
Speaker 3: aut in the standings. I think it is very minimal
Speaker 3: in terms of the tweaks that need to happen to
Speaker 3: get them right. It is not you know, La Galaxy
Speaker 3: where they had to wait an entire season just to
Speaker 3: get a lot of guys back from injury. It's just
Speaker 3: little things that need to be done slightly better. And
Speaker 3: this team is I'm not saying they're living up to
Speaker 3: the expectations at the beginning of the season, but I
Speaker 3: think they're a lot closer and they would be a
Speaker 3: lot higher up the standings.
Speaker 1: And you've got Toronto coming to town Sunday at four
Speaker 1: four ten, and Toronto once again they pick up Mihailovich.
Speaker 1: I mean, look the front office for Toronto. They they
Speaker 1: they're they're like Scrooge McDuck man. It's just literally, you
Speaker 1: know cart cartman and the dollar bills. It's just like,
Speaker 1: you know, literally, you know, it's that's what you see
Speaker 1: in loonies and tunis, and they're just it's like, yep,
Speaker 1: we'll do what we need to do. And they finally
Speaker 1: got to the point where they used both of their
Speaker 1: oopsies on and Signor and Bernardeski and they're like y'all
Speaker 1: just get out, we're done. And then you bring in
Speaker 1: you bring in Mihailovich as part of the the retooling
Speaker 1: in Toronto, and they're still trying to figure out who
Speaker 1: they are. They thought they knew who they were. Then
Speaker 1: they decide to jettison their big names and then they
Speaker 1: bring in another big name. So it's wash Rents and
Speaker 1: repeat to a certain degree. Uh Atlanta has lost only
Speaker 1: once at Mercedes Been Stadium in the nine matches that
Speaker 1: Toronto has come. Toronto has come to Town's right. That
Speaker 1: second t is pretty silent.
Speaker 3: They gets you.
Speaker 1: The Toronto has come to you know, shoot, I worked
Speaker 1: up there for four years. I don't know by now. Uh, Toronto,
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out who they are, and it's
Speaker 1: it's going to I imagine that this match this weekend
Speaker 1: is going to have a lot of sandpaper attached to it,
Speaker 1: just on general premise, because you want to start making
Speaker 1: a statement around those folks that are near you in
Speaker 1: the standings, just so you can sit there and say, well, uh,
Speaker 1: you got more to work.
Speaker 2: On than I do, and I'm better than you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm anticipating, Like I said, I'm anticipating a lot
Speaker 1: of sandpaper in this one. No, I agree.
Speaker 3: I think you're at that point in this season, regardless
Speaker 3: of really where anybody's out in the standings, where there's
Speaker 3: going to be an extra bit of bite added to
Speaker 3: everything because if you're at bottom of the table, you're
Speaker 3: playing for pride or you should be playing for pride
Speaker 3: at that point and uh a spot on the roster
Speaker 3: next year if we're being honest. Now, are some players
Speaker 3: safer than others? Absolutely, we know this, That's how MLS
Speaker 3: especially works. But then you move your way up the
Speaker 3: table and you're fighting for what is a very very
Speaker 3: tight race for the supporter shield, a very very tight
Speaker 3: race for the for both sides the conference leaders, and
Speaker 3: then a very very tight race for the play in
Speaker 3: spot and playoff the lower playoff you know, rungs of
Speaker 3: the ladder. So I mean, you could you could pretty
Speaker 3: much tune into any MLS match over the next month
Speaker 3: and a half two months and it'll it'll probably be
Speaker 3: a little spicier than you see. And that's the benefit
Speaker 3: of having a playoff structure, and it has its its cons,
Speaker 3: but it's got plenty of pros as well. This one specifically,
Speaker 3: I mean Atlanta and Toronto. They're one point off of
Speaker 3: each other, and Toronto's making moves, Atlanta's making moves like
Speaker 3: maybe a different vision for each team, but at this
Speaker 3: point they're both essentially playing for pride. I mean, it
Speaker 3: would be very tough for either one of them to
Speaker 3: even catch Chicago at thirty nine points, where both of
Speaker 3: them are at twenty two and twenty three. Right, it's tough,
Speaker 3: but you can, like you said, absolutely handle the ones
Speaker 3: that are around you and give yourself something to build
Speaker 3: on I hope going into the offseason. And also just
Speaker 3: get the new guys, get better call confidence, get alsat confidence,
Speaker 3: chemistry with the rest of the team, get Moran Chuck
Speaker 3: more confidence. If you can get Miggy and Lante Loth
Speaker 3: back where they need to be before the end of
Speaker 3: the season, then cool, like you're on the right track.
Speaker 3: And it starts with games like this where knock on wood,
Speaker 3: they are winnable games and you're at home and you
Speaker 3: need to show your fans at home something very positive.
Speaker 3: Leaguees Cup. It was cool Atlas. That was cool doesn't
Speaker 3: count in my opinion, Like I mean, there was admittedly
Speaker 3: there weren't people there. Now you're back in a match
Speaker 3: that I say counts, It counts. I mean it might
Speaker 3: not count overall and the grand scheme of things, but
Speaker 3: it counts more than a League's Cup match that did
Speaker 3: not matter at all that you won four to one.
Speaker 3: This one is a big deal. Go and show that
Speaker 3: you have made the right moves, at least in this
Speaker 3: summer window, because there's more coming later in the winter,
Speaker 3: I'm sure. But go and give your fans something to
Speaker 3: be excited about.
Speaker 1: And to Abby's point, go to the game on Sunday
Speaker 1: because after the match, it's just a five match. And
Speaker 1: for those that may not remember what happened when it
Speaker 1: was five Stripes Unified for Brunch when they went up
Speaker 1: to Bemo to play the day night double header in Toronto.
Speaker 1: The last time, it was a five to three batch
Speaker 1: of crazy yep against Toronto FC and the Unified match
Speaker 1: and so x Man had a big day, they had
Speaker 1: a big second half, but it was nuts. I mean,
Speaker 1: so after it Lanta United. I mean, obviously the match
Speaker 1: will be on atlutd dot com and on the youtubes
Speaker 1: and things like that, but go stay, go support.
Speaker 2: The unified team and we will.
Speaker 1: We've had the discussions with Marty jellmy about the growth
Speaker 1: of the program this season with all the things that
Speaker 1: they've been able to do. But yes, go comma, stay, comma, cheer.
Speaker 2: What's the latest? It scarves and spikes as we go.
Speaker 3: So, now that we don't have a match tonight, I
Speaker 3: was actually supposed to be at training today finally, and
Speaker 3: then they moved it to tomorrow's I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I guess it's just not meant to be. But no,
Speaker 3: So we have our normal show tonight at seven. We
Speaker 3: got Heath Peers popping in with us for about a
Speaker 3: half hour at seven fifteen and then and of course
Speaker 3: we're doing our Monday show as usual, MLS Monday right
Speaker 3: our Reaction show normally on Sunday, but because of this
Speaker 3: Sunday match, it'll be kind of like a double header
Speaker 3: next Monday. So that's the schedule right now. We'll be
Speaker 3: doing the pre match show, regular pre match not sign
Speaker 3: me a pre match Sunday before the game.
Speaker 1: Starts, and we will all be there to watch it
Speaker 1: and it will be it will be an interesting time
Speaker 1: at Mercedes Bins as Toronto FC comes to town and
Speaker 1: we find out what the stretch run is going to
Speaker 1: look like for Landy United. Thank you for sharing your
Speaker 1: interior decorating tips with us. I'll do my best, and yeah,
Speaker 1: for me, it's just kind of thrown over a thrown
Speaker 1: over a ride, and we'll see what happens and try
Speaker 1: to make sure that things don't break. As always, my friend,
Speaker 1: we'll see you this weekend. Be safe and we'll catch
Speaker 1: up with you soon. Enjoy coffee number two.
Speaker 3: Actually that was number two. I got started early today.
Speaker 1: So thikes, okay, so go enjoy cup number three and
Speaker 1: some breakfast. We'll catch up soon, my friend. All right,
Speaker 1: there goes Tyler, and that's our number one here on
Speaker 1: a wall pass Wednesday to the interior decorating point before
Speaker 1: we get into our number two. And I want to
Speaker 1: look at your thoughts and say hi to everybody and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff and get into transfers and
Speaker 1: news of the day and all that. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is, but things just kind of happen in groups.
Speaker 1: So the other night I was in a room and something.
Speaker 1: And there are sometimes where the acoustics here at office
Speaker 1: HD can carry from floor to floor and it might
Speaker 1: just be like weak spots and things like that. So
Speaker 1: I was on a floor that was not the top floor,
Speaker 1: and I heard a noise. So I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: where is this noise coming from and and why should
Speaker 1: I be concerned. I end up not finding where the
Speaker 1: noise was because you know, it could be like birds
Speaker 1: and raccoons and things and they get into you get
Speaker 1: into your crawl spaces and things like that, and that
Speaker 1: has happened in the past. So at about one o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning, I go into my closet that has
Speaker 1: you know, like the T shirts and things, and I
Speaker 1: see that the shelving that is directly across from me, Like,
Speaker 1: if I walk into the closet, there's shelving and I've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of T shirts that are on a stack,
Speaker 1: and I've got a bunch of a bunch of jerseys
Speaker 1: and golf shirts that are hung on that one.
Speaker 2: As you go into the you.
Speaker 1: Go into the closet, I noticed that some of the
Speaker 1: shirts that were above and that were on the actual
Speaker 1: shelf itself had kind of leaned forward. And I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's uncharacter. They're not supposed to be leaning forward. It's
Speaker 1: like they'd slipped out of place. And so it took
Speaker 1: me a couple of minutes to figure it out. But
Speaker 1: the shelving has started to come out of the wall,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's on a stud, and so
Speaker 1: it was just when they were assembling the house with
Speaker 1: the shelves and everything, so it's one of the one
Speaker 1: of the screws had started to come out of the
Speaker 1: wall space and I have because of the sheer number
Speaker 1: of T shirts and things and golf shirts and jerseys
Speaker 1: on that rack, I have it braced and I know
Speaker 1: that you're all sitting there going I'm shocked that John
Speaker 1: has this much stuff. So the brace had slid forward
Speaker 1: as the shelf had come forward, and so that's what
Speaker 1: the noise was. So I've had to basically evacuate about
Speaker 1: a third of the closet as we wait for the
Speaker 1: handyman to come in and sit there and redo the
Speaker 1: shelf and put it on a stud to where the
Speaker 1: whole thing doesn't fall and collapse, which has happened in
Speaker 1: the past.
Speaker 2: And so that was what it was. Actually it was
Speaker 2: being left handed.
Speaker 1: It is that closet right there where it happened in
Speaker 1: the past, and we had to have a handyman come
Speaker 1: in and literally smash it on the studs to where
Speaker 1: it locked into place. So yeah, that's where we are
Speaker 1: right now. John has a lot of stuff and it's
Speaker 1: causing things to fall down here in Office HD.
Speaker 2: I know you're shocked. So that's where that's where that is.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm causing problems here and there in Office
Speaker 1: HD and a bunch of different floors and a bunch
Speaker 1: of different levels. Okay, it is our number two. Technically
Speaker 1: we have turned the one hour mark. So let me
Speaker 1: say hi to everybody and let me know what's on
Speaker 1: your mind here on a Wednesday. So Morning Loakville, Morning Sheerif,
Speaker 1: Morning David, Morning Abbey. And but yeah, so Abby's first
Speaker 1: point about screwing a hook in the ceiling to hang
Speaker 1: the banner might be doing something with a screw into
Speaker 1: the studs to make sure that the shelving doesn't follow
Speaker 1: in the upstairs closet. Let's see morning Dell. And Abby's issue
Speaker 1: is that she has no more room for the frame
Speaker 1: signed Jerseys. Sadly, I can relate at least here in
Speaker 1: the office space because the boss went out and got
Speaker 1: a bunch of frames and everything is hung and literally
Speaker 1: there is no room left on the wall, no room
Speaker 1: left on any of the four walls to hang anything
Speaker 1: else sportsy. We've gone into the bathroom to hang things
Speaker 1: and literally is a framed North Texas jersey in there,
Speaker 1: and so then it's posters and everything else that's attached,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of drifted its way down the hall
Speaker 1: and up the bottom staircase because you're you're leading into
Speaker 1: the office and so the bottom staircase in the floor
Speaker 1: is turned into sports off and hanging, and then we've
Speaker 1: started doing it in the upper bedrooms.
Speaker 2: It's kind of taken over. So that's that's where we are.
Speaker 1: We're getting to that point of critical mass and trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, Okay, what can we put in what
Speaker 1: can we put in frames?
Speaker 2: And where can we put it?
Speaker 1: Let's see. So Abby says she's got a Peach Team
Speaker 1: sign Lennon not frames signed, Joseph and Miles Miles by
Speaker 1: the way, signing a contract extension with s C Cincinnati
Speaker 1: that happened last night. Children's the childhood Disease of Luisa
Speaker 1: Brom haven't gotten it signed yet. Scarves and signed and all.
Speaker 2: Of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yes, supporter scarf is always a summer scarf. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: easy to get signed. And the Faction one last faction
Speaker 1: one is here in this stack over here, let's see
Speaker 1: so Dell and Abby Dell Avy lienol Messi card Auto
Speaker 1: Marks of Excellence had to send back because of all
Speaker 1: the rumors supposed to be remade, re signed and authenticated. Wow,
Speaker 1: no update on Brooks. Abby's looking for an update on Brooks. Lennon,
Speaker 1: do not have an update on Brooks. And you know,
Speaker 1: when it's that surgically repaired part of the body, then
Speaker 1: you got to keep an eye on it. But hopefully
Speaker 1: this week we'll have some news as to the seriousness.
Speaker 2: You know, the Brooks is going to want to play.
Speaker 1: But obviously we'll see this week at the children So
Speaker 1: Health Carolinta training ground. How it affects if it was
Speaker 1: just a if it was just a knock there in
Speaker 1: Colorado and everything is back fine here after a little
Speaker 1: bit of rehabilitation and such. No idea on the seriousness
Speaker 1: of the carryover really of the seriousness of Brooks's injury.
Speaker 2: Obviously, will keep.
Speaker 1: An eye on that this week, Morning, Will, And let's see.
Speaker 1: So let's see morning Will, Morning Abby. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to scan here, Will. Why isn't Hibbert starting
Speaker 1: in a dead Sea, you know it is there are
Speaker 1: still things to chase after. And I am of the
Speaker 1: mindset that until you until you can't, then you keep
Speaker 1: doing it. Yeah, yeah, and I and look, I know
Speaker 1: the numbers. I know the numbers and the standings and
Speaker 1: I know what they are. But you keep chasing to
Speaker 1: get the best position that you can. You come up
Speaker 1: to try to come up with as as good an
Speaker 1: ending to the season as you can. And then I
Speaker 1: think that that if it gets to that point, you
Speaker 1: will see more of the younger players starting and trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how they integrate into this entire discussion.
Speaker 1: As you will, Bara call Alsat, Leo Afonso, all of
Speaker 1: the the folks.
Speaker 2: That have been.
Speaker 1: Brought in, you will see them. You will see them
Speaker 1: more a if they earn the men mines from what
Speaker 1: we see during the week outright. And then the younger players.
Speaker 1: Uh Leola Fonzo actually got minutes for the twos on
Speaker 1: the weekend just to try to get some minutes under
Speaker 1: his belt. So uh you know Mehai Barra call Alzate Afonso,
Speaker 1: the younger players. You know, like I said, until there
Speaker 1: is until there isn't anything to chase after, you go
Speaker 1: with your starting eleven and you push and you push
Speaker 1: and you push because you know that's that is the
Speaker 1: mindset that you got. You know, you don't even if
Speaker 1: the math is foreboding, and once again we can look
Speaker 1: at last year as an example, even if the math
Speaker 1: is foreboding, you keep pushing because you never know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. And so you want your you want
Speaker 1: your top line players to continue pushing. You want your
Speaker 1: younger players to continue to push. So there it's because
Speaker 1: there is something to push for. For the younger players,
Speaker 1: it's more playing time. For the younger players, it's to integrate.
Speaker 1: For the established players, it's to assure their spot and
Speaker 1: to for the coaching staff to determine, okay, what does
Speaker 1: it look like with the decisions that they have to
Speaker 1: make in the off season, and there are plenty of
Speaker 1: decisions to make, so it is it is.
Speaker 2: It is something to be chased after.
Speaker 1: There are always things to chase after until well, un
Speaker 1: till through the end of the season, but on various levels,
Speaker 1: there are still things to chase after. So uh, you
Speaker 1: don't throw, you don't throw in any kind of a towel,
Speaker 1: and you just see where it goes until you're eliminated.
Speaker 1: You're not eliminated. I know that sounds very Yogi beara ish,
Speaker 1: but that's the case. And then you see how the
Speaker 1: players are Monday through Friday. You see how the younger
Speaker 1: players are stepping up. You see how the see how
Speaker 1: the the the see the senior senior players. That's that
Speaker 1: makes them sound like they're like eighty. But the veterans
Speaker 1: see how they all integrate together. Well, like I said,
Speaker 1: me Hi Bara call alzat Alfonso, the younger players and
Speaker 1: everybody's chasing for something. Younger players are chasing after more
Speaker 1: playing time. Younger players are chasing after starting eleven spots.
Speaker 1: Veteran players are chasing after either a contract renewal of
Speaker 1: an option year or trying to show a future employer
Speaker 1: that they are worth being employed. And if you don't
Speaker 1: show those characteristics, then obviously you'll get found out one
Speaker 1: way or the other. So that's what you're staring at here.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I know the numbers are what
Speaker 1: the numbers are in the standings. Trust me, I know
Speaker 1: what the numbers are. But there's a lot to there's
Speaker 1: a lot to look for, and you never know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. In the process, you can find relationships
Speaker 1: on the left hand side that you've got on the
Speaker 1: right hand side.
Speaker 2: You figure out who those players are.
Speaker 1: You figure out what Ronnie Diland is looking for, You
Speaker 1: figure out what the staff is looking for, figure out
Speaker 1: who those players are as the players continue to integrate
Speaker 1: with one another and figure out what those relationships are.
Speaker 1: Remember with Tyler, we were talking about what we're seeing
Speaker 1: with Alexi Miggi and Ronald, that that that triangle over
Speaker 1: there on the right hand side of the attack, that
Speaker 1: that's finding some rhythm and now it's trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how to replicate that on the left. Is it Luke,
Speaker 1: is it Saba? Who's with Sleash? What's your left back situation?
Speaker 1: I know that you are trying to figure it out
Speaker 1: with Pedro Amador until he got injured. No update on
Speaker 1: Pedromed or either, and now Brooks is having to play
Speaker 1: out a position, and then you're trying to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 1: what do we do here? And obviously if Brooks can't go,
Speaker 1: then does that mean that Ronald turns into your left
Speaker 1: back against Toronto? And then you figure out what your
Speaker 1: right back situation is. So there are a lot of
Speaker 1: there are a lot of x's and O type questions
Speaker 1: that you you look at here with three of the
Speaker 1: fourth the back, then figure out how see if there
Speaker 1: is an injury, then something shifts, and then how do
Speaker 1: you fill that space? So those are the larger questions
Speaker 1: as we get ready for Toronto. What does the left
Speaker 1: hand side look like? Then what is your midfield? How
Speaker 1: are you filling in those spots? And then what is
Speaker 1: the situation that left back with injury? So that's what
Speaker 1: you're getting into with Toronto coming up in a bit.
Speaker 1: And then Abby was and then Abby's discussing that they
Speaker 1: had Josh Cohen starting their match, and I think a
Speaker 1: part of that is a rehab also where Josh is
Speaker 1: coming off of injury and so you're trying to get
Speaker 1: him minutes to get him back into playing shape and
Speaker 1: possibly be the number one backup. But I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: Jayden Hibbert is making a case. And so remember that
Speaker 1: Jayden has three subsequent option years after this season on
Speaker 1: his contract, So keep an eye, keep an eye on
Speaker 1: all of that. And we'll go through obviously all of
Speaker 1: the contract stuff that is attached as we get into
Speaker 1: the offseason and figure out what's going on and those
Speaker 1: I think it's eleven decisions now that have to be made,
Speaker 1: whether it's for renewals or contracts or discussions or what
Speaker 1: have you. And morning Wiley, Morning Abby. Let's see So
Speaker 1: Abby and Wiley and m A TCN congratulations for the competences. Okay,
Speaker 1: Abby says she's got a hook for me. She'll put
Speaker 1: it in the abstomobile, load in at nine am, leave
Speaker 1: it in the media suite for Joe to give to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that probably is probably the best idea as we try
Speaker 1: to figure out everything that are there.
Speaker 2: So yes, thank you, Abby.
Speaker 1: And I know that there is I know that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of let's see, how do I phrase, y'all
Speaker 1: ain't happy about this season? And I mean if anybody,
Speaker 1: if anybody is, then I don't know why they would be.
Speaker 1: But to one of the points that Wiley is making
Speaker 1: in the twitch pitch, literally, I mean, you look at
Speaker 1: this sea and know the wins and losses and the
Speaker 1: expected output are far disappointing than anyone probably could have
Speaker 1: imagined on a bunch of different fronts. But I think
Speaker 1: out of this, I think that what we have seen
Speaker 1: is proof that the development of the younger players through
Speaker 1: the academy and the twos, and all of that continues
Speaker 1: to flourish because you saw the continued growth of Jay
Speaker 1: fortune with national team duty, and we preserved the right
Speaker 1: to be mad at Saudi Arabia's national team and Ervernard
Speaker 1: until further notice, because I mean, you would picture what
Speaker 1: this midfield would look like with j and he's injured,
Speaker 1: so you can't. But you see Jay, you see Matt Edwards,
Speaker 1: you see jad and Hibbert. You've seed obviously Ephra and
Speaker 1: Noah as a part of the discussion before they were
Speaker 1: moved to Montreal and Colorado, respectively. But then you have
Speaker 1: Dominic Chung Kui who's on the on a growth curve
Speaker 1: and trying to uh solidify a spot on the first
Speaker 1: team right now. You know, Dom is trying to navigate
Speaker 1: all of the expectations of those those first team thoughts,
Speaker 1: and dom is playing in uh the three four three
Speaker 1: on the weekend against Crown Legacy. So the the growth
Speaker 1: is there, the players are there. Will Riley another example,
Speaker 1: once again, Will Riley getting in first team minutes. Will
Speaker 1: Jay now, and let me know if I've skipped anybody,
Speaker 1: Will Jay, Jaden, Matt Edwards, Efron Matt before they before
Speaker 1: they were moved on d c Q.
Speaker 2: And I know I'm forgetting, folks, but I mean.
Speaker 1: That is to give you an example of the growth
Speaker 1: and the promise that is there that caninues to develop well.
Speaker 1: And Wiley, I mean they do get they they do
Speaker 1: get moved on and by players who perform worse. But
Speaker 1: I mean you don't know that until it happens. I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: you you have your research that is done, and there's
Speaker 1: I mean there's only so I mean when when we
Speaker 1: look at I know, Wiley, you had mentioned it, the
Speaker 1: idea of the tweaks. I mean, there's only so much
Speaker 1: that a coaching staff can do Monday through Friday. It's
Speaker 1: up to the players to perform in that. And if
Speaker 1: the players are just missing, if if the connection isn't there,
Speaker 1: that it's just off a bit, and it's not. It's
Speaker 1: there's only so much a coaching staff can do. Coaching
Speaker 1: staff can't be out there to do those kinds of things,
Speaker 1: and so it's it's up to the players. Two. And
Speaker 1: this is the chicken and egg argument that we get
Speaker 1: into all the time with the with the coaches, the
Speaker 1: coaching staff with the game plan that they implement. Then
Speaker 1: it is up to the players in those moments to
Speaker 1: perform the game plan. And if something's a little off,
Speaker 1: if if that connection is just a little bit off,
Speaker 1: if if the decision isn't the right decision in any
Speaker 1: given moment, if somebody doesn't if somebody misses an assignment,
Speaker 1: that's not a coaching thing.
Speaker 2: So it's it.
Speaker 1: I would I would ask that A that A and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say critical I but just a
Speaker 1: an A. Take out the magnifying glass and just look
Speaker 1: at the situations inside the match itself. And we talk
Speaker 1: about game stayed a lot. So what I what I
Speaker 1: would ask is if something just missed or if and
Speaker 1: if an event happened, why did it happen? And so
Speaker 1: that it you know, it requires kind of going back
Speaker 1: a little bit and looking and maybe looking at something
Speaker 1: more than once, because I know that when we look
Speaker 1: at something in real time in front of us, we
Speaker 1: have that initial reaction. And there are times when I
Speaker 1: have to go back and I will look at an
Speaker 1: event and I will sit there and I'll analyze and
Speaker 1: sit there and walk it back and sit there and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: this happened, this happened, and this happened, So that means
Speaker 1: that this player needs to do this, this player needs
Speaker 1: to do this, and so in a way, it's it's
Speaker 1: a way for me to learn going forward. If we
Speaker 1: have an event happen in a match that is obviously
Speaker 1: detrimental to it Land United, but it's something where we
Speaker 1: all have to kind of take critical eyes. I'm not
Speaker 1: necessarily I'm not necessarily saying be critical about it, but
Speaker 1: take a critical I to a situation and ask the
Speaker 1: deeper question as to, well, why did this happen? You know,
Speaker 1: what was the what was the responsibility here, what was
Speaker 1: the expectation here from the coaches? All of those kinds
Speaker 1: of things that you together to formulate what happened in
Speaker 1: that moment and hope that you learn from it. You
Speaker 1: know that. So it literally is it is taking a
Speaker 1: critical I and probably taking a little bit more of
Speaker 1: an analytical approach to what we see on a game
Speaker 1: by game basis, because the results aren't there.
Speaker 2: Why aren't the results there?
Speaker 1: Then you go back to those moments and you try
Speaker 1: and figure out, Okay, what was the decision in that
Speaker 1: moment that created this, that created this, that created this,
Speaker 1: that created the ultimate negative moment in that case, and
Speaker 1: so well and Wiley to your point, Yeah, it sounds
Speaker 1: like the job of the coaching staff. Yes, and so
Speaker 1: if the coaching staff, if we have a critical moment,
Speaker 1: let's just say capital C capital and critical moment. If
Speaker 1: we have a critical moment that happens in a match,
Speaker 1: then why did it happen? Well, then if player if
Speaker 1: player one did this and they were supposed to do this,
Speaker 1: then that comes down to decision making in that moment
Speaker 1: as opposed to what was taught or I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's teaching, but if if in practice the coaches
Speaker 1: lay out a scenario where Okay, this is going to
Speaker 1: happen with this guy, this guy or this guy, then
Speaker 1: then some of it is also instinct too. So it's
Speaker 1: just it's just a deeper understanding of a moment in
Speaker 1: a match where okay, did did a player over commit?
Speaker 1: You know, in a in a moment, did did a
Speaker 1: player crash when they probably shouldn't have, even if it
Speaker 1: is their natural instinct to do so.
Speaker 2: So I think it's just.
Speaker 1: What I would ask for is in these moments, and
Speaker 1: I mean it for both a coaching situation and for
Speaker 1: a player in that moment. So take a take a
Speaker 1: moment in a match, whatever that moment is, I don't know,
Speaker 1: mark it down on a piece of paper or something,
Speaker 1: and sit there and go Okay, this happened.
Speaker 2: Why did it happen?
Speaker 1: And then almost go film room and go back and
Speaker 1: back and back and back, and true to your point,
Speaker 1: Wily that if though, if they can't or don't implement
Speaker 1: the changes properly, then that means that there's probably someone
Speaker 1: on the bench that deserves that chance to take that
Speaker 1: place over from that other player. And then it's an
Speaker 1: opportunity for those younger players or those other individuals on
Speaker 1: the roster that are not in the starting eleven to
Speaker 1: take advantage of a situation. And so that's where we
Speaker 1: look at when it comes to game state is literally
Speaker 1: just sit there and go okay, this happened, Why did
Speaker 1: it happen? And what could have been done differently to
Speaker 1: come up with a different result. Take that information, hope
Speaker 1: the player learns from it and apply it forward. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, it literally is it's almost like taking
Speaker 1: notes on a game by game basis and sitting there
Speaker 1: and saying, okay, well, if the player did this, and
Speaker 1: if it's the same player that did the thing, and if.
Speaker 2: The same player did it again, then it is.
Speaker 1: Time for a decision to be made about, you know,
Speaker 1: whether or not this player continues to start, regardless of
Speaker 1: the level of experience that they may have and the
Speaker 1: trust that was there for the coaching staff. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, it's like taking a deeper critical eye into something.
Speaker 1: And so that's what I would ask is that while
Speaker 1: we have our initial reactions, at the same time, take
Speaker 1: the information from that work backward a little bit and
Speaker 1: kind of and have a deeper understanding as to what
Speaker 1: happened in that moment. And if I'm not doing that,
Speaker 1: then let me know. And so what I would like
Speaker 1: for us all to do literally is sit there and
Speaker 1: learn and go forward.
Speaker 2: Trust me, I am not the.
Speaker 1: I am not the the A plus at the A
Speaker 1: plus plus when it comes to analyzing things. And I
Speaker 1: will sit there and I have to look at something,
Speaker 1: I'll shuttle through it three or four times to sit
Speaker 1: there and try and figure out, Okay, in this situation,
Speaker 1: this happened here, here, and here, and for me, it's
Speaker 1: a combination of looking at something more than once and
Speaker 1: then I guess that's the beauty of having Apple TV
Speaker 1: and looking at it and analyzing it, taking notes and
Speaker 1: understanding Okay, if A, then B. So that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of where I am at it. I'm a very I
Speaker 1: am a visual learner, and at the same time, I
Speaker 1: have to take the metric crap ton of notes. And
Speaker 1: you've known me for as long as we've been together
Speaker 1: that I take copious notes. You listen to me on
Speaker 1: the postgame show and I am looking with I'm listening
Speaker 1: to postgame press conferences and I'm taking furious notes. So
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of where I am. And so and
Speaker 1: and Wiley, I appreciate I appreciate your honesty this morning
Speaker 1: in the Twitch pitch, and I know that sometimes the
Speaker 1: conversations that we kind of have in the topics that
Speaker 1: we have are kind of fleeting, and it literally for
Speaker 1: me at times is like squirrel when I'm looking at
Speaker 1: notes and everything. And trust me, as someone who has
Speaker 1: covered the team from the beginning and covered Major League
Speaker 1: soccer for a while, I know that it is a
Speaker 1: frustration considering what has what has happened in the team's past.
Speaker 1: I know it's a frustration. I know that that there
Speaker 1: is an expectation level here. The expectation level is in
Speaker 1: the building, and it's not like they're ignoring the expectation
Speaker 1: level and the understanding of wanting to succeed. Everybody. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants to succeed in that building. But then it comes
Speaker 1: down to individual disc decisions in games and trying to
Speaker 1: avoid a cascade like we have seen this year, and
Speaker 1: for a for a club that I feel has played
Speaker 1: better in the last six weeks, you still have those
Speaker 1: moments of you know, just you know, missed it by
Speaker 1: that much, this close, this close, this close, and this close,
Speaker 1: and so it's all that's all kind of where we are.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jared is joining us from the Mountain time zone this morning,
Speaker 1: and uh x what what is it? X G and
Speaker 1: what aren't real? Oh? Birds? Okay, because I was trying
Speaker 1: to read your your lower third and it's like x
Speaker 1: G and what aren't real? I mean it's like, dude,
Speaker 1: I have to wear glasses now now we were I know, well,
Speaker 1: I have bifocals and they tell me that they're progressive
Speaker 1: lenses and I'm like, look, I tell my ophthalmologists. Look,
Speaker 1: just tell me they're buyfocals. You don't have to you
Speaker 1: don't have to spin it for me. Look, they're bifocals.
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm I'm I'm blind because of all
Speaker 1: the years I've spent in front of monitors and TVs
Speaker 1: and things like that, fide lights. Yes, all all the things,
Speaker 1: absolutely true. We were kind of going over transfers and
Speaker 1: things and the idea of of Paxton Aaronson, the Colorado
Speaker 1: looking at that starting eleven, the anger of Ben Humming Kramowsky,
Speaker 1: the window coming closing for Atlanta United, and then you
Speaker 1: have another ten days for stuff going on overseas. First off,
Speaker 1: since we haven't had the chance to catch up, really,
Speaker 1: what was it like to be back with the gang
Speaker 1: there at Dick Sporting Goods Park for Atlanta United in Colorado?
Speaker 4: It was great for except like forty five minutes of
Speaker 4: my night exactly forty five minutes, yep, And that was
Speaker 4: the second forty five minutes of the game.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Everything else fine, good time, first half, honestly, not that
Speaker 4: weird first goal. Then you get Alexi Monanschruk just dragging
Speaker 4: this team not to success because they're not successful, dragging
Speaker 4: them to not the wooden spoon. How about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right now, that's what Alexa is kind of doing he's
Speaker 4: kind of dragging you to not the wooden spoon. God
Speaker 4: bless him for it. He's been outstanding. Then the second
Speaker 4: forty five minutes, at that part, I didn't enjoy it all. No,
Speaker 4: but at all miserable. Yeah, no, that was that was
Speaker 4: Otherwise it was fine. I'm never making that drive again
Speaker 4: if I can help it. Well, okay, so when you
Speaker 4: make this drive, what you do is you go from
Speaker 4: my neck of the woods now is down fifteen, which
Speaker 4: runs out of Salt Lake fifteen. Eventually we'll run into
Speaker 4: Las Vegas, kind of cut southwest out of Vegas, and
Speaker 4: fifteen will run all the way to Anaheim. Actually wow,
Speaker 4: but you take fifteen down to Provo jump off Highway sixty.
Speaker 4: Highway sixty is just cutting through the mountains and canyons,
Speaker 4: up and down, up and down, and then eventually past
Speaker 4: like Cloudlands and Arches National Park, all that jazz. It
Speaker 4: comes out on seventy seventy. Also, fun fact I seventy
Speaker 4: as you're crossing from Arches into Colorado over to like
Speaker 4: over to junction is there's about a sixty mile stretch
Speaker 4: where there ain't jack squat And I'm oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: And it's not that there's nothing. There's signs telling you, hey,
Speaker 4: there's no gas station, there's no food, sixty miles, top
Speaker 4: off your tank, stop and get a giant drink, do
Speaker 4: something for yourself because for sixty miles there are no services.
Speaker 4: Wo yeah, So go past Grand Junction and then the
Speaker 4: problem is it's just a slog past Grand Junction to
Speaker 4: Denver because you just threw mountains the whole time. So
Speaker 4: like construction, a couple of rainstorms popping up, that sort
Speaker 4: of thing. Yeah, the drive itself was long. It was
Speaker 4: like eight hours. Like you know, again, it's just brutal
Speaker 4: because you're just it's not like a fluid eight hours.
Speaker 4: It's a I have to focus so this tractor trailer
Speaker 4: doesn't run me over or someone doesn't come down the
Speaker 4: mountain at ninety miles an hour and sit in my
Speaker 4: back seat. Oh, that was just that. That part was stressful.
Speaker 4: Wrest of them was fine. The game was not. Again.
Speaker 4: First forty five fine, yeah, not great, not terrible is fine? Yeah,
Speaker 4: second forty terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, well but I mean and so, but first.
Speaker 4: Just went for the end of the season.
Speaker 1: Brother, Oh, I know, but and uh we were kind
Speaker 1: of getting into that discussion about playing the kids, and
Speaker 1: you know that that kind of a thing when it
Speaker 1: comes to trying to find out what this roster can
Speaker 1: do this season, yeah, leading into next year. So what
Speaker 1: what your what your options are or slash should be.
Speaker 1: You know, when you look at that second forty five,
Speaker 1: how much of it do we start with? The idea
Speaker 1: that is the the boogeyman in the room where you
Speaker 1: usually hit the sixtieth minute and as you mentioned leading
Speaker 1: into this match, the the the oxygen kind of just
Speaker 1: kind of takes a holiday from you if you're not
Speaker 1: used to it.
Speaker 4: The thing is, it's about that moment. It was like
Speaker 4: the sixty first minute when the penalty happened, because I
Speaker 4: remember looking at the clock. We got through sixty without
Speaker 4: a whistle. Shit, that's kind of what my thought process was.
Speaker 4: I looked at the clock, it's like sixty one minutes,
Speaker 4: sixty two minutes, Like, oh, look at that, you got
Speaker 4: through the sixties. Then the whistle happened. I'm like, great, perfect,
Speaker 4: that's that's art, right, that's art right there. That is
Speaker 4: that is timing and comedy is about timing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
Speaker 4: Man, it wasn't even the oxygen stuff for me, and
Speaker 4: and Ronald Hernandez dismissed it after the game, said, look,
Speaker 4: we're not playing in Bolivia. Play look, man, spend ten
Speaker 4: minutes with Ronald Hernandez and you'll enjoy those ten minutes
Speaker 4: because he's gonna be He's relaxed, but he's also really
Speaker 4: damn honest about it all, Like he did not pull
Speaker 4: any punches, you know, as he mentioned you, it's like
Speaker 4: it feels like last few games, we've been playing better
Speaker 4: in the first half, like getting better performances, and then
Speaker 4: everything just falls apart again. And he was you can
Speaker 4: hear it in his tone, you can hear it in
Speaker 4: the way, and you see it in his body language,
Speaker 4: like he's pissed about he's miserable about it. Now he's
Speaker 4: getting consistent starts. He seems to have unlocked some sort
Speaker 4: of positional discipline in Miles and Miles Keenus Christ in
Speaker 4: Miguel i'marn Miles Robinson sign extension. That's why, Yeah, Miles
Speaker 4: is staying in Cincinnati. But he seems to have ignited
Speaker 4: some sort of positional discipline in Miguel Amorn, even if
Speaker 4: that doesn't involve actually getting back and defending consistently. But yeah, man,
Speaker 4: it's just it's just so it's just so deflating and
Speaker 4: debilitating to watch him going into the second half like that,
Speaker 4: you got through that little stretch. Yeah, you're gonna hit
Speaker 4: a point where, like, guys, you can start getting tired,
Speaker 4: you gonna start feeling winded. Every team does it up there,
Speaker 4: like you go watch, go look at the score lines
Speaker 4: of so many teams. The one that comes to mind
Speaker 4: is Charlotte or this year, Charlotte was bossing Colorado around,
Speaker 4: Like the sixty third, sixty fourth minute, it flipped on
Speaker 4: its head. Colorado scored two goals in ten minutes to one.
Speaker 4: It just like you could just see it. Guys were
Speaker 4: just like sucking air, doing everything they could and just
Speaker 4: like again, it's kind of like the way Jeff lo
Speaker 4: Renoo's at once described it was, it's kind of like
Speaker 4: you're taking that deep breath and it's like you're not
Speaker 4: getting a full breath in, so you're just not replenishing.
Speaker 4: It's just tough. But that doesn't excuse, like, all of
Speaker 4: that doesn't excuse a bad decision to step in to
Speaker 4: create a penalty, and it sure as shit does not
Speaker 4: excuse you. You look like you committed a penalty at
Speaker 4: the top of the at the top of the box
Speaker 4: on the third goal. Yeah, and everyone just stopped playing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that was You're not the official.
Speaker 4: You're not the official. You don't have a whistle. You
Speaker 4: don't make that decision. Yes, you think you created, you
Speaker 4: think you committed a penalty, and you're waiting for him
Speaker 4: to call it. Play through, kick that ball out and
Speaker 4: kill a prairie dog with it out of the stadium. Get
Speaker 4: it out. Don't worry if he calls a penalty. He
Speaker 4: calls a penalty. That's not your job as a player.
Speaker 4: Your job is to play to the whistle, and it's
Speaker 4: the cases like Wilfred Zaha played through the whistle. But
Speaker 4: I yeah, man, that was like the fact that everyone
Speaker 4: just stopped, and some of the Colorado players did too.
Speaker 4: I think they were all kind of like, that's a penalty, right,
Speaker 4: except the striker did not stop and correctly kept shooting,
Speaker 4: which is the right decision of that situation, like you
Speaker 4: did in your whistle. Keep going yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sitting here looking at it again and it
Speaker 1: is obviously and it's the slightest bump just inside the
Speaker 1: top of the eighteen, and you literally have players slow down, stop,
Speaker 1: what have you so contact? You got two players flat
Speaker 1: footed and looking and the players are trying to sit
Speaker 1: there and look at and point at other events in
Speaker 1: and around that particular play, saying that something should have
Speaker 1: happened on call should have been called on Colorado. But
Speaker 1: you had players who were stopping, and you can't stop Cardon.
Speaker 4: You don't hear a whistle, You keep going. If you
Speaker 4: truck that guy, even if you know it's a ah man,
Speaker 4: I just committed a blaytant penalty. Have you met pro
Speaker 4: before pro does another ask from a hole in deep
Speaker 4: center field? There are plenty of times where PRO will
Speaker 4: not call a blatant foul.
Speaker 2: Yep, they have you.
Speaker 4: Atlanta themselves have gotten screwed over this over the years.
Speaker 4: They have benefited from it over the years of bad calls,
Speaker 4: like everyone in this league has been helped and hindered
Speaker 4: by inexplainable decisions by the people with the whistles. So
Speaker 4: you knocked him over, great, get the ball out. If
Speaker 4: he blows the whistle, he blows the whistle. If he doesn't, didn't, congratulations,
Speaker 4: You just avoided a problem. But when you stop playing.
Speaker 4: What am I supposed to do with that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 4: In today it's point like yeah like it it. Watching
Speaker 4: them at times is kind of like watching somebody play
Speaker 4: Guitar Hero. They way the same thing back in the
Speaker 4: day with Eric Remetti at times, and Remetti obviously wasn't
Speaker 4: as it wasn't as extreme, but when he was playing
Speaker 4: in like twenty twenty, he kind of did this sometimes
Speaker 4: as long when things were in a groove and they
Speaker 4: were going well, he was fine. It was like one
Speaker 4: mistake compounded to others. And that's what this team is
Speaker 4: right now. Like there, it's like watching someone play Guitar
Speaker 4: Hero for those of you that grew up playing it,
Speaker 4: and they're in a groove, they're doing one hundred percent,
Speaker 4: everything's right. They missed one note and everything just goes
Speaker 4: to pieces and it just leads to more problems and
Speaker 4: it leads to more mistakes, and it's mental toughness. And
Speaker 4: you look, you have already cleared three or four guys out,
Speaker 4: you've changed out a couple the high I really like
Speaker 4: so far as seems like he might kill someone on
Speaker 4: the field, but also he's technical. I like him a lot.
Speaker 4: I like what we've seen from him, Barral call I
Speaker 4: jury's out. That was a it was a bad game
Speaker 4: for him. Yeah, I looked.
Speaker 1: I looked at the penalty that the foul that created
Speaker 1: the Navajo penalty attempted to one and it was slight.
Speaker 1: It was a slight call because.
Speaker 4: It was it was a to me, uh and Abby,
Speaker 4: we're not mathematically out yet, but you're you're you're not
Speaker 4: mathematically out in the way that the brains are not
Speaker 4: mathematically out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean right now, no one is, no one
Speaker 1: is mathematically eliminated from from the postseason.
Speaker 4: Yet, You're not mathematically there. But for all intents and purposes,
Speaker 4: you're not going to the postseason. I mean you would
Speaker 4: have to win out and get help. Yeah, like lots
Speaker 4: of help. Yeah. So yeah, you're not mathematically out, but
Speaker 4: you're you're you're done so, which which leads to my
Speaker 4: my play the Kids Mo Teeth continuing, which Will Riley
Speaker 4: was fine in the night, Like Bro Will Riley a
Speaker 4: lot would be very interested in starting Luke if he
Speaker 4: can go ninety, don't know what how, how how Luke
Speaker 4: is feeling about going ninety, if he's willing to go,
Speaker 4: if he's if he's physically able to give you seventy
Speaker 4: to ninety start Luke, because Luke is the winger that
Speaker 4: you need. Maybe not in terms of like, yeah, you'd
Speaker 4: love to go in a perfect world, you'd love to
Speaker 4: like put a bunch of this roster and an air
Speaker 4: lock and then go get like some impact, monstrous left winger.
Speaker 4: But the mentality and the performance you're getting from Loop
Speaker 4: is what you need right now. But yeah, the foul
Speaker 4: that leads to the penalty, to me, it was just
Speaker 4: it's lazy. Like it's kind of like we talk on
Speaker 4: basketball about when you know when you're defending, you got
Speaker 4: to move your feet. You can't just reach it. And
Speaker 4: it kind of felt like on that penalty he got
Speaker 4: caught reaching. You stick that foot out there and leave
Speaker 4: it for a half second. Any attack or worth their
Speaker 4: salt is either going to just like jump over it
Speaker 4: and leave you standing there, or if you're clumsy about it,
Speaker 4: they're gonna hit their leg on it and go down.
Speaker 4: And that's contact. That's a penalty. You can call it
Speaker 4: soft all day long, it's contact. You left your foot
Speaker 4: out there, and it's when you're coming into the game.
Speaker 4: I can't have you defending in that moment. Like that, Like,
Speaker 4: just defending isn't always about winning the ball off of him. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's great if you can take the ball off with
Speaker 4: the attacker. Great if you can trigger something going the
Speaker 4: other way. But if you can hold him up until
Speaker 4: reinforcements arrive, if you can force him onto his bad
Speaker 4: foot down to the end line where he has nothing
Speaker 4: except a blind cross or has to play it back,
Speaker 4: that's successful defending too. You don't have to stick in
Speaker 4: there and take that risk all the time. I don't
Speaker 4: have the math in front of me of you. I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't. Yeah, I don't. I don't have the I
Speaker 4: don't have the math on how much it.
Speaker 1: On?
Speaker 4: How much you know? How much help do you need? Yeah,
Speaker 4: Luke's got ninety for the twos. It's a different animal though,
Speaker 4: like it lay like MLS next Pro and MLS are
Speaker 4: they're they're two wildly different animals. Asked way too many
Speaker 4: of those kids, uh to the point of exhaustion asking
Speaker 4: them about you know, hey, how you know how you feeling?
Speaker 4: Playing even forty five minutes at MLS will take more
Speaker 4: out of them than playing ninety at MLSX pro. And
Speaker 4: it's not a knock on next pro. But MLS is
Speaker 4: a step up in terms of intensity, physicality, speed, the
Speaker 4: time you have on the ball, the movement you have
Speaker 4: to make off the ball, the way you're getting jostled around.
Speaker 4: It's just a different animal. Then that's that's just unfortunately
Speaker 4: the nature of it. Louke will get there if he can.
Speaker 4: But if he can give me ninety, by all means,
Speaker 4: go for it.
Speaker 1: Son.
Speaker 4: The ninety and the twos is just different from ninety
Speaker 4: in the first team, just in the physicality and the
Speaker 4: beating you take, and also the mental focus you have
Speaker 4: to have the entire time. Yep, right now, if he
Speaker 4: can give me fifty five or sixty, yes, I would
Speaker 4: do it. Yeah. If he can give me fifty five
Speaker 4: or sixty, yeah, I'm certain. Look because what he's given me,
Speaker 4: somebody's got to do something in the attack because right now,
Speaker 4: the forty million dollars two spent on guys is not
Speaker 4: like say, is like dragging your attack forward, creating space
Speaker 4: and then repeatedly just basically taking target practice on beautiful
Speaker 4: goals the last month. And God bless Alexay because where
Speaker 4: would you be without him doing that? Very easily could
Speaker 4: have had a couple of secondary assists the other night,
Speaker 4: like he played a couple of balls that were just
Speaker 4: down right filthy.
Speaker 1: And then you had the guy either the light shot
Speaker 1: off the bar too yeah.
Speaker 4: Like he or he's playing guys into a dangerous spot
Speaker 4: and either you're getting the hilarious uh block of an
Speaker 4: own goal, which actually I believe it was Mananchok who
Speaker 4: blocked it, but he and that one's weird because he
Speaker 4: and he and Tristan are like both making that run
Speaker 4: to be there, and it's just it's just like peak
Speaker 4: for you where it's like no one's trying to do
Speaker 4: everyone's trying to do the right thing at the same time. Also,
Speaker 4: finally someone made a back post run, God forbid, and
Speaker 4: it's just he He had a couple more where it's
Speaker 4: like he'll play a guy into space and then all
Speaker 4: it takes is one good ball at a finish, and
Speaker 4: the one good ball isn't there. But otherwise you know
Speaker 4: your your striker looks like his confidence is shot and
Speaker 4: he is just lashing at everything or not showing that
Speaker 4: killer instinct. Right winger is dribbled into as much trouble
Speaker 4: as he's dribbled out of where and right now it's
Speaker 4: Luke when he comes on, it's a truck when he's
Speaker 4: on the field, and Barto slish trying to make things
Speaker 4: happen in the midfield like the other night in Colorado,
Speaker 4: Like at one point in the first half, he splits
Speaker 4: a double team, dribbles past another guy and just starts
Speaker 4: charging into the attack. And then I've said before John,
Speaker 4: the thing that fascinates me about this team, the bravery
Speaker 4: they'll show and build up play, doesn't exist in the
Speaker 4: final third. I don't know why. It also pisses off
Speaker 4: Rodnie Dial what I know, and if you ask him
Speaker 4: about it, you can see his face just like start
Speaker 4: seething because he wants them to be more brave in
Speaker 4: the final third, like play that kind of risky ball
Speaker 4: over the top, you know, take somebody on one v one,
Speaker 4: and it's just like they don't.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, man, Yeah, I mean it's a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of universal questions and frustrations basically.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was just a disappointing night, oh no doubt.
Speaker 1: Right now, at Lanty United, eight matches to go and
Speaker 1: at twenty two points if they max out, that's eight
Speaker 1: and three is twenty four to forty six points is
Speaker 1: the max for Atlanti United right now and Chicago is.
Speaker 2: It thirty nine. So there is.
Speaker 1: And if you win all of if you win the
Speaker 1: rest of your games, you're at twelve wins on the season,
Speaker 1: and so that would put you ahead of Chicago and that.
Speaker 1: But like I said, literally there's seven points. There's seven
Speaker 1: points of wiggle room if you win all your matches
Speaker 1: and you get all the help. Considering that there are
Speaker 1: three teams above you and one of them is at
Speaker 1: thirty nine points and that's Red Bull.
Speaker 2: So that's what you're that's what you're.
Speaker 1: Staring at when it comes to Atlanta United and the
Speaker 1: stretch run with these eight to go and it starts
Speaker 1: with starts with Toronto on the weekend.
Speaker 4: So that's uh, kids, show me something, and this is
Speaker 4: this is an audition, man, Like to your point, this
Speaker 4: is last eight games. These are auditions for people. Show
Speaker 4: me you have something to contribute here, because hey, it's
Speaker 4: a lost here, and it's every year in every sport,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have in every season, you're gonna have that
Speaker 4: one team who had super high preseason expectations and then
Speaker 4: they just fell on their face into a bucket full
Speaker 4: of Piranhas and that was Atlanta this year, like no
Speaker 4: bones about it. They had high expectations and they flopped.
Speaker 4: M it happens. What matters now is that you can't
Speaker 4: do anything about that. You can't really do anything about it.
Speaker 4: You just have to figure out who you're taking to
Speaker 4: the dance next year. Like for me, that's what matters.
Speaker 4: I want to see which Academy guys, like obviously Jay,
Speaker 4: when Jay's healthy again, which I don't know what his
Speaker 4: timeline is. Will has shown you something, Luke has shown
Speaker 4: you something. Cooper sand As feels like it's real close,
Speaker 4: and I would love to see Cooper get some time
Speaker 4: with the first team, even though that midfield's gonna be
Speaker 4: kind of crowded. Yeah, but at this point, like you
Speaker 4: can get pissy about it and you can mope and
Speaker 4: about it, and that's certainly fine because of what you
Speaker 4: expected versus what you've got. But the guys in the
Speaker 4: room have to look at it and go, that sucks.
Speaker 4: But we have eight games left to figure out who
Speaker 4: belongs here when we rebuild this, because you're going to
Speaker 4: You're going to spend some money in the off season somewhere, right,
Speaker 4: However you do it, I don't know what that looks like.
Speaker 4: You're gonna spend some money somewhere, but you have they
Speaker 4: have to figure out who's going to be a part
Speaker 4: of that going forward. And they've moved a bunch of
Speaker 4: guys out already, might be more. We've we've gone over
Speaker 4: the pending free agents and options you have coming up, like,
Speaker 4: you got decisions to make, and guys have decisions to
Speaker 4: make as players about how seriously they want to be
Speaker 4: a part of this project. And they got to show something.
Speaker 4: The staff has to show something. Yeah, man, it's it's
Speaker 4: not any fun for anybody. It's not any fun for
Speaker 4: the fans. It's not any fun. I promise it's not
Speaker 4: fun for the staff. I promise you. Like Chris Henderson's
Speaker 4: like like seething and throwing things, because you know, he
Speaker 4: and Garth came in here with the idea of we've
Speaker 4: done really well with a smaller budget. Now we get
Speaker 4: to shop in the big aisle and we get to
Speaker 4: try and create a monster. And the monster didn't get
Speaker 4: created right. No one's happy about it. No one's enjoying it.
Speaker 4: And they know that their jobs are on the line
Speaker 4: if they don't do the job, which is. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's kind of lost sometimes. Like yeah,
Speaker 4: coaching staffs have never happy about her either. They're the
Speaker 4: ones who are going to be losing sleep as well
Speaker 4: about their jobs, just as much as players and just
Speaker 4: as much as higher level staff. So they all got
Speaker 4: to figure it out. And I don't know, I don't
Speaker 4: know what that looks like for them these last eight games.
Speaker 4: For me, it's kids, show me something. Fringe guys showed
Speaker 4: me something. Show me that you belong to be a
Speaker 4: part of this core. And if you don't, then I'm
Speaker 4: going to find other guys who are a part of
Speaker 4: this core. And as I'm about to short time on
Speaker 4: you and give you an Irish goodbye, go shop in
Speaker 4: the league. Go find some deals in the league if
Speaker 4: you can. I don't know who's free agents. I don't
Speaker 4: know who's available, but in this new market, i've interleague transfers. Yeah,
Speaker 4: go shop in the league. Tell me what you find.
Speaker 1: There you go, and so there you go, as Jared
Speaker 1: gives me the Irish goodbye, and I guess there, David
Speaker 1: biggest Tike ways this year, Jay can be in every day.
Speaker 1: Started with Bart Yeah, And like I said, I think
Speaker 1: that the the midfield with Jay and Bart can cause
Speaker 1: some serious problems.
Speaker 2: For everybody in the league.
Speaker 1: And like I said, there there will be continual hostility
Speaker 1: toward Evernard and the Saudi Arabian national team for as
Speaker 1: long as we feel it's justified, because I think that
Speaker 1: the midfield approach could have been a lot different or
Speaker 1: even more solidified with Jay there with Bart, and then
Speaker 1: that's one of the questions that you don't have to
Speaker 1: chase after and trying to figure out, Okay, what your
Speaker 1: depth look like. Who are we going to do to
Speaker 1: plug in? What are we going to do to plug
Speaker 1: in this situation? But no, I think that that Jay's
Speaker 1: injury really did hurt the development of the midfield this year.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking points and wins and losses in anything,
Speaker 1: because I can't, you know, I don't want to lay
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 2: But I think that Jay's development.
Speaker 1: Has been to the point to where he and Bart
Speaker 1: I think I think it would be safe to say
Speaker 1: that you could pencil in Jay and Bart as two
Speaker 1: of your three and is uh your two in front
Speaker 1: of the four next year in the midfield? Edwards and
Speaker 1: Ronald good and flexible enough right right back center back,
Speaker 1: and so I don't think that you're gonna have any
Speaker 1: disagreement there about Matt Edwards and Ronald Hernandez and with
Speaker 1: Matt specifically, and it's a it's a point, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a point that we made, and it's
Speaker 1: a point about the the younger guys that we made
Speaker 1: earlier this season when it comes to the uh getting
Speaker 1: in people's faces and defending your teammate, And that has
Speaker 1: been one of the things that has stuck with me
Speaker 1: all season long, still does to this day. Where if
Speaker 1: you have and we saw this from Ronald a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago the last home match, Miggy gets knocked down,
Speaker 1: Ronald goes over and Ronald eventually gets a receipt. I
Speaker 1: need to see more of that. We did see it
Speaker 1: with Matt and Jay earlier this year. I think Brad would.
Speaker 1: I think Brad got trucked in a match. And the
Speaker 1: first two guys that went over to get in people's
Speaker 1: faces for the opposition were Matt and j They weren't
Speaker 1: taking it. They didn't they weren't having any of it.
Speaker 1: That to me is one of the things that I
Speaker 1: have been looking for. It's like you know, tell me,
Speaker 1: tell me who's gonna stick up from my for my
Speaker 1: teammate instead of oh he's fouled, Okay, let's move on that.
Speaker 1: That to me is one of my larger sticking points.
Speaker 1: Give me somebody who's going to get in somebody's face
Speaker 1: and push somebody around and say that this is unacceptable.
Speaker 1: Because when somebody tries to have an opening statement like that,
Speaker 1: then I want someone to challenge in return. And so
Speaker 1: it's as you know, literally, something as simple as that's
Speaker 1: not going to happen here. I want people in people's faces.
Speaker 1: I want fingers, I want receipts if you can, if
Speaker 1: you can risk a yellow card, Yes, Derek, X dog,
Speaker 1: absolutely true. It is the X dog discussion, and that's
Speaker 1: what I'm looking for. Give me folks with an ex dog,
Speaker 1: and I know that nine times out of ten that
Speaker 1: X dog's coming from the younger players. Oh and look, Wiley,
Speaker 1: as soon as Parky and LGP and and Big Red
Speaker 1: they retire, I know that you're looking for that next
Speaker 1: guy to have that kind of sandpaper in I want.
Speaker 1: I want players that, in addition to who they are
Speaker 1: tactically mentally physically, I would like players who aren't going
Speaker 1: to take any ish from anybody, especially if you come
Speaker 1: into my barn and you're gonna try and push me around.
Speaker 1: I want folks that are going to come in there
Speaker 1: and go I want that as an unacceptable behavior. You
Speaker 1: think that that's going to happen here, It's not. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed in Montreal, And like I said, I think that
Speaker 1: you're looking at it with alzat the early returns there.
Speaker 1: I think that when I think that you see that
Speaker 1: with Barra call where Barra call basically and Prince of
Speaker 1: Wusu and this goes back to the Montreal game where
Speaker 1: Prince of Wusu is pushing people around and he should
Speaker 1: have gotten a card long before he did and he's
Speaker 1: fallen down and it's just it's making a mockery of
Speaker 1: the whole thing. And then late in the match in
Speaker 1: the second half, he tries to draw a foul off
Speaker 1: of Barra call and basically Prince of Wusu bounced off
Speaker 1: of Barra call. Baracl basically just looked down on him
Speaker 1: and literally and Wusu's you know, writhing in agony on
Speaker 1: the floor at Stadsuputo and Baracl basically after that bounce
Speaker 1: off on a wus Wu's kind of rolling around. Bear
Speaker 1: Call just kind of looks down at him and goes, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: that that kind of behavior as a part of your DNA.
Speaker 1: That's something that I have always wanted to see more of.
Speaker 1: Give me that ex dog, give me somebody that's going
Speaker 1: to stand up for a teammate. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I think we see that with the younger guys, and
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for the veterans to assimilate with that idea
Speaker 1: as well. So it's like, hey, you know, and I
Speaker 1: think we've seen it from Alexi a couple of times
Speaker 1: where alexis going to get into scrums and he's not
Speaker 1: going to back down from anybody. But I would just
Speaker 1: like if something happens to a teammate sticking up for
Speaker 1: that teammate, And like I said, that's one of the
Speaker 1: big things for me that I have constantly wanted to
Speaker 1: stare at. Okay, let me take the quick tour and
Speaker 1: then we will let you know. All right, Remember tomorrow
Speaker 1: and Friday, I'm in a hotel room. So tomorrow we
Speaker 1: still are chasing guests, obviously trying to figure out when
Speaker 1: case D can come visit. And we're still chasing opposition
Speaker 1: research for Toronto because our friends from Footy Prime are
Speaker 1: still kind of on summer break and they're going to
Speaker 1: be back next week. So right now tomorrow it is
Speaker 1: the Power Hour from ten to eleven, whether our buddy
Speaker 1: Nino tourus from Gold TV, and we have to talk
Speaker 1: about what we talked about now our number one with Benfica,
Speaker 1: got to talk about that. Then we'll talk about robertadoris
Speaker 1: Suit Americana. If you can watch it tonight, watch it tonight.
Speaker 1: It was crazy last night, both tournaments and it's a
Speaker 1: great reason to get finates at FNTZ dot co slash
Speaker 1: Soccer down here and watch all the madness that was
Speaker 1: there last night. We'ressing in Penrol and it was Athletti
Speaker 1: and I can't remember the other one, but yeah it was.
Speaker 1: There were two matches late that were just nuts and
Speaker 1: the rossing Paniol match had a fantastic finish. Then you
Speaker 1: had another match, oh it, Salpoula was the other one,
Speaker 1: so Polo and Naciino. So those matches last night, more
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Speaker 2: There's your quick promos.
Speaker 1: So tomorrow, like I said, we're still chasing OPO research,
Speaker 1: We're still chasing KCD when we can figure out when
Speaker 1: we can catch up with her. Power hour is the same. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I will be in Valdosta in a hotel room and
Speaker 1: it's going to be a hard out of eleven oh five.
Speaker 1: It might be eleven to ten, knowing how Nina, Nico
Speaker 1: and I go. Then Friday, I am in Millageville for
Speaker 1: high school duties. Ross Smith from MLS and Apple TV's
Speaker 1: going to join us at ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: That much we do know.
Speaker 1: Hopefully our friends from Beyond Goals Mentoring can join us
Speaker 1: at nine thirty and then we can chase after the
Speaker 1: other stuff to get you ready for the weekend. That much,
Speaker 1: we do know.
Speaker 2: That much.
Speaker 1: We know all right, run through uh oh, Wiley, what
Speaker 1: are you doing all right, So Wiley, being an intrepid producer,
Speaker 1: you know, let's see what we got. Yeah, oh, the
Speaker 1: the old yeah, Lorenowitz and then yeah, the massive fall down.
Speaker 2: You've got to be kidding me with that.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Playoff Escobar, big Red, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, the the X Dog absolutely true. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I went and looked at it.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, breaking news, but no,
Speaker 1: it's it's the X Dog with Lorenowitz and and I'm
Speaker 1: guessing it was regular season Eskebar, not playoff Eskeubar. But anyway, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the transactions that we need to kind of keep
Speaker 1: an eye on. Remember today tomorrow, last day of the
Speaker 1: window for Major League Soccer, Tommy Scoops Rapids finalizing a
Speaker 1: deal for Paxon Aaronson club record seven million, fee, million
Speaker 1: and a half in add on. So they're basically taking
Speaker 1: the money that they got for Georgia Mihailovich and flipping
Speaker 1: it for Paxon Aaronson DP deal for Aaronson currently en
Speaker 1: route to Colorado. The Arrayale closing in on a deal
Speaker 1: to sign Tony Alias from Minnesota. Not done yet, agreement
Speaker 1: and principle reached final details to sort out still feed
Speaker 1: believed to be in the ballpark of seven and a
Speaker 1: half million dollars. Fire officially acquired Canadians international center back
Speaker 1: Joel Waterman from c F Montreal five hundred in garberbucks,
Speaker 1: another one hundred in add ons, New England. Finalizing a
Speaker 1: deal to sign Israel international for Door Turgaman from Maccabi
Speaker 1: Tel Aviv five and a half million fee U twenty
Speaker 1: two signing full agreements reached, getting done ahead of the
Speaker 1: window closing tomorrow night. Cayden Clark arriving in d C
Speaker 1: ahead of a move to d C United. Caden Clark,
Speaker 1: who hasn't he played for in Major League Soccer. Clark
Speaker 1: didn't ask to leave Montreal, was focused on Europe for
Speaker 1: the next move, according to Boger, but renee Veiler wanted Clark.
Speaker 1: DC got the trade done. There was a German club interested,
Speaker 1: but the offer and approach was never made.
Speaker 2: Could be back in January d C.
Speaker 1: Once again agreement and principle cash trade of around seven
Speaker 1: hundred thousand. Clark will hit d c's roster via the
Speaker 1: U twenty two initiative because he's sure as hell couldn't
Speaker 1: do it as a DP so Caden Clark to d
Speaker 1: C and last night Miles signs the new long term deal.
Speaker 1: Long term, it's like three years, new deal guaranteed through
Speaker 1: twenty seven, option for twenty eight. Previous deal set to expire.
Speaker 1: This winner Cincinnati locks in Miles for another couple of years.
Speaker 1: Charlotte finalizing a deal to sign rising Benin international attacker
Speaker 1: Rodolfo Aloko from Custacia if he could be up to
Speaker 1: six million dollars. As for Britzier, Romano has called it
Speaker 1: a loco who is eighteen, likely to stay in Croatia
Speaker 1: on loan until January. According to Bogert, he may start
Speaker 1: with Charlotte's second team Crown Legacy obviously will be in
Speaker 1: the first team plan soon, especially if you're dropping six
Speaker 1: large on an eighteen year old from Benin who is
Speaker 1: playing in Europe. So there's once again that is that's
Speaker 1: your early rundown for some of the moves in MLS.
Speaker 1: Minnesota United submitted a bid to Nice for Algerian international
Speaker 1: winger bilal Brahemi. Luca Bendoni the first to talk about that. One.
Speaker 1: Four caps for Algeria join Nice for a fee reported
Speaker 1: to be seven million and twenty two last year on
Speaker 1: loan with Cint Trudin in Belgium. Timbers officially signed Paraguayan
Speaker 1: international midfield Manti Rojas. They've added Christopher Velda and Felipe Carballo.
Speaker 1: Now they add Manti Rojas as a part of their work.
Speaker 1: Minnesota United submitted a bid north of two million for
Speaker 1: South African international winger Reliboheel Mufful King from Orlando Pirates,
Speaker 1: twenty years old, big talent breaking through for club and country.
Speaker 1: He'd be a U twenty two and Minnesota United at
Speaker 1: a long term Admirers of Muffo King readilbo Heile Muffo King,
Speaker 1: Orlando Pirates possibly to Minnesota United. So I'm trying to
Speaker 1: see if there's anybody else. Cardinals Tehran with the fire
Speaker 1: to Athletico part I insay, and we mentioned the Joel
Speaker 1: Waterman deal as well. Minnesota United once again nearing a
Speaker 1: deal in dominic fits that has not progressed from Austria
Speaker 1: Vienna thirteen and sixteen last year. Already with four and
Speaker 1: five and six hundred minutes. Don't know what his roster
Speaker 1: designation could be now, Ben Jacobs, we'll go through the
Speaker 1: international stuff here and let you know what's going on
Speaker 1: this morning and let's see Alexander Esach hints at the
Speaker 1: lack of a new contract twelve months ago as being
Speaker 1: as keen as desired to leave Newcastle. Statement on Instagram
Speaker 1: is a clear indication he doesn't plan to reintegrate Liverpool,
Speaker 1: prepared to bid again if given encouragement. Understand a one
Speaker 1: twenty remains Liverpool's valuation unlikely. Should a new bid materialize,
Speaker 1: it'll be close to one fifty. Not a number of
Speaker 1: Liverpool have ever been directly quoted, so Esach went on
Speaker 1: his Instagram said that he's been the reason that he
Speaker 1: was not at the CFA or the PFA Awards. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he said it didn't feel right to be there kept
Speaker 1: quite a long time. While others have spoken that silence
Speaker 1: has allowed people to push their own version of events,
Speaker 1: even though they know it doesn't reflect what was really
Speaker 1: said and agreed behind closed doors. The reality is promises
Speaker 1: were made and the club has known my position for
Speaker 1: a long time. To now act as if these issues
Speaker 1: are only emerging as misleading. When promises are broken and
Speaker 1: trust is lost, the relationship can't continue. That's where things
Speaker 1: are for me right now and why change is in
Speaker 1: the best interest of everyone, not just myself, So that
Speaker 1: came from ESAC. That came from ESOC on his social media.
Speaker 1: Newcastle has made a thirty five plus five offer to Brentford.
Speaker 2: For view on Visa.
Speaker 1: Visa said he has made it clear he wants to
Speaker 1: go to Newcastle and wants the move. Alex Crook helping
Speaker 1: out in that Newcastle assessing whether to return. Forty million
Speaker 1: was their third offer and a top valuation given Visa
Speaker 1: has one year left on his deal. Brentford have a
Speaker 1: club option to extend. Let's see thirteen minutes ago the
Speaker 1: bid was rejected. No surprise according to Alex Krook exclusively
Speaker 1: revealed Brentford say they're only going to sell for sixty
Speaker 1: youve have approached Chelsea about signing Charning Chuck Wi Mecca,
Speaker 1: Carneie Chuck Wi Mecca. Chelsea continue to insist on a
Speaker 1: permanent Dortmund have already had multiple offers rejected. Let's see
Speaker 1: Galatasarayan talks with Manchester City over Manuel Kanji. Nothing agreed yet,
Speaker 1: but they are pushing. We mentioned Juve and Chukwa Mecca.
Speaker 1: Douglas Louise set to join Nottingham Forest with Alex Crook
Speaker 1: and ben Jacobs reporting a loan with a twenty five
Speaker 1: million dollar conditional a twenty five million pound conditional obligation
Speaker 1: to pay. Kai Hovertz has picked up a knee injury,
Speaker 1: so verity still being assessed. According to David Hornstein, Arsenal
Speaker 1: now exploring a new attacker in the final days of
Speaker 1: the window, and the deal for Douglas Louise, by the way,
Speaker 1: is driven by ad his agent. Crystal Palace close to
Speaker 1: an agreement with Leicester for Bill al Ilhanus thirty million
Speaker 1: pounds plus package broadly in place. Moroccan attacker wants the move.
Speaker 1: Palace is now deciding whether to proceed or bid for
Speaker 1: Tyler Dibbling. Crystal Soleise is another leading option. Club Bruges
Speaker 1: prefer not to sell as a training is normal until
Speaker 1: Palace inform him a replacement has been found. Porto and
Speaker 1: talks with Arsenal over a loan plus an obligation for
Speaker 1: Yakub Kivior. Deals dependent on Kivior asking to leave, as
Speaker 1: Arsenal are happy to keep the defender. Leon Bailey Roma
Speaker 1: confirmed joined on loan from Aston Villa three million euro
Speaker 1: loan full wage cover. Drama also have a twenty two
Speaker 1: million euro option to buy. Yesterday, Newcastle said they did
Speaker 1: not foresee the conditions of an Esoch sale being met.
Speaker 1: Disappointed by the striker's statement, Newcastle also see Esock could
Speaker 1: still be welcome back. That doesn't look like that's gonna
Speaker 1: end well. And apparently Alejandro Garnaco was holding out for
Speaker 1: Chelsea and no one else. All right, what's to watch?
Speaker 1: Where to watch it? How to watch it? We'll let
Speaker 1: you know what's going on in there. And once again,
Speaker 1: soccer on TV starts today. Handful of women's soccer action
Speaker 1: going on and it is all on the Plus and
Speaker 1: on SEC Network. Texas A and m and Missouri have
Speaker 1: home matches at eight and eight thirty. In the pro ranks,
Speaker 1: it is couple lebertadoris Is Studiante Sara Portagno at six,
Speaker 1: Internacion Island Flamingo at eight thirty. League one at three
Speaker 1: o'clock on CBS Sports Network with Bolton and Redding. Maybe
Speaker 1: you get to see Derek Williams at three o'clock being
Speaker 1: an Espanol simulcasting League's Cup Tonight inter Miami and Tigris
Speaker 1: at eight, Seattle Puebla at eleven. Champions League on two
Speaker 1: to NA Bosl and Copenhagen at three. UniMas has both
Speaker 1: of those matches as well. In the Leagues Cup at
Speaker 1: eight and eleven, Season Pass has all four matches inter Miami, Tigris,
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Speaker 1: An eleven forty five Kickout West League one two matches
Speaker 1: tonight on the plus Jegermeister Cup, four matches going on
Speaker 1: Indy eleven, Greenville, loud and Sacramento, Rhode Island, Birmingham, San
Speaker 1: Antonio and Hartford. Champions League has four matches at three
Speaker 1: o'clock and qualifying on Paramount Plus then include Bodo, Glimpse, Sturm,
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Speaker 1: San Antonio from the USL Championship at ten o'clock conk
Speaker 1: Calf Women's Champions Cup CBS Sports Network seven o'clock, Gotham
Speaker 1: and Month Today. He has been deport this Women's champions
Speaker 1: Cup simul casting Gotham and Mont Today, Ottowa, Lendsay and
Speaker 1: Clubomedica is at ten ESPN Plus is simulcasting. So that
Speaker 1: is the show for this morning, and thanks for dropping by,
Speaker 1: as you guys always do, and we get to talk
Speaker 1: and we get to kind of talk things through in
Speaker 1: a wall past Wednesday, Thanks to Tyler for coming by,
Speaker 1: talking about until you're decorating and everything once again tomorrow
Speaker 1: Hotel Room Valdasta hour hours the same from ten to eleven.
Speaker 1: Still chasing guests for opposition research and we will get
Speaker 1: you ready for the day as we go, probably talk
Speaker 1: Leagues Cup. Oh it's right, I was going to talk
Speaker 1: about juice boxes. Hang on just a second, juice boxes
Speaker 1: tonight in the League's Cup. Before we get out of here. Man,
Speaker 1: it's like you sit there and it's like, oh, I
Speaker 1: forgot to do this. Oh I forgot to do this, forgot.
Speaker 2: To do this.
Speaker 1: So where are we here? So is it Central and
Speaker 1: South Central America and North and Central America.
Speaker 2: There we go. That's how it's designated League's Cup. All right.
Speaker 1: Matchups tonight Inner Miami favored at a plus one twenty
Speaker 1: four draws a plus two eighty two Tigers of plus
Speaker 1: one seventy one to Luca favored at a plus one
Speaker 1: thirty eight Purple team of plus one sixty three draws
Speaker 1: a plus two sixty three Seattle minus two forty four
Speaker 1: gets Puebla to plus five thirty eight draws a plus
Speaker 1: three ninety two, Lag a plus one seventy seven hosting
Speaker 1: Pachuca at a plus one thirty six draw is a
Speaker 1: plus two forty three. The venue for tonight, because once
Speaker 1: again you have teams that are higher ranked. It is
Speaker 1: the Erector set for a Messian friends in t Grace.
Speaker 2: It is a.
Speaker 1: Dignity Sports Dignity Health Sports Park double header and Carson.
Speaker 1: That's why it's an eleven forty five kick. So Lag
Speaker 1: and Pachuca is the nightcap of a double header at
Speaker 1: Dignity hellth Sports Park to Luca hosting the Purple team
Speaker 1: in Carson, first game of a double header. What do
Speaker 1: you think that turf's going to be looking like for
Speaker 1: game number two? That'll buy eleven forty five Eastern time.
Speaker 1: So Erector Set Carson, Lumen Carson at your quarter finals
Speaker 1: in the in the League's Cup tonight. So keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that. We'll talk about all that tomorrow. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about all the things tomorrow. Last day of the
Speaker 1: transfer window and all of that stuff. Going on, So
Speaker 1: thanks to all of you guys, Thanks to Tyler for
Speaker 1: dropping by and hotel room tomorrow and we will catch
Speaker 1: up then for everything else as we get you ready
Speaker 1: for the remainder of the week. When it comes to
Speaker 1: everything going on here in the world of soccer, You're
Speaker 1: a SDHAM For Jarrett, for Jason, for Maddie, for Sophia,
Speaker 1: for Nick, I'm just John. Thanks for dropping by for
Speaker 1: another go around of SDHAM. Played safe. Everybody much applot, y'all,
Speaker 1: since it is the end of the show that means
Speaker 1: we get to do this back at it again. Lessen
Speaker 1: twenty two