Speaker 1: Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso on
Speaker 1: the SDACH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's
Speaker 1: premier undergraduate learning experience and soccer powerhouse. I'm Jason Longshore,
Speaker 1: and it was a very busy weekend that started for
Speaker 1: me in Central Florida and ended up last night with
Speaker 1: Atlanta United two here on the SDACH Network. A very
Speaker 1: disappointing loss for the two's a very disappointing loss for
Speaker 1: the first team in League's Cup. On Saturday. Sandwiched in
Speaker 1: between the two, you had the Premier League Summer Series
Speaker 1: at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Had a chance to see some
Speaker 1: of that as well. It was a weekend. Let me
Speaker 1: try to recap it and give you a little bit
Speaker 1: of a glimpse at everything else going on around the
Speaker 1: world as well as I try to give you most
Speaker 1: of the soccer news that you need to know. For Monday,
Speaker 1: August fourth League's Cup, Let's go back to Orlando. On
Speaker 1: Saturday night, it was a chaotic loss for Atlanta United,
Speaker 1: falling to Pumas three to two. Two soft penalties, both
Speaker 1: justifiable from the referee, but both soft against Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: that had a huge hand in deciding the match. The
Speaker 1: second one especially feels extra soft because a huge advantage
Speaker 1: was given to a player who had run through a
Speaker 1: shirt grab that started well outside of the eighteen and
Speaker 1: then almost like they tripped over the eighteen yard box
Speaker 1: and fell. Felt like they were looking for the penalty
Speaker 1: and they got it. And this is why these things happened,
Speaker 1: because when it gets given, it is a gigantic advantage.
Speaker 1: Brad Gazan makes the save on Coco Karraskiya on the penalty,
Speaker 1: but then Karaskiya puts home the rebound. That is also
Speaker 1: something that is being discussed about a potential rule change
Speaker 1: of making penalties essentially dead ball situations, because that also
Speaker 1: feels like it magnifies the advantage there where the player
Speaker 1: who takes the penalty is going to be the first
Speaker 1: one to get to a rebound. In most cases, the
Speaker 1: amount of stoppage time being six minutes was woefully short
Speaker 1: of what it should have been, and then even that
Speaker 1: wasn't actually played, and that mismanagement is probably what frustrated me.
Speaker 1: The most time wasting of at least ninety seconds happened
Speaker 1: on a stoppage time substitution. I mean it was recognized
Speaker 1: it's all yellow card issued to pedro Vite when he
Speaker 1: sat down and then wouldn't get on the stretcher that
Speaker 1: was brought out for him because he wasn't hurt. It
Speaker 1: was egregious, but the management of the kaylor Navis red
Speaker 1: card was beyond bad. This was crazy in terms of
Speaker 1: the time it took to check it. There's been reporting,
Speaker 1: and I believe f Ryan Wrez was questioning the red
Speaker 1: Card's been reporting out of Mexico that there were other
Speaker 1: players who could have prevented this from being an obvious
Speaker 1: goal scoring opportunity. That's false. I'm sorry, that's just not true.
Speaker 1: Because Tra is taking a touch to the right. If
Speaker 1: he's not fouled by Navas, he's able to shoot from
Speaker 1: the top of the eighteen. An obvious goal scoring opportunity
Speaker 1: is not an obvious goal. It is an obvious goal
Speaker 1: scoring opportunity. So he is going to be able to
Speaker 1: shoot on goal with the keeper behind him. That is
Speaker 1: an obvious goal scoring opportunity. Whether a defender is able
Speaker 1: to lunge across and maybe get to it or not.
Speaker 1: I don't think any defenders are getting to it. I
Speaker 1: think Tra is able to shoot red card was upheld.
Speaker 1: However Navas wouldn't leave the field. Took forever. Alvarongula was
Speaker 1: going to have to step in goal because Pumas had
Speaker 1: already used all their substitutions. Took forever, and even to
Speaker 1: the point that Navas was walking back up the field
Speaker 1: and helping align the wall and helping on Goulo get
Speaker 1: everything set, which is completely and utterly disrespectful to the
Speaker 1: rules of the match and the way things should have
Speaker 1: been handled, and the referee should have had things under
Speaker 1: control and completely did not. The foul happened before the
Speaker 1: clock got to the ninety five minute mark. It was
Speaker 1: in the ninety fifth minute, believe it was at about
Speaker 1: ninety four to thirty or so. So with the injury time,
Speaker 1: time wasting and the fact that there was still time
Speaker 1: in the six minutes even when the red card happened,
Speaker 1: there should have been a decent few minutes for Atlanta
Speaker 1: to play against ten and against a goalkeeper who was
Speaker 1: a field player. However, ball goes out for a goalkick
Speaker 1: after the free kick was blocked by a player who
Speaker 1: was nowhere near ten yards. The encroachment of the ten
Speaker 1: yards was another egregious issue in terms of managing the
Speaker 1: situation that the referee crew failed to get. Bartoschlish gets
Speaker 1: a yellow card for complaining about it. There still should
Speaker 1: have been more time after that the goal Ca was
Speaker 1: then played forward and there wasn't after Pumas wasted more
Speaker 1: time on the goalkick and then the final whistle was
Speaker 1: blown and that was horrific match management. Ronnie Diila was
Speaker 1: sent off afterwards, just adding to the horrible management of it.
Speaker 1: I will stand by what I said after the final
Speaker 1: whistle and this is not about calls. I don't like
Speaker 1: that referee crew is just not capable of managing international
Speaker 1: matches at this level. They should not work again in
Speaker 1: CONCACAF matches until they show development. You can't have all
Speaker 1: of those things happen to help decide a match, and
Speaker 1: it's something that this crew failed. CONCA CAFF needs to
Speaker 1: see that they failed. There needs to be a reaction
Speaker 1: to this failure and it's extremely frustrating that it has
Speaker 1: a hand in deciding the match. Atlanta got tired and
Speaker 1: I think you saw that with the injuries and lack
Speaker 1: of full fitness of the line especially, and that had
Speaker 1: as big or bigger impact on the final outcome of
Speaker 1: the match, no way around it. But the way this
Speaker 1: was managed made it a farce. And you should not
Speaker 1: have a match that ends as a farce because of
Speaker 1: time wasting. Red card then Shenanigan's about getting off the field,
Speaker 1: the player who's red carded, helping to organize things for
Speaker 1: the players that are still in the match, players encroaching
Speaker 1: on the free kick and not being punished. And then
Speaker 1: the proper amount of time that was added on, which
Speaker 1: wasn't even the proper amount of time. But I digress,
Speaker 1: that amount of time not even getting played because of
Speaker 1: the time wasting. It's why I complain so much about
Speaker 1: time wasting, because it never gets added on exactly as
Speaker 1: it should. So let me take never out of that.
Speaker 1: Very rarely gets added on properly in the way that
Speaker 1: it should. Now this was one where this was a
Speaker 1: new one to me. It was actually rewarded and subtracted
Speaker 1: the amount of play time that happened in what was
Speaker 1: given initially a stoppage time. So extremely frustrating. Atlanta's out
Speaker 1: of the League's Cup, so is Atlas. So Wednesday's match
Speaker 1: will be something at the Benz on Wednesday night. We'll
Speaker 1: have it on ninety two nine in the game pregame
Speaker 1: coverage starting at six point thirty. For that one, let's
Speaker 1: go into some more League's Cup stuff. Lionel Messi he
Speaker 1: was forced to make an early exit from Miami's shootout
Speaker 1: win over Nikosa on Saturday night. Injury picked up early
Speaker 1: on in the match at Chase Stadium. Javier Mascherano said, well,
Speaker 1: he felt a discomfort. Will not be able to know
Speaker 1: until tomorrow how severe the injury is. There's probably something there,
Speaker 1: maybe not as important, but he was really not in pain.
Speaker 1: He did feel a poll feels a little precautionary, so
Speaker 1: we'll stay tuned and see when Lionel Messi gets back
Speaker 1: on the field for Enter Miami on Thursday. MLS teams
Speaker 1: won five of six games in the League's Cup. Last night,
Speaker 1: those same six teams managed to win just one of
Speaker 1: the six games after regular time, and then four of
Speaker 1: them went to shootouts, and the MLS teams lost all
Speaker 1: four shootouts. When play resumes on Tuesday, the twenty nine
Speaker 1: of thirty six teams still alive. We'll try to claim
Speaker 1: the eight quarter final berths. So there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of talk about the format of this tournament, but when
Speaker 1: you go into the last day and for eight spots,
Speaker 1: twenty nine teams have a shot on the last day
Speaker 1: of or the last games for them. I think you'll
Speaker 1: take that. I think you'll be happy with the format.
Speaker 1: I would love to see sixteen teams, so a round
Speaker 1: of sixteen, eight teams from each league out of the
Speaker 1: eighteen getting through. I would like to see that. I'm
Speaker 1: okay if they want to eliminate one round of knockouts
Speaker 1: and just make it this. I think the competition format
Speaker 1: has been good. You continue with League's Cup. This is
Speaker 1: the way that I would like to see it, the
Speaker 1: MLS versus Lega MX format of three games and then
Speaker 1: a certain number of teams going to knockouts and you
Speaker 1: go from there. I'm very happy with the way this
Speaker 1: has gone, even if I'm not very happy with the
Speaker 1: way that Atlanta United's League's Cup has gone. Conker Calf
Speaker 1: came out this weekend and condemned the death threats that
Speaker 1: referee Katia Itzl Garcia received after Thursday's match between Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and Monterrey. Some Riato's fans blamed Garcia for the outcome
Speaker 1: of the match. Cincinnati secured a three to two win
Speaker 1: over Monterrey. In that one, Garcia took the social media
Speaker 1: to share some of the messages she had received, which
Speaker 1: included death threats. The Mexican Federation also released a statement
Speaker 1: on Saturday saying that it would be filing a complaint
Speaker 1: with the relevant authorities. Garcia began her referee career in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen at the amateur level, made the jump as
Speaker 1: a pro in twenty sixteen. Last year, she became the
Speaker 1: first woman to referee a men's LEGA MX match in
Speaker 1: twenty years. You can get frustrated with referees, and referees
Speaker 1: are like players, like coaches. They have good games, they
Speaker 1: have bad game. Like I said at the top of this,
Speaker 1: the referees that were on the job in Orlando on
Speaker 1: Saturday night had an extremely bad day and I think
Speaker 1: showed not just bad decisions, but bad organization, bad management
Speaker 1: of the match. There needs to be a reaction to that,
Speaker 1: not this kind of stupid reaction. This stuff is ridiculous
Speaker 1: and if social media platforms are not going to actually
Speaker 1: ban users for this kind of statement. And this has
Speaker 1: come up with the English women's national team, with the
Speaker 1: amount of threats and horrible things said about them in
Speaker 1: a win in the Euro Final. Michelle Augimond has been
Speaker 1: the subject of a lot of this, according to reports,
Speaker 1: If the social media platforms are not going to do
Speaker 1: their jobs and actually band users, then when it gets
Speaker 1: into the conversation like Garcia has dealt with here with
Speaker 1: death threats, the authorities have to take action. They have
Speaker 1: to This is ridiculous and it has no place in
Speaker 1: our game, has no place in the world at large,
Speaker 1: and somebody's got to do something about it. And hopefully
Speaker 1: that will happen here with the Mexican Federation filing a
Speaker 1: complaint to the relevant authorities about death threats being sent
Speaker 1: to one of their referees. Katia Itsel Garcia based on
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Monterrey match. Let's go to the NWSL Trinity Rodman.
Speaker 1: She celebrated her return after four months out scored in
Speaker 1: stoppage time to give the Washington Spirit a two to
Speaker 1: one win over Portland. Came off the bench in the
Speaker 1: seventy sixth minute, first action since April because of back issues.
Speaker 1: She was in a perfect spot to finish off a
Speaker 1: pass from Croy Bethune, blasting it past the Portland goalkeeper.
Speaker 1: First goal in more than ten months. Trinity said, this
Speaker 1: was the hardest thing I've had to go through with
Speaker 1: the injury and everything, so being back, especially at the
Speaker 1: home stadium with the crowd behind me, scoring a goal
Speaker 1: like that. You saw I buried it was not going
Speaker 1: to miss it. Great scenes, great postgame interview, Really happy
Speaker 1: Trinity Rodman's back on the field. Tim wschawinga of Kansas
Speaker 1: City Current she broke the deadlock in the sixty fifth
Speaker 1: minute with her ninth goal of the year. KC beat
Speaker 1: Gotham to nil, extended the winning streak to seven games,
Speaker 1: and KSE is on top of the NWSL standings by
Speaker 1: ten points. Now big move for Kansas City as well.
Speaker 1: Prior to the match, Ali Sentner has moved to Kansas
Speaker 1: City from the Utah Royals in a trade six hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in guaranteed intra league transfer funds since essentially
Speaker 1: in WSL allocation money. It's a new intra league record
Speaker 1: for an NWSL transfer. Kansas City could send Utah up
Speaker 1: to an additional one hundred thousand in conditional performance add
Speaker 1: ons in the future. A source confirmed to ESPN Kansas
Speaker 1: City will pay Utah over multiple years to spread out
Speaker 1: each team's hit on the net transfer threshold. Utah received
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand immediately and will receive another two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand next year and then one hundred twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of Shenanigans that get a little silly
Speaker 1: with some of these moves, and MLS has to do
Speaker 1: it as well. I feel like there's a way to
Speaker 1: clean that up, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: Copa America Feminina. What a final. In this one, Brazil
Speaker 1: wins it their ninth Copa America title. For four draw
Speaker 1: Brazil won the penalty shootout five to four. Just absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: Five straight wins in the Copa America for Brazil. Marta
Speaker 1: came off the bench. She scored twice as a substitute
Speaker 1: and outside of the eighteen volley in stoppage time took
Speaker 1: the match to extra time. The thirty nine year old
Speaker 1: she retired from international football after the silver medal at
Speaker 1: the Olympics. Last time out in Paris, the manager brought
Speaker 1: her back to the squad. She agreed to come back
Speaker 1: in May before this tournament and was a huge factor
Speaker 1: in helping Brazil. I mean, it's a loss to Colombia
Speaker 1: if she doesn't score in stoppage time to take it
Speaker 1: to extra time. It was Colombia who had to score
Speaker 1: late to send it to penalties, and then Brazil ended
Speaker 1: up getting through in penalties. Great crowd for the final,
Speaker 1: almost twenty four thousand people in the building. Spectators leaned
Speaker 1: heavily in favor of Colombia. The games were played in
Speaker 1: Ecuador in this tournament. Colombia led three separate times in
Speaker 1: the match. Linda Caseedo Maira Ramirez were both outstanding, huge
Speaker 1: goals from them, but Brazil ends up getting it done.
Speaker 1: Now a lot of media coming out afterwards. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this on the Espresso. Very big organizational issues with
Speaker 1: Conva Ball, and that's nothing new. If you were here
Speaker 1: during the Copa America last summer in the United States
Speaker 1: that Conva Ball organized, not US organizers, conbo Ball. These
Speaker 1: were not Ecuadorian organizers for the Copa. This was Conbobaal
Speaker 1: and it was poor. You had bad conditions. You had
Speaker 1: doubleheaders happening in stadiums and then saying well, the players
Speaker 1: can't warm up on the field because it might do
Speaker 1: damage to the field. You had no var which is
Speaker 1: a joke for an international competition of this magnitude, and
Speaker 1: you saw that you needed var because that's where the
Speaker 1: game is now. The game's played at a faster pace
Speaker 1: than ever before. Referees need that extra help. Video assistant
Speaker 1: referees are there to help. You didn't have it in
Speaker 1: this competition. It affected the competition. The level of play
Speaker 1: in South America has wildly outpaced the level of respect
Speaker 1: from the governing body there, and that's on the men's
Speaker 1: and the women's side, but especially true on the women's side.
Speaker 1: Conboball cannot organize these major events in the way that
Speaker 1: they deserve and something has to be done in that regard.
Speaker 1: Either Conbobal has to have some humility and go talk
Speaker 1: to CONKA, CAF, talk to UEFA, talk to other similar
Speaker 1: governing bodies and learn how to better organize these competitions,
Speaker 1: or FIFA needs to force help to them. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but Kamlo Ball has now had major issues and I
Speaker 1: think a black eye on the organization because of what
Speaker 1: has happened in their national team competitions on the men's
Speaker 1: side and on the women's side. And it has to
Speaker 1: be better. It has to be better. The game deserves better.
Speaker 1: The players and the national teams that are involved deserve better,
Speaker 1: especially on the women's side. We will see if Kamlo
Speaker 1: Ball makes any changes going forward. I'm not holding my breath.
Speaker 1: I just hope that they can drop the ego for
Speaker 1: a little bit and actually try to learn, because there's
Speaker 1: more money to be made in these competitions. Look at
Speaker 1: the Euros. The Copa America Feminina was extremely well played.
Speaker 1: There were so many great stories in it, so many
Speaker 1: great players in it. There's more money to make in
Speaker 1: this competition if it's organized and done right. Kamba Ball's
Speaker 1: got to get over themselves and do a better job.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Premier League. The summer series concluded
Speaker 1: yesterday at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Manchester United won the trophy
Speaker 1: a two to two draw with Everton in the last
Speaker 1: game west Ham. They won the first match of the
Speaker 1: day two nil over Bournemouth. Bruno Fernanche of Manchester United.
Speaker 1: He said the team were lazy in the draw. He
Speaker 1: wants new signings. Rubin Amerin backed Bruno's criticism of the performance,
Speaker 1: said he's happy for his players to call it out
Speaker 1: if they see a drop in standards. Manchester United have
Speaker 1: shown maybe a little promise in terms of going into
Speaker 1: the upcoming Premier League season. I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: really fit to compete with the top four, which I
Speaker 1: think have kind of separated themselves in terms of Liverpool,
Speaker 1: Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal. Can they be in the
Speaker 1: next group potentially, but I don't know if that's a
Speaker 1: guarantee either. We will see. It's going to be an
Speaker 1: interesting year for Manchester United. The summer series I think
Speaker 1: did pretty well here in the US. It was a
Speaker 1: crowded summer with Club World Cup here as well, with
Speaker 1: League's Cup going on, with other friendlies going on. It's
Speaker 1: a crowded time, which is to be expected. Look, this
Speaker 1: is going to happen more and more after the World
Speaker 1: Cup as well next summer. But I think, going back
Speaker 1: to kind of being humble, a little bit disappointing that
Speaker 1: Everton didn't make any players available after the game. In
Speaker 1: the mix zone, media were there ready to interview players,
Speaker 1: We were part of that, and Everton did not make
Speaker 1: any players available. I think Manchester United made one. It
Speaker 1: talked about this last summer when Chelsea came and that
Speaker 1: was a friendly situation where there absolutely should have been
Speaker 1: I mean, this was a friendly too, but it's at
Speaker 1: least an organized somewhat competition. It's a preseason competition. If
Speaker 1: clubs are going to come here and chase the money
Speaker 1: from the United States, I hope that they will respect
Speaker 1: the fans in the United States, maybe better than some do,
Speaker 1: I think. You know, west Ham has been a real
Speaker 1: joy to work with, and they've made players and legends
Speaker 1: available and they've had tons of different activations around even
Speaker 1: during the summer series where it's a crowded schedule as
Speaker 1: they were coming in from Chicago, they made themselves available.
Speaker 1: They did things in the community. Everton, while not doing
Speaker 1: a great job yesterday in terms of making people available,
Speaker 1: did some camps and clinics in the community this week,
Speaker 1: you know, a combination of work in the community and marketing.
Speaker 1: But yes, they did that. Manchester United did very little,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe they don't have to, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: Bournemouth didn't do a whole lot either, and I think
Speaker 1: Bournemouth is a little bit different situation. But I just
Speaker 1: I hope that if clubs are going to come here
Speaker 1: and want the money out of this country and the
Speaker 1: money out of these cities and these fans in the
Speaker 1: United States. I hope that they'll start to show maybe
Speaker 1: a little more respe I'm glad that some do, and
Speaker 1: maybe it's different aspects of the clubs, the community side
Speaker 1: versus the press and the media side, but I'm really
Speaker 1: happy to see some clubs like west Ham take it
Speaker 1: so seriously on both sides of it. Players available to
Speaker 1: speak after matches when they play here, lots of things
Speaker 1: in the warm up, and then lots of really interesting
Speaker 1: fun reach outs in the community and being heavily involved.
Speaker 1: Just really pleased to see that, and I wish more
Speaker 1: would take that on because it's a huge opportunity. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's seen as an opportunity because they're coming here to
Speaker 1: make money. Do it in the right way, and I
Speaker 1: hope that the Premier League starts to do a better
Speaker 1: job with that. They're the behemoth, they're the biggest league
Speaker 1: in the world. Maybe they feel they don't have to
Speaker 1: do those things, but I think if you don't do
Speaker 1: those things, ultimately somebody can pass you in your standing.
Speaker 1: If you do those things and you're the biggest, you're
Speaker 1: going to continue to be the biggest. And I really
Speaker 1: hope that they start to do a little bit better
Speaker 1: job with us. The Premier League has ruled reducing the
Speaker 1: size of the league. This is something that has been
Speaker 1: coming up over the years. They've ruled out reducing it
Speaker 1: from twenty to eighteen teams. There's some tension between the
Speaker 1: league and FIFA about the congested international calendar. Richard Masters,
Speaker 1: the chief executive of the Premier League, said that the
Speaker 1: league will not be forced into that decision to go
Speaker 1: to eighteen teams, saying that the growth of global football
Speaker 1: should not come at the expense of domestic football and
Speaker 1: I agree with that. The Premier League was originally designed
Speaker 1: to be reduced from twenty two teams to eighteen when
Speaker 1: it was founded three decades ago, but the change stuck
Speaker 1: at twenty in nineteen ninety five, nineteen ninety six and
Speaker 1: it was agreed to stay there. League of reduced from
Speaker 1: twenty to eighteen teams for the twenty twenty three to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four season, partly due to fixture congestion. It's
Speaker 1: also thought that reducing the number of clubs in the
Speaker 1: top flight increases the broadcast revenue per club. To ease
Speaker 1: some of the fixture congestion, the Premier League has stopped
Speaker 1: scheduling clubs for Saturday lunchtime kickoffs the seven thirty am
Speaker 1: game here in Atlanta in the time zone, they've stopped
Speaker 1: scheduling teams for that after playing Wednesday night in Europe.
Speaker 1: They've also increased recovery time during the Christmas period, which
Speaker 1: is I know it's a tradition, but it's a really
Speaker 1: dumb tradition. There's no need to be playing games every
Speaker 1: two days during that period. However, the Premier League denied
Speaker 1: Manchester City and Chelsea's request to delay the start to
Speaker 1: the season following their involvement in the Club World Cup,
Speaker 1: so they will play on the first day along with
Speaker 1: everybody else. Other news from around the world. PSV Sergenio
Speaker 1: dest and Ricardo Peppi they added the Johann Crout shield
Speaker 1: to their Dutch trophy collection. PSV two to one winners
Speaker 1: over go Ahead Eagles. In that match, dest scored the
Speaker 1: game winner. He sparked the build up at the halfway
Speaker 1: line finished with a thirteen yard half volley in the
Speaker 1: eighty fourth minute, promising signs for Ricardo Peppy as well.
Speaker 1: He came off the bench for the first time since
Speaker 1: January following a knee injury they drew their first match
Speaker 1: of the season in Scotland, won one away at Motherwell.
Speaker 1: Silly season updates. Let's go to Tottenham. Spurs will always
Speaker 1: be in my heart and I will treat you as
Speaker 1: a family member. Those are the departing words from Son,
Speaker 1: whom men who played his last match. I mean not officially,
Speaker 1: but pretty officially played his final game in front of
Speaker 1: a huge crowd of over sixty six thousand people in Seoul,
Speaker 1: which is so fitting for Sun to play his final
Speaker 1: game for Tottenham there. His final competitive game was the
Speaker 1: Europa League Final, when as captain, he lifted the club's
Speaker 1: first trophy in seventeen years. What a way to go out.
Speaker 1: There has been interest in Son from Saudi clubs, but
Speaker 1: he is keen on a move to la and LAFC
Speaker 1: sizable Korean community in Los Angeles, Hugo Laris's in goal
Speaker 1: former teammate. It's not official yet, but it looks pretty
Speaker 1: official that Son is coming to LAFC from Tottenham. It's
Speaker 1: all gone quiet on the Alexander Esock to Liverpool front.
Speaker 1: Has he decided to stay at Newcastle? Is he just
Speaker 1: waiting to see what's going to happen? He's reportedly returned
Speaker 1: to the Magpie's training ground. Eddie Howe said he hasn't
Speaker 1: spoken to him since Liverpool lodged a bid. Eddie Hale
Speaker 1: said he's like any other player. We would expect him
Speaker 1: to come in and train as normal. He went on
Speaker 1: to say to the Daily Mail, you have to earn
Speaker 1: the right to train with us. We are Newcastle United.
Speaker 1: The player has a responsibility here to be part of
Speaker 1: a team and part of a squad. You have to
Speaker 1: act in the right way, so that is also at
Speaker 1: play here. We will make sure that any player does
Speaker 1: that to earn the right to train with the group.
Speaker 1: No player can expect to act poorly and train with
Speaker 1: the group as normal. Newcastle legend Alan Sheer on Alexander Esock,
Speaker 1: he said, I'm not angry at all towards him. I
Speaker 1: probably understand his mentality. Do I like it? Probably two
Speaker 1: different things. If it is impossible for Eddie to turn
Speaker 1: him around, I want him to be out. Now get
Speaker 1: what you can get and get him out and say
Speaker 1: thanks very much for the memories. Off you go. This
Speaker 1: all sounds really interesting when it comes to Esoch and Newcastle,
Speaker 1: even if they can't get the deal done with Liverpool. Now,
Speaker 1: can you keep him in Newcastle? Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Benjamin Sesco the twenty two year old from Slovenia. He
Speaker 1: appears to be the replacement that Newcastle would like and
Speaker 1: maybe then they'd be willing to sell Esoch. But just
Speaker 1: like Newcastle want a replacement in before selling Esoch, RBI
Speaker 1: Leipzig want a replacement in for Cessco before selling him.
Speaker 1: Leipzig are also aware of the money and they're gonna
Speaker 1: drive a hard bargain. All that's true, there's also another
Speaker 1: hold up. Newcastle wants to get Brentford's Joan Wisa, but
Speaker 1: Brentford already selling Brian and Bumo to Manchester United earlier
Speaker 1: in the summer. They want a replacement first, So a
Speaker 1: logjam has ensued everywhere at the striker position in multiple
Speaker 1: clubs around the world. World. Good luck Juventus and Marseille.
Speaker 1: They have finally come to an agreement over the tim
Speaker 1: Waia transfer. According to the Athletic, he's expected to move
Speaker 1: on loan with an obligation to buy. Still some final
Speaker 1: details to work out. Adamola Lukman he has handed in
Speaker 1: a transfer request at Atalanta. He has accused the club
Speaker 1: of breaking promises to him. He's been linked with a
Speaker 1: move to enter, he said in a statement, despite now
Speaker 1: receiving an offer in alignment to what I believe had
Speaker 1: been discussed. Sadly the club are blocking the opportunity for
Speaker 1: reasons I do not understand. West Ham They have signed
Speaker 1: Callum Wilson on a free one year contract. He was
Speaker 1: available after failing to agree to a new contract at Newcastle.
Speaker 1: One hundred and eleven direct goal involvements in two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty nine Premier League appearances in his career. The
Speaker 1: thirty three year old Callum Wilson is now with west Ham.
Speaker 1: Porto surprise of the transfer season. Really no talk about this,
Speaker 1: but they surprised their fans ahead of a preseason friendly
Speaker 1: on Sunday announcing the signing of striker Luke Deong. Hadn't
Speaker 1: really been talked about and he was brought out in
Speaker 1: front of the fans presented as a new signing. The
Speaker 1: thirty four year old Dutch player came out of the
Speaker 1: tunnel shocked everybody. He was at PSV last and his
Speaker 1: move away maybe helps Ricardo Peppi with more playing time
Speaker 1: with no one blocking him in front of him. New
Speaker 1: England Revolution. They've officially brought back Matt Turner on loan
Speaker 1: from Leon with an option to buy. This was announced
Speaker 1: on Friday after the Morning Espresso posted he needs to play.
Speaker 1: This is a big deal for the US men's national
Speaker 1: team as well. He will be a designated player for
Speaker 1: the remainder of this season for budget purposes, plans to
Speaker 1: convert him to a targeted Allocation money player in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. The loan runs until June of next year
Speaker 1: and the start of the World Cup. If they want
Speaker 1: to keep him TAM eligible beyond the loan than any person,
Speaker 1: which option would have to be significantly less than the
Speaker 1: nine million dollars Leon agreed to pay Nodding in Forest
Speaker 1: for Turner in June. John Texter did that deal to
Speaker 1: bring Turner to Leone from Forrest before he was ousted
Speaker 1: at Leone. The deal was done with his friend Noddingham
Speaker 1: forest owner Evangelos Marianakis, who he's hoping will help him
Speaker 1: with his debt to Aris management and potentially help him
Speaker 1: gain full control of both the Fogo separate from Eagle
Speaker 1: Football Group. All kinds of weird things with this Matt
Speaker 1: Turner deal, but he will be with the New England
Speaker 1: Revolution for the next year. Wrexham. They've signed former England
Speaker 1: international Connor Cody from Lester for two million pounds. At
Speaker 1: Letzi looked like they were going to get Inzo Milo,
Speaker 1: who had a great season in the Bundesliga at Stuttgart
Speaker 1: low release clause. Stuttgart ready that he was going to
Speaker 1: go this summer, but it looks like a La Lie
Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia have hijacked the deal and he has
Speaker 1: agreed to a verbal deal Allockley, who will pay the
Speaker 1: twenty million euro release clause. Claudio Eccheveri of Manchester City
Speaker 1: could be going on loan to Roma for the season.
Speaker 1: He is leaving comments on recent posts by current Roma players,
Speaker 1: so stay tuned. Maybe Etcheveri is headed there. Barcelona updates
Speaker 1: Marcus Rashford. He believes that Barcelona will find the money
Speaker 1: to complete his registration. Barsa still need to register, not
Speaker 1: just Rashford, not just Joe on Garcia, not just Ronnie Bardagi,
Speaker 1: not just Wojiic Chesney, not just Tarart Martin Martin, but
Speaker 1: all of them. John Laport's is the president of the club.
Speaker 1: He has reassured fans they're working on it. It's progressing well.
Speaker 1: He says. We're doing our job and we're confident that
Speaker 1: we'll be able to register everybody. Yeah. Joean Laporte has
Speaker 1: also said they're not going to have to make use
Speaker 1: of the emergency injury rule in order to register Garcia.
Speaker 1: As a goalkeeper, Marc Andre ter Stagan had surgery on
Speaker 1: his back. It was assumed that Barcelona would use this
Speaker 1: rule to be able to register Garcia. If a player's
Speaker 1: injured for four months, clubs in La Liga are able
Speaker 1: to use fifty percent of their allocated salary limit to
Speaker 1: register or replacement. It increases to eighty percent if the
Speaker 1: absence is five months or more. Now, remember, Terstagen put
Speaker 1: out a statement before his surgery and said he'd be
Speaker 1: out for three months, which really upset people at Barcelona
Speaker 1: because they would like him to say he's going to
Speaker 1: be out longer. Now, just because you say you're going
Speaker 1: to be out longer doesn't mean there's not a punishment
Speaker 1: if you come back earlier. Mundo Deportivo in Spain says
Speaker 1: that if Terstagen were not out for at least four months,
Speaker 1: Ladiga could penalize Barcelona. The specified sanction would impact their
Speaker 1: salary limit, with Laaliga reducing it by three times Terstagen's salary.
Speaker 1: In this case, Terstagan's one of the highest earners in
Speaker 1: the squad. They can't afford to mess this up. They
Speaker 1: might still because this is Barcelona we're talking about. They
Speaker 1: have also made it known in public they are open
Speaker 1: to players leaving, but no players actually want to leave.
Speaker 1: One of the players that's been floated as a potential
Speaker 1: exit is Mark Casado. He's saying he doesn't want to go,
Speaker 1: but you have clubs that are interested. Tottenham is one,
Speaker 1: you have a few, Chelsea at Letti, all possible thirty
Speaker 1: million euro price tag. But he is said to be
Speaker 1: focused on earning minutes at Barcelona, even in a position
Speaker 1: that has Gavi and Frankie DeJong in it. Good luck,
Speaker 1: good luck Barcelona, Good luck Marcus Rashford, Jean Laporta, keep
Speaker 1: working at it. I guess. Other news as we wrap
Speaker 1: up this edition of The Morning Espresso, Darryl Deka thigh
Speaker 1: injury another injury set back for him. The twenty five
Speaker 1: year old American forward is going to be out until
Speaker 1: early September. With this, Swindon Town manager Ian Holloway very
Speaker 1: upset after a fan reportedly through a seat at Walsall
Speaker 1: goalkeeper Miles Roberts in the League two opener over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Holloway has urged the club to identify and reveal the
Speaker 1: name of the supporter involved in the incident. Holloway said,
Speaker 1: I'm disgusted by whoever that person was. Whoever you are,
Speaker 1: you're not a swindon fan. I'm not having you and
Speaker 1: I hope you get caught. How dare you put our
Speaker 1: club in the situation that you've just done. You think
Speaker 1: that's in our name. It's not in my name, it's
Speaker 1: not in this badge's name, and we don't want you
Speaker 1: in football. That's how I feel. So let's find them,
Speaker 1: whoever it is, give us a name. If you've ripped
Speaker 1: a seat out and you've thrown it at somebody, I
Speaker 1: just can't stand you, whoever you are, and I will
Speaker 1: find you. I want us to find that person and
Speaker 1: shame them. Ian Holloway are now one of my favorite
Speaker 1: managers because that is brilliant. It should not be accepted,
Speaker 1: it should not be protected, it should be punished, just
Speaker 1: like the people who make horrible statements on social media,
Speaker 1: and if the social media platforms can't get it done,
Speaker 1: the clubs should. In this case, the clubs absolutely should
Speaker 1: get this done. Thank you Ian Holloway for being as
Speaker 1: strong as you were in this and wanting to punish
Speaker 1: the person involved because I agree. Not a fan not
Speaker 1: supporting the club Benfica. They won their first trophy of
Speaker 1: the season, the curtain Raiser in Portugal, the Supertaca Candido
Speaker 1: de Olivera Benfica one ZIL winners over Sporting Western United.
Speaker 1: In Australia hemorrhaging cash right now and the Australian League
Speaker 1: on the men's and the women's side. A lot of
Speaker 1: financial issues there. Western United reported a loss of almost
Speaker 1: eleven million dollars for the twenty twenty three to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four financial year, deficit of more than twelve million
Speaker 1: the preceding year. Liabilities exceeded assets by more than fifty
Speaker 1: five million. They're trying to get a deal done to
Speaker 1: sell the club to a US based organization Kaminski and
Speaker 1: local affiliate kam Melbourne. They're in a winding up process
Speaker 1: right now in federal court brought by creditors. This is
Speaker 1: one issue. Canberray United is going to be able to
Speaker 1: keep things going right now after a government funding package
Speaker 1: was announced. It's a mess right now because players are leaving,
Speaker 1: which ultimately these teams have to sell players. It's important
Speaker 1: outgoing men's transferred tallied fifteen point seven million dollars in
Speaker 1: the last season to average a more than eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars each. That's important that it's it's money coming
Speaker 1: in the previous the three previous seasons, thirty nine transfers
Speaker 1: netted less than twelve million. Past two seasons, forty six
Speaker 1: deals netted nearly thirty eight million. This is a good thing.
Speaker 1: Sell on clause is a big part of this as well.
Speaker 1: But then the flip side is when you have players
Speaker 1: going often out, you've got to have more talent coming in.
Speaker 1: And the women's game is seeing the same thing with
Speaker 1: a lot of talent going out and not as much
Speaker 1: talent coming in. The leagues in Australia are about to
Speaker 1: enter negotiations on their next broadcast agreement and you have
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that are in financial issues and
Speaker 1: they're going to need that broadcast agreement to help them out.
Speaker 1: We'll see if the money is there to find that
Speaker 1: or do things change a little bit in terms of
Speaker 1: salary caps and spending levels in Australia in the men's
Speaker 1: and the women's leagues. We'll keep you posting on that.
Speaker 1: We'll keep you posted on everything else going on around
Speaker 1: the world on the Morning Espresso all week long here
Speaker 1: on the SDH Network. Big thank you to our friends
Speaker 1: at Oglethorpe University for presenting this. Tomorrow we will be
Speaker 1: at Atlanta United training as they get ready to play
Speaker 1: Atlas on Wednesday night in League's Cup, back in league
Speaker 1: play on Saturday at Montreal. Will also be today at
Speaker 1: Georgia States Media Day for their men's and their women's
Speaker 1: teams as their seasons are just around the corner. Busy
Speaker 1: time in the game here in the United States and worldwide,
Speaker 1: and we'll be talking about all of it all week
Speaker 1: long on the Morning Espresso