Speaker 1: Morning, trying to buttons and try to do things fancy
Speaker 1: and sequence and stuff. I just need to go back
Speaker 1: to the basics. Hi, Wallpast Wednesday, John, here are you there?
Speaker 1: Thanks for dropping by for the next little bit coming
Speaker 1: up in Wallpast Wednesday. It's whatever's on your mind when
Speaker 1: it comes to the world of the sport, and we
Speaker 1: got plenty to talk about. Tyler is gonna come by
Speaker 1: in about ten minutes. We'll see how see how his
Speaker 1: sight lines are, and check and sea on his shades
Speaker 1: and everything. Did my camera tilt and not tell me?
Speaker 1: I think it did? There? We go all right, So
Speaker 1: Tyler's gonna come by in about ten minutes and we'll
Speaker 1: discuss it. Landy Night, Well, le'scuss what's going on in
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer? A couple of blockbusters according to conversations
Speaker 1: that started yesterday with us with Laurel Faylor and Queen
Speaker 1: City Press that immediately impact de f C Cincinnati. We'll
Speaker 1: get into all that. We'll get into Hey, who's at
Speaker 1: Landy United playing today? So we'll get into all of
Speaker 1: that stuff with Tyler. Go through it, Landy United, go
Speaker 1: through Major League Soccer and get you ready for everything
Speaker 1: going on there. Our number two. Plenty of things to
Speaker 1: get into. We've got a Champions League to get into.
Speaker 1: We've got Cocky CAF to get into. We've got all
Speaker 1: of the leagues that we cover came out with their
Speaker 1: divisions and alignments. We'll go through all of those in
Speaker 1: a league two, et cetera. We know what the Southeast
Speaker 1: is going to be looking like as we cover it
Speaker 1: in the spring and summer, so we'll get into that
Speaker 1: and let's see it at the USWNT. We had the
Speaker 1: team announced yesterday, of course, the second we went off
Speaker 1: the air. So there is all of that. And an
Speaker 1: interesting piece your requested required might be from Kevin Baxter
Speaker 1: the LA Times because he caught up with Mayo Yoshida.
Speaker 1: Mayo Yoshida wanted to stay in Los Angeles with LAG
Speaker 1: had to sign a new deal, but because of all
Speaker 1: of the machinations going on and the salary cap, Yoshida
Speaker 1: had to sign a deal for less money, and when
Speaker 1: he was asked about it, Maya was less than happy.
Speaker 1: Shall we say. I think that this was probably one
Speaker 1: of the more frank responses. I mean it was one
Speaker 1: of them. I think it was just the one in
Speaker 1: the article. But you get my point, Maya wasn't happy,
Speaker 1: So we'll get into that, but that might be your
Speaker 1: required requested requested required reading of the day. The interview
Speaker 1: that Kevin Baxter had with Mayo Yoshida discussing him returning
Speaker 1: to LAG and still what LAG had to do to
Speaker 1: even consider signing him. There was a lot of folks
Speaker 1: that left in the off season. They got a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries, they got to try and figure out, specifically
Speaker 1: with Ricky Pooge and how you're going to try and
Speaker 1: handle that. So a lot of questions with LAG out
Speaker 1: of the blocks and they were right up against the
Speaker 1: salary cap. So Yashida not happy, and we might get
Speaker 1: into that. Also, we've got to get into Creek Cup
Speaker 1: because that starts today on the SDH network at Soccer
Speaker 1: down here dot mixler dot com. And we'll go over
Speaker 1: what happened last night in our season premieres on the
Speaker 1: Boys and the Girls side Georgia High School Soccer. It
Speaker 1: was North Atlanta at Decatur and we'll get you into
Speaker 1: the schedule for Creek Cup today and beyond. It is today,
Speaker 1: it is tomorrow, it is Friday, it is Saturday, and
Speaker 1: SDH two will both be up and running especially on
Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday, where Saturday you have all of the
Speaker 1: matches going on to determine bracket winners, third and fourth
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. Starting at like eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning on Saturday, SDH and SDH two
Speaker 1: will be up and running over at our mixer sites,
Speaker 1: and so we'll go over what happened last night, and
Speaker 1: we will go over what happened. We're gonna go over
Speaker 1: the schedule and let you know what's happening today. It'll
Speaker 1: be me at Northview High School with two matches at
Speaker 1: six and eight, and that'll get things started in one
Speaker 1: of the brackets. But we'll go through the whole thing.
Speaker 1: With Creek Cup. We had a really cool moment last
Speaker 1: night in North Atlanta and De cater two teams that
Speaker 1: are going to be chasing after championships in their respective classes.
Speaker 1: But one game was a shutout for North Atlanta. The
Speaker 1: other game was a win for North Atlanta, but it
Speaker 1: took a while. We're gonna get into game number two
Speaker 1: coming up in it just a little bit. All right,
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Speaker 1: you ready for the season. And then on the twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: while I am in Lincolnton for the Thompson Lincoln County
Speaker 1: doubleheader that will be airing on the Mixer site, Jason
Speaker 1: will be at Emory University discussing and these are the
Speaker 1: quarterly discussions that we're going to be having leading up
Speaker 1: to the World Cup about how Atlanta is soccer City USA.
Speaker 1: So on the twentieth Maxi Midtown, seven o'clock on the
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Speaker 1: the season opener, and you can go be a part
Speaker 1: of that discussion as well. And that's going to be
Speaker 1: very very cool having that relationship with Emory and having
Speaker 1: Jason be a part of the discussion and once again
Speaker 1: explaining why Atlanta is what it is and why it
Speaker 1: is is part not just in the Southeast, but in
Speaker 1: the soccer world in and of itself. So these quarterly
Speaker 1: discussions that Jason is having all the way up to
Speaker 1: the World Cup very very cool. I think that's everybody.
Speaker 1: I think it is. I think it is. So I think,
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Speaker 1: of the promos. If I have forgotten one, then please
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Speaker 1: to absolutely make sure that I don't forget any of
Speaker 1: our promos as we go forward. By the way, do
Speaker 1: you see what I did during the opening kickoff? I
Speaker 1: made sure that I'm not I'm not Jason, because initially
Speaker 1: it was Jason. I'm like, oh crap, I've got to
Speaker 1: change that. So I had to change that on the air.
Speaker 1: So all right, a lot of stuff happened in soccer
Speaker 1: on the overnight and on you know, once again, as
Speaker 1: we always sit there and say, everybody waits to make
Speaker 1: their roster moves once the morning show is over. That's
Speaker 1: just how it is. And so when we had Laurel
Speaker 1: Failer on yesterday, the discussion about FC Cincinnati was multidirectional,
Speaker 1: and it was trying to figure out, Okay, does Luco
Speaker 1: go someplace? Does he hanging out with his best buddies
Speaker 1: the treadmills? Does he actually do some toe touchies and
Speaker 1: some running around in the background for FC Cincinnati? What
Speaker 1: does Evander do? Ww wwed sounds like an AM radio
Speaker 1: station out in like Covington or something. But we'll find
Speaker 1: out what what would Evander do? And so this is
Speaker 1: why we bring in our buddy Tyler Pilgrim in the
Speaker 1: Atlanta United Conversational Information Exchange Program, as we always do
Speaker 1: on Wednesdays here at nine point fifteen. So yeah, nothing
Speaker 1: going on here in Major League Soccer at all, involving
Speaker 1: a team that we cover on a daily basis and
Speaker 1: a couple of teams that needed to make some moves,
Speaker 1: and we got to see one of the new rules
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer come to the fore. And apparently, apparently,
Speaker 1: like I said, nothing official engage team. That is not me,
Speaker 1: by the way.
Speaker 2: That's me. That's me. Carry on. I don't know why
Speaker 2: I dismissed that like an hour ago.
Speaker 1: All right, well, I mean I thought it was I
Speaker 1: thought that, you know, uh Ace Acce might be bugging like,
Speaker 1: don't you know, don't you know what I'm doing right now,
Speaker 1: not like like every Wednesday known to mankind that we
Speaker 1: can have you when you're not on vacation going to
Speaker 1: Florida's right? But first off, how are the how are
Speaker 1: the the specs? How are the eye?
Speaker 2: I am much better after let's see, things started getting
Speaker 2: really really good on my way to Florida.
Speaker 1: Of course they did.
Speaker 2: I still wore glasses though, because I didn't want to
Speaker 2: like throw anybody off. But uh no, it just it,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of slowly, slowly went away. You don't
Speaker 2: look like a psychops anymore for the most part, So
Speaker 2: you know what happened. I genuinely think like I must
Speaker 2: have gotten some kind of like say it like, because
Speaker 2: my eye itself was fine. It was just my olid
Speaker 2: So you know, like you ever had like a sty
Speaker 2: sties hurt really bad, This didn't like hurt like that.
Speaker 2: It just swoll up. I looked like I got in
Speaker 2: a fight and I didn't. I don't they.
Speaker 1: God, we can't. We can't take anybody anywhere. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna have to literally we're just gonna have to wear
Speaker 1: gloves and living bubbles and we can't touch we can't
Speaker 1: touch anything, and then try and actually have some kind
Speaker 1: of a daily existence. It just happened. Well. First off,
Speaker 1: glad that you're able to use your normal glasses instead
Speaker 1: of your sunglasses. Also, you know, although I mean it's
Speaker 1: like like you weren't styling and profiling down in Central
Speaker 1: Florida when you're wearing your shades out in public, but
Speaker 1: everybody's like, well, dude, it's the sun, you know It's yeah,
Speaker 1: I can get it.
Speaker 2: It made sense down there. It was beautiful weather down there,
Speaker 2: by the way.
Speaker 1: Of course it was, and you're sitting there trying to
Speaker 1: cover soccer. So, uh, Atlanta United with the wind over
Speaker 1: New England. And I'm just I'm gonna start with the
Speaker 1: with the part that seemed very very Caleb Porter esque.
Speaker 1: Oh are you promoting this morning with the mug? Of
Speaker 1: course you are.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm not intentionally, but it's there.
Speaker 1: Oh bite your tongue, sir, Yeah. Yeah, And the Caleb
Speaker 1: Porter esque beginnings of the match where postgame reports out
Speaker 1: of New England were like, yeah, same old things that
Speaker 1: we're seeing, same old concerns. But it seemed to those
Speaker 1: of us that were watching that New England decided that
Speaker 1: they wanted to up the chippiness factor and go in
Speaker 1: hard and stick some tackles, and it looked like they
Speaker 1: hid to a degree kind of targeted Jamal because there
Speaker 1: were two tackles early where Jamal took some hard shots
Speaker 1: and I think that might have amplified the energy in
Speaker 1: the room just a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it was actually really funny. If you've never
Speaker 2: and I don't know why anybody here necessarily would have gone,
Speaker 2: but if you've ever been to IMG Academy, the place
Speaker 2: is massive.
Speaker 1: First of all, yes, it is ridiculous, ridiculous.
Speaker 2: So they're playing on the you know, the main field
Speaker 2: that has the big bleachers, and it's got like the
Speaker 2: box behind it.
Speaker 1: The one the one that's furthest away from everything, like
Speaker 1: it's out. It's out in Belujah County.
Speaker 2: So yeah, literally across the state. But we set, you know,
Speaker 2: I set doing my article and everything in the bleachers. Well,
Speaker 2: the bleachers were divided up. You had Atlanta and it's staff,
Speaker 2: and then you had New England and it's staff. And
Speaker 2: so I'm sitting there in the Atlanta area and lo
Speaker 2: and behold who is sitting next to me? And behind
Speaker 2: me all of Atlanta's players. So Brooks Lynnon sitting next
Speaker 2: to me, and I'm like, hey, man, how's your shoulder?
Speaker 2: And he's like, it's doing good, you know, And Latte
Speaker 2: Lath is sitting there. Got to meet Latte Lath just
Speaker 2: for a quick second.
Speaker 1: That was cool.
Speaker 2: Matt Edwards sitting back there because he didn't feature in
Speaker 2: the game. And then a handful of you know, New
Speaker 2: twos guys, some guys that I don't know. So we're
Speaker 2: sitting there fit what ten to fifteen minutes into this game,
Speaker 2: and things started getting a little a little more violent
Speaker 2: than they probably you have for a preseason game.
Speaker 1: Gentleman's Society courtesy of our friends from Foxborough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was so funny listening to Brooks Lennon
Speaker 2: and Matt Edwards.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then pedro Ominor walks up and they're watching this
Speaker 2: game just as fans, and they're like, you know, somebody
Speaker 2: comes in on Jamal and they're like, hey, what the fuck?
Speaker 2: They're going off. They're like getting upset. They're yelling, you know,
Speaker 2: anytime there's like a bad giveaway at the back, they're like,
Speaker 2: you know, like on the edge of their seat. And
Speaker 2: at one point Brad and I'm sure you couldn't hear
Speaker 2: it on the on the the video, but Brad comes
Speaker 2: out and he's like he's like, hey man, it's a
Speaker 2: preseason game, and like it's just yelling at a bunch
Speaker 2: of New England players. And then the guys sitting next
Speaker 2: to me, they're like, yeah, it's freaking preseason. And then
Speaker 2: there was one moment where Jamal was fouled. Yes, and
Speaker 2: again don't know what was on the video. Jamal did
Speaker 2: the fouling. I can tell you that for sure. This
Speaker 2: was not one where he got you know, kind of
Speaker 2: knocked down and injured. One of the two times. This
Speaker 2: was after the fact. It was just he was fighting
Speaker 2: for a ball. It was a duel. He kind of
Speaker 2: got his leg wrapped around the defender and the ref
Speaker 2: called it for Jamalka and we're all and this happened
Speaker 2: right in front of us, and so we're all sitting
Speaker 2: there and the whistle blows, ref gestures that it's Atlanta's
Speaker 2: free kick, and all of the Atlantic folks sitting there
Speaker 2: were like, oh, that kind of turned around and Matt
Speaker 2: Edwards was sitting behind me and he's like and then
Speaker 2: Doug is over there and he goes, I guess it's
Speaker 2: preseason for the refs too. Just to give you a
Speaker 2: general idea of kind of the way that the whole
Speaker 2: thing played out. Yeah, And so to get back to Jamal,
Speaker 2: he got taken down the first time, and there was
Speaker 2: some unhappiness. He got taken on the second time, and
Speaker 2: I think Atlanta player I was about to say fans,
Speaker 2: because they were acting like fans. The Atlanta players were
Speaker 2: ready to like storm the field. Yeah, it's a unique experience,
Speaker 2: I will say that.
Speaker 1: But it goes to I think the fight that a
Speaker 1: lot of fans were looking for out of the club.
Speaker 1: Sticking up for your teammate in a situation like that
Speaker 1: where dude gets dropped, and that your first impulse is
Speaker 1: to sit there and get in the face of the
Speaker 1: other guy instead of just letting something happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean we've we've talked about it multiple
Speaker 2: times going back to last year, right, and it's it's
Speaker 2: one of those things where I think you kind of
Speaker 2: saw it. There was there was one other one that
Speaker 2: I know unless you had an eagle eye. It was
Speaker 2: just one of those things. It probably was never caught,
Speaker 2: it was never mentioned, but there was a point where
Speaker 2: Saba was on like the near the near touch line
Speaker 2: and he's kind of scrapping for a ball with one
Speaker 2: of the defenders and to win the ball in a
Speaker 2: preseason game, the New England defender you know what you
Speaker 2: what do you normally do to win a throw? And
Speaker 2: you kick it off the the opposing player, it goes
Speaker 2: out and you get the throw and whatever he did
Speaker 2: that he drilled this ball into Saba's like stomach, I
Speaker 2: mean hard, from literally about three feet away, and Saba
Speaker 2: just stood there and he looked at him and he
Speaker 2: goes and the guy was like and like went off
Speaker 2: running away, and Saba was just standing there like dude,
Speaker 2: what what why would you do that? Like why was
Speaker 2: that necessary? And it was stuff. So when that happened,
Speaker 2: a couple of the other players came running up, thinking like, oh,
Speaker 2: we're about to get into it, and so I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is this is great to see, you know. And
Speaker 2: then Jamal gets knocked down. You got guys like Slish
Speaker 2: running up. You got of course, Brad's you know, back
Speaker 2: there saying his stuff. You've got you know Miggi, who's
Speaker 2: not that kind of guy, but he's at least kind
Speaker 2: of walking up and like ready to ostrich sneak attack somebody,
Speaker 2: you know. So but it was just, yeah, it was
Speaker 2: good to see a little bit of attitude. And they
Speaker 2: need that click another one click I think is going
Speaker 2: to be very big for that kind of attitude personality.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with you know, with showing that
Speaker 1: you're going to stand up for your teammates, especially in preseason,
Speaker 1: because it sets a good example for everybody else going around.
Speaker 1: Then it comes to set pieces, set pieces, set pieces,
Speaker 1: and you got to see what what Am five nine
Speaker 1: can do when when he's when he's behind the ball.
Speaker 1: And like I said, looking at what the the Revolution
Speaker 1: coverage folks were mentioning about, you know, once again set
Speaker 1: Peace defending and it was one of the worst things
Speaker 1: that they had issues with last year with Caleb Porter.
Speaker 1: Guess what set Peace Defending helped out Atlanta United there
Speaker 1: with with goal number one. But you got to see
Speaker 1: Alexi midn Chuk and the top in the vision that's
Speaker 1: there and Jamal got the slam dunk at the back post.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, again this is just from from
Speaker 2: my vantage point down there. That ball that he put
Speaker 2: in it set peace defense, you can. You know, we
Speaker 2: talk about that all the time. There was nobody that
Speaker 2: was going to be able to get to that ball
Speaker 2: other than the person that Marriynchuck wanted to get to
Speaker 2: that ball. It was just it was that spot on
Speaker 2: and I mean he put it to the back post,
Speaker 2: comes up and heads it in and it was great.
Speaker 2: I mean it was perfect. And I asked Dilah about
Speaker 2: it after because you know, I said, this is I
Speaker 2: think the third set piece goal in the preseason, and
Speaker 2: this is something that Atlanta struggled with a lot last year.
Speaker 2: And he said, you know, actually it's not something that
Speaker 2: we've spent a ton of time working on yet. He said,
Speaker 2: you know, I always tell them that the game is
Speaker 2: won and lost in both boxes. However you're scoring, however
Speaker 2: you're defending. He's like, you know, I loved on defensive
Speaker 2: set pieces and defending in general. I love the attitude
Speaker 2: that I saw out of my players, But on our
Speaker 2: set pieces, he said, you know, we actually haven't had
Speaker 2: a lot of time to dive into like routines and stuff.
Speaker 2: We've just kind of said, this is kind of what
Speaker 2: we want to do, you know, keep it simple for
Speaker 2: now until a later time when they can actually develop
Speaker 2: some things. But he said, you know, you put your
Speaker 2: guys on it that know how to deliver a ball,
Speaker 2: and you target the guys that know how to get
Speaker 2: on the end of it.
Speaker 1: Then you get that, you get that one, and then
Speaker 1: you end up with a second. And you mentioned Mattea's
Speaker 1: Click Click gets the second goal in the second half,
Speaker 1: and that was what at Land United needed. They come
Speaker 1: out of there with a win the exhibition season, but
Speaker 1: most of the starters go seventy and they're gauging fitness
Speaker 1: and getting ready for Hey, they're playing c Cincinnati today,
Speaker 1: so they're getting ready for all of that activity. What
Speaker 1: did you think of the starters or the starting lineup?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily the starter starters, but that's starting eleven then
Speaker 1: went what was your gauge of everybody that went into
Speaker 1: the second half and then deep into the second.
Speaker 2: Half, I thought they were definitively the better team over
Speaker 2: New England. I mean, I thought they they did well
Speaker 2: with when they lost the ball, pressuring hard to get
Speaker 2: it back and being successful at it. I thought, uh,
Speaker 2: they were unpredictable and how they played because you had
Speaker 2: Miguel Almron playing wherever he wanted to play. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: he still has it. I'm telling you all that now.
Speaker 2: The guy again, I know we y'all watched it, but
Speaker 2: seeing him get on the ball and then what we
Speaker 2: always go back to that that old saying from I
Speaker 2: think I don't know who said it, maybe it was
Speaker 2: Joseph back then, but he runs faster when he's on
Speaker 2: the ball. That he did that, he he broke lines
Speaker 2: just by his own running. So by that he's taking
Speaker 2: defensive lines and he's throwing them completely out of whack.
Speaker 2: He's creating space for Saba and Ron Schuck and you
Speaker 2: know in this case too. All right, So that was
Speaker 2: good to see Slish and Click looked like they were
Speaker 2: working really well together, communicating. And then one thing that
Speaker 2: I noticed being there, and that diala mentioned after because
Speaker 2: I asked him, like, all the improvements that y'all made
Speaker 2: over the preseason so far, what are you most proud of?
Speaker 2: And he said, actually, it's the communication. He said. You know,
Speaker 2: we've got guys that are normally quiet and they're out
Speaker 2: there being leaders. They're being loud, they're being vocal. Where
Speaker 2: we weren't hearing that in Chattanooga. You know, we weren't
Speaker 2: hearing that early on in the preseason. And I made
Speaker 2: it a big point of emphasis, like y'all need to
Speaker 2: be talking with each other, and I heard it in
Speaker 2: the stands and this is before he dially even mentioned
Speaker 2: anything about it. So you've got guys back there like
Speaker 2: Derek Williams, who was described last year as a silent leader.
Speaker 2: He was not silent at all, which is good, you know,
Speaker 2: And so I mean I liked what I saw. The
Speaker 2: intensity was there, especially in the first half. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think you started to see a little bit of
Speaker 2: the tiredness kind of work its way in in the
Speaker 2: second half. Diala mentioned that too, he said, you know,
Speaker 2: this is all on tired legs. It's you know, this
Speaker 2: is good to see because they did this on tired
Speaker 2: legs and they put in a really good shift. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, to get seventy I was thinking we were
Speaker 2: going to get maybe sixty out of them, but so
Speaker 2: to go an extra ten and to be as you know,
Speaker 2: high energy as they were, I think that's a really
Speaker 2: good sign.
Speaker 1: Well. And I think also, and I have no gauge
Speaker 1: as to coaching style and demands and thoughts and these
Speaker 1: kinds of things, but I would also imagine that in
Speaker 1: situations like what we had this weekend and what you're
Speaker 1: going to see today and what's going to be seen
Speaker 1: on Saturday against FC Dallas, is that you're kind of
Speaker 1: pushing your limits a little bit. It's like, okay, I
Speaker 1: know you can go sixty, let me see what else
Speaker 1: you can give me, right, now because they have to
Speaker 1: be ninety ready in ten days time or close to it. Anyway.
Speaker 1: You know you've got to be you've got to be
Speaker 1: as close to that A plus player that you can be.
Speaker 1: So not surprising that you go past sixty, you get
Speaker 1: to seventy, and then you bring in folks to go
Speaker 1: for the final twenty and the thing that I enjoyed
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this is just me sitting
Speaker 1: there staring at something, but you bring in let me,
Speaker 1: let me, let me mention the folks that you brought
Speaker 1: in with twenty to go. So you got you get
Speaker 1: the first A starting eleven. His first AF starting eleven
Speaker 1: was Brad Ronald, Derek Saba, Miggy Jamal click a Brom DCQ.
Speaker 1: I still want to talk about DCQ, So hang on
Speaker 1: to that AM five nine and Bart's sleash. So that
Speaker 1: was you. That was your starting that was your starting eleven.
Speaker 1: And so you go into the second half, you go
Speaker 1: twenty to go. Well, first half, Brad played his forty five,
Speaker 1: Josh came in for the second twenty five. You get
Speaker 1: a guy like Ronan Win who is making a point
Speaker 1: to hang around in whatever capacity. He came in and
Speaker 1: switched out for DCQ twenty to go, you bring in
Speaker 1: Ronan Win, Mulliam, bah Jay Toga, she Sean Day, Luke Brennan,
Speaker 1: musquetra Ephra, Noah and will Now of twenty to go
Speaker 1: just on a general premise, twenty to go and you
Speaker 1: bring in fast Eddie and cool hand Luke to run
Speaker 1: at folks for twenty minutes. You got to be an
Speaker 1: imposing coach sitting there and going blankety blankety bleep that
Speaker 1: these guys are running at me for twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you think at that point you can settle
Speaker 2: in and try to like maybe get one over and
Speaker 2: get something back on Atlanta. But do you still got
Speaker 2: to worry about Yeah, you still got to worry about
Speaker 2: two really fast guys on the outside. And then you
Speaker 2: got Silva playing as like a ten basically. So I
Speaker 2: think they weren't able to to kind of impose themselves
Speaker 2: New England on the match as much as they wanted to. Yep,
Speaker 2: the momentum did shift a little bit, and that's partially because,
Speaker 2: excuse me, Atlanta's trying to hold onto a two neil lead,
Speaker 2: which would Atlanta DA really needs to show that they
Speaker 2: can do yes, So and they and they did well.
Speaker 2: You know, I thought they definitely took their foot off
Speaker 2: the gas a little bit, but they they picked opportunities
Speaker 2: to to go forward when they could. And having Luke
Speaker 2: over there talking crap, you know, guys literally twice his
Speaker 2: age was cracking me up. And then you have Edwin
Speaker 2: who is doing his thing, and I think, like you didn't,
Speaker 2: You didn't lose out on a ton because Togashi's up
Speaker 2: there just what I might have said it over and
Speaker 2: over again, but that chaotic energy that he has, he's
Speaker 2: just driving center backs insane. But I was really happy
Speaker 2: to see Noah and f Rain back there just holding
Speaker 2: it down, like handling the business like there are a
Speaker 2: couple of veterans.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was really really fun to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And uh, you know, next time you come back,
Speaker 1: obviously we'll sit there and we'll look at the roster
Speaker 1: and look at what the back line is. And I
Speaker 1: know that you and I have talked consistently about what
Speaker 1: it's looking like. And they're they're being careful with Pedro
Speaker 1: and making sure that he that Hawkeye is going to
Speaker 1: be at one hundred percent when he comes in on
Speaker 1: the left hand side. But you look at what's available
Speaker 1: to you on the back, all things being equal, everybody
Speaker 1: being healthy, then tell me if I miss anybody. So
Speaker 1: it is Amidor and Matt, it is Luke and Derek,
Speaker 1: it is Ephra and Steon, it is Ronnie and some
Speaker 1: and somebody else. But you've got seven there already as
Speaker 1: we go, and so you're look, you're looking at Ronan
Speaker 1: Win probably with the twos, and we bring in Jared
Speaker 1: as a part of this discussion now too. So the
Speaker 1: back you got a lot of folks that you can
Speaker 1: play with there. But I think I think Jared's ears
Speaker 1: were burning because I'd mentioned DCQ and what did you
Speaker 1: get to look at when you're down there in central
Speaker 1: Florida with Dominic Chung Kuek continue to impress.
Speaker 2: So going back to the UH sitting amongst Atlanta players
Speaker 2: who were acting as fans, it was actually really cool
Speaker 2: because you know, it seems like all oys have kind
Speaker 2: of been on Chanqui and he he is impressed. So
Speaker 2: I'll jump ahead really quick to what Dyla said about him.
Speaker 2: And he said, first of all, if you ask Diala
Speaker 2: about Changqui, don't call him Yankqui, because he was like,
Speaker 2: who and I was like dominic and he's like, oh,
Speaker 2: you have to call him Dominick for me. But he
Speaker 2: he was like, you know, he's kind of continuation of
Speaker 2: what he said last week. He's he's special. He's like
Speaker 2: he's he's that age and he's built not like he
Speaker 2: should be built for that age. And he's like, you know,
Speaker 2: there's things that we have to work on with him,
Speaker 2: you know, his his first touch, things like that, but
Speaker 2: he's progressing so well. So just continuous, you know, high
Speaker 2: praises from the coach for chan Qui. But going back
Speaker 2: to being in the stands during the game, and I
Speaker 2: think chank Wi won like three of the four corners
Speaker 2: or something in the first half, and then he did
Speaker 2: really well defending. And so we're sitting there and at
Speaker 2: one point he had to track back immensely to help out,
Speaker 2: and he is just full steam ahead, comes back and
Speaker 2: and breaks up the play, you know, and and and
Speaker 2: gives his teammates a moment to get back in position.
Speaker 2: And when that happened, you hear Brooks Lynnen sitting literally
Speaker 2: next to me, turns around and goes, man, Dom's on something.
Speaker 2: That kid, that kid's doing well. And I was like, man,
Speaker 2: it's really cool to hear like these these veteran guys
Speaker 2: because he was talking to like Matt Edwards at that point,
Speaker 2: Stean gregorson it come by and sat down like he's
Speaker 2: talking to all them, and I was like, that's really cool,
Speaker 2: you know, to to hear these guys giving praise to
Speaker 2: a kid that's that's come up through the ranks and all.
Speaker 2: And so it's not lost on just like pundits, journalists
Speaker 2: and fans like chan Quee is the real deal. He's
Speaker 2: really really making an impression in the club.
Speaker 1: Dcq's the real deal. Jared beat two three four.
Speaker 3: There we go to these thats You're counting at fours
Speaker 3: and I'm operating at fives. Get on my level?
Speaker 4: Is the real deal?
Speaker 3: But we knew this last year we did. The thing
Speaker 3: is we go back to go back to the Birmingham game,
Speaker 3: where like, the thing that gets me is that the
Speaker 3: discussion about it isn't just yes, he's big, he is athletic,
Speaker 3: he is not your average seventeen year old physically, but man,
Speaker 3: it's like it's mentally, it's the positioning, is the anticipation.
Speaker 3: It's the fact that the thing we talk about with
Speaker 3: these kids all the time. Is how fast the game
Speaker 3: is at that level, and he doesn't seem bothered by it,
Speaker 3: and he just kind of does the water off a
Speaker 3: duck's back kind of thing. I like, when he makes
Speaker 3: a mistake, it doesn't ruin him. You know, he's gonna
Speaker 3: make mistakes one hundred percent. He is because he's seventeen. Yea,
Speaker 3: and no one's perfect at seventeen.
Speaker 1: What what?
Speaker 3: But yeah, man, it happens, but he just he bounces
Speaker 3: back from him. He doesn't. He does not let one
Speaker 3: mistake create a second mistake. So yeah, it's Look, I
Speaker 3: know they've been linked to rumors about bringing another left.
Speaker 1: Back, when that and literally that is all we've heard,
Speaker 1: is that that one bunch of rumor gossip, et cetera.
Speaker 1: That was last week. Yes for anything since then, it's.
Speaker 3: Going it feels like it is getting more difficult to
Speaker 3: keep him out of this this depth charge. Like he's
Speaker 3: gonna see twenty of time with the twos. Don't get
Speaker 3: me twisted on this, but he keeps doing this, he's
Speaker 3: going to start making some first team benches at some
Speaker 3: point if he keeps taking the steps he has to
Speaker 3: take in his development because he is showing you that
Speaker 3: he should be that good and age doesn't matter nearly
Speaker 3: as much with a young player if they're going to
Speaker 3: do the job, like I don't care how old you are.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna go out there and do the job
Speaker 3: and give me the best chance to win, then welcome.
Speaker 1: So basically what you're saying that he's big, he's got flow,
Speaker 1: he's a kid who's in the no DCQ as the
Speaker 1: next go round for for for chance, perhaps by the seventeens,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was something akin to what I
Speaker 1: was thinking about with the guy that's usually behind him
Speaker 1: in NET. So I was trying to think of something
Speaker 1: in that rhythm with that, Yeah, I mean until something
Speaker 1: better comes along, please you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then to the point about being in NET like
Speaker 3: you have another one in NET in Jim Hibbert, who
Speaker 3: is Yes, I'm still convinced he's going to force the
Speaker 3: issue sooner rather than later. But he's he's his ceiling
Speaker 3: is bonkers man, mhm.
Speaker 2: And don't think because you haven't seen him really so far,
Speaker 2: that he's he's not making an impact. I mean it's
Speaker 2: it's really tough for the one position that only one
Speaker 2: group of people can play for you know, what's essentially
Speaker 2: a third string and that's no disrespect to kind of
Speaker 2: break in. I mean, I think maybe he'll he'll feature
Speaker 2: at some point in the preseason, but like if you
Speaker 2: don't pay attention to the twos, don't let his lack
Speaker 2: of appearances so far in the preseason make you think like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's just not that great or he's not on that
Speaker 2: growth curve. That dude might be one of the hardest
Speaker 2: working players at the club on his own personal you know,
Speaker 2: kind of abilities and the things that he wants to
Speaker 2: improve on, and how he listens and takes in information
Speaker 2: from a guy like Brad who's you know, yelling at
Speaker 2: him every day. He he's gonna be a phenomenal goalkeeper
Speaker 2: sooner than later.
Speaker 1: And you know, we mentioned the numbers game at the
Speaker 1: back at the depth is there the confidence seems to
Speaker 1: be there in the younger players because you know, you
Speaker 1: end up with with someone like Noah. I think probably
Speaker 1: the first thing that folks can gravitate toward is the
Speaker 1: conversation that Garth Lockerway had with Noah after knocking off
Speaker 1: MESSI and friends. That that clip, that clip of video
Speaker 1: that is there where Garth shows the confidence that he
Speaker 1: has in a kid like Noah Cobb. And then you
Speaker 1: bring in all all of the new faces and you
Speaker 1: mentioned uh, you know Lotte Lot being a part of it,
Speaker 1: and you know Click and Sleesh being a part of
Speaker 1: that midfield. When it comes to the integration of the
Speaker 1: parts and the puzzle coming together, where are you, Tyler,
Speaker 1: in the progression from what you've seen from Chattanooga to
Speaker 1: Central Florida. Where are you in what you've seen in
Speaker 1: the progression? Where are how are things progressing? In your mind?
Speaker 2: I am I'm pleased because this is something I've thought
Speaker 2: about a lot, you know, going back to before the
Speaker 2: first match of preseason, my biggest thing was an I know,
Speaker 2: I joked around like they need to win seven zero,
Speaker 2: like you know, I understand that that was like a bit,
Speaker 2: it was a joke, but I did want to see
Speaker 2: just that progression. I wanted to see discipline. I wanted
Speaker 2: to see things going in the right direction and in preseason,
Speaker 2: like to I think preseason is one of those things
Speaker 2: where you can you can have an okay preseason and
Speaker 2: the curve is a little little gentler, or you can
Speaker 2: have a like a really really good phenomenal preseason. It's
Speaker 2: just like a growth chart, you know. And I think
Speaker 2: that's what we've seen because every game, this team and
Speaker 2: the players on it, the individual players playing, have all
Speaker 2: gotten better. And it's not just you know, Saba had
Speaker 2: a moment of brilliance or somebody did something really cool.
Speaker 2: It's hey, I'm seeing these two players working well together.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing you know, the right center back whoever it
Speaker 2: may be, and the right back and the right winger
Speaker 2: all kind of working in tandem together. I'm seeing the
Speaker 2: midfield switching in and out, and then you know, a
Speaker 2: winger from one side kind of cutting in and becoming
Speaker 2: a part of the midfield. And they're all communicating and
Speaker 2: pressing high when they need to as a team and
Speaker 2: falling back as a team when they need to. That's
Speaker 2: the things that I've been paying attention to, and I
Speaker 2: think they've all gotten better. I mean, we can look
Speaker 2: at it simply with going back to Chattanooga and Ronnie
Speaker 2: Dalla Bey and like we passed the ball backwards too much.
Speaker 2: Now it's we're passing the ball backwards just to quickly
Speaker 2: reset and play forward rapidly. Like we when we have possession,
Speaker 2: our entire goal is to move the ball forward, not sideways,
Speaker 2: not laterally, only back if we have to, And we're
Speaker 2: going to really really pressure the opposing team back into
Speaker 2: their half, and we're going to keep pushing, keep shipping
Speaker 2: away until we're just predominantly playing in their half of
Speaker 2: the pitch. And I think that's where the discipline comes in.
Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest difference from the past couple
Speaker 2: of years until now is it does feel like much
Speaker 2: more cohesive amongst all of the players playing. Even when
Speaker 2: you make subs, even when you have you know, different
Speaker 2: groups coming in, it seems like everybody has the same
Speaker 2: vision and they're actually on the same page.
Speaker 1: Jared, what about you and progression and where things stand.
Speaker 3: No, it's the same thing. For me. It's that this
Speaker 3: has been the thing for me going back even the
Speaker 3: last year. When you win into the season, is when
Speaker 3: the ball moves backwards, you move the ball backwards to
Speaker 3: reset your attack because looks it's the idea.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: The idea is we should always be going forward. That's suicide.
Speaker 3: And you know it because if you start playing down
Speaker 3: the right and they load up the right, they set
Speaker 3: traps for you. It's just going to result in the turnover.
Speaker 3: But if and you do this correctly, you take that
Speaker 3: ball back, you work the ball back to the left quickly,
Speaker 3: and you take advantage of the overload and you catch
Speaker 3: them coming. Maybe even you flip it to the left
Speaker 3: and then reset playback to the right with a big
Speaker 3: switch and you catch them in the middle of their
Speaker 3: transition of trying to get rebalanced. Sometimes, yeah, sometimes you
Speaker 3: do have to take a step back to go forward.
Speaker 3: That's fine. The thing for me for the whole preseason
Speaker 3: has been little increments of getting better. But one of
Speaker 3: the things I've liked is that in the two games
Speaker 3: we've seen, in the two last games we've seen, you've
Speaker 3: gotten a lead and then you've been stable with it.
Speaker 3: That was preseasons. Teams are going to be changing out
Speaker 3: like Atlanta did a whole ass fire line change, like
Speaker 3: hockey level change, Sage Brother, it looked like it looked
Speaker 3: like the coach on the it looked like the coach
Speaker 3: on the bench screen to switch it up, and you
Speaker 3: changed lines in a hockey game. In that New England match,
Speaker 3: it was beautiful. It was it was it was it
Speaker 3: was art, but make it sport. Yeah, but I wanted
Speaker 3: to see that, and not just from the starts, but
Speaker 3: from the kids and from everybody of but you get
Speaker 3: a one nail or two nill lead, how are you
Speaker 3: going to protect it? Yeah, like man and and Diala's
Speaker 3: aggression is not unique because all the panta talked about
Speaker 3: it as well. That you know, like his favorite way
Speaker 3: to protect a two nail lead was to make it
Speaker 3: a three nail lead, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 3: I think Diala has the same intentions. Maybe they have
Speaker 3: different ideas of how to get there. But yeah, if
Speaker 3: you got we're leading by well, what should we do.
Speaker 3: Let's go. Let's go lead by two goals, then by
Speaker 3: three goals, and my firals, if we beat them into
Speaker 3: the concrete, they can't get up. Yeah, you can take
Speaker 3: risks in doing that. That's what it is. That's how
Speaker 3: you choose to operate versus sitting back in a bunk.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to see how they dealt with that pressure.
Speaker 3: I want to see how they dealt with having those
Speaker 3: two goal leads, of not giving up cheap, easy opportunities,
Speaker 3: of managing the moments mentally and emotionally, because you're bringing
Speaker 3: more of an edge, I think, right, now than we
Speaker 3: saw with this team in the past, and how do
Speaker 3: you manage those most because I thought we saw that,
Speaker 3: and y'all feel free to disagree, that's fine. I thought
Speaker 3: we saw it more at the end of last season
Speaker 3: with like when Rob was able to put his stamp
Speaker 3: on things like go back to the Red Bulls game
Speaker 3: in the Bend, when you get someone soon off for
Speaker 3: Red Bulls and you end up with you know you
Speaker 3: you end up with with Stian RecordsOn, like squaring up
Speaker 3: with a player like you start getting guys who are
Speaker 3: ready to fight and felt like that baseline was built
Speaker 3: last year. Now you're building on it. So how do
Speaker 3: you handle the emotions of it all? I don't want
Speaker 3: to see it continued progression, will see it today. I'm
Speaker 3: sure like you're not gonna win every preseason game. It's
Speaker 3: it's okay. It's you don't have to sound an alarm
Speaker 3: if you lose a preseason game, because you're probably gonna
Speaker 3: lose one of the next two just because it's preseason
Speaker 3: and kids and the guys are getting fitness and they're
Speaker 3: figuring themselves out, and they're trying to figure and they're
Speaker 3: trying to build chemistry and do something new, and that's okay.
Speaker 3: Show me progression, you know, show me more of the
Speaker 3: passing that we saw in Birmingham where you're trying to
Speaker 3: play a dangerous ball through the channel. You know, you're
Speaker 3: playing a ball that is if this comes off, not
Speaker 3: only is it doesn't go from this is a dangerous opportunity.
Speaker 3: This turns into a oh god, oh god, oh god,
Speaker 3: we're all gonna die, a dangerous opportunity. Both of the
Speaker 3: defense for Atlanta, you're happy, right, But the other thing
Speaker 3: I want to see, I think personally, is when you
Speaker 3: do play those balls and when you are taking those
Speaker 3: risky passes that can just break the game completely open.
Speaker 3: Is the ability to stay organized defensively, because not all
Speaker 3: those balls are trying to come off, and some of
Speaker 3: them are come right back down your throat. You know
Speaker 3: they're going to get cleared, They're going to trigger a counter.
Speaker 3: How do you handle it defensively? How organized are you?
Speaker 3: How organized is Barto Slish who feels like has been
Speaker 3: handed the responsibility of being a leader organizing the front,
Speaker 3: like just the first wave of resistance, So how do
Speaker 3: you manage that? How do you manage defensively? How organized
Speaker 3: can you say.
Speaker 1: Since jareded mentioned Gonzalo Pineda, I figure that before the
Speaker 1: two of you depart, whenever Jared decides his Irish goodbye
Speaker 1: is going to be Irish. And then Tyler is tired
Speaker 1: of hearing from me. Leak's Cup of course came out
Speaker 1: with their opening round of a group stage activity, and
Speaker 1: don't tell me for a second, don't tell me for
Speaker 1: a second that you ain't looking at opportunities to create
Speaker 1: audience and create plotlines, because if you missed it, the
Speaker 1: qualifying phase for Atlanta United in League's Cup two zero
Speaker 1: two five includes the following clubs, Nakosa coming to Mercedes
Speaker 1: Benz on July thirty, Pumas at Enter and Co at
Speaker 1: the home of the Purple team on August two, and
Speaker 1: then for the third match in a week in the
Speaker 1: qualifying phase at Mercedes Benz Stadium. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you if you've heard this, and stop me if you
Speaker 1: either haven't or have different information, but Atlas is coming
Speaker 1: to Mercedes Benz Stadium. And we all know about the
Speaker 1: volatility of Lega Mki's but right now, in this particular
Speaker 1: club known as Atlas, there is an individual that is
Speaker 1: very familiar to the Atlanta United fan base and to
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer. So the last match in the qualifying
Speaker 1: phase in League's Cup two zero two five involves Gonzalo Pineda,
Speaker 1: Atlanta United and Mercedes Benz Stadium on Wednesday, August sixth.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me there ain't no helicopters hanging around the
Speaker 1: league offices.
Speaker 2: I no, this was completely intentional.
Speaker 1: I'm shocked that this happened.
Speaker 2: I know, right, this is this is ridiculous. Whose idea
Speaker 2: was this?
Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with anything ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I mean, you expected it was either gonna be them
Speaker 2: or Cruzel or I'm surprised it wasn't both.
Speaker 1: Honestly, they will have a three white Dan. It's just
Speaker 1: bringing both them. We'll play it in a double.
Speaker 2: So they figure out whay to get you know, leone
Speaker 2: over here as well and just go ahead and bring
Speaker 2: a matel back to somehow. But no, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: what did you expect like Panadas down there? He's he's
Speaker 2: the coach, you know, and and you kind of alluded
Speaker 2: to it. But there there is a possibility he might
Speaker 2: not make it that far because he has yet to
Speaker 2: win a game. They're two and four with him in charge.
Speaker 2: So I mean, you know, I wish I wish that
Speaker 2: gout nothing but the best of luck.
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 2: But it's Lega and Mekis and they aren't exactly known
Speaker 2: for patients with coaches. So we'll see. But as of
Speaker 2: right now, that Wednesday is a must watch game for anybody.
Speaker 2: I don't care if you're Atlanta and not a fan
Speaker 2: or not. The only thing that would make it better
Speaker 2: is if somehow Joseph Martinez were involved.
Speaker 1: Let's see he he is attached.
Speaker 3: To Joseph right now.
Speaker 1: He's open there, ready for the.
Speaker 3: Absolute street fight that is going to be Yes, Yes,
Speaker 3: because oh Rango and Joseph.
Speaker 2: And and Bruce and Bruce is gonna be I just
Speaker 2: want cameras, man, that's all. Season two of Onside is
Speaker 2: going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: Art Knock, heart knocks San Jose.
Speaker 3: Someone shown up to a media availability with a black eye? Yeah,
Speaker 3: like like uh like Kiffin did at the sun Ball
Speaker 3: back in the day.
Speaker 1: Is that is that rice on your shoulder? What? What?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: What is that? What What is that? Do I do
Speaker 1: I smell chicken? What's going on? Ah?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 1: The San Jose is the is the story. I think
Speaker 1: that's going to be the gift that keeps on giving
Speaker 1: this entire season. But yes, League's Cup.
Speaker 3: But Bruce is gonna end up playing against New England
Speaker 3: and he's gonna try and put nine goals on them.
Speaker 1: Yeah mm hmmm, considering that he is revs. West, but
Speaker 1: he took four players from New England in the off season.
Speaker 1: You end up with to try and take whatever the
Speaker 1: od is if Santo plays New England, take the over
Speaker 1: and make sure that you do that in each half as.
Speaker 2: Well, trying to go for Luco as well. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know they they were want to building over there for sure, John.
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, John Fisher spending money? Who is this individual?
Speaker 1: And what have you done with John Fisher?
Speaker 2: Bruce aren has got him locked up in his basement
Speaker 2: some I'm doing this now.
Speaker 1: Give me, give me the check book, let me see
Speaker 1: see you see how I all right? So there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a loop in the J and that
Speaker 1: that doesn't look like there's any other letters there. So
Speaker 1: if I just draw a jay and then maybe draw
Speaker 1: a line, how does he do that? F That's okay.
Speaker 1: So there's a bit of a to sit there, and
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, like Bart Simpson at the chalkboard
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to sit there and make
Speaker 1: John Fisher's signature, you know, for all of the league transactions.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, it's good. It checks good. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: you know, he signed it. Yeah, one of those kind
Speaker 1: of things. Uh. Before before both of you get out
Speaker 1: of here, we had Laurel Failer on yesterday from Queen
Speaker 1: City Press discussing Lucio and possible destinations. And we did
Speaker 1: anticipate that it was going to be two players, three cities,
Speaker 1: and what the order was going to be we don't know.
Speaker 1: But as of right now, nothing officially official, but it
Speaker 1: appears that Cincinnati are doing the intra league transfer purchase
Speaker 1: deal kind of thing. It also appears that it's going
Speaker 1: to be for twelve million bones plus add ons to
Speaker 1: bring event to Cincinnati and Lucco Acosta in turn goes
Speaker 1: to Dallas because they needed help after the hayesus Ferrara trade,
Speaker 1: sending him to Seattle and getting back a couple of
Speaker 1: fish from the market and maybe some coffee from Starbucks
Speaker 1: in return. What do you think, Tyler? Like I said,
Speaker 1: we figured these two stars would be going someplace, But
Speaker 1: now it looks like Luco to Dallas Evander to Cinci.
Speaker 1: Your early thoughts on this here to wrap up your
Speaker 1: time here now are number one.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they both needed it because I mean, Dallas,
Speaker 2: I wasn't convinced. I really wasn't, But now I think.
Speaker 2: I mean, you bring in a talent like that, I
Speaker 2: think that's exactly what they needed to kind of complete
Speaker 2: their puzzle. And then Cincy kind of the same thing
Speaker 2: because we saw the drop off last year a little bit,
Speaker 2: and you can attribute that to you know, injuries and
Speaker 2: the defense and other things, but Lucha was that guy.
Speaker 2: They need a number ten to play the way that
Speaker 2: they want to play. So it almost felt like since
Speaker 2: he had to make this happen, they had to get
Speaker 2: that replacement, and there really wasn't a better guy. If
Speaker 2: you're trying to do the whole cash transfer thing, there
Speaker 2: really wasn't a better option out there. So it instantly
Speaker 2: for me, puts them right back up into like that
Speaker 2: top four territory. I think that that's what they needed.
Speaker 2: Then you got to see what your your guy who
Speaker 2: temporarily broke the transfer record can do. Atlanta had something
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 1: How he integrates, you know.
Speaker 2: But I mean, I think it's a good move for
Speaker 2: both of them. I do. I do feel like five
Speaker 2: million was a little bit of a I don't know,
Speaker 2: a little bit of a fleece in one direction, but
Speaker 2: that it is what it is, not my money so.
Speaker 1: Well, but that's why we get to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Jareded with these two stars going in directions where we
Speaker 1: figured they would be going, at least one of the
Speaker 1: two instant thoughts instant analysis on something that isn't officially
Speaker 1: official yet.
Speaker 3: They're different players, and I'm trying to be careful on
Speaker 3: the way I phrase it because I don't want to
Speaker 3: insult anybody, but they're different players. Like Andrews get very
Speaker 3: very very very very good player. He's not Lucho. And
Speaker 3: it's not to say that he's not good, it's just
Speaker 3: that Lucho was kind of a unique little.
Speaker 1: Side pain in the ass well.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but it's not just that, like obviously literably
Speaker 3: good at everything he does, but he fits so well
Speaker 3: into what you were doing, where you know, everything which
Speaker 3: is can get stretched in chaotic and Cincinnati can't evander
Speaker 3: copy it. I don't know, maybe, like I think he
Speaker 3: could be very very good, just in a different way.
Speaker 3: I think asking him to be Hey, we just need
Speaker 3: to do what Lucha did. I think that's risky. Just
Speaker 3: adapt to what you have and they're not done. They
Speaker 3: know what they're doing. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, for me, Tyler, Evander is the kind
Speaker 1: of guy that's more of and this is taking system
Speaker 1: guy and putting it in quotation marks and you know,
Speaker 1: a guy that works in three dimensions inside his own brain. Evander,
Speaker 1: to me seems like the kind of guy that wants
Speaker 1: to create on his own. He wants to color outside
Speaker 1: the lines where Lucio Acosta would do that, but he
Speaker 1: would do it within the framework of what Pat Noonan
Speaker 1: wanted done at Cincinnati. And this is where where I'm intrigued.
Speaker 1: Does Evander continue to paint outside the lines, outside of
Speaker 1: what Noonan wants system systemically or does he come back
Speaker 1: in does he reel himself to be a part of
Speaker 1: the collective. That's my question.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, Evander is a Pete Martinez and Luco
Speaker 2: is a Marcelena Moreno, and that's just the weird way
Speaker 2: I look at it. But I agree with you. I
Speaker 2: think Evander is going to be that guy who come
Speaker 2: hell or high water, He's going to try to make
Speaker 2: something happen, even if he has a step outside the
Speaker 2: lines to do it, and uh be a little more
Speaker 2: abrasive when things maybe aren't going their way. And I
Speaker 2: think he's I don't want to say he's more likely
Speaker 2: to put the team on his shoulders, because it feels
Speaker 2: like Luco Across I kind of did that for like
Speaker 2: half the year a couple of years ago, but just
Speaker 2: in a different way. Luco's is now going to go
Speaker 2: to a place, and I'm really curious to see how
Speaker 2: he integrates. But despite his recent you know whatever, we
Speaker 2: want to call it timpertantrums or whatever he is, he
Speaker 2: seems to me to be the personality that's more apt
Speaker 2: to to say, all right, this is what you want
Speaker 2: me to do.
Speaker 1: I agree with it.
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna go make everybody around me better. But
Speaker 2: I'm also going to score some goals and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: provide job all the service you need to go be successful.
Speaker 1: All the services. Uh tonight tonight, Well, actually you're gonna
Speaker 1: be watching a match and taking notes before you have
Speaker 1: sn S tonight. What do we expect this evening on
Speaker 1: s N s p M.
Speaker 2: This evening? It is so we did a kind of
Speaker 2: a pre recorded thing. So we threw that up on
Speaker 2: our patron but it'll be up on the show tonight
Speaker 2: with mister Kevin Egan.
Speaker 1: Ah, yes, Kevin. Kevin will be with us tomorrow.
Speaker 2: By the way, there you go, look at that.
Speaker 1: This is awesome. Kevin's doing the car wash with us here.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yep, yep. So no, we had a we
Speaker 2: had to get chat with him. You know, he's super
Speaker 2: excited about Meki. So that'll be tonight and then and
Speaker 2: then we're working on very closely. We got some really
Speaker 2: cool news that we're getting ready to announce very soon.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna you're gonna break it here? Where are
Speaker 1: you gonna break it? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Well? You know, it's like kind of in flux right
Speaker 2: now because like I could, I could say it now,
Speaker 2: but like the graphic isn't ready to then go put
Speaker 2: on social media. There's there's a couple of things, so
Speaker 2: it's I'm kind of like it's gonna fall where it falls,
Speaker 2: because once I get the final go ahead, I can say,
Speaker 2: all right, well there's the graphic, and then we can
Speaker 2: put it up and then whatever appearance we happen to
Speaker 2: be a next then that's where I'll verbally say it.
Speaker 1: So okay, all right, just checking, you know, because you know,
Speaker 1: if you ever want to break any S and S news,
Speaker 1: you know you can always do it humor. Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know when we get into uh pregame Fridays,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, anytime in that in that
Speaker 1: last hour, I'm debating turning the last hour into something
Speaker 1: akin to a Friday free for all, where if anybody
Speaker 1: that is a part of the family wants to come
Speaker 1: in and crash for however long they want to crash
Speaker 1: in that hour number two to preview the weekend and everything,
Speaker 1: we'll just kind of throw everything up against the wall
Speaker 1: and hey, look spaghetti, No, it's art, you know, one
Speaker 1: of those kind of things.
Speaker 2: Are all Are y'all doing anything different this Friday?
Speaker 1: Not that I'm aw. I mean, it's a normal Friday.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, do I have my No, it
Speaker 1: is a normal Friday. So yeah, So our number two
Speaker 1: is our number two. It is what it is. And
Speaker 1: I mean, shoot, I mean Jason probably might crash to
Speaker 1: talk about Dallas a little bit and whatever the news is,
Speaker 1: the news is try and get caught up with our
Speaker 1: friends that beyond goals entering is Greg Garza towards the
Speaker 1: planet and Michael Parkhurst is trying to get Rhode Island
Speaker 1: FC all squared away for season number two.
Speaker 2: So hey, they were down in Bradenton. They were right
Speaker 2: there with us when Atlanta was playing.
Speaker 1: So you got to see Connor Smith and everybody, Okay.
Speaker 2: All of them, they were all there. I get to
Speaker 2: see it, and then it dawned on me, Oh, the
Speaker 2: Parky was here. This is he was like the first
Speaker 2: big gy to come out of here.
Speaker 1: So yes, so that's that's kind of cool. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that second hour on Friday, I think I'm just going
Speaker 1: to degrade it into spaghetti turning into art, especially when
Speaker 1: we get into the season with all the weekend previews
Speaker 1: and everything and weekend whip around pat and pending trademark
Speaker 1: coming center hopefully rather than later. So what time where
Speaker 1: on all of the sas on the social media's and
Speaker 1: the youtubes.
Speaker 2: Seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1: Okay, So seven o'clock tonight, s Ands, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: Kevin Egan on tape. We'll have Kevin Egan live tomorrow
Speaker 1: on the show to discuss things, and we'll have Kevin
Speaker 1: dropping him down, but SNS tonight Kevin Egan on tape Tyler.
Speaker 1: I guess Tyler a sid Tommy some massive combination of
Speaker 1: all the above.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be let's see it'll be yeah, me Achia
Speaker 2: and Tommy tonight.
Speaker 1: There we go. All right, So tune in tonight on
Speaker 1: the youtubes and all the socials. Tyler is always great
Speaker 1: to see my friend here on the Atlanta United Conversational
Speaker 1: Information Exchange that we have here on Wednesdays at nine
Speaker 1: to fifteen. Be good, my friend, have a good show tonight.
Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you.
Speaker 2: So I see y'all.
Speaker 1: There goes Tyler, and uh so Jared. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was five million one day for one transaction and you're
Speaker 1: looking at the other transaction going twelve plus. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if it smacks of a level of desperation
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati knowing that they had to come up with
Speaker 1: the hack tag Luco replacement or anything like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: five million for FC Dallas to pick up Luco Acosta.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the better deal? The twelve
Speaker 1: million to bring in Evander to color Outside the Lines
Speaker 1: or Luco for five Are they separate fleeting.
Speaker 3: They're separate, man, because like I with Lucha, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: tell you, man, I'm gonna be I'm going to be
Speaker 3: keeping an side eye on Luco in Dallas because if
Speaker 3: he can't get settled, yeah, then I'm like, Okay, well
Speaker 3: what's the damage? But your damage, man, because you were
Speaker 3: into and maybe he is one of those guys who's
Speaker 3: like a tap tak kind of guy where he only
Speaker 3: wants to be somewhere for so long and then you
Speaker 3: need to change the scenery. But I think he'd be
Speaker 3: very very good for Dallas. And I think I said,
Speaker 3: I think Andrew is going to be different for Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: He's not the same player. The interesting part for me
Speaker 3: is Portland, Like it sounds like the coast is coming
Speaker 3: in for that, but what does Portland look like in
Speaker 3: year two for Neville?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm?
Speaker 3: Because this is also like they're getting rid of a
Speaker 3: guy who is very good but it was not working.
Speaker 3: There were issues, and you moved on and you got
Speaker 3: something for him, which is a damn sight better than
Speaker 3: what could have happened.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. So what do you do?
Speaker 3: So how do you how do you make this better?
Speaker 1: Mm?
Speaker 4: Hm?
Speaker 1: And right right now, you're looking at Portland offensively with
Speaker 1: sixteen senior roster spots. You're forward are Anthony Uh, You've
Speaker 1: got uh Felipe Mora as a designated player. You've got
Speaker 1: Son Moreno is a U twenty two, Johnathan Rodriguez is
Speaker 1: a DP, and Vander will say he swaps out as
Speaker 1: a part of that. So that's what you're staring at
Speaker 1: with your dps and your your forwards. Jonathan Rodriguez at forward,
Speaker 1: Santie Moreno at forward is a U twenty two, Felipe
Speaker 1: Mora and Uh and and Anthony is a part of
Speaker 1: the attack there for Portland.
Speaker 3: So what does that look like for Yeah, how much
Speaker 3: pressure is on Phil Nevill, who I will maintain. I
Speaker 3: don't know if Phil Nevill is a great coach or not.
Speaker 3: I still think he kind of got a raw deal
Speaker 3: in Miami, just because he he managed to wrangle that
Speaker 3: roster enough two years ago to get them to the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Well three years ago, excuse me, he wrangled at roster
Speaker 3: enough to get them to the playoffs. Ye didn't recreate
Speaker 3: the magic and was the first on the shopping walk
Speaker 3: when MESSI was coming in. Yep, Because I don't know
Speaker 3: how much of it was him versus someone else, but
Speaker 3: he was the guy filling out the team sheet and
Speaker 3: putting the armband on Gregory instead of the Hamburglar.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: I thought he did really well three years ago there.
Speaker 3: Then I thought it was he was a very easy
Speaker 3: scapegoat two years ago. M I don't know what it
Speaker 3: looks like, man, because like last year they were like
Speaker 3: some of the games Portland had. You're like, you're watching,
Speaker 3: like this is wow. They're doing this, They're doing this,
Speaker 3: they're doing that, They're doing really well, and you're like,
Speaker 3: I don't know how sustainable this is. And I don't
Speaker 3: know what it looks like this year because if it
Speaker 3: doesn't look good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how long is the leash? Yeah? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: you got Kevin Kelsey also coming in as a part
Speaker 1: of this offense, and that's and that is and I
Speaker 1: know that Emilio and some others kind of wanted to
Speaker 1: get into hot and things like that. I would maintain
Speaker 1: that one of the hot seats early is Portland with Neville,
Speaker 1: especially if things don't go well out of the blocks
Speaker 1: for this group. I mean, Evander is like, we need
Speaker 1: a break, and so Evander is moving on. Apparently we're
Speaker 1: getting close. Like I said, we've got numbers being tossed around.
Speaker 1: Nothing is official in press releases or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But if we operate under the premise that Evander is
Speaker 1: gone and you have the younger players that are there
Speaker 1: at forward for Portland with the expectation of Okay, he's
Speaker 1: out and we've brought in you know, we brought in guys.
Speaker 1: The costa from lens in the midfield is what is
Speaker 1: also being looked at as an addition, and you're going,
Speaker 1: we're spending a lot of money here, bringing in a
Speaker 1: lot of talent, and we jettisond what you perceive was
Speaker 1: an issue. If they stumble out of the blocks, I
Speaker 1: think the magnifying glass goes to Portland. I think you're
Speaker 1: right in the West. I think that Portland is definitely
Speaker 1: a place where folks are going to sit there and
Speaker 1: and do the bit looking into the hotel, the hotel
Speaker 1: eyeglass in the door, and they're gonna sit there and
Speaker 1: they get it real close and try to figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on inside the hotel room. I think Portland
Speaker 1: might be a hot seat early on. Yeah, the entire.
Speaker 3: Northwest will be interesting. The whole Cascadia thing because you
Speaker 3: have Portland trying to figure themselves out. You have Seattle, who,
Speaker 3: man like, it feels like they're always it feels like
Speaker 3: for a team that's always gonna always finishing top four,
Speaker 3: they're just like itching to figure out what to do
Speaker 3: with Schmetzer, almost like they want they want, they would
Speaker 3: rather be a year early than a year late in
Speaker 3: terms of flipping the switch and making and flipping the page.
Speaker 3: And then Vancouver fired Benny and God only knows what
Speaker 3: it's gonna look like this year. Yeah, man, all the
Speaker 3: Cascadia is going to be weird, and I I fully
Speaker 3: expect and look forward to Seattle like freaking out of
Speaker 3: her everything and still finishing top four mm hm, which
Speaker 3: is kind of like it's it is not identical, it's
Speaker 3: not a one to one, but it's sort of kind
Speaker 3: of like when front of mine, who's a big Steelers fan,
Speaker 3: laments like Tomlin, which at this point I'm starting to
Speaker 3: understand fully, but it's like, man, look, you'll make the
Speaker 3: playoffs the year after year after year a year like
Speaker 3: I didn't see back to back winning seasons for the
Speaker 3: Falcons until I was in college.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh huh, yeah, actually.
Speaker 3: It might have been out of college. So I need
Speaker 3: you understand your baseline and my baseline are two very
Speaker 3: different things right now.
Speaker 1: Yes, mm hmm, yeah, So I mean that was kind
Speaker 1: of where uh, that's where I was with the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So I you know, I I am. I am intrigued
Speaker 1: with with what's going on in Portland since we're on
Speaker 1: hot seats, and I know that we got to talk
Speaker 1: about when you when you take your Irish goodbye, we'll
Speaker 1: get into all the other leagues and all the other
Speaker 1: events and everything that happened Champions League, conky Calf, all
Speaker 1: that other stuff that happened yesterday. You'll get you ready
Speaker 1: for today. Since we're on hot seats, who else in
Speaker 1: your mind as you peruse the the conference names, who
Speaker 1: else could be on one of those hot seats early
Speaker 1: on in your mind? Since we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think Neville will be man it. I I'm
Speaker 3: trying to brack my brain off the top of the head,
Speaker 3: like like there are that you can get like really
Speaker 3: weird with answers like die was not gonna be that's
Speaker 3: unexpecting to n y C all your new managers. You're
Speaker 3: not going to start on the hot seat Toronto could
Speaker 3: be we because like and I had, I had expressed
Speaker 3: this a feeling to you and to Jason and to Nick.
Speaker 3: I don't know how good of a coach they have
Speaker 3: an house right now, Like I don't know how good
Speaker 3: Robin Frazer really is because I feel like every place
Speaker 3: we've seen him, the deck has been sacked against him.
Speaker 3: Like when he was Colorado man, they were not spending
Speaker 3: like they're spending now, like they weren't giving him the
Speaker 3: tools that they have given Chris Armas. Yep, if it
Speaker 3: doesn't work in toend like Toronto seems like they have.
Speaker 3: Like this is like Toronto is like a two thousand
Speaker 3: and seven grand Cherokee rolling into the shop at the
Speaker 3: transfer case. About this is like a nineties Kia where
Speaker 3: it was by one get one Yes, Like where do
Speaker 3: we want to start?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Could they escapegoating theory, Yeah, sure they could, as
Speaker 5: far as other hot seat guys, like the guys I
Speaker 5: would think of are either absurd or I don't think
Speaker 5: it's gonna happen, like if Kansas City collapses.
Speaker 3: Under the r of their own existence, Like who who's
Speaker 3: gonna tell Peter Urmes that he's got to go?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Peter Vurmes is the guy in charge, Like, yeah, somebody
Speaker 3: convinced him that it's past his time. Hu says my
Speaker 3: Sharano after upsets mess especially they are getting a lot
Speaker 3: of good results. I think I would take more than that. Dope, man,
Speaker 3: I do that's just me.
Speaker 1: But does but Hutch but does? Does the collective protect
Speaker 1: him because of his tie?
Speaker 3: Stargs and Tina mm hmm, Like it's kind of weird
Speaker 3: right now, Like I'm trying to like, I'm going through
Speaker 3: the coaches right now.
Speaker 1: That's why I figured. I figured you're looking at lists
Speaker 1: and trying to get contact.
Speaker 3: Let's say DC gets a slow starting toilets saying yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't think Houston would do it to Ben Olsen.
Speaker 3: No if L A f C was bad to start,
Speaker 3: but you're not gonna fucker see Trundla right now.
Speaker 1: No ring but cross town but cross with La G
Speaker 1: How much patience do you give Vanny knowing that you
Speaker 1: sold he.
Speaker 3: Just cut you a ring. I think you're gonna give
Speaker 3: him a year, That's my opinion on it. I think
Speaker 3: this is like even if he went full edwards around,
Speaker 3: you're gonna give him a year. Are here you go Lutwa, Yeah,
Speaker 3: lurn Okay, Joe Supputo loves nothing more than pulling a
Speaker 3: quick trigger cut just gets tired of Joey Saputo's entire
Speaker 3: exist And I think laurn Cutoin is a good manager.
Speaker 3: I like what Maunt Montreal did last year. We are
Speaker 3: quickly like it felt like they were speed running it
Speaker 3: and they stabilized it. But we might be approaching the
Speaker 3: event horizon of the Caleb Porter process in New England
Speaker 3: at some point. God only knows what happens there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, if if Portland does something, yeah, or yeah,
Speaker 3: if Portland isn't good, maybe Phil Neville is that that
Speaker 3: that that uh the guy you you throw in there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Pemy has been there for fifteen years. Again, you're
Speaker 3: gonna have to pride. You were going to have to
Speaker 3: dig him out roots at all, man, this is all
Speaker 3: I'm going to have to get some freeze away. Like
Speaker 3: it's a ward. Yeah say that, Peter Murmeys is a ward,
Speaker 3: but like you're not gonna just be able to scrape
Speaker 3: them off.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's you know, you're going to have to
Speaker 1: apply compound w and hope that the commercial tells the truth.
Speaker 3: Uh. Melia I don't know if Bonnie any word.
Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't seen anything about Vanny picking up
Speaker 1: another gig someplace.
Speaker 3: I haven't either. Schmidtze interest the thing with Schmitzer, and
Speaker 3: this would be something we can ask Nico. Yeah, my
Speaker 3: redoult Schmitzer personally, and I'm not Nico. I don't have
Speaker 3: Nico's context. I'm not as knowledgeable in Seattle as Nico.
Speaker 3: I will defer to him ten times out of ten. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and yeah, Ricky, I'm not googling all right now because
Speaker 3: if I if I run this keyboard right now, you're
Speaker 3: going to think like the seventh has sounded or the
Speaker 3: seventh sel has opened, a revelations loud.
Speaker 1: Well, but but Ricky went magic at Google eight ball
Speaker 1: and that's fine.
Speaker 3: So it's fine. But with Seattle, with Schmitzer, even if
Speaker 3: they decided it was time, my guess with Schmitzer, and
Speaker 3: this isn't I think if we want to use therapy words, sure,
Speaker 3: I think you would offer him a front office spot,
Speaker 3: and I think you would let him step down with dignity.
Speaker 3: You would not. I don't think you would just fire
Speaker 3: Brian Schmitzer like we've relieved into his duties new man's
Speaker 3: a legend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've give him the ceremonial boost up the role
Speaker 1: within the organization, thank him for his service.
Speaker 3: He's resigning his post at the end of the year.
Speaker 3: He's retiring from coaching. That's my guess on it, because
Speaker 3: Schmitzer is damn legend again.
Speaker 1: He won you he one U c CLA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's won you trophies. He's continued the greatness that
Speaker 3: Seattle has always had. I guess I'm trying to because
Speaker 3: I'm thinking like guys who have been there who haven't
Speaker 3: shown anything like but like all the guys who are
Speaker 3: more tenured, like Pablo MASTROI, it's some great work in
Speaker 3: solid Yeah, they're gonna need new striker set up. M
Speaker 3: Oscar Pray has been at Orlando for five years. But
Speaker 3: they if they can't get over the hump this year
Speaker 3: into MLS cump, do they just say whatever, we're gonna
Speaker 3: we're gonna do something different in panic.
Speaker 1: Thanks, thanks for your time. Here's a pocket watch. Kick
Speaker 1: him in butt, send him on his way.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't really know who, like said, uh Joy
Speaker 3: and DC would be one of them that I would
Speaker 3: be thinking about. Maybe Caleb Porter if New England is bad. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know, because I feel like the first one
Speaker 3: is always one that comes out of left field for us.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is true, and something.
Speaker 3: Can I give you this, Yeah, the soldion my Irish
Speaker 3: could buy. He won't be the first guy fired. What
Speaker 3: if I told you the first guy to leave a
Speaker 3: post is well for Dancie in the summer takes a
Speaker 3: job in Europe.
Speaker 1: Huh. I mean well, I mean we figured that that
Speaker 1: might be what his end game might be. Anyway, But
Speaker 1: with all of the movements in and around Columbus Cucco
Speaker 1: to ral Bettist, et cetera, et cetera, do you sit
Speaker 1: there and say, Okay, I think I've maxed things out.
Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know, take this thing back
Speaker 1: down to the studs and build the house all over again.
Speaker 1: And maybe if there's a gig, if there's a gig
Speaker 1: in league on that might have a paycheck, I know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, someplace someplace in Europe where he can hang
Speaker 1: his hat and take folks into Champions League and Europa
Speaker 1: League and side. I could definitely see him leaving at
Speaker 1: some point.
Speaker 3: So that'll be my my stupid prediction that looks really bad.
Speaker 3: I agree, and I agree, materflow. All I needed to
Speaker 3: know about Masherano is that when he got announced, all
Speaker 3: of like the people, the sickos in Argentina who followed
Speaker 3: the youth national team, we're over the moon. Yeah, oh
Speaker 3: thank Christ, he's gone. Yeah he's he's here because he's
Speaker 3: Messi's friend. But I don't think they'll just straight up
Speaker 3: a fire.
Speaker 1: And they don't want it.
Speaker 3: They don't want to angry Messy, especially when Messie goes
Speaker 3: back into his EMO era.
Speaker 1: Yes, but.
Speaker 3: That'll be my stupid prediction that looks bad in five
Speaker 3: months will be that nazis the first coach to not
Speaker 3: be coaching the team, the first coach who leaves a team.
Speaker 3: But it won't because he's fired because somebody offers him
Speaker 3: something he can't refuse.
Speaker 1: In Europe, Yes, the new challenge for Wilford nasty and
Speaker 1: they do something in the summer. All right, So you're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and make your Irish goodbye and we'll
Speaker 1: see you when we see you. There you go. See
Speaker 1: there's an Irish goodbye. He just dumps. I love that,
Speaker 1: all right. So there's your hot seat conversation plus not
Speaker 1: necessarily hot seat, but next levels and desires and things
Speaker 1: like that. Okay, forty five minutes. We got to talk
Speaker 1: about conky CAF. We gotta talk about Champions League, We
Speaker 1: got to talk about juice boxes, We got to talk
Speaker 1: about all the things that are there. We also have
Speaker 1: to talk about the summer leagues that we cover here
Speaker 1: on the network. They have their alignments and we'll be
Speaker 1: catching up with a lot of the clubs and seeing
Speaker 1: where things stand in USL League two and let you
Speaker 1: know where things are with that US Women's national team
Speaker 1: named they're twenty three. I would also anticipate a new
Speaker 1: soccer for US POD coming up, getting ready for She
Speaker 1: Believes and all the announcements and things. We'll gloss over
Speaker 1: the roster and let you know what was there for
Speaker 1: the US WNT. The U seventeens and concer caff are
Speaker 1: in group play. Keep an eye on them with the
Speaker 1: matchup against Saint Kitts and Nevis. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: going to score twenty two like they did against the
Speaker 1: US Virgin Islands, but we'll look at that and go
Speaker 1: through a gossip berman innuindo what to watch, where to
Speaker 1: watch it, how to watch it, and everything else that's
Speaker 1: going on. Today. Now we mentioned Creek Cup in opening
Speaker 1: kickoff with the beginning of our real, real high school
Speaker 1: high school football, true high school soccer season, and that
Speaker 1: is going to be once again today on the network
Speaker 1: six o'clock, eight o'clock from Northview. I will be up
Speaker 1: there for that and we will break it all down
Speaker 1: with all of the activity. And once again thanks to
Speaker 1: our friends at John's Creek, and thanks to our friends
Speaker 1: at Northview for letting us come and hang out and
Speaker 1: be a part of the Creek Cup once again starts today.
Speaker 1: It's on both sides of both sides of the aisle.
Speaker 1: You get both the boys and the girls competition. Just
Speaker 1: be ready because if you're going to Northview today, then
Speaker 1: just be sure that you are prepared, that you dress warmly,
Speaker 1: and that you are prepared. So that is that's what
Speaker 1: you're looking at at Creek Cup once again. Just so
Speaker 1: you know today today, today today at Northview, Campbell and
Speaker 1: Lagrange at six John's Creak in Midtown at eight and
Speaker 1: that is at Northview and it's girls action, and that
Speaker 1: is today that gets us started and into Creek Cup
Speaker 1: in and of itself. Both SDH one and SDH two
Speaker 1: will be in action tomorrow because the boys will get
Speaker 1: underway at John's Creek, Walton, Sequoia, Campbell, and North Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I will have Northview and Walton at Northview at six
Speaker 1: o'clock on SDH two. And so just set your notifications
Speaker 1: as to where you can pick it up, where you
Speaker 1: can go soccer down here, dot mixer dot com and
Speaker 1: follow all that. So set your notifications on all of
Speaker 1: your social media and get it all dialed up. But
Speaker 1: yesterday was a great start for our season. Creek Cup
Speaker 1: broadcasts start tonight a little before six o'clock. The two
Speaker 1: girls matches in the Green bracket and their championship games
Speaker 1: will be on Saturday morning at eleven o'clock and one
Speaker 1: o'clock on SDH two. So that is the official beginnings
Speaker 1: of the season. And thanks to our friends once again
Speaker 1: at John's Creek who wanted us to be a part
Speaker 1: of it. So this is our official kickoff being a
Speaker 1: part of this kickoff classic, the Creek Cup up there
Speaker 1: at John's Creek and Northew High School. So looking forward
Speaker 1: to that today. All right, let's say hi to everybody
Speaker 1: and find out what's on your mind this morning as
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Speaker 1: So morning, d Gram, Morning Alex, Morning, Ricky Carmel, seven
Speaker 1: twenty three. Welcome. Good to have you as a part
Speaker 1: of things. Sub not much. We're here every day and
Speaker 1: we're here for solid two hours if not more, talking
Speaker 1: everything and whatever's on the collective's mind. In the twitch pitch,
Speaker 1: we do have our own topics. I think this is
Speaker 1: Carmel seven, twenty three's first time here, so welcome and
Speaker 1: welcome to being a part of the Twitch Pitch and
Speaker 1: everything that we talk about on a daily basis. Once again,
Speaker 1: we mentioned tomorrow Kevin Egan's going to join us live
Speaker 1: at nine point fifteen and then the Power Hour with
Speaker 1: Nino and Nico at ten and ten thirteen. You know
Speaker 1: Torres from our our friend at Goal TV where he
Speaker 1: comes fully loaded to talk about things and I've still
Speaker 1: got to get the audio is literally this weekend, if
Speaker 1: you missed it, he was calling Braga and Hillvisente on
Speaker 1: Gold TV and the Portuguese League and it turned into
Speaker 1: a discussion of Invincible, the movie, any given Sunday the
Speaker 1: movie and his segment here on SDH. Literally it was
Speaker 1: a three minute it was a three minute how to
Speaker 1: do about Nino and fully loaded in SDH. I gotta
Speaker 1: find I've got to find that audio. It's like in
Speaker 1: the thirteenth minute of the match on the weekend, and
Speaker 1: then Nico Moreno joins this last half hour of the show,
Speaker 1: he'll break down everything from a Pacific perspective in Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer. Friday's the free for All and we're getting
Speaker 1: you ready for the weekend on a couple of different levels.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we also have to talk about Atlanta and Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: which is today the last activity for Atlanta United at
Speaker 1: IMG Academy. Then they'll pack things up head this way
Speaker 1: where it's cold. So they'll have FC Dallas this weekend
Speaker 1: at the Children's Health Care of Atlanta training ground behind
Speaker 1: closed doors and it and it will be streamed. The
Speaker 1: future will be streamed, people, It will be streamed. So, uh,
Speaker 1: the start time for the matchup against f C Cincinnati
Speaker 1: currently not posted, But keep an eye out on your
Speaker 1: socials and you can uh see what's going on with
Speaker 1: Landy United at atlutd dot com slash live and you
Speaker 1: can keep an eye on that there. Uh let's see
Speaker 1: trying to Cincinnati February twelve, and so keep an eye
Speaker 1: if the I think the I think the matches stream today,
Speaker 1: I know the Dallas matches stream. Hang on, let me
Speaker 1: clear my throat to a second. So keep an eye
Speaker 1: on your socials for your updates involving at Landy United
Speaker 1: and what's going on with the matchup against f C Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: The matchup against FC Dallas streams atl U t D
Speaker 1: dot com slash Live. So that's where you keep up
Speaker 1: with everything at land United. So that is your uh,
Speaker 1: that is your your rundown of everything at Landy United. Yes, Ricky,
Speaker 1: this is where we need like ma choke chol it's
Speaker 1: I love that drop that they would give us with muchoke.
Speaker 1: So no, we will not be seeing a certain number
Speaker 1: ten and and a good point by de Graham where
Speaker 1: he's like, not today, but maybe Saturday might be there
Speaker 1: hanging out instead of catching a flight to Dallas. Maybe
Speaker 1: just catch a flight to the world's busiest airport, sit
Speaker 1: there and hang out and wait for everybody greet him
Speaker 1: at the airport. You know, have the sign FC Dallas.
Speaker 1: You know you're waiting for You're waiting for FC Dallas
Speaker 1: and your Luco Acosta at Hartsfield, you know, flying from
Speaker 1: wherever you are to Atlanta, hanging out and you're right there.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody comes up the escalator with the signs
Speaker 1: Luco is the guy with the sign for the rest
Speaker 1: of his teammates beats beats him all to Atlanta and
Speaker 1: Tommy Scoops has really done a lot of work to
Speaker 1: get things squared away when it comes to all of
Speaker 1: the transactions involving a lot of the teams out west,
Speaker 1: so a lot of movement out there as well. It's
Speaker 1: a cash for Is that a hashtag cash for? Probably
Speaker 1: it is rich good morning. That was why I wanted
Speaker 1: to get into Tyler wearing his glasses. I think his
Speaker 1: camera was reversed, so check have him check on that
Speaker 1: next time. Uh, pars reading into anything in the cryptic
Speaker 1: post from Edwin not the moment, So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: But I mean Edwin has said, you know, Edwin has
Speaker 1: been linked in the past, and like I said, this
Speaker 1: was a long time ago. Edwin has been linked to
Speaker 1: moves in South America and loans and such. So let's
Speaker 1: just go ahead. Let's go ahead, and we'll see if
Speaker 1: we can workshop this a little bit and see if
Speaker 1: there is anything involving Edwin on the two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty character app. And let's see to do latest February ten,
Speaker 1: but not that Edwin Musquata. Uh, the latest came from
Speaker 1: a gentleman named Edwin Lesquetta on the two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty character app. And let's see weightlifting, weightlifting, and then
Speaker 1: something that happened back in November, the goal that fast
Speaker 1: Eddie scored going up against the team in the mercedess
Speaker 1: Been Stadium. So I haven't seen anything recent recent from Edwin.
Speaker 1: Of course it might have been on the IG and
Speaker 1: I would have had to hunt for it. So I said,
Speaker 1: there have been, you know, times in the past where
Speaker 1: folks have been linked, and I haven't seen anything. In
Speaker 1: a conversation recently, Morning Sharif, we mentioned Rui and Ricky
Speaker 1: says that the record in Portugal is saying Borla Vista
Speaker 1: is in advanced discussions with Mario Rui and Dee Graham
Speaker 1: with my first see de Graham stealing my line. Has
Speaker 1: Bulavis to paid Reggie Cannon yet? That would be the question,
Speaker 1: has he paid him that they paid Reggie Cannon. I
Speaker 1: think that's in the court. I legitimately think that's in
Speaker 1: the courts. Morning Hutch, and we caught up with your
Speaker 1: conversations that were there Amelia remembering things in the past, Hutch,
Speaker 1: does Jared think Celtic have any chance against Bayern? Jared
Speaker 1: needs to talk in the twitch pitch. We forgot to
Speaker 1: ask him about that. Yeah, Ricky said League's Cup for
Speaker 1: Atlanta United would be only more intentional if we were
Speaker 1: playing Crusasu. There you go, not a shock. Yeah, New
Speaker 1: England and San Jose May the seventeenth first at Gillette
Speaker 1: and so May seventeen, must watch television, Must see TV,
Speaker 1: New England and San Jose. That is probably going to
Speaker 1: be the most attended match involving the New England Revolution
Speaker 1: in quite some time because everybody, the old school fans
Speaker 1: are going to want to see Bruce Arena and the
Speaker 1: new fans are going to sit there and want to
Speaker 1: beat Bruce Arena. So we'll see May seventeen. Circle your calendars,
Speaker 1: mark that down. That is when that is going to
Speaker 1: go down. Musty TV. There, Emilie says, for him kruse Ussel,
Speaker 1: the matchup would be more ugly, So uh yeah, like
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know what Kruseusul is up to
Speaker 1: right now. Let's check and see what's going on in
Speaker 1: the league game ATKIS and we can see where uh
Speaker 1: krus Asoul is currently in the Klaus Sura and we
Speaker 1: can check all of that. So standings here match day
Speaker 1: six of seventeen. Cruse Ussel currently fourth in the table
Speaker 1: three two and one after six eleven points scored ten
Speaker 1: and six matches, and UH Atlas right now four and
Speaker 1: two fifteenth out of eighteen. But you've got some heavy
Speaker 1: hitters that would not be making the Klauser playoff right now.
Speaker 1: But like I said, it's six matches at seventeen, you're
Speaker 1: still a third of the schedule. Through Santos is at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the table. They've lost all six Athletic
Speaker 1: San Luis, Cholos, Otlas, Puebla, Monterey, Carretro, Mazatlan, that is
Speaker 1: who would not make the playoffs right now. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of heavy hitters in there. But as we talked about,
Speaker 1: the patience level of owners inside lega Emekis is something
Speaker 1: that is almost Watford Esk. Literally it's it's like three
Speaker 1: months you're done, or in Italy you bring the same
Speaker 1: manager back after firing him three months ago. That kind
Speaker 1: of patience you see that in Lega Emeki's on the whole,
Speaker 1: but you see it in certain other places around the board.
Speaker 1: But yes, so right now, Crususcle fourth in the table
Speaker 1: and uh you have Otlas right now in fifteenth, Pumas
Speaker 1: is fifth. They're a part of the They're behind Crusasul
Speaker 1: in goals scored and in the Coxa three wins and
Speaker 1: three losses. They've only given up one goal. Man, that's strong.
Speaker 1: They've only given up one goal in nine in their
Speaker 1: first six matches. But right now because they've one three
Speaker 1: and lost three there in ninth. But right now obviously
Speaker 1: the story to pay attention to. August sixth, Mercedes Benz
Speaker 1: Leagues Cup two oh two five, last match of the
Speaker 1: group stage Atlanta and Atlas so intriguing as well. Uh?
Speaker 1: Sure for Leagues Cup? Do we know yet if the
Speaker 1: final is likely to beat a neutral venue or the
Speaker 1: highest remaining seed? Same question for knockouts? If we continue through,
Speaker 1: we likely to have home games? I think? Let me
Speaker 1: check the League's Cup rules? Sure if before we before
Speaker 1: I come up with an uninformed opinion. Let's see. League's
Speaker 1: Cup schedule is here twenty three hours ago. Good for
Speaker 1: Leagues Cup. Okay, about schedule? All right, so schedule. Let
Speaker 1: me see if they've played the schedule out or if
Speaker 1: they have any kind of explainer about the whole thing
Speaker 1: going all the way to August the seven and the
Speaker 1: opening round. They don't go anywhere past the opening round rundown.
Speaker 1: So news schedule releases here, Good for you, okay? And
Speaker 1: I feel like I should have some kind of dialing
Speaker 1: music in this kind of a thing. Uh, let's see.
Speaker 1: Schedule is out thanks to our friend John Arnold for
Speaker 1: the writing, and he talks about the big matchups, goes
Speaker 1: in through each of the divisions and just goes through.
Speaker 1: It looks like let me let me see the The
Speaker 1: overarching statement that was made when Leagues Cup was announced
Speaker 1: at the end of January, participating clubs format okay, so
Speaker 1: two rounds, Phase one and knockouts. All Phase one matches
Speaker 1: continue to play through the month of August. Most Leagues
Speaker 1: Cup knockout matches played midweek and then they ended up
Speaker 1: with the club rankings with regional tears Leagues Cup Organizing
Speaker 1: Committee and you go through tiers one points system La
Speaker 1: la la la la. Top four clubs in each league's
Speaker 1: Cup league specific table advanced to the quarters tables designed
Speaker 1: to ensure more interleague matchups into the knockout rounds. Four
Speaker 1: clubs from Mlscent League and Mechi's placed in a fixed
Speaker 1: bracket to compete in the single game elimination knockouts. Quarterfinal
Speaker 1: pairings based on league's Cup Phase one performance with an
Speaker 1: inverse order of ranking one verses four, two versus three,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. Et cetera. The bracket is there,
Speaker 1: so it looks like looking at the bracket based on
Speaker 1: League's Cup no draws technology is there as well, let's
Speaker 1: see new format based on ranking created all following a
Speaker 1: collaborative effort from the organizing committee. Considerations included rewarding regular
Speaker 1: season results in geographical regions, while addressing learnings from past
Speaker 1: editions of the tournament featuring more matchups and the PSA
Speaker 1: about Leagues Cup in and of itself. So it looks
Speaker 1: like it's going to be home venues for everything going in,
Speaker 1: but there is no notification about the League's Cup two
Speaker 1: two five championship. So wherever Lega MkIS one would be
Speaker 1: and Lega Mky's two they would have the home games.
Speaker 1: And my guess is that they would be here in
Speaker 1: the United States, and then same for MLS one and
Speaker 1: two they would have home games. And you continue to
Speaker 1: go forward. Like I said, I'm looking at the announcement
Speaker 1: in and of itself, and if I have missed anything,
Speaker 1: which would not be the first time, please tell me,
Speaker 1: because then I could sit there and go ah, and
Speaker 1: then I can look at it and go here we go.
Speaker 1: Here's the deal, and that's the that is your rundown
Speaker 1: of where things stand when it comes to League's Cup.
Speaker 1: Morning four card. Let's see yes, morning four card the
Speaker 1: Evander replacement. According to Ricky, Yeah, interesting because it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like a traditional ten and that's and I think
Speaker 1: that I think that with Portland specifically, you bring in
Speaker 1: the player from from lend Laon and you blend them in.
Speaker 1: I think I think that this is more what we're
Speaker 1: going to be seeing is the the collective working in Portland,
Speaker 1: whereas in in uh Dallas it might be seeing what
Speaker 1: Dallas is going to look like with Luco, it might
Speaker 1: be Lucco and people creating around him. So I think
Speaker 1: Portland might be more borg like this year within the
Speaker 1: structure with what Neville wants, with the players like Jonathan
Speaker 1: Rodriguez and more and Mora and Moreno and uh Antony
Speaker 1: too to be added to what's going on. So I
Speaker 1: think that Portland might be thinking more in a collective sense.
Speaker 1: I think Cincinnati that's the one that's interesting to me
Speaker 1: because will Evander color within the lines or will LeVander
Speaker 1: want to color outside the lines? Or when will Pat
Speaker 1: Noonon allow him to do that when he wants to
Speaker 1: present his artwork to class and then Luco, I think,
Speaker 1: might be the centerpiece in Dallas. So let's take a
Speaker 1: peek at Dallas's roster really quickly, and we can see
Speaker 1: Eastern Western go down. And so we'll look at the
Speaker 1: Dallas roster then see what it looks like in and
Speaker 1: of itself, and so scoring capabilities and availabilities. Anderson Julio,
Speaker 1: Peter Musa and s Sally is a U twenty two.
Speaker 1: Let's see n delay is a supplemental seeking in the
Speaker 1: shoveling as a forward. Then you also can add at
Speaker 1: points when healthy Fonseka Tarik Scott as a homegrown Your
Speaker 1: internationals are Patrickson, Dogado, Peter Mussa and Is Sally and
Speaker 1: givonn Giovanni as a defender and Sali and Giovanni are
Speaker 1: you twenty twos And you bring in Lucco a Costa.
Speaker 1: Acostami seems like a centerpiece. So Acostami seems like a
Speaker 1: centerpiece of the attack to go with Musa in Dallas.
Speaker 1: So I think that's going to be that That is
Speaker 1: going to be the dynamic for me is seeing how
Speaker 1: Luco integrates with everybody who's there. Does Evander color inside
Speaker 1: the lines with what Pat Noonan wants in Cincinnati. And
Speaker 1: then these players that Portland is bringing in, are they
Speaker 1: going to just be a collective, a collective, a unit
Speaker 1: on the whole, and then they proceed forward in the West.
Speaker 1: So so like I said, I think that you have
Speaker 1: three different approaches here in there in these new locations,
Speaker 1: they all become finalized. Hutch says Portland. Yeah, made six
Speaker 1: million on the number ten swap. That's never bad. Business Morning, Madaflow,
Speaker 1: welcome back. Yes ten days, ten days we were talking
Speaker 1: about hot seats and everybody was talking about Mascherano and
Speaker 1: Vanni Sartini and yeah, so now I will be like
Speaker 1: I said, I will be intrigued with Messi and friends
Speaker 1: to see what happens morning, David. So we'll see what's uh's,
Speaker 1: what's going on in and around the planet. So we
Speaker 1: have not seen flags out Friday News yet, David. And
Speaker 1: if the hoff ever wanted to crash the show and
Speaker 1: let us know about these kinds of things, he could,
Speaker 1: But have not seen any flags out Friday News yet.
Speaker 1: And so Ricky says, twelve is what he's been reported.
Speaker 1: So Hutch letting us know about May seventeen being rivalries anyway.
Speaker 1: You've got Montreal Toronto in y seat, You've got Hudson River,
Speaker 1: You've got COPA, Canatians, Cincinnati, Colorado, Charlotte, Chicago, uh, the
Speaker 1: Bruce Arena Classic and Philadelphia and Atlanta. So League's Cup
Speaker 1: final is not listed at Allegiant Gold Cup final is
Speaker 1: in Vegas, and Emilia is like, yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: That League Cup doesn't require the regular season to stop,
Speaker 1: because it had in the past and you had that
Speaker 1: gap where you were looking for you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: if your team is out of League's Cup, then what
Speaker 1: do you do if you were juggling if you were
Speaker 1: juggling MLS and you were juggling League's Cup, there was
Speaker 1: that gap time that no longer exists. It is more
Speaker 1: like what we see overseas with FA Cup, Gummy Bear Cup,
Speaker 1: dof people call those kinds of things where you might
Speaker 1: take a weekend here or there, but most of it's
Speaker 1: in the midweek. Champions League, those kinds of things. So
Speaker 1: Champions League, Europa League all in the midweek, and so
Speaker 1: you're seeing that with Leagues Cup. Now the league doesn't stop.
Speaker 1: They might rearrange your schedule if you're still going, might
Speaker 1: play a little later in some points. But Leagu's Cup
Speaker 1: now integrated fully into the LEGA into the MLS schedule.
Speaker 1: So uh Sincy Columbus, Sorry, thank you. Uh so okay,
Speaker 1: so hell is real. Thanks huch. So that's what you're
Speaker 1: staring at with all of these rivalries. But yeah, lee
Speaker 1: A League's Cup now integrated with the schedules of LEGA,
Speaker 1: MTIS and Major League Soccer. So you've got all of
Speaker 1: that to look into and to look forward to. All right, Uh, yesterday,
Speaker 1: there there was some there was some action. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if you if you knew this, but
Speaker 1: there was some activity that went on in the world
Speaker 1: of soccer, and yesterday, if you were a fan of
Speaker 1: activity of the US men's national team, you got a
Speaker 1: moment like this, courtesy of our friends at Paramount Plus
Speaker 1: and UEFA. A thunderbolt from just outside the eighteen and.
Speaker 4: Rob Millennials. A pol driver of a finish high into
Speaker 4: the Dutch there Ksva Einhoven struggle to clear their lines.
Speaker 4: Cat you, of all people, help to cause problems, good
Speaker 4: say from Benitez to Deny Cola Mawani And how about this,
Speaker 4: It's unstoppable from the American. It's a cracker of a
Speaker 4: goal from Weston McKenny that puts your Ventus ahead.
Speaker 1: So it was chaos yesterday. Let me turn it down
Speaker 1: in my ear so I don't blow myself out. So
Speaker 1: a thunderbolt from Weston McKinnie is a part of what
Speaker 1: happened yesterday in Champions League. And the other thing that
Speaker 1: happened yesterday in Champions League. The Jekyll and Hyde team
Speaker 1: showed back up. Manchester City had a lead, then they didn't,
Speaker 1: then they had a lead, then they really didn't. Up
Speaker 1: one nil, tied at one, up to one, lose three
Speaker 1: to two. So Manchester City down one in the aggregate,
Speaker 1: has to get it done on the road. Real Madrid,
Speaker 1: by the way, was a plus two fifty to do
Speaker 1: something at the City of Manchester Stadium, you know, in
Speaker 1: these big competitions like you'll see when the world comes
Speaker 1: to the States here at OSGHQ and SDHHQ, the stadium
Speaker 1: downtown where we go and watch professional soccer league play
Speaker 1: is going to be. I think it's just going to
Speaker 1: be City of Atlanta Stadium, something exceedingly generic because the
Speaker 1: sponsor that is on the building ain't got no ties,
Speaker 1: didn't pay the money. So I wonder, I really do.
Speaker 1: I wonder what the shots from the air gonna look like.
Speaker 1: You have to take down all of the artwork. Do
Speaker 1: you get the shop, do you get the chopper shot?
Speaker 1: Do you have to take it from a section that
Speaker 1: is not looking at logos that have been pounded into
Speaker 1: the sides of the buildings and pulling down all of
Speaker 1: the the wrapping and bunting that is attached to a
Speaker 1: particular sponsor. You have to sit there and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they show like a pre construction thing of Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, the Venus fly trap is open and
Speaker 1: you see like construction going on in and around. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see how this is presented. But yesterday
Speaker 1: City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester City had a two one lead,
Speaker 1: lost it down two, three to two. They've got to
Speaker 1: try and get the wind back and the reverse side.
Speaker 1: Manchester City was a minus one ZHO two but you
Speaker 1: had key mistakes late three two win for Real Madrid.
Speaker 1: You've a you heard the Western machinee goal in the
Speaker 1: two to one win over PSV. You've a minus one
Speaker 1: fourteen there at home Dortmund and this was interesting. Dortmund
Speaker 1: went to Sporting. We talked to Nino about this. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: Dortmund put a thumpin on Sporting three nil, and so
Speaker 1: Sporting has got a lot of work to do on
Speaker 1: the road. In Germany they were favored of the plus
Speaker 1: one fifty six Dortmund a plus one eighty five to
Speaker 1: do to win on the road. PSG obviously no problems
Speaker 1: with Breast at a minus three thirty three, winning three Nils.
Speaker 1: So that sets up today and activity. Today you get
Speaker 1: the one at twelve forty five Club Bruges in Atalanta, Atalanta,
Speaker 1: a road favorite of the plus one thirty six. Club
Speaker 1: Bruges is a plus two twenty two. Then the three
Speaker 1: matches today that are at three o'clock. You have Celtic
Speaker 1: at a plus six fifty four in the composite courtesy
Speaker 1: of our friends of Odd's Portal, taking on Bayern Munich
Speaker 1: at minus two seventy. So I'm thinking that Byron takes
Speaker 1: care of business. That's just me. Then a fine Ord
Speaker 1: a big underdog at home to ac Milan at to
Speaker 1: minus one oh eight. Fineord is basically a plus two
Speaker 1: to eighty and Monaco at home favored against Benfica at
Speaker 1: a plus one thirty seven Benfica is a plus one
Speaker 1: ninety one, so we'll have plenty to talk about with
Speaker 1: Nino and Portugal and South America and England and all
Speaker 1: points in between tomorrow when he shows up for fully
Speaker 1: loaded at ten o'clock. Next round of the reverses is
Speaker 1: the nineteenth and twentieth, and so Manchester City a week
Speaker 1: from today will know their fate in the final sixteen.
Speaker 1: Do they make up that goal, do they go to
Speaker 1: extras and figure it out and see how it goes
Speaker 1: from there, or do they get bumped out right? So
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with those matchups, So nineteen and
Speaker 1: twenty after eleven and twelve, so we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: in the reverse sides today in the in the Champions League.
Speaker 1: So that was one of the the big events that
Speaker 1: happened yesterday. Also, a Conca Calf went down yesterday to
Speaker 1: start things up and I'm trying to find my There
Speaker 1: we go in the Triple c the Conca Caff Hemispheric Extravaganza.
Speaker 1: You had the events yesterday in legs one, as they say,
Speaker 1: Chrusussel put five on real hope. By the way, at
Speaker 1: kick krus Asole was a minus thirty three thirty three
Speaker 1: a minus thirty three thirty three. So that was one
Speaker 1: where you just kind of sat there and went, you know, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll watch this one. And sure enough CRUs Ussel took
Speaker 1: care of business Real Hope by the way on the road.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to, if you had if you just
Speaker 1: had for issues and giggles, if you had a juice
Speaker 1: box that you wanted to put on Real Hope. Yesterday
Speaker 1: the Composite had it at plus thirty two forty seven,
Speaker 1: basically a plus thirty two fifty going two Crususul to
Speaker 1: get a result in ninety minute and Montaday took care
Speaker 1: of Forge three nil in mont today to minus fourteen
Speaker 1: twenty nine. And so uh, Forge went in at a
Speaker 1: plus twenty three sixty three in the Composite. So uh,
Speaker 1: long night for the road teams yesterday in the Conky
Speaker 1: CAF Champions Cup. So today two matches, one at eight,
Speaker 1: one at ten, and once again you've got a couple
Speaker 1: of rather large favorites and Lega MkIS who have the
Speaker 1: home side in this go round. Chivas is a minus
Speaker 1: sixteen sixty seven hosting Sibou north of plus twenty two
Speaker 1: to fifty and Ti Gras is going up against rail Estelle.
Speaker 1: Rail Astelle on the road of plus sixteen eighty eight
Speaker 1: and Tigres is a minus eight thirty three and this
Speaker 1: is the match. It's not the full fixture with reverse
Speaker 1: attached to it. So uh, rail astell Ee they get
Speaker 1: the they get the win, or they they were that
Speaker 1: close to getting the win, and they Tea Grace did
Speaker 1: not have Geniac, and so you're going to take on
Speaker 1: Tea Grace. Xeniac should be healthy and ready to play
Speaker 1: as his minutes are constantly being navigated, and it might
Speaker 1: get ugly again for the road teams, Sibou going to
Speaker 1: Chievas and a Stelli going to Tea Grace tomorrow. By
Speaker 1: the way, it all wraps up with Pumas hosting Cavalry.
Speaker 1: Pumas once again a big favorite of the minus six
Speaker 1: twenty five Cavalry a plus eleven eighty nine going forward.
Speaker 1: So that's your conky caf and once again we'll let everybody.
Speaker 1: We'll let everybody know where it is, and we'll let
Speaker 1: you know what the rumors are and everything. David, let's
Speaker 1: get some momentum to get a stadium name based on
Speaker 1: our prior city names, the Palace at Marthasville Terminus Tower.
Speaker 1: Ricky's like, yeah, Georgia Dome. Actually, you know that that
Speaker 1: might have actually play the Georgia Dome. Well, we're here
Speaker 1: at Mercedes Been We're here at the City of Atlanta Stadium.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think in the presentation, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: when they were announcing the venues for twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: they actually had come up with the names of the venues.
Speaker 1: So hang on just a second. Let me let me
Speaker 1: check FIFA twenty twenty six World Cup. All right, so
Speaker 1: let's see if the venues have been given their names
Speaker 1: attached to sponsors and things like this. So okay, so
Speaker 1: host countries and cities. Okay, so host countries and cities,
Speaker 1: we're clicking on it. So Atlanta, you click on it,
Speaker 1: you get a shiny you get a shiny introduction and
Speaker 1: visit Atlanta and they lay it all out out for
Speaker 1: you and with hashtags and everything. When did you knows
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. So tickets, hospitality, fan festival,
Speaker 1: match schedule. Let's see if the match schedule has the locations.
Speaker 1: I don't want to fix your list explained, I just
Speaker 1: want the venue names Okay, so here we go. Yes,
Speaker 1: and they are city names, by the way, except for
Speaker 1: the Azteca, because I guess the Asteca, being historical as
Speaker 1: it is, it is the Estadio Azteca, the Estadio Guadalajara,
Speaker 1: Toronto Stadium, Los Angeles Stadium, Boston Stadium, BC Place. I
Speaker 1: guess that's acceptable because it's not sponsored tied New York
Speaker 1: New Jersey Stadium. So the Metal Lands is going to
Speaker 1: be New York New Jersey Stadium, San Francisco Bay Area Stadium,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Stadium, Houston Stadium, Dallas Stadium, the Studio Monterday, Miami Stadium,
Speaker 1: Atlanta Stadium, Los Angeles Stadium, Seattle Stadium, so on and
Speaker 1: so forth. So there are a couple of places that have,
Speaker 1: you know, the the names that are outside of city
Speaker 1: name and stadium. There are a few BC place, the
Speaker 1: Studio as Teca for historical consequence and things like that.
Speaker 1: But right now everybody is city name, stadium. Wow. How
Speaker 1: exciting that is and how much of a challenge it's
Speaker 1: going to be for the production crews and the international
Speaker 1: broadcast feed to shoot stadia latins Latin Latin neutral plural,
Speaker 1: to shoot the stadia without colors and bunting and things
Speaker 1: like that. I am I want to know how there's
Speaker 1: I want to know how they're shot from on high.
Speaker 1: I want to know what the bunting looks like inside.
Speaker 1: I won't know what the plans are for some of
Speaker 1: these places, because you know from seeing Major League Soccer
Speaker 1: that and competitions that that bunting is all that sponsor bunting.
Speaker 1: It is all over the place. You're throwing curtains over everything,
Speaker 1: just throwing paint jobs over it all where you can
Speaker 1: kind of look through the paint you can see what
Speaker 1: the sponsor name is. How do you pull this off?
Speaker 1: I am intrigued. I want to see how. I want
Speaker 1: to see how this is done by all of the
Speaker 1: construction folks, and how it is framed by the international
Speaker 1: broadcast folks. I am intrigued. So I guess I thought
Speaker 1: that was I thought that was interesting, to say the
Speaker 1: very least. So we'll see, uh, we'll see what it
Speaker 1: looks like. Now. Yesterday came out that the US has
Speaker 1: named their squad for the UH for she believes some
Speaker 1: interesting names and some interesting tax and Emma Hayes had
Speaker 1: said that this is one of those opportunities. For players
Speaker 1: that haven't had the chance to get reps. So I
Speaker 1: thought it was I thought it was interesting to see
Speaker 1: what the choices were going to be in this particular case.
Speaker 1: And like I said, keep an eye out on the
Speaker 1: Soccer for US POD where they'll probably go into this
Speaker 1: more in depth. Is in addition to their top fifty
Speaker 1: players on the men's side. So she believes once again
Speaker 1: giving a lot of younger players a chance. You do
Speaker 1: have eleven players who weren't a part of the team
Speaker 1: that won the gold medal, ten playing in their first
Speaker 1: She believes Cat mccario back that's big coming after a
Speaker 1: long injury layoff, but had to withdraw because of knee irritation.
Speaker 1: Four uncapped players Claire Hutt and Giselle Thompson both nineteen,
Speaker 1: Tera McEwan, Michelle Cooper. They all have international experience playing
Speaker 1: at the U twenties. Hutton, Thompson, Cooper all attended January's
Speaker 1: Futures Camp. McEwen was at the concurrent senior camp. No
Speaker 1: Trinity Rodman injured, no Mouse Wanson personal commitments. Sophia Wilson
Speaker 1: formerly Sophia Smith. No Sophia Wilson, who, according to US
Speaker 1: Soccer quote is not physically ready for national team competition.
Speaker 1: No Rose Lavell, who had ankle surgery last month, and
Speaker 1: no Niami Geirma, who's recovering from a calf injury. So
Speaker 1: your roster goes like this, Jane Candall, Jene Campbell and
Speaker 1: Mandy McGlenn. Only two keepers. I thought that was interesting too.
Speaker 1: Eight defenders Davidson, Dunn, Fox, McEwan, Ny Swanger, Sam's sonnet
Speaker 1: Gaselle Thompson. Six in the midfield Corbyn Albert, Sam Coffee,
Speaker 1: Lindsay Heaps as she is now known, Claire Hutton and Jadenshaw,
Speaker 1: Lily Johannes. And I know that Bart will be happy
Speaker 1: to see Lilygohannas on that roster, hoping that she just
Speaker 1: gets reps and continues to grow internationally. Forward seven uh,
Speaker 1: Lynn by Endelo, Michelle Cooper, Kat maccario, Yasmine Ryan and
Speaker 1: mas Sears, Ali Sentner and Alyssa Thompson. So that's, uh,
Speaker 1: that's what you're looking at with that particular grouping for
Speaker 1: she believes and so what you you you said, Lynn
Speaker 1: by Endalo, it's Lynn Williams, Lindby, Lynn Williams has now
Speaker 1: uh now is Lynn by Endolo and has had everything
Speaker 1: changed on national team websites and such. But so that's
Speaker 1: what it looks like for the for the US in
Speaker 1: the She Believes breakdown. Oh let's see, Uh, where are we?
Speaker 1: We talked about UCL a couple of other things before
Speaker 1: we get into gossip Bermanuano. Just so you know, I know,
Speaker 1: we do spend a lot of time in lower divisions
Speaker 1: to let everybody know what's going on, because it's not
Speaker 1: just you know, Tier one stuff. The folks at us
Speaker 1: L League too, and we spent some time there because
Speaker 1: we have some friends of the network and we've seen
Speaker 1: them grow as franchises. They are now going to be
Speaker 1: spending their time in USL League two. The divisions came
Speaker 1: out and in the Southern Conference you have a very
Speaker 1: now crowded South Central Division Asheville City with our friend
Speaker 1: Scott Wells. They're going to be in the South Central
Speaker 1: with East Atlanta, Tennessee sc who's done tremendous work to
Speaker 1: get to the last game of the year, Southern Soccer Academy.
Speaker 1: Our friend Jack Collison is over there doth In United
Speaker 1: coming back for a second year athen United, coming back
Speaker 1: Legion playing in USL League two in Birmingham, Montgomery United,
Speaker 1: Apatheos and Columbus United. Hoping that they're I mean, if
Speaker 1: they're going to play eighteen games, they play eighteen games
Speaker 1: home and away. But that is a stacked South Central
Speaker 1: Division in the Southern Conference in USL League two. So
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing USL League two when their schedule
Speaker 1: comes online, covering our friends in Asheville and Tennessee and
Speaker 1: SSA and Dothan and all points in between in the
Speaker 1: South Central in the South Central Division in the Southern Conference.
Speaker 1: Keeping an eye on that in USL League two as well.
Speaker 1: So very very cool stuff there with all of the
Speaker 1: storylines that we've had the chance to see and now
Speaker 1: coming finally to fruition in times like this. So all right,
Speaker 1: gossip Perumeran and you window what to watch, where to
Speaker 1: watch it, how to watch it, and we will come
Speaker 1: back tomorrow once again, stacked, stacked upon stacked. Kevin Egan
Speaker 1: joining us at nine point fifteen. As Kevin does the
Speaker 1: Kevin does the rounds for everybody that wants to hang
Speaker 1: out with him, So we will make sure that we
Speaker 1: ask Kevin about anything and everything. Anything and everything. The
Speaker 1: revs have revealed the Eastern white Pine kit inspired by
Speaker 1: the flag of New England First Revolution a jersey to
Speaker 1: feature forest green. If you haven't seen the new Portland
Speaker 1: Hearts of Pine Jersey, We're all going to go poor,
Speaker 1: So teams are kind of trickling out their kits as
Speaker 1: they go here the Stone kit was revealed by Red
Speaker 1: Bulls this morning. And and like I said, you got
Speaker 1: you've got kits coming out all over the place. So
Speaker 1: still waiting to see what Atlanta United's kid officially looks
Speaker 1: like here in twenty twenty five. All right, gossip Peruman, innuendo,
Speaker 1: what to watch, where to watch it, how to watch
Speaker 1: it before we get out of here, and the gossip
Speaker 1: for today once again, remember that say you got your
Speaker 1: four Champions League matches, you got Cocky Calf tonight, You've
Speaker 1: got Creek Cup on our Mixler side at soccer down
Speaker 1: here dot mixler dot com. You can listen on the
Speaker 1: on there tonight and then SDH one and SDH two
Speaker 1: over at Mixler. Download to mixloer app by the way,
Speaker 1: if you haven't already, and set your notifications and follow
Speaker 1: your favorites. SDH one and two will be very very
Speaker 1: busy Friday and Saturday as we go gossip here from overseas.
Speaker 1: Arsenal Chelsea Liverpool interested in Born With's a nineteen year
Speaker 1: old Spain defender Dean Houston, who has a fifty five
Speaker 1: million pound release clause. Liverpool interested in signing France born
Speaker 1: England You twenty one winger Muhammad Ali Choe, who is
Speaker 1: right now at Nice. Chelsea preparing a seventy million year
Speaker 1: old summer bid for Athletico Madrids twenty one year old
Speaker 1: defender Pablo Barrios Barcelona. Barcelona is interested in signing people.
Speaker 1: According to Sport in Spain, Barcelona interested in Victor Jokoresh,
Speaker 1: but they're also monitoring Alexander Esak, Alexander Esak and Victor Jokoresh.
Speaker 1: I'd love to know how Barcelona would pay for that.
Speaker 1: Byron Minnick relaxed according to Football Insider about the prospect
Speaker 1: of Harry Kaneer of returning to the Premier League. Al
Speaker 1: Nasser courtesy of our friends at GMS Gimme Sport has
Speaker 1: said that they're very came very close to reaching an
Speaker 1: agreement for Darwin Unias from Liverpool in January, before Liverpool
Speaker 1: rejected a deal they would prefer to sell Nunia's over
Speaker 1: Jyego Joe to this summer. Also, Villa and Arsenal have
Speaker 1: expressed an interest in signing Olympiacos's seventeen year old ford
Speaker 1: Sharylampos Costulas and eighteen year old midfielder Cristo's Muti that's
Speaker 1: from the Birmingham World. Real Madrid joined to Arsenal in
Speaker 1: the race to sign rare Al Sociodod's midfielder Martin Zuba Mendi.
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace Rangers Norwich interested in Birmingham's eighteen year old
Speaker 1: English winger at Zaide Biteca. Really good story at the
Speaker 1: Athletic about Birmingham City. If you have a subscription there
Speaker 1: then you can get him. Usually pretty fairly inexpensively. They'll
Speaker 1: give you the subscription for like thirteen or fourteen bucks.
Speaker 1: Then when they tell you that they're automatically going to
Speaker 1: charge your card the following year and you bail out,
Speaker 1: they come back at you, well how about this, and
Speaker 1: it's a lot less traditionally, so word of the wise,
Speaker 1: when it comes to your subscription to the Athletic, keep
Speaker 1: an eye on your deadlines and your credit cards. Arsenal's
Speaker 1: Kai Howard suffered a worrying injury scare on the club's
Speaker 1: training trip to Dubai that they're monitoring it and they're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out if he's going to be out
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. So keep an eye
Speaker 1: on Arsenal and Kai Hobart. Pepguardiello still wants to sign
Speaker 1: Florian Verts from bayer Levercusan surgeon Ratcliffe planning to more
Speaker 1: jobs to help free up cash for new signings. Reports
Speaker 1: where that it was going to be another one hundred
Speaker 1: that we're going to be let go at Manchester United.
Speaker 1: Villa and PSG did not include a by option to
Speaker 1: the loan deal for Marco Asensio. Both clubs open to
Speaker 1: a potential permanent move. Eric Tenhagg could be in line
Speaker 1: for a managerial return with Faian ord Roma want to
Speaker 1: do a permanent deal with ac Milan for Belgium midfielder
Speaker 1: Alexis Slimakers, but a swap deal involving Tammy Abraham not
Speaker 1: on the table. That's from Cauchio Marcato. Manchester United players
Speaker 1: believe it change in the style of play to the
Speaker 1: one that is employed by Ruben Amri. Maybe the best
Speaker 1: way forward for letter Paper take the information at your
Speaker 1: own peril. Champions League games, including the final, could be
Speaker 1: held in the United States from the year twenty thirty
Speaker 1: three onwards if you look to enter a new global
Speaker 1: commercial rights deal. This comes from mcgil delaney American Agency,
Speaker 1: and this is dealing with Relevant relevan at the forefront
Speaker 1: of trying to bring major games to the US. If
Speaker 1: they complete, the deal would mark the end of yuefa's
Speaker 1: three decade plus association with Team Marketing, originally responsible for
Speaker 1: all the prominent Champions League branding, star ball, theme, et cetera.
Speaker 1: More seriously, according to Delane, it could put up to
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy jobs from the company at risk.
Speaker 1: Understood to have been a state of shock at Team,
Speaker 1: as well as some anger about the process. Statement to
Speaker 1: be released on Tuesday read the Board of UC three
Speaker 1: has agreed to enter into an exclusive period of negotiation
Speaker 1: with Relevant over the global commercial rights to men's UEFA
Speaker 1: club competitions for the period twenty seven to thirty three,
Speaker 1: controlled by billionaire Stephen Ross, who's wanted to have meaningful
Speaker 1: European club matches in the US. ICC is widely seasoned
Speaker 1: to have been the setup for doing this, possibly with
Speaker 1: UEFA and having of UEFA events in the United States,
Speaker 1: and ALFIFA only said last April it would consider changes
Speaker 1: to its policy that blocks league matches from being played
Speaker 1: in other countries after an agreement with Relevant to dismiss
Speaker 1: the promoter's lawsuit challenging that very regulation. Jeffrey Kessler, the
Speaker 1: relevance lawyer, father letter in Manhattan stating FIFA and his
Speaker 1: client agreed to the dismissal of the suit. Remember they
Speaker 1: were the ones that wanted to bring Barcelona and Girona
Speaker 1: to play in Miami. Now Relevant are this close to
Speaker 1: striking a deal with YUEFHA, so you could have Champions
Speaker 1: League games in the US by thirty three. So that's
Speaker 1: from Miguel Delaney this morning. Keep an eye on possibly
Speaker 1: the Champions League being a part of things in the
Speaker 1: United States like eight years from now. Also on the
Speaker 1: board this morning, couple of things it looks like, and
Speaker 1: this is early reporting that if the group that is
Speaker 1: engaged in possibly picking up Spurs ownership might be keeping
Speaker 1: Daniel Levy, Telegraph and others have various elements of the
Speaker 1: story involving Spurs. There is a protest now planned for
Speaker 1: the man United Match organized a pregame March, followed by
Speaker 1: a sit in after Sunday's fixture to voice their disapproval
Speaker 1: of Daniel Levy. This comes from Matt loth To Telegraph,
Speaker 1: so that you know that they've been changing Daniel Levy's
Speaker 1: name in recent weeks, protests inside and outside, and now
Speaker 1: fans are being urged by a protest group to gather
Speaker 1: in the South Stand after the United game for a
Speaker 1: staged protest Big Stadium, our club, our voice, Change for Tottenham.
Speaker 1: There's a poster that is with instructions supporters encouraged to
Speaker 1: meet on the South Stand ahead of kickoff. Protesters have
Speaker 1: been encouraged at Changed for Spurs. By the way, the
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty character app has all of this
Speaker 1: protest poster is out there plus a video. And so
Speaker 1: right now Sergem Ratcliffe looks like he's going to cut
Speaker 1: another hundred jobs at Manchester United. There's going to be
Speaker 1: a protest Sunday Sunday. Sunday Sunday, there's going to be
Speaker 1: a protest of fans after the match, with some elements
Speaker 1: before the match. So keep an eye on all of
Speaker 1: those activities involving Spurs. And I'm trying to find the
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the article that I saw about
Speaker 1: the Katari influence and I'm trying to figure out where
Speaker 1: it was before we get into Atlanta, United and everything
Speaker 1: that is going on there. Just okay, So the Guardian
Speaker 1: is now upgrading it to two hundred more staff redundancies.
Speaker 1: So could be one hundred, could be two hundred. You
Speaker 1: have varying reports. So Matt Hughes Guardian, here's what he says.
Speaker 1: Daniel Levy may continue to run Spurs and a potential
Speaker 1: Katari takeover plan. Guardians learned that a group of Katari
Speaker 1: investors are willing to give Levy a long term contract
Speaker 1: to continue running Spurs' executive chair, retaining Levy obviously, you
Speaker 1: know some fans. Most fans ain't happy about something like that.
Speaker 1: Investors are key to retain keen to retaining his expertise.
Speaker 1: They want control of Spurs, but the takeover could take
Speaker 1: the form of a phased buyout. One model being considered
Speaker 1: by the investors. Levy would be offered a management contract
Speaker 1: to run the club, which would remain in place even
Speaker 1: if E and I C becomes a minority shareholder. Right now,
Speaker 1: they own about eighty seven percent of the club. Ian
Speaker 1: I C bought thirty percent of the club from Alan
Speaker 1: Sugar back in two thousand and one. Financial position transformed
Speaker 1: one of the richest clubs in Europe annual income of
Speaker 1: more than half a million half of billion pounds. Spurs
Speaker 1: have been open about the fact they're seeking outside investment,
Speaker 1: Levy saying last year the club needed a significant increase
Speaker 1: in its equity base. No one has met the three
Speaker 1: point seventy five billion pound valuation, but now it appears
Speaker 1: there are Katari investors whose identity is not clear, private
Speaker 1: individuals rather than the government back QSI or Shike Jasim
Speaker 1: who tried to buy Manchester United two years ago. So
Speaker 1: it is private individuals in Qatar kicking the tires on
Speaker 1: Spurs and should they kick the tires on Spurs possibility
Speaker 1: that Daniel Levy would stay. Paul McInnis over at The
Speaker 1: Guardian also saying this morning about the Premier League. The
Speaker 1: Premier League seeks power to access club's premisses during investigations.
Speaker 1: The ability to enter buildings would relate to financial rules
Speaker 1: and it could be used if clubs have not complied
Speaker 1: with increase. Proposals are included in the latest draft of
Speaker 1: the squad cost Ratio mechanism, which is expected to replace
Speaker 1: PSR that limits spending. Guardian understands the league has asked
Speaker 1: for the ability to enter buildings in the event that
Speaker 1: a club is found not to have complied with the inquiry.
Speaker 1: It has initiated commonly only used by law enforcement agencies
Speaker 1: to seize documents related to an investigation. So you have
Speaker 1: that involving what's going on with the Premier League and
Speaker 1: their investigations. So Ricky has mentioned in here that it
Speaker 1: appears so the livestream has been canceled for today's match
Speaker 1: with Atlanda United FC Cincinnati, So it's at another field,
Speaker 1: so keep an eye on their two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: character app and Instagram accounts for limited match coverage. So
Speaker 1: it was moved from the main stadium setup at IMG
Speaker 1: to another place, and I guess it wasn't camera ready,
Speaker 1: so public service announcement location moved for Atlanta and s
Speaker 1: C Cincinnati, and so the live stream is not happening.
Speaker 1: So that's where we are with Atlanta United and we
Speaker 1: are going to try and keep an eye on all
Speaker 1: of that stuff today. Absolute drag, no doubt, Derek. It
Speaker 1: is a drag, okay, what to watch, where to watch it,
Speaker 1: how to watch it, and you guys can get out
Speaker 1: of here and we'll all get get out of here
Speaker 1: because we've got stuff to do. Remember U seventeens are
Speaker 1: going at it tonight as well, playing Saint Kitts and
Speaker 1: Nevis and we'll see what the lines look like tonight
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Speaker 1: You can see the Latte Loft Middlesbrook Club at three
Speaker 1: go up against Sheffield United, West brom and Blackburn at
Speaker 1: three as well, and the four Champions League matches vis
Speaker 1: has your four Champions League matches and the two concor
Speaker 1: CAF Champions Cup matches, so that's where we are. So
Speaker 1: keep an eye on the two hundred and eighty character
Speaker 1: app and keep an eye on what is going on
Speaker 1: with the Instagram, the ig or the Graham as the
Speaker 1: kids call it these days. Where it comes to Atlanta
Speaker 1: United and how they are going against f C Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and the last match of the of their preseason, So
Speaker 1: we're really looking forward to seeing how things go there
Speaker 1: and seeing what it looks like with the them as
Speaker 1: they get this much closer, they get this much closer
Speaker 1: to coming home and being against the FC Dallas at
Speaker 1: the Children's health Care of Atlanta training ground coming up
Speaker 1: this weekend, and seeing what it looks like as we
Speaker 1: get closer and closer and closer to the season when
Speaker 1: it comes to landa Unit. So we'll get into all
Speaker 1: of that tomorrow with the limited information that we'll have
Speaker 1: Kevin Egan, Nino Torres Nico Moreno full Thursday. Everything comes
Speaker 1: fully loaded, So as always, thanks for dropping byes you
Speaker 1: always do, and we'll be back at it again in
Speaker 1: less than twenty two hours. Stay safe, stay dry, stay warm,
Speaker 1: and since it is the end of the show that
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