Speaker 1: Bass has dropped on a new round of Sdham John
Speaker 1: here are you there? Is trying to figure out if
Speaker 1: I needed to hit a certain box or something to
Speaker 1: make sure that when Tyler Pilgrim joins us from Scarves
Speaker 1: and Spikes in about ten minutes, that it's not going
Speaker 1: to look like me in a really small box in
Speaker 1: a corner someplace, and then Tyler comes in and everything's fine.
Speaker 2: We got MLS in the midweek.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and we'll see if the busiest
Speaker 1: man in the Northeast, Dyllan Butler from MLS Soccer dot com,
Speaker 1: has survived Open Cup after dark and can join us
Speaker 1: at ten o'clock. We've got a lot of reports and
Speaker 1: transfer ideas and numbers being thrown about. We'll get into
Speaker 1: that with our standard sources overseas, with Ben Jacobs and
Speaker 1: Kimmy Sports and Talk Sport and all that stuff. We'll
Speaker 1: get into that this morning in our number two, and
Speaker 1: we'll get you ready for all the other games going
Speaker 1: on in Major League Soccer tonight our number one. And
Speaker 1: I've warned Tyler about this that I might be a
Speaker 1: little hot this morning, and I mean it's probably understood
Speaker 1: on a couple of different levels why, and it has
Speaker 1: to do with yesterday and the news that came out
Speaker 1: that it appears that Tiaguamata is heading to that's Letico
Speaker 1: Demondrid fantastic, love it for him.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 1: So that news came out yesterday, and this probably is
Speaker 1: going to be a morning where I need to be
Speaker 1: talked to economically, like I'm a twelve year old. And
Speaker 1: because of this, we've reached out to some folks who
Speaker 1: are experts in their field and local.
Speaker 2: This is what I'm getting to.
Speaker 1: That I need to know, and I think it would
Speaker 1: be a beneficial conversation to have how folks are allowed
Speaker 1: to function the way that they function in today's soccer
Speaker 1: sphere as owners and so, like I said, we've reached
Speaker 1: out to some folks and hopefully we can have them
Speaker 1: on to discuss the economics of soccer and I have
Speaker 1: a legitimate conversation about it. It's not just something where
Speaker 1: you know, you bring somebody on, you vent your spleen,
Speaker 1: which might be a part of it, but to understand
Speaker 1: how folks are allowed to function and continue to function
Speaker 1: in this current atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Morning and Alex.
Speaker 1: So this morning leading up to that hopeful discussion that
Speaker 1: we will have at a later date with experts in
Speaker 1: the field. I want to I want to go through
Speaker 1: this entire process and I want to get us up
Speaker 1: to date as to where we are. And Tyler end
Speaker 1: up maybeing a bit of a sounding board just to
Speaker 1: make sure that my that my information is correct in
Speaker 1: all of this. So I guess our number one just
Speaker 1: may end up being an opening kickoff, and so we'll
Speaker 1: get it. We'll get into that morning KEVSI. So yesterday
Speaker 1: it was revealed that it peers, and like I said,
Speaker 1: this is all of all of the things that are
Speaker 1: that are that are working our way through. So yesterday
Speaker 1: it was revealed, says our Louis Marrilo at all and.
Speaker 2: It appears that.
Speaker 1: Jack Maramata is heading to Athletic Athletico Demadrid, and it
Speaker 1: looks like okay Nas might be heading to Pumas, Fidel Barajas,
Speaker 1: Achievas at Setaa. So yesterday Marilow comes out and he
Speaker 1: breaks down the numbers. We had numbers that were flying
Speaker 1: around all over the place. It's forty, it's this, it's
Speaker 1: this and all that. So the last piece of information
Speaker 1: that we had came out at like seven thirty last night,
Speaker 1: Eastern Time, says Our Louis Marrilo presented it like this,
Speaker 1: and this is translated. The club meaning Athletic Athleticie purchased
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the transfer rights from Leon for twenty
Speaker 1: one million euro plus five and add ons, so twenty
Speaker 1: six they purchased fifty percent of Tiago Almada the asset
Speaker 1: for twenty one plus five. They're signing him to a
Speaker 1: five year deal. I think twenty thirty. It might officially
Speaker 1: be a four, but it's a five, so they're defraying
Speaker 1: the cost over four or five years if they do
Speaker 1: not sell the player.
Speaker 2: This is from Marlow.
Speaker 1: If they do not sell the player within three years,
Speaker 1: who will sign until June of twenty thirty, they are obligated.
Speaker 1: So if they hang on to them through the end
Speaker 1: of the deal, they're obligated to acquire the other fifty
Speaker 1: percent from both to Fogo for ten million bucks ten
Speaker 1: million euros. And I apologize with my numbers. I have
Speaker 1: to double back occasionally and go pounds euros dollars. So
Speaker 1: the club purchases, meaning Athletic purchases fifty percent of the
Speaker 1: transfer rights from Leon for twenty one plus five. If
Speaker 1: they don't sell the player within three years who will
Speaker 1: sign until June twenty thirty.
Speaker 2: They are obligated to.
Speaker 1: Acquire the other fifty percent from Botha Fogo for ten
Speaker 1: million Europe. So that is what says Our Louis Marrilow
Speaker 1: reported last night at seven thirty. Now, going back to
Speaker 1: the information that we know, FIFA came out with a
Speaker 1: judgment against Eagle Football Holdings and I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that that wording is correct because the the machinations here.
Speaker 1: We have to really have to I'm not I'm going
Speaker 1: to try and walk through it but not get into
Speaker 1: the weeds on it, but it's something that we need
Speaker 1: to know. We need to have everything laid out. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Eagle Football, Egle Football Group, Eagle Football Holdings. So
Speaker 1: I found it interesting, among other things, that Eagle Football
Speaker 1: Holdings announced as leadership changes and they also filed for
Speaker 1: an IPO about a month ago according to Bloomberg. So
Speaker 1: you'll remember that FIFA issued a judgment on behalf of
Speaker 1: it Landy United where they agreed with it Landy United's
Speaker 1: position when it comes to Tiago Almada. You know, the
Speaker 1: whole idea of winning the summary judgment. However, you want
Speaker 1: to phrase it. So you end up with Atlanta's still
Speaker 1: not having been paid from this initial purchase of twenty
Speaker 1: one plus four involving Chiciago Almada and Eagle Football Holdings
Speaker 1: and all of that. So that's that's where that that's
Speaker 1: where we are on the initial complaint. FIFA ruled.
Speaker 2: That it was.
Speaker 1: Initially the initial complaint, FIFA ruled that Atlani United was
Speaker 1: owed ten then when the payment wasn't made, the ruling
Speaker 1: was Remember it was that two step payment where it
Speaker 1: was three million and three percent interest and then eighteen
Speaker 1: million and three percent interest over varying calendar lengths. One
Speaker 1: was nine months at three percent, the other was twelve
Speaker 1: months at three percent. I forget which one was which,
Speaker 1: but you end up is FIFA says Eagle Football Holdings
Speaker 1: oz it Landy United three million and three percent interest,
Speaker 1: eighteen million, three percent interest. Then the performance metrics were met,
Speaker 1: so that's another four million. So you're looking at twenty
Speaker 1: one million over two separate judgments awarded by FIFA and
Speaker 1: three percent interest, and then you end up with where
Speaker 1: you are right now. You end up with Eagle appealing,
Speaker 1: which is their right to do that that because of
Speaker 1: the political because of the the legal process involved in
Speaker 1: something like this.
Speaker 2: You are.
Speaker 1: You know it's it's I get it. You know you
Speaker 1: you're okay to appeal in this process. I get it,
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. I get it.
Speaker 2: That's fine, perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: So right now, all of the add ons three plus
Speaker 1: eighteen plus four and interest, that's a repeal that can't
Speaker 1: get touched.
Speaker 2: So you work from there.
Speaker 1: We know that it Land United has a sell on
Speaker 1: fee that is attached to the Thiago Almada transaction in
Speaker 1: the first place, so you're looking at that. So twenty
Speaker 1: one plus four plus interest, So three plus interest, eighteen
Speaker 1: plus interest, twenty one total plus interest over two separate transactions,
Speaker 1: add ons twenty five. If this goes through, we don't
Speaker 1: have we don't have Thiago holding up the jersey. We
Speaker 1: don't have him holding you know, we don't have him
Speaker 1: smiling over the contract with the pen over the top
Speaker 1: of it. And it depends not touching the contract. We
Speaker 1: don't have that photo yet. If that goes down, then
Speaker 1: Atlanta gets a sell on fee which I thought was
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood of twenty percent. I thought it was
Speaker 1: like fifteen to twenty percent. So you get another what
Speaker 1: So if it's twenty, it might be two, two or
Speaker 1: three or somewhere in there. Tyler's in the bullpen. He's waiting.
Speaker 2: So you are.
Speaker 1: Looking at a transaction on the whole in the neighborhood
Speaker 1: of thirty million dollars. Probably if you do the math
Speaker 1: once again, three plus three percent, eighteen plus three percent
Speaker 1: add ons four sell on more.
Speaker 2: That's where we are here. So if we get the photo.
Speaker 1: Of Tiago Almada doing this, you're looking at thirty million bucks.
Speaker 1: But because of the legal process being what it is,
Speaker 1: Eagle Football Holdings is entitled to appeal under what grounds?
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but they are entitled to appeal.
Speaker 1: That's where we are in this process. So I bring
Speaker 1: in Tyler. How in the blue hell is John Texter
Speaker 1: allowed to function as an owner with all of the
Speaker 1: things that he is doing, getting leone in trouble, getting
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace in trouble, whether competition or what have you,
Speaker 1: having to sell his Crystal Palace stake to Woody Johnson
Speaker 1: for two hundred and eighty nine million dollars. But I
Speaker 1: had thirty nine percent. But I didn't have you know,
Speaker 1: I had no undue influence wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Once again,
Speaker 1: we have no proof that he doesn't have undue influence
Speaker 1: for a double negative, and my mom would be driven
Speaker 1: crazy as an English major here. So we're talking about
Speaker 1: something under appeal.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm still wondering how he is allowed to function as
Speaker 1: an owner. And after this, I told you that you
Speaker 1: were probably coming in and I was going to be.
Speaker 2: Hot this morning.
Speaker 3: I'm not there with you. I like it. So let's
Speaker 3: start the day off right.
Speaker 2: Let's I mean it's but I mean it's right, it's news.
Speaker 1: It's right there, and uh Atlane United right now is
Speaker 1: staring at three plus three percent eighteen plus three percent
Speaker 1: under appeal plus add ons plus a sellon from one
Speaker 1: dude who apparently loves him his Popeye cartoons from growing up,
Speaker 1: because he's handling things like Wimpy, I'll gladly pay you
Speaker 1: tuesday for a Hamburger today, and it is the soccer
Speaker 1: equivalent of that, I'll gladly pay you tuesday for Thiago
Speaker 1: Almada today and then sit there and gum up the works.
Speaker 2: Legally what have you. This is a guy who wanted
Speaker 2: to and this.
Speaker 1: Is in the athletics. So if anybody wants to go back.
Speaker 1: And this has to do with the time of the sale.
Speaker 1: This is an entity who basically told the French version
Speaker 1: of the FA because the FA was there the DNCG
Speaker 1: for Alphabet suit.
Speaker 2: He tells the.
Speaker 1: DNCG, Hey, you know what, why don't I just slide
Speaker 1: some funds over from both to Fogo to cover up
Speaker 1: what's wrong here at Leon. He literally said that back.
Speaker 1: I think it was like in November. He's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: how about I do this. I'll take both to Fogo money,
Speaker 1: slide it over and that'll help out what's going on
Speaker 1: with the problems with Leon. The DNCG was like, nah, fam,
Speaker 1: that's not how this works, and so that's why you
Speaker 1: had the temporary relegation to Legdeux and all of that
Speaker 1: chaos going on here.
Speaker 2: I do not know.
Speaker 1: How anyone going forward would want to do any kind
Speaker 1: of business with John Texter.
Speaker 2: And here is the guy.
Speaker 1: The irony of this is the Texter with the two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty nine million that he's getting from what
Speaker 1: he Johnson to take his thirty nine percent stake from
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace. He's interested in purchasing Sheffield Wednesday, whose owner
Speaker 1: dafon Chan Siri is well known in English circles for
Speaker 1: not paying bills, not paying his or is he united
Speaker 1: hang on just saying it's it's like chan Seri nomics
Speaker 1: it was. That's a phrase coined by Kien maguire. So
Speaker 1: Sheffield it's I have to get my Sheffield's correct here.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get I don't want to get
Speaker 1: people eight, I don't want to get Yeah it was yeah.
Speaker 1: So Sheffield Wednesday is dafon Chan Siri. So daefon Chan
Speaker 1: Siri hasn't paid players like multiple occasions, he's been fined,
Speaker 1: He's had points doc from Sheffield Wednesday.
Speaker 2: So the irony that John.
Speaker 1: Texter wants to purchase Sheffield Wednesday from dafon Chen Siri
Speaker 1: is just amazing in the ether that he wants to
Speaker 1: do this. And Sheffield Windnesday is selling their new jersey
Speaker 1: for this year, their new shirt for.
Speaker 2: Seventy two bucks.
Speaker 1: Seventy two dollars for their new jersey and it hasn't
Speaker 1: changed a look.
Speaker 2: Except for maybe bigger stripes.
Speaker 1: West Promise selling theos for sixty, Bolton is selling theirs
Speaker 1: for sixty, Stoke is selling theirs for fifty five. But
Speaker 1: Dafon CHANCERI a guy that doesn't pay his bills and
Speaker 1: might be selling to John Texter who's not paying his bills.
Speaker 2: They want to charge his seventy two.
Speaker 1: Stalled apparently, is what we're saying on the takeover of
Speaker 1: Sheffield Wednesday by anybody away from dayfon Chancerie.
Speaker 2: How are we old? How are we literally?
Speaker 1: How can John Texter conduct any business as an owner?
Speaker 1: As my head is starting to hurt this morning over
Speaker 1: all of this discussion, and how a club, if things
Speaker 1: fall after appeals and signings and such, you could have
Speaker 1: a club that we cover on a fairly decent basis
Speaker 1: be searching for thirty million dollars by the end of
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 3: I think what you're gonna end up seeing happen is
Speaker 3: the sale is going to go through to Madrid. Right,
Speaker 3: it's Madrid, Right, I'm get Madrid. Yeah. And then at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, look, I mean if it's
Speaker 3: forty million euro.
Speaker 2: Fee appeal, yeah, appeal.
Speaker 3: Inevitably that I mean they're going to lose this appeal
Speaker 3: because it's stupid, And I think whatever the equivalent of
Speaker 3: a judge in this situation is going to look at
Speaker 3: it and say uh, y'all agreed to make the purchase
Speaker 3: of Thiago Amata for twenty one million plus add ons
Speaker 3: confirmed yesterday all those the add ons, the stipulations have
Speaker 3: been met, so they now owe twenty five million. Then
Speaker 3: you add in that the whatever the cell On fee is,
Speaker 3: you know, the the fee slash percentage which I think
Speaker 3: it's more of a fee than a percentage anyway.
Speaker 2: Fifteen or twenty percent something like four something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the the ultimately yeah, the thirty million mark
Speaker 3: is about where you're looking. So that forty million euros
Speaker 3: is just going to turn around and go straight to
Speaker 3: Atlanta or should go straight?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: Should should?
Speaker 1: What's the other element of this is.
Speaker 2: Is it is?
Speaker 1: Is is Garth Lockerway slash Chris Henderson slash skating off
Speaker 1: singer slash Demetrius to stot to you?
Speaker 2: Uh are they are?
Speaker 4: They?
Speaker 1: Like number one, it's like you go wandering, You go
Speaker 1: wandering into the the the completely and totally just uh
Speaker 1: on the list pre cream colored office space with the
Speaker 1: with the window that slides and has the the the
Speaker 1: little carriage underneath of it. Whereas you have the sliding
Speaker 1: window and you've got the red light that says serving
Speaker 1: number whatever.
Speaker 2: You know, the four of them.
Speaker 1: Go walking, you know, do the four of them go
Speaker 1: walking into a room sit down? And those really uncomfortable
Speaker 1: metal chairs that have that are just plastic and plastic backing,
Speaker 1: and yes, serving number four?
Speaker 2: Is that number four four?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: And then you go walking up to the window and
Speaker 1: then you have your business taken care of. That's the
Speaker 1: other question in this. Yeah, where are at Land United
Speaker 1: in the queue when it comes to dealing with Eagle
Speaker 1: Football holdings?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: They are they serving number one? Are they the largest?
Speaker 1: Are they the largest debtor? And is that how it
Speaker 1: goes to the front of the line or is it
Speaker 1: chronological with the number of folks that he hasn't been
Speaker 1: doing business with that he's completed deals with.
Speaker 2: That's my biggest question in this. Yeah, Land United in
Speaker 2: the queue?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think what's gonna end up happening is, you know, again,
Speaker 3: the sale will go through and then you're probably gonna
Speaker 3: see I would imagine at some point FIFA step in
Speaker 3: and say this is how it's gonna be, this is
Speaker 3: this is what the deal is. John Texter. You you suck, like,
Speaker 3: get your head screwed on straight.
Speaker 2: And today I feel.
Speaker 3: Like a jerk. Yeah, but no, I mean like they're
Speaker 3: gonna have to settle it out, figure it out, you know,
Speaker 3: and it may take even longer, you know, And that's
Speaker 3: how appeal processes and all that stuff work. I don't
Speaker 3: think you're going to see the end of this saga
Speaker 3: in the next three or four months. I think it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a little bit longer than that. But ultimately,
Speaker 3: I mean, he's gonna have to pay everybody that he
Speaker 3: owes and kind of figure it out because otherwise, like
Speaker 3: you've got a Stella. I don't know if you can
Speaker 3: hear Stella, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You hear Stella. Stella is not happy. Stelle is not
Speaker 1: even happy about John Texter.
Speaker 3: I know, she's like, this is some bull crap. I
Speaker 3: gotta get in there and say some stuff. But no,
Speaker 3: I mean you're gonna end up having him probably be
Speaker 3: pulled through the ringer when it's all said and done.
Speaker 3: As far as Almada is concerned. I mean, that's a
Speaker 3: big black eye because anytime you bring in a guy
Speaker 3: like Almada into the news, it's going to be, you know,
Speaker 3: front page of a lot of different outlets. I mean,
Speaker 3: I told I think I told you when I was
Speaker 3: in Portugal when the Benfica rumor was going on, I
Speaker 3: turned on the TV and it was Thiago Almada possibly
Speaker 3: to Minfica, and like it was a big thing. You
Speaker 3: bring in a player of his caliber, his quality, and
Speaker 3: naturally the spotlight's gonna be on whoever's dealing with him.
Speaker 3: And John Texter and the Eagle Football Group have been
Speaker 3: on nothing but the negative end of all that pr
Speaker 3: now for about what six months now, it seems like,
Speaker 3: and it's probably gonna go longer. I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: But if FIFA can step in and make the Philadelphia
Speaker 3: Union pay seven dollars and a happy meal to a
Speaker 3: club in I think it was Columbia or Venezuela for
Speaker 3: just a little bit of money that they missed because
Speaker 3: somebody forgotten to like, I don't know, get a stamp,
Speaker 3: put it yeah, something like get yeah exactly. They can
Speaker 3: step in and keep Philly from, you know, essentially doing
Speaker 3: any kind of transfers until they paid this seven dollars
Speaker 3: and in a happy meal. They can step in for thirty
Speaker 3: million plus, and they they better step in for thirty
Speaker 3: million plus. That's insane.
Speaker 1: But I mean they technically already have with the three
Speaker 1: plus three percent and the eighteen plus three percent. But
Speaker 1: because of due process in this and like I said,
Speaker 1: I would love to know what the due process is
Speaker 1: for the appeal for Eagle over the initial twenty one
Speaker 1: over two separate transactions and three percent interest. I'd love
Speaker 1: to know what the idea on the original appeal is.
Speaker 3: I don't want to read what the grounds for the
Speaker 3: appeal was, Like what is your reasoning?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's yeah, it's so so that it's I
Speaker 1: you know, with all of this stuff going on, I mean,
Speaker 1: we can we can separate Thiago Amada going to Athletic,
Speaker 1: which is fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do not mis.
Speaker 1: Understand this under any auspice or circumstance. Thiago Almada going
Speaker 1: from Atlanta United to both the Fogo to Leon under
Speaker 1: the Eagle umbrella, now to Atletico Madrid. Are you blanking
Speaker 1: kidding me? That's fantastic. Yeah, but it's politics involved.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing is, like it can never just
Speaker 3: be something simple. I feel bad for Thiago because it's like,
Speaker 3: you just wanted to go to Europe and play football. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been the most roundabout through mordor way to get
Speaker 3: to Europe and play soccer, and he's done it valiantly,
Speaker 3: like he he as a person and a player, has
Speaker 3: done nothing but just go ball. And I think that's
Speaker 3: great for him. And it's just it's frustrating. It has
Speaker 3: to be the you know, not the source of but
Speaker 3: in a way partially the victim of all the bull
Speaker 3: crap that's had to go on to get him there.
Speaker 3: And I mean, yeah, look, if you made a mistake
Speaker 3: with your books, you just got to own up and
Speaker 3: do it. And I feel like this appeal process is
Speaker 3: genuinely just a stalling tactic to figure out the books
Speaker 3: and get the right so that he can then go
Speaker 3: and and do the right thing. I don't think the
Speaker 3: guy's being like genuinely malicious. I think he's just his
Speaker 3: accountant got a little little handsy and screwed something up
Speaker 3: and now that he's trying to fix it.
Speaker 1: And I mean it is yeah, like I said, and
Speaker 1: I'm chasing, I'm trying to find and it's never readily available.
Speaker 1: But I mean if you do, if you do the
Speaker 1: following search, if you do like a John Exter search
Speaker 1: on the Google machine, here's what you here's what you
Speaker 1: come up with. Crystal Palace Co owner John Texter believes
Speaker 1: club will compete John Texter versus Nocerol Khalafi, a French
Speaker 1: football feud. Then we have folks on YouTube are sitting
Speaker 1: there saying he shouldn't own anything else. Leon owner John
Speaker 1: Texter to reduce roll after relegation. June twenty eight. John
Speaker 1: Texter issues parting dig as he explains decision to sell
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace June twenty third asset class Texter soccer saga
Speaker 1: from our friends at Front Office. And so here's July tenth.
Speaker 1: July tenth, this is a week ago. Texter sues investors
Speaker 1: after they sue him over a failed billion dollar soccer merger.
Speaker 1: John Texter claims to investors with dubious ties to Russian
Speaker 1: Oligark's bamboozled.
Speaker 2: This is Front Office Sports.
Speaker 1: Bamboozled him into signing a complicated financing deal that was
Speaker 1: meant to take at Soccer Empire Public And this is
Speaker 1: what we were talking about with the IPO that was
Speaker 1: proposed to Bloomberg Tech. Exter sued James Dining and Alexander
Speaker 1: Canaster and their company Iconic Sports Eagle Investment in a
Speaker 1: Florida federal lawsuit.
Speaker 2: July four Happy Birthday America.
Speaker 1: Dinan's the founder of hedge fund York Capital Management, part
Speaker 1: owner of the Bucks. Canaster owns Pamplona Capital Management. Texture
Speaker 1: suit claims he was defrauded by way of a complex
Speaker 1: financing arrangement tied to an ill fated go public deal
Speaker 1: for Eagle Football Holdings Limited DA.
Speaker 3: You didn't read the fine print, read.
Speaker 2: The document before you sign it.
Speaker 1: How many times have we seen that rese According to Texter,
Speaker 1: the deal was destined to fail because Canaster and other
Speaker 1: investors in Iconic had close financial ties with Russian individuals
Speaker 1: and assets that were the subject of international sanctions. However,
Speaker 1: his suit was filed after Iconic sued Texter in the
Speaker 1: UK July third, alleging Texters failed to pay up under
Speaker 1: a put option tied to a special purpose acquisition company
Speaker 1: or a spack merger meant to take Eagle Football Holding
Speaker 1: public at one point two billion EVAIL under the put option,
Speaker 1: which could be triggered if the spack merger was not
Speaker 1: completed by a certain day. Iconic paid a pound for
Speaker 1: the right to compel Texter to buy back their seventy
Speaker 1: five million dollar stake in Eagle Football for that cost
Speaker 1: plus annual interest. As of today, the total cost when
Speaker 1: including interest is a little under ninety four million dollars
Speaker 1: according to the suit. And then you get reports from
Speaker 1: Russia in twenty two about Canaster Iconic suit. Spokesperson for
Speaker 1: Iconic sid in the emailed statement, Texter suit represents an
Speaker 1: attempt to delay and frustrate ongoing legal proceedings in the
Speaker 1: recovery of the debt obligation, and that John Texter now
Speaker 1: appears to be resorting to fictional and easily disprovable claims
Speaker 1: against Iconic Sports and its directors end quote. He's still
Speaker 1: trying to take Eagle Football Holding public, by the way,
Speaker 1: once again making that IPO filing with the sec meaning
Speaker 1: not Greig Sankee's sec but the Securities in Exchange Commission.
Speaker 1: So it seems that it seems that John Law might
Speaker 1: be chasing John Texter, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a little bit. They need to watch on
Speaker 3: John FIFA before John FIFA decides to make John Texter
Speaker 3: disappear for all the money that is now owed involving
Speaker 3: soccer related activities. I mean, I mean, it's a little ridiculous.
Speaker 3: It's I mean, you know, it's embarrassing. But again, I
Speaker 3: I don't blame Texture and the Eagle Football group for
Speaker 3: trying to stall. I mean I would do the same thing.
Speaker 3: You know, give me a little bit of time to
Speaker 3: make up some money. Like you have a team that
Speaker 3: just won lots of things, a couple of teams that
Speaker 3: just won lots of things, Like it's not like the
Speaker 3: teams are terrible that he owns, And that's what's wild
Speaker 3: to me. Like there has to be some revenue streams
Speaker 3: that you can take advantage of somewhere involving Botafogo and Leon,
Speaker 3: I mean in Crystal Palace for that matter. Like I
Speaker 3: understand Crystal Palace is just kind of like a you know,
Speaker 3: a mid table to low table, like.
Speaker 2: Happy to be there.
Speaker 3: They're happy to be there, but but they're there, and
Speaker 3: they're there consistently. There's gotta be some like significant, especially
Speaker 3: in Brazil, revenue streams that you could take advantage of
Speaker 3: that I feel like they're not taking advantage of.
Speaker 1: UH twenty sixth February twenty twenty five decision of the
Speaker 1: Player's Status Chamber regarding a contractual dispute concerning the player
Speaker 1: Thiago Ezekiel Almada by Javier Vijande Pignas Argentina claimant Atlanta
Speaker 1: and I a fc USA respondent saf but the Fogo
Speaker 1: Comap Brazil facts of the case were presented and it
Speaker 1: is a document. So here what i'll what I will
Speaker 1: do is public service and it is a fifteen page
Speaker 1: document for public. Let me hang on, hang on, I'll
Speaker 1: post I'll post the link here in the in the chat,
Speaker 1: and so we might be reading some of the greatest
Speaker 1: hits here this morning, just just so folks can understand.
Speaker 1: So there there is your there is your link to
Speaker 1: the ALMADA documents. And uh does the claimant have standing
Speaker 1: to sue? Regarding the claimants standing to sue? Single Judge
Speaker 1: considered the claimant's arguments in favor of its standing to
Speaker 1: be persuasive. Single Judge concluded that, indeed, the claimant has
Speaker 1: standing to bring the present claim before FIFA. What is
Speaker 1: the amount owed by the respondent? Turning to the amounts claimed,
Speaker 1: the single judge pointed out that the parties do not
Speaker 1: dispute that the respondent failed to pay to the claimant
Speaker 1: the first two of ten installments of the transfer fee
Speaker 1: arising from the transfer agreement within their due dates, and
Speaker 1: they indeed remained outstanding. Nonetheless, the single judge remarked that
Speaker 1: the respondent disputes that the acceleration clause was unambiguous in
Speaker 1: awarding the entire remaining balance of the transfer fee, and
Speaker 1: therefore should be interpreted against the claimant in so far
Speaker 1: as only the first unpaid first two installments are owed
Speaker 1: as a consequence of non payment. So, if I'm understanding
Speaker 1: this correctly, there were ten I think windows that had
Speaker 1: to be hit. So they hit the first two and
Speaker 1: then they missed, and so then you miss and then
Speaker 1: that means that the other eight kick in, I think,
Speaker 1: if I'm reading this correctly, yeah, So page nine, Element
Speaker 1: forty six. Single Judge wished to mention that it would
Speaker 1: be an unreasonable reading of the clause to interpret the
Speaker 1: provision to mean that in the event of an installment
Speaker 1: being overdue for thirty days, that respective amount was now
Speaker 1: due immediately without notice, as the amount was already due.
Speaker 1: The single judge found that the language the total amount
Speaker 1: of such payment shall be immediately become due is sufficiently
Speaker 1: clear to establish that the total amount of the transfer
Speaker 1: fee was accelerated upon non payment for thirty days of
Speaker 1: any installment. Hence, Section forty seven and in accordance with
Speaker 1: the principle pacta sunt servanda packed having been served. That's
Speaker 1: Latin folks, two years of Latin high school and college.
Speaker 1: The Single Judge decided to award the claimant the full
Speaker 1: transfer fee in the amount of the USD twenty one million,
Speaker 1: net of any taxes or any other deductions. Regarding interest,
Speaker 1: the Single Judge noted that the claimant that the interest
Speaker 1: shall accrue as from twenty two July of last year,
Speaker 1: which it stated reflected the date of the invoice sent
Speaker 1: by Major League Soccer for the first installment, first intelallment
Speaker 1: three million.
Speaker 3: Bits of the regulatingly, oh yeah, interestingly. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: you were kind of you were hitting on it, but
Speaker 3: like so, yeah, it has like an acceleration clause. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so if you miss the payments, yeah, for thirty days,
Speaker 3: then you owe everything. The fact that they were trying
Speaker 3: to say that Atlanta United can't sue us because they
Speaker 3: weren't the ones that signed the contract is kind of
Speaker 3: wild to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think that they're the the legality in
Speaker 1: that with MLS being an umbrella entity. Yeah, you're pursuing
Speaker 1: the the legal language of well, they can't sue us
Speaker 1: MLS would have to sue, right. Thiago Almatta technically is
Speaker 1: a player of Major League Soccer and Atlanta United is
Speaker 1: like a sub licensee or is a franchisee of So,
Speaker 1: like if if you owned your what's your favorite fast
Speaker 1: food joint?
Speaker 3: I mean I was, I knew where you were going,
Speaker 3: and my first thought was McDonald's, even though I hate McDonald's.
Speaker 1: But yeah, So like if you owned a McDonald's and
Speaker 1: you know, dude forgot, you know, dude didn't pay a bill,
Speaker 1: and it's like, so he ordered a happy Meal, goes
Speaker 1: into Tyler Pilgrim's licensed McDonald's. Somebody wanders in, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want a Happy Meal, and it's like okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And then you take the happy Meal and
Speaker 1: you haven't you haven't key carted the.
Speaker 2: Payment, and you just run out the door.
Speaker 1: Basically, let's say, for the sake of example an argument,
Speaker 1: So you take the happy Meal, you leave Tyler Pilgrims.
Speaker 1: McDonald's tries to go and sue the guy for taking
Speaker 1: the Happy Meal away from the store. The guy in
Speaker 1: return says, no, you can't sue me. McDonald's has to
Speaker 1: sume me for me taking the meal out of the
Speaker 1: store and enjoying the meal. I think that's the language
Speaker 1: that we're staring at here from Eagle to the FIFA
Speaker 1: judgment back in February. And that now means that we've
Speaker 1: had yet another quarter of a calendar pass us by
Speaker 1: to a crew. I would I would guess even more
Speaker 1: interest in this. So the decision of the player's status chamber.
Speaker 3: It looks like five percent three so.
Speaker 1: All right, So it's so it's five percent instead of
Speaker 1: three Okay, so it.
Speaker 3: Was two annual interest?
Speaker 2: Yes, so yeah, per ANMPA.
Speaker 1: So the claimant is partially accepted the claim of the
Speaker 1: claimant as opposed to the defendant. The defendant the respondent
Speaker 1: Botafogo must pay to the claimant. Like I said, This
Speaker 1: is page thirteen of this document released late February. Three
Speaker 1: million net of any taxes is an outstanding remuneration plus
Speaker 1: five percent interest per annum as of twenty two July
Speaker 1: until the date of effective payment.
Speaker 2: Then the other.
Speaker 1: Eighteen so it's I'm guessing it's like two and then
Speaker 1: eight of the ten of the ten sections, eighteen million
Speaker 1: out of any taxes or any other deductions is outstanding
Speaker 1: remuneration plus five percent interest per annum as from August
Speaker 1: thirty of last year until the date of the effective
Speaker 1: payment any further any any further claims of the claimant
Speaker 1: are rejected. A fine in the amount of US one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars imposed on the respondent, which
Speaker 1: must be paid to FIFA within thirty days of the
Speaker 1: notification of the decision.
Speaker 2: We don't know if that happened, but.
Speaker 1: It's good to know where you can send money to
Speaker 1: FIFA if you want to. To a UBS and Zurich,
Speaker 1: full payment shall be made to the bank account indicated
Speaker 1: in the enclosed bank Account registration form and if pursue
Speaker 1: it to Article twenty four, full payment is not made
Speaker 1: within forty five days, so that would have been into February,
Speaker 1: so mid April. Respondent shall be banned from registering any
Speaker 1: new players, either nationally or internationally, up until the due
Speaker 1: amount is paid. So you're in a transfer band technically
Speaker 1: for Leon right now. But you see text texture disposes
Speaker 1: of crystal palace, so they're absolved. And so now whatever
Speaker 1: he has left in the plate, both the foego you
Speaker 1: think you think fans are mad. You look both the
Speaker 1: foego in a transfer ban. You think the fans will
Speaker 1: be mad about that. I think they would be just
Speaker 1: a bit, just a little bit. Maximum duration of the
Speaker 1: band shall be of up to three entire and consecutive windows,
Speaker 1: So basically you've got three windows to sit there and
Speaker 1: go yes, no, yeah, yes, yes yes. Present matters shall
Speaker 1: be submitted upon request to the Disciplinary Committee and they've
Speaker 1: got the full payment is still not made by the
Speaker 1: end of three entire and consecutive registration period, so if
Speaker 1: we go through.
Speaker 2: Summer window, Christmas window.
Speaker 1: Summer windows, so then if the full amount is not
Speaker 1: paid by next summer, it goes to the disco. So
Speaker 1: now if I think that's where we are, final costs
Speaker 1: of the proceedings, the amount of twenty five thousand are
Speaker 1: to be paid by the respondent to FIFA, So so
Speaker 1: you got to keep an eye on Eagle until next summer.
Speaker 1: If you're a both a Fogo fan, you're in a
Speaker 1: transfer embargo until the twenty one million plus five percent
Speaker 1: pro rated is paid.
Speaker 2: And what did you find?
Speaker 3: Sorry, I was ridden, You're good. This kind of goes
Speaker 3: to what Lokeville was saying about US law. The party
Speaker 3: that drafted the agreement doesn't get to argue ambiguous language.
Speaker 3: I found the assignment clause and it's pretty straightforward. It
Speaker 3: says it is further acknowledged and agreed by both the
Speaker 3: Fogo that in addition to MLS, here we go, the
Speaker 3: MLS team shall have the right and standing to enforce
Speaker 3: the terms of this agreement for and on behalf of
Speaker 3: MLS and itself, including, but without limitation, enforcing the terms
Speaker 3: of this agreement against Botafogo and any proceedings commenced before
Speaker 3: any competent body, including FIFA, in the Court of Arbitration
Speaker 3: for Sport. So that right there, with what you were
Speaker 3: saying about the McDonald's analogy, that right there tells you, like, no,
Speaker 3: it's pretty straightforward. Atlanta has the right to if they want, yeah,
Speaker 3: and and that and the thing is like that clause.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure MLS their lawyers probably tell any club
Speaker 3: in any transfer agreement, you have to include this to
Speaker 3: cover yourself because of what you thought about. But I
Speaker 3: mean that that right there tells you all you need
Speaker 3: to know their base if that's their basis for the appeal,
Speaker 3: which I'm assuming it is because that's what they argued
Speaker 3: in the first place. That the again, it's just a
Speaker 3: stalling tactic. This is just their way of biding their time,
Speaker 3: trying to make a little bit more money to even
Speaker 3: out the books and do what they gotta do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so that way, you know, Leon is not
Speaker 1: in violation of PSR Profit and Sustainability or FFP, financial
Speaker 1: fair play or choice see all of the above. But
Speaker 1: so now I'm imagining and like I said, Like I said,
Speaker 1: We've reached out to folks that are experts in this field,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that we can have them on next
Speaker 1: week to break down owners and how they're allowed to
Speaker 1: function continually. You've got Die Young at Reading, You've got
Speaker 1: Davon Chan Siri at Sheffield Wednesday, and Ketsi did make
Speaker 1: the point accurately that is Sheffield today and elements like that,
Speaker 1: how they're allowed to continue to function and basically try
Speaker 1: to spin one thing off to the other or just
Speaker 1: ignore the process entirely and not pay your players and
Speaker 1: not do all this kind of stuff. So I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find one expert in particular I've reached out to.
Speaker 1: I want to try to have them on the show
Speaker 1: next week to break down all of this stuff. But
Speaker 1: this appears that it is a stalling tactic of some degree,
Speaker 1: and because there were initial numbers out there that was
Speaker 1: going to say it was forty and all this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. And I know that Atlanta United fans were
Speaker 1: sitting there going, oh, they're gonna get paid once again.
Speaker 1: We don't know where it sadly, we don't know where
Speaker 1: the queue is. We don't know who is who is
Speaker 1: in the queue, and where Atlanta United and A and
Speaker 1: B s C is in this discussion, despite what FIFA
Speaker 1: has awarded late February, and despite you know, Judge Hatchett
Speaker 1: waiting for the two parties to come wandering into the
Speaker 1: courtroom for another episode of of you know, Judge Judy
Speaker 1: or what have you.
Speaker 3: They're gonna get paid. It's just a matter of when
Speaker 3: we do.
Speaker 5: We know this.
Speaker 3: I feel like what And I don't have any basis
Speaker 3: for this. This is just common sense. And Tyler Pilgrim said,
Speaker 3: this is what I think happens. I think if he
Speaker 3: does kind of default on this whole situation, all of it.
Speaker 3: FIFA essentially makes makes the money situation happen because they
Speaker 3: are such a massive organization and you do want to
Speaker 3: keep the ones who have done right happy and and
Speaker 3: they go after Eagle slash text or slash whatever in
Speaker 3: another another venue.
Speaker 1: And do you I mean, like I said, this is
Speaker 1: me spitballing law and order here and I feel like
Speaker 1: I need the drop to time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically, do you does it?
Speaker 1: You know, does it get to the point to where
Speaker 1: the money that was allegedly spent by Woody Johnson to
Speaker 1: John Texter does that come into play here? Can you
Speaker 1: do that kind of an intercept if you are the FA,
Speaker 1: if you are.
Speaker 2: You know whomever FIFA.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing, It's like you're dealing You're dealing
Speaker 1: with multiple bodies here where Woody Johnson just as the example,
Speaker 1: Woody Johnson buys the thirty nine percent share of Crystal
Speaker 1: Palace from Eagle?
Speaker 2: Is that an FA deal? Or is that a FIFA deal?
Speaker 1: And then do you sit there and do you go,
Speaker 1: you know where where in the courts does this go?
Speaker 2: What I love the grocery store we're talking about here?
Speaker 2: Do we go?
Speaker 1: Do we go where lawsuits or a pleasure? And then
Speaker 1: figure this whole thing out. It's like who's who's in
Speaker 1: the right uh, you know, who is who's in the
Speaker 1: the right lane of traffic?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 1: To make sure that this thirty million dollars by the
Speaker 1: time it gets sorted, perhaps gets figured out who's who's lane?
Speaker 2: Who's lane? Are we in here?
Speaker 3: Well, if if this were in again from a massive
Speaker 3: organization slash sporting standpoint involving you know, multiple organizations, I
Speaker 3: don't know that this would apply, but in smaller terms
Speaker 3: that what you would have happened is essentially FIFA or
Speaker 3: MLS slash Atlanta whoever is owed money if one sale
Speaker 3: goes through, then there would basically be a lean placed
Speaker 3: on you know, that organization that says, whether it's any
Speaker 3: more money you make, garnish your wages type situation, or
Speaker 3: when you go to sell anything, that money has to
Speaker 3: go toward where it's owed first before you can start
Speaker 3: doing anything with it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, that's and that's the that's the rub
Speaker 1: in all of this. Where is it, Laney? Where is
Speaker 1: a MBSC in the queue?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who else is publicly aggrieved by Eagle Football Holdings?
Speaker 2: Is this? Is this this lawsuit that is alleged ties.
Speaker 1: That we've talked about on Front Office Sports with the
Speaker 1: alleged Russian ties, are they are they higher up in
Speaker 1: the queue or do you go by because because John
Speaker 1: Texter and Eagle have not filed for bankruptcy protection. It's
Speaker 1: not creditors who have the largest amount to lose. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing it has to do with the calendar and not
Speaker 1: the amount of money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so wow, Pars has done the math.
Speaker 1: So Pars looks like and this is Pars has done
Speaker 1: the math this morning, and it looks like according to Pars,
Speaker 1: your neighbor, well we figure thirty US. So Pars has
Speaker 1: it at twenty nine eight thirty plus fees Man twenty
Speaker 1: nine eight thirty right, and uh Loakville Eleen only if
Speaker 1: you can find standing in that country, and only the
Speaker 1: lawyers win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the thing I mean, And pars ball
Speaker 3: is pretty pretty spot on with the number. I think.
Speaker 3: The thing that kind of throws a wrench in all
Speaker 3: this local is the fact that this was a football
Speaker 3: tribunal in Argentina and so where things are filed. I
Speaker 3: don't know how all that plays in. You know, this
Speaker 3: is not like this is a like an actual court case,
Speaker 3: if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it is a it is a FIFA football tribunal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know what the rules would be
Speaker 3: behind that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you're you're talking about ah Man.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, they're both under FIFA,
Speaker 3: like you're both you're both part of that organization. So
Speaker 3: ultimately what it might come down to is where are
Speaker 3: they based At Switzerland They're.
Speaker 2: Based ye, I mean, get you some Swiss lawyer.
Speaker 3: In yeah, and banking, Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's it's a it's a cluster and there are lawyers
Speaker 3: that this is what they deal with specifically. So good
Speaker 3: for them, But I just don't think. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's going to be yeah, like asap that it's figured out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, So the ALMADA PDF is the requested required reading
Speaker 1: and printing for the day for for anyone that goes
Speaker 1: back and wants to go back and research the initial judgment,
Speaker 1: so that there there is your initial paperwork from the
Speaker 1: tail end of February involving at Landy United winning a decision.
Speaker 3: And they don't have any paperwork on the appeal do they?
Speaker 2: I have not seen anything in the appeal? Hango, hang on?
Speaker 2: Hang on?
Speaker 1: So uh the last so in uh so what documents?
Speaker 1: So what document was this?
Speaker 2: Where? What department? The tribunal? Nuts?
Speaker 1: Okay, so I've got a couple of things on Almada
Speaker 1: and wow, they actually had something with Pitty Martinez back
Speaker 1: in twenty three too.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, there were two two documents with Almada
Speaker 1: and uh it is the same fifteen page document that
Speaker 1: has been registered twice. So I I what you What
Speaker 1: I did is you got to inside dot FIFA dot
Speaker 1: com and you search and I'd searched for it Lanti
Speaker 1: United and you end up with uh Landy United FIFA redacted,
Speaker 1: and then you end up with the Almada judgment from
Speaker 1: late February and then pt and then other things. Is
Speaker 1: that No, that is not that's just United in the word,
Speaker 1: but not Atlanta United. But the Atlanta United. Last Atlanta
Speaker 1: United reference was back in February, February twenty fifth of
Speaker 1: this year. But nothing past that. When it comes to
Speaker 1: searching for documents inside FIFA, that's the last document that
Speaker 1: we have from the FIFA involving anything and Atlanta United.
Speaker 1: What does there need to be a FIFA credit rating? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean I would think that Atlanta United would be
Speaker 1: triple A and eagle. The eagle would probably be junk
Speaker 1: bond or the equivalent there in at this moment anyway.
Speaker 3: Got a three to fifty credit score.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know like when when Chris Washburn took
Speaker 1: his SATs and he got a three eighty you get
Speaker 1: four hundred for signing your name and watch less than
Speaker 1: a four hundred. Yeah, because apparently he answered wrong. He
Speaker 1: answered more wrong questions and then then it went below
Speaker 1: a four hundred. We've got a game to talk about tonight, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 5: We spent, We spent.
Speaker 2: We spent forty three minutes eight minutes. We spent forty
Speaker 2: eight minutes.
Speaker 1: Dissecting the Tiagua Mona case because I think it needed
Speaker 1: that dissection.
Speaker 3: I agree, I think it's insane and I hate that
Speaker 3: Atlanta has to be involved in it, but it is
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 1: And so we tried to cover it as best we
Speaker 1: could because literally, we could keep going and we would
Speaker 1: still be going down you know, rabbit holes and everything.
Speaker 1: But there are certain tent poles that we needed to
Speaker 1: kind of grasp on to here involving what is being said,
Speaker 1: who might be going where, what the.
Speaker 2: Cost is, and what the background is.
Speaker 1: And I thought that the background was important involving this
Speaker 1: particular transaction. And hopefully, like I said, we can get
Speaker 1: some experts in the field to kind of break down
Speaker 1: how owners are allowed to continue to function like this
Speaker 1: next week morning four card. So Atlanta United going up
Speaker 1: against Chicago. Chicago is not known for a solid backline,
Speaker 1: but they are known for scoring goals. And you know,
Speaker 1: you can go to your favorite bakery and get your
Speaker 1: good good loaf of z Incernagle and the Zinkernagle, Gudierirez
Speaker 1: Hugo Kuipers. You anticipate they're gonna score, but you also
Speaker 1: anticipate they're going to give them up too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that's kind of how I'm going into
Speaker 3: this one just on paper, but I am concerned with
Speaker 3: the fact that Atlanta has not really scored goals barring
Speaker 3: a penalty that almost got saved at the very end
Speaker 3: of the last game. I I gave my prediction over
Speaker 3: on scars and Spikes as a three to two win
Speaker 3: for Atlanta. Okay, because of the on paper version, they
Speaker 3: should score against a leaky back line, but to be fair,
Speaker 3: Burholter has got them scoring as well. I can only
Speaker 3: hope that just being back at the bins gives this
Speaker 3: team an extra gear and gets them locked in in
Speaker 3: a way that unfortunately we haven't really seen. I mean,
Speaker 3: to be fair, they're on a winning streak at home
Speaker 3: last two before this insane road trip that was everything
Speaker 3: we thought it would be, which was rough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, happened.
Speaker 3: They had some games that they won. They weren't like
Speaker 3: convincing wins necessarily, but they won. You know, they did
Speaker 3: the job. And I think Chicago's always been one of
Speaker 3: those teams with Atlanta that like you just really never
Speaker 3: know what you're going to get, even when like like it.
Speaker 3: Right now, Atlanta has been playing not great, Chicago's been
Speaker 3: playing pretty okay. I don't know that that's necessarily going
Speaker 3: to turn into what the score line looks like at
Speaker 3: the end of tonight.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm looking at a lot of goals and
Speaker 1: I think I think that you're onto I think you're
Speaker 1: onto a path with Atlanta at home. And so it
Speaker 1: is a it is a challenging three matches in eleven days,
Speaker 1: if my math is correct. And then after this one,
Speaker 1: the team comes down eighty five and the the self
Speaker 1: imposed number one rivals of Charlotte FC and Patrick Ajumong
Speaker 1: is now officially over to Darby County and we find
Speaker 1: out yesterday I don't know if you did you see.
Speaker 3: This yesterday with Ajimon, which which thing.
Speaker 1: The the the apparent reason that he's not going to
Speaker 1: be starting training in the season at Darby County at
Speaker 1: full time. I did not see this, Okay, So our
Speaker 1: friend Carol Walton, Carol worked here in town for the
Speaker 1: longest time, and so yesterday and Carol is with the
Speaker 1: Ledger and they are now waiting for the Commissioner himself
Speaker 1: to announce that b of A I think is going
Speaker 1: to have the next All Star Games. So yesterday, Carol writes,
Speaker 1: Patrick Ajimong will undergo surgery from a lingering hernia issue,
Speaker 1: which Darby County mentioned in its release in misopening games
Speaker 1: of the EFL season. Quote A Jiemong has been playing
Speaker 1: for most of the twenty five Major League Soccer season
Speaker 1: with a hernia injury that has been managed without surgery,
Speaker 1: but many he's been playing in discomfort with a long
Speaker 1: term view of mind. All parties have agreed he'll undergo
Speaker 1: routine surgery and is therefore likely to miss the opening
Speaker 1: games of the twenty five to twenty sixth season.
Speaker 2: So Dean Smith.
Speaker 1: And Patrick Agyemong, I guess came came to some kind
Speaker 1: of an agreement. Yo Big Pat, we kind of need
Speaker 1: you to play well, and we know you've been diagnosed
Speaker 1: with a hernia. Can you go Can you go out
Speaker 1: there and play forest fam Sure? So he was playing
Speaker 1: with a hernia problem. That's a tough dude.
Speaker 3: I was just about to say Abby brought it up
Speaker 3: in the chat. But if Atlanta United fans know anything
Speaker 3: about hernias situations, it's because of Sosa. And he went
Speaker 3: out for significant time and when he got back, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to say he lost a step, but he wasn't.
Speaker 3: It took him a while to get back into the
Speaker 3: swing of things, which could partially just be being off
Speaker 3: for so long, but like, this is not a quick
Speaker 3: thing that you return from. I mean, I guess if
Speaker 3: they're gonna do it, yeah, do it as soon as possible.
Speaker 3: He's got the whole rest of the season and then well,
Speaker 3: I'm not in their case. Offseason, yeah, you know, to
Speaker 3: get into what maybe the early fall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I would imagine where you know, he might
Speaker 1: miss the first say month, the first four or five
Speaker 1: matches of the season in the forty six match sprint
Speaker 1: that is the championship.
Speaker 3: But the fact that he's getting called up to the
Speaker 3: men's national team everything else.
Speaker 2: And still playing with a Hernia.
Speaker 3: Good for good for Pat. I I think Darby has
Speaker 3: been royally ripped off in this entire transaction. But that's
Speaker 3: just my opinion. They did it. They did it. It's
Speaker 3: not not my problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get I look, like I said, I
Speaker 1: get Big Pat all the credit in the world for
Speaker 1: playing with a Hernia and apparently doing so with see
Speaker 1: and and this also lends itself to the notion of uh,
Speaker 1: I assume Mario. No, I'm assuming.
Speaker 3: I would hope so.
Speaker 5: I would hope so.
Speaker 2: And you're still putting Big Pat out there.
Speaker 1: I would hope it adds It adds more to the uh,
Speaker 1: it adds more to the subtext and the context of everything.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, yeah, that's that's kind of wild.
Speaker 3: I don't imagine though. I don't know, man. I just
Speaker 3: I find it hard to believe that that Poachagino would,
Speaker 3: if he knew yeah, would would then go and say, hey, yeah,
Speaker 3: go ahead and play. I just unless they were able
Speaker 3: to wordplay it enough to where they were like, no, no,
Speaker 3: it's not that bad. It's not that bad, Like it's okay,
Speaker 3: he can play, but.
Speaker 2: He just it's not that bad.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have to have surgery of someone I don't know. Man,
Speaker 3: That's that's just really weird to me.
Speaker 1: So, uh, we'll I'll be busy tonight at Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 1: So SNS was last night and you had your your
Speaker 1: discussions last night. So the plans for tonight are are what, sir?
Speaker 1: When are you arriving at the arena?
Speaker 3: I will be there around five thirty, okay, and then
Speaker 3: the family's coming to Stella will be there, so I hope.
Speaker 2: Well Stella's getting so Stella was getting her pipes ready early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she's ready roll hopefully she can keep her
Speaker 3: streak alive as well. There you go, and then now
Speaker 3: we'll have our show tomorrow. These double match weeks throw
Speaker 3: throw wrenches in the Wednesday thing obviously, okay, So yeah
Speaker 3: tomorrow and then obviously doing it all again this weekend.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well, make sure that Stella's pipes are
Speaker 1: good to go, and make sure that she is she's
Speaker 1: got the throat coat ready and that she's doing her
Speaker 1: thing and that she's you know, she's locked in place, yep,
Speaker 1: and she's ready to go. So get the tea going
Speaker 1: and then you know, give her a monster or a
Speaker 1: kickstarter something about six six thirty when fall asleep, so she.
Speaker 2: Can be ready to rage, ready to rock.
Speaker 1: As always, my friend, thank you for going down the
Speaker 1: road of economics this morning.
Speaker 3: Always I'm always here for it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like I said, I thought it was important
Speaker 1: to try to go is as in depth from as
Speaker 1: many different places of understanding as possible in all of this.
Speaker 1: But I will see you tonight and we will see
Speaker 1: you there and we'll catch up with you soon, my friend,
Speaker 1: don't be a stream. There goes Tyler, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: so this morning, like I said, I thought it was
Speaker 1: important to try and carry as much information forward as
Speaker 1: possible when it came to Thiago Almada and the chaos,
Speaker 1: the economic chaos that is attached. I mean, because you
Speaker 1: have right now, you have this, uh, you have this
Speaker 1: situation where I mean, if if you had a player
Speaker 1: that is as talented as Thiago Almada and you were
Speaker 1: what see, all right, let's let's let's think about this
Speaker 1: for a second. If you had Dylan Butler joining us
Speaker 1: in like a second and a half here, if you
Speaker 1: had and I'm gonna look at the standings and then
Speaker 1: we'll look at the ownership groups and things like that.
Speaker 1: So if you had say, let's see, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: see if there's somebody that isn't all of that financially,
Speaker 1: maybe a DC United with Jason Levian in that group.
Speaker 1: So it's like someone that really has a Salt Lake
Speaker 1: Sporting maybe someone in those veins if they were in
Speaker 1: the situation that Atlanta is in involving Thiago Almada where
Speaker 1: thirty million is hanging out there and you really needed it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's where we are right now. And
Speaker 1: so we bring in Dylan Butler from MLS Soccer dot Com. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dylan only spent the first hour discussing economics down here.
Speaker 1: Fun well, and because of the Thiago Almada transfer that
Speaker 1: is being reported from Botafogo to Athlete and Atlanta is
Speaker 1: still being owed money from a summary judgment from FIFA
Speaker 1: back in late February from the initial purchase by Eagle
Speaker 1: Football Group of Thiagua Almada to get him into both
Speaker 1: the Fogo Crystal Palace, Leon Chain and John Texter, and
Speaker 1: we had to go down that rabbit hole to kind
Speaker 1: of sit there and figure out where things stand. That's
Speaker 1: where we spent our first hour this morning talking economics
Speaker 1: down here and thirty million dollars and who who's in
Speaker 1: line to get that from Eagle Football Holdings in a
Speaker 1: situation like where are you in the queue serving number seven?
Speaker 2: You know who? Where are you in this kind of thing?
Speaker 5: So that's where we were.
Speaker 1: That's where we were this morning, trying to break everything
Speaker 1: down because uh, dude was told by FIFA, you know,
Speaker 1: Atlanta United money and then you sell the player again
Speaker 1: and so that's that's and it was just an odd
Speaker 1: transfer in the first place. And so yeah, so we
Speaker 1: spent our first hour not really discussing a whole lot
Speaker 1: about matches in the midweek, but about economics. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you are our savior and our salvation to discuss all
Speaker 1: the matches in the midweek.
Speaker 4: I don't know about that because I'm dealing my own
Speaker 4: economics and Newcastle here. Have you have you heard this? No?
Speaker 2: What's the latest?
Speaker 1: Oh well, I know that. What's what's up with ESOC
Speaker 1: and everything? I know that we exactly so ESAC staying
Speaker 1: not staying what's up?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, Liverpool allegedly reportedly have one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty million dollar bid in on them, which
Speaker 4: would be which would be a Premier League record or
Speaker 4: they're bandying about that amount. Uh you know, I know,
Speaker 4: I know we're shopping in Germany as well.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: The whole financial fair play nonsense obviously plays a factor.
Speaker 4: Like we we probably couldn't have both players on the roster,
Speaker 4: so I think, I think, what what is a painful
Speaker 4: lesson in all of this is as a Newcastle supporter,
Speaker 4: you know, and we're trying our darnedest to move up
Speaker 4: the food chain. Yes, the stark reality is that there
Speaker 4: is in fact a food chain and we ain't Liverpool yet.
Speaker 1: So no, but that that to me will be you know, where,
Speaker 1: how what would it take to keep him in house?
Speaker 1: Or do you sit there and go, well, it's nine
Speaker 1: figures to the left of the decimal place. We probably
Speaker 1: should boogie on that so we can invest it in
Speaker 1: other players and hopefully find someone that could be just
Speaker 1: as valuable.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's probably going to be a case of what,
Speaker 4: you know, what's the number? You know, like it's not
Speaker 4: it's like one twenty is what's being bandied about, you know,
Speaker 4: is it one fifty? You know, maybe one fifty would
Speaker 4: do it. It would be hard to turn down one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty million for Esach. Right, absolutely, he's outstanding.
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, I think uh, I think it's unfortunately
Speaker 4: it's it's it seems likely that would happen.
Speaker 1: Huh Fabrizio Romano at all making an approach to Newcastle
Speaker 1: with a fee of around one hundred and twenty million
Speaker 1: pounds being discussed. Gimme sports. Sources previously reported Liverpool considering
Speaker 1: making a player to secure Esocks and making a play
Speaker 1: to secure Esocks signature, willing to pay a British record
Speaker 1: fee to sign him this summer. Yeah, that I thought
Speaker 1: was one twenty and that's where Yeah, so one and
Speaker 1: twenty million pounds splashing the cash in the Estesoch pursuit.
Speaker 1: And this is uh Danny Rust and Ben Jacobs over
Speaker 1: at GMS and they're ready to shatterr the British transfer
Speaker 1: record for a second time in quick succession. Described as
Speaker 1: the best striker.
Speaker 2: In the world. And so, uh, he's on the clock.
Speaker 1: I mean, Milo's kirkash and Esach and one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty million and if that does, that does happen. I
Speaker 1: want to know what the market is for you Common
Speaker 1: Newcastle Comma in the trickle down trying to find folks
Speaker 1: to uh to get folks to replace that kind of scoring,
Speaker 1: because that's rough to get a FA.
Speaker 4: I mean the number I think, uh, I can't remember.
Speaker 4: I think it's the lever Cusian striker that were we're after.
Speaker 4: And I want to say, that's in the eighty ninety million.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's that's in the that's in the
Speaker 1: eighty and so, uh, your your fellow Jordie Alex. Look
Speaker 1: at what Liverpool did with the money from Kutino as
Speaker 1: a part of all of this discussion. At some point
Speaker 1: Newcastle will have to sell a player at peak to
Speaker 1: fuel transformation.
Speaker 4: That's what it just it just it sucks because like
Speaker 4: you know, it's I get the reasoning for the financial
Speaker 4: fair play, right, yeah, but financial fair play wasn't in
Speaker 4: play for Manchester City and Liverpool and Arsenal and Manchester United,
Speaker 4: like they all became these mega clubs before this happened,
Speaker 4: you know. Now all of a sudden, you know, like
Speaker 4: when when other clubs are looking to to kind of
Speaker 4: pierce the top grouping, you know there's financial fair play
Speaker 4: is involved.
Speaker 1: Yes, so uh nothing nothing like little FFP like more
Speaker 1: more economics down here. Uh So did you survive Open
Speaker 1: Cup after dark from last week? Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: Trying to remember back jo overtime.
Speaker 4: No, you know what I wasn't on Tuesday. I was
Speaker 4: on Wednesday. And my Wednesday started off brilliantly. I so
Speaker 4: I had. I had a double of can champ An
Speaker 4: Open Cup going right, So my Wednesday started off with, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, checking checking the socials. Oh look, there's a
Speaker 4: we're delayed in Philly. All right, We're off to the
Speaker 4: great start. Yes, let me let me tune into Montreal
Speaker 4: over here right. Uh, oh, wait a minute, there's a
Speaker 4: power outage as Statsaputo, we lost a feed. Oh wait no,
Speaker 4: the it's actually in the stadium. So now we're waiting
Speaker 4: on that. They decided to restart the match before they
Speaker 4: were able to restart the TV. So like Prince of
Speaker 4: WUSU scores, nobody sees it except for the couple thousand
Speaker 4: in the stadium.
Speaker 1: That stops t folks in the stadium.
Speaker 4: And then uh, and then what did I have that
Speaker 4: had the wildness of Nashville d C which effectively ended
Speaker 4: the Troy Lsine era.
Speaker 2: They are no longer l Saine in the membrane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and uh. And then it was Vancouver with
Speaker 4: a ninetieth minute winner to be the only MLS team
Speaker 4: to advance to the can Champ Final four. So it
Speaker 4: was a pretty wild Wednesday. Y.
Speaker 1: Yes, you had nothing going on, basically what you're saying,
Speaker 1: it was all boring. It is three matches in either
Speaker 1: eleven or twelve days for Major League Soccer, and tonight
Speaker 1: we got a lot of earlies. Are you on the
Speaker 1: desk tonight? I am okay for the whole thing, for
Speaker 1: the whole shmeir.
Speaker 4: Right up to the end of the wrap up show.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So I will I will end with Atlanta
Speaker 1: in Chicago Cincinnati and Messi and Friends. Messi and Friends
Speaker 1: are a plus one forty seven, slightly favored in the
Speaker 1: composite going to TQ well to take on FC Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: who's a plus one fifty or draws a plus two
Speaker 1: ninety one. That Messi guy's pretty good.
Speaker 4: We were last week. We were like, you know, he
Speaker 4: he scores a brace on Wednesday night right in New England.
Speaker 4: He does it again on Saturday. We're like, how do
Speaker 4: we can we frame this? Is there a way not
Speaker 4: to write the exact same story? You know that that
Speaker 4: Messi's really good at soccer. We started looking back, so
Speaker 4: he's on five consecutive braces that we were able to
Speaker 4: see the he had six with Barcelona in like twenty twelve.
Speaker 4: So that's the that's kind of what he's chasing right now. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just outrageous the form that he's in.
Speaker 5: And I love.
Speaker 4: I get the question by the reporter Tamasharano, you know,
Speaker 4: like do we think Messi will will will you will
Speaker 4: you rust him? And my shroungers kind of laughs like
Speaker 4: how how what tell him to go sit down? Like
Speaker 4: he's played ninety minutes and what fifteen or sixteen straight matches.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm gonna tell I'm gonna be the guy to
Speaker 1: tell Lino Messi who brought me in?
Speaker 2: Yeah, to sit I'm gonna I want to do that.
Speaker 4: Take a breather in this one.
Speaker 1: Leo Uh no, no moss as the ad.
Speaker 4: Says, Yeah, Leo is the one who tells you when.
Speaker 2: Yes, Leo says I'm tired.
Speaker 1: Uh and yeah, and then I am probably breaking no
Speaker 1: secret or any confidence whatsoever that yes, I have had
Speaker 1: him captained on my fantasy team for like the last month.
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So he has.
Speaker 4: Been like that's like you have you know, you just
Speaker 4: leave your chips on the table, right like all in mm,
Speaker 4: I'm leaving him there.
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 1: So are you what are you looking at? Are you
Speaker 1: looking at the at an over situation here?
Speaker 2: Once again?
Speaker 1: So I guess let me ask you this, does MESSI
Speaker 1: get a brace tonight? What would what would benefit?
Speaker 2: What benefit? You're writing the most?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not the one writing, I'm assigning, So I listen.
Speaker 4: I think it's a cool it's a it's honestly looks
Speaker 4: it's all about the start value, right, it's a Vander,
Speaker 4: and it's messy.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: That's lots a ton of fun right there. So you know,
Speaker 4: I'd love to see both of them kind of show out,
Speaker 4: you know, like you said, maybe go over maybe a
Speaker 4: four to three kind of game. Both of those guys
Speaker 4: get a brace maybe.
Speaker 1: Ooh, and a Vander apparently is being looked at by
Speaker 1: teams in South America for the total of seventeen million euro.
Speaker 2: I think that's the number that I saw.
Speaker 1: Uh So, three and a half is even money plus
Speaker 1: one hundred four and a half is a plus two
Speaker 1: twenty eight. So if you're looking at a three to two,
Speaker 1: then you could get that at a plus two twenty
Speaker 1: eight on the over five and a half. If you're
Speaker 1: looking at your your three to three plus four ninety
Speaker 1: two and then you get your four to three like
Speaker 1: you were saying, that's a plus ten thirty three in
Speaker 1: the composite, that's a plus ten thirty three if you
Speaker 1: if you want your three, if you want your four
Speaker 1: to three matchup. That's what folks are doing in the
Speaker 1: composite right now with the juice boxes. I don't have
Speaker 1: any juice boxes. It could cover that is out there
Speaker 1: the other seven thirties Charlotte and DC. Don Garber is
Speaker 1: in town today to announce that B of A is
Speaker 1: going to get the new All Star Game, the next
Speaker 1: All Star Game. I don't know if it's going to
Speaker 1: be a new All Star Game unless they take what
Speaker 1: we wanted to do with the All Star Game and
Speaker 1: turn it into new Red Bulls hosting the revs. Purple
Speaker 1: team in NYC, Philly in Montreal. What sticks out in
Speaker 1: those early kicks for you?
Speaker 4: Cincinnati? He lookt NYC. It is a team that is uh,
Speaker 4: you know, it's like it's like the roller coaster in
Speaker 4: Coney Island right there. They're up and down. No consistency
Speaker 4: in any form They've gone like win loss, win, loss,
Speaker 4: win loss, I think for the past six or seven matches.
Speaker 4: So Orlando will will be upset that they gave up
Speaker 4: that late equalizer to Montreal Philly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Charlotte. Uh, you know, let's see. Let's
Speaker 4: see if if that was a one off, you know,
Speaker 4: with the Agimon replacement, or if they have found him
Speaker 4: in house. Did you I'm still not a fan of
Speaker 4: that move.
Speaker 2: Did you well? Did so?
Speaker 1: Did you see the report that came out of the
Speaker 1: Darby County release that we were talking about before you
Speaker 1: popped in? No, he was playing with a hernia. Huh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have surgery. Darby comp is going to a
Speaker 1: lot for surgery, and so in the release in the
Speaker 1: sale of Darby County, which I think was for like
Speaker 1: seven point two US, so the release from Darby County quote,
Speaker 1: Ajimong has been playing for most of the twenty five
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer season with a hernia injury that has
Speaker 1: been managed without surgery, but meant he has been playing
Speaker 1: in discomfort.
Speaker 2: With a long term view in mind.
Speaker 1: All parties have agreed he'll undergo routine surgeries, therefore likely
Speaker 1: to miss the opening games of the twenty five twenty
Speaker 1: sixth season. He has been playing with a hernia. I mean,
Speaker 1: I give Big Pat credit for playing with a hernion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so he's.
Speaker 2: Been playing with a hernia.
Speaker 1: Now now, now some of the things might be clicking
Speaker 1: as to why his uh, his movement might have been restricted.
Speaker 4: That will that will restrict movement.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you hear the You hear those
Speaker 1: words and you're like, oh, so, yeah, so Charlotte will
Speaker 1: see how they are going up against going up against
Speaker 1: DC in the earlies in the eight thirties, Houston, Vancouver, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Minnesota and LAFC is intriguing, as is Nashville and Crew.
Speaker 2: So to your eight forty kicks are intriguing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree. I've got those bar both marked
Speaker 4: down right. Minnesota, LAFC, you know, Minnesota kind of quietly
Speaker 4: right right on the doorstep there in the west of
Speaker 4: San Diego. I think there are two points out of
Speaker 4: first right now. They are the set piece specialists of
Speaker 4: Major League Soccer, going old school right, like they're going
Speaker 4: like nineteen nineties high school soccer, Like, let's get a
Speaker 4: guy with a long throw, yeah, and then just throw
Speaker 4: numbers in the box and something will happen and it works.
Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, throw this as far as humanly possible, and
Speaker 1: you're right.
Speaker 2: You're right. There are two points.
Speaker 4: Back and and Nashville Columbus as well. Right, Columbus, you
Speaker 4: know the Rockies if you will, right of Major League Soccer, Right,
Speaker 4: throw on the ropes, cut me and we'll just we'll
Speaker 4: just cruise to a win in hell is real, you know,
Speaker 4: against the Nashville team as well, right that. That's like,
Speaker 4: those are four of the I don't know, maybe six
Speaker 4: best teams right now, seven best teams in MLS, all
Speaker 4: kind of going out against each other. So that, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think both of those are fun.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: So to your point, Nashville and Crew, that's three and
Speaker 1: four right now, they're both at forty one points with
Speaker 1: twelve matches to go forty one points. Nashville has one
Speaker 1: more win, they've got better goal difference. Columbus is fourth,
Speaker 1: then Minnesota and LAFC. Era Long is out for the year,
Speaker 1: so that got announced the other day. Minnesota's second, eight
Speaker 1: points clear of LAFC, but LAFC has three matches in
Speaker 1: hand on Minnesota two matches in hand on everybody above them.
Speaker 1: So I mean, if you end up with five points,
Speaker 1: you're basically in fourth and you've got your home match
Speaker 1: for opening round of the playoffs. You're ten o'clock Seattle
Speaker 1: and Colorado. Seattle a big favorite at home at minus
Speaker 1: one seventy five Galaxy and Austin Noah US Open Cup
Speaker 1: hero Brandon Vasquez for the remainder of the season. So
Speaker 1: one third of your goal total is gone. One third,
Speaker 1: and that Brandon Vasquez has five of the fifteen that
Speaker 1: have been scored by Austin Right now, the biggest question
Speaker 1: for me is his own goal make a return to
Speaker 1: climb up the rankings. When it comes to goals being
Speaker 1: scored by Austin. Who picks up the slack in Austin
Speaker 1: and they're going up against an LAG team, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Lag is hot.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And then this is one too where they've like,
Speaker 4: this is if the if they want to somehow defy
Speaker 4: the odds and and make this un you know, improbable
Speaker 4: leap up the table. These are three points they have
Speaker 4: to absolutely have. I do like though, what we're seeing
Speaker 4: from Marco Royce. I think he's he's definitely leading the
Speaker 4: line for them playing really well. So yeah, they've got it.
Speaker 4: They've got to get those for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so Seattle minus one seventy five, Galaxy of minus
Speaker 1: one oh eight at home with Austin at a plus
Speaker 1: two sixty eight Portland plus one thirty one. They're on
Speaker 1: the plus side going up against RSL San Diego Big Favorite,
Speaker 1: No Surprise against Toronto FC. I haven't had the chance
Speaker 1: to talk to you about the two oopsies that got
Speaker 1: dropped in two and a half hours last week with
Speaker 1: the Insignior and Bernardeski, And it's like Oopsie one and
Speaker 1: then Oopsie two, So literally we had both of those
Speaker 1: dropped ring the show.
Speaker 4: They did it. They did it like like the end
Speaker 4: of the god Godfather won right, like it was hits
Speaker 4: almost simultaneous. Yeah, one guys, one guy's uh on the
Speaker 4: massage table and and gets shot. The other guy gets
Speaker 4: locked into the doorway and and gets done.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yes, I'm right there, I'm right there with
Speaker 1: you with that. Then San Diego Big Favorite, No Surprise
Speaker 1: of minus two seventy eight San Jose and FC Dallas
Speaker 1: San Jose Big Favorite at a minus one seventy nine
Speaker 1: FC D on the road basically a plus four hundreds, So.
Speaker 4: I think of the late ones, it's for me, it's
Speaker 4: Portland salt Lake. Yeah, that could be interesting, right, Like
Speaker 4: Portland's a much they've I think they have three straight
Speaker 4: road losses, obviously a better it's team at home. Salt
Speaker 4: Lake is getting their mojo back a little bit, right.
Speaker 4: Luna's back with them obviously, and you know, A gotta
Speaker 4: scored a for them on the weekend, so you know
Speaker 4: that that could be one that gets you through those
Speaker 4: late kickoffs.
Speaker 1: And uh, I will circle back Atlanta and Chicago. Atlanta
Speaker 1: favored at home at a plus one twenty four draws
Speaker 1: a plus two ninety, the fire a plus one eighty one.
Speaker 1: What are you envisioning in this one other than probably
Speaker 1: the total going over?
Speaker 4: Um, yeah, I don't know, hard to hard to.
Speaker 2: Tell, uh huh. Your diplomacy for either team?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I said, I mean, it's that's why I
Speaker 1: figure you might get a lot of goals scored. And
Speaker 1: of course, now that we say that, it's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be like one mil. It was announced this hour Charlotte
Speaker 1: gets the All Star Game in twenty twenty six. Thirtieth
Speaker 1: All Star matchup is going to be next summer at
Speaker 1: b of A quote from Don Garber from the league,
Speaker 1: they're excited. League record seventy four, four to seventy nine
Speaker 1: when they had the matchup against lag to start. Quote
Speaker 1: from David Tepper two sentences long. Made the announcement at
Speaker 1: a press conference today with a lot of folks with
Speaker 1: the last name of Tepper, Charlotte Mayor Vy Lyles, Secretary
Speaker 1: of Commerce, co chair of the Charlotte Sports Foundation, marking
Speaker 1: the first ever All Star Game played at b OF
Speaker 1: a Daton opponent obviously announced at a later time, photos
Speaker 1: and video having been released week long celebration Governor Josh
Speaker 1: Stein from North Carolina with a couple of quotes by Lyles,
Speaker 1: a couple of quotes, Will Pitts a couple of quotes,
Speaker 1: and they discussed what's going on with David Tepper as
Speaker 1: we await the twenty twenty five All Star Game coming
Speaker 1: up a week from today at Q two in Austin
Speaker 1: in front of a smaller than it should be crowd
Speaker 1: of probably twenty thousand and change. So that was the
Speaker 1: news that came out of Major League Soccer this morning,
Speaker 1: is that they now know where they're going for the
Speaker 1: All Star game next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Charlotte's you know there there's a buzz
Speaker 4: there certainly right like that that place gets uh, it's
Speaker 4: it's one of the rare cases, I guess. Well at
Speaker 4: Lanta is one of them. Seattle is another one of
Speaker 4: them right where the football stadium, even if it's not
Speaker 4: necessarily going to be the long term because I think
Speaker 4: there's some discussions right about a soccer specific stadium there,
Speaker 4: but I think it works for them right like they
Speaker 4: they can, they have the opportunity to draw the big
Speaker 4: crowds and uh and and Charlotte kind of regularly does
Speaker 4: that as well too. It's it's noisy, it's it's a
Speaker 4: nice kind of compact city.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot to like about that, I think.
Speaker 1: And pars to your point, I think at the skills
Speaker 1: and everything that's going to be on Apple, So keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. The thoughts in the timeline from
Speaker 1: once again your fellow, your fellow Jordi Alex looks like
Speaker 1: Rodrigo de Paul deal very very close, depending on who
Speaker 1: you follow on social media. Gustin a Duel is confirming
Speaker 1: a four year deal right now, and Gaston has over
Speaker 1: a million followers on the twitters done deal sign with
Speaker 1: four years nothing like nothing confirmed confirmed, but everybody's leaning
Speaker 1: to that four year deal right now. For Britzio Romano
Speaker 1: twenty minutes ago closing, he's using closing in on Rodrigo
Speaker 1: de Paul being Messy and friends next signing Athletic COO
Speaker 1: Madrid have accepted the proposal, according to Forbritziy Ormano, talks
Speaker 1: already advanced reported last week. Now deal almost done, final
Speaker 1: details being sorted on a four and then here we go.
Speaker 1: So for Britzio is like here we go as close
Speaker 1: Gaston a duel is like not it's confirmed, it's a
Speaker 1: four year deal. And so now with Rodrigo de Paul
Speaker 1: coming in, this my guess is and I was talking
Speaker 1: with Jamie Watson from Apple about this last week because
Speaker 1: he was getting ready to call the Messian Friends match
Speaker 1: last weekend. This is going to cause one of two
Speaker 1: things to happen in Major League Soccer, and specifically with
Speaker 1: Messi and Friends. So let me, let me, let me say,
Speaker 1: let me say my theory here, and you tell me
Speaker 1: if I'm if I'm loopy or not. One of two
Speaker 1: things is going to happen Major League Soccer is going
Speaker 1: to announce at some point that they're going to go
Speaker 1: to four dp's. That's theory number one. Theory number two
Speaker 1: is that Luis Suarez, who is a high TAM and
Speaker 1: right now Messi and friends, last time we checked out
Speaker 1: a little bit more than three million in Garber bucks available,
Speaker 1: they have three million in AM available. They signed Rodrigo
Speaker 1: de Paul this year to a pro rated AM deal,
Speaker 1: sign him as a you know, a high a high
Speaker 1: salary AM player. Then for the remaining three years of
Speaker 1: the deal he turns into a DP or he's a
Speaker 1: high TAM and folks get bought down to where it's
Speaker 1: navigable and what have you?
Speaker 2: So or and choice three would be that both happen.
Speaker 1: What do you think gets laid out with this Rodrigo
Speaker 1: de Paul deal. Luis Sarez retires at the end of
Speaker 1: this year, goes south to operate the team in South
Speaker 1: America that he and Messi have created from whole cloth.
Speaker 2: Where do you see this going?
Speaker 1: By the time the crystal ball is a woven over
Speaker 1: and we see the face.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I I thought I heard or saw something somebody reporting,
Speaker 4: maybe that it was Bousquets, who would be bought down.
Speaker 4: Uh huh, But I think that's the right that's the
Speaker 4: right thinking. I think a DP will be go to
Speaker 4: a TAM deal and then that would allow him to
Speaker 4: come in as a DPA.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so we'll keep an eye on Rodrigo
Speaker 1: de Paul. They're saying it's a four, not quite over
Speaker 1: the line, but it's here.
Speaker 2: We go close.
Speaker 1: All right, So break down your week for us one
Speaker 1: more time. Let us know what's going on on the weekend.
Speaker 1: What you're doing tonight, what you're doing Saturday, what you're
Speaker 1: doing Sunday. Listen, let everybody know, Let every righty know,
Speaker 1: let's go what's going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, on tonight on Saturday. No Sunday night soccer because
Speaker 4: of the All Star game, right, so we'll have a
Speaker 4: Sunday night off. Although I'm on the desk during the
Speaker 4: day Sunday, but yeah, I'm on all match day twenty five,
Speaker 4: twenty six, all as what is it? Lena Richie would
Speaker 4: would say, all.
Speaker 2: Night long, all night long?
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely true. That's the last thing you needed was
Speaker 1: me singing on a match week week. But uh but yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's it's gonna be it's gonna be chaos. It's
Speaker 1: MIDWEK weekend, All Star and then week again everything, so
Speaker 1: we'll catch up with you on the flip side.
Speaker 4: And then before you know it.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Leaks. Oh that's right.
Speaker 1: Leak's Cup begins on the twenty ninth, Yes, sir, so
Speaker 1: we have Activity tonight, So Leak's Cup is thirteen days away.
Speaker 1: Action tonight, Action this weekend, and then it's All Star
Speaker 1: and then it's Action next weekend and then Leak's Cup.
Speaker 2: All of this, all of this chaos is going on here, Dylan,
Speaker 2: it is and we're here for it. Uh soccer, Yes,
Speaker 2: it is the summer? What? What? What? What? Oh? Shoot?
Speaker 2: What is? What is? What's the hashtag that they were
Speaker 2: using on Univision? Uh?
Speaker 1: Summer and what's the what's the word for summer? And Spanish?
Speaker 1: I'm losing my mind because I can't remember what it is.
Speaker 1: I think it's el Verano Day Football, I think is
Speaker 1: what they were doing. So that was Elverdno Day Football,
Speaker 1: Summer of soccer. As always, my friend, it's great to
Speaker 1: catch up with you, to talk about anything and everything,
Speaker 1: going from Newcastle to Major League Soccer and can Shamp
Speaker 1: and all points in between and.
Speaker 2: Putting up with all of my weird theories. Be safe.
Speaker 1: Then we will catch up with you after All Star.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about All Star and what went wrong and
Speaker 1: how they didn't finish the game in Austin with a
Speaker 1: home run derby. All right, buddy, all right, be good,
Speaker 1: Dylan Butler and Dylan's gonna go drink coffee and do things.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they did not finish. They're not going to
Speaker 1: finish the All Star Game in Austin with a home
Speaker 1: run derby. They should or they should do something. Look,
Speaker 1: just go back. I'll promote it again next week after
Speaker 1: the match up against Charlotte. But go back and listen
Speaker 1: to our fixes for the MLS All Star Game.
Speaker 2: Their gold.
Speaker 1: They are mandatory and that's what made juleague Soccer should do.
Speaker 1: But we did find out that Major League Soccer is
Speaker 1: heading to Charlotte next next season for the thirtieth annual
Speaker 1: All Star Game. Along those lines, Tomorrow at nine point fifteen,
Speaker 1: Will Pologic, play by play, voice of Charlotte FC on
Speaker 1: the radio, is gonna be on with us.
Speaker 2: He's going to talk about Patrick Adjumong.
Speaker 1: He'll talk about the hernia, and he'll talk about navigating
Speaker 1: the hernia, and he'll discuss the move to Darby County,
Speaker 1: Dean Smith, the matchup coming up on the weekend, and
Speaker 1: All Star, So it's All Star, Aujimong and Atlanta the
Speaker 1: three A's with Will Pelagic tomorrow at nine fifteen because
Speaker 1: he's got to get to practice after what happens tonight
Speaker 1: and get ready for what's going on on the weekend
Speaker 1: nine five tomorrow ish. Somewhere in there be like Willie Davis,
Speaker 1: the head coach of the North Carolina Courage in USLWU
Speaker 1: twenty three's they're playing for a national championship. So we're
Speaker 1: going to have Charlotte FC with Will Pologic leading off.
Speaker 2: At nine point fifteen after the opening monologue.
Speaker 1: Then Willie Davis, head coach of North Carolina Courage you
Speaker 1: twenty threes, he's going to join us before the beginning
Speaker 1: of the Power Hour with Nino and Nico. So Will Pologic,
Speaker 1: Willie Davis our number one tomorrow and then it's going
Speaker 1: to be Nino and Nico in the second section in
Speaker 1: our number two in the Power Hour tomorrow, and we'll
Speaker 1: kind of go through what happened with it Lanty United
Speaker 1: as well opening monologue, all those kinds of things we'll
Speaker 1: find out what happened with Charlotte last night too, which
Speaker 1: would will tomorrow will have been last night, which is
Speaker 1: actually tonight, so we've got that going on, so it's
Speaker 1: a full show. Tomorrow, we'll talk about it, Landy United,
Speaker 1: talk about Major League Soccer.
Speaker 2: We've got Will coming on to talk about Charlotte. We've
Speaker 2: got Willy Davis talking about.
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Courage You twenty threes, Nino and Nico talking
Speaker 1: about everything going on worldwide transfers, the day in Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer. Today we'll talk about tomorrow with Nico Moreno
Speaker 1: from Pulso Sports at Heart ten thirty tomorrow, So.
Speaker 2: That show is stacked.
Speaker 1: Friday, it is hopefully catching up with our friends at
Speaker 1: Beyond Goals Entering and also catching up hopefully with our
Speaker 1: friends from Major League Soccer as we get you ready
Speaker 1: once again for the weekend where the folks come down
Speaker 1: I eighty five to take on at Lanty United, and
Speaker 1: then it is All Star and then we'll keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that, and then it is Seattle coming to town.
Speaker 1: So next Thursday is going to be fun because Nico
Speaker 1: will be talking about Seattle coming to Atlanta to take
Speaker 1: on Atlanta United. So that is that's the next couple
Speaker 1: of days anyway, when it comes to everything going on
Speaker 1: here in the SDHAM universe, Thank you, Yes, Elvedano Day.
Speaker 2: Football, Day Football.
Speaker 1: Jared is hopped in and this is what happens when
Speaker 1: you're two time zones away and you get no just the.
Speaker 2: Fact that you're coming.
Speaker 1: You're coming in in the final half hour of the
Speaker 1: show now, as opposed to like the first hour and
Speaker 1: then having to leave or late and then leaving and
Speaker 1: doing whatever. So for you, it's like eight thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning now and you're coming to discuss things as
Speaker 1: opposed to doing Irish goodbyes in the East.
Speaker 2: I can still do Iris and you have to be
Speaker 2: different and you have been.
Speaker 1: It's just different for you because it's eight thirty leading
Speaker 1: into nine o'clock as opposed to ten thirty leading into
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. Correct, we spent we spent the first hour
Speaker 1: discussing economics down here. Why Thiago Almada, Landy United and
Speaker 1: Land United being owed a lot of money?
Speaker 5: Probably, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: That's still not getting paid.
Speaker 5: Ranting about this yesterday with Jason, I get in a
Speaker 5: sense like, look, you can you can appeal and those
Speaker 5: of you of the legal persuasion will know you can
Speaker 5: appeal anything. It boggles my mind that in a situation
Speaker 5: like this that an appeal takes longer than five seconds. Yeah,
Speaker 5: because it feels very dry unless there's stuff we don't
Speaker 5: know that like, hey, you paid for that player, right right,
Speaker 5: You agreed to them out right right? Have you paid
Speaker 5: him now? Or have you paid the team now? You
Speaker 5: should pay the team?
Speaker 2: What if we didn't?
Speaker 5: What if we didn't, well, you have to pay the team, okay,
Speaker 5: all right, we ruled you should pay the team, all right?
Speaker 5: What if we appealed? How does that appeal take long
Speaker 5: as in five seconds? And shout out to the good
Speaker 5: news is Atlanta is in a financial situation where Atlanta
Speaker 5: can ride out the bullshit of this very well, Like
Speaker 5: Atlanta is not some small team in Central or South
Speaker 5: America or in England or god knows wherever or else
Speaker 5: where they might have generated a once in a lifetime prospect,
Speaker 5: sold in for a bunch of money and then gotten
Speaker 5: stiffed and then they're like, okay, well we needed that
Speaker 5: money for renovations, for improvements to the academy, to pay
Speaker 5: wages for the guys that are still here. Thank got
Speaker 5: Atlanta is a good financial shape where John Texter is
Speaker 5: not screwing them over the barrel financially by refusing to
Speaker 5: pay money. Yeah, and I look, if if the money
Speaker 5: comes down the line here where where where letting the
Speaker 5: Madrid pays the money to Texters Group, and if that
Speaker 5: money isn't immediately in Atlanta's bank account, like, I don't
Speaker 5: know what you do at that point? Do you go
Speaker 5: back and like open up an entire new line of
Speaker 5: appeals of hey, not only have we not been paid
Speaker 5: they sold the guy they bought from us and didn't
Speaker 5: pay for, made money on the deal and didn't pay
Speaker 5: us anything that they owed.
Speaker 1: But the larger question is where are they in the queue?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 5: That yes, and that's that was gonna be the next
Speaker 5: thing I was gonna ask, is you know where are
Speaker 5: they in the queue? Because non zero chance. Look, there's
Speaker 5: a non zero chance if if but a fog slash
Speaker 5: Crystal Palace slash, they all slash. John Texture hasn't paid Atlanta,
Speaker 5: non zero chance that there are other clubs they haven't
Speaker 5: paid to, and some of those clubs might be first
Speaker 5: in line. That's okay, because they might have had a
Speaker 5: like a chronologically speaking, a going back in time longer complaint. Also,
Speaker 5: they might literally need money to function. Mm hm, completely
Speaker 5: a possibility there, dude. I have no idea. I have
Speaker 5: no idea how to appeal like that. Doesn't just go no,
Speaker 5: we've been over this, pay the money, yeah, but whatever.
Speaker 5: I'm happy for Thiago though, you know, like Almada is
Speaker 5: getting to live the dream now of playing h of
Speaker 5: playing in Europe for one of the top clubs, one
Speaker 5: of the most famous managers in Europe. And I'm happy.
Speaker 2: For the kid.
Speaker 5: But I also want my money.
Speaker 2: I want my money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, mm hmmm. So tell John Texter to make that
Speaker 5: check out to any United and beat mm hmm. Get
Speaker 5: it done. M hm. Also pay all the other people
Speaker 5: who they may or may not owe money to.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: It's a separating thing, though, because, yeah, I'm very happy
Speaker 5: for Thiago because he deserves, he has played his way
Speaker 5: to deserve being that kind of payday and that kind
Speaker 5: of opportunity to live his dream. Good for him. I
Speaker 5: don't want that to be lost in the bickering about
Speaker 5: the money. Is still because John Textra and paint is
Speaker 5: debts and pulling a low key Foster Gillette.
Speaker 1: Yes, and Alex is absolutely true in his assessment of this.
Speaker 1: You need to get the paper boy from Better Off
Speaker 1: Dead to collect the that's two dollars.
Speaker 2: I want my two dollars.
Speaker 1: I need to get that drop. Thank you Alex for
Speaker 1: reminding me about that. Just so folks know the total
Speaker 1: revenue percentage and this this, this is. These are the
Speaker 1: numbers that came out at the end of the calendar
Speaker 1: year of twenty twenty four from Eagle. They had one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen million dollars or pounds or whatever the
Speaker 1: format is.
Speaker 5: I think it's euros matters when you get to that much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred and seventeen million euro, one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventeen and a half million euro in total revenue. Then
Speaker 1: you had personnel costs which were almost one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of your revenue, ninety nine million euro in personnel costs.
Speaker 5: But I mean a lot. I think a lot. I
Speaker 5: think you'd find a lot of clubs run like that.
Speaker 1: Ebitt Dah was was a net was a loss of
Speaker 1: forty six million euro.
Speaker 5: I think you would find a lot of clubs run
Speaker 5: right along that. If they're making profit, it ain't much,
Speaker 5: or they might be losing some money. Again, owning a
Speaker 5: sports franchise is a long term investment. You don't own
Speaker 5: a sports franchise to flip it in two or three years.
Speaker 5: You own a sports franchise with the intention of owning
Speaker 5: it for fifteen twenty years seeing the value appreciate substantially.
Speaker 5: Go back and look at where Arthur Blank paved for
Speaker 5: the Falcons back in the day versus what they're worth now.
Speaker 5: Go back and look at what almost any of these
Speaker 5: professional clubs are worth now versus what they were worth
Speaker 5: twenty years ago. Yeah, you buy a club and you
Speaker 5: hang on to it for fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 2: Absolutely true.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Trading players in the first six months of the last
Speaker 1: fiscal year thirty four point seven million euro and that
Speaker 1: is down window to window sixty three percent had to
Speaker 1: do with first six months of the financial year selling
Speaker 1: Jcobrien to Everton, selling Sarda Strasburg, Jeffino de Botafogo, Mama
Speaker 1: Balde to Brest incentives worth two point two million euro.
Speaker 1: By December of thirty one to twenty three they had
Speaker 1: ninety four point nine barcolat psg Leucaba de Leipsig and
Speaker 1: Fiver to Bournemouth. So that was say that was player acquisitions,
Speaker 1: but first six months of the fiscal year last year,
Speaker 1: ending New Year's Eve twenty twenty four, they operated at
Speaker 1: a loss of one hundred and a minus one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventeen million year million euros.
Speaker 2: So that is that is an Eagle.
Speaker 1: That is a press release put out March twenty seven
Speaker 1: of this year. First half twenty twenty four results nevertheless
Speaker 1: impacted by lower players sales activity over the first six
Speaker 1: months of the financial year and changes in the scope
Speaker 1: of consolidation following asset disposals of Leon Feminine, the Valet
Speaker 1: Arena and Rain to Michelle Kan So Eagle Football Group
Speaker 1: it's all. The document itself is public, it's on their website.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's the first half results. And then after
Speaker 1: that in June they transferred Ryan Cherokee to Manchester City
Speaker 1: and they transferred i mean sorry to Hellas Verona. The
Speaker 1: Cherokee transfer alone is like eleventy billion dollars. The Cherokee
Speaker 1: transfer alone forty two and a half million euros, six
Speaker 1: million bonuses, added a fifteen percent bonus on any future
Speaker 1: so a fifteen percent sellon. So the money is there
Speaker 1: in the Ryan Cherokee transfer if they wanted to slide
Speaker 1: that along too.
Speaker 2: So that's that's where we are.
Speaker 1: But the larger questions once again, and Alex is absolutely correct,
Speaker 1: you need the paper boy. You got to figure out
Speaker 1: where you are in the queue. Yeah, you're owed the money.
Speaker 1: It is currently appealed. It is Eagles right to do that.
Speaker 1: But it's to the point now where you need either
Speaker 1: Judge Watn or Judge Hatchett and get this get this
Speaker 1: issue done. We've been kind of drifting back and forth
Speaker 1: Jared about tonight in Major League Soccer. We kind of
Speaker 1: blew through SI. Yeah, it is Atlanta and Chicago. What's
Speaker 1: on your mind?
Speaker 5: Should have win the game? You won two straight at
Speaker 5: home going back and I know that's I know that's
Speaker 5: been a minute because he played five straight on the
Speaker 5: road and three of them went about a sideways as
Speaker 5: humanly possible. But you pulled two draws out of the
Speaker 5: last two of those, which is better than losses. But
Speaker 5: you you need you have to basically win all your
Speaker 5: home games.
Speaker 2: Mhm.
Speaker 5: There's if you want to, if you want to not
Speaker 5: even make the playoffs, but be in the conversation for
Speaker 5: like in the hunt, because you blew a lot of
Speaker 5: home games early in the season that you didn't win.
Speaker 5: You should, you should, It would behoove you to win
Speaker 5: this game. How you do that? That's a great question.
Speaker 5: That's that's a great question. I think it seems like
Speaker 5: the last I've heard, it seems like Brad New's anna'll
Speaker 5: be back for tonight, although Jaden Hibbert made a great
Speaker 5: impression for his future. Yes, I know we got we
Speaker 5: got real intimate yesterday in our discussions about about who
Speaker 5: should be coming back arsus who should not be coming
Speaker 5: back for Atlanta next year. But as for the guys
Speaker 5: you have there now, I'm I'm I still love the
Speaker 5: belief of play the kids. Yeah, it sounds like I
Speaker 5: think Derek Williams is getting back in practice. I'm interested
Speaker 5: how you slot that back line together now because you've
Speaker 5: given up one goal off of a set piece, And
Speaker 5: granted DC and Toronto are not exactly offensive juggernauts, but
Speaker 5: he gave up one goal off a set piece from
Speaker 5: those and in one of those fraand Morales was arguably
Speaker 5: your bann of the match. Does he go back to
Speaker 5: the bench now? For Derek Williams, do you keep him
Speaker 5: in there? But if you go three at the back.
Speaker 5: When you were going three at the back and it
Speaker 5: was working. Matt Edwards was playing as a right side
Speaker 5: center back and basically had that damn thing on lock
Speaker 5: that put he put that position in the Stanard recliner.
Speaker 5: So do you go back to three at the back
Speaker 5: and figure that out? Maybe Derek playing in the middle
Speaker 5: kind of playing you know, tank commander, do you stick
Speaker 5: with four? How do you play this? Because I don't know,
Speaker 5: I don't know how you want to to line this up.
Speaker 5: If you're Atlanta United against Chicago team that would lead goals,
Speaker 5: which would be great if Atlanta had a functioning offense
Speaker 5: despite spending all the money in in in the coffers,
Speaker 5: it would be it would be great for you to
Speaker 5: to put up three or four goals. And I think
Speaker 5: Chicago will give you the opportunities, but you actually have
Speaker 5: to take them. In Atlanta has not been consistently good
Speaker 5: at taking them.
Speaker 1: So it was you you're dealing with in Chicago. And
Speaker 1: it looks like we might be getting Kieren Maguire on
Speaker 1: the show next week to talk about economics.
Speaker 2: Derek.
Speaker 1: Not a hat, not not a pleasant thought from Derek
Speaker 1: on the Magic eight Ball last time.
Speaker 5: I'm I try. I try and be more. I try
Speaker 5: and be leaning more to the optimistic side of things
Speaker 5: while try and keeping it in the realm of realism
Speaker 5: and trying to thread that need. And it's tricky sometimes,
Speaker 5: But I don't blame people for feeling that way right
Speaker 5: now because of what you have been given this year. Yeah,
Speaker 5: doesn't mean it's gonna last that way forever. But when
Speaker 5: you have spent the money that you've spent, and again
Speaker 5: you give up one goal in the last two games
Speaker 5: on the road, Like if you give up one goal
Speaker 5: over one hundred and eighty minutes and it was a
Speaker 5: set piece, and it's it's just a good it's a
Speaker 5: night least when nicely works set piece, good delivery, good
Speaker 5: screen action, free header ish happens. Yeah, you give up
Speaker 5: one goal over one hundred eighty minutes on the road,
Speaker 5: you have to win one of those games. You have
Speaker 5: to You have to find a goal somewhere. You cannot
Speaker 5: be in this league where it is hard to win
Speaker 5: on the road. I know you've had this. I've had
Speaker 5: this debate with plenty of people about you know, other
Speaker 5: teams went on the road. I'm like, yes, they do.
Speaker 5: It's it doesn't mean it's not easy. It doesn't mean
Speaker 5: it's not hard. Just because other teams do it doesn't
Speaker 5: make it easy. Atlanta had done it in the past.
Speaker 5: But when you give up one goal in one hundred
Speaker 5: and eighty minutes on the road against two teams that
Speaker 5: are down there in the cellar with you, you have
Speaker 5: to win at least one of those games, and you didn't.
Speaker 5: You have to find goals tonight where you find them?
Speaker 6: Yeah, great question, fantastic question, because I would like to say, well, yeah,
Speaker 6: that does forty fifty billion dollars to sput on attack.
Speaker 5: Should have come from there. It should, but it hasn't consistently,
Speaker 5: and I don't know how you fix that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, last time out, No, I was gonna say last
Speaker 1: time out, Chicago initially allegedly lined up in a four
Speaker 1: three three, but like I said, that's just staring at
Speaker 1: a graphic because you know that, uh, things are gonna
Speaker 1: change once the whistle blows. And it was a matchup
Speaker 1: where San Diego went to town and Hugo Kuiper's obviously you're
Speaker 1: sitting there and it's like, okay, it's Kuiper's, Zinkernagle Gudieras,
Speaker 1: And it was a four to three to three last
Speaker 1: time out, So it was Gutman, Elliott Rodgers and Boso
Speaker 1: at the back, midfield Goudiera's Mauricio Pineda, who's been a
Speaker 1: pain in the butt in the past, and o and
Speaker 1: Ora Hell then three up top Bamba Kuiper's Zinkernagle. If
Speaker 1: it is a four to three three, then are you
Speaker 1: looking possibly at either you know, are you matching that
Speaker 1: four three three or are you going three center backs
Speaker 1: and trying to make sure that you've got folks that
Speaker 1: are paying attention to Kuiper's and Zinkernagle or uh Bart
Speaker 1: drifting back? How are you looking at this defensively with
Speaker 1: this attack with all these different dudes coming.
Speaker 2: At you.
Speaker 5: For Atlanta, If if you have Derek Williams back and
Speaker 5: if he's one hundred percent, I'm curious if you go
Speaker 5: back to that five in the back, look, maybe stick
Speaker 5: him in the middle play Luis bram I would imagine
Speaker 5: on the left side, and then maybe stick Matt Edwards
Speaker 5: on the right side of the three in the back,
Speaker 5: because that what I thought worked well in that homestand
Speaker 5: which was great for a minute there, Yeah, until you
Speaker 5: went to to to New York and against Red Bulls
Speaker 5: and then watched all the all of that burned down.
Speaker 5: What was really fun there for a minute was Saba
Speaker 5: playing as a wing back. Yeah, was not going to
Speaker 5: give you covers a wing back, but he's going to
Speaker 5: give you on predictability and borderline reckless decision making. Yes,
Speaker 5: but he does it in the final third, which is
Speaker 5: what I can live with. Again. My issue has been
Speaker 5: so often that Ronnie Diler will talk about how Atlanta
Speaker 5: United should be more more risk taking in the final third,
Speaker 5: Like you're in the final third, drive it, somebody play
Speaker 5: that risky through ball that maybe it comes off, maybe
Speaker 5: it doesn't, but if it does, it's a game breaking ball.
Speaker 5: Take those chances. If you're Atlanti United in the attacking third. Instead,
Speaker 5: it feels like they're afraid to do it. And the
Speaker 5: place where they seem to be taking risky your chances
Speaker 5: is in the defending into the field. And it is breathtaking,
Speaker 5: the mind boggling to me that when we see the
Speaker 5: mistakes some of some of the mistakes they've made, like
Speaker 5: Almoron in New York at Red bull Rato hell Almaron
Speaker 5: against DC where Efra had to step in a block
Speaker 5: a shot on goaleh where you know he drops way
Speaker 5: back into the right backspot for some ungodly reason because
Speaker 5: he's chasing the ball and he has to have the
Speaker 5: ball and he's playing a square ball back to center
Speaker 5: back and leaving it short multiple times, Like why is
Speaker 5: that where you're taking risky plays? Why is that the
Speaker 5: place you're making decisions that are not safe? And I
Speaker 5: get it when you're playing out of the back, like
Speaker 5: you are going to take risks, but the fact that
Speaker 5: you're doing it there and basically almost refusing to do
Speaker 5: it in the attacking half is it makes my brain hurt.
Speaker 5: You would love if Saudi Arabia had not broken Jay
Speaker 5: Fortune because you would love to have him here because
Speaker 5: you have been like you have been mediocre in the midfield.
Speaker 5: You you, DC is paying a DP way for a
Speaker 5: guy in your midfield who has not been the difference
Speaker 5: maker that you necessarily need him to be. Bartuctually, like
Speaker 5: I said, has has answered the bell in the second
Speaker 5: half of the second half of the first half of
Speaker 5: the years whatever however you want to break it in.
Speaker 5: When Ronnie Diala took the gloves off, Barsley seems to
Speaker 5: have answered the bell but your midfield has not been
Speaker 5: bossing things like you need it to. And so yeah,
Speaker 5: we can talk about how you want to line up
Speaker 5: that that back line all day long, but if you
Speaker 5: are not going to be good enough in the midfield,
Speaker 5: then you're going to get overrun.
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 5: And whether or not you go that three or four
Speaker 5: is can also depend on do you want to people
Speaker 5: sitting in the midfield or one person sitting single double
Speaker 5: pivot however you want to figure it out. However you
Speaker 5: want to kind of flood that midfield and put Chicago
Speaker 5: on a defensive.
Speaker 1: Other matchups in Major League Soccer, you've got Charlotte, DC, Sincy,
Speaker 1: Messi and friends. Messi and Friends. Still are they pulling
Speaker 1: away a little bit as a favorite? It's still on
Speaker 1: the plus side at tqu all, but their favorite Red
Speaker 1: Bulls revs. Purple Team NYC, Philly, Montreal, Houston, Vancouver, Minnesota
Speaker 1: hosting LAFC. Their favorite at home on the plus side,
Speaker 1: Nashville and Crewe. Nashville is actually a minus side favorite.
Speaker 1: Last time somebody was a favorite against Crewe was last
Speaker 1: week against Cincy in Hell is reel and Crewe designed.
Speaker 5: Since he just botched another two goal lead, Yeah, playoffs
Speaker 5: and ish the bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Crewe is a book. So get this tonight. And
Speaker 1: the numbers have changed since the show started. Nashville is
Speaker 1: a minus one oh two at home against Crewe. Crewe
Speaker 1: is a plus two fifty on the road the draws
Speaker 1: of plus two seventy five. They're riding the idea that
Speaker 1: Sam Surge and honeymoot Tar gonna score a boatload of
Speaker 1: goals tonight to get that minus one oh two. I
Speaker 1: would lean Crew in that one. I legitimately would either
Speaker 1: at the draw and at plus two seventy five or
Speaker 1: the outright at plus two fifty.
Speaker 5: Crew sitting in a fourth place, but like two points
Speaker 5: off top of the East, and I feel like Crew
Speaker 5: are slipping into that Seattle range because like the Seattle's
Speaker 5: in fourth, but Seattle is like a fair number of
Speaker 5: points off, like they're nine points off, ten points off
Speaker 5: of San Diego. But I feel like they're slipping into
Speaker 5: that Seattle thing. Where Like if I ask people associated
Speaker 5: or fans of the crew, I'll hear about things like, ah, man,
Speaker 5: we gotta watch out for this, Like we have this problem.
Speaker 5: We have these problems. We have a B and C.
Speaker 5: This is bad, like this could be better, blah blah blah. Bro,
Speaker 5: you're sitting two points off the top of the table.
Speaker 5: Seattle is the team that does this that like is
Speaker 5: like wringing their hands about things and still sitting in
Speaker 5: the top half of the playoff picture every year. The
Speaker 5: problems you have are not the problems of others, and
Speaker 5: I need you to understand. I need you appreciate that
Speaker 5: the problems you have are minor compared to other teams problems. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it could be so much worse for you.
Speaker 2: It would be.
Speaker 5: Saying Lewis, you could be the Galaxy, you could be Atlanta. Yes,
Speaker 5: your problems are not real problems.
Speaker 2: Yes, I do want to discuss it picks.
Speaker 1: Yes, before you do, you have your Irish goodbye schedule
Speaker 1: the next couple of minutes.
Speaker 5: Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: Okay, So before you go, I do want to I
Speaker 1: do want to show the archive collection from Adidas.
Speaker 2: That is going on with Major League Soccer right now.
Speaker 1: And this is this is off of the Instagram account,
Speaker 1: so it's got like movement and things like that. So
Speaker 1: I'm staring at the jerseys. I love San Jose's. I
Speaker 1: love the San Jose jersey.
Speaker 5: You know what, I don't love having this moving sequence
Speaker 5: here where the pictures keep changing where the where like
Speaker 5: each frame on that that that's that grid of nine
Speaker 5: keeps changing. So if you look at one, yeah, when
Speaker 5: it's moving, if you look at one, like in the
Speaker 5: middle was the Dallas Byern, but then it changes and
Speaker 5: something else is in the middle, it pisses me off
Speaker 5: to no wind.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then I found I moved forward. So here
Speaker 1: are the individuals. That's Minnesota, Minnesota.
Speaker 5: It's a throwback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a throwback to the Kicks Jersey any as days,
Speaker 1: all right, Rapids they went with the green, which was
Speaker 1: a good play.
Speaker 5: It is rapids man would try.
Speaker 1: Yes, rapids Man with the green Charlotte. Do they deserve
Speaker 1: an archive?
Speaker 2: You're not old?
Speaker 5: I mean we did the same thing with Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 5: Like when Tampa Bay wears a throwback, that isn't the
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety seven throwback. Yeah, that was white with rainbow
Speaker 5: and the Manta ray on the front.
Speaker 2: You know, the Manta ray was the best look.
Speaker 1: I still have the golf shirt, the hard hat crew
Speaker 1: jersey is always is always stellar.
Speaker 2: The Orca for Seattle, Orca is.
Speaker 5: A good throwback logo. The little cartoon Orca is always fun.
Speaker 5: I like the shoulders on it too. Different. Yeah, Dallas
Speaker 5: Bern always.
Speaker 1: Clear, Yes, great, Yeah, Dallas Byrne right there, that always works.
Speaker 1: And I've got a Dallas byrn sweatshirt somewhere. Uh DC
Speaker 1: United went basic.
Speaker 5: I love this Homi Morano era.
Speaker 2: I understand that.
Speaker 1: Uh, Nashville to your point, I think you were right,
Speaker 1: and I think this is Jacob Schaffelberg by the way. Uh,
Speaker 1: I think you were correct. They should have gone with
Speaker 1: the Nashville Diamonds.
Speaker 5: I would have loved them too, And it might have
Speaker 5: been a licensing thing. It might have It might have
Speaker 5: been a choice. I like this logo by the way,
Speaker 5: better yeah than the than the octagon logo, and I
Speaker 5: forget it was one of the Nashville Riders brought that
Speaker 5: up as well, And I agree completely the sound wave
Speaker 5: logo from Nashville. I a hundred times over, loved that
Speaker 5: better than their standard logo. And you, well, you want
Speaker 5: to change the color scheme on this to match that
Speaker 5: that gold and dark blue. I'm totally okay with that.
Speaker 5: I so much prefer that logo.
Speaker 1: The clash is fantastic. There is no parallel. This is
Speaker 1: my number one.
Speaker 5: No, this is this is number one. This is a
Speaker 5: this is a walking trapper keeper and I love it absolutely.
Speaker 1: And then the Revs with their finished with all of
Speaker 1: the the zubaz Revs. Jersey is the other one. So
Speaker 1: you can't you can't go wrong. You can't go wrong
Speaker 1: with the Zubaz Revs.
Speaker 5: The easy conversation to have is if it were Atlanta,
Speaker 5: what would you do and you had so much to
Speaker 5: draw on because you have the Chiefs back in the day,
Speaker 5: you have the Apollos, you have the Atlanta Attack, you
Speaker 5: have the silver Backs. You could have gone in a
Speaker 5: lot of direction if you wanted to do one for Atlanta,
Speaker 5: I would. I wish Atlanta would get one. That is
Speaker 5: kind of that throwback look. That is paying tribute to
Speaker 5: the former clubs that were here, because everything in the
Speaker 5: past is a foundation for what you have now, even
Speaker 5: if it is not a large part of the foundation,
Speaker 5: it is still a part of that said foundation, as
Speaker 5: these clubs will attest to and these people in those
Speaker 5: communities will attest to who have been through the ring.
Speaker 1: Yep, so we got that. I'm booking guests at the
Speaker 1: same time that I'm talking to you. Looks like Jan
Speaker 1: Hernandez is going to be joining us from Stillwater, Oklahoma
Speaker 1: Friday morning batting leadoff because they are in the final
Speaker 1: four in the WPSL Championship, so semifinals and finals, and
Speaker 1: so Wan Hernandez is going to beat lead off with
Speaker 1: us on Friday from Stillwater, Oklahoma, so he might get
Speaker 1: the breakfast par at the hotel breaking everything down is
Speaker 1: there in the final four. They got the two wins
Speaker 1: in quick succession on the weekend, got out of the
Speaker 1: South Region to the South Region champs and so they'll
Speaker 1: be joining us tomorrow. So Willie p is going to
Speaker 1: join us tomorrow morning at nine to fifteen, and we're
Speaker 1: going to discuss Atlanta and Charlotte. Obviously, we've got to
Speaker 1: discuss what's happening tonight tomorrow. In addition to all of this,
Speaker 1: Willie Davis, head coach of North Carolina Courage You twenty
Speaker 1: three's joining us tomorrow because they are in the finals
Speaker 1: of the w League for the third year in a row.
Speaker 1: And then Nino and Nico will discuss world transfers, Major
Speaker 1: League socrawlet stuff in the Power Hour and Hour number
Speaker 1: two Friday, Jan Hernandez chattanoogefci's women at nine fifteen. Hopefully
Speaker 1: our friends from Beyond goals at nine thirty. Hopefully Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer ten gets ready for the weekend at ten thirty.
Speaker 1: So other matchups really quickly before you get out of here. Seattle, Colorado,
Speaker 1: Lag and Austin Portland, RSL, San Diego, Toronto, San Jose
Speaker 1: in Dallas.
Speaker 5: San Diego. Toronto is gonna be a war crime.
Speaker 2: Toronto is now at plus six fifty.
Speaker 5: By the way, I'm not touching that. No, that's a
Speaker 5: fun number. But yeah, Mike, San Diego has been better
Speaker 5: than I ever expected they would be. Obviously they're believing
Speaker 5: the blessed they Obviously they're better than you know expected.
Speaker 5: I was not sure that that how that build would work,
Speaker 5: but it had done the job because they're sitting on
Speaker 5: forty two points, two points clear of Minnesota, who's second
Speaker 5: in the West, and every nothing about my life makes
Speaker 5: sense right now, And I'll tell you right now, I'm
Speaker 5: I'm not a full believer in Minnesota. And it's not
Speaker 5: to say that I think Minnesota is a bad team.
Speaker 5: Minnesota clearly a good team. They know exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 5: Eric Ramsey knows exactly what he's doing and he has
Speaker 5: full buy in. My concern with Minnesota remains that when
Speaker 5: you get to the playoffs and teams get more pragmatic
Speaker 5: and kg I want to see what they do because
Speaker 5: they thrive so much without the ball that if they
Speaker 5: get in a situation with another team that basically is
Speaker 5: that dares them to carry them carry the game. I
Speaker 5: want to see how Minnesota does with it. Yeah. I
Speaker 5: don't know how they'll do with it. I'm not going
Speaker 5: to tell you they'll automatically lose. They might come out
Speaker 5: and be just fine, But so often I've seen them
Speaker 5: post these matches where it's a win, but it's like
Speaker 5: thirty percent of the ball and it's just hard to
Speaker 5: do in the playoffs. Yeah, it's kind of like it's
Speaker 5: kind of like being that all offense, no defense game
Speaker 5: in the NBA, and then you get to the playoffs
Speaker 5: for team actually trial defense. Mm hmm, it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: well see now it's kind of a different game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, like when like when, like when All Caps made
Speaker 1: their way through the regular season as an expansion team
Speaker 1: and cleared through the West. It's great in the one off,
Speaker 1: but then you get into a series and you get
Speaker 1: found out and you get work and people can find workarounds,
Speaker 1: and then you get bounced in a series and everybody
Speaker 1: sits there and goes, well, what's wrong. You're great in
Speaker 1: a one off situation, but then when people can adjust
Speaker 1: to you, how do you adjust in turn? And that
Speaker 1: makes that makes the issue, at least.
Speaker 5: To me anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it appears that Rodrigo de Paul, according to
Speaker 1: says Luis Merlow, is gonna be heading.
Speaker 5: Just announce it. Yeah, don announced the fourth DP. We
Speaker 5: know you want to do it.
Speaker 2: Fifteen Yeah, it's Gaston Duel. We mentioned gastone Jule said
Speaker 2: it was going to be.
Speaker 1: A four year deal, so probably a half comes in
Speaker 1: in the window, half this year and then three after that.
Speaker 5: There's no way. I don't know that there's a way
Speaker 5: you get him without without it being a DP. So
Speaker 5: either they're going to sell someone, buy someone down somehow,
Speaker 5: or just announce a fourth DP and open things up
Speaker 5: for everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fifteen million euro is what says Luis Marlow is
Speaker 1: reporting plus add ons contract.
Speaker 5: For four in a way. Hell, you're not dping that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's no way out, but no seriously out a fourth DP.
Speaker 5: Do you know much fun this window would be if
Speaker 5: everyone gets a fourth DP like July seventeenth, Hey, everyone
Speaker 5: gets a fourth designated player? And you would you would
Speaker 5: do that, assuming that like teams have known about it,
Speaker 5: like would have known if that were the case.
Speaker 2: You're ready to pound, yeah at.
Speaker 5: A fourth DP and watch this summer just go. Hey,
Speaker 5: that doesn't even include the fact that a Landy United
Speaker 5: needs to basically like open the back of the C
Speaker 5: one thirty and just start pushing people out there.
Speaker 1: You go, see, I mean, I mean, so that's where
Speaker 1: we are, So.
Speaker 5: Not not hating on Minnesota as a team and saying
Speaker 5: they're bad, just like curious how they do if other
Speaker 5: teams force them to carry water for extended periods of time,
Speaker 5: kind of like some of those late twenty teams New
Speaker 5: York Red Bulls teams that were really really good, but
Speaker 5: when they got pulled out of their comfort zone it
Speaker 5: got weird.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, so what are you doing to Are
Speaker 1: you going to be watching at five thirty five forty
Speaker 1: local time? Are you going to be watching at Landy
Speaker 1: United Chicago Fire?
Speaker 5: Probably? And then just skipping over to the RSL game,
Speaker 5: which has worked out beautifully for me. Oh, because I've
Speaker 5: been getting it Landy nighted game. Yeah, five thirty. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's great time wise. Yeah, it's zero complaints. And then
Speaker 5: oh that game's wrapping up. And then on my my
Speaker 5: my iPhone's like live live events as that game is
Speaker 5: wrapping up, I get the little pop up of starting soon,
Speaker 5: or I'm like, hey baby, hey, there are defeatus since
Speaker 5: I moved out here, so I guess who's not moving back? Wow,
Speaker 5: I'm one too straight. Actually, wow they got a scored
Speaker 5: last week.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, So tomorrow it is Willie p Willie Davis,
Speaker 1: Nino and Nico and we'll talk about it, Laney United
Speaker 1: and other things. Let me go through transfers and what
Speaker 1: to watch, and then we will be.
Speaker 2: Back at it again tomorrow.
Speaker 1: A all right, I'll see it, thanks dude, as Jared,
Speaker 1: So Jared comes in and crashes the party. H what
Speaker 1: to watch, where to watch it, how to watch it
Speaker 1: in your gossip rumor? And then you w into Liverpool
Speaker 1: expected to rival Newcastle for hugo akatk We mentioned that
Speaker 1: with Dylan mentioned that with alex Esak not for sale
Speaker 1: in this window apparently possibly probably that's according to Sky
Speaker 1: but once again we talked about one hundred and twenty million.
Speaker 2: Magpies feel the leaking.
Speaker 1: According to the Telegraph, the Magpies feel the leaking of
Speaker 1: the one hundred and twenty million pound interest into the
Speaker 1: public domain is intended to unsettle Alexander Esak, as well
Speaker 1: as that Katik. Liverpool have made inquiries about Ali Watkins,
Speaker 1: Victor Osimhin, Joan Visa and Rodrigo not Rodrigo de Paul
Speaker 1: who's apparently heading to Messi and friends. Napoli have informed
Speaker 1: Liverpool on a deal for Darwin Nunez can be considered
Speaker 1: off for Britzier Romano. Luis Diaz has made it clear
Speaker 1: he wants to leave Liverpool after the club rejected a
Speaker 1: fifty eight point six million pound bid from Bayern. Munich
Speaker 1: leads have reached an agreement and principle for Sean Long's
Speaker 1: staff from Newcastle Spurs, rivaling Inter Milan for twenty three
Speaker 1: year old defender Cony Deventer, Born with holding out for
Speaker 1: fifty nine million pounds for Ilia Zabarny, who is wanted
Speaker 1: by PSG. Chelsea ready to begin a clear out with
Speaker 1: Joel Felix in talks over return to Benfica and In Kunk,
Speaker 1: who also set to lead Manchester United, have registered their
Speaker 1: interest in signing Douglas Louise this summer, with Everton also
Speaker 1: keen on the twenty seven year old at Juve. Liverpool
Speaker 1: and Ibrahima Conate have rejected a lucrative approach from the
Speaker 1: Saudi pro league Reds have put a forty three million
Speaker 1: and a half pound price tag on cont for anybody
Speaker 1: interested this summer. Soswallow and Andrea Pinamonte attracting interest from
Speaker 1: west Ham, Brentford also inquiring. There's interest from Leeds and
Speaker 1: signing Spanish striker Gonzalo Garcia on loan from Real Madrid.
Speaker 1: Nottingham Forest have made Villa's U twenty one midfielder Jacob
Speaker 1: Ramsey their number one target in this window. Let's check
Speaker 1: with the gossip bruomer in a Nuindow and everything else
Speaker 1: that is out there in the ether with our friends.
Speaker 1: Like I said, obviously we mentioned what's going on with
Speaker 1: the transfer to Messian friends. Yuefa his bann fk arsenal
Speaker 1: Tivat from TI ten years from European competition requested FIFA
Speaker 1: upgrade the suspension to a global one follows charges against
Speaker 1: the Montenegrin club for match fixing. We mentioned the approach
Speaker 1: for Ekitik by Liverpool leading target. If Esok is not possible,
Speaker 1: Liverpool have approached both Newcastle and Frankfort to understand both situations.
Speaker 1: Esoch is the priority. According to Ben Liverpool quickly will
Speaker 1: proceed with ekait K if they determine it as impossibleble
Speaker 1: this summer. Newcastle have had a seventy million pekat K rejected,
Speaker 1: still trying to agree to a fee. Liverpool ready to
Speaker 1: advance on kaiti K quickly once they determine Esesoch's clarity.
Speaker 1: Richard Hughes to make the final call soon within put
Speaker 1: from Michael Edwards also Ipswich regeltable approaches from Brentford yesterday
Speaker 1: on Omari Hutchinson had a thirty five million pounds legation
Speaker 1: clause valid until five o'clock five o'clock yesterday or today.
Speaker 1: Brent for chose not to trigger. Failed to get it
Speaker 1: close get close to the payment terms despite matching the
Speaker 1: valuation Ipswich clear and talks a significant portion of the
Speaker 1: fee required up front. Brent for still wished to try.
Speaker 1: Ipswich wanted to stay talks expected to continue. Liverpool pushing
Speaker 1: to sign Salford City striker will write for a six
Speaker 1: figure sum. Several Premier League clubs are interested. Liverpool advanced
Speaker 1: also to Arsenal or recently in the mix, both clubs
Speaker 1: pushing to get a deal done. Bournemouth confirmed Georgie Petrovich
Speaker 1: has joined from Chelsea on a five year deal twenty
Speaker 1: five million pound fee so it only goes five million
Speaker 1: across their books every single year. Brighton's June de Jong
Speaker 1: has joined Airdaviz side Excelsior Rotterdam on a season long loan.
Speaker 1: Latest on Mboomoh is that that is still being discussed.
Speaker 1: Levi I Callwell believes Chelsea's win in the Club World
Speaker 1: Cup could give them amnum challenge for the title and
Speaker 1: for Champions League. Villa interested in Garnaco. Sunderland exploring a
Speaker 1: move for Lever Cusan's granted Shakup face competition from Neom.
Speaker 1: Shaka has three years left on his lever Cues and
Speaker 1: deal open to an exit. Watford exploring a deal to
Speaker 1: sign Ashley Young at the age of forty as a
Speaker 1: free Paulo Petzolano is going to be the final call.
Speaker 1: No concerns about his age or fitness, and once again
Speaker 1: yesterday Darby confirmed Patrick Agiman on a four year deal.
Speaker 2: Now let's see if we have Nate Skills Challenge roster. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Apple TV.
Speaker 1: On the Skills Challenge and we have the sponsors and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff that are that laid out there.
Speaker 1: So on the twenty second nine o'clock Skills Challenge Liga
Speaker 1: mki's Apple on Apple TV in season passes, it was
Speaker 1: in the timeline asking where you could see Skills Challenge
Speaker 1: and stuff Apple.
Speaker 2: It's going to be there all Star game.
Speaker 1: Nothing on who's going to be calling what and where
Speaker 1: that we know of yet we mentioned the archive collection.
Speaker 1: Let's see if h unless on air, do we have
Speaker 1: our pairings?
Speaker 2: We do know.
Speaker 1: We do, however, know Jess Charmon is going to be
Speaker 1: calling the match tonight on Apple TV. So set up
Speaker 1: multiple devices and please listen to Jess and listen to
Speaker 1: Mike and Jason all at the same time. So one
Speaker 1: device on Jess Apple, one device watching on Apple setting
Speaker 1: local radio to Mike and Jason. Okay, so here's your match.
Speaker 1: Here's your match lineups for all of your referees. San Diego, Toronto.
Speaker 1: Elis Pennington is in the middle, Cameron Blanchard, Jeremy Hansen
Speaker 1: your a. R z Allen Chapman is your fourth. Michael
Speaker 1: Radchuck and Jonathan Johnson are upstairs Timbers and RSL Alexis
Speaker 1: Da Silva is in the middle, Gerard Cader, le Buill,
Speaker 1: Stephen McGonagall your ars. Timothy Ford is your fourth, Soren
Speaker 1: Stoutchekt TJ's a Blocky upstairs Galaxy and Austin Ricardo Fierro
Speaker 1: in the middle. Chris Elliott, Diego Blosch your AARs. Trevor
Speaker 1: Wiseman your fourth, Kevin Stotton, Craig Lowry upstairs, Sanders and Colorado,
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Hernandez in the middle, leaz arfa Nick Balser your ar.
Speaker 1: Servando Berna is your fourth. Daniel Radford, Joshua pat Lack
Speaker 1: upstairs Nashville and Crew Ricardo Monteo Aria in the middle.
Speaker 1: Corey Parker, Kyle Atkins your ars. Or Sinda Mendoza is
Speaker 1: your fourth, Greg Doptka, Favio Tovar upstairs Minnesota, La Pierre
Speaker 1: Looke Lozier is the man in the middle. Stephan Tanaka
Speaker 1: fronk Ian McKay your ars. Atahanya Ya is your fourth,
Speaker 1: Jorge Gonzalez, Robert Schapp upstairs, Houston and Vancouver, Ruby el
Speaker 1: Vasquez in the middle, Joseta Silva, Jason White your AARs
Speaker 1: Gerald floor is your fourth. Is smell el Fat and
Speaker 1: Tom Supple are upstairs, Philadelphia and Montreal. Gueta Gonzalez Junior
Speaker 1: in the middle, while Heatherly Justin Howard your ars. Fotis
Speaker 1: Bezakas is your fourth. Soren Storage TJ. Zablocki upstairs, Orlando,
Speaker 1: New York City. Jire Marufo is.
Speaker 2: The man in the middle.
Speaker 1: Adam Win, count Johnny Fachini your ars, Elvis As Monovitch
Speaker 1: as your fourth. Kevin Stotton, Craig Lowry Stairs, Red Bulls
Speaker 1: and Revs. Sergey Boyko is the man in the middle.
Speaker 1: Corey Rockwell, Eric weissbrod your ars JC is your fourth,
Speaker 1: Unis Maracci, Melissa Beck upstairs Cincinnati and Messi and Friends.
Speaker 1: Lucas Apollo the man in the middle, Nick Ranga, Tyler
Speaker 1: why Rosterick your Ar's John Freeman is your fourth. David Barry,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Johnson upstairs, Charlotte, d C United. Chris Penso the
Speaker 1: man in the middle. Corey Richardson, Mike Nickerson, your ars.
Speaker 1: John Mattow is your fourth, Michael Radjack, Meghan Mullen upstairs,
Speaker 1: Atlanta United, Chicago Fires, Serge Demon chuck Man in the
Speaker 1: middle for this one, Logan Brown, Andrew Bigelow your ars,
Speaker 1: Marcus DEELIVERI your fourth. J C. Rivero, Brian Dunn upstairs.
Speaker 1: And those are your assignments for match day twenty five
Speaker 1: or so match week nineteen anyway, So let me see.
Speaker 2: Also you had your two's. That's uh.
Speaker 1: Do we have an announcement for the activity this weekend
Speaker 1: for folks that are playing. We do not have anything
Speaker 1: involving MLS next pro so MLS assignments. I want to
Speaker 1: see if I've missed anybody in match Day twenty five. Demianchuk,
Speaker 1: Penso Zapala, Boyko, Marufo Gonzales Vasquez, Lozier Montero, Aria, Hernandez,
Speaker 1: fierro Da Silva, Pennington, Remy Toushon this is one we
Speaker 1: don't have. Remy Tooshan is in the middle for San
Speaker 1: Jose Dallas, Cali Smith, Kevin Lock your airs. Victor Riebas
Speaker 1: is your fourth units, Maroaccchiine, Meghan Mullen upstairs. So those
Speaker 1: are your assignments for tonight in Major League Soccer. Like
Speaker 1: I said, obviously, it's going to be a full show tomorrow,
Speaker 1: will Polaja nine fifteen, Willie Davis, North Carolina Courage at
Speaker 1: nine for Nino and Nico in the Power Hour an
Speaker 1: hour number two and we'll discuss it Landy United and
Speaker 1: we'll kind of weave that into the conversation on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Chet Neugevsi's gonna bet lead off them and Jan Hernandez
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Speaker 1: hopefully beyond goals menering at nine thirty MLS hopefully at
Speaker 1: ten will get you ready for theakend in hour number
Speaker 1: two and PLoP that out, all right, what's a watch?
Speaker 2: Where to watch it? How to watch it?
Speaker 1: I know we've gone long, and I apologize, all right,
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Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: So July twenty sixth tailgate, Alex and Pars and Alex, Derek, Morning,
Speaker 1: Derek and everybody trying to manifest a an AM five
Speaker 1: nine hattie and it means.
Speaker 2: Yacht wreckage around the Orca.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is the fiftieth nniversary of Joss saw that.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I was having to dinner with the Boss and
Speaker 1: right there on the monitor and you have the three
Speaker 1: of them. You're gonna need a bigger boat an ad
Speaker 1: lib by Roy Scheider, by the way, need a bigger boat.
Speaker 2: That's an ad lib that was kept back at.
Speaker 1: It again nine oh five tomorrow morning, and we will
Speaker 1: chop up the segments of the show and you can
Speaker 1: go ahead and listen as you go. But yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: have the legalies down here and we'll have what we
Speaker 1: had with Dylan with the preview.
Speaker 2: You can listen to all that.
Speaker 1: You can listen to the show, rewatch the show, and
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Speaker 1: ain't kidding, brother, and that that was just the mayor
Speaker 1: did not know how to the mayor. I understand he's
Speaker 1: trying to dress for the situation.
Speaker 2: Needed a better tailor.
Speaker 1: Anyway, back at it again less than twenty two since
Speaker 1: it is the end of the show. We'll be back
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