Speaker 1: Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso on
Speaker 1: the SDCH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's
Speaker 1: premier undergraduate learning experience and soccer powerhouse. I'm Jason Longshore.
Speaker 1: A really busy weekend. We're going to try to get
Speaker 1: you caught up on all the big news that you
Speaker 1: need to know for Monday, August twenty fifth. Let's start
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer Charlotte. They extended their winning streak
Speaker 1: to seven matches, the longest in MLS this season, one
Speaker 1: nil win over the New York Red Bulls, Carolyn Vargas
Speaker 1: with the goal for the Crown, and they're closer to
Speaker 1: first place in the East than they are to the
Speaker 1: playoff line, now seven points behind Philadelphia, who leads the East,
Speaker 1: eight points ahead of Chicago, who is the last team
Speaker 1: in the playoff spots. Seattle last night five to two
Speaker 1: winners over Sporting Kansas City, even though they rotated their
Speaker 1: lineup heavily ahead of a League's Cup semi final match,
Speaker 1: didn't really matter against Sporting Kansas City. Danny Mussofski, he's
Speaker 1: suspended for the league's Cup semifinal at the Galaxy. He
Speaker 1: had his first MLS hat trick fifteen goals across all
Speaker 1: competitions in twenty twenty five for Musofski, Colonia, Cosa, Rienzi
Speaker 1: and Snyder. Brunel also scored. Danny Lava had three assists
Speaker 1: for the Sounders. Earlier in the weekend, Sam Surage he
Speaker 1: has retaken the Golden Boot race lead with two goals
Speaker 1: in Nashville's five to one demolition job of Orlando City
Speaker 1: and New York City. They're now four to zero to
Speaker 1: one in their last five games. They won in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: one nil. They've also added wins at Orlando and at
Speaker 1: home against Nashville in that five game stretch. Maybe the
Speaker 1: Pigeons are for real, Maybe Cincinnati. They're going to host
Speaker 1: Philadelphia next week in a big match with supporters shield
Speaker 1: and top seed in the East implications. Yesterday, Atlanta United
Speaker 1: scoreless straw not a very pretty match in the one
Speaker 1: against Toronto at the Benz. Only six shots for Atlanta,
Speaker 1: no big chances created. It was a not a fun match.
Speaker 1: It was not one of the better performances that we've seen.
Speaker 1: I talked about it a lot leading into the full
Speaker 1: time report. I want to see more inspiration from this group,
Speaker 1: right now because yeah, I mean, the reality is you're
Speaker 1: not gonna make the playoffs. It's not official yet, but
Speaker 1: it's the reality you're staring at. However, there's gotta be
Speaker 1: a better performance, take chances, try things, go for things,
Speaker 1: be more expansive in these moments, and they they were not.
Speaker 1: And it just felt and I felt better after talking
Speaker 1: about it. During the game, Ronnie Dila talked about it.
Speaker 1: He said that it felt too safe. The decisions were
Speaker 1: too safe from too many of the players in a
Speaker 1: game where look, if you lose, you lose. You can
Speaker 1: at least try to entertain and inspire, like going for
Speaker 1: it and being more risk taking. And it just didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Very frustrating. Let's move around the world now, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go to Italy first, Sarah ah Us. Midfielder Weston McKenny
Speaker 1: was subjected to racist abuse after Juventus completed their two
Speaker 1: zero win over Parma. Juventus said this on Sunday. They
Speaker 1: posted a statement on social media saying McKenny was the
Speaker 1: target of quote discriminatory racist remarks by individuals in the
Speaker 1: away section he was warming up or warming down with
Speaker 1: teammates on the pitch. This is after the game. The
Speaker 1: statement continued, Juventus strongly condemns this incident in any form
Speaker 1: of racism and will ensure full cooperation with the sporting
Speaker 1: justice authorities to identify those responsible. McKenny was a substitute
Speaker 1: in the match. Jonathan David from Canada scored in his
Speaker 1: Syria debut for Juventus, a two zero win. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, Fiorentina was hit with a suspended partial stadium
Speaker 1: ban after fans directed racist and discriminatory chance at McKenny
Speaker 1: and other Juventus players. What I will continue to say
Speaker 1: in these situations is okay, if this is Parma fans,
Speaker 1: it's at Juventus. Parma fans traveled here. If Parma has
Speaker 1: the ability to determine who was involved in this, and
Speaker 1: if they have the ability to definitively identify these people.
Speaker 1: If they have season tickets, cancel them. If they don't,
Speaker 1: then don't let them buy tickets anymore. These things got
Speaker 1: to be cracked down on hard. It's just getting to
Speaker 1: a point where, you know, it happens all the time
Speaker 1: and there's not these stro long punishment being given to
Speaker 1: the individuals. You know, it's not Parma can only do
Speaker 1: so much. These fans are there on their own accord.
Speaker 1: Ban them, don't let them come back. Ban them from
Speaker 1: stadium sara A, you can identify them. Ban them from
Speaker 1: stadiums all across the country. It's ridiculous. Let's go to Spain.
Speaker 1: Real Madrid coach Shabi Alonso. He started with Venetius Junior
Speaker 1: on the bench for the La Liga match at Oviedo,
Speaker 1: but he still played a decisive role. Came on in
Speaker 1: the second half, created a goal, scored another three nil
Speaker 1: win for Real Madrid, killing Himbape scored the other two.
Speaker 1: Madrid is one of three clubs so far with a
Speaker 1: one hundred percent perfect record after two games, but via
Speaker 1: Reale is in the top spot in La Liga. They
Speaker 1: scored five without reply in a crushing win over Girona.
Speaker 1: Oh so soon. They beat Valencia one nil Orel Sosiadad
Speaker 1: came from two goals down to draw with Espanol to
Speaker 1: two at Letti. It's not a good start for Diego Simoni,
Speaker 1: and he said that supporters have every right to feel
Speaker 1: frustrated with the team. They were held to a one
Speaker 1: to one draw by promoted side Eltche in their match
Speaker 1: on Saturday. At Leti took the lead and then couldn't
Speaker 1: hold off Elche, who just came up from the second division.
Speaker 1: At Leti's winless in league, thirteenth in the standings. Marcus
Speaker 1: Rashford he got his first start for Barcelona, but they
Speaker 1: were in the process of being stunned by Levante, trailing
Speaker 1: two nil when he was substituted second half the blow.
Speaker 1: Grana came all the way back to win the match.
Speaker 1: They leveled it early in the second half with two
Speaker 1: goals in six minutes and then found a deflected winner late. Now,
Speaker 1: of course it's Barcelona, so there's still drama off the field.
Speaker 1: They don't know where they're going to have their first
Speaker 1: La Lega home match. This is still unknown. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be the weekend of September fourteenth against Valencia, we know
Speaker 1: that much. It could be at the Estada Johan Kreuz,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that meets La Liga rules. That's
Speaker 1: been talked about already. It could be at the Olympic Stadium. However,
Speaker 1: Post Malone is playing concert there a couple days before,
Speaker 1: so they don't expect that the stadium would be available.
Speaker 1: They could play behind closed doors, but that is not
Speaker 1: looking all that likely now. They had tried to request
Speaker 1: La Liga to switch the game and make it an
Speaker 1: away match and then playing Valencia at home later in
Speaker 1: the season, but Kadena Cope, the radio station, reports that
Speaker 1: La Liga have said no, They're not going to let
Speaker 1: Barcelona have a fourth straight game away from home to
Speaker 1: start the season. They say it's against the rules to
Speaker 1: change the order of the games in the calendar. If
Speaker 1: they had made this request before, then maybe it could
Speaker 1: have been nailed down before the schedule was done. They
Speaker 1: haven't given an alternative to La Liga right now. It
Speaker 1: could be at Girona, which is about an hour north
Speaker 1: of Barcelona, and it could host under fifteen thousand fans there. Now.
Speaker 1: Marca is reporting that Barcelona had targeted today as the
Speaker 1: date they wanted to send the certificate of completion to
Speaker 1: the city council as they could get start to the
Speaker 1: process of getting the opening license for the camp new
Speaker 1: to get it to the twenty seven thousand seats to
Speaker 1: be able to at least open it and do something there.
Speaker 1: No certificate of completion has been submitted to the city
Speaker 1: council yet there's no clarity on when that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Barcelona loves their deadlines, and loves just flying right past them.
Speaker 1: They also have another deadline that they can't fly past.
Speaker 1: It's Thursday, where they have to explain to UEFA where
Speaker 1: they are going to play the league phase of the
Speaker 1: Champions League. You have to be in one stadium for
Speaker 1: the entire league phase. YUEFA have allowed Barcelona to begin
Speaker 1: away from home to give them a little extra time
Speaker 1: that whatever stadium they choose will be ready, but right
Speaker 1: now looks like there's no way they're going to be
Speaker 1: able to secure Camp New in time for that. So
Speaker 1: Barcelona have secured the use of the Olympic Stadium through
Speaker 1: February if needed. Again, this is Barcelona, so of course
Speaker 1: there's drama off the field, and there's more. They're locked
Speaker 1: in a race to register players with Laaligas. Still. They
Speaker 1: did get Joe on Garcia, he's in gold. They did
Speaker 1: get Marcus Rashford, he started on the weekend. They have
Speaker 1: not been able to register will Chock, Chesney, Gered Martin
Speaker 1: and Rooney Bargde. So can they get these done right now?
Speaker 1: You need you need the goalkeeper as a backup to
Speaker 1: Joe on Garcia. They're trying to get Martin's contract updated.
Speaker 1: That's their first priority. Then Chesney and then bart Ghee,
Speaker 1: who was added the summer from f C Copenhagen. Hansei
Speaker 1: Flick likes him. He's nineteen years old. He wants them
Speaker 1: to stay with the first team, but Barcelona can't guarantee
Speaker 1: his registration and they can't register him as a Barcelona
Speaker 1: B team player. That's not going to be allowed. So
Speaker 1: how do they get this done? Who knows? And it's
Speaker 1: to the point now that Bargee's like, don't loan me out.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go anywhere else. Just have me
Speaker 1: be with the reserve team. And I guess he can
Speaker 1: play with the reserve team, but he can't be a
Speaker 1: reserve team player and move up to play with the
Speaker 1: first team. The legal rules are crazy and this whole
Speaker 1: situation's crazy. We'll see if it gets any more clarification
Speaker 1: as we get closer to the end of the transfer window.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Premier League Arsenal, big weekend for them.
Speaker 1: Eberecci Es was introduced to the crowd Arsenal hammered Leeds
Speaker 1: United five nil. Victor Yolkaris scored his first two goals
Speaker 1: as a gunner. Almost saw the youngest goal scorer in
Speaker 1: Premier League history as Max Dowman, fifteen years old physic
Speaker 1: shot just wide. Now they're also chasing sixteen year old
Speaker 1: Shamrock Rovers midfielder Victor os Hian Vuna. We'll see if
Speaker 1: they can get that one done. He's a veteran compared
Speaker 1: to Dalmon and their squad depth. It could be added
Speaker 1: even more because now they are chasing Bayer levercues and
Speaker 1: defender and Ecuador international Piero in Kopier. That one could
Speaker 1: go for another fifty million euro or so. That deal
Speaker 1: is advancing, according to reports, as in Kapyer wants to
Speaker 1: go to Arsenal than Tottenham Hotspur. Manchester United not great
Speaker 1: for them. One one draw with Fulham. Bruno fernanj sent
Speaker 1: a penalty into space. He runs hot and cold. He's
Speaker 1: their best player. But Tottenham Hotspur they're doing okay. They
Speaker 1: stunned Manchester City. They beat Pepside to nil with some
Speaker 1: ease on Saturday. They are chasing quite a few players.
Speaker 1: Will get into that as we go. This morning. Everton
Speaker 1: they christened their new Hill Dickinson Stadium with a two
Speaker 1: nine win over Brighton. Really loud, one hundred and six
Speaker 1: decibels The crazy thing about this one so Ilimaninjai. He
Speaker 1: scored the last goal at Goodison Park last season and
Speaker 1: now he scored the first goal at Hill Dickinson Stadium.
Speaker 1: Kind of crazy bookends right there. Jack Grealish on loan
Speaker 1: from Manchester City. He assisted on both Everton goals. Now
Speaker 1: today in the Premier League, Newcastle will host Liverpool. This
Speaker 1: match has all the subplots. Alexander isak. He's going to
Speaker 1: be the focus of much of the conversation, even though
Speaker 1: he's not going to play broken friendships between Eddie Howe
Speaker 1: and Liverpool leadership those date back decades. That's going to
Speaker 1: be part of the background. Richard Hughes, the sporting director
Speaker 1: for Liverpool. He was a teammate of Eddie Howe's at Portsmouth,
Speaker 1: played under him at Bournemouth, then joined the club's recruitment
Speaker 1: team and rose to the role of sporting director at Bournemouth,
Speaker 1: working alongside Howe. Not just colleagues, they were very very close,
Speaker 1: according to people who have worked with them. Mike Edwards,
Speaker 1: the chief exec of football for Liverpool. He was at
Speaker 1: Portsmouth in the early two thousands. His work as an
Speaker 1: analyst attracted interest from how and Hughes. A bond developed
Speaker 1: at Portsmouth between the trio along with many other people
Speaker 1: who are at Liverpool now and some of the folks
Speaker 1: close to Eddie Howe suggests that he has felt more
Speaker 1: aggrieved than he's been willing to let on publicly about
Speaker 1: how everything has gone down as of late, specifically around
Speaker 1: Alexander Esach, but also at catequ and other possible transfer
Speaker 1: and he's felt kind of disrespected according to some around Newcastle.
Speaker 1: It's a weird situation. I mean, Liverpool is doing business,
Speaker 1: Newcastle's trying to do business, but personal relationships are part
Speaker 1: of this conversation. There's just no way to avoid that.
Speaker 1: Very complicated the match itself, Let's talk about the on
Speaker 1: the field. Liverpool are unbeaten in the previous seventeen league
Speaker 1: meetings between these two teams, although Newcastle did defeat them
Speaker 1: in the EFL Cup Final last year. The Reds have
Speaker 1: scored ninety goals in thirty nine games under Arnestlatt, giving
Speaker 1: them an average of two point three goals per match,
Speaker 1: best ratio by any Liverpool manager in the top flight.
Speaker 1: Newcastle have not scored in any of their last four
Speaker 1: Premier League matches without Alexander Esach in the team Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Bundesliga. In Germany, it was opening weekend.
Speaker 1: Harry Kane scored a second half hat trick, Michael Elise
Speaker 1: bag two goals Byron obliterated RBI sig six nil. Caine
Speaker 1: opened his account in the sixty fourth minute, two more
Speaker 1: goals in the seventy fourth and seventy seventh, so a
Speaker 1: thirteen minute hat trick. Not too shabby, Levercus and they lost.
Speaker 1: Eric Tenhagg lost his first Bundesliga match. They had the lead,
Speaker 1: they ended up losing two to one to Hoffenheim. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Brusia Dortmund drew their league opener away at Saint Paul
Speaker 1: Lee in a six goal thriller. But it was what
Speaker 1: happened after the game that has gotten some headlines. Rollin
Speaker 1: reports state that job Bellingham's parents have now been banned
Speaker 1: from Dortmun's dressing room. They were angry after seeing their
Speaker 1: son substituted at halftime and they were trying to confront
Speaker 1: the manager in the tunnel. According to Sky Sports Germany,
Speaker 1: Mark Bellingham, who also acts as his son's advisor, had
Speaker 1: an emotional discussion with dortmunds Sporting director Sebastian Kel. The
Speaker 1: report states that Bellingham's father voiced his frustration over both
Speaker 1: the substitution and the team's overall performance. Okay. Build reported
Speaker 1: that Mark Bellingham saw a man a meeting with manager
Speaker 1: Niko Kovac directly and quote made no secret of his opinion. Unquote.
Speaker 1: Dortmund's managing director Lars Ricken tried to downplay everything on
Speaker 1: Sunday evening. He said the nature of the chat was okay.
Speaker 1: He said it wasn't a problem, but he did confirm
Speaker 1: that an incident like this will not happen in the
Speaker 1: future with family members now banned from that area, all
Speaker 1: family members, not just the Bellinghams. But wow, that's some Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you ever wondered about Jude's behavior, Thomas Tookele's mother
Speaker 1: worries about Jude's behavior, I don't know, maybe this is
Speaker 1: where it comes from. Let's go to the NWSL records
Speaker 1: were set over the weekend on the attendance side BAYFC.
Speaker 1: They lost three two to the Washington Spirit. They were
Speaker 1: down three nil and tried to come back and this
Speaker 1: one couldn't quite get all the way back. But they
Speaker 1: had forty ninety one fans at Sanford Cisco's Oracle Park,
Speaker 1: new NWSL record, new women's professional sports attendance record in
Speaker 1: the United States. The Kansas City for the club side,
Speaker 1: not for national team stuff. The Kansas City Current, their
Speaker 1: dominant form at the top of the league, continued to
Speaker 1: nil win away at Portland on Saturday, fourteen to two
Speaker 1: and one overall nine oh to one in their last ten,
Speaker 1: twelve points ahead of second place Washington with nine games left,
Speaker 1: five straight clean sheets, as well four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two minutes without conceding a goal. World Cup draw. The
Speaker 1: announcement came on Friday. There had been early news links
Speaker 1: saying it would be in Las Vegas. It will actually
Speaker 1: be in Washington, d C. At the Kennedy Center on Friday,
Speaker 1: December fifth. Groundbreaking initiative that FIFA is doing for this draw,
Speaker 1: Fans from each of the sixteen host cities will be
Speaker 1: able to participate in a special lottery for the chance
Speaker 1: to win complimentary admission to the draw saw VIP experience.
Speaker 1: A select number of admissions will be allocated to each
Speaker 1: host city, with the lottery procedures to be announced shortly.
Speaker 1: Draw will be at noon on that Friday, December fifth.
Speaker 1: Further details including broadcast information the full procedures that's going
Speaker 1: to come out at FIFA dot Com in due course.
Speaker 1: The teams representing the host countries will be assigned to
Speaker 1: positions A one for Mexico, B one for Canada and
Speaker 1: D one for the US. That's per the match schedule
Speaker 1: that was released last year, as well as the final
Speaker 1: draw for the tournament being staged in Washington in December.
Speaker 1: The FIFA Playoff Tournament a new event that will see
Speaker 1: six nations from five of the six confederations. UAPHA is
Speaker 1: going to have their own separate playoff for the final
Speaker 1: four European spots, so everybody else they're going to compete
Speaker 1: for two spots at the World Cup that's going to
Speaker 1: be hosted in North America in March of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: The FIFA Congress be held on April thirtieth in Vancouver
Speaker 1: and in the tournament will kick off on June eleventh
Speaker 1: at the Estadio a Steca in Mexico City. So, in
Speaker 1: addition to Mexico, Canada, US ten nations have already qualified Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, Iran, Japan, Jordan,
Speaker 1: South Korea, New Zealand and Uzbekistan. By the time the
Speaker 1: draw happens in December, forty two of the forty eight
Speaker 1: teams will be known. The final six spots will be
Speaker 1: in the playoffs that will be determined in March of
Speaker 1: next year. More FIFA news, FIFA's told the continental confederations
Speaker 1: that the next Club World Cup will take place in
Speaker 1: the summer of twenty twenty nine, which kind of leaves
Speaker 1: katar out of it. They're not going to have it
Speaker 1: there in the summer. In another significant development, FIFA has
Speaker 1: told the confederations that the twenty twenty nine Club World
Speaker 1: Cup will likely feature more than thirty two teams now.
Speaker 1: The Guardian reported back in June, it was funny how
Speaker 1: everybody was trashing this tournament before it started, and I
Speaker 1: tried to tell you, tried to tell you everybody wanted
Speaker 1: to trash it. A lot of US media, for some reason,
Speaker 1: wanted to downplay this tournament. And it's extremely frustrating when
Speaker 1: we do this because alongside that happening, a lot of
Speaker 1: major clubs in the world were saying, hey, we went in,
Speaker 1: Hey expand it, hey make it bigger, we want some
Speaker 1: of that cash. Well, the lobbying has intensified since the
Speaker 1: tournament ended. Chelsea received eighty five million pounds from the
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty million pound prize and participation fund.
Speaker 1: FIFA are gonna expand it. They don't know if they're
Speaker 1: going to go all the way to forty eight teams
Speaker 1: though that's not guaranteed, but it will be more than
Speaker 1: what we saw this past summer. Interesting. The Women's World
Speaker 1: Cup also do to expand to forty eight teams in
Speaker 1: twenty thirty one, which will be held in the United
Speaker 1: States and Mexico. Two edition thirty two teams. Obviously, it
Speaker 1: shows that FIFA is going to look to continue to
Speaker 1: expand these tournaments, and it also shows that the demand
Speaker 1: for expansion of these tournaments is there. FIFA is considering
Speaker 1: a different structure for the twenty twenty nine Club World Cup.
Speaker 1: They could have a series of qualifying playoffs the week
Speaker 1: before the main tournament. They got lucky with the multi
Speaker 1: club ownership situation with Leone getting kicked out of this
Speaker 1: year's tournament and then having that playoff game with LAFC
Speaker 1: and Club America, and it went pretty well. It was
Speaker 1: a great match, a lot of drama. So now FIFA
Speaker 1: might have more of those in the week before the
Speaker 1: actual tournament starts. Let's get caught up on some silly
Speaker 1: season updates. Gior Reina. He has completed his move from
Speaker 1: Barusha Dortmund to Barusha Munchen Gladbach was announced on Friday.
Speaker 1: He's out of contract at Dortmund in the summer, so
Speaker 1: they felt like, we're not going to sign him to
Speaker 1: a new deal, let's go ahead and move him now.
Speaker 1: John Luigi Donna Ruma at PSA. He has reportedly agreed
Speaker 1: to personal terms with Manchester City. Looked like he said
Speaker 1: as goodbyes on Friday night at the Park de Prince.
Speaker 1: He has, according to Fabrizio Romano, agreed to the move.
Speaker 1: PSG and City are in talks. The initial the fee
Speaker 1: is expected to be under the fifty million euro request
Speaker 1: that PSG put out there. It also kind of depends
Speaker 1: on Ederson, who is attracting interest from Galatasarai. He was
Speaker 1: on the bench for Saturday's two zero loss to Tottenham Hotspur.
Speaker 1: Manchester United kind of thought they might get into the sweepstakes,
Speaker 1: but they have not. They are advancing in talks with
Speaker 1: Royal Antwerp for goalkeeper Sene Lamans. They weren't I mean
Speaker 1: they've been linked with Emiliano Martinez at one point too.
Speaker 1: In the summer, they had kind of pushed that to
Speaker 1: the back burner unless Andrea Anana was sold. But now
Speaker 1: after the week opening weekend loss to Arsenal, they're back
Speaker 1: in the goalkeeper sweepstakes. Antwerp they're looking for a fee
Speaker 1: for around twenty million euro for Lamans. Negotiations progressing. He's
Speaker 1: six foot four, He's played fifty two games in the
Speaker 1: Belgian Pro League and it would be competition for Onana
Speaker 1: rather than Onana definitely being on the way out Savinho,
Speaker 1: he remains at the top of Tottenham Hotspurs wanted list.
Speaker 1: Thomas Frank wants to sign him. Tottenham have indicated to
Speaker 1: Manchester City they're willing to pay over sixty million pounds
Speaker 1: for Savignho, who wants to make the move. We'll see
Speaker 1: if that one can get done. Spurs are also chasing
Speaker 1: Nico Paz, the twenty year old attacker at Como and Argentina.
Speaker 1: This one's complicated because Fabricio Romano reported that Tottenham made
Speaker 1: an a bid of fifty million euro that was turned down.
Speaker 1: Then Como came back and said we want seventy million
Speaker 1: euro and Tottenham Hotspurs said, okay, we'll give you seventy
Speaker 1: million euro plus add ons, let's go, and Como still
Speaker 1: rejected that after saying that's what they wanted. Interesting, why
Speaker 1: would this happen? Well, Nico Pause is formally a Como player,
Speaker 1: but as former club Real Madrid, they have an option
Speaker 1: to re sign him in twenty twenty six or twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven for a fee of up to ten million euro. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe Madrid putting a little bit of pressure on Como
Speaker 1: and according to some of the reports, the Merengus will
Speaker 1: compensate Como according to Fabrizio Romano if they don't sell
Speaker 1: Nico pods elsewhere, so they'll pay a whole lot more
Speaker 1: than the ten million euro if they bring him back
Speaker 1: in the future. So maybe a little bit of cash here,
Speaker 1: a little bit of pressure here, because this isn't just
Speaker 1: a one time thing with Madrid players going to Como
Speaker 1: in favorable deals very intriguing. So Spurs might get kind
Speaker 1: of trumped here by Real Madrid in this situation. Crystal Palace,
Speaker 1: they have tired to Atletti about a loan for Connor Gallagher.
Speaker 1: Bobby Mansey with the reporting on that might be tough
Speaker 1: to pull off in the final week of the window,
Speaker 1: strong chance that he stays in Madrid. Alex Crook is
Speaker 1: reporting that Napoli are in advanced talks with Manchester United
Speaker 1: over rosmus Hoyland loan with conditional obligation to buy worth
Speaker 1: around forty pounds is being talked about plus the loan fee.
Speaker 1: In case you missed it, the African Nations Championship is
Speaker 1: going on. This started in two thousand and nine and
Speaker 1: it's a tournament where only players who play in their
Speaker 1: home country's domestic league can take part. I love the
Speaker 1: concept of this. It rewards the players who are playing
Speaker 1: in domestic leagues, It boosts the domestic leagues and it
Speaker 1: also showcases them on a bigger platform. It's held every
Speaker 1: two years and in this year's tournament, Morocco has advanced
Speaker 1: to a semi final to face defending champion Senegal. That's
Speaker 1: going to be on Tuesday. But the other side of
Speaker 1: the bracket's fascinating Sudan. They stunned Algeria in a penalty shootout.
Speaker 1: They are going to the semi final against Madagascar. So
Speaker 1: it's Sudan and Madagascar with players from their domestic leagues
Speaker 1: against Morocco and Senegal, so national team players from the
Speaker 1: domestic leagues. I love the concept. And as we start
Speaker 1: to see, especially CONCA CAF start to look at different
Speaker 1: competitions combo ball, I would love to see something like this.
Speaker 1: Could be a nice alternative in the summer or in
Speaker 1: the right spot in the calendar to do this sort
Speaker 1: of thing in other parts of the world. I love
Speaker 1: that the African Confederation is doing this. I'm very intrigued
Speaker 1: to see how Sudan and Madagascar goes on Tuesday, other
Speaker 1: news from around the world. As we start to wrap
Speaker 1: up this edition of The Morning Espresso, Kevin de Bruyne.
Speaker 1: He scored on his Napoli debut on Saturday. They started
Speaker 1: their title defense with a pretty straightforward two zero win
Speaker 1: at promoted Sassuolo Milan and Luka Madris made his debut.
Speaker 1: They fell to a shock to one home loss to Kremenes,
Speaker 1: another promoted team PSG. They got passed down Jerre one
Speaker 1: nil in legal Fabian Ruiz his second half goal secured
Speaker 1: a home win. Luis Enrique talked about it. With going
Speaker 1: so far in the Club World Cup, it's going to
Speaker 1: take them a while to get their rhythm because they
Speaker 1: they had that tournament, then they took a break, then
Speaker 1: they came back with really no preseason to get into
Speaker 1: the league season, so they're working themselves into form. They
Speaker 1: had a missed penalty in this one from Usman Demballe,
Speaker 1: but they ground out the win. Romanian side FCU Crauvia
Speaker 1: they have been hit with the biggest points deduction I've
Speaker 1: ever heard of, ninety four points due to financial difficulties.
Speaker 1: So they're in the third tier of Romanian football. They
Speaker 1: were administratively relegated from the second tier. Now they sit
Speaker 1: on the bottom of the third division table at minus
Speaker 1: ninety four points. I mean, like, just kick them out.
Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Digi Sport is reporting that
Speaker 1: the club have a deadline of September third to provide
Speaker 1: proof of payments to former players and coaches. If they
Speaker 1: don't more points deductions and they could also get excluded
Speaker 1: from leagues across the country. Just kick them out a
Speaker 1: ninety four point deduction, I mean, come on, that's silly. Wrexham,
Speaker 1: they were not going to allow Sheffield Wednesday fans to
Speaker 1: bring anti defon Chanciri, the owner of Sheffield Wednesday. They
Speaker 1: weren't going to allow them to bring anti Chancirie banners
Speaker 1: into the race course ground, but then they switched that.
Speaker 1: Then co owner Rob Mack encouraged Wrexham fans to wear
Speaker 1: last season's gold away shirt in support of Wednesdays Black
Speaker 1: and Gold until it's sold campaign. They also put ten
Speaker 1: thousand of those shirts on sale and the Wrexham ownership
Speaker 1: said that profits of those sales would go to the
Speaker 1: Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Trust. I like that. Cristiano Ronaldo. He
Speaker 1: became the first player in history to score one hundred
Speaker 1: competitive goals for four different clubs. The record was set
Speaker 1: in the Saudi Super Cup final Al Nasser and a
Speaker 1: lac Lee. But alongside setting that record, Cristiano Ronaldo also
Speaker 1: set another record. He became the first player ever to
Speaker 1: lose twelve finals. Suffered his third straight defeat in a
Speaker 1: final with Al Nasser. They lost in a penalty shootout
Speaker 1: in the Saudi Super Cup final. Across his career, he's
Speaker 1: appeared in thirty seven finals. He's won twenty five of them,
Speaker 1: but he's the first player in the world to ever
Speaker 1: lose twelve finals. South Korea manager Hong Mung Bo has
Speaker 1: called up former German youth international Jens Castrop for next
Speaker 1: month friendlies against the United States in Mexico. This is
Speaker 1: the first time that a mixed herod player has been
Speaker 1: included in the South Korean men's national squad. Hong named
Speaker 1: the brusha munching glad back midfielder in his twenty six
Speaker 1: man squad. Today, South Korea's beginning preparations for next year's
Speaker 1: World Cup, their eleventh straight appearance in the tournament. Castrop
Speaker 1: is twenty two years old, born to a German father
Speaker 1: and a South Korean mother. Has been picked alongside son
Speaker 1: Hang Men PSG's Champions League winner Lee Kangen. But Castrop
Speaker 1: was born in Dusseldorf. He played for Germany at the
Speaker 1: youth national team level from U sixteen to U twenty
Speaker 1: one ask FIFA to switch his international allegiance to South
Speaker 1: Korea this month. That is secured and he will be
Speaker 1: part of the squad for the games against the US
Speaker 1: in Mexico. On the women's side, Casey Fair became the
Speaker 1: first mixed heritage player to be selected for South Korea
Speaker 1: at senior level. In twenty twenty three. She played in
Speaker 1: the Women's World Cup Brazil They're going to announce their
Speaker 1: roster for their last two World Cup qualifiers later today.
Speaker 1: Carlo Ancelotti is probably going to use this as a
Speaker 1: chance to see some new faces. The leak of the
Speaker 1: players who have already been informed of this suggests the
Speaker 1: list of surprises. Nine names in the leaked roster have
Speaker 1: never worn the national team jersey. That's a lot. Naymar
Speaker 1: is still a doubt so he has a thigh injury.
Speaker 1: He's undergoing treatment ahead of Sunday's match against Fluminense. The
Speaker 1: federation is aware of the medical issue. Will be up
Speaker 1: to Ancelotti to decide whether to bring him back to
Speaker 1: the national team after almost two years. Last time he
Speaker 1: wore the national team jersey was in a loss to
Speaker 1: Uruguay in October of twenty twenty three when he injured
Speaker 1: his ACL. Let's go to Mexico Monterrey. They have taken
Speaker 1: the lead in League MX by a point following their
Speaker 1: three nil win over Nikasa kruz Asul. They are second.
Speaker 1: They won one nil over to Luca Club America. They
Speaker 1: got a boost in the weekend Alan Saint Maximin He
Speaker 1: signed a two year deal with Club America in mid August.
Speaker 1: He made his day in Guadalajara against Atlas on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: Came on after the sixtieth minute mark team was trailing.
Speaker 1: He scored the winning goal in the eighty ninth minute.
Speaker 1: Allen Saint Maximum is becoming a Los Aguiles legend, very
Speaker 1: very quickly. Let's go to Argentina to wrap up this
Speaker 1: edition of the Espresso Independente. They reported that they have
Speaker 1: identified quote twenty five of the criminals unquote who carried
Speaker 1: out the brutal beating against Universitadad de Chile fans and
Speaker 1: the Copa suit Americana match on Wednesday. Now, remember the
Speaker 1: universe of Dad de Chile fans started the whole problem
Speaker 1: even in the warm ups of the match, and this
Speaker 1: is part of the reporting that is out there now
Speaker 1: in Argentina. And you saw it if you watch the match.
Speaker 1: Things being thrown from the upper level where the University
Speaker 1: Dad de Chile fans were down at Independente fans and
Speaker 1: over at Independente fans, all kinds of things. They broke
Speaker 1: a toilet, they threw things that I don't even want
Speaker 1: to talk about from said toilet. They threw a flash grenade.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was crazy, and there were all kinds
Speaker 1: of talk about getting the police involved to try to
Speaker 1: stop this. It was never allowed. Coma Ball wanted the
Speaker 1: match to continue. All kinds of mismanagement by Combi Ball
Speaker 1: in this, all kinds of mismanagement by Independente in this
Speaker 1: as well, because even after it looked like this was stopping,
Speaker 1: when the match was stopped, Independente fans were able to
Speaker 1: and I say fans loosely, were able to get into
Speaker 1: the stand against a small number of University Died de
Speaker 1: Chile fans who had not left by this point, and
Speaker 1: they were attacked and it was horrendous. So Independente announced
Speaker 1: that they were able to identify a group of the
Speaker 1: people involved in this quote. They will be expelled as
Speaker 1: members and the club is going to request banning them
Speaker 1: from life from attending matches. Independente says that they will
Speaker 1: continue to work alongside security forces until all those involved
Speaker 1: are identified. He's the club said there will be no
Speaker 1: exceptions or privileges. Whoever chose violence chose to oppose Independente.
Speaker 1: Now more than one hundred Chileans were arrested by the
Speaker 1: police for their role in this. They were released almost
Speaker 1: two days later. Riots continued around the police station where
Speaker 1: they were being held. Comba Ball still hasn't resolved the
Speaker 1: on field portion of the chaos of this thing. It
Speaker 1: was abandoned, The match was abandoned early in the second half.
Speaker 1: Are both teams going to get kicked out of the
Speaker 1: Copa Sudamericana. Is Aleanzelima going to advance and basically a
Speaker 1: walkover in the next round? Who knows? Again, it goes
Speaker 1: back to Combo bal being basically incompetent and they've got
Speaker 1: to figure this out. Independente it's got to figure this
Speaker 1: out as well on the security side of things, because
Speaker 1: they have a lot of fault in this too. There's
Speaker 1: some reports out of Argentina saying that they were warned
Speaker 1: don't sell the tickets underneath this visiting section because you're
Speaker 1: going to create the opportunity for issues, which we saw
Speaker 1: play out all kinds of messes on the field in Argentina.
Speaker 1: Some good things Broca Juniors. They're finally getting going right now,
Speaker 1: Miguel mary Tielle his breakthrough goal, a late header from
Speaker 1: Edinson Cavani, two nil win at home for Boca against Bonfield.
Speaker 1: They're finally starting to get going Boca. But the highlight
Speaker 1: in Argentina over the weekend. One of the highlights around
Speaker 1: the world over the weekend was on HELLD Maria a
Speaker 1: spectacular curling free kick from way out to lead Rosario
Speaker 1: Central to a one nil win in the Rosario Darby
Speaker 1: over Newell's Old Boys. An amazing moment. Go check out
Speaker 1: some of the videos that have come from that. Check
Speaker 1: out the free kick itself because it's ridiculous, and then
Speaker 1: watch the coach reaction to it. Love to see this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff out of on hell D Maria still
Speaker 1: doing it for Rosario Central. That's going to do it.
Speaker 1: For this edition of The Morning Espresso. I'll be back
Speaker 1: tomorrow in a probably much shorter edition as there won't
Speaker 1: be a full weekend to recap but and Liverpool. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there will be some stories revolving around this one,
Speaker 1: both on the field and probably off the field. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about it tomorrow. Big thanks to our friends at
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