Speaker 1: Good morning y'all. Obviously things are I guess what how
Speaker 1: would we phrase this? A little cold this morning as
Speaker 1: evidenced by this device. Like I said, we're in day
Speaker 1: two of this device, hopefully day last, and we will
Speaker 1: discuss everything on your mind, completely and totally. All right,
Speaker 1: So it's kind of a stack show. And I gotta
Speaker 1: leave a little early because of taking the boss to
Speaker 1: a follow up doctor's appointment from yesterday morning, d Gram Morning, Alex.
Speaker 1: So the rundown is like this, one of the busiest
Speaker 1: been in show business if we can figure out technology.
Speaker 1: Ben Jacobs is going to be joining us at nine
Speaker 1: thirty from gimme sports Talk, Sport all points in between,
Speaker 1: and we'll discuss everything Miguel almeron silly season, maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit of his Leicester the Premier League, all things there,
Speaker 1: maybe some latelat and some odds on Edward and Atlanta
Speaker 1: United's place in the European stage, how Atlanta United is
Speaker 1: perceived when it comes to what they are when it
Speaker 1: comes to transfer windows and such, and so we'll talk
Speaker 1: to Ben coming up in and around nine thirty we'll
Speaker 1: catch up with him for about twenty minutes and then
Speaker 1: Bart Keeler is going to join us. The man yesterday,
Speaker 1: you know, he had to go into work because he
Speaker 1: had to spend in the entire part of last week
Speaker 1: involved in America's Martin all the glad handing that you do.
Speaker 1: It was that time of year for it, and so
Speaker 1: he had to actually go into work yesterday. And he's
Speaker 1: gonna hang out with us for about a half hour
Speaker 1: at ten to ten thirty and then we'll let you
Speaker 1: know what's going on with everything else on the day.
Speaker 1: Get you ready for everything, and get you prepped for
Speaker 1: your Tuesday. Across the board, we got champions like to
Speaker 1: get into all these kinds of things. So Morning will
Speaker 1: Morning dere morning Ropes. Yes had to take the dog,
Speaker 1: the routy man had to take him to the groomer.
Speaker 1: He was not a fan and especially in current conditions,
Speaker 1: when he was happy in his bed, you take him
Speaker 1: to the groomer. He ain't happy about it. So he
Speaker 1: is there currently now and so we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: with the routy Man in a couple of hours. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the boss yesterday had the appointment. And this is opening kickoff,
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Speaker 1: So yesterday had to take the boss in to have
Speaker 1: the surgery, and that's the reason that we're I'm going
Speaker 1: to wrap up a little early today because we have
Speaker 1: to take her to look for the follow up and
Speaker 1: just so everybody knows and so everybody can be kept
Speaker 1: up to date. It wasn't just a plate that got inserted.
Speaker 1: Uh where was it plate? It wasn't just a plate
Speaker 1: that got inserted here. It ended up being worse than
Speaker 1: they initially had seen in the X rays. So it
Speaker 1: ended up being plate and screws. So plate and screws
Speaker 1: by the time they were done with the procedure, and
Speaker 1: the procedure took like two two and a half hours,
Speaker 1: so I spent a lot of time in off of
Speaker 1: a Wi Fi hotspot, catching up on emails and editing.
Speaker 1: So she had when we left the surgeon yesterday, she
Speaker 1: had big old cast on. She could still wiggle her
Speaker 1: fingers and things, and you know, with all of that,
Speaker 1: then they tell you all the things that you're supposed
Speaker 1: to do to help them out the day that they're
Speaker 1: not there. We had to go to multiple pharmacies to
Speaker 1: try and track down medication. So that was fun because
Speaker 1: you and the only saving grace there was that she
Speaker 1: had been so nova caned up in the shoulder that
Speaker 1: she couldn't feel anything. Will to answer your question. Three
Speaker 1: weeks ago we were at her mom's place for Christmas,
Speaker 1: and she is If you've ever met her, you will
Speaker 1: know that she is a very independent person. So what
Speaker 1: she wants to do is if there's something that needs
Speaker 1: to be cleaned, she'll clean it. She'll just go ahead
Speaker 1: and do it. She sees something that needs to be done,
Speaker 1: she'll do it. And I always remind her, hey, if
Speaker 1: you need help let me know. So we were taking
Speaker 1: Christmas decorations at her mom's house, at her at her
Speaker 1: childhood home, her last childhood home, and we were taking
Speaker 1: them up from the house up a hill into storage
Speaker 1: sheds at the top of the hill in the backyard.
Speaker 1: And most of the time it's pretty easy to do,
Speaker 1: but there had been some precipitation and there is access
Speaker 1: to the second that there were two sheds, one high
Speaker 1: in one higher. Access to the higher shed you had
Speaker 1: a ramp, and it was a ramp that was at
Speaker 1: about twenty degree angle and it didn't have steps attached.
Speaker 1: So when leaves fall on it and it gets wet,
Speaker 1: the wood gets naturally slippery. So it's dusk. She's taking
Speaker 1: stuff into the shed and as she's coming out of
Speaker 1: the shed, she slips on the ramp and falls on
Speaker 1: her wrist. So that's how she broke it. No snow
Speaker 1: here in office HD yet either, so that was how
Speaker 1: she broke it. Literally, as she's going down the ramp,
Speaker 1: she slides, she falls on it, and she falls on
Speaker 1: her wrist, so that was how it broke. Initially, they
Speaker 1: thought it was just a hairline fracture with no splintering
Speaker 1: or anything. Like that, and so they were thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe eight weeks, but she needed to have sur to
Speaker 1: have it looked at. So yesterday when they had the surgery,
Speaker 1: the doctor actually the main doctor, literally pulls out his
Speaker 1: phone and he's got a picture of the x ray
Speaker 1: and he shows the x ray and he's like, Okay, well, this, this,
Speaker 1: this and this, this is what happened. This is what
Speaker 1: we thought. And so it's a plate and screws. So
Speaker 1: instead of it being just a hairline fracture and a
Speaker 1: plate inserted, so it ended up being a plate across
Speaker 1: instead of down to go up against the fracture. Instead
Speaker 1: of it being a plate, it's now a plate and screws.
Speaker 1: And so we go back today and then we go
Speaker 1: back in two weeks and then we see where things are.
Speaker 1: But my guess, well, and if she was she was
Speaker 1: gonna have to be in a cast either way. And
Speaker 1: so we figured, okay, go ahead and start the healing
Speaker 1: process up, go ahead, dive in and have surgery. And
Speaker 1: so she's got surgery, plate and screws instead of just
Speaker 1: cast and waiting and so this hopefully will get the
Speaker 1: healing started faster. With the boss and so yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's what that's how it happened. And so she came
Speaker 1: home yesterday and she had her elbow. Now, she had
Speaker 1: her arm in a sling, and so we had to
Speaker 1: monitor that and make sure that everything was okay. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we took a tour trying to find a pharmacy that
Speaker 1: could fulfill a prescription yesterday. So and so, Yeah, Emilio
Speaker 1: says he had a wrist fracture when he was eighteen.
Speaker 1: Cast all the way up the arm. Initially, that was
Speaker 1: what they did. They had the wrap from her first physician.
Speaker 1: It went all the way from here all the way
Speaker 1: up the elbow, and it was there, and then they
Speaker 1: kind of trimmed things down when they figured out what
Speaker 1: was wrong. So initially it was all the way up
Speaker 1: from fingers all the way up past the elbow, but
Speaker 1: then they trimmed it down and so it literally is
Speaker 1: like halfway up the arm and it's a radial fracture.
Speaker 1: No surgery did happen yesterday, So and surgery. No surgery
Speaker 1: for Amilia, but surgery for the boss yesterday. So cast
Speaker 1: goes from fingers halfway up the arm, as opposed to
Speaker 1: the initial thought where they went all the way covered
Speaker 1: up so it just tips all the way up to
Speaker 1: the elbow. So yeah, so thank you ropes, thank you will,
Speaker 1: and thank you for card, and thank you everybody for
Speaker 1: your thoughts on social media all day yesterday. But that's
Speaker 1: where we are with the boss. And so the boss
Speaker 1: is having to navigate her dominant arm being in a
Speaker 1: cast and trying to get dressed with one arm. So
Speaker 1: she's navigating that and it's kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: wardrobe twister, and so's she wants to figure that out
Speaker 1: for herself. But I always say like, if you need help,
Speaker 1: I'm here. And so that's where we are. So we
Speaker 1: go back to the doctor today, probably wrapping up about
Speaker 1: ten forty five, and then go back to the doctor.
Speaker 1: They take the wrap off, put her in a cast
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks, then go back in a
Speaker 1: other couple of weeks and sit there and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: healing's doing good. You're gonna have another couple of weeks
Speaker 1: in a cast. And I'm like, I won't tell me
Speaker 1: something I don't know because when I broke my leg
Speaker 1: in high school, it was four plus four, and so
Speaker 1: that was where we are. Badger says a wife had
Speaker 1: hip replacement surgery about two months ago, worried that she's
Speaker 1: gonna need the other one soon. Take good care of her.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, that's that is thank you, badger. No,
Speaker 1: I certainly do. And it was literally checking on her
Speaker 1: every hour on the hour. She was kind of watching
Speaker 1: the college football game last night and so keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on that in addition to everything else. But she
Speaker 1: finally did find a position where she could elevate and
Speaker 1: actually did fall asleep and aspirint or sorry, advil actually
Speaker 1: did better than the prescription that she took twice yesterday,
Speaker 1: and then she took advil the mill of the night.
Speaker 1: So there we go. Will mom had similar two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight or nine ish. Get a call from the
Speaker 1: ant you know the you got an ant problem, aunt
Speaker 1: Joni's here, you know the one the relative is too big?
Speaker 1: Why is your mom in the hospital? My mom's not
Speaker 1: exactly Yeah, yeah, I can imagine how that call went.
Speaker 1: Will absolutely true. Yeah, it's like what tripped and fell
Speaker 1: down the stairs? Worst break surgery? Yikes, uh, tripped and
Speaker 1: dyech And that's and like I said, it was close
Speaker 1: to this one, but because literally it was a ramp
Speaker 1: that was wet, and so she's going down the ramp
Speaker 1: at dusk, can't see anything and she falls and breaks everything.
Speaker 1: Yet Tom, I was more. Tom was watching some of
Speaker 1: the CFP last night and wrist break surgery, but I did.
Speaker 1: I was more concerned about the weather more than anything else.
Speaker 1: I was concerned about the weather and the Boss, and
Speaker 1: so I really wasn't watching. So I didn't watch much
Speaker 1: of the game last night. But uh so that's where
Speaker 1: we are. Uh So the update on the Boss is
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Speaker 1: me out. Was not No, I wasn't watching either. No,
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Speaker 1: Uh no, Michael, thank you Michael. By the way, Michael
Speaker 1: head lives about what a five iron from here from
Speaker 1: the studio space and so uh Michael had and his
Speaker 1: boss that they come by with their dogs and rowdy.
Speaker 1: The rowdyman yells at everybody, so tries to make sure
Speaker 1: that Patty is equally protected. Didn't watch much of it
Speaker 1: last night, Like I said, I was focused on the weather,
Speaker 1: and I was focused on the balls. And Tom. Tom
Speaker 1: didn't even hate watch it with a seven and the eight. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So that's where we are. We caught up with the promos.
Speaker 1: Keep an ear out as we go this week, for
Speaker 1: those of you that are going to Chattanooga, we might
Speaker 1: have some assistance for you there as well, So when
Speaker 1: that happens, we'll keep you posted. All right. Coming up
Speaker 1: in about ten minutes, ten minutes or so, depending on technology,
Speaker 1: Ben Jacobs is going to drop by and we're going
Speaker 1: to kind of go through rapid fire with him, looking
Speaker 1: at everything involving odd Son, Edward, Emmanuel Latte La, Miguel
Speaker 1: almaron how it Land United is perceived in the world sphere,
Speaker 1: all these things coming up with Ben and we'll catch
Speaker 1: up with Ben for about twenty minutes. And as he
Speaker 1: is one of the busiest men in show business, we
Speaker 1: will definitely, you know, not keep him as much as
Speaker 1: we'd like to monopolize his time with all the stuff
Speaker 1: that he does with talk sport and give me sport,
Speaker 1: all the you know choice d all the above. We
Speaker 1: got to manage him. Then you know, he can come
Speaker 1: in any time he wants. We'll talk about his beloved
Speaker 1: Leuster maybe two, but wanted to kind of roll through
Speaker 1: rapid fire with Ben coming up in about ten minutes
Speaker 1: and we can catch up with everything going on in
Speaker 1: Ben jacobs universe and find out because he was here
Speaker 1: in the summer, find out if he actually got a
Speaker 1: chance to catch up and find the barbecue that he
Speaker 1: was chasing after when he was here in town for
Speaker 1: the for the Chelsea match. So we'll catch up with
Speaker 1: him coming up in just a little bit. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of you are looking at the note yesterday
Speaker 1: from sesar Luis Marlow. Where it is Mui Avanzado very
Speaker 1: advanced Miggy and at landy night And like I said,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that with with Ben and
Speaker 1: go okay, where did where does Miggie rank in the Newcastle?
Speaker 1: What purview? What happened? How would you rate his time
Speaker 1: there and what happened from his perspective as to why
Speaker 1: his time on the field trimmed and his place pars
Speaker 1: be safe, my friend obviously, stay warm, so saysar Luis Marlow.
Speaker 1: We're getting close to the here we go from for
Speaker 1: Britzier Romano, saysar Luis Marlow reported yesterday verbal agreement with
Speaker 1: Newcastle US twelve million, ten plus two. It was a
Speaker 1: number that we had out there. Club is negotiating final
Speaker 1: details of the players contract too. Is ready to travel
Speaker 1: and sign, so that would be one piece that at
Speaker 1: Land United is chasing in silly season. So we'll keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. And like I said, Emmanuel late Loth,
Speaker 1: it looks like and this is where Ben will come
Speaker 1: in and we'll get the updates. Eighteen plus two is
Speaker 1: what the number is being posted. And it looks like
Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything on Leads and late Lots. Like
Speaker 1: I said, we'll ask Ambandency if he has seen anything
Speaker 1: on that, but I haven't seen anything on leads in
Speaker 1: lat Lot. What we read yesterday from Teesside Live was
Speaker 1: that the report from Teesside Live had it Land United
Speaker 1: is the only group. And I know that lat Love
Speaker 1: might be if in Tom taking your thought from Leads,
Speaker 1: Leeds might be looking for someone to take the place
Speaker 1: of Patrick Bamford that has been out there for a
Speaker 1: little while. So is would Latte Loth be the hashtag
Speaker 1: Bamford replacement? Don't know, Like I said, well we'll find out.
Speaker 1: And Odson Edward. Where we are with the odds on
Speaker 1: Edward is the idea that his interest in Major League
Speaker 1: Soccer has cooled, and so that's why we haven't heard
Speaker 1: anything else. The last thing we heard was last week
Speaker 1: that didn't have a time stamp attached to it, which
Speaker 1: could have gone all the way back to the initial
Speaker 1: thoughts on odds on Edward and Atlanta United in fifteen million,
Speaker 1: where Sammy Moakbell from the Four Letter Paper just posted
Speaker 1: a one liner on his two hundred and eighty character
Speaker 1: app saying Atlanta United is interested put in a bit
Speaker 1: for it's Oddson Edward for fifteen million. That's all. That's
Speaker 1: the last thing we heard that didn't have a time
Speaker 1: stamp attached to it. Don't know how dated the information is,
Speaker 1: but that was the last thing we saw on Edward.
Speaker 1: And then doing a little digging, apparently Edward's interest in
Speaker 1: Major League soccer has cooled from some of the papers overseas,
Speaker 1: and that is the reporting there with Edward that his
Speaker 1: interest in Major League soccer has cooled, and therefore at
Speaker 1: Land United hadn't pursued past that point. So Edward fifteen
Speaker 1: million interest cooled on his side. Nothing else has heard
Speaker 1: from since last week, and we don't know how dated
Speaker 1: that information was when it got posted Latte Life. Like
Speaker 1: I said, Tom, I haven't seen the Leeds info, but
Speaker 1: the hashtag Bamford replacement that does make sense if that
Speaker 1: in fact is what you're chasing after with that, So
Speaker 1: Middlesbrough Teessidelve had only said that Latte Lothe was being
Speaker 1: chased after by one club at Land United. Teessidelve is
Speaker 1: probably the place where we need to continue to look
Speaker 1: at these kinds of things and see what's going on
Speaker 1: involving involving at Land United. So that is where that
Speaker 1: is where we are with all of the information Te's you. Now,
Speaker 1: if I could spell Tea's side live, there we go
Speaker 1: T's side live, okay, so Te's side live and trying
Speaker 1: to see if there is anything involving sports and Tea's sidelve.
Speaker 1: Of course it just wipes the whole thing out, so
Speaker 1: might have to go end up and chase the paper
Speaker 1: and see what's going on with that. So that's where
Speaker 1: we are with the three names. It looks like once
Speaker 1: again Fuda Hashi is linked toin haven't seen anything advanced
Speaker 1: where that is concerned, but it looks that way. So
Speaker 1: that's why in ranking all of the reports that we're chasing,
Speaker 1: Fuda Hashi is four, Edward is three, Latte Loth is two,
Speaker 1: and Mickey's number one. And one of the interesting things
Speaker 1: that we saw that I saw in looking at the
Speaker 1: latest involving Miguel Almron. Was the fo of him from
Speaker 1: the initial interest where he looked like he was looking
Speaker 1: for the uber at Charles de Gaull. Someone had had
Speaker 1: pulled that photo back in and was trying to do
Speaker 1: an update and sit there and talk about Miguel Almron
Speaker 1: and go yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, but using that
Speaker 1: old photograph. Ah, okay, thank you, oh Ornstein, Okay, United
Speaker 1: boost with Okay, thank you, so Lead United dot News.
Speaker 1: Hang on just a second, thank you, Thomas So. And
Speaker 1: like I said, this is what happens when I am
Speaker 1: a device down Leeds United dot News. That's an interesting
Speaker 1: way to pursue it. So okay, so Lead United Dot
Speaker 1: News and Ornste So it's Ornstein, okay, so Ornstein. And
Speaker 1: this is as of eleven o'clock I'm guessing local times,
Speaker 1: so six o'clock the morning here in the East coast.
Speaker 1: So weather Leeds will sign a striker up for debate.
Speaker 1: Daniel Farka could no doubt do what the competition Farca
Speaker 1: hinted to Wilfrid Nonto Lte loth has received interest from Leeds.
Speaker 1: Seems to be the number one option for Farca in
Speaker 1: terms of the striker category. Leeds fans may think their
Speaker 1: pursuit of the Ivorian is over with and land United
Speaker 1: close to signing Latai loth All may not be as
Speaker 1: it seems. Signature of someone like Latta loth would be
Speaker 1: a statement of intent from Leeds in terms of their
Speaker 1: pursuit for promotion back to the PREM. Eleventh championship goal
Speaker 1: of the season surely keeping leads on the striker due
Speaker 1: to his form, but also the revelation. Ornstein is given
Speaker 1: the latest on Lte loth So okay, so thank y'all
Speaker 1: for the update, but no, but it goes to Ornstein
Speaker 1: and so Ornstein is Tier one, so Leedunited dot News
Speaker 1: would be tier four. Ornstein is a Tier one source.
Speaker 1: Ornstein is given the latest on the Latte a Lot situation,
Speaker 1: although talks contend and agreement still hasn't been reached for
Speaker 1: the Ivorian to make the jump to major league soccer
Speaker 1: clubs in Europe and the PREM also monitoring the situation
Speaker 1: to potentially arrival Atlanta for his signature. No deal agreed yet.
Speaker 1: Laante Los's future remains open situation with the Whites not
Speaker 1: out of the race yet so Michael Carrick once again
Speaker 1: had said for sure he'll keep playing, and we referenced
Speaker 1: that quote once before. So Ornstein solid, Leeds United dot
Speaker 1: News not so solid. But the fact that Ornstein has
Speaker 1: in here the note on Latte lat so keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that. Now. The question is for Atlanta United
Speaker 1: and Lanty United has eighteen plus two on the table. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and d Graham to your point, Burrow to Leeds, especially
Speaker 1: in a promotion chase, if there's interest that this could
Speaker 1: turn into something akin to a bidding warm So we'll
Speaker 1: see what we're staring at. And it is time. This
Speaker 1: is fun. This is fun because the last time we
Speaker 1: saw this guy, we were trying to steer him to
Speaker 1: barbecue in Atlanta. We're trying to steer him into the
Speaker 1: ways of barbecue. And since it is nine point thirty,
Speaker 1: incredibly punctual. Love it. And we've got Ben Jacobs dropping
Speaker 1: by fantastic and Ben already had golden ticket status when
Speaker 1: we talked to him. They're the man is Ben?
Speaker 2: Good morning?
Speaker 1: How are you you tell me you're the busiest man
Speaker 1: in show business? As I told you, I mean you're
Speaker 1: the one bouncing around out here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean We've had an incredible window, not just
Speaker 3: the things that have actually happened, but the maybe deals
Speaker 3: and the big names that still have their future is unresolved.
Speaker 3: So needless to say, I'm busy, but it's a pleasure
Speaker 3: to join you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so great to have you here, my friend. What
Speaker 1: I wanted to do this morning is run through some
Speaker 1: of the names that are attached to it Landay United,
Speaker 1: Miguel Almeroon, Emmanuel a'te Lot, the Odds Son, Edward for A,
Speaker 1: Hashi Son, all those names. But I also wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about it Landi United and their perception there in
Speaker 1: Europe about being a player in quotation marks on the
Speaker 1: world stage. So let's start with the players themselves. Miguel
Speaker 1: al Moron says, Luis Merrilo said, twelve million. That's agreed
Speaker 1: to right now, they're just kind of waiting on getting signatures.
Speaker 1: What's the latest in the news that you have on MIGGI.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this was an exclusive story that myself and
Speaker 3: colleague Tom Bogart's broke, and no doubt many of your
Speaker 3: listeners know Tom very well, the best in the business
Speaker 3: for MLS scoops. So Miguel Almeroon too, MLS and specifically
Speaker 3: Atlanta United. You may remember it started with Charlotte FC.
Speaker 3: They've moved for Wilfrid Zaha and Atlanta have found an
Speaker 3: opportunity to bring Almeroon back. It's not one hundred percent done,
Speaker 3: but what I can say is there's a verbal agreement
Speaker 3: between the two clubs. My understanding is that it's ten
Speaker 3: million US dollars plus add ons, and that's about half
Speaker 3: what Newcastle we're looking for in January twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: when it was the Saudi club Al Shabab that we're
Speaker 3: looking and Amiron is very keen on returning to Atlanta.
Speaker 3: The personal terms are being finalized and then there's just
Speaker 3: one question mark, which I think shows you the amicable
Speaker 3: relationship between the clubs, and that's when he arrives. Because
Speaker 3: from Newcastle's point of view, they want to keep as
Speaker 3: much depth as they possibly can right through the end
Speaker 3: of the window. There's no guarantee that they replace Almoron
Speaker 3: right now, like for Light. They could, but it's not definite.
Speaker 3: And obviously all the MLS teams are in their pre
Speaker 3: season and MiG An Almeron is already fit. He's midway
Speaker 3: through his own season so it may not be that
Speaker 3: much of a concern to Atlanta United if it drags
Speaker 3: on a few more days, simply because of the fact
Speaker 3: that they're in a privileged position where they're building up
Speaker 3: to the new season and they're going to be inheriting
Speaker 3: a very fit player. So the expectation, because Newcastle already
Speaker 3: have vibly accepted the deal, is this one gets done.
Speaker 3: It's just a case of when exactly he's given the
Speaker 3: permission to fly, if it's going to be now, or
Speaker 3: if it's going to be right at the beginning of
Speaker 3: February near of the window closes. Because Newcastle have kept down,
Speaker 3: we're on in their match day squad and they've still
Speaker 3: got a couple more games that potentially, if they're not
Speaker 3: going to replace him, they could look to use almir
Speaker 3: on four at least in their match day squad.
Speaker 1: What for those who are not familiar with the day
Speaker 1: to day elevens of Eddie Howe and Newcastle, why was
Speaker 1: it that Miguel went from starter and contributor to someone
Speaker 1: who is part of now just the game day eighteens
Speaker 1: and coming up occasionally playing in cup ties things like that.
Speaker 1: Why did the for those not familiar why did he
Speaker 1: go from starter to bench player in the Newcastle universe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure that he necessarily made that kind
Speaker 3: of linear progression. It was more that if you remember
Speaker 3: the half season a few seasons ago, when Almorn was
Speaker 3: just on fire between the beginning of the season and
Speaker 3: Christmas into that break that led us to the Catar
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two World Cup, and at that point he'd
Speaker 3: had such a positive preseason and exploded onto the scene
Speaker 3: and showed a goal scoring streak that Newcastle really hadn't
Speaker 3: seen before and became indispensable as you would expect really,
Speaker 3: but in that build up to that season, the fan
Speaker 3: base was saying the same thing as they are now,
Speaker 3: that they would not be averse to him being sold.
Speaker 3: Newcastle were open to offers. He just changed everybody's mind.
Speaker 3: And then, unfortunately, since that kind of purple patch, his
Speaker 3: goal scoring and contributions have leveled off and therefore he's
Speaker 3: become more of a squad player and Newcastle, therefore, even
Speaker 3: before the Purple Patch, had been looking for this kind
Speaker 3: of right sided forward or winger that can have a
Speaker 3: more significant goal impact than Almeron is capable of. At
Speaker 3: the moment, he's finding himself on the bench. Jacob Murphy
Speaker 3: sometimes plays on that right hand side. It's a four
Speaker 3: to three to three formation. You've got Alexander Izak and
Speaker 3: then usually antiin Y Gordon is on the left hand side.
Speaker 3: So it leaves Almeron as a little bit more of
Speaker 3: a squad player. There is Harvey Barnes that can play
Speaker 3: on both sides as well, so he's fallen down the
Speaker 3: pecking order, But like I say, you could make more
Speaker 3: of an argument that he's returned to where he was
Speaker 3: two and a half years ago.
Speaker 2: He changed Eddie Howe's mind.
Speaker 3: Still very valuable because he's very positive, very happy, very
Speaker 3: liked by his teammates. And we shouldn't underestimate the impact
Speaker 3: footballers can have as characters, even if they're not starting
Speaker 3: every week. Actually, a lot of managers like a player
Speaker 3: that says, okay, I accept my role in a squad
Speaker 3: rather than the starting eleven, and I'm happy for that
Speaker 3: and I'm going to be hungry to try and earn
Speaker 3: my opportunities.
Speaker 2: And Almeron is that kind of player.
Speaker 3: But the reality is that on and off Newcastle have
Speaker 3: been looking to offload Almeron that I would say the
Speaker 3: best part of the last four or five transfer windows.
Speaker 1: When you're also discussing Elana United chasing after a nine.
Speaker 1: There are two names that are right now front and center.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Latte Lath, who is currently at Middlesbrough, their leading scorer,
Speaker 1: and they're in a pursuit for hopping back into the
Speaker 1: promotion playoffs in the championship. And also the name Odds
Speaker 1: and Edward. But that has cooled somewhat when it comes
Speaker 1: to pursuit anything else that you're hearing about Latte Lath,
Speaker 1: we had had the leads tie where Daniel Farker might
Speaker 1: be chasing after him. To add things up, anything else
Speaker 1: that you're hearing with your ear on the train tracks
Speaker 1: about those two.
Speaker 3: I hope it's not on the train tracks, not if
Speaker 3: there's any active trains coming anyway. But Latte Lath is
Speaker 3: the top choice for Atlanta and Edson Odward is up
Speaker 3: there too. But I think if they can get Lade Lath,
Speaker 3: then the Edson Odword deal will be off the table.
Speaker 3: It's just a case spinning both plates because time is
Speaker 3: running out and both have relative complications. The Latte lat
Speaker 3: situation is that in the last week or so, Atlanta
Speaker 3: United have had very positive talks with Middlesbrough, so there's
Speaker 3: not that many concerns that they can't get to a
Speaker 3: full verbal agreement. They're just about there. It's more a
Speaker 3: realization now from Atlanta's perspective that this is an in
Speaker 3: deman player and it becomes relatively likely that another suitor
Speaker 3: will enter the race in the final days of the window. So,
Speaker 3: my reader, the situation is that Atlanta have taken the
Speaker 3: negotiations about as far as they can with both the
Speaker 3: player and also club to club, and they've got all
Speaker 3: of their ducks in a row. It's just that if
Speaker 3: you're Middlesbrough, you're waiting for a bidding war or a twist.
Speaker 3: And again you're in no rush to sell because if
Speaker 3: they're going to lose him, then keep the player scoring
Speaker 3: and in the squad and getting as many points as
Speaker 3: you can out of him before he eventually departs. So
Speaker 3: don't think it's a case of Atlanta United up against Leeds,
Speaker 3: because Leads sources that I speak to deny that they
Speaker 3: have place to bid. The interest is genuine, but they've
Speaker 3: not put a formal offer on the table. And interestingly,
Speaker 3: and this might be the clue that I alluded to
Speaker 3: a moment ago. The leads perspective from sources I speak
Speaker 3: to is he's either going to go to Atlanta or
Speaker 3: a Premier League club. And it's that Premier League club
Speaker 3: that still has the question mark over it because a
Speaker 3: lot of the links that we've heard so far are
Speaker 3: not from Premier League clubs.
Speaker 2: Looking for strikers. And there's one or two that I
Speaker 2: can mention.
Speaker 3: Leicester City are looking for goals, Everton are in the
Speaker 3: market for a striker. West Ham and Bournemouth are both
Speaker 3: going to be alert to opportunities, and west Ham and
Speaker 3: Bournemouth the more looking at Brighton's Evan Ferguson. And we
Speaker 3: know that west Ham bid for John Durant as well,
Speaker 3: and that was turned down yesterday, a story broken by
Speaker 3: the excellent David Ornstein. Fifty seven million instantly rejected by
Speaker 3: Aston Villa. So there's a few Premier League clubs and
Speaker 3: the reason why I mentioned these other transfers is just
Speaker 3: to give you that context of three or four in
Speaker 3: the Premier League, just moving around from target to target,
Speaker 3: working out the opportunism of what might be possible in
Speaker 3: the fine allows the window, and maybe one of those
Speaker 3: four clubs I think less likely West Ham, possibly Bournemouth,
Speaker 3: certainly Lester in the mix as well. They all could
Speaker 3: decide at the last minute just to enter that race,
Speaker 3: and that's why I think that Middlesbrough abiding their time,
Speaker 3: and then it'd be unclear at this stage if late
Speaker 3: Elath would say I still want to go to Atlanta,
Speaker 3: finalize that deal, or I fancy an opportunity in the
Speaker 3: Premier League. So it's a bit of a nervous wait
Speaker 3: there for Atlanta United. And then if they get to
Speaker 3: probably four or five days left of the window and
Speaker 3: they don't think that that one's possible, or a Premier
Speaker 3: League suitter comes in and it's off the table, that's
Speaker 3: where they've put I wouldn't quite call it a backup
Speaker 3: bid because that's disrespectful to the money offered and the player.
Speaker 3: But the Edward situation is a bid in the region
Speaker 3: of twenty million US dollars, which again underlies the big
Speaker 3: spending of Atlanta and how ambitious they've been so far
Speaker 3: in this window. And the expectation again is that financially speaking,
Speaker 3: that offer will be good enough and then it will
Speaker 3: be down to the player to decide whether or not
Speaker 3: he wants an MLS opportunity, and I think it's fifty
Speaker 3: to fifty as to whether he agrees to that move,
Speaker 3: especially knowing at the moment it's on ice, because Atlanta's
Speaker 3: number one priority remains latt a laugh.
Speaker 1: Our buddy Ben Jacobs from a give me sport and
Speaker 1: talk sport where I get to hear him do play
Speaker 1: by play occasionally here on this side of the pond,
Speaker 1: propping and by and hanging out with us here this
Speaker 1: morning in the middle of silly season. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you about Atlanta United and MLS's place in the world sphere.
Speaker 1: How do you think, from all of your interaction and
Speaker 1: all the work that you do, how is Major League
Speaker 1: Soccer viewed as a quote end quote player on the
Speaker 1: world stage and chasing after talent? And I guess Atlanta
Speaker 1: United sub subsection B of that. How do you think
Speaker 1: a Landa United is viewed as a player a pursuer
Speaker 1: of talent there on that side of the Atlantic. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think we started, didn't we with the prism of exports,
Speaker 3: and that was our kind of window into MLS. And now,
Speaker 3: as we see from Maritzio Pochtino's international squad, the vast
Speaker 3: majority of male players anyway that have come through MLS
Speaker 3: have ended up exploding on the scene somewhere in Europe.
Speaker 3: And that's the kind of Christian policic ripple effect. But
Speaker 3: if you go back further, there's the sort of every
Speaker 3: American top goalkeeper under the sun in the Brad Guzan,
Speaker 3: Tim Howard, Casey Keller era again finding their way over
Speaker 3: to a European club and more often than not in
Speaker 3: the Premier League as well. And once you got that influx,
Speaker 3: I think the opportunity to find young players from MLS
Speaker 3: really became clear to most clubs and fans. And there's
Speaker 3: definitely now not this feeling of an American player coming
Speaker 3: to Europe and not being good enough in terms of
Speaker 3: technique or development. If anything, it's the opposite now and
Speaker 3: there's a feeling that the infrastructure that you have in
Speaker 3: place through the college system and the USA into the
Speaker 3: MLS is very secure and structured and it's creating a
Speaker 3: new generation of both male and female talent that can
Speaker 3: go on to big things. So then phase two is
Speaker 3: can you keep these players in MLS, Because although it's
Speaker 3: great to say you develop them and sell them on
Speaker 3: very early in their career. The way MLS grows is
Speaker 3: obviously by cultivating homegrown or home based talent and keeping
Speaker 3: them in the league for as long as possible, and
Speaker 3: that's what raises the standard and the value of it.
Speaker 3: And then if foreigners come as well, you have that balance,
Speaker 3: as we've seen from the Premier League since the early nineties,
Speaker 3: that allows the lead to develop and it is a
Speaker 3: balance between wanting US talents and promoting them in addition
Speaker 3: to having those box office stars to get global eyeballs.
Speaker 3: And I think unlike USA ninety four, we're now going
Speaker 3: to see the World Cup in twenty twenty six, have
Speaker 3: a really meaningful legacy in terms of grassroots, in terms
Speaker 3: of infrastructure, hope fully a strong knock on effect to
Speaker 3: the women's game as well. So I think MLS now
Speaker 3: is starting to catch the eye. There's more global broadcasters,
Speaker 3: there's more foreign talent coming over. What a coup for
Speaker 3: Charlotte to get Zaha or for Atlanta to be able
Speaker 3: to re sign Miguel Almeren. And I think the ameor
Speaker 3: on thing shows you even though he's a little bit
Speaker 3: older now. Of course, that full circle moment when he
Speaker 3: left Atlanta United and realized he was going on to
Speaker 3: big things. Did he think at that point that he
Speaker 3: would go full circle and still feel that he could
Speaker 3: offer something in terms of peak Almere on returning to
Speaker 3: Atlanta United, and I think when he left the appetite
Speaker 3: to return probably wasn't there. But now he realizes that
Speaker 3: he's walking into a very competitive league of.
Speaker 2: A high standard.
Speaker 3: Then you look specifically at Atlanta United and I think
Speaker 3: it has naturally grown to be synonymous with success. I
Speaker 3: remember the twenty eighteen MLS Cup definitely putting the club
Speaker 3: on the radar, and those were the sort of glory years,
Speaker 3: of course, because there was a US Open Cup as well,
Speaker 3: and in addition, naturally they'd won in i think twenty
Speaker 3: eighteen the MLS Eastern Conference Championship as well. So in
Speaker 3: that kind of period we started to, I think, realize
Speaker 3: how serious Atlanta United were. We know that some of
Speaker 3: the backroom staff went across from Atlanta United, like Darren
Speaker 3: Eels who was at Newcastle sadly now has ill health
Speaker 3: so has had to step away from that role. The
Speaker 3: likes of course of Tata Martino or Frank debaor and
Speaker 3: so on, all again putting the club on the map
Speaker 3: and I just think you don't get that caliber of
Speaker 3: backroom staff or that blend of star power and talent.
Speaker 2: Staying in the MLS unless your league is progressing.
Speaker 3: So I think MLS is in a very healthy position
Speaker 3: and it's only going to get stronger off the back
Speaker 3: of the twenty twenty six World Cup.
Speaker 1: What about when it comes to slashing the wallet. Say,
Speaker 1: I am insert MLS owner here or MLS director of
Speaker 1: Soccer Operations and I go wandering over to Europe and
Speaker 1: I'm chasing after talent. What is the perception from your
Speaker 1: mind about MLS coming over And it's like, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I want your guys, I want your guys. I want
Speaker 1: your guys to do front offices in say Premier League, Championship,
Speaker 1: all the other leagues that you look at, sit there
Speaker 1: and look at an MLS guy and go, who are
Speaker 1: you or do they actually have them as an equal
Speaker 1: player at the table and basically money talks, It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where it comes from these days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, an equal player. Remember half the Premier League. Now
Speaker 3: we've got some form of American investor or owner. So
Speaker 3: it's flipped and you're not dealing with top clubs in
Speaker 3: England anymore. That are all English, are all ingrained in
Speaker 3: English football, they're global, and you could argue they're America
Speaker 3: predominant in terms of the makeup of their collective shares.
Speaker 3: So it's actually a lot of the time I'm an
Speaker 3: American owner dealing with an MLS club, and they know
Speaker 3: exactly the potential and they know the growth opportunities. So
Speaker 3: I don't think we're looking at America being at less
Speaker 3: of a standing, whether we're talking MLS or even USL,
Speaker 3: because remember a few years ago, USL used to basically
Speaker 3: be reserve teams, and that caused an issue because you
Speaker 3: had this odd balance of very young players coupled with
Speaker 3: effectively demoted ones, and there was maybe a bit of
Speaker 3: a lack of cohesiveness and balance and in some cases motivation.
Speaker 3: Now they've ditched all of that and you have a
Speaker 3: competitive league, effectively a tear down from the MLS. And
Speaker 3: again you have a lot of pathways for players to
Speaker 3: come through, and global clubs realize that, so there isn't
Speaker 3: as much of a risk factor now about signing a
Speaker 3: player from MLS. And in addition to that, the clubs
Speaker 3: are cultivating partnerships because the clarity of progression for male
Speaker 3: and female players is so much stronger and arguably even
Speaker 3: more stable than in the UK because in England you
Speaker 3: get pulled away at let's say eleven or twelve told
Speaker 3: you the next superstar. It can impact your location, your family,
Speaker 3: your schooling, whereas in America there's much more of a
Speaker 3: pathway through collegiate into USL or MLS or obviously in
Speaker 3: the case of the women, the USL Women's League or
Speaker 3: the NWSL, and the progression I think allows global clubs
Speaker 3: to track players more definitively. Plus the fact that there's
Speaker 3: a lot more emphasis now in MLS on data on
Speaker 3: injury prevention, on technical training, and what we're seeing that
Speaker 3: perhaps didn't exist ten years ago as a result is
Speaker 3: top clubs bringing talents over at very young ages for
Speaker 3: a kind of try before you buy experience, which is
Speaker 3: part of the courting process, to say come over, watch
Speaker 3: a match, meet the squad, train with them. Sometimes it's
Speaker 3: a formal trial and a exclusive that me and Tom
Speaker 3: broke a few weeks maybe ago now, was nim Fasher Birchamas,
Speaker 3: who is a Charlotte FC player, and he got flown
Speaker 3: over to Manchester United. And don't think that would have
Speaker 3: happened ten fifteen years ago, because likely that kind of
Speaker 3: player age profile wouldn't really have been on a top
Speaker 3: club's radar. But now most of these European teams have
Speaker 3: got full and significant scouting networks in North America. They've
Speaker 3: always had them in Central and South America as well,
Speaker 3: and the World Cup is obviously an extra opportunity with
Speaker 3: the investment to develop that grassroots talent, and the back
Speaker 3: legacy of the World Cup will be that probable twelve
Speaker 3: to sixteen age group post twenty twenty six, with all
Speaker 3: the investment and the bars and the facilities getting into
Speaker 3: their late teens, breaking into USL or MLS, and I
Speaker 3: think you'll find that there's a lot of European clubs
Speaker 3: ready to pounce for that kind of profile and talent
Speaker 3: because they realized there's a real window of opportunity to
Speaker 3: recruit in this market.
Speaker 1: All right, So before we let you go, what storylines
Speaker 1: are you chasing after today? When it comes to the
Speaker 1: Premier League in silly season and ruben amor room trashing
Speaker 1: TVs and arch pasta cargo. Yeah, I'm going to fix
Speaker 1: it and don't worry about everything. What are you chasing
Speaker 1: after today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm leaving the MLS to Tom, although we are
Speaker 3: both across the Almiron and Latte latt situations which could
Speaker 3: move very quickly. I think more so Almiron than necessarily Latte,
Speaker 3: laugh only because of Burrough's perspective to wait and see
Speaker 3: for a little bit. I'm across Marcus Rashford's future. We
Speaker 3: shouldn't rule out a stay at Manchester United, but certainly
Speaker 3: Dortmund and possibly Barcelona are going to be there. Aleandro
Speaker 3: Garnaccho Chelsea and Napoli both interested in the player. Key
Speaker 3: question is what price might Manchester United reluctantly sell for.
Speaker 3: I'm told in the region of eighty million US dollars,
Speaker 3: possibly five or six lower than that, but as a
Speaker 3: starting point, Manchester United's valuation is very high.
Speaker 2: Matte's kuner at Wolves.
Speaker 3: He's not yet signed that new deal, so the door
Speaker 3: is just the so slightly a jar for Arsenal and others.
Speaker 3: So it should be a busy week, and I think
Speaker 3: some of these plot lines might run right.
Speaker 2: Until February the third.
Speaker 3: And I keep having to remind myself to say February
Speaker 3: the third, because we so glibly call it the January window,
Speaker 3: and usually it is the January window, but this particular season,
Speaker 3: I should point out that in England anyway, the window
Speaker 3: shots on February the third, So we've got the best
Speaker 3: part of two weeks to try and find clarity on
Speaker 3: some of those stories that I mention.
Speaker 1: And see if there's going to be a player who's
Speaker 1: just going to sit in his car in a team's
Speaker 1: parking lot and figure out that Yeah they want me
Speaker 1: and I want to be here, but there's been no
Speaker 1: talk about you being here. Well, no, I'm still here.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in the parking lot. Cut the promo for
Speaker 1: me working Fox bind all of your stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, you can follow me and Tom as well on
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Speaker 3: course you can be on Talk Sport. I'll be back
Speaker 3: at the weekend as well for another Premier League commentary,
Speaker 3: so make sure that you get in contact with me
Speaker 3: if you're listening, and I'll give you a shouts.
Speaker 1: Out what he said as always, my friend, great to
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Speaker 2: Yeah, keep up the good work as well.
Speaker 3: Always enjoy listening to the show and look forward to
Speaker 3: coming on soon.
Speaker 2: Have a good day everyone, You got it.
Speaker 1: Thank you Ben. There goes Ben. Ben's gonna go and
Speaker 1: go get brunch or something. And it's great to catch
Speaker 1: up with Ben, and thanks to him for putting time
Speaker 1: into his hyper busy ski edge to come and visit
Speaker 1: and drop by. Because my Premier League conversation with Ben
Speaker 1: would probably go another forty minutes. It would probably go
Speaker 1: another forty minutes, and it would be talking about Lester.
Speaker 1: He'd be talking about On you'd be talking about Ruben, Amerim,
Speaker 1: trash and TVs. We'll get into all that stuff coming
Speaker 1: up in just a little bit. Bart Keeler gonna join us,
Speaker 1: coming up in about ten minutes to discuss anything and
Speaker 1: everything going on with the men's national team. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be there for a half hour, then for about twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna set the table, get you ready through all
Speaker 1: the rumors, go through all of the stuff, get you
Speaker 1: ready for the day. And as always, once again, thanks
Speaker 1: to all of you guys for being the intrepid producers
Speaker 1: and conversation makers that you are and finding the leads
Speaker 1: information that we got to bounce off of Ben this morning,
Speaker 1: and we can find out what's on his mind once
Speaker 1: again at Jacob's Ben on the two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: character app and you can follow him from there at
Speaker 1: give Me Sport on the twitters and Bogert and all
Speaker 1: the alerts that they do and everything like that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Ben was at Everton and Spurs this past weekend,
Speaker 1: so we got to listen to his updates from that. Yes,
Speaker 1: sharif it appears that Marmouche is going from Frankfort to
Speaker 1: the prem the last thing that I saw was it
Speaker 1: was about as close to a goodbye as possible. So
Speaker 1: they had agreed on the number and they were thinking
Speaker 1: that it was going to be outdone and gone. So
Speaker 1: as of three hours ago, Marmouche is undergoing a medical
Speaker 1: with Manchester City. So he is undergoing the medical today
Speaker 1: and in addition for Britzy Romano while we were sleeping,
Speaker 1: said medical test today for Omar Marmouche. While Vittor Reese
Speaker 1: has already signed his contract after Hussonov yesterday, Manchester City
Speaker 1: and this is according to Romano will announced Vitor Reese
Speaker 1: as the new signing and then time for Marmouche. At
Speaker 1: least one more signing is also anticipated. So it is Hussonov, Reese,
Speaker 1: Marmouge and they're looking at Cambiaso apparently among others. So
Speaker 1: Marmusan City down to the medical. So that's where we
Speaker 1: are and apparently and this is like I said, this
Speaker 1: is just looking at they're looking for midfielders and it's
Speaker 1: looking like a rather large deal. Manchester City also set
Speaker 1: to sign two thousand born center back Juma Ba from
Speaker 1: Via do lead verbal is done. Understand the plan and
Speaker 1: this is from Romano. Could include a loan move to
Speaker 1: Lens which is being discussed, which has an excellent relationship
Speaker 1: with the club after the Hussonov deal, So formal steps
Speaker 1: to follow here we go soon, so keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that one with Manchester City and for Britzio Romano.
Speaker 1: So that's where that's where we are with Marmouche this morning.
Speaker 1: So let's get into the gossip, rumor and innu window
Speaker 1: and what to watch, where to watch it, how to
Speaker 1: watch it. So the latest with Marcus Rashford. Rashford's preferences
Speaker 1: to join Barsa, but they need to create space for
Speaker 1: his salary without goings and hand not formalize their interest.
Speaker 1: Dortmund have engaged Manchester United over terms of a loan
Speaker 1: deal in case they proceed with a move for him
Speaker 1: ac Milan, remember, could do one or the other Rashford
Speaker 1: oral Kyle Walker, and so they went to Kyle Walker route.
Speaker 1: And that's why ac Milan is out because you can
Speaker 1: only have two EU players on the roster and so
Speaker 1: the choice was there and they went in that direction.
Speaker 1: So Manchester United Antony's loan to Betty's close to completion
Speaker 1: verbal exists, no option or obligation included in the deal.
Speaker 1: Final formalities being dealt with before Andrew takes some medical
Speaker 1: Antony sign from i AX for around eighty five million
Speaker 1: pounds in the summer of twenty two. Contract is up
Speaker 1: in twenty seven, includes the club held option of a
Speaker 1: further year from Melissarettinopoli, expected to accelerate their interest in Garnacho,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned with Ben with Conte driving the deal.
Speaker 1: Initial approach just shy of forty million pounds knocked back
Speaker 1: under the impression United want to do business around the
Speaker 1: sixty mark monopoly will look to compromise. Sky Italia reporting
Speaker 1: United execs had traveled to hold a meeting with the
Speaker 1: club over Garnacho, as revealed not actively looking to leave
Speaker 1: Old Trafford, aware he'd be sold for the right price
Speaker 1: and as such as considering his options. So Carlo Ancelotti
Speaker 1: says real madriddle decide when he leaves, not himself, as
Speaker 1: he plays down suggestions he'll quit the club at the
Speaker 1: end of the year. Alfonso Davies, as of an hour ago,
Speaker 1: on the verge of extending his Bayern Munich contract until
Speaker 1: twenty thirty. Negotiations head focus on a deal until twenty nine,
Speaker 1: but there has been a breakthrough. Expected to sign for
Speaker 1: a further year. Sky Germany, which translates probably into Florid
Speaker 1: and Plettenberg among others. That the Canada international will earn
Speaker 1: approximately twelve point six million pounds gross per year. So
Speaker 1: that's what you're looking at involving that and so Leeds
Speaker 1: among the club, and we were talking strikers for Leeds
Speaker 1: and the interest of Late loth in Middlesbrough. William Goobles
Speaker 1: is considered for a loan from Saint Gallen. Eight goals
Speaker 1: on the Swiss side, all Comps twenty three began his
Speaker 1: career at Leone and has played for Nant in France,
Speaker 1: and Reese is signed from Paul Maris for a fee
Speaker 1: of twenty nine point six million pounds and the Brazilian
Speaker 1: U seventeen their national eighteen league appearances for Paul Marrison's
Speaker 1: coming through the club's academy. Sky News reported a number
Speaker 1: of clubs, including Brighton, had gathered information on the nineteen
Speaker 1: year old Paul Marris will always and this is the
Speaker 1: wording from Sky. Paul Marras Paul Mayras were relaxed over
Speaker 1: the situation after selling an array of talent Europe in
Speaker 1: the past eighteen months, including likes of Endrick and William Esteval.
Speaker 1: So they were relaxed. They were relaxed about it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they were relaxed. So a reese they were relaxed about
Speaker 1: So let's see transfer transfers dot Com. So I have
Speaker 1: to go to transfers dot com. Hang on just a second.
Speaker 1: Tom has posted a European note in Oh, so it
Speaker 1: is okay the Football Transfers account Dortmund Milan interested in
Speaker 1: Jack Grealish. But that's from the three letter paper. Keep
Speaker 1: the information from your own deir own peril. Ancelotti is
Speaker 1: not leaving Real Madrid. Absolutely not decided to leave. I
Speaker 1: hope to stay for four more years. Byron Munich confirmed
Speaker 1: that Tom Bischoff is going to join in the summer
Speaker 1: on a free transfer. I mentioned Vitorese Villa signed Andrascarcia
Speaker 1: from Levante. Chelsea looking at signing du Son Vlahovitch according
Speaker 1: to the Times, and Hugo Larson is a confirmed target
Speaker 1: for clubs as well, so keep an eye on that,
Speaker 1: all right. So before Bart gets to join us, we
Speaker 1: get into the gossip on the other side of the Atlantic.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Garnacho Corierra Della sport is mentioning fifty million
Speaker 1: pounds to sign west Ham. Ben Jacobs mentioned Gean Doron
Speaker 1: fifty seven million pound bid rejected, determined not to sell,
Speaker 1: meaning west Ham valued him at eighty during the transfer
Speaker 1: current transfer windows, so fifty seven million to eighty there's
Speaker 1: a gap there. Chelsea considering a move for Vlahovitch, having
Speaker 1: held talks with the Italian club about selling Renato Vega
Speaker 1: to then that's from the Times. United looked at Ryan
Speaker 1: Ignorri and Tyreek Mitchell from Crystal Palace, with PSG's fullback
Speaker 1: new No Mendez and an unviable option this transfer window,
Speaker 1: according to Ondaco, and this is where the the U
Speaker 1: quote from Ancelotti came. Ancelotti said to leave the club
Speaker 1: in the summer, with Shabi Alonzo the favorite to replace. On.
Speaker 1: Decetto is saying that Ancelotti came out and said, not
Speaker 1: so fast, my friend. Liverpool have a fresh contract wrangle
Speaker 1: on their hands. Connate yet to sign a new deal,
Speaker 1: Manchester City and Grealish being tracked by Milan and Dortmann.
Speaker 1: That's a three letter paper to Bruno says he hasn't
Speaker 1: spoken to Manchester City about a new contact a contract.
Speaker 1: Something will happen with his current deal running out in
Speaker 1: the summer. Spurs considering a move for Liam d Lapa
Speaker 1: could face competition from Chelsea Liverpool not accepting an offer
Speaker 1: for Harvey Elliott in January or the summer despite his
Speaker 1: like a first team football Milo's kirkcashwill reman it born
Speaker 1: With despite interest from United, but he will likely move
Speaker 1: during the summer window. Spurs facing a struggle to land
Speaker 1: Melan's screen yard this month on competition from Galatasarai in
Speaker 1: PSG AC Milan considering loan moves for both Hoyland and
Speaker 1: Xerxe ve held discussions with an Essay over a move
Speaker 1: for Thomas Christiansen, who is also a target four Manchester United.
Speaker 1: All right, so it is ten o'clock, ten o one,
Speaker 1: so it's my bad, my bad, and so I'm bringing
Speaker 1: in Bartia minute late. So first and foremost, sir, how
Speaker 1: was the the week at the mart? And what is
Speaker 1: the mug?
Speaker 4: Well, so the mug is Sydney, Australia.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4: Dreaming of places that are much warmer and less well,
Speaker 4: yesterday was fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. As to holly Side degree, yeah, I see where
Speaker 1: you're going.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, same John, same. The journalism PR and Polly
Speaker 4: Side degrees yesterday were buzz market was great. Actually it
Speaker 4: was a really good turnout from everyone. It seemed like
Speaker 4: everyone had fun. I am tired. I feel like I
Speaker 4: climbed Mount Everest four times over the spain of the week.
Speaker 4: But it is nice to be working from home where
Speaker 4: at home the rest of the week, which is which
Speaker 4: is nice, mainly because John, I don't know if you
Speaker 4: know this, it's cold outside. Yes, I'm and I don't
Speaker 4: have to go outside. I don't want to. So that
Speaker 4: is a plus.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is absolutely a plus. How was the stripling,
Speaker 1: by the way, because every time I come home, I
Speaker 1: go past I passed by the stripling outlets and I
Speaker 1: know where they exist in Albany, and oh, I want
Speaker 1: to say, what's the what's the what's the what's the
Speaker 1: speed trap? Not nor would, but it's on the way
Speaker 1: up the Georgia three hundred right there. But so, how
Speaker 1: was the stripling?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, so I am familiar with striplings back from
Speaker 4: a past life when I worked in retail, and it
Speaker 4: was nice to kind of see the product in person.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 4: I haven't been by one in a very long time
Speaker 4: because they don't exist where I usually go. But it
Speaker 4: was nice to talk to the folks and see striplings again.
Speaker 4: A Georgia institution, if you will, so very cool.
Speaker 1: I believe nineteen forty six, I think is when they started. Okay,
Speaker 1: I wanted to have you in this morning, and I
Speaker 1: know I've got you for about another twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: I've got you at the bottom of the hour to
Speaker 1: break down everything that is happening in camp. Cupcake. I
Speaker 1: want to steer folks to listen to the Soccer for
Speaker 1: US pod for your preview and what is going on
Speaker 1: in in the January camp. It's an opportunity for folks
Speaker 1: to get call ups, to get their caps to, you know,
Speaker 1: to sit there and get those first times where they
Speaker 1: can sit there and say yeah and have the picture
Speaker 1: and our first time cap. You know, you have the
Speaker 1: fake tuxedo that you wear I guess and.
Speaker 4: Something like that. Well, John, let's talk about one of
Speaker 4: those first time caps.
Speaker 1: Go for it.
Speaker 4: You know the dude from right well, I guess not
Speaker 4: directly right from here, but the dude from here. Let's
Speaker 4: talk you. When I talk about George, I mean that's
Speaker 4: that's kind of the the.
Speaker 1: Story for us, you know, yeah, I mean George and Miles.
Speaker 1: Now we've been having these discussions for probably three or
Speaker 1: four years, where those of us here at the network
Speaker 1: have said, don't be surprised at some point in the
Speaker 1: future if your center backs for the US men's national
Speaker 1: team are George Campbell and Miles Robinson, and you got
Speaker 1: that in this January window.
Speaker 4: First off, let's just say good for George. Congrats to him.
Speaker 4: He definitely has put in a lot of work over
Speaker 4: the years. I do think that the move from Atlanta
Speaker 4: really helped him. He wasn't going to be a part
Speaker 4: of the starting equation while he was here, although I
Speaker 4: would argue that he probably should have been over some
Speaker 4: of the players that we decided to spend a lot
Speaker 4: of money on who have now not been very good.
Speaker 4: But he deserved this from his plan. MLS and I
Speaker 4: think John he didn't have a great game, but I'll
Speaker 4: say it's because he was doing things that you wouldn't
Speaker 4: normally ask of a center back. He was kind of
Speaker 4: doing I heard someone call it the John Stone his
Speaker 4: role where you push up a little bit into midfield
Speaker 4: and you are asked to do more things with the
Speaker 4: ball and on the ball, and he is capable of
Speaker 4: doing that. I think you, Jared, Yeah, we've all seen it, right,
Speaker 4: We've all said he could, and for him to be
Speaker 4: able to kind of show that off at the national
Speaker 4: team level is great. Obviously a slightly different way of
Speaker 4: doing it. It looked like there was like a wingback role.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a weird formation that we were playing in.
Speaker 4: And sometimes I also blame I mean, any of his
Speaker 4: mistakes on just you know, his first time, and if
Speaker 4: the center back looks decent his first time, that's a positive.
Speaker 4: I don't expect there to be much change between now
Speaker 4: and maybe his next time he gets called up, because
Speaker 4: this is who he is. Hopefully he just gets better.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'll playday. I haven't seen. I
Speaker 4: think I think we'll probably have a press conference this
Speaker 4: morning that'll give us a little more insight onto what
Speaker 4: lineups might be for tomorrow's game. I wouldn't be surprising
Speaker 4: if we see Walker and Tim, you know, the twins
Speaker 4: back there. But they they looked good. I'm very, very
Speaker 4: proud of George Miles continued to look good. Congrats on
Speaker 4: him for being the captain of the team. And you
Speaker 4: know this is what John the third at Landing United
Speaker 4: Academy product, Yeah, to go to the national team. George
Speaker 4: Caleb and now George again, so rested all three of
Speaker 4: those guys. But really I thought a good showing from
Speaker 4: George Campbell.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of folks gravitated toward Jack mcglenn's performance,
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously when you you hit an absolute banger,
Speaker 1: I feel like almost that too. Yeah, so you end
Speaker 1: up with McGlenn getting Man of the Match for hitting
Speaker 1: the boom also that he got and Mat Camiljevitch obviously
Speaker 1: that was one of the picks for this particular camp.
Speaker 1: That everybody was sitting there going and you can literally
Speaker 1: thought bubbles over everybody's head. It's like, what is Pochettino
Speaker 1: thinking here? And obviously with the early booboo, everybody's sitting
Speaker 1: there going cee cecie. And then things kind of mellowed
Speaker 1: out as we went. But when you look at the attack,
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I'm kind of taking this one
Speaker 1: layer at a time, going from the defense to the midfield.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the midfield in the matchup?
Speaker 4: I thought the midfield looked solid against a team that
Speaker 4: is not super effective in the midfield, if that makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I thought Jack McGlenn looked comfortable out there. He was
Speaker 4: able to. We saw the best of Jack McGlenn on
Speaker 4: the ball. He is a wizard, he truly is. He
Speaker 4: is able to pick out passes. He's he was doing
Speaker 4: some of the pat maha, you know, look off a
Speaker 4: defender and then find a nice little scene for an
Speaker 4: attacking pass. I thought he obviously stood out for all
Speaker 4: the good reasons. I don't know if he was his
Speaker 4: weaknesses were challenged, which his weaknesses John or that he's
Speaker 4: slow and that really wasn't a factor in this particular game.
Speaker 4: There wasn't a whole lot of that. It also helps
Speaker 4: when you have Miles and George behind you, who are
Speaker 4: relatively quick and good defenders. But I don't think Kumashki
Speaker 4: looked particularly noticeable. It wasn't one of those we go wow,
Speaker 4: he really stood out. He kind of blended into the
Speaker 4: game and Milhevich I'm not quite sure what to take
Speaker 4: of him, to be quite honest, I respect the fortitude
Speaker 4: and the assertion to grab the ball and say I'm
Speaker 4: taking this penalty kick. But buddy, if you're going to
Speaker 4: do that, you gotta finish, because you know, look one selfishly,
Speaker 4: we were three minutes in and I needed a shot,
Speaker 4: but unselfishly. It shout out to Abby by the way,
Speaker 4: who was there with us, but unselfishly. That is one
Speaker 4: of those times where in a normal game, John, how
Speaker 4: often I don't want to go back to twenty nineteen,
Speaker 4: but a missed penalty kick can really throw off a
Speaker 4: game and give some momentum back to the opponent. Right,
Speaker 4: it was an obvious foul. It was a stupid foul.
Speaker 4: You know. It's one of those where you're like, well,
Speaker 4: this doesn't really deserve a penalty kick, but you stepped
Speaker 4: on the guy kicked I mean, they kicked him. It's
Speaker 4: penalty kick. It's just one of those where you know
Speaker 4: it's not really deserving of that, but for you to
Speaker 4: miss that is a problem, especially when you are like, no,
Speaker 4: this is mine, and especially when it seemed like me
Speaker 4: Jack McGlenn was supposed to be the one to take it.
Speaker 4: But that's what this campus for, John, To answer your
Speaker 4: point about the thought bubble, Why is this dude get
Speaker 4: called in? One, it's January camp. We take who we
Speaker 4: can get sometimes, and two it is a time for
Speaker 4: guys to prove themselves and we need to see more
Speaker 4: guys have this attitude of literally taking the ball and
Speaker 4: saying I'm going to prove myself. Now he missed the
Speaker 4: penalty kick. So what did he prove? I don't know,
Speaker 4: but that in itself is a positive. But buddy, you've
Speaker 4: got to make that kick because if you don't that
Speaker 4: in the grand scheme of things, let's just say, John,
Speaker 4: he gets caught up to the Gold Cup this summer, right, that,
Speaker 4: like missing a penalty kick and an actual competitive tournament
Speaker 4: game would be a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a bit. I know that, folks. You know
Speaker 1: when you were talking Kromowski here, uh to me, some
Speaker 1: folks seemed surprised at where he was positionally in what
Speaker 1: he was doing when it came to Yeah, and but
Speaker 1: for me, I would challenge that thought and say, look,
Speaker 1: Tata Martino down with Messi and friends is basically telling him, Okay,
Speaker 1: I need you to do this. I need you to
Speaker 1: lay back, I need you to be more defensive. So
Speaker 1: we've seen him in more defensive postures once he's been
Speaker 1: playing professionally, so I wasn't necessarily surprised. But everybody seemed
Speaker 1: to be freaking out and sitting there and finding a
Speaker 1: voovuzuela or a trumpet wherever they could find it. And
Speaker 1: go see what you know. But I didn't seem all
Speaker 1: that surprised by what Kromowski was being asked to do. Well.
Speaker 4: Two things. One is just it seems like Plassino does
Speaker 4: like that number ten attacking midfield type of player on
Speaker 4: the field.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Probably because he's Argentinian and they breathe those like, you know,
Speaker 4: like we do cotton down here. They just you know,
Speaker 4: you pluck them off trees. It seems like in Argentina.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, so I think from that standpoint, Kramaski
Speaker 4: is not gonna see a lot of time moving a
Speaker 4: little before. I mean, we've seen this kind of with Pochettino.
Speaker 4: System is is he has two I don't want to
Speaker 4: say deep lying but two guys who are a little
Speaker 4: deeper in the midfield. But to your point, and I'm
Speaker 4: not I'm not saying they're the same player, the same person,
Speaker 4: or their equal skills or whatever, but John, I would
Speaker 4: I would venture to say that the reason that Tata
Speaker 4: has Kramaski stay a little deeper is because he is
Speaker 4: at the club level next to a defensive midfielder who's
Speaker 4: not particularly mobile.
Speaker 1: Needs your help quick back, just kind of hang back
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And and I'm not saying Jack McGlenn and Sergio
Speaker 4: Buskits are the same guy. I'm not saying they're on
Speaker 4: the same level, John, But I'm just saying they both
Speaker 4: possess qualities that you don't necessarily want to have to
Speaker 4: spend energy on defending. You get what I'm saying, Because
Speaker 4: they're not They're not going to win that that that
Speaker 4: foot race or the one b one defensive battle.
Speaker 1: No, they're not. Uh. One other guy that I wanted
Speaker 1: to get your first thoughts on there it is, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's uh. Well, once again, like I said, I'm
Speaker 1: dealing with this. The cable is still out here in
Speaker 1: the office. This is how we're doing the show this
Speaker 1: sir boy Patrick Patrick, Godgymunk. I wanted to get your
Speaker 1: thoughts on him because we've seen him at Crown Legacy
Speaker 1: be a certifiable pain that you know what he is.
Speaker 1: He is a he is a he is a problem
Speaker 1: and can be. So what did you think of aujimun
Speaker 1: A being called into this camp and what happened in
Speaker 1: match number one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, I think he was just happy
Speaker 4: to get out of a city that is known for nothing,
Speaker 4: but breweries and financial sweater best. So good for him, going, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's worth being, that's worth visiting. I thought, I don't
Speaker 4: want to focus on him so much as I want
Speaker 4: to focus on what he did and what was asked
Speaker 4: of him, because this is something that I have been
Speaker 4: frustrated with our national team, no matter who was the coach,
Speaker 4: for multiple years, and it's that our strikers aren't involved
Speaker 4: enough inside the penalty area or leading a line per se. Right,
Speaker 4: It is always like, oh, well, they they're this weird
Speaker 4: like chess piece that moves around to open up space,
Speaker 4: but we haven't done a good enough job of utilizing
Speaker 4: them to score goals. And so we saw from Patrick
Speaker 4: and from the system because this is a little bit
Speaker 4: what Peppi does, and I think that's kind of the
Speaker 4: thing that I'm going to draw attention to is they
Speaker 4: do seem to have similar mindsets and skill sets. He
Speaker 4: was stretching the line, he was trying to get in
Speaker 4: behind the team the defense, and he was doing a
Speaker 4: really good job of trying to get in dangerous spots
Speaker 4: in the penalty area. But on top of that, we
Speaker 4: were then giving him the ball in that penalty area
Speaker 4: and said dangerous spots. Five touches. I think it was
Speaker 4: in the penalty area, which doesn't seem like a lot,
Speaker 4: but that is a good number for a guy who
Speaker 4: you know, played sixty some minutes and he got other touches.
Speaker 4: He obviously is the reason we win that penalty kick.
Speaker 4: He gets a goal. He has a couple of other
Speaker 4: opportunities that I'm not saying he should have scored, basically
Speaker 4: forced either a good defensive action or a good say
Speaker 4: from a goalkeeper. And and those themes are what I'm
Speaker 4: looking at. As he executed what was asked of him. Well,
Speaker 4: is that replicable Sam with JaQuel McGlenn. I don't know
Speaker 4: it was good enough against a Venezuela team that is,
Speaker 4: you know, okay, yeah, but he did the things that
Speaker 4: was asked of him, and that alone is a good
Speaker 4: enough reason. I mean, he's probably gonna start the next
Speaker 4: game because we just don't have another striker in the scamp.
Speaker 4: So that's a good thing. Though he gets to say, okay,
Speaker 4: I did this pretty well. How do I copy copy
Speaker 4: and paste that to another team? A Costa Rica team that,
Speaker 4: no matter who they are, are out there trying to
Speaker 4: kick us and knock us down.
Speaker 1: On the bench. You got America and Nellie getting his
Speaker 1: first Indiana aslev whoop woop to uh South Georgia Tormenta
Speaker 1: in the Savannah area getting there first. You get to
Speaker 1: Diego Luna and Brian White getting their seconds, and the
Speaker 1: one Jones and obviously and Walker Zimmerman with a cameo.
Speaker 1: You know we mentioned the first, okay that was and.
Speaker 4: I had Yeah, you said, Brian White, I don't. I know,
Speaker 4: the dude scores an MLS, but I just don't. I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't understand why we're putting the time and energy
Speaker 4: to a guy who has shown no ability to be
Speaker 4: a significant factor in the national team at any point, right.
Speaker 4: I think this is absolutely a well three of three
Speaker 4: four of our strikers are in Europe, so are not
Speaker 4: going to get called up. Any other striker that we
Speaker 4: want are probably I mean, like Brandon Vazquez is not
Speaker 4: going to come in because he's been playing in Mexico.
Speaker 4: They don't exactly have the same breaks like we do,
Speaker 4: you know, And then you had Ferrera goes out of camp.
Speaker 4: I don't understand. Yeah, tokens out, but I mean from
Speaker 4: a strikers standpoint, I don't understand Brian White. I don't
Speaker 4: think he's that good. I think he's overrated at MLS,
Speaker 4: and I don't think he fits in with the national
Speaker 4: team one iota, and I just wish we would stop
Speaker 4: trying to call him in just because he's a dude.
Speaker 4: There are other options, and Patrick Amyang is one of
Speaker 4: those that I think we can see as like, oh
Speaker 4: this my guy might be a better look. There's a
Speaker 4: reason I think he started, and it's clearly because he
Speaker 4: did the things that Pachatino wants better than Brian White.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I just I don't understand the time and
Speaker 4: energy put into Brian White.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that a listener gets named a US
Speaker 1: Soccer Female Player of the Year after her last US
Speaker 1: wn T seas. It seems like a slam dunk for me.
Speaker 4: If you go back a couple episodes of the Soccer
Speaker 4: for US pod, we talked about who our players of
Speaker 4: the Year should be, and I said a listener. And
Speaker 4: it's because while you can easily say it was triple espresso,
Speaker 4: the reality is, especially during that run in the knockouts
Speaker 4: of the Olympics, it's not like we were scoring a
Speaker 4: ton of goals and a Listenaire had to come up big,
Speaker 4: not just in the gold medal run, but you look
Speaker 4: at the She Believes Cup and w Gold Cup. I
Speaker 4: mean both of those tournaments were her save multiple penalty
Speaker 4: kick score, a penalty kick outcome, and outside of that,
Speaker 4: she really just had a stellar twenty twenty four. You know,
Speaker 4: I think, I John, I'm gonna say this because not
Speaker 4: to be controversial, but because it's true. If a Listenaire
Speaker 4: as a US number one, we're playing for any other
Speaker 4: country in the world. Say she's playing for France, right,
Speaker 4: Say she's a French international and she's playing in France,
Speaker 4: and she's playing for LEOL and she's winning. You know,
Speaker 4: she's at Champions League finals and all this stuff. I
Speaker 4: think she would be very much considered the best goalkeeper
Speaker 4: in the world. But because she is an NWSL, a
Speaker 4: league that actually has competition and had good players on
Speaker 4: every single team and has good teams up and down
Speaker 4: the league, she's not seen as that good because her
Speaker 4: Red Stars team still the Red Stars. Her Red Stars
Speaker 4: team isn't up there. Right, they make the playoffs, they
Speaker 4: get trounced by Orlando, which everyone did in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: You know, the only team that didn't was you know,
Speaker 4: the final, which duh. Washington's also good. And so they
Speaker 4: see her club stats and they're not great because well, yeah,
Speaker 4: she's going against some of the best players in the
Speaker 4: world in her league week in a week out. I
Speaker 4: think she deserved this, and it's it's also nice to
Speaker 4: pair this with her FIFA Best eleven nomination as well.
Speaker 4: And it's just I just want to reiterate that the
Speaker 4: US women's national team is not devoid of talent. Even
Speaker 4: the goalkeepers that were not one hundred percent sure about
Speaker 4: who will replace her are better than just about any
Speaker 4: other countries goalkeepers in the world. I mean you're looking
Speaker 4: at when you look at better goalkeepers Mary Arts. Maybe
Speaker 4: I like Van Domsler a lot, but you know that's
Speaker 4: really it because Endler down in leon is not I mean,
Speaker 4: she plays for Chile. It's just unfortunate for her that
Speaker 4: her team national team isn't that good. We're going to
Speaker 4: have some of the best goalkeepers on international level. Germany
Speaker 4: is obviously very good, but like, we have great talent
Speaker 4: here and I think a listen there, getting that now
Speaker 4: that she's retiring, getting her flowers finally, both domestically and internationally.
Speaker 4: It's wonderful to see, but it's to me a sign that, hey, y'all,
Speaker 4: our talent is there.
Speaker 1: Who in your mind is a B and C. Now
Speaker 1: that you're going to have to find who is the
Speaker 1: hashtag Naiir replacement? What is the competition going to be
Speaker 1: looking like now?
Speaker 4: Well, I think we saw with the college we've had
Speaker 4: the last couple camps. Fall and tallest choice is definitely one.
Speaker 4: She might be the low key leader, but I think
Speaker 4: Kasey Murphy is the kind of she's probably if you
Speaker 4: were to say leader in the clubhouse, she might be
Speaker 4: the leader in the clubhouse, but I don't know if
Speaker 4: she's She's the betting favorite. She has the pedigree, she's
Speaker 4: had the time, but I think Fallen has a little
Speaker 4: bit better. I think she's a little bit better shot
Speaker 4: stopper for not being as tall as Casey. Casey's a
Speaker 4: great shot stopper because she's very tall. She technically sound,
Speaker 4: she's very tall. Those two are probably the ones that
Speaker 4: are most likely to get that. I'd love to say
Speaker 4: Jane Campbell, I just don't know if I see her
Speaker 4: elevating her game to that level. She's kind of struggled
Speaker 4: to do that on the national team level. I still
Speaker 4: want Katie Lynn to get a Colin Louisville's goalkeeper. I
Speaker 4: like her, but she kind of has like a little
Speaker 4: bit of Casey Murphy where she's really tall and that's
Speaker 4: that's kind of her big thing. But if you're looking
Speaker 4: at two, I think it's Murphy and Talis choice. Those
Speaker 4: are the two that like they're gonna get looks obviously
Speaker 4: tallest choice is starting at Manchester United in the second
Speaker 4: best league in the world. You've got Murphy, who's the
Speaker 4: starter for a very good club team here in the US.
Speaker 4: So I think those are the two that you're looking
Speaker 4: at this year.
Speaker 1: Next matchup coming up here in Camp Cupcake for the
Speaker 1: us M and t is uh Costa Rica and it
Speaker 1: is how do we say this interesting? Who the who
Speaker 1: they now have in charge on the touch line with
Speaker 1: with the poho now there? What do you what are
Speaker 1: you anticipating that that's not me? I didn't do that?
Speaker 1: What does what does? What do you think this brings
Speaker 1: to the table for Costa Rica going forward?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say this not to say that they're not
Speaker 4: they weren't this beforehand, but a little bit of sophistication,
Speaker 4: which is a weird thing to include with uh Herrera
Speaker 4: as a coach, but Mexico as a national team and
Speaker 4: Herrera as an as their coach, and and a lot
Speaker 4: of the clubs he's played, they are They fight hard,
Speaker 4: they run hard, they but they they try to play
Speaker 4: to some extent, they try to play possessive, attacking good soccer. Right.
Speaker 4: You do all the hustle part, and you're ready to
Speaker 4: go into a fight whenever you feel like it. Cause
Speaker 4: mainly because your goal. Your a coach is about to
Speaker 4: have a stroke on the sideline. But that man always
Speaker 4: looks like he's about to pop a cornary artery. I'm
Speaker 4: just saying he does that. But Costa Rica has traditionally
Speaker 4: always had that too. They've always been a thorn in
Speaker 4: the side of the US and other teams like they
Speaker 4: succeed in CONCACAF because they are gritty, determined and organized
Speaker 4: and those are good qualities. But if Herrera can take
Speaker 4: some of his attacking philosophies right and help the Costa
Speaker 4: Ricans kind of put that into the already solid defensive
Speaker 4: strukker they're kind of just born with. I think that
Speaker 4: will help them because right now, John, it's very clear
Speaker 4: that they are for the fifth best team in CONCA CAFF.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, they're behind the big three of USA, Mexico,
Speaker 4: Canada and then Panama has eclipsed them as that next
Speaker 4: bex team. They used to be the third best. You know,
Speaker 4: they used to be easily the third best team in
Speaker 4: CONCA CAFF for a good decade. There they fell down
Speaker 4: a little bit. They had kind of a missing generation
Speaker 4: and so with LP Yoho, I think they are looking
Speaker 4: at how do we get back to that understanding we
Speaker 4: need a coach that kind of has that pedigree to
Speaker 4: teach our guys how to get back to there as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is going up next for soccer for US
Speaker 1: pod here during Camp Cupcake, sir.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we'll have a Camp cup Cake update, probably
Speaker 4: not this week, but definitely next week just because Camp Cupcake,
Speaker 4: Camp cup cup Date, Camp cup Cake cup Date. Yes,
Speaker 4: we'll have that that kind of reaction. Yeah, we'll have
Speaker 4: the reaction coming out either late this week or early
Speaker 4: next week, just looking at who impressed us with the
Speaker 4: understanding that neither of these games are particularly against high
Speaker 4: level teams, mainly because as you know, John A lot
Speaker 4: of leagues are playing soccer right now, and not everyone
Speaker 4: gets released. But you know, I think both Costa Rica
Speaker 4: and Venezuela are going to be able to provide a
Speaker 4: good level of talent that you can at least say, Okay,
Speaker 4: did this person It's not Serbia's like be or Z team, right,
Speaker 4: did this person look good enough in this game to
Speaker 4: warrant another look. I'll just hedge my personal feelings and
Speaker 4: that very few guys outside of like two maybe show
Speaker 4: that they should be part of the March Nations League camp.
Speaker 4: But a lot of these guys, I think it's fair
Speaker 4: to say are playing for those Gold Cup spots because
Speaker 4: we don't really know what Pochettina is going to be
Speaker 4: able to do with that Gold Cup roster. We're not sure.
Speaker 4: We haven't heard anything about like is this going to
Speaker 4: be the first team or is he going to say, hey,
Speaker 4: y'all need a break? And it does kind of seem
Speaker 4: like you won't force players to play if they don't
Speaker 4: want to play, So I doubt we're seeing Pulisic McKinney
Speaker 4: way of those guys. You know, but I will say,
Speaker 4: gi Arena, homeboy, You've played like twelve minutes now. He's
Speaker 4: playing a lot more now. But g Orana might be
Speaker 4: one of those where it's like, well you kind of
Speaker 4: need to play right. Ricardo Peppy might be a guy
Speaker 4: where you go. You know, it might not be a
Speaker 4: bad idea, but we're going to have to fill out
Speaker 4: a twenty three man roster for Gold Cup, and a
Speaker 4: lot of these guys I think are playing for those spots,
Speaker 4: including goalkeeper Patrick Schulte, who is perfectly fine against a
Speaker 4: team that didn't really do a whole lot. You know,
Speaker 4: the goal that was conceded. I don't know if that's
Speaker 4: his fault by any stretch. Miles was decent enough, I think.
Speaker 4: But but we're going to kind of look at where
Speaker 4: did where do these guys fit in the We always
Speaker 4: talk about that forty man, you know, because you have
Speaker 4: your twenty three but John, as you've seen, as we've
Speaker 4: seen from watching these national teams, health is an enigma for.
Speaker 1: Some health transfers. Yeah, the season plan, yeah, you need
Speaker 1: you know, you.
Speaker 4: Gotta you gotta build up that forty man roster basically
Speaker 4: who's and we see this for up and down the roster.
Speaker 4: We got to find out our a depth so that
Speaker 4: that's kind of what we're looking at from these friendlies,
Speaker 4: and we'll talk about that either early this week or
Speaker 4: early next week or late this week.
Speaker 1: Well you know you're going to talk about it early
Speaker 1: next week with us on Monday, and we'll go through. Okay,
Speaker 1: so who gets to be added to the forty man
Speaker 1: and who and Bart's mind gets to sit there and
Speaker 1: go Now you're out at all as always at Barbs
Speaker 1: Trime nineteen at the Soccer for Us pod, You've got
Speaker 1: a meeting. Get out of here.
Speaker 4: By y'all.
Speaker 1: All right, there goes Bartle make get it out of this.
Speaker 1: There you go like that. Bart actually had the real
Speaker 1: world come in. Yeah, so Bart had the real world
Speaker 1: come in, and so he had to he had to
Speaker 1: bail by ten thirty, all right, So we got him
Speaker 1: out ten twenty nine. All right. So a couple of notes,
Speaker 1: and this is going to be kind of random stuff.
Speaker 1: We're going to update you with all the stories that
Speaker 1: we have going on probably about another fifteen minutes or so,
Speaker 1: and then I got to take the boss to the
Speaker 1: doctor for the follow up and putting onto the cast
Speaker 1: for the second time. So here we go. Like I said,
Speaker 1: this is going to be random and I got to
Speaker 1: say hi to everybody too. What I have on what
Speaker 1: I have on my computer? All right, So it looks
Speaker 1: like Luisa Mudio has signed with the Charleston Battery to
Speaker 1: be their new keeper. How do I know that? It's
Speaker 1: right there on their two hundred and eighty character apps.
Speaker 1: So Louisa Mudio, he is up and running now with
Speaker 1: the Charleston Battery. Also from Laurel Fayler, who if you
Speaker 1: don't follow and don't don't subscribe to her Patreon to
Speaker 1: get all the great info that she gives on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. When it comes to e f CIA Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: the camp roster was announced for their travel Lucho Acosta's
Speaker 1: not on it, u Yakubo's not on it. They anticipate
Speaker 1: Miles being apart once Camp Cupcake is over. Also this
Speaker 1: morning from Laurel f c Cincinnati, finalizing an agreement to
Speaker 1: send a Varro Barrial on Loanda Santo's through the end
Speaker 1: of twenty five with a purchase option, sources confirmed to
Speaker 1: Queen City Press. Londa Santos has been in the works
Speaker 1: for several weeks. Barrio all completed medicals with Santos late
Speaker 1: last week. Joins the club at closing in on the
Speaker 1: potential signing of Naima. According to sources close to the situation, Barrial,
Speaker 1: who spent the twenty four season on loan with Cruzero,
Speaker 1: signed a one year contract extension with FCC prior to
Speaker 1: completing the deal with Santos. Club options for twenty four
Speaker 1: and twenty five had been automatically triggered, but this was
Speaker 1: the last year of the extension he signed in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. And remember this is what we see a
Speaker 1: lot in order to retain control of the player, and
Speaker 1: this is what I remind you guys of, and thus
Speaker 1: the ability to potentially sell him. Still, FCC needed Barril
Speaker 1: to agree on another extension. Source close to the situation
Speaker 1: said Barriol agreed to the contract to help get the
Speaker 1: deal done. Includes a pay raise in twenty six should
Speaker 1: he return to the club. The four million dollar purchase
Speaker 1: option with Santos automatically triggers if he plays two thirds
Speaker 1: basically at the team's matches. FC Cincinnati had expected Cruiser
Speaker 1: to purchase his contract at the end of his loan
Speaker 1: last year or for another buyer to step in, and
Speaker 1: GM Chris Albright had been building the roster around other players,
Speaker 1: including Barriol's replacement in Luca Origiano or Agiano doesn't want
Speaker 1: to be in Cincinnati either right now. Barrel joined FCC
Speaker 1: in September twenty twenty from Vellaz and was a part
Speaker 1: of the turnaround under pat Noon and in twenty two
Speaker 1: twenty three All Star season scored a push gust goal
Speaker 1: of the Year contender, drawing interest from clubs in Europe,
Speaker 1: requested the loan of Cruzero. Was playing well until injuries
Speaker 1: impacted his performance late August and playing time diminished. So
Speaker 1: that's the latest. With Barrial and three hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: loan fees, Santos will be paying for alvar O Barrial.
Speaker 1: Some stupidity down here, we actually have some good coming
Speaker 1: out of it and it comes from third division. Bradford
Speaker 1: City can confirm two arrests have been made in Mead
Speaker 1: relating to racially aggravated hate crimes and recent home fixtures
Speaker 1: and separate incidents. West Yorkshire Police detained an individual in
Speaker 1: the West End during the game against Chesterfield another person
Speaker 1: in the way and at Grimsby Town on January four.
Speaker 1: Club staff took immediate action to identify the individual's notify
Speaker 1: the authorities and sure appropriate action was taken. Both cases
Speaker 1: now subject to ongoing police investigations. Bradford City as zero
Speaker 1: tolerance toward racism or any form of discrimination, we urge
Speaker 1: anyone who experiences or witnesses such behavior to report it
Speaker 1: immediately in as much as tail as possible to ensure
Speaker 1: the club can take appropriate action. So good work from
Speaker 1: our friends in the third division of the English football pyramid. Okay,
Speaker 1: time to say hi to everybody and then we can
Speaker 1: go on with all the other news and notes and
Speaker 1: everything that are here. But once again thanks to Ben
Speaker 1: Jacobs for dropping by this morning. It was great to
Speaker 1: see him and great to have him break everything down
Speaker 1: when it came to Miguel Almeroon, Emmanuel Latte, Live odds
Speaker 1: On Edward, all those pieces and what MLS means in
Speaker 1: the world's fear as part of the part of the
Speaker 1: the transfers and bringing the talent from Europe in the
Speaker 1: European theater to Major League Soccer. So it's great to
Speaker 1: catch up with Ben and find out what's going on
Speaker 1: in his universe, which translates into a lot. But I
Speaker 1: can't thank him enough for the time and dropping by
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, So saying hi to everybody. Morning D.
Speaker 1: Graham and Alex and Will, Morning Derek, Morning Ropes, Morning Tom,
Speaker 1: Morning Emilio, Morning four Card, Morning Badger, Morning Thomas. Once again,
Speaker 1: Morning Will. Let's see and once again, thanks to all
Speaker 1: of you guys for all of your all of your
Speaker 1: your comments and your warmth involving the boss. It means
Speaker 1: a lot, it really does. Morning Michael Head. And once again,
Speaker 1: like you said, Michael's about a five iron from here
Speaker 1: east to here. So I can hit a five iron.
Speaker 1: If I can get it through the trees, I can
Speaker 1: get a good role. That's where That's where Michael Head
Speaker 1: is in relation to Office HD. So Morning Dawn Starr,
Speaker 1: glad that you are in this morning as well. Let's
Speaker 1: see Morning Jason Nicks. Nicks last night says he couldn't
Speaker 1: even root for the Medior because they were playing at
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz. Morning, Ricky Ricardo. Let's see morning Pars Pars
Speaker 1: and his newly acquired Aston Villa doing pretty well. Thank
Speaker 1: you Thomas for the heads up on Ornstein and Latte
Speaker 1: Las that came in handy. Let's see Morning D. Graham
Speaker 1: for what it's worth. Thomas says also saw something that
Speaker 1: suggests Leeds didn't have twenty million in their transfer budget
Speaker 1: this window. Let's see Morning Shariff, and let's see who
Speaker 1: else am I missing? See now Badger's got the billion
Speaker 1: dollar question involving Spurs. What point do LEVI and E
Speaker 1: and I see get the hint that they're actually the problem.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing. When you're in charge and you
Speaker 1: don't have anyone to challenge you in the position of authority,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be a place where you're gonna
Speaker 1: sit there and go you know what, I think I'm
Speaker 1: the problem. I don't know if EGO will allow that,
Speaker 1: and especially if there isn't anyone sitting there is saying
Speaker 1: that the Emperor is naked. So I think that might
Speaker 1: be the issue with Spurs and will always be kind
Speaker 1: of like Dallas. No one's going to go up to
Speaker 1: Jera and go sir, I think you might need to
Speaker 1: step down. That's not gonna happen. So I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Spurs are kind of in the same boat.
Speaker 1: Let's see, let's see morning four card four card Barsa
Speaker 1: needs to stay away from any deal, and I say
Speaker 1: this is someone who cares very much about Barsa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pay your bills first. Please pay your bills first. Only
Speaker 1: make selling deals at makes sense. And that's true, and
Speaker 1: you know, I know he's asking a lot, but please
Speaker 1: just have some common sense. Barsa. Don't know if that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Barsa is probably going to figure out how
Speaker 1: to sell more boxes that don't exist and try to
Speaker 1: figure out what's going on. Morning Shariff, Thomas and Tom
Speaker 1: and Abby. Good morning. You guys are talking about FIFA restrictions, construction.
Speaker 1: Guys in the house with a kitchen redo. Can't wait
Speaker 1: until everything is all done, get the dust out. More
Speaker 1: work to do. And Abby, thank you by the way, Yes,
Speaker 1: I will let you know if the boss would like
Speaker 1: a meal delivered from Abby. And and the boss is
Speaker 1: actually over there and so she saw that comment and
Speaker 1: very very humbled at that. So thank you Abby for that.
Speaker 1: It's very very kind. Also on the board and trying
Speaker 1: to see who else is here. Morning, Harry from snowy
Speaker 1: and called San Antonio. Yeah, when Cantoror is in Houston
Speaker 1: and you're about an hour away, that's a problem. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we're watching the Weather Channel. You've got meteorologist and Lafayette
Speaker 1: Lousianna for the first time ever. Uh so let's see
Speaker 1: de Graham and Michael Valverdi and all of you folks.
Speaker 1: Why does everyone want to leave SEC in this offseason?
Speaker 1: That is the gazillion dollar question, Thomas. It really is
Speaker 1: Origianokubo Acosta. That's three heavyweights borry all out on loan.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's uh, that's some stuff. So uh that's
Speaker 1: the that's the gazillion dollar question involving everything with FC Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: So okay, what to watch, where to watch it, how
Speaker 1: to watch it? And we'll go back over and see
Speaker 1: if we missed any of the news, and we'll go
Speaker 1: over headlines before we get out of here. So because
Speaker 1: like I said, I got to get the boss to
Speaker 1: her doctor's appointments. So what to watch, where to watch it,
Speaker 1: how to watch it? We probably need to go over
Speaker 1: juice boxes when it comes to the what you call
Speaker 1: it a Champions League match day seven. So here we go,
Speaker 1: Champions League, CBS Sports Network, Bologna Dortmund at three. It
Speaker 1: is the league that we neither condone, endorse, nor promote.
Speaker 1: That is happening at right now and it's also being
Speaker 1: simulcast FS two, Fox Toport this two to NA, Monaco
Speaker 1: Aston Villa, twelve twenty five been Fica Barcelona two fifty
Speaker 1: river Plate and in Mexico at six thirty tonight. That's
Speaker 1: all on two to NA and that is being simulcast
Speaker 1: on Univision. Galasso Network has Milwauk Cardiff City in the Championship.
Speaker 1: Paramount Plus has three matches in the Championship Middlesbrough West
Speaker 1: brom Swansea, Sheffield United, Milwall Cardiff City. Europa League Galatassai
Speaker 1: dinam o'keeev. That one is going on now, and the
Speaker 1: matchups in Champions League Atalanta Sturmgraz, Monico Villa, those are
Speaker 1: at twelve forty five three o'clock Atletico Madrid by A,
Speaker 1: Lever Cues and Benfica, Barsa, Bologna, Dortmund Bruce. You've a
Speaker 1: Red Star PSV. Liverpool, Leal, sloven Brotishlava and Stuttgart. All
Speaker 1: that's being simulcast on VIX, including the friendly. And that
Speaker 1: gets you through today. So there you go. Let me
Speaker 1: go through juice boxes really quickly and then we will
Speaker 1: call it a day, and I'm going to keep you
Speaker 1: updated on the Boss and everything tomorrow tomorrow. Once again,
Speaker 1: Tyler's going to join us at nine point fifteen, and
Speaker 1: then we'll see if the busiest man in the Northeast
Speaker 1: can join us. But remember Dylan is up against high
Speaker 1: school basketball, so we'll see what happens. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get Dylan Butler on the show. Okay today, Now remember
Speaker 1: League face today and tomorrow in Champions League at Talanta
Speaker 1: minus five hundred, hosting Storm Gras at a plus twelve seventy.
Speaker 1: Monica is slide home favored against Aston Villa at a
Speaker 1: plus one forty nine. Villa's at a plus one seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Athletigo Madrid plus one thirty one thirty three at home
Speaker 1: by elever cusans a plus two nineteen. Benfica is a
Speaker 1: plus one ninety one, hosting Barsa at a plus one
Speaker 1: twenty two. Dortmunder road favored at a plus one twenty
Speaker 1: nine at Bologna to plus two to fifteen. You've a
Speaker 1: road favorite at a plus one thirty one. Bruis a
Speaker 1: plus two to thirty one, Red Star to plus three
Speaker 1: twenty two hosting PSV, who's a minus one thirty nine.
Speaker 1: Liverpool big favorite against Leel at minus three eighty five
Speaker 1: leel plus nine fifty and Sloven brought his Lava plus
Speaker 1: nine fifty at home, hosting Stuttgart at a minus four seventeen.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Enjoy your Champions League, enjoy
Speaker 1: your stuff, and we'll be back at it again once
Speaker 1: again in a little more than twenty two so twenty
Speaker 1: two hours in about twenty minutes and we'll be back
Speaker 1: at it again. Thanks to Ben Jacobs, thanks to Bard Keeler,
Speaker 1: thanks to all of you for dropping by. Back at
Speaker 1: it again nine oh five tomorrow morning, Eastern Time on
Speaker 1: a wall pass Wednesday. So whatever's on your mind is
Speaker 1: whatever's on your mind. Since it's the end of the show,
Speaker 1: Mocha Platial played safe everybody. We'll update you on the
Speaker 1: Boss tomorrow and opening kickoff. That means I get to
Speaker 1: do this