Speaker 1: Bases drop throwing it around of sdh am, sorry about
Speaker 1: nine oh six. I don't I don't know if if
Speaker 1: this happens to you at all, But when when well,
Speaker 1: first and foremost, how many of you had the power
Speaker 1: go out last night? Just checking? And you know, for
Speaker 1: us here at office HD, it was kind of flickery,
Speaker 1: and it was between ten and eleven where you had
Speaker 1: the power would it would and it would be like
Speaker 1: the whole transformer thing where it would go on and
Speaker 1: off and on and off and on and off, and
Speaker 1: it would be really annoying and you would basically have
Speaker 1: to sit there and turn off everything so you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have anything like short out. I mean literally here in
Speaker 1: the office, I had to turn out all the monitors
Speaker 1: and everything so when the power would come back on,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have a monitor pop back off. And then
Speaker 1: when the power would go back up, the monitor goes off.
Speaker 1: And you don't want power surges and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff anyway, So turned off everything here in the
Speaker 1: office because I kind of got fed up with everything
Speaker 1: and I was just watching what was going on on
Speaker 1: like devices and stuff. So that was that was kind
Speaker 1: of the late evening aspect of things, But I kind
Speaker 1: of forget that not everything immediately turns on or immediately
Speaker 1: turns off, and you know, every single time everything comes
Speaker 1: back on, not everything comes back on with it. Case endpoint.
Speaker 1: The computer literally the first time that everything went off
Speaker 1: last night, computer didn't turn back on. You know, I think,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's like everything else, you know, Okay, so
Speaker 1: the power's back on, computer will turn back on and reboot. No,
Speaker 1: So it took me trying to remember, oh yeah, you've
Speaker 1: got to reboot the computer and turn it on separately
Speaker 1: before things could be what they are. So that's why
Speaker 1: that's why nine oh six was nine oh six morning, Alex.
Speaker 1: We do have all the transfer news to get into overseas,
Speaker 1: everyone is moving all of the deck chairs around trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, okay, who's in, who's not, who's going where.
Speaker 1: We'll get into all that this morning. We've also got
Speaker 1: a preview of League's Cup. We've also got to review
Speaker 1: what happened on Saturday and Friday and Saturday in Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer to get you ready for League's Cup. They
Speaker 1: actually have seeds and seeding and things like that for
Speaker 1: leagues cups. So if I mentioned like the twenty eighth seed.
Speaker 1: I think at Landy United and the cocksar twenty eight
Speaker 1: and twenty nine of the thirty six. So if I
Speaker 1: mentioned and seeds, that's where that came from. So we go.
Speaker 1: We'll go over the weekend in Major League Soccer. Go
Speaker 1: over the rest of the clubs. Get you ready for
Speaker 1: League's Cup, Go into juice boxes, get into your previews.
Speaker 1: There there's some news to get into, there's some stuff
Speaker 1: below the radar to get into. And Kayler Hodges is
Speaker 1: going to join us at ten thirty because it is
Speaker 1: the last Tuesday of the month, and so that means
Speaker 1: we catch up with everything going on in USL With Kayler.
Speaker 1: We get to find out about their road trip to Portland,
Speaker 1: Maine and find out what that was like where Portland,
Speaker 1: Maine and Vermont Green they're really turning into stuff that
Speaker 1: we kind of knew, but now the rest of the
Speaker 1: country is learning about just how the sport is up there.
Speaker 1: Full disclosure. We are chasing after our friends at Vermont
Speaker 1: Green and Vermont Green and Ballard are playing for the
Speaker 1: championship in USL League two this weekend, so hopefully we
Speaker 1: can have some representation and that before the week is out.
Speaker 1: Looks like we're gonna catch up with our friends at
Speaker 1: HICKORYFC because they are playing in the NPSL Championship. Head
Speaker 1: coach Carlos Rubio. I've given him a couple of time
Speaker 1: slots Tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday. I know that Carlos kind
Speaker 1: of when he wanders around the Lenor Ryan campus. He's
Speaker 1: an early guy. So he's probably gonna be an hour
Speaker 1: number one at some point over the next couple of
Speaker 1: days because they're getting ready to travel out to El
Speaker 1: Fadalito to play in the NPSL Championship and that's going
Speaker 1: to be at keys Our Stadium late Saturday night our time.
Speaker 1: So Hickory is heading out to El Fadalito and we'll
Speaker 1: catch up with head coach Carlos Rubio of Hickory FC
Speaker 1: that week is what we're doing. And so we'll catch
Speaker 1: up with him in a little bit. Getting ready for practice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's getting ready for practice in conditions that are suboptimal
Speaker 1: for human beings. And so yeah, and so I'm waiting,
Speaker 1: So Maddie, are you prepped? Are are you? Are you
Speaker 1: locked in? Okay, So just checking. I'm gonna bring Maddie in.
Speaker 1: So uh, MADDI ready for practice. Hello, Hello, there we go.
Speaker 1: Now there it is, Yes, there it is full, full, full,
Speaker 1: full picture.
Speaker 2: Well nothing the sun because if I put it in
Speaker 2: the song last time and overheat it, So I'm keeping
Speaker 2: it like right on the vent.
Speaker 3: So we're hoping that the States.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, just wanted to check in with you as
Speaker 1: you get ready for practice at the Children's Self Care
Speaker 1: of Atlanta training ground. Getting ready for Atlanta United and
Speaker 1: Nikosa tomorrow in a League's Cup. I think we have
Speaker 1: to say it with that kind of emphasis. The COSA,
Speaker 1: you know, just one of those kinds of things where
Speaker 1: you sit there and you wake everybody up. Oh, there
Speaker 1: she goes, and she turns it looking it.
Speaker 3: The other way.
Speaker 1: That might be. That's fine, it's a steering whel you're
Speaker 1: in a car at a practice facility. Does it really matter?
Speaker 1: Let me, you're in a car.
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cox and the Coxa. Uh. Probably the biggest news
Speaker 1: involving Atlanta United yesterday was, Yes, hydration is important. The
Speaker 1: release of Luisa Brohm, which gives at Landy United some
Speaker 1: cap mobility. When it comes to the remainder of this season,
Speaker 1: you have to keep an eye out on the better
Speaker 1: call transaction is that where this is is this one
Speaker 1: for one where it comes to the money and how
Speaker 1: much is left over all the things. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: biggest news yesterday Luisa bram on his way out and
Speaker 1: being wived by Land United.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: Chris Henderson has talked about it in the media avtibility
Speaker 2: to us last week and even you know on ninety
Speaker 2: nine with Mike and Jason. You know, they want to
Speaker 2: make moves in this sin this transfer window, they want
Speaker 2: to make some big moves and also not even this window,
Speaker 2: but also even looking ahead to the window at.
Speaker 3: The end of the season as well.
Speaker 2: You know, So this is probably one of those steps
Speaker 2: to try to clear up some.
Speaker 3: Space to possibly bring in somebody.
Speaker 2: But it's just one of those things where it's the unfortunate.
Speaker 3: Part of this.
Speaker 2: I wish louis a whole bunch of luck wherever he
Speaker 2: goes next to them. He's a very very talented center back.
Speaker 2: Any team would be lucky to have him, very calm,
Speaker 2: very composed. But it's a part of what Chris Henderson
Speaker 2: has talked about is that they want to clear up
Speaker 2: space to make room for some transfers and to make
Speaker 2: some moves here in this window.
Speaker 1: Now that you've had an extra day to ingest what
Speaker 1: happened with Atlanta and Seattle, what sticks out in your
Speaker 1: mind from this As Atlanta United gets a bit of
Speaker 1: a break from MLS play, the three game homestand is
Speaker 1: over and you're getting ready for League's Cup, what still
Speaker 1: sticks in your brain from what we saw on the weekend.
Speaker 2: I think for me, it's just, you know, I think
Speaker 2: it's cleaning up just some small mistakes. It felt like
Speaker 2: a lot of the two goals that were conceded felt
Speaker 2: very avoidable.
Speaker 3: And it's just cleaning up those small things defensively.
Speaker 2: But I think you would have really saw it for
Speaker 2: I think you had a really good first staff, like
Speaker 2: we saw as well against Charlotte too.
Speaker 3: You had two really solid first staffs.
Speaker 2: It's just keeping that consistency all the way through the
Speaker 2: second half as well, and it's trying to find a
Speaker 2: way to be switched on in that sense. I thought
Speaker 2: Alexi Madanchu had a phenomenal performance. I thought he played
Speaker 2: very very well, and I want to give him his
Speaker 2: flowers because he he did very very good. And I'm
Speaker 2: not just talking about the wonder goal that happened at
Speaker 2: the end. He played very very good against Seattle. He
Speaker 2: played very well against Charlotte too. Alexei Mananchuk played very
Speaker 2: very well. It was really cool to get to see
Speaker 2: him an am high as well check into the maps
Speaker 2: for a little bit as well. I really loved seeing
Speaker 2: the way that he came in immediately and was commanding
Speaker 2: and he was moving pieces around, getting things going. He
Speaker 2: was being a voice out there, and I think that's
Speaker 2: really important, and it's very cool to go ahead and
Speaker 2: see a new guy take that stamp and be like hey,
Speaker 2: because that's what Ronni Dallas said.
Speaker 3: He's a leader.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be someone who's gonna come in and help
Speaker 2: be a voice in the back, to be another voice
Speaker 2: out there, and I think that's really important when you
Speaker 2: have those players who can be those voices at all areas.
Speaker 3: On the field.
Speaker 2: You have Miguel wearing the arm band up talk, you
Speaker 2: have Sleish in the middle kind of directing some things around,
Speaker 2: being that voice there.
Speaker 3: If you get me high as well.
Speaker 2: I think Derek has also been a voice back there
Speaker 2: as well, but I think you get me high as
Speaker 2: well coming in and being another voice out there, then
Speaker 2: you get Brad in the back right there in between
Speaker 2: the posts directing things around as well. You're getting some
Speaker 2: really solid leadership voices in these moments, and I think
Speaker 2: that's important as well. But for me, it's just consistency
Speaker 2: and it's cleaning up those small mistakes as well. And
Speaker 2: before I get off my rant as well, I think
Speaker 2: Ronald Hernandez has also been very very outstanding. I mean
Speaker 2: the past that led to the first goal for brilliant,
Speaker 2: absolutely brilliant. Yeah, but I'd give Ronald his flowers as well,
Speaker 2: because he has been very, very good in the last
Speaker 2: two games as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'll go ahead and let's let's have some
Speaker 1: fun here on a Tuesday morning. Well, no, it's good fun.
Speaker 1: It's good fun. Uh. Let's see. Do you remember this
Speaker 1: sence It to the back post towards Amroon, headed away
Speaker 1: by Knew who bounce out for a throw. They will
Speaker 1: let Atlanta take it. It's thrown into Lennon and gives
Speaker 1: it back to amarn Me and Moran Chuk top of
Speaker 1: the eighteen shot. What's up from Russia With one, Atlanta,
Speaker 1: united for the third time in their last four matches,
Speaker 1: steals a point at the death.
Speaker 3: I did not know, Mike did.
Speaker 1: That's offer him. That's cool.
Speaker 3: Oh, let's go Mike.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I also love Jason's little doubt.
Speaker 1: This is the thing that, uh, we've got to figure
Speaker 1: out either from from Jake or from Tom Sharrowsky or
Speaker 1: you know whoever's at the Imitation Palacial Studios at Colony
Speaker 1: Square or in the booth, We've got to figure out
Speaker 1: how to isolate that and have that as a drop.
Speaker 3: I'm sure we can. I'm sure there's a way to
Speaker 3: get that.
Speaker 1: Woo. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I'm sure there's a way. If not, then I'll
Speaker 3: just I'll take a voice.
Speaker 2: Recorder to like, I'll just like keep it in there
Speaker 2: and then we'll like it. We'll just have Jason when
Speaker 2: he says it, will have it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So to your point, I wanted to go through
Speaker 1: a couple of the numbers. According to our friends at
Speaker 1: Sofa score uh, Ronald a part of the top end
Speaker 1: for Atlanta United seven point one on the day. Obviously
Speaker 1: me unchooke with the goal at a seven point four.
Speaker 1: So your top starters Derek, Ronald and Niggi each with
Speaker 1: seven point ones. Ronald on the afternoon played almost the
Speaker 1: full ninety before Brooks came in late. It was three clearances,
Speaker 1: two picks, two total tackles, one dribble pass, four of
Speaker 1: seven on his duel's sixty nine touches forty three of
Speaker 1: forty nine, passing at eighty eight percent, two key passes,
Speaker 1: including the one that led to the first goal, one
Speaker 1: accurate cross, two for six on long balls, had the
Speaker 1: one shot off target. So once again Ronald Hernandez clicking
Speaker 1: off a bunch of different boxes for at Landing Night.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think one thing that I always talked about, even
Speaker 2: in pregame too, with Ronald, Ronald brings you something in
Speaker 2: the back that is very different than I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people don't really recognize and don't see it
Speaker 2: as a quality that's not important. Ronald brings the grit
Speaker 2: and the heart, and from talking to him so many times,
Speaker 2: he bleeds for this club. I've said it a lot
Speaker 2: of times, but I mean you can feel it, like
Speaker 2: when he talks about the club, it radiates like he
Speaker 2: he will put everything, blood, sweat and tears into helping
Speaker 2: this club succeed. And that's what he's done. He's stepped
Speaker 2: up in those moments. He's been a right back. He's
Speaker 2: been a center back, He's been a left back. He
Speaker 2: will be wherever you need him to be and he
Speaker 2: will help the team. And I think him in this
Speaker 2: right back role, comparing with Miggy as well, you have
Speaker 2: that relationship that blooms outside as well. That really does
Speaker 2: help when you are on the pitch. You know each
Speaker 2: other well, you know what makes each other tick. That
Speaker 2: helps a lot. But I think Ronald has brought something
Speaker 2: that I really love. Like I've always talked about him
Speaker 2: defensively and how really solid he is in that.
Speaker 3: I've loved seeing him offensively.
Speaker 2: He's had a lot of great moments in the last
Speaker 2: couple of games where I've been like, oh, Ronald, like
Speaker 2: he had oh there was like him combining with Miguel
Speaker 2: and with Alexi too. That the duo there with Ronald
Speaker 2: and Alexi has been really fun to watch, Like it's
Speaker 2: like the combination with Luke and Moyemba, Like it's something
Speaker 2: different you wouldn't have expected to but that connection has
Speaker 2: been really cool to watch. And Ronald has had some
Speaker 2: really good moments and good passes. I'm thinking back to
Speaker 2: that cutback to Alexi right at the top of the box,
Speaker 2: which I'm like, I didn't think. I sat up there
Speaker 2: and I turned to Caroline and I was like, I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, like I was really happy with it. No,
Speaker 2: But I think Ronald has been very good. I think
Speaker 2: Alexi has been very very good. I think Miguel has
Speaker 2: done a good job as well on that right side
Speaker 2: and that combination there, and I think you're seeing the
Speaker 2: piece click here. I think it's about keeping consistency throughout
Speaker 2: the second half and cleaning up those mistakes and being
Speaker 2: switched on at all times because you're going up against
Speaker 2: ACASA and I haven't done a whole bunch of research
Speaker 2: on them yet. That's my that's my mission for today
Speaker 2: is doing a lot of research on them today as well.
Speaker 2: But it's a new opponent. It's an opponent you've never
Speaker 2: really seen before. And Lega A Mechi's we all know.
Speaker 3: How good those sides are as well, So it's a
Speaker 3: new opponent.
Speaker 2: And it's really gonna be interesting to see how United
Speaker 2: navigates this new challenge heading in the League's Cup, because
Speaker 2: it's not like it was last year, where you have
Speaker 2: maybe an MLS club that you know a little bit.
Speaker 2: It is all Lega a Mechis, it's all lega a mechi.
Speaker 2: So it's really studying getting that down. And you know,
Speaker 2: if you enough the energy of what's gonna happen tomorrow,
Speaker 2: you know it first game of League's Cup.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be fun. I'm excited for it. I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: All right. So let me skip forward since I know
Speaker 1: I've only got you for another couple of minutes before
Speaker 1: you duck out into the heat and stay properly hydrated.
Speaker 1: You got you, so, you got your sunglasses, Your ready
Speaker 1: to go, You got your hydration, You're ready to go. Uh.
Speaker 1: I want to skip forward to Friday because we need
Speaker 1: to get the blatant promo in yes, or what's going
Speaker 1: on at brew house as Summer Series is coming to
Speaker 1: Atlanta this weekend, a very full day from four to
Speaker 1: nine at a brew house.
Speaker 3: We might have bunks's just walking. Oh he's walking in now.
Speaker 3: I thought he was gonna crash anyway, continue.
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with crashing.
Speaker 3: No, he's walking up now.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, So basically it's, uh, we're celebrating the
Speaker 2: Premier League, the Summer Series. It's gonna be at the
Speaker 2: brew House. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm
Speaker 2: doing a bit of a panel with a lot of
Speaker 2: the fans from each of the side Bournemouth, west Ham,
Speaker 2: uh Man United.
Speaker 3: Where what's I'm blanking? Thank you, Everton? All the above
Speaker 3: we will have.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I said west Ham, No, yes,
Speaker 3: I was right, yeah, yes, okay, okay, I thought I
Speaker 3: was going crazy.
Speaker 2: I was like no, and then also to west Brown
Speaker 2: will be there as well.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Our good friend Kevin Egan will be leaving that interview
Speaker 2: as well. But I'm gonna get the chance to interview
Speaker 2: some fans of everyone involved in the summer series. Uh So,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: just a fun day to you know, celebrate everything and
Speaker 2: to you know, get things going. It's gonna be a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. I'm really excited for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on out to the Brewhouse if you want.
Speaker 1: Well, we want them to because we want we want
Speaker 1: you to make sure that everybody's there. It's two o'clock
Speaker 1: Bornmouth and west Ham, five o'clock Manchester United and Everton.
Speaker 1: Our buddy Drew Dickinson is going to be hanging out
Speaker 1: with us covering all of that stuff on the weekend.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I wanted to make sure that everybody new
Speaker 1: to show up early. Uh, I believe, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you are. Egan is going to be the one
Speaker 1: to interview the Premier League trophy. Yeah, the like you
Speaker 1: get the thing is to win, you know, the tru Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be there. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: or Egan gets to interview the trophy or not. And
Speaker 1: we just have to make sure that it is uh
Speaker 1: properly guarded so people don't get like their fingerprints on
Speaker 1: the thing. Oh the Premier League you know, let me
Speaker 1: touch it? No? Uh before yeah, before you hopped out,
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that everybody was reminded about
Speaker 1: what's going on at the brew House. And you get
Speaker 1: to ask you get to ask one of the fans
Speaker 1: about Borne withouth.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: I get to ask west Ham fans.
Speaker 1: But west Ham, that is true, and Everton and mess
Speaker 1: and Everton and Manchester United. Uh do you need? Do
Speaker 1: you need to exit your automobile? I do.
Speaker 2: I gotta go to train and I gotta I gotta
Speaker 2: go film some cool content.
Speaker 1: All right, So go film some cool content. We'll catch
Speaker 1: up with you later, all right, guys, We'll see you later.
Speaker 1: It goes Maddie. Uh, Maddie's a practice because Maddie's got
Speaker 1: to get ready for Landy United and the Coxhi. I
Speaker 1: feel like we have to say it that way, a Coxhi.
Speaker 1: So Landy United and the cox and the Coxa right
Speaker 1: now is seventh in lega Amakis. They have just started
Speaker 1: the uh where are we? Is this? This is a forture?
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, this is aperture because Klaus Suraga at
Speaker 1: the other end of the year. So they are right
Speaker 1: now one one in one. They've hit every box in
Speaker 1: the first three matches and they are seventh and tied
Speaker 1: with Mazatlan with record and goal difference. I'm guessing that
Speaker 1: Coxa has scored more goals because the current standings that
Speaker 1: I have do not carry all the way through. And
Speaker 1: let you know what's going on there. Obviously today and
Speaker 1: tomorrow tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll talk to the Kaksa and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about them a bit. Today seven point thirty tomorrow
Speaker 1: it is Nakasa and Atlanta United and in a League's Cup.
Speaker 1: So some really cool, really cool stuff involving the Coxa
Speaker 1: and their program as they get ready to come in
Speaker 1: and take on a Lady night. But as always it's
Speaker 1: great to catch up with Maddie as she heads into
Speaker 1: practice and practice, yes, practice and so uh time to
Speaker 1: get ready for League's Cup. And then let you know
Speaker 1: what else is going on here. I guess that was
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Speaker 1: Morning Ricky. I don't know, Ricky has probably one of
Speaker 1: the more insight whole question so far. Early in the morning.
Speaker 1: Are we going to show up on an episode of FX?
Speaker 1: I don't know if MS Boston is going to be
Speaker 1: in the building, but I would imagine that there is
Speaker 1: going to be at least one camera shooting b roll
Speaker 1: and they're probably going to pay rights fees if they
Speaker 1: don't if they didn't have anybody in the building, uh
Speaker 1: for the matchup in Leagues Cup and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So the series, I believe, if I, if
Speaker 1: I am not mistaken, the series that is actually off
Speaker 1: and running and so you can go and uh follow
Speaker 1: up on it. And there there there is the way
Speaker 1: that like it's uh n Cooxa America. Hang on, let
Speaker 1: me let me get the let me get the actual
Speaker 1: name of the the group that that owns uh, let's
Speaker 1: see Nacoxa ownership because it's like it's like Nacoxa America
Speaker 1: LLC or something like that. Because it's a fifty percent.
Speaker 1: It's almost fifty percent and almost not so. It it's
Speaker 1: owned by Ernest Dootina, Hedro Flores and n ex Football
Speaker 1: usallc Literally, it's like almost fifty percent to NX Football
Speaker 1: and that's the group that has all the celebrities in it.
Speaker 1: And Ernest Dotina hero Flores is the chairman and the owner,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why he's got slightly more than
Speaker 1: fifty percent. It's not quite fifty percent for NX Football,
Speaker 1: but that is where that's where they are. So the
Speaker 1: group that picked up the almost fifty percent ownership, from
Speaker 1: what I understand, includes former owners from DC United, former
Speaker 1: managers from Swansea City and celebrities Eva longoriam as an Uzil,
Speaker 1: Sean Mary and Justin Verlander, Kate Upton and then as
Speaker 1: kind of a flip, the coxa's backers purchased five percent
Speaker 1: of Wrexham back in April of last year, and Rob
Speaker 1: Mack and Ryan Reynolds purchased the same in the COXA.
Speaker 1: So Rob MC and Ryan Reynolds, Rob Mack, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of with Caitlin Olson in this one. Rob MC and
Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds purchased five percent on the COXA as the
Speaker 1: Inex Football folks purchased five percent of Rexham, so that's
Speaker 1: that's where the layout is. So Senor Flores has I
Speaker 1: think just over fifty percent. Inex Football USA has just
Speaker 1: under fifty percent, and that's where I don't know what
Speaker 1: the actual percentage percentage breakdown is. But but I say
Speaker 1: butt butt butt butt butt, but I don't know what
Speaker 1: the layout is. So Ricky says one in episodes one
Speaker 1: and two premiere August seven, and episodes episode two showed
Speaker 1: description specifically mentioned League's Cup. Okay, so let's see. So
Speaker 1: if I wonder what their turnaround time is when it
Speaker 1: comes to their editing and such, that that to me
Speaker 1: is going to be one of the larger questions here.
Speaker 1: How how close to events are they going to be
Speaker 1: where Wrexham spends the entire season And then you start
Speaker 1: to get the episodes coming out. Is the COXA more
Speaker 1: of the quick turn or is it? Or what's going on?
Speaker 1: But I do not know if miss Baston is going
Speaker 1: to be in the building on Wednesday or if she's
Speaker 1: going to be following the club along as they go
Speaker 1: in League's Cup. So we'll see. And obviously on Thursday,
Speaker 1: we will report back and let you know what it
Speaker 1: looks like and did we see cameras you know, and
Speaker 1: we'll all be were in our SDH gear. So maybe hey,
Speaker 1: here's here's a roundabout way for SDH to make it
Speaker 1: onto international programming where SDH gear as Nikoxa is playing
Speaker 1: at Lanty Knight. Yeah, and Riocky, I think you're right on.
Speaker 1: He says, it sounds kind of hard knoxish if it's
Speaker 1: that quick, and that's that's the key. If if Nakasa
Speaker 1: is done more in real time. I think to your point, Ricky,
Speaker 1: I think it might be more hard Nooxie than Welcome
Speaker 1: to Wrexham, which is more recapish, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 1: So I think that does. That's what we're staring at
Speaker 1: when it comes to those particular different differences when it
Speaker 1: comes to TV production in those particular elements. All right,
Speaker 1: So since we're here, let me go and look at
Speaker 1: juice boxes for leagues cup. First off, let me see
Speaker 1: if juice boxes exist. I would imagine that they do.
Speaker 1: So we do world club friendly Summer Series, Club friendly
Speaker 1: World Championships, So North and Central America, how about that
Speaker 1: League's Cup. There we go Okay, so we do have
Speaker 1: for today since we're kind of already in the League's
Speaker 1: Cup portion, we've kind of steered into this to today.
Speaker 1: It is, oh, and do we have the do we
Speaker 1: have the announcers and or the officials? So if we
Speaker 1: have announcers and or officials, obviously we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that too, all right. So MLS Communications is traditionally
Speaker 1: where we go to find out do we have announced cruise,
Speaker 1: And obviously as things go, we will make sure that
Speaker 1: we are not We're not drifting away or anything like
Speaker 1: that to all of these Oh and you know your mission, folks,
Speaker 1: the reason that we played them an onto goal Goal
Speaker 1: of the Week honors. You know what you have to do.
Speaker 1: So all right, So we do not in MLS Communication
Speaker 1: have the broadcast cruise yet. Let's see if MLS on
Speaker 1: air has anything, and they have the promos and that's it.
Speaker 1: They don't have any up to date. They don't have
Speaker 1: any up to date announce cruise or anything like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I don't know our announced cruise yet. And hopefully
Speaker 1: on Friday we can be caught up with our friends
Speaker 1: at Major League Soccer and we can catch up with
Speaker 1: Leagu's Cup Okay Juice Boxes for tonight, and these are
Speaker 1: all matches that are going to be obviously on Apple
Speaker 1: TV Plus and MLS Season Pass. So Teluca and Columbus.
Speaker 1: Teluca is ranked number three, Columbus is ranked number four,
Speaker 1: seeded number three and number four. Teluca right now is
Speaker 1: a plus one fifty two. Your draws a plus two
Speaker 1: seventy five. Crew are a plus one forty one. The
Speaker 1: other seven o'clocker is CF Montreal favored at home at
Speaker 1: Dodd Suputo in Phase one against a twenty five seed
Speaker 1: CF Montreal against twenty seven seed Club Leone. And that's
Speaker 1: it's Dodd Suputo a little after seven o'clock, so we'll
Speaker 1: say seven to ten. Montreal is favored at a plus
Speaker 1: one four. Laone is a plus one seventy three and
Speaker 1: your draw is a plus two thirty six. Eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: It is nineteenth seed NYCFC. I feel like I'm having
Speaker 1: to read this like the tournaments that we have in
Speaker 1: March and April, nineteenth seed NYC taking on thirty fifth
Speaker 1: seed Puebla. And this one is not in the Bronx,
Speaker 1: It is not at Dylan Butler estates, it is in Harrison,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. So NYC ranked nineteen is taking on Puebla
Speaker 1: ranked thirty five eight ten kick in New Jersey, no
Speaker 1: real surprise. NYC's favorite at minus one seventy nine. Peebl's
Speaker 1: a plus four and a quarter in the composite courtesy
Speaker 1: of our friends at Odds Portal and your draws a
Speaker 1: plus three zho nine nine ten start at Helena Shell
Speaker 1: It is at t Grace ranked number five, taking all
Speaker 1: on Houston Dynamo, who are ranked number fifteen. Tigris is
Speaker 1: favored at a minus one oh nine. Keep an eye
Speaker 1: on who travels and who doesn't. Then you have the
Speaker 1: draw to plus two five four Dynamo at a plus
Speaker 1: two sixty six. Then you have a ten thirty ten
Speaker 1: forty A ten forty start at BEMO in Phase one,
Speaker 1: six seated LAFC taking on thirty three seeded Mazatlan. LAFC
Speaker 1: at a minus one seventy five draws a plus two
Speaker 1: ninety six and Mazatlan is a plus four twenty six.
Speaker 1: And then at the UH and UH we give. That
Speaker 1: is going to be fun tracking down Adrian Gocia Marcus.
Speaker 1: If you have the opportunity and this is literally, if
Speaker 1: this is it. You know, if you're at home and
Speaker 1: you've got Apple TV Plus, or even if you don't
Speaker 1: have Apple TV Plus and you have access to San
Speaker 1: Diego Sportstock Radio specifically AM seven sixty, go and listen
Speaker 1: to Adrian Garcia Marcus. He is required listening in Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer. So if you have the opportunity to like it, literally,
Speaker 1: if you're just if you're if you're at home and
Speaker 1: you want to listen to local radio option, which I imagine
Speaker 1: is still available on Apple TV Plus. If it's not,
Speaker 1: then then it needs to be fixed. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I would imagine. So if you're up late tonight,
Speaker 1: here's your public service announcement. Listen to Pachuca and San
Speaker 1: Diego FC. Go to the local radio option. No offense
Speaker 1: to who might be calling the match for Apple TV
Speaker 1: Plus an MLS season pass, but go listen to Adrian Garciamarcus.
Speaker 1: Because of how he he is, he's he was one
Speaker 1: of my favorites, full disclosure. He was one of my
Speaker 1: favorites when he was doing Lega a Mechis on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports and and you would have the late night Lega
Speaker 1: Emickys games on Fox Sports on FS one, and it
Speaker 1: would be him and American legend Kobe Jones, or it
Speaker 1: would be any of the other analysts that are there
Speaker 1: with him. But his descriptions truly do paint a picture.
Speaker 1: And he also is played by play for the San
Speaker 1: Diego Chargers, so you have that going into the season
Speaker 1: as well. But Adrian Garcia Marquis refers to the stadium
Speaker 1: inasmuch as Snapdragon is the joint that paid the fee
Speaker 1: that has the name on the marquee, he refers to
Speaker 1: it as the Murf Dragon, considering it was on those
Speaker 1: premises where Jack Murphy Stadium was, and he refers to
Speaker 1: the stadium as the Murf Dragon. And since they are
Speaker 1: in San Diego, the touch lines are not touch lines,
Speaker 1: they're coastlines. So it's on the east coast line of
Speaker 1: the far far coast line and near coast line. And
Speaker 1: that's out. That's literally just a piece of it. I
Speaker 1: can't do it justice where he comes up with the
Speaker 1: things that he does, but he has a great affinity
Speaker 1: for music. We have traded our appreciation for drummers for
Speaker 1: Rush on the social media's but yes, if you had
Speaker 1: this is your public service announcement, go Listen to a
Speaker 1: San Diego FC broadcast, listen to the local radio option.
Speaker 1: Listen to Adrian Garcia marquis, you will not regret it.
Speaker 1: And when we have opposition research for the Atlanta United
Speaker 1: and San Diego FC, when San Diego comes to town,
Speaker 1: you bet you're you know what we are chasing after
Speaker 1: AGM to make sure that he can be on the
Speaker 1: show to break everything down. And I have the impression
Speaker 1: that you have. Uh, it's it's gonna be It's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. It's gonna be a fun one, all right. Uh,
Speaker 1: Ricky being the intrepid producer, a part of the intrepid
Speaker 1: producer brigade that we have, Ricky, he has on the
Speaker 1: list this morning. Yes, except all the cookies. Good lord, Uh.
Speaker 1: Mark McCadam and Chris Sidle from Sky Sports News. The
Speaker 1: deal is agreed to with alzat and at Landy United.
Speaker 1: This is two hours ago, so this is more like
Speaker 1: three really, since we haven't quite it's two hours and
Speaker 1: fifty seven minutes ago. I was of six forty one
Speaker 1: this morning. Mark McAdam, Chris Siddle at Landy United have
Speaker 1: agreed with the deal with Hull for Steve and Alzat
Speaker 1: fee is one point five million pounds plus three hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy thousand pounds in add on. All right, So
Speaker 1: now I've got to be going to our currency translator. No,
Speaker 1: I don't want to enter my email address. I just
Speaker 1: want to all right, So intervalid amount? Okay? So one
Speaker 1: eight seven zero do we do commas here? I guess
Speaker 1: we can, okay, So one point one million, eight hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy thousand pounds one point five million plus three
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy thousand and add ons. Al Zat set
Speaker 1: to fly to the US tomorrow for his medical conversion
Speaker 1: right this very second, about two and a half million bucks.
Speaker 1: So one point eight seven zero one million, eight hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy thousand, one million, five for the fee three
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy thousand add ons right now, literally it
Speaker 1: is almost two point four nine million dollars two point
Speaker 1: four eight nine two million, four hundred eighty nine thousand,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty eight dollars and fifty nine cents.
Speaker 1: I probably could cover the fifty nine cents on that transaction,
Speaker 1: So thank you, Ricky. So Alzat appears to be in
Speaker 1: the barn set to fly to the US tomorrow for
Speaker 1: his medical So that adds another Wasserman client in the
Speaker 1: conversations with Atlanta United, and so that gives you another
Speaker 1: midfielder to add to the stacks. Me high end about
Speaker 1: a call in probably a couple weeks away from playing
Speaker 1: because of paperwork, and Steven Alzate in the midfield to
Speaker 1: help out Bartos Sleish and Christian William ba at cetaa
Speaker 1: et seta et setada. So all right, so let's go
Speaker 1: to our friends at transfer Marked and get the breakdown
Speaker 1: of Steven Alzate twenty six years old, born in London,
Speaker 1: Colombian citizenship, a central midfielder, plays the majority of his
Speaker 1: space in the central midfield, has played both the mid
Speaker 1: and attacking mid and contract at Hull expires in a year,
Speaker 1: so this was Hul getting something for an asset in
Speaker 1: the final year of its deal. There was a club
Speaker 1: option to go with. So as we now follow Steven
Speaker 1: underscore alzat nine to eight on the ig, the Insta
Speaker 1: or the the Graham as the kids call it, I
Speaker 1: guess we'll follow Wasserman football while we're thinking about it,
Speaker 1: So we'll go ahead and follow Washerman football. Steven underscore
Speaker 1: Alzat nine to eight. Jordan is already following Steven Alzat.
Speaker 1: Nothing updated as of yet with Alzat on his Instagram.
Speaker 1: Nothing about flying into a you know, leaving Heathrow or
Speaker 1: something like that. Nothing there so far on Alzat, but
Speaker 1: once again mainly a central midfielder, stay at home. Twenty
Speaker 1: eight matches in the Championship last year, did have the
Speaker 1: one assist, two yellow cards in just under two thousand minutes.
Speaker 1: Played a match in the FA Cup as well. Before
Speaker 1: that twenty three to twenty four he spent time at
Speaker 1: Standard Liege twenty four matches twenty five in all comps
Speaker 1: including the Krokey Cup. Two goals, four assists at Standard
Speaker 1: Lieges in twenty three twenty four. It was twenty nine
Speaker 1: thirty thirty one comps combined to Brighton and Standard Liege
Speaker 1: in twenty two to twenty three, four goals, five assists
Speaker 1: in just under two thousand minutes. Premier League FA Cup,
Speaker 1: Gummy Bear Cup Brighton twelve matches in twenty one twenty two.
Speaker 1: Same for Brighton Premier League PL two FA Cup in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one eighteen matches, two goals, one assist. Most
Speaker 1: of his time once again, and he has played three
Speaker 1: five eight different positions when he has been a professional footballer,
Speaker 1: but the majority of his time has been as a
Speaker 1: central midfielder Stay at Home Charlie five goals, nine assists,
Speaker 1: sixty seven matches. He's played d mid thirty five matches,
Speaker 1: attacking midfielder thirty two. So basically, if you combine his
Speaker 1: time as a defensive midfielder and an attacking midfielder, say
Speaker 1: number of games as a CMD. So central midfielder also
Speaker 1: has played left mid, center forward, right mid, right back
Speaker 1: in one match at a second striker fifty four matches
Speaker 1: at Standard Liege five and nine, Brighton fifty one matches
Speaker 1: three and two whole City no goals scored, twenty nine
Speaker 1: matches played, one assist time with Brighton U twenty one,
Speaker 1: Swindon Town and Layton Orient as well. So that is
Speaker 1: the Stephen Alzat stats breakdown. So let's go to Let's
Speaker 1: go to Wasserman. Let me just see what Let's see
Speaker 1: what Wasserman has to say, because this is where we
Speaker 1: go into transfer marked and we try and figure out. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's look at his profile and it'll say Wasserman and
Speaker 1: you click on Wasserman and you roll and find out, okay,
Speaker 1: where it's like, where's my Wasserman? Okay, so once again
Speaker 1: interested club at Lanty United. All right, so three hours
Speaker 1: ago now that we have turned into the third hour,
Speaker 1: six forty one this morning, Sky Sports News reporting, Mark McCadam,
Speaker 1: Chris Sidle at Lanty Nighted agreed to Hull for Steven
Speaker 1: Alzate one point eight seven zero million pounds, and we
Speaker 1: will we will take care of Life Underscore Size Encore
Speaker 1: HW garbage. So we're gonna bot you. It's been a
Speaker 1: while since we've had a bot. I almost got out
Speaker 1: of practice. So we will block and or report Life
Speaker 1: Size Core HW garbage and so report bot. Nothing like
Speaker 1: a bot on a Tuesday morning? Do you have to
Speaker 1: take care of all? Right? Uh, viewer solicitation bot? That
Speaker 1: I spelled solicitation wrong, I did, I didn't add the middle.
Speaker 1: I all right, So there we go, twenty three characters
Speaker 1: bot submitted and there we go, and Dell doing a
Speaker 1: producer work as well. Exactly, Dell, what's all that a bot?
Speaker 1: I know? I did? I did that? Was I covered
Speaker 1: a couple of gray cups and literally would be like, well,
Speaker 1: no one says, a boot up here with my with
Speaker 1: my buddy, who is my shooter? He goes, No, one
Speaker 1: says a boot up here in Canada. Sure enough, the
Speaker 1: first person we interviewed dropped in a boot and you
Speaker 1: see the camera kind of going like this. But did
Speaker 1: Dell with the producer work linked the highlights for Steven Alzate? So, uh,
Speaker 1: all right, So let's let's see if we can come
Speaker 1: up with a secondary source. Although I'm not, I am not,
Speaker 1: I am not, I'm not doubting Mark McAdam and Chris Siddle,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not doing that. Well, you get Tommy scoops. So,
Speaker 1: uh all right, So someone I've never heard of, uh,
Speaker 1: permanent transfer in some in some former fashion. Uh let's see.
Speaker 1: So okay, so Pepe Sierra, who is kickstreaming sin Boletta,
Speaker 1: was with WIN Sports and W Radio in Colombia. He
Speaker 1: Colombian International has already accepted the terms to join traveling tomorrow,
Speaker 1: he see, And so Ppe Sierra is he seeing Tom
Speaker 1: Bogert Bogert two and a half personal terms, agreed seven
Speaker 1: caps for Colombia. Ben Jacobs also secondarily reporting it. So
Speaker 1: it looks like it is Jacobs and Bogert from Gimme Sport.
Speaker 1: They are all looping through on each other, and you
Speaker 1: had a couple of folks reference other places. So okay,
Speaker 1: So Bogert is seeing Pepe Sierra, a Pepe Sierra, so
Speaker 1: Pepe Sierra and Bogert along with Alex Crook and Ben
Speaker 1: Jacobs and then Mark McAdam and Chris Sidle. So it
Speaker 1: looks like you have about six different folks from three
Speaker 1: separate places that are locking Steven Alzate in and the
Speaker 1: over and so that's what you're staring at. So six
Speaker 1: different folks look like they have locked it down in
Speaker 1: one place or another. So h McAdam sit all from
Speaker 1: sky Ppe Sierra from a Colombian media, both Wind Sports
Speaker 1: and Wradio, and Alex Crook and Tom Bogert and Ben Jacobs.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking that since all of these folks are
Speaker 1: on the same page, I think it's safe to sit
Speaker 1: there and go And that Steven Alzate is on his
Speaker 1: way medical or man's flying over medical should be happening
Speaker 1: sometime soon. So alzat central midfielder working his way over
Speaker 1: and he should be the next edition for Atlanta United
Speaker 1: in the midfield. Here as we are in the window.
Speaker 1: So once again a brom yesterday waved Alzat apparently coming
Speaker 1: in with all the information that we have this morning.
Speaker 1: Thank you Ricky, and thank you Dell for lifting doing
Speaker 1: a lot of the heavier lift. So uh yeah, Bogert
Speaker 1: six minutes ago according to Ricky. So that's where we are.
Speaker 1: So I guess next we will be waiting for the
Speaker 1: uh five stripes don't stop from the social media and
Speaker 1: you know it could be you know, I want you
Speaker 1: to see. Now this is where we're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how they would announce it. Is it something of
Speaker 1: a tiger, is it something of a hull? Is it
Speaker 1: something Colombia that that's the this is this is the
Speaker 1: guessing game that we have with the social team, but
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how they they're going to be
Speaker 1: doing the five stripes don't stop. So to recap so far,
Speaker 1: it is Morales cob out a brom waved me high
Speaker 1: in better call coming in and uh Leo Alfonso in
Speaker 1: and Steven Alzate on his way, So that that's where
Speaker 1: we are. We figured that there would be a lot
Speaker 1: of noise by Atlanta United in this window and we
Speaker 1: have uh, we have not been uh we have not
Speaker 1: been second guest with those timelines. Four card uh uh,
Speaker 1: So I'll go with the first one. Four card medicals
Speaker 1: tomorrow and announcement probably Thursday or Friday. So if medicals
Speaker 1: are so, if today is Tuesday flies Wednesday, my guess
Speaker 1: is is that it's probably on Friday to get you
Speaker 1: into the weekend, to get you ready for match number two.
Speaker 1: That's my thought. So that's that's what I'm That's that's
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking when it comes to all these things.
Speaker 1: So that that's my guess. I would probably say Friday morning,
Speaker 1: if everything goes as well as anticipated, you would have
Speaker 1: uh huh did you say better call? Uh let's see,
Speaker 1: uh bet it's all also, uh, we'll have to see
Speaker 1: how we got to figure all this stuff out. Probably, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So my guess is Friday morning, if everything goes well,
Speaker 1: then you probably would be a Friday morning announcement something
Speaker 1: like that leading into the weekend. That's my guess. And Ricky,
Speaker 1: we're gonna win and make our FX Network debut a
Speaker 1: good one. Yeah, you are not alone in that, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: kaylor Hodges. In the month of everything USL so we
Speaker 1: got to talk Jegermeister. We got to talk their visit
Speaker 1: to Portland, find out what it's like to go sample,
Speaker 1: what's up there, p hop in League one, USL Championship,
Speaker 1: all the things. We'll catch up with Kaylor coming up
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour in about forty minutes to break
Speaker 1: everything down. Speaking of transfers. Speaking of transfers, you'll remember,
Speaker 1: and I want to do this just so I can see,
Speaker 1: just so I can see my own responses here. So
Speaker 1: all right, I have sent so three days ago. Three
Speaker 1: days ago, I sent a note to John Texter or
Speaker 1: what I assume an and or imagined to be John
Speaker 1: Texter's Instagram account. So we are on day three of
Speaker 1: requesting an interview with John Texter about anything and everything.
Speaker 1: I will clear the decks. I literally will clear all
Speaker 1: the decks. We'll come up with a day and I
Speaker 1: literally will lock everything out. It's like, all right, in
Speaker 1: a perfect world, I'd love for it to be a
Speaker 1: Tuesday where you know, all right, here's the deal, shows
Speaker 1: wide open. Don't know what part of the planet you're on,
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. If you can't come on live,
Speaker 1: we'll do a special. So we are three days into
Speaker 1: inviting John Texter onto the show, and uh, I have
Speaker 1: gotten zero response, zero, none, not up bupptis am I
Speaker 1: anticipating one. No common courtesy would be nice, But I
Speaker 1: have yet to get a response from John Texter. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I told him, I said, traditionally it's
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty minutes when we do these interviews, but
Speaker 1: I'd be more than happy to blow out the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So we are day three of not hearing from John
Speaker 1: Texter at all, So we'll keep an eye on that
Speaker 1: as well. So, uh, that that's your that's your that's
Speaker 1: your John Texter. Update, now that this transaction with Chiago
Speaker 1: Almada has occurred, is it Landa United getting that sell
Speaker 1: on fee? Like I said, we're talking about thirty million
Speaker 1: bucks ish somewhere in there that a particular club needs
Speaker 1: to send to another particular club. I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, So we'll keep an eye. Obviously, we'll
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that as we go. There are
Speaker 1: a couple of like deep divy stories that I wanted
Speaker 1: to get into this morning just to kind of keep
Speaker 1: all of everybody's eyes on things. And one of them
Speaker 1: has to do with a club in trouble and they
Speaker 1: are a nationallygue club and they have been in the
Speaker 1: lower divisions in England League One, League two in the
Speaker 1: last decade and now it's pretty bad and so I
Speaker 1: wanted to get into that particular club just to let
Speaker 1: you know how bad things are. Sheffield Wednesday once again
Speaker 1: getting into the whole John Texter thing. They lost their
Speaker 1: coach earlier. Today Danny Roll out the door. They separated
Speaker 1: by mutual consent of course when paying people, and initially
Speaker 1: Danny Roll was like, no, I'm not coming in. Then
Speaker 1: he decided he was. Then the players that had not
Speaker 1: come back because of how they were treated by Sheffield
Speaker 1: Wednesday looked at Danny Roll and they're like bruh. Then
Speaker 1: Role changed his mind. Today they're separating by mutual consent.
Speaker 1: But there is another club that I did want to
Speaker 1: look at, and then another. Then another story going on
Speaker 1: from our friends at Yosumar Football that has to do
Speaker 1: with uh here's their headline and the head the the
Speaker 1: title of the article is PUSA Change from Filipo Claire
Speaker 1: and it has to do with Premier League clubs looking
Speaker 1: for betting partners and the UK regulators that are just
Speaker 1: kind of staring at things when it comes to the
Speaker 1: gambling aspects that you see in front on front of
Speaker 1: all of the jerseys in the Premier League. But that's
Speaker 1: like deeper stuff that we'll get into in a bit.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we've got to go over what the
Speaker 1: weekend was in Major League Soccer. Since we've gone over
Speaker 1: the juice boxes in League's Cup, we've got that done.
Speaker 1: We'll let you know, like I said, what to watch,
Speaker 1: where to watch it, how to watch it. We'll get
Speaker 1: into all the transfer news. Eddie Howe has said Alexander
Speaker 1: Esox's future is not entirely in his hands, but hopes
Speaker 1: the striker will stay at Newcastle. We'll get into the
Speaker 1: headlines when it comes to all the transfers coming up
Speaker 1: as well. All right, time to drop all the promos
Speaker 1: and let you know what else is going on here
Speaker 1: on SDH. Silly sees need to talk about the Flamingo
Speaker 1: player announcement on social media. You're gonna have to let
Speaker 1: me know about that one, Ricky, and then we might
Speaker 1: share it with the share it with the rest of
Speaker 1: the class. Okay, So we talked about what's going to
Speaker 1: be happening at the brew House. Get your tickets at
Speaker 1: event bright. Go to the brew House on Friday, Big
Speaker 1: Day between four and nine. Maddy's gonna be talking to fans,
Speaker 1: prepping everything on Someday at five and eight or two
Speaker 1: and five with the double header that's going on at
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz. Then you've got oh, thank you for the
Speaker 1: Flamingo announcement, Rickie, thank you. Then you have the Premier
Speaker 1: League trophy being there. Don't put your fingers on it.
Speaker 1: Kevin Egan doing some interviews, Maddy Cruz doing some interviews.
Speaker 1: Fun inside, fun outside brew House. Get your tickets, be
Speaker 1: there Friday from four to nine to bust out the
Speaker 1: summer series here in Atlanta over at the brew House,
Speaker 1: and we'll all be there and it'll be fun to
Speaker 1: get you ready for yet another big weekend when it
Speaker 1: comes to the sport of the sport of soccer here
Speaker 1: in the US and specifically here in Atlanta. Okay, promos,
Speaker 1: go to soccer down here dot net. Get all your sdhgear.
Speaker 1: You can get all the new SDH gear, And what
Speaker 1: you can do is you can also get all of
Speaker 1: the retrified stuff that Jason has pieced together, and you
Speaker 1: can get your ruckus or your attack stuff or your
Speaker 1: SDH stuff. With the new logo, you can go SDH
Speaker 1: soccer down here dot net Bookmarcus. So when we have
Speaker 1: things going on like tomorrow, you'll know what's going on,
Speaker 1: and you might have more than one thing going at
Speaker 1: a time. Because ten thirty pregame eleven three kick Atlanta
Speaker 1: United two traveling to Foxborough to take on the Revs. Two.
Speaker 1: Talk to Jose Silva, the interim head coach for the
Speaker 1: remainder of the season. Talk to Haave Armas. You'll hear
Speaker 1: from them in the pregame show. We'll get you ready
Speaker 1: for the rest of the week in MLS next pro
Speaker 1: Lets you know what happened. Lets you know what is
Speaker 1: going to happen. Jason will have the call for you,
Speaker 1: I think on Wednesday, but it's the twos in Foxborough
Speaker 1: taking on the Revs. Eleven o'clock start and they're doing
Speaker 1: that tomorrow morning, So you keep your bookmarks ready on
Speaker 1: the network for all of our coverage with the twos
Speaker 1: and the Revs. Two that is tomorrow morning at eleven.
Speaker 1: Then we have all your coverage from n Acosa that
Speaker 1: is a normal broadcast on ninety two nine in the
Speaker 1: game in the Odyssey app so it's gonna be five
Speaker 1: stripes countdown kicking things off at is it six thirty?
Speaker 1: Hang on? It? Is it six thirty or seven? Hang on?
Speaker 1: Hang on? So there's seven thirty, so seven forty start.
Speaker 1: I believe. I believe they're taking the same format that
Speaker 1: we do with Major League Soccer. So number twenty eight
Speaker 1: seed NACOXA, number twenty nine seed Atlanta United, Apple TVMLS
Speaker 1: Season Pass and Apple TV Plus. So it'll be five
Speaker 1: stripes countdown at six thirty with Abe and Maddy. Then
Speaker 1: it will be Mike and Jason on play by play,
Speaker 1: and then Abe and I will have the postgame report
Speaker 1: and it'll be on ninety two nine in the game
Speaker 1: in the Odyssey app seven to forty kick from Mercedes
Speaker 1: Benz Stadium. One of six matches that you will have
Speaker 1: on your tomorrow, not to be confused with these six
Speaker 1: matches that you have on your today. And so you've
Speaker 1: got that and then this week weekend where it continues
Speaker 1: to be hot and heavy, bright and early when it
Speaker 1: comes to everything going on on Leagues Cup, You've got
Speaker 1: the match on Wednesday. Then they go to Orlando, meaning
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Speaker 1: Major League Soccer and the news and those newsy stories
Speaker 1: that I wanted to get into this morning, Ricky as
Speaker 1: a public service has given us a Flamingo player announcement
Speaker 1: on social media and I will h Emerson Royal as
Speaker 1: black Panther. Wow, that's a lot of work. So here
Speaker 1: is where here, Here's where it is. So Emerson Royal
Speaker 1: was mentioned as their newest player and they have him
Speaker 1: completely and totally maxed out as black Panther. I think
Speaker 1: the lesson there do not piss off Emerson Royal. It's
Speaker 1: a gorgeous photo. It's a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: work that went into that. So no, I mean, I
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know why they thought that Emerson Royal and black Panther
Speaker 1: would be a way to go. I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's any backstory there. A lot of work went into it.
Speaker 1: It's gorgeous. Flamingo went in that direction. So I have
Speaker 1: questions obviously, But I mean, like I said, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1: A lot of work went into it, but I have
Speaker 1: north the idea why they went that way, no clue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ricky's like, I don't know why they thought that was
Speaker 1: a great idea. I couldn't tell you. I don't I
Speaker 1: do not know. I don't know if there's any history
Speaker 1: there or if this was just something they thought there
Speaker 1: It was like, well, you know what, what if we
Speaker 1: did this? So we'll see what the response is on
Speaker 1: social media when it comes to that. Okay, last weekend
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer, just to get everybody caught up,
Speaker 1: and we'll get you into the standings heading into Leagues Cup,
Speaker 1: heading into Leagues Cup. From the weekend, you had Montreal
Speaker 1: shocking New England, and then that was that literally was
Speaker 1: one of the things where you sit to you know,
Speaker 1: really did not have that one on the Bengo card.
Speaker 1: I did not I legitimately did not have that one
Speaker 1: on the Bengo card at all. And so you end
Speaker 1: up with Montreal shocking New England. And now since it's
Speaker 1: a day that ends, and why everybody in the Northeast
Speaker 1: is sitting there and they're looking at Caleb Porter and
Speaker 1: they're going, why are you our coach. The hardcore fans
Speaker 1: are sitting there going, you know what, really we have
Speaker 1: to put up with him after all of that run
Speaker 1: of form and then all of a sudden not so much. So.
Speaker 1: Back on Friday, cee IF Montreal at a plus three
Speaker 1: thirty seven beat the Revs three to one. Purple Team
Speaker 1: beat Crew three to one. I think that the margin
Speaker 1: was probably a surprise, but of course, when you're chasing
Speaker 1: a match and you're down, then you end up with
Speaker 1: transition moments, and that's why it got to three to one.
Speaker 1: Purple Team wanted a plus two to eight nycing a shootout.
Speaker 1: Beats Dallas in Dallas at a plus one sixty five
Speaker 1: four to three trick there on the way, and the
Speaker 1: fans in Dallas are letting Luco Acosta have it because
Speaker 1: I think they've had it with Luco Acosta. It has
Speaker 1: not been a successful transaction and it has not gone
Speaker 1: very well for Luco Acosta in Dallas. Let me grab
Speaker 1: the numbers just so, just so we can see his
Speaker 1: match log output this season, and literally the last two
Speaker 1: matches he has been a second half sub. So he
Speaker 1: has this season. Let's see two, three, four, six six
Speaker 1: goals on the board six goals so far this season
Speaker 1: for Dallas, but since the brace he scored back on
Speaker 1: June fourteenth, he has been goose eggs in his last
Speaker 1: five three matches he started and now he is being
Speaker 1: shaken up by Eric Quill. Last match he started was
Speaker 1: July fourth, has not scored since June fourteenth, had two
Speaker 1: matches before that when he scored an Open Cup. So
Speaker 1: it's six goals in all comps to where it is
Speaker 1: literally four goals this season in MLS play, two goals
Speaker 1: in Open Cup. So he has scored against Red Bulls
Speaker 1: and Open Cup and he's scored against av Alta in
Speaker 1: Open Cup. I know a lot of folks are sitting
Speaker 1: there going four goals for Luco Acosta in MLS this season,
Speaker 1: two in Open Cup, one against Avie Alta. Fans have
Speaker 1: had it and they are letting him. So if you
Speaker 1: if you want to go on social media and you
Speaker 1: want to see just how much that they're letting. They're
Speaker 1: letting Luco Costa have it. The fans of SC Dallas
Speaker 1: have had it last two matches as a sub and
Speaker 1: the biggest thing right now they're just like, you know,
Speaker 1: what if he if he sits, if he go. If
Speaker 1: he goes to North Texas, we are not going to mind.
Speaker 1: So that's where the situation is with luco A Costa
Speaker 1: right now. Four to three shootout. He had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with it. Four goals in Major League Soccer this season.
Speaker 1: San Diego in one of the matches. We did talk
Speaker 1: about it yesterday and somewhat in reughing down here with
Speaker 1: bart where you had the back line of Nashville kind
Speaker 1: of sitting there and running the edge with Drew Fisher.
Speaker 1: Then they found where the edge was. They certainly did
Speaker 1: one nil win for San Diego at a plus one
Speaker 1: thirty five. I'm guessing that the the late opportunity for
Speaker 1: Anders Dryer ended up as an off side call late chance.
Speaker 1: In transition, Portland shuts out LAFC. That was one of
Speaker 1: the biggest news news and notes from the last weekend.
Speaker 1: At a plus six forty six, Portland biggest, the biggest
Speaker 1: number on the board wins at LAFC. LAFC going in
Speaker 1: was a minus two fifty. Portland goes on to win
Speaker 1: at a plus six forty six, big three points for them.
Speaker 1: Messi and friends in Cincinnati. Both sides were pissed by
Speaker 1: the end of it all. Cincinnati thought they had a
Speaker 1: game winner, but after a lengthy VR review Video Assistant referee,
Speaker 1: Yeah VR review, Pat Noonon had a reason to be mad.
Speaker 1: He thinks Messi and Friends had a reason to be mad.
Speaker 1: They think going back to a bit of the discussion
Speaker 1: we had yesterday, this higher situation where you did not
Speaker 1: and how does Jordi Alba get shafted in this conversation,
Speaker 1: everybody's focusing on Messy, no one's mentioning Jordi Albo. What
Speaker 1: does Jordi Alba have to say about this? But legitimately,
Speaker 1: this is all you had to do if you were
Speaker 1: if you were Messy and Friends, literally all you had
Speaker 1: to do in your schedule. We've seen other clubs do
Speaker 1: it all the time, and said the example that I
Speaker 1: give is always Greg Popovich load management, and he got
Speaker 1: away with it in the five to one win against
Speaker 1: Red Bulls. Here's what you do. Here's your one oh
Speaker 1: one for making sure that your stars stay stars. This
Speaker 1: is this is one oh one. Legitimately you're up, all right,
Speaker 1: So let's let's go into the game. Let's go into
Speaker 1: the game. Here. Second, so, uh, you had a goal
Speaker 1: for Red Bulls in the fourteenth minute. Jordi Alba scores
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth Tlasco Segovia scores in the twenty seventh
Speaker 1: and forty five plus three, so it's three to one
Speaker 1: at the break. Then I see falcona yellow, Michello awaygana
Speaker 1: yellow and color me shocked. So Messi scores in the
Speaker 1: sixtieth substitutions happen, none of them, Messy, Kramowski in Agenda
Speaker 1: out Yick Bright in Segovia out, Ovulous in Luhan out.
Speaker 1: Messi scores again to make it five to one, assists
Speaker 1: from Sarez and Kramowsky. At that moment, you're up by four.
Speaker 1: At that moment, I'm thinking that the match is in hand.
Speaker 1: Maybe before the match in Harrison, New Jersey, you Reinforce
Speaker 1: in a conversation behind closed doors, Dude, do you want
Speaker 1: to play in the All Star Game?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I really don't. Okay, then let's do this at a
Speaker 1: point late in the match. I know it's not what
Speaker 1: you really like, knowing the competitor that you are. What
Speaker 1: if we did this seventy you know, late in the
Speaker 1: match matches in control. If the match is in control,
Speaker 1: let's do this. We check you out of the match.
Speaker 1: We have the physio's look at you. After the match
Speaker 1: is over, we come out in the postmatch press conference
Speaker 1: and we sit there and say, we're going to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on Leo. We're going to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on him. You know, muscles, you know, you know, thirty
Speaker 1: eight and all. We're going to keep an eye on
Speaker 1: him and try to manage his minutes and make sure
Speaker 1: that he's gonna be okay for us because of all
Speaker 1: these competitions that we've been in, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. So you send up a bit of a
Speaker 1: flare after the the Red Bulls blowout, and then you
Speaker 1: go to the league and go and this is literally
Speaker 1: after you have checked him out of the match. Like
Speaker 1: I said, if the match is in control, matches in control.
Speaker 1: If not, then after ninety minutes, then you still come
Speaker 1: out after the match. Physios have told me that we
Speaker 1: have to kind of manage Leo and manage his minutes
Speaker 1: because he's got a muscle pull or a strain or
Speaker 1: something like that. We got to keep an eye on him,
Speaker 1: especially if we want to be as successful as we
Speaker 1: want to be and win MLS Cup for our fans.
Speaker 1: Here in twenty twenty five, and that is the word.
Speaker 1: It goes public, goes public. Hey, we got to keep
Speaker 1: an eye out on Leo and Jordia Alba. Jordia Alba,
Speaker 1: by the way, checked out in the eighty fifth minute.
Speaker 1: Morales came in for him, so Jordie Alba checked out.
Speaker 1: Jordie Alba and Messi are supposed to go to Austin
Speaker 1: to play in All Star festivities and parties. But if
Speaker 1: they but if you come out after the Red Bulls
Speaker 1: match and sit there and say, hey, we got to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on them, and then the league nos,
Speaker 1: like literally, you say it publicly, the league knows, Hey, okay,
Speaker 1: we got to keep an eye on Messi and Jordia Alba.
Speaker 1: You know, they're kind of kind of slowing down a
Speaker 1: little bit. We got to keep an eye on their muscles.
Speaker 1: They're gonna spend some extra time on the training table.
Speaker 1: They may not practice, you know, on Monday or something.
Speaker 1: They may not go through things. So you know, they're
Speaker 1: they're participant in Austin, might be in doubt. They'll go.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll go and they'll they'll hang out. I don't
Speaker 1: know how effective they'll be. They'll be great ambassadors. For
Speaker 1: from Messian friends, but they'll go. You didn't do that.
Speaker 1: You basically said that you didn't that at the last
Speaker 1: they're they're not going. Now you understand the hue and cry.
Speaker 1: If you had laid some groundwork to where you had
Speaker 1: said that your stars are a little dinged, you got
Speaker 1: to check some muscles out, you got to do some stuff.
Speaker 1: They've got to be healthy. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: can do competition against LEGA amtkis. They'll be more than
Speaker 1: happy to be ambassadors, but I would recommend, if I'm
Speaker 1: if I'm Javier Mascherano, at that point, I would recommend
Speaker 1: that their minutes and activities be limited in Austin, Texas
Speaker 1: because of what is remaining on our plate this year
Speaker 1: for the successes for inter Miami. I think the league
Speaker 1: would understand you at that point. Lay some groundwork. Don't
Speaker 1: just drop a bomb on folks. Don't just sit there
Speaker 1: and sit there and say nah, they ain't common. Lay
Speaker 1: some groundwork. And I know that there have been folks
Speaker 1: who have been doing there have they have been doing
Speaker 1: some things. I mean, I'm fairly certain and like I said,
Speaker 1: this is me just guessing, and I know four cardia
Speaker 1: mls is being petty. I'm sure that in the contracts
Speaker 1: somewhere there's a nebulous phrase that said other duties as defined.
Speaker 1: That's probably a nebulous phrase, and I'm sure that all
Speaker 1: star would fit in that. Then that phrasing. All you
Speaker 1: gotta do is lay some groundwork. To think of it
Speaker 1: as c ya think of it that way. How can
Speaker 1: you keep your stars healthy and still have them represent
Speaker 1: your club and represent the league. In the end, it
Speaker 1: was referred to Don Garber said he had a difficult
Speaker 1: decision to make, and then we had all those theories
Speaker 1: about well it'll be a suspension. It just won't be
Speaker 1: the suspension if you had laid the groundwork ahead of time.
Speaker 1: In that Red Bulls post match presser, hey man, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, I got to look out for my guys.
Speaker 1: And you know you saw Leo walking off the field.
Speaker 1: He's a little a little slow. Jordie Album a little slow.
Speaker 1: And where's Jordi Alba been in this discussion? Lay some
Speaker 1: groundwork for this stuff. To protect the golden goose, sometimes
Speaker 1: you've got to have the down pillow. That's what you've
Speaker 1: got to do. No One in the administration in Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1: I don't know, did they just think that well? And
Speaker 1: as somewhat rhetorical as I ask this, just play, just
Speaker 1: play by the rules that are there in front of you.
Speaker 1: Sure the idea might be a little you know, antiquated
Speaker 1: of you know your you're you are a contracted You're
Speaker 1: a contractor under a league, and what the league says goes. Sure,
Speaker 1: I get that you're under contract to Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: Therefore Major League Soccer needs you to be in Austin, Texas. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I get it. Nothing wrong with that to be honored
Speaker 1: to be a part of, you know, our fixes for
Speaker 1: the All Star Game at Q two. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: that there were a lot of folks that were mad
Speaker 1: that bought tickets to Q two that didn't get the
Speaker 1: chance to see Messy and Friends at Q two. Under
Speaker 1: any circumstance, all you had to do ahead of time,
Speaker 1: lay some groundwork instead of sitting there and everybody yapping
Speaker 1: at the top of their lungs and going rare about
Speaker 1: being mistreated. In this situation about an arcane rule, Take
Speaker 1: the rules in front of you, do what's best for
Speaker 1: your club, act accordingly, just a little professionalism, and then
Speaker 1: after the fact, sit there and go, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we would have liked for Leo to rehabilitate in Fort
Speaker 1: Lauderdale during this time. We understand that, you know, we
Speaker 1: understand that both he and Jordie Alba had you know,
Speaker 1: responsibilities about to say, duties, responsibilities for the league in Austin,
Speaker 1: Texas during All Star during All Story Week. We understand
Speaker 1: that in lieu of what our coach Javiermascherano said post
Speaker 1: match in Harrison, New Jersey, we would respect, we would
Speaker 1: ask for respect from the league that their activities be minimized.
Speaker 1: They're dinged up. That's all you had to do. And
Speaker 1: now you have this hue and cry from one end
Speaker 1: of the planet to the other where you're sitting there
Speaker 1: going everything's wrong, everything is upside down. We're not getting
Speaker 1: you know, we're not being respected this and that. It's arcane.
Speaker 1: It's old, dude. Those are the rules. They're the rules.
Speaker 1: Are U l e. S rules, That's what they are.
Speaker 1: All you got to do is abide by him. It's
Speaker 1: not hard. We're catching up with him before the school
Speaker 1: year starts and he's in a car. I guess he
Speaker 1: worked out early this morning. He's trying to get everything
Speaker 1: all squared away. So we bring in Kaylor Hodges and
Speaker 1: find out what's going on in the world of USL
Speaker 1: USL Championship road trips et Ceter Taylor, Where are you, sir?
Speaker 4: I am currently in a truck and I am taking
Speaker 4: a slight thirty minute break of teaching so I can
Speaker 4: talk about the USL Championship League one and Portland Hearts
Speaker 4: of Pine and League two and all the good stuff
Speaker 4: that's happening in the world.
Speaker 1: Absolutely true, and we thank you for it. First off,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the roadie. How was the road trip, sir?
Speaker 4: Well, second straight year I was able to go. However,
Speaker 4: I got a new job and the week I started
Speaker 4: my job with the week we had to go, and
Speaker 4: turns out they don't want to give you PTO. Then
Speaker 4: that's the whole thing. But everything that I've gathered and
Speaker 4: I've talked to the guys and we were able to
Speaker 4: get everything set up. I mean, Patty and Damien and Kevin,
Speaker 4: everybody at Portland were a class And the videos I've
Speaker 4: seen so far, the videos that we're putting together for
Speaker 4: the USL show, it's incredible. We loved Oakland, but they
Speaker 4: said this several times on the show Portland Hearts of
Speaker 4: Pine are the class in the USL. Now the class?
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, we can't wait for that video to
Speaker 1: be to be punched out, popped out and shown to
Speaker 1: all the places. And it's something that we got into
Speaker 1: a little bit early on in the program where we
Speaker 1: were talking about Pea Hop and we were talking about
Speaker 1: Vermont Green and we're chasing after Vermont Green as they
Speaker 1: get ready for ballad for the League two championship. Yep,
Speaker 1: but the Northeast Northeast. They're really showing that if you
Speaker 1: didn't know us as a market, then you're really going
Speaker 1: to get to know us as a market because you
Speaker 1: can't get seats at Pea Hopy, you can't get seats
Speaker 1: at Vermont Green and Vermont Green's chasing after a championship.
Speaker 4: Yeah. When we talked to Kevin sul who you guys
Speaker 4: know from his Atlanta days, but we talked to him
Speaker 4: and he said, yeah, there is not a single seat
Speaker 4: available for the rest of the season. We are sold
Speaker 4: out for the rest of the season. We have he said,
Speaker 4: we can't really control the resale market, but it's getting
Speaker 4: up to eighty dollars eighty to one hundred dollars per
Speaker 4: seat for just the USL League one season. Wow, And
Speaker 4: he was like, we can't control what people buy and resell, really,
Speaker 4: but that's what's going for It's been incredible. And with
Speaker 4: Vermont Green, they've always had this showing. And then you
Speaker 4: had University of Vermont win the nc DOUBA and you
Speaker 4: saw the kind of crowd they had. I mean, heck,
Speaker 4: South Georgia's formentioned zone. Yanna Bezini has been absolutely killing
Speaker 4: the game down there, and you're seeing the quality of
Speaker 4: Vermont Green and University of Vermont. I feel like the
Speaker 4: North or the Northeast got a bad rep because people
Speaker 4: kind of see what the Red Bulls kind of look
Speaker 4: like right now, what the Revolution look like right now,
Speaker 4: kind of what New York City looks like right now.
Speaker 4: But if you know anything about Northeast sports, they are
Speaker 4: fanatics about everything. I don't think it's a shock that
Speaker 4: this is a hotbed, as it should be, because you
Speaker 4: have owners that are trying to do right by the
Speaker 4: fans at all times.
Speaker 1: USL Championship. As we look at things, You've got Jegermeister
Speaker 1: stuff going on. Legsiond of acquired in the league, how
Speaker 1: from Vegas Lights, Isaac Gangkings joining Ford Madison from Rhode
Speaker 1: Island Vegas Lights, getting Mackenzie Gaines and Anthony Herbert from
Speaker 1: New Mexico. Where do you want to start?
Speaker 4: I think the biggest one is the corresponding move for
Speaker 4: Las Vegas Lives, which was in Valentino well to to
Speaker 4: New Mexico United, where I mean Noel is one of
Speaker 4: the brightest young attacking players. That I say young, I
Speaker 4: mean he's like mid twenties. That's young, but not according
Speaker 4: to soccer anymore. But he is one of the bright
Speaker 4: players that this league has offered. He's reunited with Sanchez
Speaker 4: where he really shown brightly. And this is an open West.
Speaker 4: We see FC Tulsa sitting at top on the top
Speaker 4: right now, but I think everybody knows what New Mexico
Speaker 4: is and what's coming and the fact that Noel is
Speaker 4: adding to that piece and adding to that midfield, adding
Speaker 4: to that forward line, people should be terrified on that front.
Speaker 4: Kind of for the Southeast people. If you're looking at
Speaker 4: the legion thing, I think the Howell signing is and
Speaker 4: it's a signing for now, but I think it's more
Speaker 4: of an a tent for the future as you are
Speaker 4: seeing like Romie Zamuda, He's not going to be in
Speaker 4: Legion for very long. He's going to be sold for
Speaker 4: a lot of money you have got. It's like Famialkbita,
Speaker 4: who's been injured lately. You know you have a lot
Speaker 4: of kind of rotation in his back line. Jiaga Swarez's
Speaker 4: only in on loan. That have to look at next
Speaker 4: your signing despite him being a Jamaican international.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the West and Tulsa right now, it's like
Speaker 1: you've got two groups. Basically, you've got the lead pack
Speaker 1: with Tulsa San Antonio two points behind, so we're back
Speaker 1: to good San Antonio now this season yep, New Mexico
Speaker 1: at twenty five, Sacramento at twenty four, and then the chaos.
Speaker 1: You have Phoenix and El Paso at twenty three, monter
Speaker 1: A Bay at twenty two, even though they've lost four
Speaker 1: or five, Orange County at twenty they right now with
Speaker 1: two matches in hand or ahead of Roots who have
Speaker 1: won three of five. Lexington's at nineteen. Lexington hasn't lost
Speaker 1: in five. Vegas Lights they've lost three of five. They're
Speaker 1: kind of stumbling around and when they lose, they lose big.
Speaker 1: Their goal difference is massive right now, and switchbacks right
Speaker 1: now at eighteen points. So you've got eighteen separated by
Speaker 1: five points from five to thirteen in the West right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I say it last time. Look out
Speaker 4: for Lexington, of course. I mean the talent they have
Speaker 4: is ridiculous, and they finally have landed on an eighteen
Speaker 4: they match day roster when they just kept signing people
Speaker 4: because they've realized they could just keep doing that. They
Speaker 4: just kind of kept rotating that eighteen. It feels like
Speaker 4: they finally landed on By Terry Boss's landed on something
Speaker 4: I've said it from day one. By Motoka in Phoenix.
Speaker 4: I respect him so much. I watch any post match
Speaker 4: presser for him and I want to run through a
Speaker 4: brick wall for him, and there's no It shows you
Speaker 4: why Phoenix may be overperforming a little bit. I don't
Speaker 4: know if Phoenix is good enough to compete for a championship,
Speaker 4: but also it's Phoenix. They're a little bit of the
Speaker 4: Dark Empire. If they make it to the playoffs, you
Speaker 4: fear them, especially they are playing as a team. I
Speaker 4: think there's a lot of teams in that mix Oakland roots.
Speaker 4: Not only are they getting hot. And I've made the
Speaker 4: mistake a few weeks ago saying we see this with
Speaker 4: Oakland every year they get a new coach or they
Speaker 4: have a coach, they start playing bad, they fire their coach,
Speaker 4: they getting a new coach, they start winning. We're like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is the answer. But Phil Auber has done something
Speaker 4: which has made them defensively solid. This is sustainable.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: The last few times that we have seen Oakland fire coach,
Speaker 4: fire coach, they'll score five goals, they'll conceive four goals,
Speaker 4: and we're like, man, the vibes are immaculate. But Oakland
Speaker 4: is just grinding out games and are so defensively solid
Speaker 4: that I don't know who can break them down at
Speaker 4: this point.
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference, Hey, look it's Charleston and lew City at
Speaker 1: the top, and then it's everybody.
Speaker 4: Else who would have seen it coming me.
Speaker 1: How is it, and this is probably something of a
Speaker 1: rhetorical question, and how is it that Charleston and Low
Speaker 1: City continue to be just the best of the East
Speaker 1: and there is this performance gap between them and everyone
Speaker 1: else consistently year in and year own.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, there's a couple of years ago where
Speaker 4: lou City kind of fell off a little bit and
Speaker 4: they were sitting around six in the East, and then
Speaker 4: they go on the rye and make it as conference finals.
Speaker 4: Because none of it matters, none of it's real. You
Speaker 4: do see them look Buck, but we build this consistence
Speaker 4: like I see, like Lucity has, and you have the
Speaker 4: stadium like they have, you have the training facility that
Speaker 4: they do. At this point, despite being a second division club,
Speaker 4: they are self sustaining. People know the name, people know
Speaker 4: that if they go there and they shine, they'll be sold.
Speaker 4: They know that they have expand Charleston, on the other hand,
Speaker 4: if you remember three four years ago they were the
Speaker 4: worst team in the league, they were terrific. They bring
Speaker 4: in a new president and then bring in Ben Peerman,
Speaker 4: which I have never heard players say bad things about
Speaker 4: Ben Peureman. I've only had wonderful experience with Ben Peerman.
Speaker 4: That's a guy that plays fun football, right. And we
Speaker 4: talked to Oliver Gage a few weeks ago, who's at Louden,
Speaker 4: and this connects because Charleston was not very attractive. Louden
Speaker 4: was not very attractive. We know that. The Gage said that,
Speaker 4: they said, you know what, screw winning maybe a little bit.
Speaker 4: We're going to play attractive soccer. We're going to play
Speaker 4: fun soccer. So when players played against them, they kept
Speaker 4: telling them, Hey, that was the fun brand that you played.
Speaker 4: And that's what Ben Peerman did a lot of people.
Speaker 4: He brought in good players, they brought in expensive players,
Speaker 4: but he made them fun to play for. And so
Speaker 4: now they have become self recruiting because when you go there,
Speaker 4: you're going to play, You're going to have a good
Speaker 4: time while you're doing your job. So they have become
Speaker 4: self sustaining at this point, which is the exact opposite
Speaker 4: way of Bob Lilly, who they do. They are always good,
Speaker 4: but he's able to act like a college coach because
Speaker 4: he only sounds college players right, But he's able to
Speaker 4: recruit college guys like, hey, I will give you your
Speaker 4: chance of playing professionally. You're used to being screened at
Speaker 4: being this and being that, because that's what you're used to,
Speaker 4: and he can get away with it because they don't
Speaker 4: know any different, and they keep winning. It's completely different
Speaker 4: ways of attacking the issue, but they do end up
Speaker 4: self recruiting, and.
Speaker 1: It's like college players and Robbie Mertz that's usually how
Speaker 1: it is in Pittsburgh tradition.
Speaker 4: Robbie Murtz Jount of Forbes and for some reason still
Speaker 4: Danny Griffin like want they're all there and then just
Speaker 4: some random goalkeeper that they'll get back there. And he's
Speaker 4: the best that we've ever seen. Shout out Eric Dick
Speaker 4: for being awesome.
Speaker 1: Yes, right now a loud in North Carolina are three
Speaker 1: and four. And then you have the Peloton. You've got Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: Detroit City. What do you have any latest on the
Speaker 1: stadium relocation build? They want to tear up the hospital.
Speaker 1: What's the latest there? Do you have anything?
Speaker 4: Yeah, last we heard they actually, if I'm remembering my
Speaker 4: number correctly, they came in fifteen million over budget. Well,
Speaker 4: however they have investment for it. They're already getting sponsorships
Speaker 4: to build up that money. So it seems like all
Speaker 4: systems go on that front. It feels like that is
Speaker 4: of all the possible study adventures, that's the one I'm
Speaker 4: willing to put money on that has not already put
Speaker 4: a shovel and ground and wheels.
Speaker 1: Kind of came off a little bit with Detroit City,
Speaker 1: I think was Trevor James was released from his duties
Speaker 1: up top if I remember correctly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of speculation around that. But his
Speaker 4: wife is still with the club. I believe he's the
Speaker 4: vice Sports Video if I remember correctly, and she was
Speaker 4: reportedly not released from the club, So it feels like
Speaker 4: it was a bit of a mutual decision and maybe
Speaker 4: not because they weren't doing well. There's a lot of
Speaker 4: speculation that can go in there, but clearly there's no
Speaker 4: bad blood between those. I do think though that with
Speaker 4: a new director of football coming in Danny Dickyo might
Speaker 4: have the hottest seat in the USL across any level
Speaker 4: because their standing say one thing. But you have to
Speaker 4: watch the Detroit City match. They are pretty handsomely the
Speaker 4: worst team in the USL Championship right now. Wow, they
Speaker 4: are horrific. They got found out. Everybody figured out that
Speaker 4: when they play as direct as they do, if you
Speaker 4: can stop that, they had no other options. And that's
Speaker 4: not to say that they can't figure it out. They
Speaker 4: have an extremely talented team and they can get themselves right.
Speaker 4: But if you're looking on form, it's it's pretty grim
Speaker 4: and it does not look like it's getting any better.
Speaker 4: That if Vickyo does not really sort this out in
Speaker 4: the next few weeks. I would not be shocked if
Speaker 4: he's let go and they let the new director of
Speaker 4: football figure out his next manager.
Speaker 1: One win in five, four points in their last five
Speaker 1: three losses and right now they're in six. And we
Speaker 1: mentioned that Peloton that's there not quite as crazy as
Speaker 1: the West Pittsburgh at fifth at twenty two, Detroit City
Speaker 1: at twenty one, having lost three of five, Indy eleven
Speaker 1: at twenty and they had a two game win streak
Speaker 1: snap last time out, Legion at eighteen, and they have
Speaker 1: better goal difference. They have one less win than the MIAMIFC.
Speaker 1: But you're hit. But right now it's marks in each
Speaker 1: of the three columns. But Birmingham has only won once
Speaker 1: in five. The MIAMIFC has not one in four. Rode
Speaker 1: Island with El Klamaco in the back pocket, they haven't
Speaker 1: won in uh, they haven't won in four. Rowdies and
Speaker 1: you want to talk a stadium situation and ownership and
Speaker 1: everything with Tampa Bay, I mean the rowdies. What's your
Speaker 1: vibe on the rowdies because it's the same ownership group
Speaker 1: that owns the Rays. And we know that Stuart Sternberg
Speaker 1: has put the Rays up for sale. We don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on with the future of the Rays. Are
Speaker 1: they Tampa, are they Saint Pete? Are they not going
Speaker 1: to be Are they going back in the old Sun?
Speaker 1: Are they going back in the dome? What's going on?
Speaker 1: What's up with the Rowdies?
Speaker 4: Okay, so first off, they get Don Cashiadow as their
Speaker 4: head coach. I mean, yeah, that is a big pool
Speaker 4: and that shows I think a lot of people that
Speaker 4: they don't need to worry about investment. The investment is
Speaker 4: still there now Sternberg has pulled out, he is no
Speaker 4: longer beings. They've put the team up for sale with
Speaker 4: the Rays. The Rowdies are also for sale. The Rays
Speaker 4: and Rowdies are a combined venture. They are attached. So
Speaker 4: if you buy the Rays, you buy the Rowties. So
Speaker 4: that's going to lead to some interesting things. Granted, when
Speaker 4: you're looking at was it cost to run the Rays
Speaker 4: versus what it costs to run the Rowties, that's a
Speaker 4: drop in the bucket. It's absolutely nothing. There was that
Speaker 4: conversation of will they move out of Owling That felt
Speaker 4: like a lot of political posturing between Sernberg and Saint Pete.
Speaker 4: We want to keep you around, but if you're not
Speaker 4: being if you're not too sure, we're going to tear
Speaker 4: down owl laying and build our own thing because we
Speaker 4: can do that. It felt like a lot of posturing
Speaker 4: to me. That's kind of what I was hearing as well.
Speaker 4: For me, I don't know what ends up happening. Because
Speaker 4: the Tampa Bay Sun location and future USL headquarters location
Speaker 4: is being eyed as the future Rays stadium, that pot
Speaker 4: of land is being eyed as the same thing. And
Speaker 4: while the Sun and Route have shared ownership, Sternberg is
Speaker 4: not the shared owner, so that is a completely different venture.
Speaker 4: So a lot of people just as saying, well the
Speaker 4: routies will just move in with the sign and everything
Speaker 4: we find. Maybe not. So I don't know what's gonna
Speaker 4: happen there. I don't know if the USL has purchased
Speaker 4: the land, because if they have and they sell it
Speaker 4: to the Rays, they're gonna come out big profit, build
Speaker 4: somewhere else. But not too sure how that's going to look.
Speaker 4: If there's about to be a legal battle between MLB
Speaker 4: and USL. I think we know who the winter's going
Speaker 4: to be, so that's going to get a little bit
Speaker 4: messy on a little bit later down the road, depending
Speaker 4: on what happens with what the Rays want to do.
Speaker 1: Jaegermeister. Greenville advanced out of Group six, loud and out
Speaker 1: of group five, Hartford's a wild card, Rhode Island is
Speaker 1: in advanced out of group four, Birmingham's a wildcard out
Speaker 1: of group three. In the eleven advanced, UH, San Antonio
Speaker 1: out of group two, Sacramento out of group one. What
Speaker 1: are your takeaways out Yaegermeister to date?
Speaker 4: First off, it may be the best Cup competition ever existed.
Speaker 4: I love the yeger Mester Cups so much. But there's
Speaker 4: a lot of things that go on here. There's gonna
Speaker 4: be a couple of logistic things that happen, so kind
Speaker 4: of keep your eye on some logistics. Dates are dropping
Speaker 4: in like fifteen minutes. Dates and times dropped very soon
Speaker 4: for me. I think there's a couple of things to
Speaker 4: keep your eye on. And congrats to Greenville. They're going
Speaker 4: They were the only flagship League One to go through.
Speaker 4: They are carrying the flag and I don't think they
Speaker 4: could have gotten a better draw than Indy. I think
Speaker 4: they can beat the eleven.
Speaker 1: UH.
Speaker 4: The eleven have been really good at shutting up shop
Speaker 4: and we're just going to kind of be little defensive,
Speaker 4: so is Greenville. So India is going to have the
Speaker 4: onus on them to try to go forward. I think
Speaker 4: Greenville can sustain that pressure, and that's not Indy's game.
Speaker 4: I think this is a perfect situation for the Triumph
Speaker 4: to win. I borderline think they're going to when you're
Speaker 4: looking at Rhode Island Legion, who are going to be
Speaker 4: facing up Rhode Island doesn't look great. Legion are on
Speaker 4: the up and up right now. It's going to be
Speaker 4: a home game for Rhode Island, which is great for them,
Speaker 4: but home has not been friendly confines for Rhode Island FC.
Speaker 4: And this is a Legion team that's never beaten Rhode Island.
Speaker 4: This is a team that's highly motivated to finally get
Speaker 4: their first win against their former coach and a lot
Speaker 4: of their former friends. I'm trying to think of other
Speaker 4: matchups off the top of my head. When you look
Speaker 4: out West and you look at all those different kinds
Speaker 4: of matchups that are happening out there, I don't see
Speaker 4: any way that San Antonio doesn't just blow all the
Speaker 4: way through. At this point, they are so good right
Speaker 4: now that San Antonio puts their the forward, I think
Speaker 4: that they are going to win almost every match. Does
Speaker 4: it involve my legion losing to Rhode Island, Yes, But
Speaker 4: judging from what I'm seeing from this kind of lineup,
Speaker 4: I am so heavily rooting for Rhode Island versus heart
Speaker 4: Ford Part four Okay, because Islands it, I need it.
Speaker 1: You know what that means? League one, it's stuff on
Speaker 1: the field and off. Spokane's kind of come back to
Speaker 1: the pack a little bit. It's turned into a big
Speaker 1: gaggle up at the top, Spokane Red Wolves, Avy Alta
Speaker 1: and Charlotte Independence. Kayler Hodges at Kaylor Hodges at the
Speaker 1: USL Show, hanging out in his truck so he doesn't
Speaker 1: get in trouble in his new gig one. Knox Naples, Texoma,
Speaker 1: pe Hop Greenville. And then you have the second the
Speaker 1: Chase group that's south of the playoff bar. But there's
Speaker 1: been news off the field since we caught up with
Speaker 1: you last you. Gene is now in the mix and
Speaker 1: the Cosmos are back in the mix and they're playing
Speaker 1: in New Jersey apparently. So you can take on the
Speaker 1: field off the field wherever you want to go.
Speaker 4: Okay, they are going to be twenty twenty six. Branding's
Speaker 4: coming later this year, got their primary investor. They are official,
Speaker 4: it's happening. Shout out to our friend alv Ashton who
Speaker 4: did the digging on that with Oh gosh, while was
Speaker 4: the other off the field, Oh the Cosmos. Yeah, this
Speaker 4: is not the first time that the Cosmos have played
Speaker 4: in New Jersey, so this is not the first time
Speaker 4: that they have not been to New York Cosmos. Right,
Speaker 4: if you are way too deep into the lower league sphere,
Speaker 4: you know about the matchmaker Scott Matchmaker, where he control
Speaker 4: of the Cosmos and he's getting to a legal battle
Speaker 4: with the It's it's a bunch of garbage. And honestly,
Speaker 4: I'm kind of excited to see if it goes to
Speaker 4: court because it would be funny.
Speaker 1: A lot of discovery phase. Brother, that's how it always goes.
Speaker 4: Yes, And so for me, I think that the Cosmos
Speaker 4: brand coming back is fine. And they have people like
Speaker 4: they're part of their front office. Were the former owners
Speaker 4: of the Cosmos. They have former nasf in a sl
Speaker 4: people in their front office. So it feels like it's
Speaker 4: going to be fairly true to what the Cosmos were
Speaker 4: in their second iteration basically. But in the end, if
Speaker 4: it ends up just being purely cosmetic and they're just
Speaker 4: they're just kind of costplaying as the does the Cosmos,
Speaker 4: that's fine because it's it's an old brand that everybody knows,
Speaker 4: that everybody loves or absolutely despises, depending on who you are,
Speaker 4: and that's fun. Ye for me you mentioned Sto Cane.
Speaker 4: I think the interesting part was they beat Westchester and
Speaker 4: then they had to force it, and so they take
Speaker 4: a three to two win and it's now a three
Speaker 4: to no loss, which means they had two straight three
Speaker 4: no losses despite scoring three goals in one match. It's crazy,
Speaker 4: but it brought Westchester up from the bottom, gave them
Speaker 4: a plus three goal difference so that they didn't earn,
Speaker 4: and it brings Spokane down a little bit. Do I
Speaker 4: think it's going to be a game changer. Do I
Speaker 4: think that Westchester is going to make the playoffs off
Speaker 4: of this? No? Do I think that Spokane is going
Speaker 4: to end up being maybe one of the lower than
Speaker 4: the top two teams in the in the League one. No,
Speaker 4: I think they're going to finish top two. But it
Speaker 4: does just for the play or for the teams below Westchester,
Speaker 4: it made their life even harder, and it's a what
Speaker 4: ends up happening. What ended up happening here was they
Speaker 4: had Javier Hill, not Louis Hill, the other heel. He
Speaker 4: was put onto the bench and there was a clerical
Speaker 4: error essentially where they added him into the match day
Speaker 4: eleven or match day squad too late. He was sitting
Speaker 4: after the fifty five minute mark and they did the
Speaker 4: very notorious Upsie Daisy clause and said the fat him
Speaker 4: opta in the league website put hit heel in because
Speaker 4: they put him into the squad. They didn't. The league
Speaker 4: website doesn't really discern if he was added in on
Speaker 4: time because you can make changes if there's an injury,
Speaker 4: so they just kind of assumed. But that didn't happen.
Speaker 4: He wasn't added into the roster and they played him.
Speaker 4: He got a key pass that led to a goal,
Speaker 4: and then about ten minutes later he gets pulled off
Speaker 4: the field because the other team realized he wasn't on
Speaker 4: the roster. So it turned into a big chaos. Spokane
Speaker 4: loses three points off of a really simple mistake. And
Speaker 4: if I was the teams below if I'm like for
Speaker 4: mass in you and Omaha, I'm really mad at Spokane
Speaker 4: because you made my life so much harder to try
Speaker 4: to get back into this thing.
Speaker 1: All right, one last question, so you don't get any
Speaker 1: more trouble. USL two's got a title game. Ballard's in it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, what a shock. And it's gonna be Vermont
Speaker 1: Green and Ballard this one. Really. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: didn't have your field trip already planned where you'd gone
Speaker 1: to go seep hop, my guess is you'd probably be
Speaker 1: up there at Vermont Green taking in this one.
Speaker 4: I whoever hosted it, We've seen Ballard host two years
Speaker 4: ago and it was stunning on what their crowd was like.
Speaker 4: Virtue Field up in Vermont has been a mad house
Speaker 4: all year long. If you aren't watching this match because
Speaker 4: I don't want to watch USL lead two. First off,
Speaker 4: I promise you your favorite uf OL club that is
Speaker 4: going to sign a player from one of those two teams.
Speaker 4: I promise you they are so talented and you're going
Speaker 4: to be stunned at the crowd and how involved they are,
Speaker 4: how intense it is, and it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 4: of people that say well to send Vermont up to
Speaker 4: League one. Vermont has this very and I'm trying to
Speaker 4: remember the rivallere. Basically they don't they are anti carbon emissions.
Speaker 1: Yes, so the zero zero footprint, I think is the
Speaker 1: zero footprints.
Speaker 4: There are things so they can't fly across country because
Speaker 4: it will leave carbon footprint. They are not in League one.
Speaker 4: It's not because the league doesn't want them. It's not
Speaker 4: because they haven't earned it. It's because they are sticking
Speaker 4: to their laurels. But I I mean, you look at
Speaker 4: this Vermont team and they going to get their goal,
Speaker 4: their golper and I'm blanket on his name. Mister Mont
Speaker 4: is good and he can stop it anything. But Ballard
Speaker 4: plays a high flying offense that when they were in
Speaker 4: that Pacific Northwest Division, they were the class and they
Speaker 4: had good teams up there, and they were.
Speaker 1: Talking about talking about n Are you talking about Nicholas
Speaker 1: Hairsek Yes, that's okay, and.
Speaker 4: They just I think that this is going to go
Speaker 4: to penalties. I think these two teams are so evenly matched,
Speaker 4: and I promise you you need to watch it. You
Speaker 4: need to watch this match. It is these are two
Speaker 4: class teams that could be competing about half of the
Speaker 4: players on each team are going to be professionals, and
Speaker 4: it's a beyond professional atmosphere. It's gonna be incredible.
Speaker 1: And on that note, do you need a note to
Speaker 1: get back in class?
Speaker 4: No, I can just say I'm sorry, and I think
Speaker 4: I'll be okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: All right, So next month when we catch up with you,
Speaker 1: we'll figure out how to catch up with you and
Speaker 1: not to get you into any kind of trouble during
Speaker 1: the school year. Okay, all right, appreciate you having me always.
Speaker 1: It's always great to have Kaylor Hodges from at the
Speaker 1: USL Show, at the USL Show, at Kaylor Hodges at
Speaker 1: his new gig in his truck, making sure that he
Speaker 1: could break down everything going on in USL. And that
Speaker 1: was a good tour. But yeah, if you've got the chance,
Speaker 1: watch the USL League two title game this weekend with
Speaker 1: Vermont Green and with Ballard and from environment alone, you
Speaker 1: will not be sorry. You will not be sorry at
Speaker 1: all when it comes to seeing these environments and how
Speaker 1: they and how they trot out. But yeah, Vermont Green
Speaker 1: knocked off Dothan United in penalties, four thousand fans in Burlington.
Speaker 1: They're going to play Ballard Saturday at seven o'clock. Tickets
Speaker 1: went on sale about forty five minutes ago. They're also
Speaker 1: included in your season ticket, by the way, And yes,
Speaker 1: Vermont Green is probably going to end up with a
Speaker 1: boatload of our money getting their gear, because if you
Speaker 1: haven't been Vermont greenfc dot com, go look at their
Speaker 1: gear and good luck getting out of there with your wallet.
Speaker 1: So Vermont Green Ballard USL League two Saturday, seven o'clock,
Speaker 1: Virtue feel find a way to watch it if you
Speaker 1: don't have anything else going on. Eastern Conference champs knocking
Speaker 1: off lions Bridge beat Dothan and they're in the title
Speaker 1: game and Ballard once again, they're Kings of the West.
Speaker 1: They're gonna make their way. But I did not register
Speaker 1: with me that they can't promote, they can't promote themselves
Speaker 1: or go to USL League one because of the travel,
Speaker 1: because of their zero carbon footprint. That didn't register with
Speaker 1: me until until Taylor was talking about it. Because I
Speaker 1: think about it, I mean, you could play and that'd
Speaker 1: be a great rivalry. Spokane, Chattanooga, av Alta, Charlotte One, Knox, Naples, Texoma, Pea,
Speaker 1: hop Greenville, Richmond, Ford, Madison, South Georgia west Chester Union. Omha.
Speaker 1: I mean you could barnstorm your way through it. And
Speaker 1: I mean you could do like maybe the first if
Speaker 1: you spent the first like the cold we if you
Speaker 1: did a snowbird schedule, if you did a snowbird schedule,
Speaker 1: and then for the rest of the season, like you
Speaker 1: spent your first half of the year on the road,
Speaker 1: and then you just barnstormed your way through and survived
Speaker 1: it and went home and spent the second half of
Speaker 1: the schedule at home. Maybe you could do it that way.
Speaker 1: That'd be the only way that I could I mean,
Speaker 1: it'd be kind of unique, and I'd love to see
Speaker 1: that documented in some way. That'd be the only way
Speaker 1: I could think of that you would do it. You
Speaker 1: saved the pea hop match for you know, you could
Speaker 1: do pe hop at home. You could do west Chester
Speaker 1: at home. But yeah, if you went that may ye see,
Speaker 1: you could do west Chester. But then outside of Westchester
Speaker 1: and Portland, Hearts of Pine, everything else that have to
Speaker 1: be on the road. And if you just barnstormed your
Speaker 1: way through like a six week deal, or you know,
Speaker 1: if you did it like in nine weeks. You spent
Speaker 1: the first two months of the season, Like if you
Speaker 1: did March in April or February and March or whenever,
Speaker 1: if you did that on the road then came back,
Speaker 1: that'd be the only way to do it. But I'd
Speaker 1: forgotten about the zero footprint thing. So that's that's very
Speaker 1: that's wild and cool. But yeah, if you find a way,
Speaker 1: you find a way to watch the U League two final,
Speaker 1: go watch a League two final. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: hell of an environment. Alex, back to our Messy and
Speaker 1: Friends discussion. Got the impression that from Garber that Miami
Speaker 1: didn't tell the league they weren't going to even make
Speaker 1: the trip. That's the case, and I bet the league
Speaker 1: would have worked it. Yes, I mean seriously, Alex, to
Speaker 1: to your point and thank you for subscribing. By the
Speaker 1: way legit. I mean, think about it. But all you've
Speaker 1: got to do is put up that front that we
Speaker 1: were talking about. Hey, you know, he's kind of dinged
Speaker 1: and if you were to ask Niko Estevez, you know,
Speaker 1: can you not play him? Can you not play him?
Speaker 1: In Geordie Alba. I mean, they can be there, they
Speaker 1: can do all the you know, maybe they could do
Speaker 1: a part of the skills competition or something, but they
Speaker 1: can't be in the match just because we need to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on him because of their injury. We're
Speaker 1: monitoring their injury. I mean literally have the physio there
Speaker 1: the entire time, just kind of with the with the
Speaker 1: with the muscle gun like Christiano Ronaldo has probably in
Speaker 1: his back pocket someplace. Literally just have the physio hovering
Speaker 1: over the two of them the entire time. Set the
Speaker 1: steps early so you don't end up with the fueror
Speaker 1: late and people talking out of school. It's not hard,
Speaker 1: just saying come on people morning Logville, glad you're here.
Speaker 1: So Kayler Hodges tonight the USL Show at the USL
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Speaker 1: Cup Tonight Pachuca and San Diego at eleven o'clock. I'm
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Speaker 1: everything else once again. Tonight is on Apple TV MLS
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Speaker 1: Eintrach Frankfurt and Louse City. That is on the Plus.
Speaker 1: Copa America Feminina Semifinal at eight on FS one Brasil
Speaker 1: and Uruguay. So it's somewhat of a limited thing, but
Speaker 1: keep an eye on everything Leagues Cup, League Cup, Leagues
Speaker 1: Cup and League's Cup. Now all the gossip, rumored, innuendo,
Speaker 1: what to watch, where to watch it, and how to
Speaker 1: watch it. Since we've done that last part, let's do
Speaker 1: the first part. Checking in with our friend Ben Jacobs,
Speaker 1: who's been very, very busy. Oh, by the way, this
Speaker 1: was the other thing that was bugging the hell out
Speaker 1: of me. Laurel Fayler can confirm that Cincinnati is going
Speaker 1: to be trading Tumas Mueller's discovery rights to Vancouver for
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars in gam not done yet, Path
Speaker 1: is paid for Mueller to sign with the white Caps,
Speaker 1: and so gam the the Dibbs deal for Thomas Mueller
Speaker 1: is going to be four hundred thousand bucks. That's the
Speaker 1: other thing that bugs me is all this DIBs deals.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, you know, Christiano Ronaldo Dibbs, I've got
Speaker 1: his discovery rights. It wor it's it there. You bounce
Speaker 1: around Jude Bellingham killing him bappe Thomas Mueller. When do
Speaker 1: you set your DIBs lists anyway? Is that something that
Speaker 1: you get to do at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: look at some thirty somethings and sit there and go
Speaker 1: dibbs ugh, discovery rights. That's the other thing that bugs me.
Speaker 1: But yeahs Laurel Failer confirming and Tommy Scoops FC Cincinnati
Speaker 1: trading Thomas Mueller's discovery rights to Vancouver four hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in in am and so that looks like they're
Speaker 1: that much closer to Thomas Mueller joining Vancouver this season.
Speaker 1: Once again, much like Rodrigo de Paul, it would be
Speaker 1: a TAM deal this year. He's a TAM player this
Speaker 1: year and then he turns into a DP next year.
Speaker 1: So keep an Eye on that since he getting up
Speaker 1: to around four hundred thousand according to Tommy Scoops for
Speaker 1: rights final steps in formality, so Ben Jacobs, Tom Bogert,
Speaker 1: Laurel Failer all confirming from a bunch of different directions.
Speaker 1: It looks like Thomas Mueller signing and agreeing in principle,
Speaker 1: finalizing the Mueller signing and agreeing in principle for the rights.
Speaker 1: So it looks like Thomas Mueller is heading to Vancouver
Speaker 1: to be a part of the white Caps. Ben Jacobs
Speaker 1: on a couple of different things this morning, mentioning the
Speaker 1: Thomas Mueller deal. You've got the parade for the Lionesses
Speaker 1: going on. It's huge, It's awesome. Manchester United narrowing their
Speaker 1: striker search down to Ali Watkins and Benjamin Seshko. Joel
Speaker 1: Felix has done the scarf hold up and the jersey wearing.
Speaker 1: He is nal Ad al Nasser reminder once again. Alzas,
Speaker 1: Ben Jacobs, Alex Crook, Tom Bogert, and Sky Sports News
Speaker 1: all confirming or all leaning into the notion that Steven
Speaker 1: Alzate will be heading to Mark McAdam. Chris saidol Sky
Speaker 1: Sports News that Steven Alzatte joining Atlanta United from Whole
Speaker 1: City one point five million fee plus three hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy thousand and add on, so it comes out to
Speaker 1: like two you know, like, uh, what do we say
Speaker 1: two point what like just under just under an even figure.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just under an even figure in the currency
Speaker 1: converting converter, Uh, one point eight translates into two point
Speaker 1: four nine two, So it's even gone up a little bit,
Speaker 1: uh since the show started. So roughly two and a
Speaker 1: half million bucks two and a half million bucks total
Speaker 1: for Steven Alzate from Hull City to Atlanta United.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Sky Sports News is gimme Sports and Alex Crook all
Speaker 1: kind of leaning in that direction, So keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that going forward when it comes to the new
Speaker 1: deals and everything that is laid out there. Al Nasser
Speaker 1: confirmed Joel Felix a two year deal thirty million euro
Speaker 1: plus twenty million package. Chelsea retain a sell on. Liverpool
Speaker 1: won the race for will Wright after making an improved
Speaker 1: offer to Salford City. Arsenal tried to come in initially
Speaker 1: outbidding Liverpool. Liverpool eventually was able to reach a club
Speaker 1: to club agreement with Salford City on a six figure deal.
Speaker 1: Leicester confirmed Osmir Begovic has joined on a one year
Speaker 1: contract and Henrik Petterson expected to be named Danny Roll's replacement.
Speaker 1: Danny Roll leaving Sheffield Wednesday by mutual consent. This morning
Speaker 1: Manchester United once again we mentioned Olie Watkins. Talks have
Speaker 1: already taken place. Villa prefer to keep, will not entertain
Speaker 1: a sale without a replacement. According to Jacobs, they value
Speaker 1: Watkins at sixty million pounds, but United think a deal
Speaker 1: could be possible for less. They'll Villa find another striker.
Speaker 1: United also exploring Benjamin Seshko in a move driven by
Speaker 1: Christopher Vivel. Leipzig still asking for eighty million euro plus.
Speaker 1: Manchester United face competition from Newcastle, who are currently more
Speaker 1: advanced in discussions. Both clubs are hoping that the price
Speaker 1: drops closer to seventy million euro a bid forer Nico
Speaker 1: Jackson remains unlikely currently not on a deal Manchester United
Speaker 1: or working on due to the cost. Danny Rowle released
Speaker 1: a statement upon his mutual consent departure from Sheffield Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Nottingham Forest I had a twenty five million pound bid
Speaker 1: rejected for James Mcatte at Manchester City. City's position remains
Speaker 1: that Mcattee can only leave for a figure closer to
Speaker 1: the forty two and a half that was received when
Speaker 1: Cole Palmer left for Chelsea. PEP prefers to keep mcattee
Speaker 1: exit will be sanctioned if the player asks to leave,
Speaker 1: even the club's valuation is to be met. Dortmund currently
Speaker 1: debating whether to make an approach for Jaden Sancho. Manchester
Speaker 1: United prepared to sell for seventeen million pounds or twenty
Speaker 1: million Euro, prices now dropped lower than Chelsea's twenty five
Speaker 1: million pound obligation to buy. You've still in talks with
Speaker 1: Sancho as well. Garnacho is expected to leave in the
Speaker 1: coming weeks, prioritizing a move within the Premier League. You
Speaker 1: would welcome an approach from Chelsea. I mean, how does
Speaker 1: this work? You know, I don't want to be here.
Speaker 1: But if somebody came knock on the door, and if
Speaker 1: these guys came knock on the door, that'd be great. Hey,
Speaker 1: you knock on my door and I'll answer all you
Speaker 1: others you knock on my door. Not so much. You knock,
Speaker 1: I'll answer. You can get you know, Garnach's got his
Speaker 1: ring camera out in the kitchen. That's right that who
Speaker 1: is that? So David Moy's no, I'm not answering. Moyes
Speaker 1: said on the summer series that they're looking to add
Speaker 1: more players. By the way, Chelsea could potentially assign Chavi
Speaker 1: Simon and Garnacho. Eddie how On Alexander Esock quote, he's
Speaker 1: still our player, he's contracted to us. We to a
Speaker 1: degree control what's next. I'd love to believe all possibilities
Speaker 1: are still available. Received no formal offer. My wish has
Speaker 1: always been he stays, but that's done in my full control.
Speaker 1: Chelsea U twenty one coach has left Strasbourg to be
Speaker 1: an assistant under Liam Rossignore. Let's see Chelsea close to
Speaker 1: an agreement and principle with i AX for Jordel Hato.
Speaker 1: Al Aklee is saying that they're prioritizing six to eight
Speaker 1: new players this summer midfield priority Bisuma, Bill al il
Speaker 1: Kanus and Wilfrid indeed are discussed internally. They even inquired
Speaker 1: on Morgan Gibbs White before the window open Southampton confrom
Speaker 1: Young Bednarek has joined Porto after his release clause was
Speaker 1: triggered at six and a half million pounds, Fabio Vieira
Speaker 1: added to their list of midfield options at west Ham.
Speaker 1: Noll approach at to Arsenal. Vieira is now a name
Speaker 1: of interest. West Ham planning to add multiple midfielders this summer.
Speaker 1: So that's the early round of gossip room redinuendo. Let's
Speaker 1: see if there's anything else involving other players. Everton or
Speaker 1: wanting Jack Grealish apparently on a loan deal facing competition
Speaker 1: from west Ham and Knopoly. Brentford are not willing to
Speaker 1: sell you on Visa to Newcastle at any price unless
Speaker 1: they sign a replacement first. And basically Visa thought that
Speaker 1: the number was twenty six million that he was going
Speaker 1: to be released at Brentford is saying thirty. Visa is
Speaker 1: not interested in participating in any kind of practice activities
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to do much of anything until
Speaker 1: an exit strategy has been agreed to. United had made
Speaker 1: a bit of forty million euro for sporting midfielder, more
Speaker 1: than Schulmand, but the Portuguese club won at least fifty
Speaker 1: million euro for the Danish international as a target for Juve.
Speaker 1: Leeds missed out on Igo Pashaw despite lodging an improved
Speaker 1: second bid with fine orders. The Brazilian winger look set
Speaker 1: to join Marseille. Forrest eyeing a move for a Doma
Speaker 1: Triore at Fulham, who previously worked with Nuno at Wolves,
Speaker 1: also on the verge of signing Swiss international Dan and
Speaker 1: Deuiyer on a long term contract for a club record
Speaker 1: fee after he informed Bologna of his desire to play
Speaker 1: in the PREM. If Forrest beat Monopoly to Endouye's signature,
Speaker 1: they could step up their interest in Grealish or Garnacho.
Speaker 1: Three litter paper Everton interested in Leons Ainsley Maitland Niles,
Speaker 1: who they targeted back in twenty twenty one when he
Speaker 1: was at Arsenal. Chelsea have no intention of selling Mark
Speaker 1: Cucarella Kukurea sorry amid speculation with clubs in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1: Villa midfielder Morgan Rodgers top target for Chelsea. Blues ready
Speaker 1: to offer tosen Atoobioyo and Nico Jackson as well as
Speaker 1: a fee to secure a deal. Byron. Munich are the
Speaker 1: only club to express an interest in Chavi Simone, but
Speaker 1: he prefers a move to the prem. Liverpool Everton Villa
Speaker 1: Bournemouth's to miss out on highly rated twenty year old
Speaker 1: Nathan Zees, with the not defender preferring a move to Neam.
Speaker 1: In the Saudi Pro League three letter paper, Everton, west
Speaker 1: Ham and Forrest battling it out for Douglas Louise who
Speaker 1: wants to leave. Youve the summer Rangers have emerged as
Speaker 1: favorites to sign English winger Mikey Moore seventeen, who's on
Speaker 1: be on loan from Tottenham. Matt Law at the Telegraph,
Speaker 1: Celtic and Strasburg submit it offers for Manchester City's nineteen
Speaker 1: year old defender Jami Simpson Pucy back to Sheffield Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Als I've seen a number of high profile players leave
Speaker 1: the club, could see a new player added to the ranks.
Speaker 1: And former Arsenal winger Reese Claremont, who is eighteen after
Speaker 1: taking the English teenager on trial, tecing to see in
Speaker 1: the lower divisions if there's anything else going on when
Speaker 1: it comes to players. No, but I did want to
Speaker 1: leave in addition to anything else having to do the
Speaker 1: latest at more and I don't know if you have
Speaker 1: heard about this story, but Morekham is you know? And
Speaker 1: in the past, we've talked about Bury and Macclesfield, and
Speaker 1: I know we're in added time and so I figure
Speaker 1: i'll talk about Morecamb here and see if there's anything
Speaker 1: else on the grid. Morekham is now on life support
Speaker 1: and it's only because of the trust. Andy Hunter yesterday
Speaker 1: at the Guardian suspended from the National League with immediate effect.
Speaker 1: One hundred and five year old club Jason Whittingham, Morecamb's owner,
Speaker 1: had been given until noon I'm imagining local time yesterday,
Speaker 1: so it had been seven o'clock yesterday morning to outline
Speaker 1: how the club would meet their financial obligations for the
Speaker 1: twenty five to twenty six season after talks with the
Speaker 1: National League last week. After that dead line passed yesterday,
Speaker 1: it was announced further sanctions had been taken against Morecambe
Speaker 1: at another meeting of the Compliance and Licensing Committee. Suspended
Speaker 1: with immediate effect. Club is going to remain under embargo
Speaker 1: ahead of the new season. Removed from the National League
Speaker 1: Cup for the forthcoming season. Committee is going to meet
Speaker 1: on August twenty. They've also been pulled from the first
Speaker 1: six matches of the schedule. Committee's going to meet again
Speaker 1: on August twenty to consider whether Morkham have satisfied their
Speaker 1: financial concerns end Quote to decide the club's ability to
Speaker 1: retain membership in the competition. End quote meeting is scheduled
Speaker 1: for what would have been the first three matches of
Speaker 1: the year. Whittingham's Bond Group Investments have been involved in
Speaker 1: a contentious takeover saga over the past two years that
Speaker 1: led to the resignation of Morekham's board of directors, seen
Speaker 1: wages paid late, and prospective owners threatening legal action that group.
Speaker 1: Punjab war Warriors received EFL clearance to complete a takeover
Speaker 1: last month, only for the current owner to announce a
Speaker 1: new buyer had come forward. Jason Whittingham issued a statement
Speaker 1: on the takeover Sunday which he claimed his company Quote
Speaker 1: has continued to work with the consortium led by Johnny
Speaker 1: Cato in their effects to acquire the majority shareholding, blaming
Speaker 1: negative media reports for giving the consortium cause for concern
Speaker 1: and pause, and claim the Bond Group had been able
Speaker 1: to contact Punjab Warriors over the past week. Relegated from
Speaker 1: the EFL last year from League two after eighteen years,
Speaker 1: the MP for the area said that there's a very
Speaker 1: real risk the club would soon cease to exist. So
Speaker 1: that is the uh the latest there at morecambe negative
Speaker 1: media reports. Sure, so we'll keep an eye on the
Speaker 1: Shrimpers and find out what the latest may be as
Speaker 1: things go. But it is not looking good for a
Speaker 1: one hundred and five year old club where you have
Speaker 1: an embattled owner and they were relegated out of the
Speaker 1: EFL for the first time in almost two decades because
Speaker 1: of their performance last season, so once again we'll keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. Liverpool made an informal approach for
Speaker 1: Esoch before signing Hugo Ekitik. Remain huge admirers of him.
Speaker 1: Leipziger expected to use Ekitik's transfer fee as a benchmark
Speaker 1: negotiations for Benjamin Seshko, and we mentioned a Newcastle also
Speaker 1: in talks with Southampton over a loan with an option
Speaker 1: to buy for Aaron Ramsdale. Trying to see if there's
Speaker 1: anything else that has come through in the transfer discussions
Speaker 1: of things. Looks like el Zata might be the last
Speaker 1: thing that has come across this morning overseas and Leagu's Cup.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm trying to say Mueller, we talked about Messi,
Speaker 1: we talked about MLS, we talked about League's Cup be
Speaker 1: promoted with the juice boxes. We'll get into more of
Speaker 1: that tomorrow. Once again. Tyler Pilgrim joining us at nine
Speaker 1: point fifteen. Dylan Butler at ten bat signals out for
Speaker 1: Carlos Rubio, the head coach at Hickory FC, as they
Speaker 1: get ready for the NPSL title game at El fad
Speaker 1: Alito this weekend. And we are efforting League two as
Speaker 1: well as we go since, also trying to effort the
Speaker 1: new owner at Caretro, Mark Spiegel, in addition to other folks,
Speaker 1: other folks, other folks, checking, checking, checking, and I think
Speaker 1: I caught up on all my notes all right, So
Speaker 1: thanks as always for all of you folks for hanging
Speaker 1: out with us as we do. Thanks to Kaylor Hodges.
Speaker 1: Interested in anything and everything going on in the USL.
Speaker 1: Go to the USL Show tonight on their youtubes and
Speaker 1: you can catch up and find out what their trip
Speaker 1: to Portland, Maine was all about with the Portland Hearts
Speaker 1: of Pine and the sellout crowd there. Tomorrow, once again
Speaker 1: it's Tyler, it's Dylan, it's US. It's League's Cup preview,
Speaker 1: all the things we'll let you know about Nacosa and
Speaker 1: what to know about what to expect as they come
Speaker 1: to town. It's gonna be a fun night for Leagues
Speaker 1: Cup with a beginning of Phase one starting coming up
Speaker 1: tomorrow at Mercedes Benz Stadium, so I was always looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. Thanks to all of you folks for
Speaker 1: dropping bys you always do on a Tuesday. That's it
Speaker 1: for Tuesday thoughts. Back at it in a little less
Speaker 1: than twenty two and since it is the end of
Speaker 1: the show, it means we get to do this back
Speaker 1: at it again nine oh five tomorrow morning, which plot
Speaker 1: y'all played safe. We'll see then