Speaker 1: Okay, that's me, all right, hang on, that's gotta go
Speaker 1: all right, So here, no, not you the other way. See,
Speaker 1: this is what we're kind of getting into here. I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out what buttons are the right
Speaker 1: buttons to push and I want I don't want that.
Speaker 1: I want me. I want me to be here. I
Speaker 1: don't want that to be here. So what happened? What
Speaker 1: did I do last time to get rid of that?
Speaker 1: What did I do? I'm trying to remember. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those mornings where it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: uh no, I don't want to disable the camera. What
Speaker 1: am I doing here? No? No, that ain't it. So
Speaker 1: this is this is what we're trying to figure out here,
Speaker 1: dragged to move. I want it to go away. This
Speaker 1: is what I want, So that goes. No, all right,
Speaker 1: this is uh I had it once and I can't
Speaker 1: remember what I did, so no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely not what I wanted. So welcome to sdh's
Speaker 1: John tries to figure out how he can like delete things.
Speaker 1: So yeah, removed, there we go. Okay, Hi, welcome to
Speaker 1: Monday morning, Alex. All right, so that's another round of
Speaker 1: SDH John, hear you there, Thanks for dropping by. It's
Speaker 1: the removed button is what I've got to figure out. So,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, you're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: new things, and it's a bit of an adventure on
Speaker 1: occasion trying to figure out. It's like, you know, you
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Speaker 1: just like, yeah, I thought I hit the right button.
Speaker 1: You didn't hit the right button. But you know, it is,
Speaker 1: it is what it is, all right, John, hear you there,
Speaker 1: Thanks for dropping by. And it's another week of SDH.
Speaker 1: We're getting back into the normal and it is normal guests,
Speaker 1: normal rotations, those kinds of things. So here's what we
Speaker 1: got this morning. Bart's going to join us an hour
Speaker 1: two because we've got roughing down here. We've got some
Speaker 1: USM and T news we didn't get into. Can't remember
Speaker 1: if we got into the retirement of Becky Souerbun or not,
Speaker 1: but there's stuff to get into with barton our number
Speaker 1: two and in our number one. We've got a lot
Speaker 1: of reports on player movement. That's how I'm gonna phrase it,
Speaker 1: because it's not you know, like official reports on player movement.
Speaker 1: Things aren't officially official. If you caught Morning Espresso this
Speaker 1: morning with Jason, you kind of got an early peak
Speaker 1: on some of it. And we'll go into if these
Speaker 1: players are heading into these locations where they are linked,
Speaker 1: how does it make the team look. So that's what
Speaker 1: we'll get into. There are a couple of big names
Speaker 1: that came across on the weekend, and we'll get into that,
Speaker 1: and we'll let you know, Like I said, we'll let
Speaker 1: you know where things stand involving these franchises, these players,
Speaker 1: either inbound or outbound, and what it looks like on
Speaker 1: the other side. So we've got that. When it comes
Speaker 1: to player movement and player reports, we'll get into gossip,
Speaker 1: bermer and and you and though we'll get into what
Speaker 1: to watch or to watch it, how to watch it.
Speaker 1: We'll go back over what happened yesterday on the weekend
Speaker 1: in the prim and we'll get you up to date
Speaker 1: on all of that. We'll get you up to date
Speaker 1: with everything else. Yesterday's Manchester United Liverpool matchles as a
Speaker 1: zoo and so we'll get into that and anything else
Speaker 1: on your mind, because it is a reaction Monday over
Speaker 1: under or on par when it comes to anything on
Speaker 1: your brain and the remainder of the week is fairly normal.
Speaker 1: Tuesday's Tuesday Thoughts, and what we may do is we
Speaker 1: may give Kaylor some time off, considering he's got to
Speaker 1: get back to school and he's got to get back
Speaker 1: to teaching. Wall past Wednesday is normal. Hopefully Tyler can
Speaker 1: join us and get through his holiday stuff, and so
Speaker 1: we can have Tyler join us to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Atlanta unighted in the Atlanta United Repertorial Information Exchange Program
Speaker 1: continue He's on Wednesday. We'll see if the busiest man
Speaker 1: in the Northeast can join us, Dylan Butler, and get
Speaker 1: his thoughts on what's going on in and around Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer. Thursday's the Power Hour with Nino and Nico
Speaker 1: joining us an hour number two. We'll get you through
Speaker 1: your Thursday thoughts and find out what's going on from
Speaker 1: the Pacific perspective. When it comes to Nico, you might
Speaker 1: have seen the conversation that was posted involving Nico and
Speaker 1: myself from last week where we got into Craig Wibel,
Speaker 1: where we got into Seattle front office, where we got
Speaker 1: into the Paul Ariola deal and stuff that we got
Speaker 1: into last week with Nico also we'll get into with
Speaker 1: the Nino, what's going on in and around the rest
Speaker 1: of the planet, whether it is Portugal, whether it is
Speaker 1: South America, whether it is Beloved Peru, anything that's going
Speaker 1: on there. On Thursday, and then Friday's the Friday free
Speaker 1: for all. We'll see if our friends from beyond Goals
Speaker 1: menoring can join us and kind of get caught up
Speaker 1: with them after the holiday season's over and find out
Speaker 1: what's going on in the world of BGM. So that's
Speaker 1: the week. Next week. Remember it's from the beach, so
Speaker 1: you'll see funky backgrounds and you'll see you'll see art
Speaker 1: deco and pastels behind me. But that's next week, so
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. We'll see if we can dodge
Speaker 1: the weather that is supposed to be coming here to
Speaker 1: osg HQ, and we'll see if we can get out
Speaker 1: in time so we're not held back by any of it,
Speaker 1: so we can be at the beach on full. But yes,
Speaker 1: next week our is our Hemingway week where we are
Speaker 1: surrounded by pastels and high winds and things like that,
Speaker 1: and so we'll have we'll have that next week. But
Speaker 1: this week is this week, and we'll go through all
Speaker 1: the news of the morning and everything else that is
Speaker 1: all the news that's fit to print. So here we go,
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Speaker 1: on on your brains. Morning, Alex morning. Will Yeah, the
Speaker 1: wind streak by the Packers is over. Best mood today
Speaker 1: after the Bears win in the last second field go
Speaker 1: by Cairo Santos yesterday, saw that very chaotic half hour
Speaker 1: in the Witching Hour yesterday, and will is very very
Speaker 1: happy with Caleb William's rookie year. Now if he'd only
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Speaker 1: On the red hot streak for the Magpies, I could
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Speaker 1: correlation between the Bears and Atlanta United horrible season redem
Speaker 1: at the end with the Packers game in Miami in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, David, Marcus Rashford to Seattle. That is one
Speaker 1: of the things that we wanted to get into. It
Speaker 1: is just reports. But what we will do is this,
Speaker 1: since you have mentioned it, David, we will get into it.
Speaker 1: There are reports, and that's what they are that it's
Speaker 1: not news. It is a report. If it was news,
Speaker 1: then we would be getting closer to something like this happening.
Speaker 1: So there are reports out there about Marcus Rashford and Seattle.
Speaker 1: The obvious issue is the financial component and literally the
Speaker 1: money that it would take for Marcus Rashford to go
Speaker 1: and be a part of the Seattle Sounders. Jeremiah O'shan,
Speaker 1: by the way, had an article about this, and Jeremiah
Speaker 1: goes it's been at least several years since the Sounders
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Speaker 1: the Sounders playing in the Club World Cup, you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of folks that sit there and we're trying
Speaker 1: to add one plus one and coming up with eleven instead.
Speaker 1: So rumor comes from Ben Jacobs, and this is at
Speaker 1: the tail end of last week. This was a Friday
Speaker 1: news dump from Ben Jacobs mentioned the Sounders as a
Speaker 1: possible landing spot for Marcus Rashford and so he noted
Speaker 1: meaning Jacobs, the twenty seven year old might not even
Speaker 1: be interested in the movie, suggest that both MLS and
Speaker 1: Apple could be inclined to help make the deal happen.
Speaker 1: And then the team expressing some openness to it is
Speaker 1: the Sounders quoting Jacobs where there had been And this
Speaker 1: is on. And what Ben will do occasionally is he
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Speaker 1: open things up and he'll sit there and go, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: did you see about this? So sure enough you end
Speaker 1: up with an idea and Ben will talk about it.
Speaker 1: So what happened was for Ben on his YouTube channel,
Speaker 1: So he told the YouTube channel MUFCMPB they've had an
Speaker 1: internal conversation, meaning the Sounders. The reason at Seattle is
Speaker 1: that they're a Club World Cup rep, which is of
Speaker 1: appeal to anyone they might be interested to sign, and
Speaker 1: because of that, they are to get a minimum of
Speaker 1: forty to sixty pounds for entering the Club World Cup.
Speaker 1: So Major League Soccer could turn around and say you
Speaker 1: can suddenly afford to pay for these stars. Budget might
Speaker 1: not be a problem in quote. In addition to sort
Speaker 1: of handwaving the potential cost, Jacob's also quick to note
Speaker 1: that no formal overtures have been made. Quote. We shouldn't
Speaker 1: overblow the MLS links because Seattle hasn't reached out to
Speaker 1: either the Rashford camp or Manchester United. It's just an
Speaker 1: internal discussion that you would expect to advance in January
Speaker 1: rather than the summer if they decide to proceed, because
Speaker 1: the MLS calendar means January is almost like the summer
Speaker 1: in the sense that you're lining up the main stars.
Speaker 1: End quote. O'shan continues, Even with the caveats, even if
Speaker 1: there really have been internal conversations, O'shan feels that he
Speaker 1: feels it's exceptionally unlikely for a twenty seven year old
Speaker 1: three seasons of at least twenty goal contributions in the
Speaker 1: prem even if one of the most recent ones was
Speaker 1: in twenty two to twenty three. First thing to note,
Speaker 1: based on everything o'shan has been told, sounders are not
Speaker 1: expecting anything even close to the Club World Cup payday
Speaker 1: that Jacob claims has been guaranteed. O'Shane asked Adrian han
Speaker 1: Hour about this last year. Hand Hour scoffed at the number,
Speaker 1: implied he was expecting a fraction of that amount. Since then,
Speaker 1: FIFA has struggled to find broadcast partners and sponsors. Remembered,
Speaker 1: to Zone has picked up the Club World Cup and
Speaker 1: apparently all of the matches are going to be on
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Speaker 1: those of us who are still trying to raise their
Speaker 1: hand publicly and go how am I getting this? I mean,
Speaker 1: I could do the smart remote thing and see if
Speaker 1: I get to Zone and we'll see what happens over time.
Speaker 1: So FIFA might be possible for big clubs to they
Speaker 1: could see relative whin false. FIFA doesn't seem inclined to
Speaker 1: send eighteen, like the Sounders more money for playing in
Speaker 1: three matches than than they are likely to make in
Speaker 1: ticket sales season. So even if Manchester United comes off
Speaker 1: their asking price of Rashford, reported to be near seventy
Speaker 1: five million dollars, still has three years remaining on a
Speaker 1: five year deal that apparently guarantees him seventy eight million.
Speaker 1: This year, he's making about twenty that's more than the
Speaker 1: Sounders spent on their entire roster last year. The entire
Speaker 1: acquisition cost and guaranteed portions of the initial contracts were
Speaker 1: both Ladero and Ruie Diaz were less than twenty million combined.
Speaker 1: As well, last year, the Sounders salary spend was about
Speaker 1: middle of the pack. Signing Rashford would obviously push him
Speaker 1: into the top three. Could the Sounders blow up their
Speaker 1: budget to sign Rashford? O'shan says, sure, but it seems
Speaker 1: exceptionally unlikely. Still, though, O'shan says it's hard to imagine
Speaker 1: Jacob's pulling the Sounder's name out of thin air. Someone
Speaker 1: passed along the information, even if it contains a nuggative
Speaker 1: truth that suggests the Sounders or at least willing to
Speaker 1: think big about this upcoming season. Hard to see exactly
Speaker 1: how to make it happen, but maybe there is a
Speaker 1: big acquisition in the offing. So Jeremiah went a couple
Speaker 1: of different directions there when it came to the Marcus
Speaker 1: Rashford to Seattle notion. But once again, the big idea is,
Speaker 1: would you basically take in theory what you would be
Speaker 1: making from the club World Cup and then sit there
Speaker 1: and go, let's just take this money and instead of
Speaker 1: investing it in you know, four or five different players
Speaker 1: to help out the roster and the roster depth and
Speaker 1: pay our dps whatever we can pay them, or put
Speaker 1: the money in the shelf and have it for later.
Speaker 1: The idea of okay, tell you what, We'll just go
Speaker 1: ahead and flip that dollar and invest it in Marcus Rashford.
Speaker 1: So let's take a peek at Seattle's roster, and this
Speaker 1: is what I wanted to do this morning with a
Speaker 1: couple of different situations. We'll do this with Austin, and
Speaker 1: we'll do this with you know, other other clubs as
Speaker 1: we go, because there's other talk about other dudes and
Speaker 1: things like that, and so, but let's start with Seattle
Speaker 1: since we're here, right now thirteen players under contract, thirteen
Speaker 1: senior roster spots at ten coo, Jonathan Bell, Leo Chu,
Speaker 1: Leo Chew right now is a U twenty two. We
Speaker 1: had the discussion with Niko Moreno last week about the
Speaker 1: deal for Paul Ariola. Nothing officially official yet, but Leo
Speaker 1: Chu would be going the other way when it comes
Speaker 1: to the ajesu's Ferira deal. So Hasius Ferrara one way
Speaker 1: the other way. It's am a boatload of it, an
Speaker 1: international spot and Leo Chew So nothing officially official yet,
Speaker 1: but Leo Chi would be heading the other way to
Speaker 1: Dallas fry Ye Margomez Androga, Danny Levia, Jordan Morris, Danny Mussovski,
Speaker 1: Christian Roldan, his brother Alex Knew who Obad Vargas is
Speaker 1: a homegrown and Pedro dela Vega is a young VP.
Speaker 1: Supplementals Baker, Baker Whiting, Castro Reagan, Brodillio Rodriguez and Paul Rothrock.
Speaker 1: Four non actives including Georgie Manongu. And then once again,
Speaker 1: you're U twenty two is a ten coo and Leo Chew,
Speaker 1: so once again this is waiting for all of the
Speaker 1: talk that we've had involving Ariola and Ferreira coming inbound
Speaker 1: and then signing Jordan Morris to a DP deal. You
Speaker 1: can go back into. You can actually can go back
Speaker 1: into Nico's social media because he pulled the sound bites
Speaker 1: and the discussions that we had about Aeroline, about Hazus
Speaker 1: Ferrera at El Rollo and w on the two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty character app if you want to listen to
Speaker 1: it in two to two and a half minute chunks
Speaker 1: as opposed to the full thirty when we get into
Speaker 1: these discussions with it. So Seattle, still waiting about you know,
Speaker 1: you have to wait for deadlines and things like that.
Speaker 1: So still waiting on the whole for the Hasius Ferrera
Speaker 1: from Dallas for two million in Garber bucks and the
Speaker 1: international slot in Layo chew to go back the other way,
Speaker 1: still waiting on that. Also still waiting on Paul Ariol.
Speaker 1: But we've discussed them as ideas right now. So if
Speaker 1: we did let me get into like cap space and
Speaker 1: things like that, No, that's not specifically what I wanted
Speaker 1: at all. Okay, So popular page. This is from our
Speaker 1: friends at spot track. So right now you have in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Well let's go back to twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: because twenty twenty five is misleading numbers, and they had
Speaker 1: Philadelphia at the top. So Seattle last season in Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer was twenty second when it came to salary
Speaker 1: cap and cap number and dollars spent at sixteen million,
Speaker 1: just over sixteen million, six hundred thousand dollars, twenty second
Speaker 1: of the twenty nine. So if they were to bring
Speaker 1: in Marcus Rashford, top three. By the way, chicag Jago
Speaker 1: was number three last year in cap and showed you
Speaker 1: how successful they were at twenty five to three. Toronto
Speaker 1: was at thirty two seven and then obviously Messy and
Speaker 1: Friends at forty two north of forty two forty million,
Speaker 1: four hundred ninety five thousand, eight hundred and forty four
Speaker 1: dollars in senior roster spot to submissions, even had dead
Speaker 1: money last year from transactions. But anyway, so most certainly
Speaker 1: if you brought in a Marcus Rashford, you would be
Speaker 1: top three, you would skyrocket probably to number two. And
Speaker 1: there's news out of there's reports out of Toronto that
Speaker 1: we need to get into as well this morning. Toronto
Speaker 1: is another one of the other teams we were getting into,
Speaker 1: so Austin reports, Toronto reports. So if there was a
Speaker 1: situation where Marcus Rashford was going to Seattle, it would
Speaker 1: end up being something I know, if you just added
Speaker 1: twenty million to the whole thing. If you added twenty
Speaker 1: million to Seattle, let's put him at thirty six. Basically,
Speaker 1: if you invested twenty million dollars in one player, that
Speaker 1: puts you at thirty six million, and that would put
Speaker 1: you smack dab one b. It would put you at
Speaker 1: number two, four million dollars ahead of Toronto FC. So
Speaker 1: that's what Seattle would be looking at cap wise if
Speaker 1: the idea of a Club World Cup financial windfall was
Speaker 1: to basically be flipped into bringing in Amarcus Rastion. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, Jeremiah O'shan's article at Sounder at Heart
Speaker 1: and by the way, subscribe if you don't, if you
Speaker 1: have not yet, But the notion is there and being
Speaker 1: put out by Jeremiah that yes, it's financially out there,
Speaker 1: and it's also financially out there. So someone told Ben
Speaker 1: Jacob Seattle don't know who that somebody is, but Seattle
Speaker 1: talk to Jeremiah o'shan and they're like, no, we ain't
Speaker 1: getting that much money. So for us to be able
Speaker 1: to turn that and flip it and bring in a
Speaker 1: Marcus Rashford, it'd be kind of a stretch. So that's
Speaker 1: where the whole Marcus Rashford thing is. Jeremiah Shannon sounder
Speaker 1: at heart, then getting into the discussion about me and
Speaker 1: my frustrations when it comes to being shorted about things
Speaker 1: you shop, Thank you, David. David takes a multi vitamin morning.
Speaker 1: Tom Michael takes some supplements, but who knows if they
Speaker 1: actually work. I know, well, and Alex let me frae.
Speaker 1: Alex asks me this, he says, and you're washing him
Speaker 1: down with mountain dew. I could admit to something, but
Speaker 1: I could also then sit there and just say, well, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I'm washing it down with mountain dew. So I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Yes, I'm washing them down with mountain dew.
Speaker 1: Alex wink, wink, nudge, nudge. How'd you do? How'd you do?
Speaker 1: Tom right there with me, takes a multi turmeric. I
Speaker 1: take turmeric as well, glucosamine androit and magnesium and an aspirin.
Speaker 1: Let's see, so I take aspirin, turmeric, multi vitamin fiber,
Speaker 1: cranberry occupante for eyes since I'm north of thirty nine,
Speaker 1: and fish oil and because I end up by the time.
Speaker 1: By the time I'm done, it's like twelve or thirteen
Speaker 1: different things. But once again it goes to the bulk
Speaker 1: by and it goes to the Okay, then you're supposed
Speaker 1: to have pears and supposed to have enough for the
Speaker 1: pears that you take in the morning, but then I
Speaker 1: don't when I get to the bottom of the box.
Speaker 1: That was what started this whole thing. So I was
Speaker 1: wondering if I was by myself. David's like, the boss
Speaker 1: is playing that my husband is crazy. Long game. There's
Speaker 1: no long game involved, David, no long game at all, none,
Speaker 1: zero buppkus. Uh huh. I'm already crazy. So I don't
Speaker 1: know why you thought that was a long game. Wiley,
Speaker 1: of course, being the optimist, is saying, maybe they gave
Speaker 1: you a bonus one. I'm yeah, see, Wiley, I will
Speaker 1: let you be the optimist of the group. I will
Speaker 1: let you be the optimist. Not happening. I don't now,
Speaker 1: I don't yeah, not there. Yeah, Wiley's correct, maybe they
Speaker 1: gave you a bonus one. Yeah, my goals like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they gave you the one extra. Tom's want you sure
Speaker 1: the day count multi vitamins? Do that too? Will's like gummies.
Speaker 1: H Tom's like, I never get to the bottom of
Speaker 1: the container. You buy the reply container long before you
Speaker 1: get there, and when there's a few left in the
Speaker 1: old one, just added to the new one. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like that too. So you get the new one,
Speaker 1: then you take the old one, and then you dump
Speaker 1: what's left in the old one into the new one.
Speaker 1: So he said there, oh, look, I got more than
Speaker 1: I bargained for. I'm right there with you. No, I
Speaker 1: do the same thing, but there are times when I
Speaker 1: don't do the transfer. I don't do the pre emptying transfer,
Speaker 1: and I'll have the the one that I haven't opened
Speaker 1: and the one that's almost empty. And then that's why
Speaker 1: I got it. This is where I got into the situation,
Speaker 1: is that I had not emptied the old one into
Speaker 1: the new one. So that's why I had one at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the old one and it was not
Speaker 1: a part of the new one. So that's where we were.
Speaker 1: That's what started the whole thing. David's like, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: you're getting fifty one extra half serving because the wife
Speaker 1: will sometimes take his and the women's maulting never be
Speaker 1: able to track it. Absolutely true, morning, Abby, Uh ask
Speaker 1: for weather supplements work or not. All the Tom knows
Speaker 1: is that adding the horrible joint pain in his knees
Speaker 1: and shoulders much less since he started taking glucosamina controit
Speaker 1: and absolutely true. Ask the Orthrow about it helps for
Speaker 1: about ten percent of the patients, and maybe Tom is
Speaker 1: in the ten percent. Abby says it takes like seven
Speaker 1: years post surgery to stop feeling the weather changes, especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to arthritis. Yeah, snow's expected later this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's like I said, we're trying to
Speaker 1: get out of town because the boss's mom is she
Speaker 1: has some surgery on her eyes later this week, and
Speaker 1: so we might be leaving after the show Friday to
Speaker 1: head south for the beach a day early, just so
Speaker 1: we can be there to help take care of her mom.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what's going on with that exactly. Will
Speaker 1: what is Russia? And judge then you need absolutely true? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I washed it on delegate, and I did not
Speaker 1: put the I did not put the jerseys in the dryer.
Speaker 1: They've been hanging ever since trying to dry out themselves.
Speaker 1: And yes, Michael falconing since nineteen sixty six. The straight
Speaker 1: for the Falcons is now at seven. Tom, wouldn't he
Speaker 1: also have to have a heart to heart but with
Speaker 1: Tukel meaning Marcus Rashford, Yeah, I think you would. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: you have to have a heart to heart with Thomas
Speaker 1: Tukele about whether or not doing this, meaning going to Seattle,
Speaker 1: would affect prospects for his time with the Three Lions.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that that would have to be a conversation
Speaker 1: Abbey with the public service. If you have a chance
Speaker 1: to go pay respects to President Carter recommend it went
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night Saturday, and the Sunday
Speaker 1: had been a while very educational additional to being able
Speaker 1: to pay respects. And we have until Tuesday morning at
Speaker 1: six am, I believe, I think. So it's all day
Speaker 1: today and overnight. I think you have until six o'clock
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, and then the President is is brought on
Speaker 1: motorcade up to Washington, d C. So morning, Rich, morning
Speaker 1: to the OG, and so yes, good morning to the
Speaker 1: OG as well. And so Tom doing the Lord's work
Speaker 1: with a public Service, says that ac Milan are discussing
Speaker 1: internally whether to make a loan move from Arcus. Rashford
Speaker 1: and ac Milan could basically sit there and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll just set money on fire. We'll talk about setting
Speaker 1: money on fire coming up in just a little bit morning, Harry, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Michael. Absolutely true, as everyone knows whether forecasts four
Speaker 1: days out of conjecture. Absolutely true. All right, so setting
Speaker 1: money on fire. That was one of the other teams
Speaker 1: that we wanted to get into this morning. And once
Speaker 1: again Bart Keeler joining us in about ten minutes to
Speaker 1: discuss roughing down here and M and T stuff and
Speaker 1: anything else on his mind before we go. All right,
Speaker 1: So setting money on fire. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: talk last week about a particular player leaving Lega MX
Speaker 1: and coming back to Major League Soccer. Tommy scoops late yesterday,
Speaker 1: well lunchtime yesterday, Austin finalizing a deal to sign Brandon
Speaker 1: Vasquez from Monterrey Monterey. The fee is north of six
Speaker 1: million plus add ons. He is told Vasquez is going
Speaker 1: to travel to complete the transfer. Fall goes smooth, Brandon
Speaker 1: Vasquez will be Austin FC's new DP number nine. So
Speaker 1: and then Tom updated it three hours later, saying that
Speaker 1: Austin was going to pay a club record fee of
Speaker 1: around ten million Reusee's nearing a departure for river Plate
Speaker 1: according to sources, but that's not done. So if Dreusi leaves,
Speaker 1: Austin intends to add yet another DP. So here's the
Speaker 1: lay of the land with that once again Dreusi, if
Speaker 1: he goes, that opens up. Basically it ends up being
Speaker 1: a wash second time in a matter of months that
Speaker 1: the club will set a new club record. They set
Speaker 1: a new club record to sign Osman Bukari from Red
Speaker 1: Star Belgrade for seven million this summer, and so now
Speaker 1: the attack. Once Brandon Vasquez is in theory, signed, seal,
Speaker 1: delivered and brought into uh you know, brought into the
Speaker 1: land of the ver day, then it would be Vasquez
Speaker 1: and Bukari with river Plate chasing after dream. Pablo Noya
Speaker 1: first reported that the deal was close, nothing totally done
Speaker 1: yet they won't be done, meaning Austin. So then that
Speaker 1: means that a Driusi leaves, you've got Bukari, you've got Vasquez,
Speaker 1: and you'd have that third d P slot available again.
Speaker 1: Transfer window in Major League Soccer officially opens January thirty first,
Speaker 1: So we have twenty five days of these kinds of
Speaker 1: discussions ahead of us here at SDH in the morning show.
Speaker 1: First competitive games of the year in February, so there's
Speaker 1: plenty of time to add to what's going on. So remember,
Speaker 1: here's what Austin has done in the offseason. Rodolfo Borel
Speaker 1: took over in the summer of twenty three as sporting director.
Speaker 1: Now once again they let Joshualf go, and I would
Speaker 1: still I'm still I still have the thought bubble over
Speaker 1: my head as to why, if this was going to
Speaker 1: be the overall plan, why in the wide world of
Speaker 1: sports did you let him go, meaning Josh Wolf with
Speaker 1: a couple of matches to go in the season. If
Speaker 1: you knew your future, if you knew that your future
Speaker 1: was set, you weren't making the postseason. Why do you
Speaker 1: not give Josh Wolf the proper send off for all
Speaker 1: the time that he has given to the franchise and
Speaker 1: you cut him loose with a couple of matches to go.
Speaker 1: That was something that kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
Speaker 1: So then you get Josh Wolf, you let Joshuolf go,
Speaker 1: You're bring in Nico Estevez. You signed Osaman Bucari, Alexander's
Speaker 1: fatalk for center back and right back Michael Desler, three
Speaker 1: new starters. Vasquez becomes your star number nine. Seven players
Speaker 1: are already gone. Dreusi is likely to be the eighth.
Speaker 1: Fourteen players departed the club last year, including Ragoni, and
Speaker 1: I think Ragoni was headed to Leone if I have
Speaker 1: memory serves, and they used the once a season contract
Speaker 1: buy out on Ragoni. Josse Zartis was then bought out.
Speaker 1: This winner illyer In in the midfield. Now there's also,
Speaker 1: according to Bogert, there's another rumor out there suggesting that
Speaker 1: the club are in talks to signed jar Amendi, but
Speaker 1: those aren't true. According to Bogert, though the club will
Speaker 1: still add more. So that's the ins and outs right
Speaker 1: now of Austin. Austin last season ninth when it came
Speaker 1: to salary cap, they devoted just over just under twenty million,
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand to players on board. So the roster
Speaker 1: for Austin the Rostin perhaps team rankings, let's get into
Speaker 1: teams Western Conference. So here's your rundown of Austin FC,
Speaker 1: by the way, under Rodolpho Borel the new sporting director.
Speaker 1: And you knew that. The way that it traditionally works
Speaker 1: is that if there is a if there is a
Speaker 1: new sporting director, he's gonna want to bring in his
Speaker 1: own guy. That's no real that's no shock that Breill
Speaker 1: decided that he wanted to bring in his own guy
Speaker 1: and not keep Josh Wolf around as head coach. That
Speaker 1: that that makes perfect sense. And that's not the first
Speaker 1: time it's something like that's going to go down. So
Speaker 1: our friends at spot Track have decided that they wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of just be slow about their Monday. So, uh,
Speaker 1: Major League Soccer Western Conference, Austin, come on, it's deciding.
Speaker 1: It just kind of wants to take its own little
Speaker 1: sweet time when it comes to uh transactions this morning.
Speaker 1: So uh, when it loads, it loads, So we'll see
Speaker 1: what we'll see what We'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 1: So Tom morning four card, Tom once again mentioning uh
Speaker 1: hamas Rodrigg is now a free agent after terminating his
Speaker 1: contract with Ryovacano. Yeah, that that happened. That was mentioned
Speaker 1: a couple of different things yesterday. Michael wants to know
Speaker 1: if Atlanta would use their one time buy out on
Speaker 1: any players this year, don't know, Uh, totally, Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: totally free from Derrek Etchien Jr. And uh and possibly
Speaker 1: Louisa Brom. But the the there, the there that is
Speaker 1: there with Louisa Brom Luis right now is in the process.
Speaker 1: I mean Luis makes I think he's under contract at
Speaker 1: just over eight hundred thousand. And what I always maintain
Speaker 1: in situations with any player and any interest whatsoever, you
Speaker 1: don't want to use the one time only buyout on
Speaker 1: any individual unless you absolutely have to, meaning if there
Speaker 1: is no interest, if no one wants any player under
Speaker 1: any circumstances like nah, you know literally you have signed
Speaker 1: someone that is such a an untenable salary figure and
Speaker 1: you've reached the end of your rope internationally that you're
Speaker 1: just kind of like, yeah, we'll go ahead and do that.
Speaker 1: I don't think well, first and foremost, I know that
Speaker 1: I know that a lot of you were looking at
Speaker 1: the back line when it came to players that would
Speaker 1: be in this particular spotlight. But if a and I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you saw this with Bara, you saw this with Santi Sosa. Recently,
Speaker 1: when there's news about Rossing or reports about Rossing, that
Speaker 1: we'll talk about later on, but you end up with
Speaker 1: you end up with an asset. And I mean, and
Speaker 1: this sounds cold, but this is how you have to
Speaker 1: look at this. This. Sometimes you have an asset in
Speaker 1: a player who is under contract for X number of
Speaker 1: times at a particular salary figure. If worldwide there is
Speaker 1: no one that will take that individual off your hands,
Speaker 1: then and only then would you then I would think
Speaker 1: that you use that buyout and just set the individual free. Personally,
Speaker 1: I think that Luisa bram is one of those individuals
Speaker 1: that does and like I said, and I know that
Speaker 1: we disagree, that does well for you at the back
Speaker 1: when asked. At the same time, I know that a
Speaker 1: lot of you might look at his salary figure and
Speaker 1: sit there and go okay, that might be the guy
Speaker 1: that you would sit there, you know, because if you
Speaker 1: want to bring in and they know a cob full time,
Speaker 1: you want to bring in an Ephran Morales to be
Speaker 1: a part of things, You want to bring in a
Speaker 1: Matthew Edwards to be a part of things. Then you
Speaker 1: look at the salary number that is attached to Luisa
Speaker 1: Brom and that might be the guy that you put
Speaker 1: in your spots shadow. If there is no one on
Speaker 1: a worldwide basis that would be interested in Louisa Brom
Speaker 1: then and only then, or any individual period, any individual.
Speaker 1: If there's zero interest in player X across the board,
Speaker 1: then and only then would you use the bio because
Speaker 1: the salary figure is such an untenable number that you
Speaker 1: would sit there and go yes, well, but I mean,
Speaker 1: but I mean, Michael, like I said, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: this on a worldwide scale. Michael's like, I don't see
Speaker 1: any club taking a Brahms contract. It's husually inflated. But
Speaker 1: once again, until you kick the tires on the worldwide market,
Speaker 1: you don't know. And like I said, I know that
Speaker 1: we will disagree with the effectiveness of Luisa Brom. I
Speaker 1: know that we will. I know that we disagree on
Speaker 1: the effectiveness of Ronald Hernandez. Ronald Hernandez his salary numbers
Speaker 1: at four hundred thousand and Ronnie and I would go
Speaker 1: back and I would ask going into this season that
Speaker 1: you go to soccer down here dot Net, then that
Speaker 1: you go on our YouTube channel and you go back
Speaker 1: and listen to all of our content and all the
Speaker 1: interviews with Ronald Hernandez, just so you know what kind
Speaker 1: of individual that you have on your roster. In Ronnie,
Speaker 1: I mean the guy is willing to die for the shirt.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I know that we will disagree on
Speaker 1: both of those individuals. But once again, you had the
Speaker 1: same situation with Santi Sosa, and what you did is
Speaker 1: you knew that there was interest in Santiago Sosa, so
Speaker 1: you signed him and you kept him under contract, and
Speaker 1: sure enough Rossing was interested, and Rossing was like ooh,
Speaker 1: and so sure enough Rossing picks up Santi Sosa and
Speaker 1: then you don't have to worry about that salary figure anymore.
Speaker 1: So just keep an eye on the worldwide stage. It's
Speaker 1: not just something that is an internal to Major League
Speaker 1: soccer when it comes to players and availability and desire
Speaker 1: and because you never know who's interested. But as a
Speaker 1: last option, and I mean last, last, last, last, last,
Speaker 1: last option, I mean Josse's artist was making seven figures
Speaker 1: and Austin was like, yep, ain't nobody interested? Then that
Speaker 1: was why they used the buyout. So all right, so
Speaker 1: it is after ten o'clock and I've rambled on the
Speaker 1: subject a little further than normal, So it is that
Speaker 1: time where since we are now after ten o'clock, it's
Speaker 1: time to bring in Bart Keeler from the Soccer for
Speaker 1: USPOD to discuss things M and T, WNT and reffing
Speaker 1: down here. So good morning.
Speaker 2: Bart, Morning John.
Speaker 1: What's the mug, sir, Hair spray?
Speaker 2: Good morning Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Good morning Baltimore. And for those of you that got
Speaker 1: to watch the Ravens do their thing with a quarterback
Speaker 1: and a running back, so it was a bit of
Speaker 1: a it was a bit of a bit of a slog,
Speaker 1: but they got it done. So good morning Baltimore and
Speaker 1: all points in between. A couple of things that I
Speaker 1: wanted to get into before we get into reffing down here.
Speaker 1: And it was interesting that as I was looking for
Speaker 1: reffing down here in moments, there was apparently one moment
Speaker 1: from the brim that has stood out to all the others.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, yeah, I know. So we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: The athlete of the Year was named when it came
Speaker 1: to the the the men's national team, and it was
Speaker 1: a Jedi Robinson that was named as the Grand Exalted
Speaker 1: Puba Athlete of the Year. What say you about this nomination, sir?
Speaker 1: And was it worthy of the the nominee to get
Speaker 1: set award.
Speaker 2: Well congrants to Jedi. First off, this is the first
Speaker 2: defender to win it since Skucianyewu, like almost two decades ago.
Speaker 2: This is who I've voted for. Okay, he I think
Speaker 2: had the most consistent year for the US men's national
Speaker 2: team and was a very reliable performer. I think you
Speaker 2: could give accolades to guys like Christian Polistic, You could
Speaker 2: give accolade to maybe a Weston McKenney, Felaren Ballagan, you
Speaker 2: could give attackers their flowers. But you know, I think
Speaker 2: giving a defender this award kind of signifies that he
Speaker 2: is also very important to this team. He had several assists,
Speaker 2: he assists throughout the year and continues to be not
Speaker 2: just a good defender but a good leader on this team.
Speaker 2: You see what he's done with Fulham now taking over
Speaker 2: leadership duties at the club. He's been in great form
Speaker 2: for them, not just to start the Premier League season,
Speaker 2: but also throughout twenty twenty four. You know, I think
Speaker 2: it gets lost on people that you have a guy
Speaker 2: performing so well and so dutifully well in the Premier League.
Speaker 2: You know, when yes, we have some guys who squared
Speaker 2: off in a Cuppa Italia Final this weekend, and you
Speaker 2: have guys scoring goals in France and other places. But
Speaker 2: he's been a very reliable defender. He's been a very
Speaker 2: reliable teammate. And I think I think.
Speaker 1: He deserved it.
Speaker 2: He had a really good season for both club and country.
Speaker 2: And and it's hard because defenders don't often get because
Speaker 2: they don't score goals, you know, they don't have the assist.
Speaker 2: But Jedi has been providing some assists and he's been
Speaker 2: really influential in the team on and off.
Speaker 1: The field because I know that, uh, it's it's odd.
Speaker 1: It's almost like giving a it's almost like giving a
Speaker 1: an offensive or defensive lineman kind of an award. When
Speaker 1: it comes to football, it's not necessarily a pieces that
Speaker 1: we gravitate toward immediately to sit there and go, well, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: But and then when the award gets handed out and
Speaker 1: you said to go, well, yeah, yeah, there's a point there, right,
Speaker 1: It's it was a typical direction to go. And that
Speaker 1: was the reason that I wanted to bring it up
Speaker 1: out of the flock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's who I voted for both when
Speaker 2: I got the you know, you can vote it's online,
Speaker 2: it's a fan vote. But also who I kind of
Speaker 2: suggested in our last episode of Soccer for US is saying, hey,
Speaker 2: you didn't win it, good for him and congress to
Speaker 2: him on his family's growing and you know, putting down
Speaker 2: roots in London and love to see it.
Speaker 1: Yep. Did we talk about the Becky Ceborne retirement.
Speaker 2: I feel like we had to have. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is not news, John, I don't know, or yeah, this
Speaker 2: is not news, but Becky is retiring.
Speaker 1: She's done. So yeah, I was just like, you know,
Speaker 1: and when it comes to her place in the discussion
Speaker 1: for the US women's national team, I mean, it's ninety
Speaker 1: eight times over that it cannot be you know, over
Speaker 1: emphasized just what she has meant to this program in
Speaker 1: the time that she's been there.
Speaker 2: Well, we talked about it a little bit with the listenair.
Speaker 2: Just a quietly confident and quietly proficient player.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The writing joke is she's never a scored for the
Speaker 2: US women's national team, and by ally they tried to
Speaker 2: get her those goals. You know, it's unfortunate she was
Speaker 2: not able to go to twenty twenty three World Cup
Speaker 2: due to that ankle foot injury. I think I don't
Speaker 2: know if she meant. I don't think she makes us
Speaker 2: better necessarily because I think Germa and Arts were pretty
Speaker 2: darn good. But I think having Becky there does allow
Speaker 2: Vlatko a little bit of versatility by maybe pushing Julie
Speaker 2: Ertz into a defensive midfield role as opposed to just
Speaker 2: being a center back. But Becky has been the consummate
Speaker 2: leader of this program and is revered by all. But
Speaker 2: like two people who have played for this program as
Speaker 2: an entirety, and those two people's opinions are the outlier,
Speaker 2: and unfortunately one of them has a really big platform
Speaker 2: on a network that doesn't need to cover soccer ever. Again.
Speaker 2: But Becky as a player was one of the most
Speaker 2: just technically sound center backs I think we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: That was the biggest thing that she brought. You know,
Speaker 2: she was not a big, strong, powerful, towering, fast center back.
Speaker 2: You know, she's tall, but she's not a She's not
Speaker 2: one of those types of you know.
Speaker 1: Let's just put it away.
Speaker 2: An English coach wouldn't like her, John because she has
Speaker 2: this thing called class on the ball, and she has
Speaker 2: smart in her head, and that's just inconsistent with the
Speaker 2: way the English played this game. But she she really
Speaker 2: did kind of, I think, revolutionize that position for women soccer.
Speaker 2: Her and Wendy Renard kind of changed the idea of
Speaker 2: what center back should be in the game. You know.
Speaker 2: She she was really an influential player. Looking at how
Speaker 2: she played the game and how I think you're seeing
Speaker 2: a lot more of that type of style of center
Speaker 2: back now in the women's game.
Speaker 1: All right, so it's time for reffing down here, like
Speaker 1: we need like game show music or something.
Speaker 2: Now, boy, when are we talking first?
Speaker 1: Well, obviously, I think we got to talk about the
Speaker 1: one that's traditionally attached to your household, don't we We
Speaker 1: have to talk about Brighton Arsenal with the foul by
Speaker 1: Saliba on Pedro, I believe, yeah, And you're already you're
Speaker 1: already getting a migrate on this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh So, basically the rundown is Joel Pedro gets a
Speaker 1: loose ball inside the penalty area thirty minutes to go.
Speaker 1: First touch, lifted the ball, which goes up his chest,
Speaker 1: nods it forward. Then Saliba accidentally heads is j'el Pedro
Speaker 1: in trying to make a challenge Anthony Taylor points for
Speaker 1: a penalty checked by var penalty stands, and it eventually
Speaker 1: ends up being an equalizer. So when it comes to
Speaker 1: this particular act, is this along the same lines of
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't matter if it's It's like, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you take a swing and a miss
Speaker 1: at somebody, you still took a swing at somebody. And
Speaker 1: even if you missed the ball and head butt somebody,
Speaker 1: you still head butt somebody. Is that the same rationale here?
Speaker 2: I think that that's something that can be applied. Okay,
Speaker 2: I had a really I had a problem with this, John,
Speaker 2: and I think the problem is that I understand why
Speaker 2: it's given a penalty. There's contact, you know, mm.
Speaker 1: Hmm, you're thinking he's thinking a way too hard on it.
Speaker 2: I think my problem is that, in the context of
Speaker 2: this game, Anthony Taylor calling this a foul when there
Speaker 2: were multiple times where Brighton players just decided to, I
Speaker 2: don't know, bulldoze an Arsenal player and get little to
Speaker 2: no consequences for it. Yes, that contact is what's a
Speaker 2: penalty and decides the result of a game is a
Speaker 2: little bit out of sort with the rest of the game.
Speaker 2: We watched and and that I'll take this to a
Speaker 2: training session I had, oh gosh, I don't even know
Speaker 2: how long ago, but the referee instructor at the time
Speaker 2: was like, you know, sometimes we need to make sure
Speaker 2: we're all watching the same movie, and as a referee,
Speaker 2: you have to you have to understand that you need
Speaker 2: to be watching the same movie as everyone else, if
Speaker 2: that makes any sense, Johnny, and I think this is
Speaker 2: one of those examples of like, well, that didn't really
Speaker 2: fit the script. It's like calling the Bear comedy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not a comedy. The Bear is not
Speaker 2: a comedy. I watched that show and it is not
Speaker 2: a comedy. It's comedic parts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, you hear you see.
Speaker 2: The comedic part and you go, oh, okay, back to
Speaker 2: the you know, drama and the brooding drama and a
Speaker 2: of a and we need Nikolafy to come on here
Speaker 2: and talk cinematography with that. I think think that's my
Speaker 2: issue with it, Johns. It just seemed out of place
Speaker 2: given the context of everything else. And then when you
Speaker 2: compare that to not giving a penalty to Arsenal for
Speaker 2: the Brighton defender slide tackling Gabrielle on a corner kick
Speaker 2: when the ball wasn't even I mean, had barely been kicked,
Speaker 2: but he's taken him out by the legs and not
Speaker 2: giving that a penalty, it just it felt inconsistent with
Speaker 2: the way the rest of the game had been played.
Speaker 2: Is it a penalty? Is it a foul inside the
Speaker 2: penalty area? Sure, sure, john we'll call it that. It
Speaker 2: just was very inconsistent with the way the rest of
Speaker 2: the game played out.
Speaker 1: So to your point, twenty minutes earlier, Arsenal had won
Speaker 1: the corner and then O'Reilly and gabrielle magleish, which is
Speaker 1: what you were getting into. Now, I go to ground
Speaker 1: Gabriel jay Zeus heads over from the corner, but then
Speaker 1: once again the case for a penalty, and no penalty
Speaker 1: was called.
Speaker 2: So so that one was more way, more contact and interference,
Speaker 2: and I had missed header that did not interfere with
Speaker 2: the attacker's ability to continue.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then so then here's the rationale by Dale Johnson.
Speaker 1: In this case, the ball wasn't in play when the
Speaker 1: foul on Gabriel took place. Therefore a penalty isn't possible,
Speaker 1: and that I mean, he's.
Speaker 2: Gonna explain that because Dale likes to not give Arsenal credit.
Speaker 2: But I think that is not also how it happened.
Speaker 2: But that's just my opinion. I don't. I also understand,
Speaker 2: and I'll say this about the Gabrielle thing, is he
Speaker 2: initiates contact by pushing the defender. Yes, fore card I know,
Speaker 2: And I said that, Okay, I said that.
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I said I didn't like it because fit the context
Speaker 2: of the game. I didn't say it wasn't a falancide.
Speaker 2: But if you're gonna say contact is contact, then what
Speaker 2: the hell was going on twenty minutes prior on the
Speaker 2: corner kick? What I'm saying, that's what I'm saying, and
Speaker 2: that's the consistency that we want. Okay, are we watching
Speaker 2: the same movie? Oh? Because I'm watching this game going.
Speaker 2: You know, you've got guys throwing elbows. It seems like
Speaker 2: thrusting through Arsenal players, just running them over with no
Speaker 2: regard to health, life or reason, and they're just getting
Speaker 2: a foul call. There's no yellow card show. But a
Speaker 2: header that is slightly missed is now a penalty kick.
Speaker 2: But you're not giving it.
Speaker 1: And I don't.
Speaker 2: I disagree with Dale. I think that when the foul occurred,
Speaker 2: it very clearly the ball had been put into play,
Speaker 2: So I disagree with him on that, but you know
Speaker 2: Dale's rights for ESPN and I don't so.
Speaker 1: Ah well, but that's why that's why we have you
Speaker 1: and the four less.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll admit it's hard for me to talk
Speaker 2: about this because as an Arsenal fan, right, the penalty
Speaker 2: kick has called for that, but not for this, and
Speaker 2: one of those things was a much more influential action
Speaker 2: on the game. Yes, and again it just did not
Speaker 2: fit the way that Anthony Taylor called the game the
Speaker 2: rest of the way. But hey, good for him. His
Speaker 2: Manchester team got a result. Good from Anthony Taylor.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, let me get into dog Sew. Here full
Speaker 1: of and ipswich. Harry Wilson looks to be through in
Speaker 1: the twenty seventh brought down by Leaf Davis. Darren Bond
Speaker 1: produces a yellow. But was there a case for a
Speaker 1: red for dog Sew And the decision by var was
Speaker 1: that there was no red for dog Sew and I
Speaker 1: would I would pause it that because there was a defender,
Speaker 1: say seven to ten yards to the play's right that
Speaker 1: you have to assume in that regard that the player
Speaker 1: can shift his angle and be there to help defend.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this was giving a lot of giving
Speaker 2: a lot of credit to the defender. But I also
Speaker 2: think again, when you look at dog so distance to goal,
Speaker 2: distance to the ball, direction of play, and defenders present,
Speaker 2: and I think it's a little bit fair to say
Speaker 2: that it all of those weren't fully met, If that
Speaker 2: makes sense, Yeah, defenders being one of those. But I
Speaker 2: don't think that it's I don't think it meant any
Speaker 2: of the like. I don't really think this was a
Speaker 2: true dog Soo type thing, especially when you look at
Speaker 2: how many defense were close by, and then his ability
Speaker 2: to play the ball toward goal again with an obvious
Speaker 2: goal scoring opportunity.
Speaker 1: So okay, then once again you end up with the
Speaker 1: possible penalty where you have once again, and by the way,
Speaker 1: very very busy Harry Wilson, very very busy.
Speaker 2: He's been involved with the several var situations past month. Hey,
Speaker 2: I mean, well, when the Premier League plays a game
Speaker 2: every day, I get it.
Speaker 1: So yeah. Well, and at the same time, dude, I mean,
Speaker 1: if Ipswich makes sure that Harry Wilson is going to
Speaker 1: be at the point of the spear. Then you need
Speaker 1: all the help you can get sometimes. So in the
Speaker 1: twenty five to Go goes to ground on a challenge
Speaker 1: waves the penalty away, but the referee waved away penalty
Speaker 1: appeals goes to VAR and it ends up being scored
Speaker 1: by Rol Jimenez. Yep. So once again this goes to
Speaker 1: the idea of correcting an error, and this was viewed
Speaker 1: as an on field error and oh my god, VAR
Speaker 1: does its job, question Mark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think in the run of play, you're looking
Speaker 2: at like if yeah, you're looking at like three players
Speaker 2: around another player, right, and you are tempted to look
Speaker 2: at the player most proximant to the defender, most proximate
Speaker 2: to the attacker and the ball. And when you look
Speaker 2: at that, like, there wasn't a foul committed, Does that
Speaker 2: make sense? But when you looked at the bigger picture,
Speaker 2: you could see that the defender kind of tripped the
Speaker 2: attacker from behind, and you may not the referee may
Speaker 2: not have been honing in on that, if that makes
Speaker 2: any sense. So, yeah, this was a clear and obvious error.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously, I think VAR first needed a check.
Speaker 2: Was this inside or outside of the penalty area. I
Speaker 2: think once you saw it from a better angle, it
Speaker 2: was very clearly inside the penultaria where the contact was made.
Speaker 2: And again we go back to what four card reminded
Speaker 2: me of Arsenal. Contact is contact and no matter where
Speaker 2: it is on the field, and it happened to be
Speaker 2: inside the penalty area. So therefore VR can say no,
Speaker 2: this is a penalty kick. Oh boy, it's only not
Speaker 2: contact is contact when Arsenal was trying to score on
Speaker 2: a set piece.
Speaker 1: Ah yeah, I see how this.
Speaker 2: I'm salty this morning, and I won't apologize.
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with nothing wrong with being salty. I mean monday,
Speaker 1: I saw.
Speaker 2: Luisa Brahm stuff in the chat too, and I walked in,
Speaker 2: so that maybe even wow.
Speaker 1: And I know, but as as I remind folks, I said,
Speaker 1: it's about controlling an asset. It has nothing to do.
Speaker 2: It's he's not an asset, John, what's the top instead
Speaker 2: of an asset in the financial sense, he's not even that.
Speaker 2: He's a burden.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, yeah, here we go.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that's all right. Look, if I can make almost
Speaker 2: a million dollars a year being bad at my job,
Speaker 2: sign me up.
Speaker 1: I would love that. Oh yeah, you and I definitely disagree.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Jason's on here, so yeah, we just like my shot.
Speaker 2: So I.
Speaker 1: So then all right, so then after not getting a
Speaker 1: penalty now and this is this is crazy because the
Speaker 1: the Ipswitch Fulham match had like seven I know, I know.
Speaker 1: Then you get a then you get a penalty. So
Speaker 1: basically you get a penalty awarded because Staniel on the lap.
Speaker 1: The ref immediately goes to the spell that it.
Speaker 2: Looked worse than it was. But again it was like,
Speaker 2: well he tried to kick the ball. He didn't really
Speaker 2: kick the ball. He kicked the foot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean literally, it's like you can't turn, you
Speaker 1: can't turn a direction. It's it's like the the old
Speaker 1: target practice thing at the the amusement park where you're
Speaker 1: shooting the duck and the you know, you shoot the
Speaker 1: duck and the duck changes direction. You shoot the duck
Speaker 1: again and it changes direct. So no matter how many
Speaker 1: times you shoot and hit the duck, you're gonna end
Speaker 1: up getting the penaly out of this stuff. It's when
Speaker 1: you when you're in a situation like this, let me
Speaker 1: let me, let me ask you this. When it comes
Speaker 1: to being an official, you've got a game that's heading
Speaker 1: a certain direction and I and I mean this in
Speaker 1: the sense of uh, like in in ipswitching Fulham, it's
Speaker 1: like penalty, penalty penalty. It's like bang bang bang. You
Speaker 1: end up with uh. With the play on the field
Speaker 1: heading in a certain direction and like it's heading downhill fast.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you keep it from spiraling
Speaker 1: out of control? When you have a game that seems
Speaker 1: to have the personality that it is spiraling out of
Speaker 1: control and oh my god, we've got to pull the
Speaker 1: reins back in here, even if your even if the
Speaker 1: calls of the crew have been consistent, how do you
Speaker 1: keep a game from spiraling out of control on the
Speaker 1: field and making sure that you guys meaning the officials,
Speaker 1: keep control of it no matter how everything seems to
Speaker 1: be going downhill?
Speaker 2: Other two scenarios. One is at the professional level, you
Speaker 2: would call the captain you know you may have a
Speaker 2: harsh foul. Or is a coming together a moment where
Speaker 2: nothing really happened, but you can tell that things are
Speaker 2: about to happen. The proper protocol would be to whistle
Speaker 2: for your captains from a team to come over, have
Speaker 2: a nice talk with them, say boys, because at this point,
Speaker 2: they're not being gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Boys.
Speaker 2: You need to tell you the rest of your team,
Speaker 2: as I'm telling you now, the way this match is headed,
Speaker 2: the temperature of this match. We need to be focused
Speaker 2: on playing soccer. This is what I always tell kids.
Speaker 2: We need to be focused on playing soccer right now
Speaker 2: and right now we're not focused on soccer. We need
Speaker 2: to get back to trying to play the sport in
Speaker 2: a fair manner. That's the word we want to use.
Speaker 2: Fair right, tone it down, Let's get back to playing fairly. Now.
Speaker 2: That's at the professional level where you have or whatever
Speaker 2: level you have designated captains. They've got the arm band,
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. A lot of the times when
Speaker 2: I'm referring the captain is just whoever happened to be,
Speaker 2: you know, first to practice that week or whatever. You know,
Speaker 2: they don't really have a lot of captains designated, or
Speaker 2: even if they do, there's three of them, so you know,
Speaker 2: it's not really like you can say, okay, captain, come here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I have at many points. You know, one you
Speaker 2: if there's a particularly harsh vowel that you have whistled,
Speaker 2: you call that player to you and say, hey, this
Speaker 2: is getting out of hand. You need to control yourself
Speaker 2: and play fairly. That's if it's a player that has
Speaker 2: been kind of issues, but if it's simply if it's
Speaker 2: emblematic of a match that's going toward the chaos realm. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have many times taking the opportunity after a foul
Speaker 2: before restart and I'll just I'll loudly say to the
Speaker 2: entire team, y'all, that's enough. We need to focus on
Speaker 2: being playing fairly. We need to play smart, and we
Speaker 2: need to play soccer. Let's get back to that and
Speaker 2: we'll go on. And usually that's kind of like the
Speaker 2: warning shot of I see what's happening. Then the thing, though, John,
Speaker 2: is you have to back it up with your next action.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, because there's inevitably going to be a foul after that, right,
Speaker 2: So how you react to that foul. We'll tell players
Speaker 2: how serious you are about what you just said, and
Speaker 2: so you give you a little speech, be it to
Speaker 2: the captains or the teams as a whole. The next
Speaker 2: time you get a foul, you just need to be
Speaker 2: a little bit more proactive instead of reactive. So first off,
Speaker 2: you're now looking for possibly tightening your grip on the
Speaker 2: game when I know, we don't like referees when they
Speaker 2: insert themselves from the game, but you've got to tighten
Speaker 2: your control on the game, and that may mean you
Speaker 2: call some extra fouls that you maybe haven't called before
Speaker 2: that I know we went consistency, but when players are
Speaker 2: showing their inability to control themselves, you have to control
Speaker 2: the game a little bit more. So you might call
Speaker 2: some fouls that you maybe hadn't before, or maybe instead
Speaker 2: of letting an advantage play, if it's not a super
Speaker 2: obvious advantage, right, you might just foul and then the
Speaker 2: other thing that you need to do. And this is
Speaker 2: good practice, but you know it doesn't always need to
Speaker 2: be done. Is you need to be very quick to
Speaker 2: get to the spot of that foul because again you're anticipating, right,
Speaker 2: people acting in untoward manners.
Speaker 1: People acting the fool.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so you just need to be present. And
Speaker 2: it sucks because that means that you as a referee,
Speaker 2: especially if you're like me and you've refereed, you know,
Speaker 2: four games in a day, and you're like, man, it's
Speaker 2: minute sixty nine of an eighty minute match and I'm
Speaker 2: just ready to go home, and you know, there's a
Speaker 2: beer in the fridge waiting for me. You may not
Speaker 2: want to put in that extra effort to have to
Speaker 2: kind of sprint to where you called a foul, or
Speaker 2: being a little bit more close to play, or being
Speaker 2: a little more in tune with what players are saying
Speaker 2: or not saying. But you just have to be you
Speaker 2: as a referee, have to be a little bit more proactive,
Speaker 2: raise your level of urgency, and understand that you have
Speaker 2: to be a little bit more policing and controlling of
Speaker 2: the game, because again, they're not controlling themselves, they're not
Speaker 2: policing themselves. You have to do that for them.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, how hard is that?
Speaker 2: That's hard, John, truly because and I've had this problem
Speaker 2: where and you know, you want the teams to be
Speaker 2: able to play fair, but sometimes teams are not interested
Speaker 2: in play soccer. I mean truly, you know they they
Speaker 2: do come out there and they're like, I'm going to
Speaker 2: do this and that and and what's the line of
Speaker 2: do I call everything or do I let them play soccer?
Speaker 2: Because at some point we got to have this game
Speaker 2: and we got to get through the ninety minutes or
Speaker 2: whatever and have some sort of result. I can't be
Speaker 2: belonging my whistle over two seconds because you know, players
Speaker 2: are being silly, so as a referee you kind of
Speaker 2: have to adjust your own line sometimes. You know, we
Speaker 2: we'd hear about this when we have finals or in
Speaker 2: a tournament play. You know, we don't want the referee
Speaker 2: to make a decision. So that's why we don't give
Speaker 2: yellow cards or whatever. And I don't necessarily agree with that,
Speaker 2: because I think you need to have your standard and
Speaker 2: if that is a yellow card, then you need to
Speaker 2: give a yellow card. Players have to be held accountable
Speaker 2: for their actions. But again the problem is, how do
Speaker 2: we as referees understand that our standard and their standards
Speaker 2: are a little incompatible and we have to somehow find
Speaker 2: a way to to meet the where they are in
Speaker 2: some cases while still maintaining a fair play in the
Speaker 2: game and the laws of the game.
Speaker 1: It's hard along those lines. How hard is it to
Speaker 1: bring your crew along with you, if that makes any sense,
Speaker 1: If if I'm wording that properly too, it's like, okay, guys,
Speaker 1: we've all got to pull the rope here.
Speaker 2: How hard well part of that is going to be
Speaker 2: when you're at the professional level, or you know, at
Speaker 2: our level. You're probably looking at maybe the college game
Speaker 2: or semipro where you do have communications headsets. That is
Speaker 2: a conversation you're having throughout the game, like, oh, this
Speaker 2: is getting chippy, and maybe your ar is saying something
Speaker 2: to your fourth official met be probably the one who's
Speaker 2: really able to measure that a little bit better, and
Speaker 2: they might give you that in the in your ear
Speaker 2: peers saying like, hey, man, like it's getting a little
Speaker 2: out of hand. You might want to tighten up a
Speaker 2: little bit. But when you don't have that, the center
Speaker 2: referee is a little bit isolated out there. You might
Speaker 2: have that talk at halftime say hey, look, things are
Speaker 2: getting a little out of hand. I need you all
Speaker 2: to be a little more observant of things happening behind
Speaker 2: the play. I need you to be more willing to
Speaker 2: pop your flag and call a foul if you need to.
Speaker 2: So you might say that, but it is hard at
Speaker 2: my level when I'm not running out there with a
Speaker 2: you know, five hundred dollars communications set to communicate with
Speaker 2: the rest of my officials. Now, part of that is
Speaker 2: also that they're not really in charge of making those decisions.
Speaker 2: They really aren't a good official will understand, oh, I
Speaker 2: need to be a little more A good AR will
Speaker 2: also understand who I need to kind of tighten up
Speaker 2: my own game here, and they might see the center going, okay,
Speaker 2: he's he's taking a little bit more of a proactive approach.
Speaker 2: I need to do that as well. But when you
Speaker 2: do not have that communication device on your head, it
Speaker 2: is hard because there's not really a time that you
Speaker 2: can just go talk to your AR. You know, there
Speaker 2: might there are hand signals maybe you could give. You
Speaker 2: can maybe look at it and me like, hey, hey, John,
Speaker 2: like you know, this is kind of our signal of
Speaker 2: like we need to tighten up a bit, but it's
Speaker 2: not really there's not really a natural break in action
Speaker 2: for us to be able to do that. So it
Speaker 2: is hard. It's just something that as a center referee
Speaker 2: you have to kind of lead by example and hope
Speaker 2: the ars follow you in that example.
Speaker 1: And this just popped into my head as a question,
Speaker 1: how much more difficult is it or is it easier
Speaker 1: when you have a two ref setup and you don't
Speaker 1: have ars versus a solo ref with ars, Because there
Speaker 1: are times in the high school there are times in
Speaker 1: the high school game where you'll have of the two
Speaker 1: refs and it'll be like a fifty to fifty on
Speaker 1: opposite sides or what have you, versus the center f
Speaker 1: with ars. How much more difficult is it to navigate
Speaker 1: a match when there's just two of you versus Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's a reason why the two man system is not
Speaker 2: allowed in USSU, and it's mainly just because now you
Speaker 2: have two decisions like actual decision makers. And that's kind
Speaker 2: of the issue here is you have an ARS are
Speaker 2: assistant referees. They have very two, very specific jobs. Their
Speaker 2: number one job is offside, right, because that is something
Speaker 2: that as a center referee, I factually just cannot call
Speaker 2: every time that's I can't do it. I cannot be
Speaker 2: able to see that, which is also why I hate
Speaker 2: that at the U ten level we still have it
Speaker 2: because we don't have ARS a lot of times and
Speaker 2: we're still expected to call it and I go, I
Speaker 2: don't know, he might be offside. So from that standpoint,
Speaker 2: you have ARS there to literally just call off side.
Speaker 2: And then their secondary job, which technically is their secondary job,
Speaker 2: is balls in and out of play. Again, those are
Speaker 2: things that as an as a center referee, it's hard
Speaker 2: for me to truly like call correctly one hundred percent
Speaker 2: of the time. But other than that, the ars really
Speaker 2: aren't supposed to do too much. You know, we asked
Speaker 2: them to help us out on foul calls, but even
Speaker 2: then it needs to be coming from the center official
Speaker 2: most of the time. So when you add two true
Speaker 2: decision makers on the field, it just gets a little
Speaker 2: crazy because you might have one who sees the game
Speaker 2: a little bit different than the other, and so truly
Speaker 2: a foul on one half the field could not be
Speaker 2: a foul on the other half. And it's because you
Speaker 2: have two different set of eyes and two different perspectives
Speaker 2: calling a game.
Speaker 1: Okay, Like I said, I just wanted to that was
Speaker 1: literally was something that.
Speaker 2: John that they do it because you don't have that
Speaker 2: like to get three referees for you know, say you
Speaker 2: have ten referee ten games on a on a Friday night, right,
Speaker 2: and that would mean thirty referees versus twenty, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just the reason why they do the
Speaker 2: two man. It's not for any other reason than money
Speaker 2: and availability of referees.
Speaker 1: Okay, Like I said, just Derek is obviously also not
Speaker 1: a fan of the two rep.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: I if I remember correctly, you know, Georgia High School
Speaker 2: basically mandated that, at least when I was playing that
Speaker 2: if it's a region game, like a game that meant something.
Speaker 2: So region games and playoff games needed to have three
Speaker 2: officials because you know, they do require that. I don't
Speaker 2: know how much they're able to actually stick to that, yeah,
Speaker 2: because again it's tough, especially when you have guys like
Speaker 2: me who don't referee high school because I can't get
Speaker 2: to a high school at five thirty in the afternoon
Speaker 2: when I work until five.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, yes, the whole real world thing getting
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean seriously, you know why most if Johnny
Speaker 2: know this, When you look at a lot of high
Speaker 2: school officials, they look older than you.
Speaker 1: Mm.
Speaker 2: Why is that? You know, Yeah, they're retired or you
Speaker 2: know something. You know, they're already up at six am
Speaker 2: so that they they're done with work by three or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know how they do it. Yes, it is
Speaker 2: a problem, but it's also just kind of you know,
Speaker 2: it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Well, then so then what would you say for those
Speaker 1: that I mean, because we know across the board that
Speaker 1: the sport needs more officials. How would you how would
Speaker 1: you impress upon individuals that might be sitting on the
Speaker 1: fence or you know, I don't know, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I would not put this on the individuals who aren't involved.
Speaker 2: I would put on the individuals who are making decisions
Speaker 2: for those who are involved. Okay, so entirely too expensive
Speaker 2: to expect people to put forth the money, not just
Speaker 2: to certify, but then for the equipment that you need
Speaker 2: to referee, and then you add onto you know, specific
Speaker 2: to the situation. Just start the games a little later.
Speaker 2: It's really well it is. You know, I can swing
Speaker 2: getting off at four. Yeah, you know I can't swing
Speaker 2: getting off at three thirty. Yeah, because I have to
Speaker 2: be there for high school games A lot of times,
Speaker 2: you thirty minutes before is too late.
Speaker 1: If that makes sense, Yeah, it did.
Speaker 2: So if you're starting at five thirty and I have
Speaker 2: to be there at five and I'm going, you know,
Speaker 2: or I need to be there at four thirty, I
Speaker 2: should say, well, that means I need to leave a
Speaker 2: lot of times, you know, thirty minutes to forty five
Speaker 2: minutes to an hour beforehand, depending on where I'm going.
Speaker 2: And Lord knows, in Atlanta. It takes an hour to
Speaker 2: get from Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Well, and I think Atlanta, and I would think, and
Speaker 1: I don't know that, and I don't know the machinations
Speaker 1: involved in something like this, but I would maintain that
Speaker 1: if you had a rash of available officials and you
Speaker 1: knew where they lived going into a season, that you
Speaker 1: could orchestrate, say for you, as an example, knowing where,
Speaker 1: knowing the part of the knowing the part of the
Speaker 1: planet that you that you're in. Yeah, if I gave
Speaker 1: you assignments at North Atlanta, if I gave you an
Speaker 1: assignment at Midtown, if I gave you an assignment in
Speaker 1: the Cab County at Saint Adams or something, or north
Speaker 1: to Cab, something like that, something geographically desirable, it would
Speaker 1: be a lot easier for you to make those those
Speaker 1: deadlines and make those appearance deadlines so you could call
Speaker 1: the matches so you don't have these shortages.
Speaker 2: Yes, and no promise, John, where did you know a
Speaker 2: lot of the referees live?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Also in that similar geographic area you know, So you're right.
Speaker 2: I mean, in theory, you're getting assigned games that are
Speaker 2: close to you, but you also the other problem is
Speaker 2: like say, I say Bart Keeler lived still in Gwinnette County, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: so Kart Beeler lives in in in you know, Bart
Speaker 2: still lives in Gwinnette, as do a lot of other officials.
Speaker 2: Gwenette has. Oh gosh, I don't even know how many
Speaker 2: high schools we have now A lot, A lot, I
Speaker 2: mean seriously a lot. I mean it's grown. It's almost
Speaker 2: double since I graduated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're talking entire regions in classification, in
Speaker 1: multiple areas. You know.
Speaker 2: So there are a lot of officials who live in
Speaker 2: and around Gwennette County, right, but they're also problem there
Speaker 2: as John. And not to be a little bit arrogant,
Speaker 2: but if you're in Cobb or Gunette, guess what those are?
Speaker 2: Where the best high school teams are. I mean that
Speaker 2: bears out year ever a year over year. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, you look at Wheeler, Marietta, Chattahoochee, and then
Speaker 2: you look at park View, Grayson, Brookwood, Peatree, Ridge, Mill Creek,
Speaker 2: you know, berkmar of recent state change. You know, all
Speaker 2: these high schools that have high level teams. Because also
Speaker 2: when you look at the youth clubs where the youth
Speaker 2: clubs are in Gobyn Gwinett. So now you're talking about
Speaker 2: well like, well, you have to have a referee who's
Speaker 2: up to I mean, John, you've covered it. You gotta
Speaker 2: have a refereees up to the park forew Brookwood standigans.
Speaker 2: Yes you know, I mean GHSA doesn't just put any
Speaker 2: group of seven guys out there for that park for
Speaker 2: Brookwood football game. Because if you do that, you know
Speaker 2: that that you know, that's that's the other problem here is,
Speaker 2: you know, you can't have Wheeler Marietta go out there
Speaker 2: and just be like, all right, y'all have fun. Here's
Speaker 2: some two guys who have never referee before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't. You can't have Hillgrove in the Keecher
Speaker 1: and going No.
Speaker 2: Exactly, you can't do that. You can't have McIntosh and
Speaker 2: stars Milk go out there and say, here's some guys
Speaker 2: who have never played soccer before.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, you can't have a two ref system
Speaker 1: for Dalton and Macintosh.
Speaker 2: No oh god, no, you know. And that's the other
Speaker 2: thing is okay, well Gainesville Dalton, oh boy, you know
Speaker 2: those are referee those are way up there. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: the reality is most of the good referees live in
Speaker 2: and around the Atlanta area because they get a lot
Speaker 2: of the better games because that's where the better clubs are. Anyway,
Speaker 2: it is a it is a multi faceted, most multi
Speaker 2: layered problem.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's just what it is.
Speaker 2: And as Abby also points out, the referee thing is cost.
Speaker 2: You know, schools are paying the cost and so paying
Speaker 2: the cost for three referees versus two referees, well, you know,
Speaker 2: you may pay both referees sixty bucks. I think it's
Speaker 2: one hundred actually for a center. Okay, that's two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a lot. But if you have to
Speaker 2: pay a center ninety say now a three man crew.
Speaker 2: But then you got to play the pay the you know,
Speaker 2: the ar is sixty to seventy bucks each. Well, now
Speaker 2: that's more than paying two referees one hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: So forty you're hoping that you get at least fifty
Speaker 1: people to come in and watch the match.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And you're not charging a whole lot. And
Speaker 2: that's another thing is they have gotten to somehow, for
Speaker 2: some reason, charging students to attend games, which I think
Speaker 2: is the dumbest thing that's ever happened. Ever, I think
Speaker 2: but that uh huh. Anyway, there are a lot of issues,
Speaker 2: and this is where I contendally just want to say
Speaker 2: the problem a lot of times is because you have
Speaker 2: people making decisions that are not making decisions for the
Speaker 2: benefit of the kids playing the game. Okay, period. I
Speaker 2: think that is a fair assessment. You have a lot
Speaker 2: of people, though, who are trying to do right as well,
Speaker 2: and we need more people who are involved in the
Speaker 2: game whose goal is to make the game better, not
Speaker 2: make money off the game. This may or may not
Speaker 2: be coming up in the my So this week is
Speaker 2: soccer for us where we talk about resolutions.
Speaker 1: Okay, so as to tease, as they say in the biz.
Speaker 2: The problem we have in this country is it's expensive, yes,
Speaker 2: to participate in this game. We all know this, but
Speaker 2: it's also hard to do something for the benefit of
Speaker 2: the game because there are way too many people who
Speaker 2: see this as a business opportunity and this country views
Speaker 2: capitalism as the only virtue. And until we get away
Speaker 2: from that, we're going to have these problems continually. And
Speaker 2: you and you soccer and new sports across the port.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh and so when are you getting together to
Speaker 1: record the new episode of soccer.
Speaker 2: Tonight or tomorrow night. We're trying to figure out schedules
Speaker 2: because a couple of people have kids, and what did
Speaker 2: the kids do this week? John, they go back to
Speaker 2: school Friday.
Speaker 1: Why the supplies kick him in the buttons?
Speaker 2: And I know, I know we'll have an episode out
Speaker 2: by Friday. So that's that is the plan. So we'll
Speaker 2: be recording early this week. But we're trying to nail
Speaker 2: down when, because again, you know, you may think the
Speaker 2: schedule is what it is until you send them after
Speaker 2: school today and then you know, things happen and then
Speaker 2: both both the other guys I also have kids playing soccer,
Speaker 2: so that that doesn't help either, because I'm sure the
Speaker 2: one in Maine probably isn't playing soccer today the weather,
Speaker 2: But Georgia can still go out and play soccer.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the weather on the big fifty five
Speaker 1: off in my left. Yeah there's a lot of pink
Speaker 1: and purple, and yeah.
Speaker 2: Go buy your milk and brid y'all so you can
Speaker 2: have your milk bread sandwiches.
Speaker 1: Yes, milk bread sandwiches. All right, my friend, it's always
Speaker 1: great to catch up with you on Mondays. We're looking
Speaker 1: forward to that new episode of the Soccer for USPOD
Speaker 1: and we'll catch up with you soon. Good morning Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Good morning Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll have predictions and resolutions coming out this Friday,
Speaker 2: so I'll be good yes.
Speaker 1: Or not, whichever is more fun. So there goes Bart,
Speaker 1: and it's always fun to have Bart kind of break
Speaker 1: everything down from a couple of different angles, and it's
Speaker 1: always it's always fun to get his perspective on things.
Speaker 1: So it's always it's always nice to have Bart dropping
Speaker 1: by on Mondays or pretty much whenever Bart raises his
Speaker 1: hand and he sits there and goes, yo, fam, I
Speaker 1: got something to talk about. So it's always it's always
Speaker 1: fun to get the reffing perspective from Bart, to have
Speaker 1: him walk through plays so we can understand more about
Speaker 1: perhaps the mental aspect of the game from a center
Speaker 1: ref perspective and things like that. So Soccer for us
Speaker 1: PO d at Bartamus Prime nineteen on the two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty character app. I do have a breaking news sounder,
Speaker 1: but I am not going to use it because it's
Speaker 1: not news. If we get to the point to where
Speaker 1: something is news, I will use the breaking new sounder,
Speaker 1: but apparently. According to Ben Jacobs and our friends at GMS,
Speaker 1: Lowpategy is said to be sacked by west Ham Graham
Speaker 1: Potter as a leading candidate to replace, So keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that involving involving folks and involving the idea
Speaker 1: of perhaps oh I don't know you, Sir can can
Speaker 1: be the new head coach at west Ham. So it
Speaker 1: looks like Juwel and Lopateggy might be on his way
Speaker 1: out on the board. It looks like Brian mccab has
Speaker 1: signed a new contract to mark his eleventh season and
Speaker 1: loose in the louisvill at lou City for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: So he has signed a new deal. Red Bulls Red
Speaker 1: Bulls two defender jay R Colajuazo has been named to ECUADORI,
Speaker 1: the ECUADORI and U twenty national team for the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five Common Ball U twenty Championships. Sophion Jaffall is
Speaker 1: joining Lexington SC's men's team in a transfer from San
Speaker 1: Antonio FC, so there's news there as well. Joe Bellingham
Speaker 1: being targeted by Crystal Palace again this January. According to
Speaker 1: our friends at Talks, Sport Eagles hold a long term
Speaker 1: interest in the nineteen year old who has valued at
Speaker 1: twenty million pounds by Sunderland. So there's that information. The
Speaker 1: other stuff that we wanted to get into involving Major
Speaker 1: League Soccer Toronto FC, according to that great reporter known
Speaker 1: as Sources, sounds like a rock group from the nineties. Sources,
Speaker 1: it appears that there might be possibly, probably maybe working
Speaker 1: towards a departure for Lorenzo Insignia in the winter. So
Speaker 1: according to Tom Boger, Tommy Scoop says, nothing is imminent
Speaker 1: or settled, so it's not quite a scoop, so it's
Speaker 1: staring at tea leaves, perhaps by Tommy Scoops. Both sides
Speaker 1: motivated to split before the twenty five season. Sources say
Speaker 1: transfer windows open for the most of the world this month,
Speaker 1: so literally the transfer windows opened this month for the
Speaker 1: rest of the planet doesn't kick in from Major League
Speaker 1: Soccer until the end of the month, so it could
Speaker 1: see a return to Europe for Insignia or head to
Speaker 1: the Middle East. Toronto could choose to use the contract buyout.
Speaker 1: We talked about the buyout involving Atlanta United players and
Speaker 1: just as an fyi I mentioned controlling an asset, the contractual,
Speaker 1: the monetary, very ideas behind it. Santi Sosa last year,
Speaker 1: to give you an idea, guaranteed compensation was seven hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy eight thousand dollars. And there was a reason
Speaker 1: that at Land United kept him under contract was because
Speaker 1: there were clubs that were interested. Rossing was interested, and
Speaker 1: so Rossing knocked on at Land United's door, didn't and
Speaker 1: saw the seven seventy eight one and didn't flinch. So
Speaker 1: that's what you're uh So, just as a contractual comparison,
Speaker 1: Luisa Brahm guaranteed compensation last year eight seventy one, So
Speaker 1: it's one hundred thousand dollars difference in the asset that
Speaker 1: we were discussing. In an asset, there's always a reason
Speaker 1: that until the bitter bitter end, if no club on
Speaker 1: this planet is interested, then you would use the bio
Speaker 1: for Toronto. By the way, in Signor's contract runs for
Speaker 1: the summer of twenty twenty six. In Signe's the second
Speaker 1: highest paid player in Major League Soccer behind Messi. He
Speaker 1: makes fifteen point four fifteen point four for Lorenzo and Signe,
Speaker 1: more than the total wage bill of seven Major League
Speaker 1: Soccer clubs. So Lorenzo in Signe by his lonesome, by
Speaker 1: his lonesome, made more than an ish ton of teams
Speaker 1: himself fifteen point four million, just to give you an idea,
Speaker 1: fifteen point four Well, and you're looking at the senior
Speaker 1: wage bill. Total allocations, by the way, are aren't that bad?
Speaker 1: Fifteen point four was more than San Jose and Montreal
Speaker 1: in total allocation. But if you're looking at it from
Speaker 1: just senior moneies given, then it's a lot more than that.
Speaker 1: So fifteen point four by the way, so fifteen point
Speaker 1: four is eleven fourteen more than half if you're looking
Speaker 1: at senior roster spots. By the way, total allocations at
Speaker 1: fifteen point four, he only made more than San Jose
Speaker 1: and Montreal in total, but senior dollars at fifteen point
Speaker 1: four he made more than NYC, Charlotte, Portland, Sporting Atlanta, Crewe, Vancouver,
Speaker 1: San Jose, Minnesota all Caps, Colorado, RSO, Philadelphia. In Montreal,
Speaker 1: that's senior dollars. Total allocations is just two by the way,
Speaker 1: fifteen point four San Jose in Montreal. San Jose was
Speaker 1: just under fifteen and Montreal was just over twelve. We
Speaker 1: do have news involving or reports involving Montreal coming up
Speaker 1: in just a sec So fifteen point four. Some MLS
Speaker 1: clubs report for preseason training within the week, the rest
Speaker 1: within two. And this follows into the age of understatement
Speaker 1: from Bogert in Signor's North American sojourn has not gone
Speaker 1: to plan. Forward's time has been marked not by goals
Speaker 1: or assists, but by losses, off field, drama and lack
Speaker 1: of availability. Toronto has not made the playoffs once in
Speaker 1: his two and a half years at the club, finishing
Speaker 1: dead last in twenty twenty three. Fifty four regular season
Speaker 1: appearances in his time at the club fourteen and fourteen.
Speaker 1: By the way, so there was an article in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three at The Athletic that Tom Bogert references by
Speaker 1: Joshua Clokey behind the scenes look at the locker room,
Speaker 1: in which in Signior pushed for the firing of head
Speaker 1: coach Bob Bradley. Do you remember that? Later that season
Speaker 1: The Athletic also detail an incident which in Signior stormed
Speaker 1: out of training after an argument with Terry Dunfield, the
Speaker 1: interim who'd replaced Bradley. Toronto playing Messi and Friends in
Speaker 1: signior was only fit enough to make the bench. Subbed
Speaker 1: in toward the end of the match, John Hardman appeared
Speaker 1: to take a shot in senior At the press conference quote,
Speaker 1: you could see he didn't have much in him. I
Speaker 1: think he managed to get Messi's shirt though. But yeah,
Speaker 1: still without a head coach. By the way, Toronto, they
Speaker 1: don't have a head coach yet. Final stage of that
Speaker 1: search according to Bogert. By the way, Bernardeski still on
Speaker 1: the roster, not making fifteen point four. Also the transfer notebook,
Speaker 1: it looks like Zamelec in Egypt is negotiating to sign
Speaker 1: Mahalo Opoku from c F Montreal. Themelek submitted a loan
Speaker 1: bid with a purchase option. Montreal are not interested in
Speaker 1: entertaining a loan offer. Talks are continuing. Total of nineteen
Speaker 1: players have left Montreal in the last two windows. A
Speaker 1: Poku would make twenty. Montreal brought in Caden Clark, Jaquil Marshall,
Speaker 1: Ruddy and Fabian Aerbers. This winner, the Soamlek are the
Speaker 1: top dogs in the Egyptian Premier League fourteen points after
Speaker 1: seven matches, fourteen titles, five CALF Champions League title since two.
Speaker 1: Only two clubs have won the Egyptian title, Zamalkanlaclete, Club
Speaker 1: America Cluba Medica have bid for Ritchie Ledesma. PSV bids
Speaker 1: under review says that Luis Merlow, at all Ledesma's eligible
Speaker 1: for the Mexican national team could count as a domestic player.
Speaker 1: In Lega m Akis broken back into PSV Einhoven's first
Speaker 1: team after at right back. Sources say Club America like
Speaker 1: his versatility to play both right back in central mid
Speaker 1: one senior m and T cap seventeen appearances for PSV
Speaker 1: five in the Champions League. Attacking midfielder. Ledesmas starred for
Speaker 1: the US at the U twenty World Cup, beating France
Speaker 1: in the round of sixteen, eliminated by Ecuador in the quarters.
Speaker 1: The Ecuadorian squad had eleven players who've gone on to
Speaker 1: make their senior debuts. Santos have bid for Josh Windas. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is true. Brazilian giants Santos have bid for Josh
Speaker 1: Windas from Sheffield Wednesday confirm the bid in an interview
Speaker 1: with Talk Sport. Santos, managed by Pedro Kaishna, who managed
Speaker 1: a wind Ass at Rangers, turns thirty one this week.
Speaker 1: Pierre's his new contract expires in the summer and he'll
Speaker 1: be a free agent again. Sheffield Wednesday, middle of the
Speaker 1: table right now, tenth but just three points outside of
Speaker 1: the promotion spots. So you have those pieces of news
Speaker 1: involving folks in folks out. What have you the other
Speaker 1: pieces of news involving folks by the way, just over
Speaker 1: the over the over the weekend. No, not NBA. You
Speaker 1: hit a button and you're thinking something's going to happen
Speaker 1: or more compost by the way. Signed by transfer from
Speaker 1: LAFC to krus Asoul. The transfer fee estimated at five
Speaker 1: million dollars. We mentioned what's going on in Montreal. Michael
Speaker 1: Adedicat signed a one year deal includes twenty six, twenty
Speaker 1: seven and twenty eight eight with club options, so basically
Speaker 1: it's a four, but it looks like it's a one
Speaker 1: with three options. The forward out of Ohio State has
Speaker 1: signed his deal, so it's club options for twenty six,
Speaker 1: twenty seven and twenty eight. The cap cap hit as
Speaker 1: if yet undisclosed. Mattias Kokuro is going to join Atlas
Speaker 1: FC and the Gonzale pineda loan from Montreal to Atlas
Speaker 1: through the end of the twenty five season. Donovan Prisienne
Speaker 1: has signed a two year deal with New England which
Speaker 1: includes options for twenty seven and twenty eight. We'd mentioned
Speaker 1: the Mattaia Kimboni transfer from DC to Bournemouth. Bournemouth not
Speaker 1: done looking to pick up a left back for eight
Speaker 1: million for eight million pounds from South America on a
Speaker 1: three year deal. We mentioned Fabi and airbers Anis said
Speaker 1: he was transferred from Philly to sand Diego for one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars in gam split across twenty five and
Speaker 1: twenty six plus another two hundred and fifty thousand conditional
Speaker 1: garberbucks with a sell on percentage and a trade percentage.
Speaker 1: So young talent goes from Philly to San Diego. As
Speaker 1: San Diego and Tyler Heaps continue to build their roster up.
Speaker 1: Tobias saw Quist transferred from North Cheland to Chicago, and
Speaker 1: we had mentioned Bradley Carnell to Philadelphia from All Caps
Speaker 1: esmer Byrick Terovitch signed by transfer from New England to
Speaker 1: PSV Eindhoven. Once again, we had mentioned that Byreck Terovitch
Speaker 1: was a certifiable pain in that you know what when
Speaker 1: it came to his play in MLS Next Pro and
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee that he had in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 1: So big piece of business for New England and for
Speaker 1: New England to sign him and Fim this way right now,
Speaker 1: only eight senior roster players available for New England. New
Speaker 1: England will be one of the more famous, more fascinating
Speaker 1: roster bills the upcoming year. Eight senior players Boa, tang
Speaker 1: By Campana, chunk Aalai. We don't know how healthy it
Speaker 1: is to start the season Companha, Chunkalai and Heal the
Speaker 1: three dps. Ivacic Paneotu is a homegrown Matt Polster. Eight
Speaker 1: senior players, three supplementals Peyton Miller, Will San Santi Suarez.
Speaker 1: They're all guaranteed for twenty five non active roster slots.
Speaker 1: Noel Buck, Bryan Sebalos, Luis Diaz who was brought in
Speaker 1: on a free, Farrell Fafanna, Malcolm Fry, Luca Langoni, who
Speaker 1: they have a lot of expectations for coming up in
Speaker 1: twenty five. To Mario Macintosh Parisian, we mentioned Vrioni, Jackson,
Speaker 1: yule Al Hasan Yusef. Right now, you got four dps
Speaker 1: Kmpanha Chunkalai Heel and Rione Langoni's You're only you twenty two.
Speaker 1: But I will be intrigued right now you get twenty
Speaker 1: three players, twenty three players right now in New England?
Speaker 1: How is that gonna build out? I will be fascinated
Speaker 1: to see what it's gonna be in New England because
Speaker 1: of the players that have been moved to San Jose,
Speaker 1: all four of them. That Bruce Arena was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll take them, sure enough he did. And then you
Speaker 1: sell byrek Terovich to ps Behindhoven. You got space, how
Speaker 1: are you gonna fill it? I am intrigued by the
Speaker 1: conversations of Kurdinolfo and Caleb Porter and what that looks
Speaker 1: like coming up in the upcoming year, right really in
Speaker 1: the upcoming month, to be perfectly honest, all right, So gossip,
Speaker 1: rumor and innuendo, What to watch, where to watch? How
Speaker 1: to watch it? Remember you do have Monday night football
Speaker 1: this afternoon, and I'm not talking about the one DOUBLEA
Speaker 1: championship in college football. You do have the juice boxes
Speaker 1: this afternoon. Liverpool are open to accepting an offer for
Speaker 1: anywhere from fifty to sixty million pounds for Darwin Nunez.
Speaker 1: Ac Milan are the latest club groom. We mentioned the
Speaker 1: Marcus Rashford deal. That's from the four letter paper. Take
Speaker 1: the information at your own. Peril west Ham drawing up
Speaker 1: a list of attacking targets for January, which includes Brighton,
Speaker 1: Evan Ferguson, Wolves, Wong he Chon and Middlesbrough's Emmanuel latelth
Speaker 1: matteos Kunya close to signing a new lucrative deal at
Speaker 1: Wolve's amid interest from Arsenal. There will be a writer
Speaker 1: in there if Wolves were to get relegated. Randall Kolamawane
Speaker 1: could leave PSG this month with ac Milan. You've a
Speaker 1: Byron Rbi Leipsig Villa and Spurs all interested the forward.
Speaker 1: That's once again from our buddy Ben Jacobs. Chelsea midfielder
Speaker 1: Cesarey Casaday has agreed to join Tarino, although the clubs
Speaker 1: remain a part of a fee. That's from John Luca
Speaker 1: Demarcio Galatassar I one hundred percent convinced that Victor Oceiman,
Speaker 1: who's on loan from Monopoly, will not leave in January.
Speaker 1: That's from Floria and Plettenberg and are friends at Sky Germany.
Speaker 1: Ac Milan have offered to take Donnie Almo on a
Speaker 1: six month loan as he's currently unavailable due to LaLiga
Speaker 1: registration restrictions put on Barsa. That's from Corierra della Seta
Speaker 1: via Sport. Remember, Barsa can't sign anybody. They can't even
Speaker 1: do the wimpy philosophy of I'd gladly sign you tuesday
Speaker 1: for a clearance today. No word yet on whether Barcelona
Speaker 1: wants to pursue the window and the desires of assigning
Speaker 1: players to any further legal levels. I still think, and
Speaker 1: I have no basis in fact in any of this,
Speaker 1: that the Court of Arbitration for Sport will be the
Speaker 1: next step in this. I have no basis of any reporting,
Speaker 1: anything seen, anything one way or the other. But my
Speaker 1: gut tells me that if Barcelona still thinks that they
Speaker 1: should sign the man, that they got to find a
Speaker 1: way to do it. Therefore, the Court of Arbitration for
Speaker 1: Sport would be the next step. For me. The leagues
Speaker 1: like nope. Barcelona went back and they went like but
Speaker 1: but leagues like nope, Well we still want to sign
Speaker 1: it on you can't. So I think that if you
Speaker 1: go through legal channels. For me, the next largest step
Speaker 1: is court of arbitration for sport. Barcelona can't even buy
Speaker 1: blanking groceries. I'm being somewhat facetious in this, but that's
Speaker 1: where things stand.
Speaker 2: They are so poorly.
Speaker 1: Financially sound right now, I what can you do? The answer,
Speaker 1: according to the eyes of Theliga is bupkiss and I
Speaker 1: think that's the official financial term. But you can't do nothing.
Speaker 1: You can't sign Danny Olmo. Well we want it, but
Speaker 1: you can't. But we want it, but you can't. Literally,
Speaker 1: that's the argument. This is like arguing of the six
Speaker 1: year old or a young child, pick your age. Well,
Speaker 1: I want to know you can't, but I want to
Speaker 1: know you can't, but I want no, you can't. And
Speaker 1: so that's where we are right now with Barcelona and
Speaker 1: then wanting to register players. You can't. You cannot with
Speaker 1: your current financial situation sign anyone. But we want it,
Speaker 1: but you can't. So I think that legal ramifications next step.
Speaker 1: It's gonna end up being court of arbitration for sport.
Speaker 1: Like I said, that's just me. Ola doesn't want to
Speaker 1: leave Barsa, who received some unofficial approaches about his availability,
Speaker 1: but not a formal offer that's from Marsa mentioned Josh
Speaker 1: Windass and also Swansea are among them. A number of
Speaker 1: European clubs angamu for twenty year old Saudi midfielder Abdul
Speaker 1: Malik al Jabear who plays for Zealjesnakar in the Bosnian
Speaker 1: Premier League. So that's your that's your gossip rumor in
Speaker 1: innuendo for the day. Now what to watch, where to
Speaker 1: watch it, how to watch it? We know about the
Speaker 1: one the one game Monday night football. Ac Milan and
Speaker 1: inter Milan meet in the super Coopa Italiana, but that's
Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi King Cup is going on
Speaker 1: right now and it is on FS two for those
Speaker 1: of you that have FS two. Second half of Al
Speaker 1: Shabab and Al Faja Wolves in Nottingham Forest coming up
Speaker 1: at three o'clock on USA and simul cast appropriate on
Speaker 1: Universo and nbcsports dot Com. Uh Fox Deportes has double
Speaker 1: headed Liga Mxfeminial kicking back in at eight and ten
Speaker 1: Juarez and Puebla Tigris and Tijuana. ESPN Plus has the
Speaker 1: Copa del Rey with Benera and Real Madrid at one
Speaker 1: o'clock Golosso Network, by the way, and Paramount Plus have
Speaker 1: the Italian SUPERCPA final and the Italian SUPERCUPA finals in
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, not in Italy and a QPR and Newton.
Speaker 1: By the way, Monday Night football in the English Championship
Speaker 1: that's on Paramount Plus at three o'clock getting into the
Speaker 1: juice boxes of the day for Monday Night football. By
Speaker 1: the way, and since it's been a while, apparently I
Speaker 1: have to expand all kinds of windows. But right now
Speaker 1: Wolves at home at the Malonu they are a big dog.
Speaker 1: Basically they are a double dog to Nottingham Forest. Nottingham
Speaker 1: Forest the plus one to twenty one at the Molonue
Speaker 1: taking on Wolves who are plus two four two. Your
Speaker 1: draw is a plus two twenty three. You have FA
Speaker 1: Cup this weekend and then midweek schedule picks up again
Speaker 1: for the Premier League next Tuesday for four matches, and
Speaker 1: then it's four matches on Wednesday, two matches on Thursday,
Speaker 1: and then half of the schedule picks back up Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sunday and Monday Night football. So you've got FA
Speaker 1: Cup this weekend, but then you don't have to wait
Speaker 1: too long for the Premier League because Premier League kicks
Speaker 1: back in on Tuesday, so there's that standings by the way.
Speaker 1: After the bananas match that happened yesterday involving Liverpool and
Speaker 1: Manchester United, which was crazy. Harry McGuire had a chance
Speaker 1: for a game winner late and the screen that you
Speaker 1: heard was Drew Dickinson because of the lack of a finish,
Speaker 1: But the ball was kind of served a little high
Speaker 1: and hit on a bit of a hop and it
Speaker 1: went halfway up the shin for McGuire for the game winner.
Speaker 1: Liverpool right now still as a match in hand on
Speaker 1: Arsenal six points clear. They've only lost once in their
Speaker 1: first nineteen halfway point of the season fourteen to four
Speaker 1: and one. Arsenal at forty points twenty matches played, by
Speaker 1: the way, forrest if they win there at forty points,
Speaker 1: the only reason that they would be behind Arsenal's goal difference.
Speaker 1: Chelsea thirty six points, twenty matches played, Newcastle at thirty
Speaker 1: five they've won five in a row. Manchester City unbeaten
Speaker 1: in their last three. They're at thirty four points. Just
Speaker 1: think of what would happen if those twelve points were
Speaker 1: left on the table. That are left on the table
Speaker 1: would not be You probably have Manchester City at tight
Speaker 1: number two to Liverpool after twenty matches twelve points left
Speaker 1: on the table. Born within seventh at thirty three points,
Speaker 1: unbeaten in their last five, they've unbeaten in eight by
Speaker 1: the way Under and dony Errola Villas at thirty two,
Speaker 1: Fulham's at thirty, Brighton's at twenty eight. They've drawn their
Speaker 1: last four. Brentford at twenty seven points. They've hit each
Speaker 1: column once in their last three, Spurs twelfth at twenty four.
Speaker 1: They've lost three of four. Manchester United had their three
Speaker 1: game losing streak snapped with the draw with Liverpool. They're
Speaker 1: at twenty three points, ahead of west Ham on goal difference.
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace twenty one points, unbeaten in their last three,
Speaker 1: they're unbeaten in four of five. Evertonce seventeen points. They've
Speaker 1: lost two in a row, and apparently the Friedkin group
Speaker 1: are staring at Sean dysh and evaluating whether or not
Speaker 1: they're going to keep him around. Wolves at sixteen points
Speaker 1: and they are ahead of Ipswich on goal difference. With
Speaker 1: a match in hand. Ipswich had a chance to win
Speaker 1: against Fulham twice, couldn't hang on end up with a point,
Speaker 1: so they've hit each column once in their last three.
Speaker 1: So they are at sixteen points behind Wolves on goal difference,
Speaker 1: your relegation zone right now, Ipswich at sixteen points, Lester
Speaker 1: at fourteen. They've lost five in a row, Southampton won
Speaker 1: only one once. They've only won once in their first
Speaker 1: twenty one three and sixteen two point two goals allowed
Speaker 1: per match and they average point six. It's not a
Speaker 1: good ratio. They've lost three in a row, four or
Speaker 1: five one point in their last five matches. So that's
Speaker 1: where things stand. So once again, three o'clock, you've got
Speaker 1: your matchup on Monday night football involving Wolves and Forest
Speaker 1: Forest climbing the standings trying to get into European football.
Speaker 1: I don't quite think that Evangelinas Marinacus really gives an
Speaker 1: ish about what specifically could could happen to him in
Speaker 1: PSR down the line. I don't quite think that he
Speaker 1: really cares. By the way, Colorado Springs switchback, signing Anthony
Speaker 1: Fontana for the twenty five season, transaction pending league and
Speaker 1: Federation approval, having most recently competed for pec Zula in
Speaker 1: the air divi Zy ten appearances three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: minutes last year. So uh, Tom Dike out now, Sean
Speaker 1: Dish out. Now, you're probably not the only one that
Speaker 1: thinks that. So we'll keep an eye on the Freakin
Speaker 1: group and keep an eye on Sean Dish and see
Speaker 1: what's going on there. Okay, So tomorrow, once again, all
Speaker 1: the thoughts that we didn't get into today will get
Speaker 1: into tomorrow, and we'll see what's going on around the
Speaker 1: planet because it's Tuesday, thoughts, and so it'll be fun
Speaker 1: to see what's going on. Thanks to all of you
Speaker 1: folks for dropping bys you always do, Thanks to Bart
Speaker 1: Keeler for coming by for his Monday visit. And we'll
Speaker 1: keep an eye on the transfer window, keep an eye
Speaker 1: on a lot of topics, and we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on everything going on on the planet when it comes
Speaker 1: to the sport. We'll be back at it again nine
Speaker 1: oh five tomorrow morning. So as we say here, since
Speaker 1: it's the end of the show, that means I get
Speaker 1: to do this and play it safe everybody. We'll see
Speaker 1: tomorrow nine oh five Eastern time for another go around
Speaker 1: of SDHA. And thanks for dropping by for soccer's morning show,
Speaker 1: Play Safe, Everybody m