Cards Flying, Clocks Stopped, Chaos Unleashed: Morning Espresso, 8.4

the first team in League's Cup. On Saturday. Sandwiched in between the two, you had the Premier League Summer Series at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Had a chance to see some of that as well. It was a weekend. Let me try to recap it and give you a little bit of a glimpse at everything else going on around the world as well as I try to give you most of the soccer news that you need to know. For Monday,

August fourth League's Cup, Let's go back to Orlando. On Saturday night, it was a chaotic loss for Atlanta United, falling to Pumas three to two. Two soft penalties, both justifiable from the referee, but both soft against Atlanta, and

that had a huge hand in deciding the match. The second one especially feels extra soft because a huge advantage was given to a player who had run through a shirt grab that started well outside of the eighteen and then almost like they tripped over the eighteen yard box and fell. Felt like they were looking for the penalty and they got it. And this is why these things happened, because when it gets given, it is a gigantic advantage. Brad Gazan makes the save on Coco Karraskiya on the penalty,

but then Karaskiya puts home the rebound. That is also something that is being discussed about a potential rule change of making penalties essentially dead ball situations, because that also feels like it magnifies the advantage there where the player who takes the penalty is going to be the first

one to get to a rebound. In most cases, the amount of stoppage time being six minutes was woefully short of what it should have been, and then even that wasn't actually played, and that mismanagement is probably what frustrated me. The most time wasting of at least ninety seconds happened on a stoppage time substitution. I mean it was recognized it's all yellow card issued to pedro Vite when he sat down and then wouldn't get on the stretcher that

was brought out for him because he wasn't hurt. It was egregious, but the management of the kaylor Navis red card was beyond bad. This was crazy in terms of the time it took to check it. There's been reporting, and I believe f Ryan Wrez was questioning the red Card's been reporting out of Mexico that there were other players who could have prevented this from being an obvious goal scoring opportunity. That's false. I'm sorry, that's just not true.

Because Tra is taking a touch to the right. If he's not fouled by Navas, he's able to shoot from the top of the eighteen. An obvious goal scoring opportunity is not an obvious goal. It is an obvious goal scoring opportunity. So he is going to be able to shoot on goal with the keeper behind him. That is an obvious goal scoring opportunity. Whether a defender is able to lunge across and maybe get to it or not.

I don't think any defenders are getting to it. I think Tra is able to shoot red card was upheld. However Navas wouldn't leave the field. Took forever. Alvarongula was going to have to step in goal because Pumas had

already used all their substitutions. Took forever, and even to the point that Navas was walking back up the field and helping align the wall and helping on Goulo get everything set, which is completely and utterly disrespectful to the rules of the match and the way things should have been handled, and the referee should have had things under control and completely did not. The foul happened before the

clock got to the ninety five minute mark. It was in the ninety fifth minute, believe it was at about ninety four to thirty or so. So with the injury time, time wasting and the fact that there was still time in the six minutes even when the red card happened, there should have been a decent few minutes for Atlanta to play against ten and against a goalkeeper who was a field player. However, ball goes out for a goalkick after the free kick was blocked by a player who

was nowhere near ten yards. The encroachment of the ten yards was another egregious issue in terms of managing the situation that the referee crew failed to get. Bartoschlish gets a yellow card for complaining about it. There still should have been more time after that the goal Ca was then played forward and there wasn't after Pumas wasted more time on the goalkick and then the final whistle was

blown and that was horrific match management. Ronnie Diila was sent off afterwards, just adding to the horrible management of it. I will stand by what I said after the final whistle and this is not about calls. I don't like that referee crew is just not capable of managing international matches at this level. They should not work again in CONCACAF matches until they show development. You can't have all of those things happen to help decide a match, and

it's something that this crew failed. CONCA CAFF needs to see that they failed. There needs to be a reaction to this failure and it's extremely frustrating that it has a hand in deciding the match. Atlanta got tired and I think you saw that with the injuries and lack of full fitness of the line especially, and that had as big or bigger impact on the final outcome of the match, no way around it. But the way this

was managed made it a farce. And you should not have a match that ends as a farce because of time wasting. Red card then Shenanigan's about getting off the field, the player who's red carded, helping to organize things for the players that are still in the match, players encroaching on the free kick and not being punished. And then the proper amount of time that was added on, which wasn't even the proper amount of time. But I digress, that amount of time not even getting played because of

the time wasting. It's why I complain so much about time wasting, because it never gets added on exactly as it should. So let me take never out of that. Very rarely gets added on properly in the way that it should. Now this was one where this was a new one to me. It was actually rewarded and subtracted the amount of play time that happened in what was given initially a stoppage time. So extremely frustrating. Atlanta's out of the League's Cup, so is Atlas. So Wednesday's match

will be something at the Benz on Wednesday night. We'll have it on ninety two nine in the game pregame coverage starting at six point thirty. For that one, let's go into some more League's Cup stuff. Lionel Messi he was forced to make an early exit from Miami's shootout win over Nikosa on Saturday night. Injury picked up early on in the match at Chase Stadium. Javier Mascherano said, well, he felt a discomfort. Will not be able to know

until tomorrow how severe the injury is. There's probably something there, maybe not as important, but he was really not in pain. He did feel a poll feels a little precautionary, so we'll stay tuned and see when Lionel Messi gets back on the field for Enter Miami on Thursday. MLS teams won five of six games in the League's Cup. Last night, those same six teams managed to win just one of the six games after regular time, and then four of them went to shootouts, and the MLS teams lost all

four shootouts. When play resumes on Tuesday, the twenty nine of thirty six teams still alive. We'll try to claim the eight quarter final berths. So there's been a lot of talk about the format of this tournament, but when you go into the last day and for eight spots, twenty nine teams have a shot on the last day of or the last games for them. I think you'll take that. I think you'll be happy with the format.

I would love to see sixteen teams, so a round of sixteen, eight teams from each league out of the eighteen getting through. I would like to see that. I'm okay if they want to eliminate one round of knockouts and just make it this. I think the competition format has been good. You continue with League's Cup. This is the way that I would like to see it, the MLS versus Lega MX format of three games and then a certain number of teams going to knockouts and you

go from there. I'm very happy with the way this has gone, even if I'm not very happy with the way that Atlanta United's League's Cup has gone. Conker Calf came out this weekend and condemned the death threats that referee Katia Itzl Garcia received after Thursday's match between Cincinnati and Monterrey. Some Riato's fans blamed Garcia for the outcome of the match. Cincinnati secured a three to two win

over Monterrey. In that one, Garcia took the social media to share some of the messages she had received, which included death threats. The Mexican Federation also released a statement on Saturday saying that it would be filing a complaint with the relevant authorities. Garcia began her referee career in twenty fifteen at the amateur level, made the jump as a pro in twenty sixteen. Last year, she became the first woman to referee a men's LEGA MX match in

twenty years. You can get frustrated with referees, and referees are like players, like coaches. They have good games, they have bad game. Like I said at the top of this, the referees that were on the job in Orlando on Saturday night had an extremely bad day and I think showed not just bad decisions, but bad organization, bad management of the match. There needs to be a reaction to that,

not this kind of stupid reaction. This stuff is ridiculous and if social media platforms are not going to actually ban users for this kind of statement. And this has come up with the English women's national team, with the amount of threats and horrible things said about them in

a win in the Euro Final. Michelle Augimond has been the subject of a lot of this, according to reports, If the social media platforms are not going to do their jobs and actually band users, then when it gets into the conversation like Garcia has dealt with here with death threats, the authorities have to take action. They have to This is ridiculous and it has no place in our game, has no place in the world at large,

and somebody's got to do something about it. And hopefully that will happen here with the Mexican Federation filing a complaint to the relevant authorities about death threats being sent to one of their referees. Katia Itsel Garcia based on the Cincinnati Monterrey match. Let's go to the NWSL Trinity Rodman. She celebrated her return after four months out scored in stoppage time to give the Washington Spirit a two to

one win over Portland. Came off the bench in the seventy sixth minute, first action since April because of back issues. She was in a perfect spot to finish off a pass from Croy Bethune, blasting it past the Portland goalkeeper. First goal in more than ten months. Trinity said, this was the hardest thing I've had to go through with the injury and everything, so being back, especially at the home stadium with the crowd behind me, scoring a goal like that. You saw I buried it was not going

to miss it. Great scenes, great postgame interview, Really happy Trinity Rodman's back on the field. Tim wschawinga of Kansas City Current she broke the deadlock in the sixty fifth minute with her ninth goal of the year. KC beat Gotham to nil, extended the winning streak to seven games, and KSE is on top of the NWSL standings by ten points. Now big move for Kansas City as well.

Prior to the match, Ali Sentner has moved to Kansas City from the Utah Royals in a trade six hundred thousand dollars in guaranteed intra league transfer funds since essentially in WSL allocation money. It's a new intra league record for an NWSL transfer. Kansas City could send Utah up to an additional one hundred thousand in conditional performance add ons in the future. A source confirmed to ESPN Kansas City will pay Utah over multiple years to spread out

each team's hit on the net transfer threshold. Utah received three hundred thousand immediately and will receive another two hundred thousand next year and then one hundred twenty twenty seven. That's the kind of Shenanigans that get a little silly with some of these moves, and MLS has to do it as well. I feel like there's a way to clean that up, but we'll just have to wait and see. Copa America Feminina. What a final. In this one, Brazil wins it their ninth Copa America title. For four draw

Brazil won the penalty shootout five to four. Just absolutely insane. Five straight wins in the Copa America for Brazil. Marta came off the bench. She scored twice as a substitute and outside of the eighteen volley in stoppage time took the match to extra time. The thirty nine year old she retired from international football after the silver medal at the Olympics. Last time out in Paris, the manager brought

her back to the squad. She agreed to come back in May before this tournament and was a huge factor in helping Brazil. I mean, it's a loss to Colombia if she doesn't score in stoppage time to take it to extra time. It was Colombia who had to score late to send it to penalties, and then Brazil ended up getting through in penalties. Great crowd for the final, almost twenty four thousand people in the building. Spectators leaned heavily in favor of Colombia. The games were played in

Ecuador in this tournament. Colombia led three separate times in the match. Linda Caseedo Maira Ramirez were both outstanding, huge goals from them, but Brazil ends up getting it done. Now a lot of media coming out afterwards. We've talked about this on the Espresso. Very big organizational issues with Conva Ball, and that's nothing new. If you were here during the Copa America last summer in the United States that Conva Ball organized, not US organizers, conbo Ball. These

were not Ecuadorian organizers for the Copa. This was Conbobaal and it was poor. You had bad conditions. You had doubleheaders happening in stadiums and then saying well, the players can't warm up on the field because it might do damage to the field. You had no var which is a joke for an international competition of this magnitude, and you saw that you needed var because that's where the game is now. The game's played at a faster pace

than ever before. Referees need that extra help. Video assistant referees are there to help. You didn't have it in this competition. It affected the competition. The level of play in South America has wildly outpaced the level of respect from the governing body there, and that's on the men's and the women's side, but especially true on the women's side. Conboball cannot organize these major events in the way that they deserve and something has to be done in that regard.

Either Conbobal has to have some humility and go talk to CONKA, CAF, talk to UEFA, talk to other similar governing bodies and learn how to better organize these competitions, or FIFA needs to force help to them. I don't know, but Kamlo Ball has now had major issues and I think a black eye on the organization because of what has happened in their national team competitions on the men's side and on the women's side. And it has to be better. It has to be better. The game deserves better.

The players and the national teams that are involved deserve better, especially on the women's side. We will see if Kamlo Ball makes any changes going forward. I'm not holding my breath. I just hope that they can drop the ego for a little bit and actually try to learn, because there's more money to be made in these competitions. Look at the Euros. The Copa America Feminina was extremely well played. There were so many great stories in it, so many

great players in it. There's more money to make in this competition if it's organized and done right. Kamba Ball's got to get over themselves and do a better job. Let's go to the Premier League. The summer series concluded yesterday at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Manchester United won the trophy a two to two draw with Everton in the last game west Ham. They won the first match of the day two nil over Bournemouth. Bruno Fernanche of Manchester United. He said the team were lazy in the draw. He

wants new signings. Rubin Amerin backed Bruno's criticism of the performance, said he's happy for his players to call it out if they see a drop in standards. Manchester United have shown maybe a little promise in terms of going into the upcoming Premier League season. I don't know if they're really fit to compete with the top four, which I think have kind of separated themselves in terms of Liverpool,

Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal. Can they be in the next group potentially, but I don't know if that's a guarantee either. We will see. It's going to be an interesting year for Manchester United. The summer series I think did pretty well here in the US. It was a crowded summer with Club World Cup here as well, with League's Cup going on, with other friendlies going on. It's a crowded time, which is to be expected. Look, this is going to happen more and more after the World

Cup as well next summer. But I think, going back to kind of being humble, a little bit disappointing that Everton didn't make any players available after the game. In the mix zone, media were there ready to interview players, We were part of that, and Everton did not make

any players available. I think Manchester United made one. It talked about this last summer when Chelsea came and that was a friendly situation where there absolutely should have been I mean, this was a friendly too, but it's at least an organized somewhat competition. It's a preseason competition. If clubs are going to come here and chase the money from the United States, I hope that they will respect the fans in the United States, maybe better than some do,

I think. You know, west Ham has been a real joy to work with, and they've made players and legends available and they've had tons of different activations around even during the summer series where it's a crowded schedule as they were coming in from Chicago, they made themselves available.

They did things in the community. Everton, while not doing a great job yesterday in terms of making people available, did some camps and clinics in the community this week, you know, a combination of work in the community and marketing. But yes, they did that. Manchester United did very little, and you know, maybe they don't have to, but they didn't. Bournemouth didn't do a whole lot either, and I think

Bournemouth is a little bit different situation. But I just I hope that if clubs are going to come here and want the money out of this country and the money out of these cities and these fans in the United States. I hope that they'll start to show maybe a little more respe I'm glad that some do, and maybe it's different aspects of the clubs, the community side versus the press and the media side, but I'm really happy to see some clubs like west Ham take it

so seriously on both sides of it. Players available to speak after matches when they play here, lots of things in the warm up, and then lots of really interesting fun reach outs in the community and being heavily involved. Just really pleased to see that, and I wish more would take that on because it's a huge opportunity. Obviously, it's seen as an opportunity because they're coming here to make money. Do it in the right way, and I hope that the Premier League starts to do a better

job with that. They're the behemoth, they're the biggest league in the world. Maybe they feel they don't have to do those things, but I think if you don't do those things, ultimately somebody can pass you in your standing. If you do those things and you're the biggest, you're going to continue to be the biggest. And I really hope that they start to do a little bit better job with us. The Premier League has ruled reducing the size of the league. This is something that has been

coming up over the years. They've ruled out reducing it from twenty to eighteen teams. There's some tension between the league and FIFA about the congested international calendar. Richard Masters, the chief executive of the Premier League, said that the league will not be forced into that decision to go to eighteen teams, saying that the growth of global football should not come at the expense of domestic football and

I agree with that. The Premier League was originally designed to be reduced from twenty two teams to eighteen when it was founded three decades ago, but the change stuck at twenty in nineteen ninety five, nineteen ninety six and it was agreed to stay there. League of reduced from twenty to eighteen teams for the twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four season, partly due to fixture congestion. It's also thought that reducing the number of clubs in the

top flight increases the broadcast revenue per club. To ease some of the fixture congestion, the Premier League has stopped scheduling clubs for Saturday lunchtime kickoffs the seven thirty am game here in Atlanta in the time zone, they've stopped scheduling teams for that after playing Wednesday night in Europe. They've also increased recovery time during the Christmas period, which is I know it's a tradition, but it's a really dumb tradition. There's no need to be playing games every

two days during that period. However, the Premier League denied Manchester City and Chelsea's request to delay the start to the season following their involvement in the Club World Cup, so they will play on the first day along with everybody else. Other news from around the world. PSV Sergenio dest and Ricardo Peppi they added the Johann Crout shield to their Dutch trophy collection. PSV two to one winners over go Ahead Eagles. In that match, dest scored the

game winner. He sparked the build up at the halfway line finished with a thirteen yard half volley in the eighty fourth minute, promising signs for Ricardo Peppy as well. He came off the bench for the first time since January following a knee injury they drew their first match of the season in Scotland, won one away at Motherwell. Silly season updates. Let's go to Tottenham. Spurs will always be in my heart and I will treat you as a family member. Those are the departing words from Son,

whom men who played his last match. I mean not officially, but pretty officially played his final game in front of a huge crowd of over sixty six thousand people in Seoul, which is so fitting for Sun to play his final game for Tottenham there. His final competitive game was the Europa League Final, when as captain, he lifted the club's first trophy in seventeen years. What a way to go out.

There has been interest in Son from Saudi clubs, but he is keen on a move to la and LAFC sizable Korean community in Los Angeles, Hugo Laris's in goal former teammate. It's not official yet, but it looks pretty official that Son is coming to LAFC from Tottenham. It's all gone quiet on the Alexander Esock to Liverpool front. Has he decided to stay at Newcastle? Is he just waiting to see what's going to happen? He's reportedly returned to the Magpie's training ground. Eddie Howe said he hasn't

spoken to him since Liverpool lodged a bid. Eddie Hale said he's like any other player. We would expect him to come in and train as normal. He went on to say to the Daily Mail, you have to earn the right to train with us. We are Newcastle United. The player has a responsibility here to be part of a team and part of a squad. You have to act in the right way, so that is also at play here. We will make sure that any player does that to earn the right to train with the group.

No player can expect to act poorly and train with the group as normal. Newcastle legend Alan Sheer on Alexander Esock, he said, I'm not angry at all towards him. I probably understand his mentality. Do I like it? Probably two different things. If it is impossible for Eddie to turn him around, I want him to be out. Now get what you can get and get him out and say thanks very much for the memories. Off you go. This all sounds really interesting when it comes to Esoch and Newcastle,

even if they can't get the deal done with Liverpool. Now, can you keep him in Newcastle? Does that make sense? Benjamin Sesco the twenty two year old from Slovenia. He appears to be the replacement that Newcastle would like and maybe then they'd be willing to sell Esoch. But just like Newcastle want a replacement in before selling Esoch, RBI Leipzig want a replacement in for Cessco before selling him. Leipzig are also aware of the money and they're gonna

drive a hard bargain. All that's true, there's also another hold up. Newcastle wants to get Brentford's Joan Wisa, but Brentford already selling Brian and Bumo to Manchester United earlier in the summer. They want a replacement first, So a logjam has ensued everywhere at the striker position in multiple clubs around the world. World. Good luck Juventus and Marseille. They have finally come to an agreement over the tim Waia transfer. According to the Athletic, he's expected to move

on loan with an obligation to buy. Still some final details to work out. Adamola Lukman he has handed in a transfer request at Atalanta. He has accused the club of breaking promises to him. He's been linked with a move to enter, he said in a statement, despite now receiving an offer in alignment to what I believe had been discussed. Sadly the club are blocking the opportunity for reasons I do not understand. West Ham They have signed

Callum Wilson on a free one year contract. He was available after failing to agree to a new contract at Newcastle. One hundred and eleven direct goal involvements in two hundred and thirty nine Premier League appearances in his career. The thirty three year old Callum Wilson is now with west Ham. Porto surprise of the transfer season. Really no talk about this, but they surprised their fans ahead of a preseason friendly

on Sunday announcing the signing of striker Luke Deong. Hadn't really been talked about and he was brought out in front of the fans presented as a new signing. The thirty four year old Dutch player came out of the tunnel shocked everybody. He was at PSV last and his move away maybe helps Ricardo Peppi with more playing time with no one blocking him in front of him. New England Revolution. They've officially brought back Matt Turner on loan

from Leon with an option to buy. This was announced on Friday after the Morning Espresso posted he needs to play. This is a big deal for the US men's national team as well. He will be a designated player for the remainder of this season for budget purposes, plans to convert him to a targeted Allocation money player in twenty twenty six. The loan runs until June of next year

and the start of the World Cup. If they want to keep him TAM eligible beyond the loan than any person, which option would have to be significantly less than the nine million dollars Leon agreed to pay Nodding in Forest for Turner in June. John Texter did that deal to bring Turner to Leone from Forrest before he was ousted

at Leone. The deal was done with his friend Noddingham forest owner Evangelos Marianakis, who he's hoping will help him with his debt to Aris management and potentially help him gain full control of both the Fogo separate from Eagle Football Group. All kinds of weird things with this Matt Turner deal, but he will be with the New England Revolution for the next year. Wrexham. They've signed former England

international Connor Cody from Lester for two million pounds. At Letzi looked like they were going to get Inzo Milo, who had a great season in the Bundesliga at Stuttgart low release clause. Stuttgart ready that he was going to go this summer, but it looks like a La Lie in Saudi Arabia have hijacked the deal and he has agreed to a verbal deal Allockley, who will pay the twenty million euro release clause. Claudio Eccheveri of Manchester City could be going on loan to Roma for the season.

He is leaving comments on recent posts by current Roma players, so stay tuned. Maybe Etcheveri is headed there. Barcelona updates Marcus Rashford. He believes that Barcelona will find the money to complete his registration. Barsa still need to register, not just Rashford, not just Joe on Garcia, not just Ronnie Bardagi, not just Wojiic Chesney, not just Tarart Martin Martin, but all of them. John Laport's is the president of the club.

He has reassured fans they're working on it. It's progressing well. He says. We're doing our job and we're confident that we'll be able to register everybody. Yeah. Joean Laporte has also said they're not going to have to make use of the emergency injury rule in order to register Garcia. As a goalkeeper, Marc Andre ter Stagan had surgery on his back. It was assumed that Barcelona would use this

rule to be able to register Garcia. If a player's injured for four months, clubs in La Liga are able to use fifty percent of their allocated salary limit to register or replacement. It increases to eighty percent if the absence is five months or more. Now, remember, Terstagen put out a statement before his surgery and said he'd be out for three months, which really upset people at Barcelona because they would like him to say he's going to

be out longer. Now, just because you say you're going to be out longer doesn't mean there's not a punishment if you come back earlier. Mundo Deportivo in Spain says that if Terstagen were not out for at least four months, Ladiga could penalize Barcelona. The specified sanction would impact their salary limit, with Laaliga reducing it by three times Terstagen's salary. In this case, Terstagan's one of the highest earners in the squad. They can't afford to mess this up. They

might still because this is Barcelona we're talking about. They have also made it known in public they are open to players leaving, but no players actually want to leave. One of the players that's been floated as a potential exit is Mark Casado. He's saying he doesn't want to go, but you have clubs that are interested. Tottenham is one, you have a few, Chelsea at Letti, all possible thirty million euro price tag. But he is said to be focused on earning minutes at Barcelona, even in a position

that has Gavi and Frankie DeJong in it. Good luck, good luck Barcelona, Good luck Marcus Rashford, Jean Laporta, keep working at it. I guess. Other news as we wrap up this edition of The Morning Espresso, Darryl Deka thigh injury another injury set back for him. The twenty five year old American forward is going to be out until

early September. With this, Swindon Town manager Ian Holloway very upset after a fan reportedly through a seat at Walsall goalkeeper Miles Roberts in the League two opener over the weekend. Holloway has urged the club to identify and reveal the name of the supporter involved in the incident. Holloway said, I'm disgusted by whoever that person was. Whoever you are, you're not a swindon fan. I'm not having you and I hope you get caught. How dare you put our

club in the situation that you've just done. You think that's in our name. It's not in my name, it's not in this badge's name, and we don't want you in football. That's how I feel. So let's find them, whoever it is, give us a name. If you've ripped a seat out and you've thrown it at somebody, I just can't stand you, whoever you are, and I will find you. I want us to find that person and shame them. Ian Holloway are now one of my favorite

managers because that is brilliant. It should not be accepted, it should not be protected, it should be punished, just like the people who make horrible statements on social media, and if the social media platforms can't get it done, the clubs should. In this case, the clubs absolutely should get this done. Thank you Ian Holloway for being as strong as you were in this and wanting to punish the person involved because I agree. Not a fan not

supporting the club Benfica. They won their first trophy of the season, the curtain Raiser in Portugal, the Supertaca Candido de Olivera Benfica one ZIL winners over Sporting Western United. In Australia hemorrhaging cash right now and the Australian League on the men's and the women's side. A lot of financial issues there. Western United reported a loss of almost eleven million dollars for the twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four financial year, deficit of more than twelve million

the preceding year. Liabilities exceeded assets by more than fifty five million. They're trying to get a deal done to sell the club to a US based organization Kaminski and local affiliate kam Melbourne. They're in a winding up process right now in federal court brought by creditors. This is one issue. Canberray United is going to be able to keep things going right now after a government funding package was announced. It's a mess right now because players are leaving,

which ultimately these teams have to sell players. It's important outgoing men's transferred tallied fifteen point seven million dollars in the last season to average a more than eight hundred thousand dollars each. That's important that it's it's money coming in the previous the three previous seasons, thirty nine transfers netted less than twelve million. Past two seasons, forty six deals netted nearly thirty eight million. This is a good thing. Sell on clause is a big part of this as well.

But then the flip side is when you have players going often out, you've got to have more talent coming in. And the women's game is seeing the same thing with a lot of talent going out and not as much talent coming in. The leagues in Australia are about to enter negotiations on their next broadcast agreement and you have a lot of teams that are in financial issues and they're going to need that broadcast agreement to help them out.

We'll see if the money is there to find that or do things change a little bit in terms of salary caps and spending levels in Australia in the men's and the women's leagues. We'll keep you posting on that. We'll keep you posted on everything else going on around the world on the Morning Espresso all week long here on the SDH Network. Big thank you to our friends

at Oglethorpe University for presenting this. Tomorrow we will be at Atlanta United training as they get ready to play Atlas on Wednesday night in League's Cup, back in league play on Saturday at Montreal. Will also be today at Georgia States Media Day for their men's and their women's teams as their seasons are just around the corner. Busy time in the game here in the United States and worldwide, and we'll be talking about all of it all week long on the Morning Espresso