Welcome in. It's time for another edition of the Morning Espresso here on the SDH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and soccer powerhouse. A little bit of a later edition of the Espresso after a midweek night at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Atlanta United a dominant performance last night in a four to one win over Atlas in the League's Cup. I talked about
it on the broadcast. I felt like one of the big differences here was Atlanta consistently looked dangerous when they got into the attacking third. They didn't have as much of the possession as you would like. Gonzalopaneda's Atlas controlled the possession, but they didn't control the danger of the match. They weren't dangerous. They settled for longer range shots for
the most part. Jaden Hibbert made a number of saves, but not all of them were all that difficult, and a couple of the more difficult ones he made a mistake in possession and almost got caught, but he fixed it. The counter pressure was really good from Atlanta United as well to win the ball back in the attacking half when they did lose it. Scoring started after Stean Gregorson earned a penalty a mistake from a defender. Gregorson stopped
drew the contact. Jamal Tira stepped up and converted. Alexi Moranschuk with a sublime chip off of a pass from Luke Brennan and I stutter a little bit on pass. Maybe Brennan was trying to turn and take it himself, but Moranchuk came flying through it stayed on side by about a step and then what a finish from Alexi who has continued his fine form, and another player who continued fine form, Sabolo Janeize with a free kick goal
Losso to end the scoring in the first half. Second half, you started to see a lot of changes and it was really cool for those of US Atlanta United too sickos to see Nick Sassek pick out Cayman toga sheet with a great cross. Cayman converted with a high quality header that made it for Atlas scored one I think off of a slight deflection off of a free kick from out wide and Atlanta lost a clean sheet. That
one's a little frustrating. A goal like that, you kind of just tip your cap and you move on the Atlanta United two portion of it. You know, I talked about it on the broadcast. A lot of people complain a lot online in the fan base, and I understand it. But some of the complaints about it Lanta United two are I'm sorry, just completely unfounded because results don't necessarily matter there. Let me be clear, whistle blows, you want to win the game season in that bubble of Atlanta
United too. You want to make the playoffs, you want to win the league championship. You want to do all those things game to game. Those are goals that you have. These are things you want to do. You know, you want players to learn how to win games and get over the hump. Of course you do. Don't get me wrong, but your second team is not judged by having second team championships. If they are, you're missing the point because what you're probably doing is going out and signing players
that are not going to help your first team. Your second team is judged in the real world by players being able to come up to the first team and contribute. Now that's not always coming up to the first team and becoming first choice starters, no question, it is contributing throughout the season. And yes, this game ultimately did not matter at Lanta United does not advance in the league's up.
It mattered for individuals and to see somebody like came in Togashi, who hasn't had a lot of chances with the first team and has now He had a goal and an assist with the first team this season in very limited minutes. He has three goals and four assists with the second team in seven games. He's delivering and the second team is helping him be in a position to deliver if needed with the first team. Nix Essex signed a MLS deal based off his performances with the
second team. Those are guys on a different edge of the spectrum in terms of the second team helping them. Luke Brennan has benefited from the second team. Cooper Sanchez has accelerated his homegrown contract. He's now a first team player based off what he's done with the second team. And yes, the second team was a big factor in Atlanta United getting hopefully up to eight hundred thousand dollars in allocation money in a trade for f Ryan Morales, maybe one down the line for Noah Cobb. Those are
two the second team absolutely helped progress Jay fortune. What he's contributed to the first team over the years. That comes from the games and mistakes and successes that he
had with Atlanta United too. So put some respect on the Atlanta United two name, put some respect on all the coaches who have been there and suffered in the day to day of being a soccer coach and struggling to get wins because you're not always able to field the best team that you would like to field, because the second team is there to support the first team. And you saw why last night and hopefully you will
see why even more as the year goes on. Luke Brennan has been excellent with the first team as of late. His confidence has gone up because of high quality performances in a good number of games with Atlanta United two. It's critical to a club's success, so respect it. Some of the complaints about not winning games with the twos
is ridiculous. And also the other thing I want to throw out there in terms of the Atlanta United two conversation, you can't just throw out a team of eighteen year olds and expect them to play well and learn, because you do have to learn. You do have to have some guys who understand their spot and are going to try to turn into a nexcess and earn that first team deal against the odds. You are gonna need guys
like that. You're gonna need guys like Javier Armis to help bring Cooper Sanchez along and make him a better player. Cooper's development is jumped this year playing next to Javier. You need some established quality pros around these young players to give them a foundation for success, to give them stability, and to give the young guys opportunities. And also these other players get to be in this club, get to be in this environment and see if they can break
through themselves. It's a complicated thing Atlanta United too, and a second team in this environment, but it is a very very important thing, as we saw last night and hopefully we'll continue to see the rest of the season. Let's get into some news around MLS Atlanta United. We'll go back into MLS play on Saturday. They'll go to Montreal. We'll have a training ground dispatch tomorrow to get you
ready for that one. Son Hung menh He is now the most expensive signing in MLS history, signed with LAFC from Tottenham Hotspur for a transfer fee of around twenty six million dollars. He credited John Thorrington for selling him on Los Angeles. He said that wasn't his first choice, but Son said he changed my heart, he changed my brain. He showed me the destination where I should be. Thirty three years old, seven goals last year in the Premier League.
He had scored ten or more in eight straight seasons. He said, good physicality, good legs, good quality. I think we can say I'm old, but I still have a good physicality, good legs and still have a good quality. I would say Thomas Mueller. I think we could say that he's old too. He turns thirty six on September thirteenth. He has signed his deal with the Vancouver White Gaps.
Was the Silver Ball award winner in the twenty fourteen World Cup win for Germany, silver Boot in that one as well, Golden Boot at the twenty ten World Cup. Played for Germany in twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two as well. Retired from national team play last year. With one hundred and thirty one goals and forty or one hundred and thirty one goals and forty five assists. So Mueller to Vancouver, Son to LAFC. I know people have
already fired off the retirement league stuff. Again, I think these are two of the right kinds of older signings. You don't just sign older players period, if they are the right players. And Son, for example, going into a city that is the world's largest Korean community outside of Korea, He's going to make a big impact on the field and also off the field. Tommy Samili, you're talking about one of the great pros in the history of the game. You get a chance to bring him into your club
and hopefully make people around him better. It's critical. It's critical you sign the right older players. You don't just sign older players to sign them. Nigerian striker Victor Olatunji twenty five years old. He was signed as a tam player for Raal Salt Lake. He is a permanent transfer from Sparta Prague Marco farfand he is leaving FC Dallas going to League MX and Tigrace. Transfer fee reported to
be around three million dollars for Farfund San Diego. They acquired Corey Baird in a trade with FC Cincinnati on Wednesday. Up to one hundred thousand dollars in general allocation money as Baird gets to go closer to home. Orlando City. This morning, they have acquired defender Adriana Maren from Sporting Club in Portugal. He joins the team via transfer for the rest of this season and twenty twenty six club
option for twenty twenty seven. Fluminence they have agreed to a deal to sign former MLSMVP Luciano Acosta from FC Dallas, according to give me Sport and others, four million dollars plus add ons. According to sources, Fluminense have verbally agreed to personal terms with Acosta. Now they're all waiting the final documents to get done. Acosta would be a big replacement for Fluminense for John Audias, who had a great club World Cup. He's joined Wolves now. San Jose were
interested in Acosta. They were interested even before he left FC Cincinnati. They didn't have a designated player slot at that time, but they could not get the deal done. This time, Fluminense jumped them. Dallas signed Acosta in the offseason. I thought it would work out better than it has, but it just has not. Acosta's form has dipped, the team has struggled. He's got five goals and one assist in twenty one games this season. Portland thereforeward Santiago Moreno.
He was a no show last night for their League's Cup game against Club America in Austin. Club told ESPN in a State that the absence was unexcused. Now Portland Timbers are consulting with MLS on next steps, which likely include disciplinary action. Moreno has been the subject of a transfer bid, also from Flumenense, but the Timbers feel the offer isn't high enough yet. If an improved offer for Morenos made, the club would reconsider. Sounds like Moreno is
trying to force a deal to get done. Will get interesting here. And I'm also curious if Fluminense is going to go for Moreno and a Costa, because I don't know if both of them are going to see a ton of playing time. If they both go, We'll see, We'll see, we'll see how that one ends up going different kinds of players. But yeah, I'm I'm a little
intrigued by this one all the way around. Columbus, they rejected middles bris bid for around three million dollars for US men's national team full backslash wing back Max Arfston. The crew are being clear about this. They don't want to sell the summer. Maybe in the off season, but not this summer. Let's go to League's Cup. Seattle Sounders, only team with a perfect record enter Miami, even without
the injured Lionel Messi. They became the first MLS teams to clinch berths in the quarterfinals, securing the top two MLS seats. Seattle with a two to one win over Tijuana, Miami with a three to one win over Pumas. They both had to come back to win these games. Orlando City crushed Nikoxa five to one. They ran up their goal difference and they have all but clinched a spot
in the quarterfinals. Messi was missing due to a minor muscle problem for Miami, but Luis Suarez scored on a penanka from the penalty spot that was a big part of Miami's three to one win. Rodrigo de Paul also scored his first goal for Miami today. O Ashinde completed the scoring for the Herons in the Seattle win. Brian Schmetzer said after the game that Albert Rusnak and Ryan Kent both suffered hamstring injuries they're gonna get MRIs will
know more on Friday after training. Also obed Vargas threw up after the first ten minute. He was hitting the stomach with a ball, threw up, but he's okay. That's not one you see every day. In all, five MLS and LEGA and X teams have clinched quarterfinal berths. Six other teams remain alive for the three remaining quarter final births. Final games of the preliminary stage tonight, LA Galaxy will advance with a win by two or more goals over
Santos Laguna. Cincinnati plays Chievas. Cincinnati needs at least a four goal win to have any chance of jumping Orlando. After losing to Miami and being eliminated from the league's Cup Ephray Juarez, he interrupted his press conference to talk about one of his players receiving death threats yesterday morning. Warez talked about Colombia Alvaro Angulo being the affected player and said that the Pumas board is already taking action
on the matter, opening an investigation file. Translated, he said, I want to say this publicly because it's not normal. He received death threats this morning to his email and phone. We have to be vigilant. I don't know where they're from, but everything seems to indicate they're coming from Argentina. We're conducting an internal investigation at the club today. The kids putting in the effort he deserves, but those things need
to be said. It's not easy to manage. Imagine waking up to death threats on your phone on game day. Zero tolerance for those circumstances. We're conducting an investigation, so this likely comes from Angulo did an interview with ESPN Colombia earlier this week and he talked about why he left Independente in Argentina. Now again, this is translated from
Angulo's interview. He said, when I joined Independente, I was a free agent from Atletico Nacional and Independente had to pay me a bonus when I signed because he's because Angulo himself sold eighty five percent of his transfer. He I think he either bought his pass or he was completely a free agent when he left Atltico Nacional contract had ran out. I'm not sure which one, but he said when when he started the discussion with Independente, he told them to get in touch with him because he
saw they were buying players. Independente had not paid Angulo his March and June installments of that bonus that was agreed to, and Gulo clarified that he had never asked for a raise, He only asked for the club to catch up on the bonuses that they had agreed to. And Gulo said that the club told him there wasn't any money they were paying out claims they had. Now, if you remember, Independente has had financial issues. Independente has had transfer bands as well over the last five six years.
They're not a club with a lot of money, and they often get behind on payments for either transfers or for salaries or for bonuses. So and Gulo said, I saw they were going around in circles about the situation. I sat down with the president. I told him, I think they're not gonna I think you're not gonna pay me what you owe me. Let's sit down and listen to the offers coming from outside. He said the best thing that he could do for himself, for his family,
for his peace of mind was to leave Independente. And now yesterday morning, death threats end up in his email and on his phone directly to him. Insane and how people would have his number that aren't associated with INDEPENDENTE is pretty crazy, So investigation on going from Pumas. Hopefully they get to the bottom of this and this is a ridiculously scary situation. Hopefully alvar Angulo will not have to deal with this further and hopefully Pumas can protect
their player. Let's go to the NWSL North Carolina Courage. They have fired head coach Sean Nahas. The Courage didn't say why, other than in a statement they remained quote focused on the continued development of the team and maintaining a professional, competitive environment for player, staff and supporters. Sure there will be more about North Carolina Courage firing Seawn Najas. Will keep you posted. Denver Summit the expansion team for next year. They have named forty year old Englishman Nick
Cushing as their first head coach. You'll remember Nick Cushing from his time with nyc FC on the men's side in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four. He also just finished the most recent Manchester City women's season in the Women's Super League. He will be in charge of the Denver Summit. Let's go to Silly season because it's getting full on silly. Al Helal. They have now reached a full agreement with Liverpool to sign Darwin Nunez for
fifty three million euro plus add ons. This morning, Benjamin Chesko is headed to Manchester United. According to Fabrizio Romano, agreement club to club is reached, with Leipzig getting what looks like it will be eighty one point five million dollars or million euro guaranteed, with more potentially in add ons. But they're expecting the first five million euro of the add ons to happen, so that would take it to eighty one point five, so another three point five or
so that would be beyond that. Esco has agreed to terms until twenty thirty. He made it clear on Tuesday to Leipzig and to everybody that he wanted Manchester United. That's where he wanted to go. Now it's done. According to Fabrizio Romano, Newcastle had earmarked Eshkoh as a potential replacement for Alexander Esoch. Reportedly they offered more guaranteed money to RB Leipzig, but Eshko wanted to go to Manchester United. So with this happening, what is Newcastle going to do now?
There's reports that they're considering a sixty million pound move for Nicholas Jackson of Chelsea and that feels like a massive step down from what they've been trying to get. They can't get these targets in the door and they're offering the money and players are wanting to go elsewhere. So now for Newcastle you're really in a tight spot with Alexander Essock. The new Yez deal doesn't make Esock now available to Liverpool. They'd already made an offer, a
giant one. It gives them a little more money to work with, don't get me wrong, But now Liverpool opening up a spot makes it look like they're going to come back to Newcastle with a bigger bid. Can Newcastle afford to say no and keep a player who doesn't want to be there? But can they afford to say yes when they don't have a replacement lined up and they've had no luck in getting one really tight spot for Newcastle United? Right now? We will see what ends
up happening with the Magpies. Jack Grealish, he looks increasingly likely to be moving on. Everton have opened up discussions with City over a season long loan. David Ornstein of the Athletic says it's going to be a complicated deal to complete though so nothing's guaranteed as of yet. Tim waya of the US men's national team, he has completed his move to Marseille finally after two years at Juventus.
It is on loan with an obligation to buy, for a fee that could rise to twenty one million dollars, according to French media reports. Sunderland they have signed a nineteen year old striker Mark Guy on a season long loan from Chelsea ahead of the new Premier League campaign. Sixteen appearances for Inzo Moresco last year, six goals scored,
all in the Conference League. Eintrack Frankfurt they have signed a Japanese winger Ritzo Down to strengthen a team that is trying to get back to where it was after a lot of sales. Hugo ATKTK is one of those sales. Dowan joins on a five year deal from Freiburg in the Bundesliga. Liverpool have sold homegrown midfielder Tyler Morton to Leon for a transfer fee of up to seventeen million
dollars a five year deal. Leon confirmed they paid ten million euro upfront, with potential bonuses of five million more Milan. They have signed Switzerland midfielder artn Jeshari from Club Bruges on a contract through twenty thirty. No financial deals were disclosed officially, but Italian media reported that Milan paid almost forty million dollars for the twenty three year old, plus
three million more in bonuses. Reports now in Italy have also said that Milan have sent delegates to England in Quarter in order to discuss a potential deal with Manchester United for Rosmus Hoyland, and now that Manchester United has reportedly gotten chesh go over the line, they would probably be very interested in selling Hoyland, who looks like he is going to go back to Saria. The former Atlanta
forward could be headed to Milan. Reports in Italy also claim that Chess Fabragas and Como have turned down a forty million euro offer from Tottenham Hotspur for Nico Pas.
He's still linked to Real Madrid. They have a fifty percent sell on clause and a series of bargain buyback options, so it's a It's one where Rid can jump anything that others offer and Como might end up getting a better deal and strengthening their relationship with Madrid if Poz goes back there, but Madrid's got to make a decision and if they want to do that. SARAH the Italian
top flight. They had an announcement yesterday that teams that are relegated from the first Division to SARAH B the second division, their salaries of the players that are signed to contracts will be slashed by twenty five percent. So this is a basically like a relegation clause in the contract. It applies to all contracts signed after September second, which is the end of this current summer transfer window that's been open. This was a deal done between the Italian
Footballers Association and SARAA. It's in place for five years. It aims to ease the financial strain on clubs that are relegated. The clubs have been pushing for contractual flexibility in the event of relegation for years and to avoid scenarios where they'd be forced to sell players or terminate contracts to cut costs when the revenues drop when they
get relegated. This change provides an automatic mechanism for wage adjustment, while allowing exceptions if clubs and players negotiate alternative terms. Saraha does have parachute payments. I think a lot of people assume that parachute payments are part of any promotion
relegation system. That's one hundred percent not true. Saraha does have it, but the comparison between it and the Premier League, which is where you typically hear about this, Saraha pays out about ten million euro for teams that has spent one season in the top flight. On the Premier League side, it's about one hundred million euro in parachute payments over several years. So yeah, it's not the same, and that's why you need things like this. This is going to
be an increasing conversation in other countries as well. It's been talked about in England about what you do in terms of relegation to try to keep costs reasonable, and this is a good move I think for stability. Yeah, players are gonna have their salary cut, but they're gonna if they so choose, they're gonna know exactly what it
would be cut to. They can go chase a better offer and try to find it, but clubs will have a more fixed way of understanding, Okay, my costs are gonna drop from here to here, because my revenues are absolutely gonna drop a lot going from first division to second division. Interesting situation. Will keep you posted on all of that, and we'll talk about all the premutations as other leagues try to figure these things out. It's time for Shenanigans. Let's go to Barcelona and who we got
a lot of stuff to talk about with Barcelona. They have announced now that they have removed Marc Andre ter Stagan as captain and they have opened disciplinary proceedings against him. He's been to captain since Sergio Busquet's departed in twenty twenty three. Ter Stagan and Barcelona are in an ongoing dispute because he will not sign off on sharing his
medical records with La Barcelona's very upset about this. They were hoping, even though they said they didn't need to, they were hoping to be able to use the injury clauses in the salary cap rules in La Liga to register either one of their goalkeepers that they can't register right now, Joe and Garcia, who's come over from Espagnol, or Wojick Chesney, who signed a new contract with the
team and has to be registered with the league. So the Spanish Players Union have offered support to the goalkeeper in this. They're saying that they're going to back him in all of this. He's completely cut off all contact with the club. According to reports, Barcelona management has said they won't send the report to the medical commission with LaLiga without the player's approval, even though they believe they
have the legal grounds to do so. LaLiga are saying you can't send it without the players sign off, so don't. So now you're in a situation where you have multiple players Mark Rashford as part of the situation, the two goalkeepers, I believe two to three more players that Barcelona wants to get signed. They can't register players right now, so you're once again in August with doubts hanging over Barcelona's ability to register new signings. This is not new to
happening again. One of the key transactions for Barcelona to be able to do this is their one hundred million euro lease of four hundred and seventy five VIP seats to forty advisors and New Era Visionary Group. That deal was reportedly done in December of twenty twenty four, but the seats were not active because it was for the new Camp New that is still under construction. We'll get to that in a minute. So it was added to
the accounts. That's when Barcelona, even though they added it late, said they could register Donniolmo and Powell Victor in the December January timeframe, so they added this money which they shouldn't have. The auditors removed it in March. There was an auditor who worked for the club for four days and allowed it, I mean all of it total. Shenanigans La Liga in March did the same, so they took
the one hundred million out of the salary limit. Barcelona had been trying to get back to the Camp New for the Joan Gamper Trophy preseason match that's going to be played this Sunday against Como, but construction still behind schedule. They've been forced to move that game to the six thousand seat Estadi Johann Krouf at the training ground, so instead of they were hoping to have sixty thousand people in the building at the Camp New originally. Then they
said well we will have twenty five or thirty. City council was like, no, you don't even have your permits yet, so now what According to Mundo Deportivo, what Barcelona's trying to do is they're trying to say that we're playing this game on August tenth, the four hundred and seventy five seats that have been sold to forty advisors a new Era visionary group. No, they're going to get those seats for this game. No, no, no, they're going to get
their VIP seats for this game. So now the deal is active, so let us have our hundred million on the salary limit. It feels like a big stretch, doesn't it, because I don't think there's there going to be anything resembling the VIP seats that the camp now will have. So will crow the auditors, Will they accept this? Will La Liga accept this? I'm going to guess probably not. But this is where Barcelona is like trying to justify this. So if they get this done then then be able
to register these players. I can't imagine they're all that confident in this happening if they're going to war with Marc Andre Terstegen over the injury clause in the salary limit rules to try to get this done. This feels like a giant stretch because it is let's go back to the camp New. Barcelona is still hoping, hoping, not guaranteed, hoping that they will be able to play their first La Liga home match on September thirteenth or fourteenth at
the Camp New. Hoping to do that, they have received some good news. The city council has approved a modified license, so it means that the stadium can be opened in zones. They don't have to have the entire first tier and second tier done before opening the stadium, so this allows them to get it open earlier, potentially potentially always with Barcela. The point is now that Barcelona is trying to get
this construction completed, they can do it in zones. They're waiting for everything to be signed, and it's not just the club that signs off on this, because I don't know if you should trust that. The entire team involved in the stadium's construction. So the engineering company, the architecture, the company managing the project all have to sign off on this to then get it approved to open certain zones. The stadium's initial opening is planned for around twenty seven
thousand people. That'd be the grand stand and the north goal initially occupied. Then open the lateral stand and the south goal later. However, Barcelona must have the work completed in about two weeks or less from now to submit the certificate of completion of works. Then they informed the city Council, La Liga and UEFA that they intend to play there from the start of the season, because if you start your UEFA competition somewhere else, you have to
finish them somewhere else. That's even more complicated. You have to finish the group stage somewhere else, and may be clear, the expectation is that the authorities will be informed of the final location of their first game on the week of August eighteenth to twenty fourth. Yeah. After that, there are approximately two or three weeks for the authorities to validate that the game can actually be played there, with you know, making sure that things aren't going to fall
on people when they're in the stadium. The newspaper AR reported that according to BSM, the company that manages Barcelona's municipal facilities for the city, the club is no longer going to return to the Olympic Stadium, that's where they've
played the last couple of seasons. Now, the club doesn't want to confirm this yet because there's a very good chance that they don't get it done to play at the Camp New There's no absolute certainty that they'll be able to do this, so they don't want to rule out Plan B if going back to the Olympic Stadium. Yet officially also it doesn't even they're not even sure if it makes sense to play at Camp New with twenty seven thousand people versus playing at the Olympic Stadium,
which could hold a whole lot more. I don't even know if that makes any sense. Does it get you your Are the VIAP seats going to be part of that twenty seven thousand? I don't know. Maybe they're going to find a way to do that. Maybe it gets to your salary limit, but you still lose more money by playing under an even smaller capacity, and who knows how long they would play under the smaller capacity. That's your Barcelona update, and it's even more ridiculous than it
was Tuesday. Other news, James Madison he's going to miss a large part of the upcoming season. Tottena Motsburg confirmed that he has ruptured his ACL that happened in the draw with Newcastle in South Korea on Saturday, he'll undergo surgery in the coming days and we'll see if Spurs go back into the market to try to find a replacement. US women's national team was knocked off of the top
spot in FIFA's latest women's rankings by Spain. Spain regained the number one position despite losing to England in the final of the European Championship last month. The US has been number one in the world rankings since August of last year, after they won gold at the Olympics. Spain was number one from December of twenty three until that. These all came out today World rankings or world rankings. I don't always agree with the FIFA rankings. There's been
some weird ones over the years. Belgium on the men's side was very highly ranked for a long time, even though the results never matched it. So it is what it is. Maybe it gives some motivation to the US women's national team for their friendlies later this year. We'll see. We'll end with this. A preseason friendly which was not friendly between ral Bettis and Como, and Como goes to
play Barcelona on Sunday. Maybe they'll fight. There was a fight between Betty's and Como several rough exchanges in the first half Betty's player Pablo Fournals and Como midfielder at Maximo Porni. They got into an altercation right before halftime. Few quick words and then some slaps and some punches. Players from both teams rushed in altercation escalated, benches were cleared.
Substitutes and staff members entered the field, some trying to break up the fighting, some maybe trying to escalate the fighting. Took a long time before they got order re established. A player from each team was sent off, and the funniest part of it was Couco Ornandez, formerly of Columbus, now with Betty's. He came running in and threw a punch and I think it kind of connected with the intended target from the other team, but it kind of rebounded off of that guy's head and then connected with
a teammate. So Columbian media was laughing about Kucho coming in punching teammates by accident. Crazy brawl. Maybe we'll get a crazy bral with Como and Barcelona at the Estadi Johann Krouf on Sunday. We'll see maybe Barcelona will get into a crazy brawl with the Barcelona City Council. That's possibly likely all kinds of things in this edition of The Morning Espresso. Thank you for taking some time this morning to be part of it. We'll be back tomorrow morning,
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